Doing a late issue followed by a timely issue has its advantages. We have a much more concise menu today:
Football++ Mimir and History 366by Sander van der Heyden
Wordsmash #2-3, and Mimiristby Dhruv Mookerji
Counting Hemimirby Akshay Gurumoorthi
Meowmirby Sourjo Sengupta
All these quizzes can be found in the Friendlies Drive. You can also use this Checklist to get a more concise listing of the 200+ quizzes released on B612 forums.
Pro-Tip: Click on the Checklist link, then click on File→Make a Copy and rename to something like “Bunty’s B612 Checklist” (assuming your name is Bunty). You can now use this list to keep track of which sets you’ve already played. It will even auto-update with new question sets that get released!
1. Football++ Mimir and History 366 by Sander van der Heyden
Sander’s insane streak continues, with two new sets released last week and two more being just hours away from premiering even as I type this.
The terribly-named Football Mimir is basically just Sander playing a prank on us all. It’s not really a football quiz at all, just a general quiz that is themed around football and footballer. I shudder to think how many people just skipped this set because of what it's called!
History 366 is Sander’s shot at a concept Sourjo once tried, i.e. one question for every day of the year, starting with 1st January (and presumably only getting till the end of Feb for this particular edition). He’s promised several more of these sets, let’s see if he can really do a whole year!
2. Wordsmash #2-3, and Mimirist by Dhruv Mookerji
Dhruv has released two more Wordsmash sets, to be played in his new Lob-and-Dunk format. If you haven’t played one of these, it’s a format designed for teams where each team member must guess half the answer without much discussion. There are levels to the strategy involved in guessing (or choosing not to guess, even when you’re sure), and the whole thing makes for an incredibly fun game.
PS: He’s doing a whole tournament of Wordsmash sets sometime this week, so stay tuned for a lot more of these sets to make an appearance!
Meanwhile, Mimirist is a more interesting one. Gautam Ghosh misread a message on the group that said “10.30pm IST quiz” and assumed that someone had released a new set titled ‘IST Quiz’, which to be fair is not the most absurd topic we’ve come across for a quiz. He tried signing up for it and seemed legitimately annoyed that he wasn’t getting to play it. Enter Dhruv, who finally answered GG’s prayers and released a quiz titled Mimirist, OR a quiz about the letters IST. It’s a 4*4*2 set, but that conception story alone is worth it.
3. Counting Hemimir by Akshay Gurumoorthi
A slightly older set is being released properly now. Akshay’s set is titled Numbers (not to be confused with an older Dhruv concept) but Counting Mimir might be a more appropriate term. Each question has a concept with the number it appears at in the quiz.
Eg. Round 3 Player 1 Question 2 is the 18th question of the set, so the answer is going to have something to do with the number 18. One or two questions drop this arbitrary constraint in favour of a better quiz question, but the concept works incredibly well and the same constraints can sometimes act as very creative clues.
I really want to give you a sample question here, but this one is only a hemimir and so many of the questions are just too good to be spoiled like this. As a compromise, here’s the question WITHOUT the question number, and without the answer too. Can you guess what question number this would have appeared at?
What event, consisting of three final words before death after multiple long journeys of exhaustion does this painting depict?
4. Meowmir by Sourjo Sengupta
In his own words:
With apologies to Old Possum, I've written a friendly on cats! Meowmir, anyone?
It's a full 64 q mimir (8*4*2) and covers a range of topics related to different kinds of felines and their exploits. There are both big cats and small, but the focus is on the latter.
Be forewarned: Might play a bit challenging. As always, prior apologies for the longform.
'25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy' by Andy Warhol and Julia Warhola
