Comments on: Logo game

Logo game

fixedgear — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 04:53:03 -0800

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?

By: j.p. Hung

j.p. Hung — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 05:26:09 -0800

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.

By: caddis

caddis — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:00:39 -0800

I am pretty pathetic at this, except with the automobiles. The fact that I actually knew them all scares me a bit.

By: Arch Stanton

Arch Stanton — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:05:54 -0800

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.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:51:58 -0800

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!

By: Chanther

Chanther — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:25:19 -0800

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.

By: breezeway

breezeway — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:37:10 -0800

I thought "buy answers" would be a clever redirect to the logoed advertiser's product page.

By: sjvilla79

sjvilla79 — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:40:46 -0800

What's with the "buy answers" crap? No thanks, hey.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:47:57 -0800

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.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:53:13 -0800

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.

By: Hal Mumkin

Hal Mumkin — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:19:46 -0800

Well I think jacquilynne's point was that Mercedes-benz would beg to differ with The Logo Game

By: Arch Stanton

Arch Stanton — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:23:50 -0800

I'd hate to spend $15 just to find out that the game put a superfluous hyphen in some company names.

By: breezeway

breezeway — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:38:32 -0800

Yeah, that would be dis-appointing.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:41:32 -0800

$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.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:42:44 -0800

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.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 09:11:10 -0800

Sorry, Hal and Jacquilynne, I guess I mis-under-stood.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 09:40:56 -0800

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 th ese lo gos, I might have scored a bit higher.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:30:01 -0800

Reminds me of the Retail Alphabet Game, ...except that the one from this post understands that N - for - NASA isn't a retail company.

By: sambosambo

sambosambo — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:35:25 -0800

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?

By: sambosambo

sambosambo — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:51:06 -0800

...and i guess the answer would be "Hardee's" wouldn't it?

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:34:43 -0800

Carl's Jr. bought out Hardee's a couple of years ago, and now Hardee's has the same logo as Carl's Jr.

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:36:28 -0800

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?

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:51:48 -0800

Interface is so mind-bogglingly horribe I couldn't proceed.

By: Veritron

Veritron — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 14:53:17 -0800

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

By: LunaticFringe

LunaticFringe — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:29:18 -0800

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.

By: evilangela

evilangela — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:46:54 -0800

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!

By: swordfishtrombones

swordfishtrombones — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:08:32 -0800

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...

By: troybob

troybob — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:48:29 -0800

hmm...won't take GE for General Electric; won't take International Business Machines for IBM

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:37:35 -0800

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.