Logo game

April 2, 2005 4:53 AM

Play the logo game. If you have any doubts left about the ubiquity of advertising, this quiz should remove them. How many can you get, and in what categories?
posted by fixedgear (28 comments total)

Well, I don't know what it says about advertising but it does show how effective branding can be. Surprising how many of them you can immediately nail even though they are products you've never bought (which kind of goes to that whole advertising thingy). Regardless, cool link.
posted by j.p. Hung at 5:26 AM on April 2, 2005

I am pretty pathetic at this, except with the automobiles. The fact that I actually knew them all scares me a bit.
posted by caddis at 6:00 AM on April 2, 2005

Reminds me of the Retail Alphabet Game, but with categories. I enjoy these things, but "would I like to purchase answers for $15?" Fuck that.
posted by Arch Stanton at 6:05 AM on April 2, 2005

I agree, the "purchase an answer" part of that site is amazing... what a pathetic way to suck money from people!

Once I saw that I refused to participate......

But then, I don't drink Pepsi Blue either!
posted by HuronBob at 6:51 AM on April 2, 2005

Yeah, I was interested in playing the game until I clicked on the "Buy Answers" option. I thought it was the kind of option where you can spend some of your points, lowering your score to find an answer. But when I found out it's actually asking if you want to pay $15 to get the answers, that's when I closed the window.
posted by Chanther at 7:25 AM on April 2, 2005

I thought "buy answers" would be a clever redirect to the logoed advertiser's product page.
posted by breezeway at 7:37 AM on April 2, 2005

What's with the "buy answers" crap? No thanks, hey.
posted by sjvilla79 at 7:40 AM on April 2, 2005

I think if you're going to sell answers, you ought to put a whole hell of a lot more work into making sure you authenticate the ones people are inputting, even if they're slightly off on the appropriate spacing or punctuation. It's not Mercedes. It's not Mercedes-Benz. It's Mercedes Benz.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:47 AM on April 2, 2005

Before this gets out of hand, no, it is not my site, I'm not affiliated in any way shape or form, yadayadayada, and if you are even considering the possibility of considering the possibility of buying an answer you must be out of your mind.

Jacquilynne: Mercedes-Benz would beg to differ with you.
posted by fixedgear at 7:53 AM on April 2, 2005

Well I think jacquilynne's point was that Mercedes-benz would beg to differ with The Logo Game
posted by Hal Mumkin at 8:19 AM on April 2, 2005

I'd hate to spend $15 just to find out that the game put a superfluous hyphen in some company names.
posted by Arch Stanton at 8:23 AM on April 2, 2005

Yeah, that would be dis-appointing.
posted by breezeway at 8:38 AM on April 2, 2005

$15 is out of hand, but for a micropayment I would satisfy my curiosity. Micropayments are the future (as in plastics), if anyone can figure out how to make it work.
posted by stbalbach at 8:41 AM on April 2, 2005

Exactly, Hal. I tried Mercedes first and that was wrong. Then I tried Mercedes-Benz and that was wrong. So finally I tried Mercedes Benz with no hypen and that was marked right, despite it being wrong.

If you want to charge money to give people answers they can't get, you should be validating their guesses much better. Any of my answers should be acceptable. In fact, I'd think that anything that resolved to Mercedes via a spellcheck should be considered acceptable as a correct answer, just to keep people from paying to find out they were right all along. An interface that didn't completely erase what you guessed incorrectly so you could see if it was just a typo that caused it to be wrong would also be useful.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:42 AM on April 2, 2005

Sorry, Hal and Jacquilynne, I guess I mis-under-stood.
posted by fixedgear at 9:11 AM on April 2, 2005

Whoa! Micro-payments. Brilliant.

I totally sucked at this game, and I'm in advertising. I'd probably do better at a "Totally random logos from all over the place" category.
But then, I'm also an elitist snob and I tend not to shop at the same places as the plebes. If they'd have had a few of these logos, I might have scored a bit higher.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 9:40 AM on April 2, 2005

Reminds me of the Retail Alphabet Game,

...except that the one from this post understands that N - for - NASA isn't a retail company.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:30 AM on April 2, 2005

Does anyone know how to spell or format "Carl's Jr." or is there another fast food chain that has the happy star for a logo?
posted by sambosambo at 10:35 AM on April 2, 2005

...and i guess the answer would be "Hardee's" wouldn't it?
posted by sambosambo at 10:51 AM on April 2, 2005

Carl's Jr. bought out Hardee's a couple of years ago, and now Hardee's has the same logo as Carl's Jr.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 11:34 AM on April 2, 2005

Caddis, since you got all the automobiles correct, can you please tell me what the heck the logo with the red and black tread is?
posted by Oriole Adams at 11:36 AM on April 2, 2005

Interface is so mind-bogglingly horribe I couldn't proceed.
posted by juiceCake at 12:51 PM on April 2, 2005

I'm an American and I couldn't get more than 1/4 right in any category.

Suck it, marketers.
posted by Veritron at 2:53 PM on April 2, 2005

Caddis, since you got all the automobiles correct, can you please tell me what the heck the logo with the red and black tread is?

I'm stuck on this one too! I thought it was an IROC (not sure if it's own brand but whatever)... It's the only one I don't have! So frustrating.....

It's frightening how many of the logos I recognize.
posted by LunaticFringe at 3:29 PM on April 2, 2005

I gave up on the site when the fast food one refused to take any permutation I could come with for a certain Q-named sub chain, including what was on the official web site. If they can't even be bothered to make sure they accept the correct name, then it's not even worth playing.

I think they're just trying to make a little money or something - especially now that I see that not only can you buy answers, but that it's $1 an answer!
posted by evilangela at 6:46 PM on April 2, 2005

Caddis, since you got all the automobiles correct, can you please tell me what the heck the logo with the red and black tread is?

If you haven't figured it out yet...
posted by swordfishtrombones at 1:08 PM on April 3, 2005

hmm...won't take GE for General Electric; won't take International Business Machines for IBM
posted by troybob at 7:48 PM on April 3, 2005

Thanks for the hint, Swordfish. Must admit, I'd never heard of that brand before. I'm no expert, but I've worked in the automotive supply biz for some 30-odd years. Always good to learn something new.
posted by Oriole Adams at 9:37 PM on April 3, 2005