PQ Statistics (Week of 4/28)

nbperp
nbperp Posts: 171 Tile Toppler
in MPQ General Discussion

The question below includes Hellcow, but nothing that follows.

There are 370 characters in the game right now. That's 1,110 powers. When you count up how many times each color appears, 2 of those colors have the same number of occurrences (appearing on 184 characters).

What 2 colors appear the same number of times? (@WhiteBomber - when I post the answer, I'll also post the number of occurrences for each of the colors)

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  • Blazpheme
    Blazpheme Posts: 27 Just Dropped In

    Purple and Black.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,519 Chairperson of the Boards

    Red and Yellow.

    Wouldn't it be the same as the answer to the last question?

    KGB

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 625 Critical Contributor
    edited 29 April 2025, 16:41

    Perp said Red and Yellow are the most common pairing, but those other colors could still be used more, just not with their same partner colors. So red and yellow appear X amount of times, but red individually shows up far more, and as an example, yellow individually could be less.

    Feels like we went with which 2 show up the same number of times rather than most frequent because it would be harder to determine, you have to be exact.

    Maaaaaybe lets go:
    Pink and Yella :wink:

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,529 Chairperson of the Boards

    This would be easier if I didn't have dupes...

    My guess is Blue and Yellow

  • Blazpheme
    Blazpheme Posts: 27 Just Dropped In

    D'oh, I forgot about dupes.
    Taking this into account, yellow is definitely one of them, but I can't find the other (the closest I see is purple).

    What I am getting is

    203 - Red
    190 - Black
    188 - Blue
    185 - Purple
    184 - Yellow
    160 - Green

    which does add up to 1,110, but none of them match.

    This wouldn't be the first time I have been wrong about something, but I cannot find any colors that actually appear the same number of times.

    Are you absolutely certain there are two 184s, or am I just playing in the wrong sandbox?

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,529 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 29 April 2025, 23:24

    @Blazpheme said:
    D'oh, I forgot about dupes.
    Taking this into account, yellow is definitely one of them, but I can't find the other (the closest I see is purple).

    What I am getting is

    203 - Red
    190 - Black
    188 - Blue
    185 - Purple
    184 - Yellow
    160 - Green

    which does add up to 1,110, but none of them match.

    This wouldn't be the first time I have been wrong about something, but I cannot find any colors that actually appear the same number of times.

    Are you absolutely certain there are two 184s, or am I just playing in the wrong sandbox?

    I just manually counted my dupes and I think Blue ended up at 184. But my eyesight is terrible and it's late and I forgot what I had counted to on more than one occasion...

  • nbperp
    nbperp Posts: 171 Tile Toppler

    @Blazpheme said:
    D'oh, I forgot about dupes.
    Taking this into account, yellow is definitely one of them, but I can't find the other (the closest I see is purple).

    What I am getting is

    203 - Red
    190 - Black
    188 - Blue
    185 - Purple
    184 - Yellow
    160 - Green

    which does add up to 1,110, but none of them match.

    This wouldn't be the first time I have been wrong about something, but I cannot find any colors that actually appear the same number of times.

    Are you absolutely certain there are two 184s, or am I just playing in the wrong sandbox?

    It is possible that I have a Purple power listed somewhere that should be green. I am constantly reviewing the database and should that prove out, I will come back here with my apologies. I say this because my numbers - up to and including Hellcow were:

    203 times - Red
    191 times - Black
    187 times - Blue
    184 times - Yellow
    184 times - Purple
    161 times - Green

    Making @WhiteBomber the only person to get a point this week. (though I have to be flexible and assume when you said "Pink" you meant "Purple" - I thought Gwenpool settled this debate years ago).

    My tracker also maintains a check for if/when new data alters the information and, of course adding Winter Soldier into the equation results in a different answer. However, since he adds Red, Purple, and Yellow, the numbers with him still result in only one tie, adding one to both Yellow and Purple.

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 625 Critical Contributor

    I... I'd like to thank @nbperp! If not for his guidance (and tool with the answers) I don't know where I would be today!

    Thank you, THANK YOU!

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 625 Critical Contributor

    Also, MPQ aren't fooling me, I'm not color blind. That is PINK, not purple.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,542 Chairperson of the Boards

    @WhiteBomber said:
    Also, MPQ aren't fooling me, I'm not color blind. That is PINK, not purple.

    It's Magenta, which while a pinkish shade of purple, is still purple.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,519 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 6 May 2025, 20:08

    @WhiteBomber said:
    Also, MPQ aren't fooling me, I'm not color blind. That is PINK, not purple.

    https://www.colorlitelens.com/color-blind-test.html

    Scroll down to the 2nd test (pinks) and let us know how you do (the pink one gets quite difficult in the final few images while the first one for green is trivial at least for me).

    I was rated normal for both and it's a magenta purple.

    KGB

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 625 Critical Contributor

    14/14 and 10/9
    Purpleman himself, I believe would also disagree

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