GoA Sheep Game

[soyleche]

@1695814

14 The word jersey originally meant any knitted item made from Jersey wool, especially stockings. Pick a number for your Sheep Game jersey.

Again, the Committee on Responsible Sheep Scoring would like to remind you that the score is listed first, followed by the answer…

score; answer
7; 42
4; 7
2; 1
2; 10
1; 2
1; 3
1; 4
1; 52

“10” is the brand we paint on the sheep.

[soyleche]

@1695814

18 Australia is the world’s largest producer of raw wool. Name the farthest-away from where you currently live-country that you’ve visited or would like to visit.

score; answer
10; Australia
1; Finland
1; Alaska
1; New Zealand
1; Switzerland
1; China
1; Israel
1; Germany
1; Ireland
1; Japan

Doh! I missed the “or would like to visit” part.

[Lucy]

Okay, so what’s up with black faced sheep?

Also, are you aiming for wool or meat? I mean, it sounds like you harvest both, but which is primary?

[soyleche]

I’m not entirely sure what our goal is… like I said - we don’t really make any money from wool, so probably meat. We don’t really make much money from that either though…

For the black face stuff:

We keep the all white and the all black ewe lambs. We sell the dingy ones to wherever they go to become lamb chops.

The white ones make sense - white wool is what you want. But why the black? While the lambs are very black, when they grow up the wool lightens and ends up just sort of a grey, which isn’t worth much. Their faces stay pretty dark though.

We keep them around for counting. It is much easier to spot and count sheep with black faces than to try and count all of the sheep. Sheep very seldom wander off alone, so if there is a black face missing, there is probably a decent group along with her. Also, if a decent group is missing there is likely a black face in it - although I doubt anyone has actually done the math on that (my cousin, who’s dad is the main sheep guy - is a college math professor though, so maybe…).

[ArthurItas]

10 is also an excellent number for a soccer jersey

[1695814]

@soyleche

I doubt they keep the ewes separate for mating, (except maybe the black faces - interesting tid-bit there, if anyone cares…).

Oh… I see you expounded… thanks for that

[BruteForce]

@soyleche

Then, after I submitted, my dad finally got back to me.

Curious how you asked him about this. “Hey Dad, I’m submitting some random answers about sheep in an online contest. What breed of sheep do we have?”

I don’t know, just seems like a funny conversation.

[soyleche]

I said, “hey, weird question…”. Then he answered. Then I gave a quick description of the game. It would actually be a fun game to put together for a family reunion…

[A_Student]

Thanks for the game numbers dude. Sorry I missed the live reveal show, it was fun watching the DVR replay.

I can’t believe how average I was at being modal. Yeesh

[gandalf]

As terrible as I was, I actually got lucky, maybe. Some sheep may have picked jersey 42 for AO tradition. I would have, had it occurred to me. Instead I went with Jackie Robinson’s, 42.

Thanks for running the game, 1695814.