Are girls or guys better at surviving in spoons? Was the quota was really necessary to "keep the game at a good pace", or did the Goderators just wanna watch us suffer? Well, we'll find out all in due time! In this column, we'll be crunching some numbers to find out some deeper truths about the nature of the game. Hope you all enjoy it.
Let's start out with some simple statistics about how many people are playing the game, and how many are still alive:
265 people out of our class of 465 participated in spoons. So 57% of the class of 2016 is playing (or was playing) spoons.
At $10 to play, spoons generated $2,650 for our class funds. That's enough money to buy half a million white plastic spoons, assuming that a single white plastic spoon costs half a cent.
As of today, only 74 spooners are still alive, or only 29% of people who started out! Wow. That's less than the percentage of America that watches the superbowl.
There have been a total of 177 deaths, not counting death by quota. That means during the 38 days of gameplay thus far, on average, somebody dies every 5 hours and 9 minutes. Yikes. Watch out.
That's it for today's fun facts! Stay tuned for next time, where we'll be examining the deadliest days of the week, so place your bets!