HiH Clubs

So you finally started learning about Tarot cards. You were instructed to memorize them as homework for a test tomorrow and (obviously) you didn't bother until the last minute. You sit with a friend taking it in turns to remember them all. It isn't until you see in her notes that she had annotated the Page Of Swords with "think of the Ravenclaws" that you come up with a strategy that makes learning them all so much easier...

Activity Arcana Stamping
Points Repetitive Activity: 2pts per comment, 30 max.
Deadline 27th November @ 11:59PM UTC
Details Fill out the short survey and find out which of the Major Tarot Arcana best represents you! 2pts per comment with a cap at 30pts!


( The Spread )

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_{The future will look bleak if you forget to sign the ROSTER!}

Activity Weathering the Weather
Points 1st/2nd/3rd/Participation: 50/40/30/10 points.
Details Predict the weather over two weeks ahead of time! Ten cities all over the world have been chosen. The better your guesses, the better your score, with placement for Top Three. A weather forecasting activity was suggested by mmailliw, who will win Slytherin 5 extra points if he participates.

Good grief. This was a bit of a tricky challenge, wasn't it? Nonetheless, you guys surpassed my already-high expectations and did pretty damn well if you don't mind my saying! This was a very close-run activity from all of the houses. Anyway, I'm sure you're all dying to know what the weather was like a couple of days ago, right?

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So, let's just head on to the scores, OK? Did I mention this was CLOSE? Because it really, really was.

1st Place: everythingshiny of Slytherin with a score of 192!
2nd Place: defined of Ravenclaw with a score of 184!
3rd Place: thebiggest_lie of Gryffindor with a score of 182.5!

Just to give you guys an idea of how close this was, the average score was about 165. The maximum score possible in this activity was 300, and 17/22 of you scored above the midpoint of 150. So yeah. Close.

Let's have a look at the scores!

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Which means......

( Oh, did I mention how close it was? )

A reminder that the deadline for the Weathering the Weather predictions is in 24 hours.

I know people were daunted by the task I set, but that's probably more my verbose way of explaining everything than the challenge itself:

• Fill out the textbox with your predicted forecasts for the 10 locations.
  
• The weather should fit one of the boxes on that weather diagram I did.
  
• Scoring is derived from that.

I do the leg work of checking and tallying scores, so don't panic: make a submission and hope to place!

One day remains!

A quick note to everyone that the Corrupt A Prediction game is due to finish in.... just under 12 hours or so. There's been loads of participation (which always makes me happy!) but there's no such thing as too much!

Also, don't forget to double-check the roster! Pretty much everyone is on it, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Happy predicting!

Activity: Detention with Cartomancy
Points: Participation Only; 10pts.
Details: Professor Trelawney has asked you to sort through her old cartomancy predictions in detention! Interpret some basic past-present-future readings from playing cards, and work out to whom they refer.


Once again guys, you completely surpassed yourselves! I was really pleased to see epic participation from all houses! Not just that, your interpretations were nice and creative, and thoughtful to boot.

So without further ado, shall we reveal the scores?

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Activity: Zener Card Training
Points: 1st/2nd/3rd/Participation Only: 50/40/30/10 points.

Apologies it took so long to get these up- I've had a hella crazy couple of weeks. Anyway!

I was very proud about the amount of participation this game received! Shall we see who was the most psychic club member, hmm?

First place: veilingofthesun of Ravenclaw with a whopping 32% success rate!
Second place: eowyn_rain of Gryffindor and mewithe of Hufflepuff tied with an outstanding 29% rate! These were all above chance level!
Third place: caitriona_3, eggsnail and starianprincess, all of Gryffindor, tied with a majestic 28% success rate!

Congratulations, all of you! Curiously, a bit of trivia: the most significant deviation away from the expected norm was actually a low percentage (below 10%)! I won't name the individual just in case (unless they give permission). I was very impressed at the odds-defying score! In a way, you actually did better than the winners!

Regardless. Here's another bit of fun trivia. Gryffindor is the most psychic house! And Slytherin is the next psychic, followed very closely by Ravenclaw. Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders. I then was in full geek mode and made a box-and-whisker plot showing how the houses got on, and then ran some unrelated-samples t-tests: loins reported significantly higher scores here than badgers and eagles, but there was no significant differences between loins and snakes (nor were any significant difference among snakes, eagles and badgers). Obviously, no house performed better than chance. Bad luck.

Sorry, I'll take the geek glasses off now and give you the points breakdown:

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( Totals! )

Activity Zener Card Training
Points 1st/2nd/3rd/Participation: 50/40/30/10 points.
Deadline 29th August at 11:59PM UTC (converter)

For this challenge, I want to test your psychic skills. Do you have the makings of a Seer? Perhaps some of you are yet to fully master your Inner Eye. Come inside for more...

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