mudee wrote:
Has anyone else noticed the plethora of literature questions in Lunchtime the last week or so? Not my strong point in the game for sure.
Yes, I have. Not so much literature as poetry and theater, including vintage Broadway musicals. The entire nation struggles with such questions. My wife got a Gold Medal that held up across all time zones for a 5,023 score one LTT game.
As many other posters here know, I'm a history/science/geography guy, not a literature guy, so I personally don't like the change. But looking at the leaderboards I see two reasons that Buzztime might be happy:
1) My impression is that the stronger sites rank higher on five-score averages recently than they do in LTT games filled with repeat questions. Games with more repeat questions favor sites with a few folks with 100 million P+ points combined congregating as a team. Games with repeat questions favor the specific players who both saw and remembered the previous question. Games with tough new questions favor pure brain power.
2) I perceive a higher deviation in Gold Medals in these newer games. For individual scores, tougher, newer questions induce a higher deviation of score relative to talent. That smooths out over the top five, but I'm seeing a bunch of lesser-known names getting LTT Gold Medals. Spreading the opportunity for Gold Medals is good for the game.