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10-31-08, 12:08 AM | #1 |
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***** Mystery Subsim Challenge 2008; Rules and Strategies *****
Got some Christmas goodies to give away, we are running the Mystery Subsim Challenge once again. The MS contest first came along in 2000, so it's been a while and a lot of folks here have changed!
How it works: Every day or so a Mystery Subsim image will appear in this forum. It will be stickied until it is solved, then it will be unstickied and after a day or so, the new one will appear. Rules: Simple, you must guess what subsim or naval game the image comes from. And be the first to post it in that thread. It may be an old subsim or naval game. It may be recent. It may be a shareware game, board game, a future game, or even a game that was never released. Each MS screen will be a different game until we hit MS#50. Then it is possible some screens will be from games that have been previously featured. If you guess incorrectly, you use up one of your guesses. If you have three wrong guesses in the contest, you must sit out the rest of the game. Every member gets three wrong guesses FOR THE WHOLE CONTEST. If you guess correctly, your name is added to the prize pool. You can have as many correct guesses as you can manage, they do not count against your three guess limit. If you reach five correct guesses in the contest, you are considered an Ace and will get a bonus entry into the prize pool. You cannot EDIT your post in this contest. Any posts that have the edit or delete tag will be counted as wrong guesses, regardless of the accuracy of the guess. Do NOT edit or delete any posts in a MS thread. Does not matter what the edited content says, any "Edited by ..." or deletion and a wrong guess is registered. Also, you must be a member with a join date on or before OCT. 31, 2008 to participate. Any members found using multiple forum accounts or starting a new forum account to play will be removed from the contest and the forum. At the end of the contest period (end of December, before Christmas), 10 lucky names will be drawn from the pool to win glorious prizes. Subsim mugs, submarine books, mousepads, and calenders. Some things to consider in playing this game (strategies)
Mystery Subsim #1 Jimmy Thresh: Das Boot! Big snarky: Destroyer Command! Pam: Pt-109! All wrong, now Jimmy, Snarky, and Pam have only 2 more wrong guesses left before they are out of the game. Mystery Subsim #1 expanded Akula Camper: Save the Bismark game, board game! Pam: Hunter sub! Clint: Sh3 All wrong, Akula and Clint have only 2 more wrong guesses left before they are out of the game. Pam can only guess wrong one more time before she has to sit out the game. Mystery Subsim #1 expanded again Big snarky: Harpoon 97! Johnny Test Depth: Akula Red Hunter Pam: Jane's 688 Snarky is correct, he wins this round, his name goes in the pool. He still has two wrong guesses left. Johnny Test Depth used a wrong guess, he has two left. Pam has guessed wrong the maximum three times, she can no longer participate in the Mystery Subsim Challenge. ... time passes, a day perhaps, then... a new thread in the Sub & Naval Discussions: News, Books, Films, and Models forum The contest has begun! Questions? Good hunting! Neal __________________________________________________ Mystery Subsim winners The following people have won a Mystery Subsim challenge and have had their name added to the prize pool. 11/1 MS#1 - Mikekiller16 - Sub Battle 11/1 MS#2 - Fincuan - Wolfpack 11/1 MS#3 - Nisgeis - 688 Attack Sub 11/1 MS#4 - Mookie - Silent Service II 11/2 MS#5 - Contact - Steel Tide 11/2 MS#6 - To be - Destroyer Command 11/3 MS#7 - Fincuan - Enigma: Rising Tide 11/3 MS#8 - Molon Labe - Sub Command 11/4 MS#9 - Subnuts - Grey Wolf: Hunter of the North Atlantic 11/4 MS#10 - Subnuts - Iron Wolves 11/5 MS#11 - Danlissa - Navy Ops Warship Gunner 11/5 MS#12 - Fincuan - Silent Hunter II 11/6 MS#13 - gandalf71 - Pacific Aces 11/6 MS#14 -gandalf71 - Fighting Steel 11/6 MS#15 - SandyCaesar - Ship Hunt 11/7 MS#16 - Fincuan - Lost Admiral Returns 11/7 MS#17 - Subnuts - Danger from the Deep 11/8 MS#18 - D'biter - Tom Clancy's SSN 11/8 MS#19 - Subnuts - Salvo! 11/9 MS#20 - Subnuts - Command Aces of the Deep 11/9 MS#21 - MBot - Fast Attack 11/10 MS#22 - Subnuts - Silent Steel 11/10 MS#23 - Subnuts - Pacific Storm 11/11 MS#24 - Bort - Silent Hunter 11/11 MS#25 - ekempey - Dangerous Waters 11/11 MS#26 - Subnuts - Raging Thunder 11/12 MS#27 - Fincuan - Sea Dragon 11/12 MS#28 - Subnuts - Harpoon 4 11/13 MS#29 - Fincuan - SSN-21 Seawolf 11/13 MS#30 - Dowly - Akula: Red Hunter 11/14 MS#31 - Mikhayl - Das Boot 11/14 MS#32 - Subnuts - Battleship Chess 11/15 MS#33 - Subnuts - Battlestations: Pacific 11/16 MS#34 - Subnuts - Gato 11/16 MS#35 - Subnuts - Silent Hunter III 11/17 MS#36 - Hunter ICX - Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales 11/17 MS#37 - Seeadler - Deep Six 11/17 MS#38 - Raptor1 - Shells of Fury 11/18 MS#39 - Flakchak - Red Storm Rising 11/18 MS#40 - Sonarman - Up Periscope! 11/18 MS#41 -Sonarman - Drumbeat 11/18 MS#42 - VonDos - Silent Hunter 4 11/19 MS#43 - Sonarman - Navy Field 11/19 MS#44 - Sonarman - Hunt for Red October 11/19 MS#45 - roman2440 - Submarine Commander 11/20 MS#46 - Subnuts - Sub Chase 11/20 MS#47 - Fincuan - Battleship: Fleet Command 11/20 MS#48 - Subnuts - Carriers at War 11/21 MS#49 - Sonarman - Jane's Fleet Command 11/21 MS#50 - Rilder - Ship Simulator 2008 11/22 MS#51 - Ironclads - Schultzy 11/22 MS#52 - Subnuts - Jane's 688(I) Hunter/Killer 11/23 MS#53 - HunterICX - Irons Coffins 11/24 MS#54 - Molon Labe - Radar Mission 11/24 MS#55 - Sonarman - USS John Young 11/25 MS#56 - Sonarman - Gunboat: River Combat Simulation 11/25 MS#57 - Sonarman - Destroyer 11/26 MS#58 - Marcantilan - Imperial U-Flotilla 1914-1918 11/26 MS#59 - Sonarman - Hunter Killer 11/26 MS#60 - robbierob2005 - City of Abandoned Ships 11/27 MS#61 - Fire - PT Boats: Knights of the Sea 11/28 MS#62 - lesrae - Bismarck 11/28 MS#63 - j_o_nn_y - Silent Service 11/29 MS#64 - Sonarman - Advanced Destroyer Simulator 11/29 MS#65 - Subnuts - SeaLance: The Bernuda Triangle 12/1 MS#66 - Sonarman - Battlestations: Midway 12/1 MS#67 - LobsterBoy - Silent War 12/2 MS#68 - Sonarman - Sid Meier's Pirates! 12/3 MS#69 - Syxx_Killer - Torpedo Alley 12/4 MS#70 - Sheppard - Codename: Iceman 12/6 MS#71 - Sonarman - Task Force 1942 12/6 MS#72 - Subnuts - Privateer's Bounty 12/7 MS#73 - Subnuts - Aces of the Deep 12/11 MS#74 - Mookie Mookie - Seawolf (Xype) 12/13 MS#75 - Sonarman - Midway Sea Raider 12/14 MS#76 - robbierob2005 - When Submarines Attack 16-Dec MS#77- j_o_nn_y Naval Battles 17-Dec MS#78 - Mookie Mookie - Great Naval Battles IV: Burning Steel 17-Dec MS#79 - Mookie Mookie - Sea Dogs 17-Dec MS#80 - Ramius Midway - Seawolf 19-Dec MS#81 - Sonarman - Sea Battle 19-Dec MS#82 - Captain Vlad - Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis 20-Dec MS#83 Ramius - Attack Sub (board game) 21-Dec MS#84 Sonarman - Steel Horizon (PSP) 22-Dec MS#85 HunterICX - Distant Guns 22-Dec MS#86 robbierob2005 - Midway Submarine 23-Dec MS#87 robbierob2005 - Holland microsim 24-Dec MS#88 JanMichaelWallace - Submarine (board game) 27-Dec MS#89 Rilder - Pirates of the Burning Sea 27-Dec MS#90 Sonarman - Modern Naval Battles: WWII At Sea (Battlefront) 27-Dec MS#91 Sonarman - Depth Charge/Sub Hunter 28-Dec MS#92 Subnuts - Strike Fleet 28-Dec MS#93 Subnuts - Subwolves 29-Dec MS#94 Subnuts - Seafight 29-Dec MS#95 No winner - Sub Roc 31-Dec MS#96 Subnuts - Mike Hense's Red Oktober 31-Dec MS#97 A Very Super Market - Jutland 31-Dec MS#98 Sonarman - Virtual Sailor 31-Dec MS#99 XabbaRus - Global Conflict Blue 31-Dec MS#100 timbob - Neal's Subsim Original Mystery Subsim Challenge Winner totals to date Subnuts - 23 - Ace, IRON CROSS with oak leaves Sonarman - 19 Ace, IRON CROSS Fincuan - 7 - Ace Mookie Mookie - 4 robbierob2005 - 4 HunterICX - 3 gandalf71 - 2 j_o_nn_y - 2 Molon Labe - 2 Ramius - 2 Rilder - 2 A Very Super Market - 1 Bort - 1 Captain Vlad - 1 Contact - 1 Danlissa - 1 D'biter 1 Dowly - 1 ekempey - 1 fire - 1 Flakchak - 1 JanMichaelWallace - 1 lesrae - 1 LobsterBoy - 1 Marcantilan - 1 Mbot - 1 Mikekiller16 - 1 Mikhayl - 1 Nisgeis - 1 No winner - 1 Raptor1 - 1 roman2440 - 1 SandyCaesar - 1 Schultzy - 1 Seeadler - 1 Sheppard - 1 Syxx_Killer - 1 timbob - 1 To be - 1 VonDos - 1 XabbaRus - 1 Wrong Guess Count Dowly - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. FIREWALL - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. gandalf71 - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. kiwi_2005 - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. Marcantilan - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. Mikekiller16 - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. nikimcbee - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. Oberon - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. Raptor1 - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. Red Heat - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. Schultzy - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you. Captain Vlad - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Fincuan - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Herr_Pete 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Letum - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Linton - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Molon Labe - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) MR. Wood - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Rhodes - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) rifleman13 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) SmithN23 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Sonarman - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) SteamWake - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) SteveW1 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Zachstar - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out) Buhring - 1 Chad - 1 danlisa - 1 Etienne - 1 FERdeBOER - 1 flareo - 1 Graf Paper - 1 Hitman - 1 HunterICX - 1 I-25 - 1 j_o_nn_y - 1 John Channing - 1 Kpt. Lehmann - 1 Lil' Subsim - 1 LobsterBoy - 1 Mikhayl - 1 mookiemookie - 1 NEON DEON - 1 Nikita - 1 pabbi - 1 Philipp_Thomsen - 1 Phoenix3000 1 Ramius - 1 RickC Sniper - 1 Rilder - 1 robbierob2005 - 1 rodan54 - 1 roman2440 - 1 SandyCaesar - 1 Stealth Hunter - 1 Subnuts - 1 The Enigma - 1 TLAM Strike - 1 VipertheSniper - 1 XabbaRus - 1 .
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10-31-08, 12:21 AM | #2 |
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It's a blue thingy :p :rotfl:
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10-31-08, 02:02 AM | #4 |
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Let me guess...
....mmmh?!? Shells of Fury Cheers, Michael |
10-31-08, 07:50 AM | #5 |
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Yeah, Shells of Fury is what i think to! I put it on just to make sure! im convinced it is lol
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10-31-08, 10:03 AM | #6 |
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1st is Horpoon 98
2nd is SOF |
10-31-08, 01:26 PM | #7 |
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Good practice, but this is not the first MS thread, just the rules and intro.
First MS thread will be posted in this forum, separately, soon. Like, any minute now |
10-31-08, 01:44 PM | #8 |
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It looks like Harpoon to me.
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10-31-08, 01:47 PM | #9 |
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I still think it was a BLUE thingy. :p :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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10-31-08, 07:25 PM | #10 |
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It is the original Harpoon!
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11-01-08, 12:06 AM | #11 |
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Ah.... one more time: that is just an example!!! Oh heck, I will be posting MS#1 now. Fire away! Mystery Subsim #1 is posted here.
Also, when the first MS is posted, remember: if you guess wrong, you lose one of your three guesses. Even if you guess after the person who guesses correctly. Last edited by Onkel Neal; 11-01-08 at 12:18 AM. |
11-01-08, 04:52 AM | #12 |
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Hehe I like it, very interesting way to kill time waiting for GWX 3.0
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11-02-08, 01:43 PM | #13 |
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It's definitely Harpoon
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11-03-08, 10:17 AM | #14 |
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Will different screenshots from the same game repeatedly shown later ?
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11-03-08, 10:43 AM | #15 |
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Possibly but not until after MS#30
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