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Good afternoon Gadgeteers, we’ve got that Friday feeling again! The sun’s shining, the sky is clear and the weekend is drawing wonderfully near. If you enjoyed that rhyme then personal poems are available strictly on a commissions basis. One of the main reasons we love Friday here at Gadget HQ is the weekly Sporcle Challenge, and this week we decided on the wonderful Cupcake Games quiz; one enterprising Sporcle user has baked 36 beautifully decorated cupcakes, and we had to guess which games she’d drawn on them with icing!

Despite not having anything to do with… well, anything really, it’s one of the most fun quizzes we’ve done and it’s impossible not to be impressed with the intricate designs that he or she has created. It’s also one of the closest quizzes we’ve ever done, with only 2 points separating everyone!

If you need me to tell you who won then clearly you haven’t been paying much attention to the last few weeks. Mandy and Sam were locked in a dead heat with 26 points each, but thanks to Scattegories and Brick Breaker I emerged triumphant! Due to complaints about the one-sided, “SPL” nature of the current League, the decision has been made to reset the scores each month, so it is with great pleasure that I declare myself Champion Of March! Here, as always, is the final table:

1^st: Murray “The Heart Break Kid” Dougall – 22

2^nd: Sam “The 8^th Wonder Of The World” Nicholls – 12

3^rd: Mandy “The Iron Lady” Evans – 11

Pictured: Murray (possibly).

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages… it’s that time again. It’s:

Because it’s St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow, this week’s Sporcle Challenge took on an Irish theme, which boded well for our resident half-Irish competitor (hint: that’s me). The quiz selected was “Can you name the facts about Ireland?”, with the questions ranging from the simple “Continent?” to the much more difficult “First Taoiseach?”. I’ll be honest with you gadget fans, we had no idea what a Taoiseach was.

Although we assume it looks something like this.

Knowing that this would be a close one, some underhanded tricks were used to secure right answers. Sam accidentally guessed the age of suffrage whilst looking for the year of independence (a question that wasn’t actually on the quiz), while I got a point for the date of independence by typing in “January 1” and working my way through to December 6^th. Ethical? No. Victorious? You betcha.

Scoring a whopping 32 out of 50, I extended my lead at the top of the table. Sam came very close with 29, enough to put him ahead of Mandy’s 22 and leapfrog over her into second place with 10 points from 9 games, although Mandy is only a point behind him with 9. Despite my new-found status as King of the Office, I was unable to successfully pass a decree that all workers can have a Guinness today.

Mmm... Productivity.

Whilst I’m disappointed, I do have to begrudgingly admit that it may not have been the most productive idea I’ve ever had.

So, with 9 games played, here are the most recent standings:

1st: Murray “The Heartbreak Kid” Dougall – 18 points

2nd: Sam “The 8^th Wonder of the World” Nicholls – 10 points

3rd: Mandy “The Iron Lady” Evans – 9 points

Think you can do better? Leave a comment and let us know your scores. I’ve already given you one of the answers!