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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#437: Great Designer Search 1, Part 2

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Games, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Magic The Gathering

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This is part two of a two-part series where I examine the first Great Designer Search in detail. I walk through all the tests to get in and then all the challenges given to the contestants.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out the parking lot. We all know that means it's time to drive to work.

0:06.5

So today's podcast is in between me dropping off my son for spring break camp and me dropping off my daughter at school.

0:13.1

So anyway, let's get started. So last we talked in the last podcast, we talked all about the great designer search one, the very first one.

0:21.4

And last we had talked, we'd gotten through the second test. There were three tests you needed to get

0:26.1

into the great designer search. And I talked about the two tests last time. First was a 10-question

0:31.2

essay test. Second was a 35-choice, multiple-choice test. So before I move on to the third test, a little bit about the second test, I did some sample

0:39.2

questions last time.

0:40.5

I just want to say that there was a lot of controversy around the multiple choice test because

0:46.6

it had definitive answers and I needed to have definitive answers.

0:50.4

I needed to get from thousands down to 100 and that that requires a lot of, requires some objectivity.

0:59.0

And so there definitely was some complaints that, you know, why is there a multiple choice test?

1:06.4

And there was a lot of people who thought that they had an answer that was a legit answer.

1:11.5

So I did post, if you go online, I posted all 35 questions and the answers to the 35 questions,

1:17.2

and then my explanation for the answer is 35. I felt all the answer had legit answers to it.

1:22.5

There were a couple questions that in retrospect I could have written better, were like,

1:26.5

but because you were

1:29.3

allowed to miss five questions, all you had to do is get a 30 out of the 35. So you could miss

1:33.8

five questions and still advance. We decided, all 35 questions were legit questions, but

1:40.1

even the ones that definitely, even though if you count there were a few that were a little on the tricky side,

1:46.3

you still could miss all of them and still advance.

1:49.0

In fact, you can miss all of them miss a few more in advance.

1:51.9

Okay, so now we get to the third test.

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