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- Sat Mar 08, 2014 12:52 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Easy odds puzzle
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10936
Re: Easy odds puzzle
Bit late to bump this, but 8/35 (27:8, or about 22.857%) is correct: Without loss of generality, put top player A in slot 1 (basically, randomly assign a slot to A, then draw A's opponent next). The probability of a "muppet" being pitted vs. A is 4/7. If B, C, or D is pitted, the trial in ...
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:28 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 60570
Re: Official thread of scrag
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1024033
Max a round only 5 people get spot-on, finish in the bottom third.
Smooth move, Ex-Lax.
Max a round only 5 people get spot-on, finish in the bottom third.
Smooth move, Ex-Lax.
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:21 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Weighing game
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6151
Re: Weighing game
Hint for my puzzle: The first move in my puzzle is sort of unintuitive to consider at first. Think I got the one in the OP after like a half hour: Weigh four coins against four other coins in the first weighing. If the coins balance, all 8 are legit. Weigh three unknown coins against three legit coi...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 3:58 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Weighing game
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6151
Re: Weighing game
New weighing puzzle I saw somewhere: You have a balance scale and six balls. Two are red, two are green, and two are blue. You are told that, in each pair of like colored balls, one is slightly heavier than the other. The heavy balls in each pair are all the same weight, as are the light balls. Usin...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 3:49 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Countdown Conundrum Quiz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3685
Re: Countdown Conundrum Quiz
Really, Steve? :lol: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=489717&round=7000001#r7000001 lol soz, I was running out of ideas and started thinking back to earlier games. :P fwiw I probably should've put the bottom center word at the very end, it's probably the most obscure word of the lot. A...
- Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:55 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Countdown Conundrum Quiz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3685
Countdown Conundrum Quiz
I decided to make a quiz with several conundrums I've written at various times in my thought processes. You're given 30 seconds a round, just like in Countdown, but you can take as many stabs as you need and any time you spend on easy gscrambles can be stored for harder rounds. Of course, I get the ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:11 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: 'Gevin's Delight' Tournament 2012
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19206
Re: 'Gevin's Delight' Tournament 2012
We should have another Gevin's Delight tournament either way, preferably one where I don't draw the eventual champion in round 1
- Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:24 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 60570
Re: Official thread of scrag
if this is how I play when I get home from work I may as well just let my subscription expire ffs
seriously this is pig disgusting
seriously this is pig disgusting
- Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:01 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown for Comic Relief sweepstake
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3437
Re: Countdown for Comic Relief sweepstake
Let's try 4620, those early letters selections were a bit rubbish and 9s should be coming up a bit more commonly.
- Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Lotto Probability
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2187
Re: Lotto Probability
To expand a bit on Michael's post: The first part of the draw, picking four numbers without replacement from a pool of 28, is called a combination. It can be written as 28C4, or the number of ways to choose 4 numbers from 28 where order doesn't matter. This is equal to 28!/((24!)(4!)), where n! is t...
- Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Asperger Syndrome
- Replies: 81
- Views: 19884
Re: Asperger Syndrome
Oh, hi thread. Here, have a gigantic not entirely appropriate given the most recent posts here wall of text. From my perspective, at least, having AS means being "different" and not "disabled" like a lot of people think. I mean, you see me functioning on my own in the real world,...
- Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:05 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: 1001 Things You Should Know
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10323
Re: 1001 Things You Should Know
This reminds me startlingly of most American game shows released in the last 5 years or so. Especially the "it doesn't matter how well you did for most of the show, only the last round matters at all whatsoever" part.
This is a very, very bad thing.
This is a very, very bad thing.
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:59 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 60570
Re: Official thread of scrag
I'm going to have a load of games against Plum today to try and get the 6-small max game. I already have max games for 1-large, 2-large and 3-large in 20 round games. Think I'm quite a bit off achieving the 4-large max game though. oooh, good luck with that, I've had a few 19s myself but have yet t...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Lance Armstrong and "doping" generally
- Replies: 121
- Views: 43216
Re: Lance Armstrong and "doping" generally
Fun fact: All of Lance's titles would go to people who themselves have faced allegations of doping.
w2g cycling
w2g cycling
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:18 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 108227
Re: Only Connect
Someone loaded all of Season 5 to Youtube which was pretty awesome, spent a couple weekends watching them all.
Hope this season also gets uploaded, this is possibly one of my favorite game shows ever even though I'm clueless whenever British pop culture comes up.
Hope this season also gets uploaded, this is possibly one of my favorite game shows ever even though I'm clueless whenever British pop culture comes up.
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:21 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 60570
Re: Official thread of scrag
Well right now I'm playing a 1,000 round 2L game vs. Prime, winning by a decent amount right now but I'm not even at 90% maxed. I am getting a lot of crappy rounds (stuff with two 1s, all even smalls + large odd target, and bad absolute modulo 5* setups) though so I think this might start to go back...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:58 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 60570
Re: Official thread of scrag
Here is the list of most max games, by format. I'm tied for the most max numbers attacks. This and this are my first two attempts of the day to get #22 fml I am such a choke artist EDIT: looked again at game 2 after twitch closing the window in disgust and suddenly (((25*5)-3)*7)-50 within 3 second...
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:45 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382146
Re: Is Apterous down?
Can't get apterous to open most of the time, and when it does it won't open any game windows. I use the "down for everyone" site and it says this is only my problem, but I can't get it to load on any computers. EDIT: I was able to get the Daily Duel to work, but no luck with games I want t...
- Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:44 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Should This Yankee Try To Apply?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5258
Re: Should This Yankee Try To Apply?
I was actually considering trying to use this as a way to justify a trip to England but if I remember I looked at the application form and thought I read that only citizens of the UK could apply. I might be (and honestly hope that I am) mistaken, though. I mean if there's no citizenship restrictions...
- Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Highlander Tournament
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4558
Re: Apterous Highlander Tournament
Bullet Hyper Numbers Attack gogogogo
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:03 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 182805
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
I had INSINCERENESSES for 15.
INSINCERENESSES? No, I'm afraid not.
...
We managed to find a 13 in SINCERENESSES.
INSINCERENESSES? No, I'm afraid not.
...
We managed to find a 13 in SINCERENESSES.
- Wed May 30, 2012 10:51 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382146
Re: Is Apterous down?
Ha, that's a useful site, and I've not seen it before now. Thanks
- Sun May 06, 2012 12:12 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 182805
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
BOOMBOX is apparently no good, quite surprised at that.
Also you can be a SKYWRITER, but you can't SKYWRITE.
Also you can be a SKYWRITER, but you can't SKYWRITE.
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:13 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 60570
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:25 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 60570
Re: Official thread of scrag
Pop quiz: You have the following numbers left on the input screen of a hypernums game where the target is 9352: 1330 25 7 4 1 3 Solve this game. Hint: 1330x7=9310. How does your decision change when this is round 20 of a game you're on for a max in? EDIT: I botched round 20 on track for a 200 two mo...
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:25 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Finding art within Apterous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5804
Re: Finding art within Apterous
And in trying to max more numbers attacks my mild synesthesia is proving a nuisance more than a help in Lockdown. In the selection, the mandatory number had a red background, the others get blue ones. The red background is very, very similar to the "3" color. I'm finding it much harder to ...
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:53 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: 'Gevin's Delight' Tournament 2012
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19206
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:58 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Finding art within Apterous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5804
Re: Finding art within Apterous
Numbers have always been red (3, 6, 9), blue (2, 5, 0, and sort of 4), purple (7, this one stands out to the point it gets its own group), and white/black (1 and 8). The larges... 25 is like a slightly lighter version of 2, 50 is a slightly darker blue than 10, and 100 is pretty similar to 10, but 7...
- Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:24 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Finding art within Apterous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5804
Re: Finding art within Apterous
Not sure if this counts as art, and it might sound a bit crackpotted, but I actually "see" colors in the small numbers selected in numbers game selections. Like, they don't appear colored on the screen, but my imagination kind of sees them in color in the back of my head. 1: White. Can app...
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:28 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Frustration
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23930
Re: Frustration
the final result is 180 attempts
max game brought to you by Vyvanse, which, while it functionally serves the same purpose as alcohol in that it makes me want to play numbers attacks, differs from alcohol in that in does not cause me to play badly or misenter a solve once a game.
max game brought to you by Vyvanse, which, while it functionally serves the same purpose as alcohol in that it makes me want to play numbers attacks, differs from alcohol in that in does not cause me to play badly or misenter a solve once a game.
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:43 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Frustration
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23930
Re: Frustration
First ever numbers attack I played I got a 190, missing round 18,
200 attempts later
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=651087
that's not even a remotely hard round
200 attempts later
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=651087
that's not even a remotely hard round
- Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:44 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: May-June 2012 Tournament... you decide the format
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7956
Re: May-June 2012 Tournament... you decide the format
I'd comment on that but as a lower ranked player who is way, way better at numbers than letters with a vastly preferred numbers selection,
It's not 4L or 6S at least
It's not 4L or 6S at least
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:02 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Code Puzzle
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7690
Re: Code Puzzle
I've been trying to apply binary logic (AND, NOT, XOR) to various pairs of bits and getting nowhere. Hmmmmm.
- Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:53 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Bank Job
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5747
Re: Bank Job
Yea, that's the rub with prisoner's dilemma for money splitting -- share is a dominated strategy, so there's not any real reason to choose it. I mean, there's the entertainment factor of trying to convince the other person to pick share, but it's still never going to be more profitable. I agree with...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:39 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Saturday quickfire quiz I
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5685
Re: Saturday quickfire quiz I
Err, knowing the capital of Idaho isn't easy at all and Antimony is a pretty obscure element, never mind knowing it's strange symbol. This whole thing is a good idea IMO, but the 2 quizzes have been far too difficult. These were two that I got almost immediately, but it helps to be from America and...
- Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:30 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS.02 - signup and shiz
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21962
Re: aptoSOS.02 - signup and shiz
Sure, I'll play.
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Carl Williams
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14102
Re: Carl Williams
I have seen someone in the studio with the 75x table written out on their hand ... now that's cheating! Pretty sure that 75 times X up to its remotely reasonable for the show 14 is memoriseable in less than 5 minutes. This is hilarious and I suspect this player didn't make it far in their respectiv...
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 469450
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Don't remember much else, but I had a dream where I distinctly remember trying to solve the game 9 5 3 10 6 8 -> 932 for a reason. Didn't get it in the dream, looked at it for about 2 minutes and still didn't. Throw it into a solver, it apparently has a "darrenic" solution that is not at a...
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:54 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For The Stelling Swansong (Series 65 Grand Final)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 16772
Re: Spoilers For The Stelling Swansong (Series 65 Grand Fina
Congrats, Graeme. Couldn't catch it live so I had to wait for the recap to see what happened, a shame because it looked to be a very good contest.
A bit miffed that ^badugi (An obscure poker variant) is no good in round 7.
A bit miffed that ^badugi (An obscure poker variant) is no good in round 7.
- Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Inventing stuff that's hard to use
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2650
- Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:53 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 108227
Re: Only Connect
I've written about 6-7 of these or so in the past, search in the late 1300s numberwise for anything by Insane Steve and those are there.
I might make up a couple more actually, ideas for things like this come fairly easily for me.
I might make up a couple more actually, ideas for things like this come fairly easily for me.
- Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Occupy this thread
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2720
Re: Occupy this thread
This is a relatively new movement, so it's really that most people are just not happy with the way things have been the last few years. Major corporations in America have tons of taxpayer money when they had bad years (~2008), but normal people don't get this "insurance". A lot of major co...
- Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:19 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Exam results
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18549
Re: Exam results
exams ended like a month ago here failed my exit exam for my stats Master's (not sure what an M.S. is equivalent to in the UK) -- though to be fair it's a bit hard to pass a graduate stats exam when you completely forget what an ANOVA is during the oral defense. Worst marks in my classes in pretty ...
- Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Occupy this thread
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2720
Re: Occupy this thread
G/f and I just donated 30L of water to our local large city's (Chicago) version of the protests. The g/f (she's a self-proclaimed "socialist", and I feel weird being to the right of her both economically and socially somehow) and I also are sending a box of useful stuff to New York City's ...
- Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:34 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Jez Robinson
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3099
Re: Jez Robinson
Yea. If someone isn't responding to a challenge, there's a decent chance they've left temporarily and forgot to put their away status. In that case, they will not be able to respond if you ask them in chat, unfortunately. Also, yes, people you've never seen or met will insult you, especially on the ...
- Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:30 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Autumn Tournament
- Replies: 186
- Views: 36158
Re: Apterous Autumn Tournament
I've been really busy with an important stats project so I've not been logged on to apterous very much the last couple days. I'll try and get the matches played tomorrow or Monday sometime, maybe today if there's some of the people I'm playing this round on.
- Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:21 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 490833
Re: Bug reports
In this game, Thomas's connection was not very good at the beginning and he was disconnecting after pretty much every round. What I noticed is that this caused the letters selector to spit out more Qs than humanly possible. A decent number of the rounds that were selected but not counted due to disc...
- Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:57 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Autumn Tournament
- Replies: 186
- Views: 36158
Re: Apterous Autumn Tournament
I might be one of the people having time zone issues -- I've logged on all the times I've been available (which have spanned about 14 hours of the day) and haven't seen any first week opponents online yet. Well, actually, I did see one of them, but he'd just finished the Duel when I logged on and in...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:28 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Good idea for a variant?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 39020
Re: Good idea for a variant?
If you wanted to play 2 vs 1 type games, etc, you can always use a voice-chat program like Skype if you want more real-time feedback from the spectating player than just a IM chat. At least for me, meeting people in real life to play might be a bit of a stretch
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Lowest possible max in a letters round
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5173
Re: Lowest possible max in a letters round
Looking at the stats board, it doesn't seem like a game with a max of 2 is possible with the letters distribution. I don't see why not, though; it seems like with a single vowel dump and creative consonant picking it should be feasible. There's probably a way to make a round with no declarable words...
- Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:21 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Autumn Tournament
- Replies: 186
- Views: 36158
Re: Apterous Autumn Tournament
Sure, why not. In
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:14 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 490833
Re: Bug reports
Apologies if this is a known bug: I got 10 points for declaring '1' in this game . Not sure whether this also applies to other variants or scorings. Yea, scoring in starpath for Octorock numbers games with no way to score is weird. Like, you'll get 10 points or a point in stepdown/maxes scoring, bu...
- Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:16 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Duel conundrums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4484
Re: Duel conundrums
In that case, never mind -- the bizarre 1s I've seen probably all fall into that category then.
- Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:40 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Duel conundrums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4484
Re: Duel conundrums
http://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php?word=ambisonic
Actually I think this was the word that made me wonder why these words are being given to 800 level players.
Actually I think this was the word that made me wonder why these words are being given to 800 level players.
- Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:12 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Duel conundrums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4484
Re: Duel conundrums
If it's possible, I would recommend that unrated conundrums be more likely, but not ALL of the Duel's conundrums for normal duels. Like, untested spots are more likely, but aren't most rounds. There should be some semblance of ability for "typical" conundrum solving in duels, but at the sa...
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:01 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 108227
Re: Only Connect
And I can't watch this show here either due to regional stuff even though I want to and US game shows on average make Deal or No Deal look really fast-paced. Any ideas for a UK proxy or something for me to watch older episodes of this (or perhaps other UK game shows, also)?
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Nick Hewer, YOU'RE HIRED!!!
- Replies: 204
- Views: 39169
Re: STELLING TO GO!!!!!!!!
Snap accept the deal and get GLACIALLY for 9Graeme Cole wrote:
- Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:44 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Good idea for a variant?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 39020
Re: Good idea for a variant?
For now, one can play Hyperletters attacks and just agree to pick 6 vowels and not declare any words with Es in them which is kind of close.
Like, you might have some rounds with more letters but it still hits that part of the dictionary.
Like, you might have some rounds with more letters but it still hits that part of the dictionary.
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:42 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 182805
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
Thank you, girlfriend's obsessive fiber arts hobby, for making me think that DESTASH^ is a much, much more logical and sensical word than STASHED.
- Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:22 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 475348