Sheep V: The Unraveling (2024)
Welcome & Housekeeping
Hello out there, and welcome to Sheep V: The Unraveling! If you've not played before, or have played before and want to point people to your past triumphs, prior seasons can be found here.
Here's how timing will work this season. A new Sheep will be released each week no later than Monday at 9am, and the answers will be due by Friday at 5pm Eastern. I'll then collate / tally over the weekend and send out results along with the next week's Sheep. If you're on the Sheep Google Group, all you need do is keep an eye on your email (go here to sign-up), but if you haven't been able to join that for Reasons, then you can just come here to find the last week's results and the current week's questions.
As we did in Season 4, I'll keep track of how you're doing cumulatively and announce an overall winner. If you're interested in vying for the top spot you must remember your username and keep it consistent throughout! This, of course, also means picking a unique username -- and no mucking about with usernames that attempt to impersonate someone else.
The winner each week wins a Sheep t-shirt, and thanks to Aimee Serralde for coming up with the design. Having one of these is quite exclusive indeed!
Finally, please assume that nearly everything I write is done so with tongue firmly planted in cheek, and I don't aim to offend. There's a lot of internet out there if this isn't for you.
Welcome to the flock!
Week 5. Rhyme Time
Form for Week 5 is here, and answers are due by Friday, May 10 at 5pm Eastern. Good luck!
Week 4. Groceries. Results!
A hearty congratulations to this week’s winner, playing in thier first season of Sheep, Alex Statley! Alex’s pseudonym, A. Valley, comes from their love of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, a group from the great – or should we just come out and say it, the greatest? – musical state that is New Jersey. Even a casual and/or young music fan will know December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night), but that’s hardly their only hit.
This is Alex’s first year of playing Sheep, they were let into the fun by colleagues in the Bay Area, where they are a “chromatography connoisseur.” Dunno what the chain-of-connection that links their company back to the Broad Institute, but that’s kinda the fun, right? Regardless, Alex is, of course, looking forward to broadcasting their victory with an exclusive Sheep Victory t-shirt, which the USPS will get out ASAP.
Full question-by-question results can be found here.
Individual scores can be found here. I also added a "Totals" tab so you can see how you're doing overall this season. Here at the halfway point our Top Ten are Lbastian, KBOB, Not Your HR Partner, avm, Kirsten Jolley, Wooly Mammoth, Marissa F, Iam Smith, Lane, and Mercurio83. There's still plenty of Sheep left, still anyone's game! FYI, If there's an (n/a) for one of your weeks but you're pretty sure you played, it may be because you used a different username. As I believe I have things set up to send you an email when you submit answers, you can presumably figure out what username you did use that week, so let me know and I can get things totaled up appropriately. But please try to stick one consistently for the duration, as the fix is rather manual. Merci!
Week 4. Groceries
Form for Week 4 is here, and answers are due by Friday, May 3 at 5pm Eastern.
Week 3. Wordle-ish. Results!
I got Wordle in 3 today, and got it in 2 earlier this week. So things are going pretty well for the Sheepmaster.
Hello all and welcome to the results of Week 3! No ties this week, we have a unique champion, so please clap your hooves together for Michael Chaney of Vienna (no not that one, the one in Virginia). Michael, proud papa of 9 year old Keira, is a long-time Sheep player, and is still incensed that David Ortiz was selected as an all-time-great Red Sox player in Sheep III. While Michael is welcome to continue to be wrong about that 😅 he will not be in the wrong sporting a fancy Sheep T-shirt. Congrats Michael!
Full question-by-question results can be found here.
Individual scores can be found here.
Week 3. Wordle-ish
Form for Week 3 is here, and answers are due by Friday, April 26 at 5pm Eastern.
If you're not receiving emails from the Sheep Google Group, your spam filter is likely the issue. Search for 'Sheep' and if the link is still active, join the group. If not, (re)-add your name to this Google Form, and Sheep IT will get a new link out to you ASAP, although please note that our Head of IT is, in fact, a bovine, and typing with hooves takes some time.
Week 2. Either / or. Results!
Greetings all Sheep enthusiasts! Perhaps given the limited number of choices this week it shouldn't be a surprise that there's a tie atop the leaderboard, with FOUR people getting perfect scores. The only thing shared in common amongst the winners, as far as I can tell, is that they are all pretty closely connected to the Broad, as three are current Broadies and one is the offspring of not one but two former Broadies! So, congratulations are in order first to Sophie Brown, daughter of Adam Brown and Serena Silver, some names longtime Broadies will certainly remember. Joining Sophie at the podium we have Stephen Fleming, who is making is second trip to the winner's circle, having won in Week 3 of 2022. Stephen works in DSP (Data Sciences Platform for those not in the know). Next up, Lois Dolittle, who, in fact, Doesmuch in her role in administration. And last but not least we have Kathryn Flowers, a former GPer who is now a project manager in the Stanley Center. Congrats to all winners! A fresh Sheep t-shirt will soon be arriving for you to broadcast your superiority to all in the know and draw quizzical glances from those not!
Full question-by-question results can be found here.
Individual scores can be found here.
Week 2. Either / or
Little different this week, rather than open-ended questions, there are very defined choices. Form is here, and answers are due by Friday, April 19 at 5pm Eastern.
Week 1. New York City. Results!
We have blown away all previous records with 315 people participating in Sheep this week! I'll admit, with so many Sheepies in the pasture, I was worried about a tie in week 1 -- who would want that? But that was clearly foolish of me, as I overlooked the fact that Kirsten Jolley was playing, and she left everyone else in the dust, besting the runner-up by 78 points. Congrats Kirsten! Kirsten works in the US Patent Office, so her children are able to weasel out of trouble if they can convince her that the source of mischief is both novel and non-obvious. Quite the loophole.
Full question-by-question results can be found here.
Individual scores can be found here.
Week 1. New York City
Form for week 1 is here. Answers are due by 5pm (Eastern) on Friday, April 12.