Roman Numerals which complete this word ladder Quiz by bazmerelda

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Word Ladder for Romans Quiz

by bazmerelda

Created May 7, 2012 in Just For Fun
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	ChileNoseJam:	May 7th, 2012 at 22:04 GMT		1 point
	This is more of a number ladder - I wonder if it would be possible to make an actual word ladder in Latin?

	bazmerelda:	May 7th, 2012 at 22:08 GMT		1 point
	I'm sure it must be. I'm not sure how many people would be able to play it though.

	AuroraIllumina:	May 7th, 2012 at 22:11 GMT		3 points
	That was fun. V globes!

	sproutcm:	May 7th, 2012 at 22:17 GMT		-2 points
	I think this can totally be a minute shorter too.

	bazmerelda:	May 7th, 2012 at 22:19 GMT		-1 points
	OK, 1 minute it is. I'll change it back if no one can finish anymore.

	milgita:	May 7th, 2012 at 22:56 GMT		1 point
	Wow....I was going at a good, steady speed, not super duper fast, but not slow either, and the time ran out when I still had like 6 answers to go. But fun quiz anyway!

	citkeane:	May 7th, 2012 at 23:55 GMT		1 point
	Nice quiz, not sure about the time, you might have to tweak it depending on the feedback. Could you add a word ladder tag?

	AuroraIllumina:	May 8th, 2012 at 01:23 GMT		3 points
	It used to be two minutes until sproutcm suggested the change. One of the guidelines for word ladders is one minute per ten words. This quiz does require a different type of thinking than most other word ladders, but one minute feels a tad too short.

	needapausebutton:	May 8th, 2012 at 01:35 GMT		3 points
	bazmerelda: Great game. Part ladder, part math, excellent! Regarding the timer, I'll change my username to needaninetysecondtimer and hope admin notices.

	bazmerelda:	May 8th, 2012 at 09:47 GMT		1 point
	I've added 10 extra rungs and 1 minute to the ladder which should hopefully put the difficulty somewhere between too easy and too hard. I've also added a word ladder tag - not sure why that didn't appear automatically when I had word ladder in the title. I guess this needs slightly less time than a standard word ladder as there are only a maximum of 18 possibilities the next answer can possibly be, rather than 75 when all letters are being used. @pause: Can you get us a 30 second timer for those ultra short, 5 answer blitzes too please?

	citkeane:	May 8th, 2012 at 12:51 GMT		2 points
	@baz, you went wrong on the 3rd last rung, changed two at the same time. Think you meant 3050 - MMML.

	bazmerelda:	May 8th, 2012 at 13:04 GMT		2 points
	That's exactly what I meant, thanks. 11am is clearly too early for me to be attempting to re-write quizzes.

milgita:

May 9th, 2012 at 02:02 GMT

1 point

Much better! haha perfect actually, since I only had 11 seconds left. :)

	tabbyclaw:	May 18th, 2012 at 11:24 GMT		2 points
	Even with the 'cheat sheet' at the top this is still an entertaining challenge.

	marceloOrigoni:	May 19th, 2012 at 17:23 GMT		1 point
	MMMM is not 4000, any given roman number cannot be repeated more than 3 times. the correct form of 4000 would be IV with a line on top

	bazmerelda:	May 19th, 2012 at 18:48 GMT		2 points
	@marceloOrigoni: I've been reading around a bit on 4000. It turns out that the Romans weren't very consistent in the way they applied their rules for large numbers. The most logical way of writing 4000 is actually MṼ (1000 less than 5000). [IV]-bar is also acceptable. However MMMM was commonly used by early Romans (and is the version given by the source). Any would be acceptable versions of 4000 at various times in their history, but only one fits into the pattern of the word ladder.

	jonbar18:	Jun 10th, 2012 at 18:21 GMT		-1 points
	I think you should remove the hint at the top. It kind of ruins the point of the ladder if you tell them how to write each number