Dem
47
GOP
53
One more game to go, after this one. Today, we will be leaning a bit on Scrabble, and on a concept we toyed around with once before. Here's the game. We're going to give you 12 categories, and the job is to come up with ONE answer, the answer that would produce the highest Scrabble score if you were to play that as an answer in Scrabble (you can ignore the usual tile limit).
For example, if we give you the category "TV Show That Has Done at Least One Christmas Episode," you might choose M*A*S*H as the best answer you can think of, earning 3+1+1+4, for a total of 9 points. Or, maybe you remember that How I Met Your Mother did a Christmas episode (several, in fact) and submit that as your response. That would be worth 33 points.
Here are the 10 categories:
For this one, there is no problem using whatever Internet resources you can think to use.
And, as this one will probably take some time, it works best for submissions to go to comments@electoral-vote.com. That way, you can open up a document or a blank e-mail and work, off and on, at your leisure. Don't forget to include your initials and city/state or city/country.
When we announce the results, we will announce the top overall scorers, and also the top scores in each individual category. (Z)