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Gavin Chipper

I like the way the way it has on the front page the variant, number of rounds and time of the day's duel, but I think it would be even cooler if it had the LNC breakdown.

Gavin Chipper

I think having someone's Pro Rank on their user page would be good. I don't think there's a way to find it currently without scrolling through all the pages or making them your rival.

Gavin Chipper

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:But then I should have a lot more top losing scores of 0 as well (every time I play Prune).
Bots aren't included.

Charlie's sorted it now anyway (cheers, Charles) but I think the 0 in my Glory Roll was Prune's score anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Adam Gillard wrote:3 of ye 4 most multitalented crowns belonging to we.

You need to get working on the other one then!

Gavin Chipper

Kai Laddiman wrote:Ta-da. Probably needs to be beefed up a little but the skeleton is there.

Excellent job. *like*

Gavin Chipper

From this page 5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279 (Last 2 figures are "Beatable 1 game in..." and "Attempts") Think that might be the way that page works- there's only ever been one Junior 9 rounder with a max higher than 97. Nope, cf here : Games played: 2279. Isn't that w...

Gavin Chipper

I wouldn't mind making a wiki page for this: two categories, 15 round and 9 round; do you want any other info? And should I include Neb? I would include Neb and John Clarke with footnotes, sort of like I've done above, scaling up their heat scores. Also at the bottom, you could include some high-sc...

Gavin Chipper

Jack Hurst goes second. Maybe this deserves its own wiki page.

Gavin Chipper

On some of the variants (the obscure ones), the glory roll doesn't seem to work properly for them. I have top losing score of 0 for Gevin's Delight, despite never scoring 0. And I have the high score for it but that isn't mentioned. Also my top score for Numberbash isn't mentioned (although things ...

Gavin Chipper

On some of the variants (the obscure ones), the glory roll doesn't seem to work properly for them. I have top losing score of 0 for Gevin's Delight, despite never scoring 0. And I have the high score for it but that isn't mentioned. Also my top score for Numberbash isn't mentioned (although things l...

Gavin Chipper

I know it's probably too late to be changing formats once they've been set up, but I think 2 of each small number would be better than 3 in hyper numbers. (There's at least 3 from experience and probably exactly 3). Also since flat scoring was set up to enable both players to score in each round eve...

Gavin Chipper

In hyper numbers, it's sometimes very laggy at the start of rounds, even if Apterous in general doesn't seem particularly laggy at the time. This is before the selection comes up. So I pick however many from the top, then the delay and then the numbers go up and everything runs smoothly.

Gavin Chipper

He's given it up as his New Year's resolution.

Gavin Chipper

I tend to think assorted chocolates that aren't quite as good as chocolate are bit pointless, and anyone who has voted for Dairy Milk surely agrees. Also a friend of mine calls things like this "sweets". No. Edit - actually they're alright but I'm not sure what I'd pick as my favourite. Ma...

Gavin Chipper

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:I prefer Sandwich bread but it's best not to go there.

It's not some magic bread that envelops the food. It's just two pieces of normal bread (or one cut in two - let's not have this debate again).

Gavin Chipper

Are you allowed to copy and paste in spoilage games?

Gavin Chipper

Could numbers attack record pages have lowest maximum like normal games do? Could have highest maximum for completeness but it's always likely to be 200.

Gavin Chipper

JackHurst wrote:As a way of keeping an eye out for fresh talent, one of the criteria for filtering pro ranks could be duration of membership.

Also I think 30-59 could do with splitting.

Gavin Chipper

Although you've put a note on Apterous to say that Statland pages no longer spuriously claim to have been updated, they do still spuriously claim that they're going to be updated in about a minute. Is it quite resource heavy for these pages to update fequently? I notice some pages update very quickl...

Gavin Chipper

Finally got 200 in a Nasty Numbers Attack after over 200 goes. Now I just need to wait for this to update and I've got them all!

Gavin Chipper

But then people also say it's retarded to write passwords down, and given the number of accounts people have on the internet, unless you're memory man, yo uhave to either reuse passwords or write them down. Or both. :D Yeah, I save everything on Firefox. SO that's not perfect, but a million times b...

Gavin Chipper

Well, the new scoring system in F1 is ok..... 1st = 25 2nd = 18 3rd = 15 4th = 12 5th = 10 6th = 8 7th = 6 8th = 4 9th = 2 10th = 1 No it's not. Second place still gets 72% of the winner's points, down from 80, but it's still too high. From 1991 to 2002 it was 60%, which worked much better and was ...

Gavin Chipper

...I packed my laptop away in my bag to get it out of the way for Christmas and I thought to myself "Apterous and everyone playing it is now in my bag."

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And I had BROGUE in round 1.

Gavin Chipper

Apparently the next 2 games HAVE been played but not posted on here. Where are we up to? Just noticed I'm next to Innis on the list. I did play Innis in a game last night, but it was just a game, rather than anything official (if that's where it had got up to). The premise of the game was for me to...

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper wrote:Apparently quite a few masters games were never broadcast either or Allen Horn against Joy Hill in series 36. Or indeed any game involving Harry Peters.

And now I know why.

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I had a glass of ORANGE juice today.

Gavin Chipper

Also used to like the one where you dropped the glow in the dark skull down the tower which set of booby traps, can't remember what it was called. Ghost House or something like that. Was it this ? I loved that as a kid. In my memory it's called Ghost Castle. In fact the next game on that site - htt...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
James Doohan wrote:Hyper unlimited letters attack has 30 seconds per round whereas the other hyper unlimited games have 45 seconds per round
That is... odd. Don't think I can change it now though.

Hyper touch numbers attack has 30 seconds as well (so presumably all hyper touch).

Gavin Chipper

If I was moderator, I would delete this thread. Richard does not have a voice here because he is banned (with good reason). You shouldn't be it Gavin. On another forum I frequent, you would also be banned. Admittedly this is a pretty minor transgression, but it has also somewhat pissed on Ryan's fi...

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote:Let me explain the type of person i am in this recent anecdote

It wasn't what I expected from someone wanting to get on in this forum. Pull yourelf together!

Gavin Chipper

It was tried, people didn't like it IIRC. Ah fair play. Wish I knew that before I did that image! That must have been right back in the day though, old school apterous like before I joined? Cos the numbers thing has been revolutionised at least once since I joined and I never remember it. It only l...

Gavin Chipper

One thing I've always wondered is if it's possible to turn someone Stefan Fatsis -style from a complete amateur into a pro in the space of a few months. And I mean a real amateur in the style of 'only barely aware of the show'. Most people who sign up for apterous will at the very least be fans of ...

Gavin Chipper

Richard has made a few minor changes and apparently it's now in its final form. And the winner wins £40 if he solves at least 40 clues.

Gavin Chipper

That looks pretty good Matt. I quite like the not having brackets. I think before it was a bit awkward and difficult to implement without allowing people to buy extra time by opening unnecessary brackets. My main issue is that if I'm going to declare something other than the target, I have to basica...

Gavin Chipper

Something I was thinking to get round the problem of having to declare before the time is up - at the end of the time when it goes to the solution making screen, it could give you a chance to change your declaration on there before you do any of the calculations, but without giving you any extra tim...

Gavin Chipper

I know it's come up loads before but I'll mention it again anyway - can you make it so that the duellist buzzes in or something when you get a conundrum wrong so you don't have to wait for the time to tick down?

Gavin Chipper

I suppose it might be an idea to have least attainable target for each number of large numbers. I wonder if Apterous has any relevant statistics.

Gavin Chipper

There was a thread a while back about whether a "normal" person would ever win a series again, which was fairly similar to this. But I can't be bothered to find it now. I think it is possible that a non-apterite could win a series. Although the series just finished had a wealth of Apterous...

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:Plus if you win the prize, how's he gonna pay? Home address? Bank details?

If you bank online, he'll hack into your account to pay the money in.

Gavin Chipper

Richard Britttain asked me to link to this: http://www.gandiseeg.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1186

£30 prize!

Gavin Chipper

Just been catching up with these games - excellent game. Both played very well and could have gone either way. First numbers game: Deja vu? http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4127 I think I suggested once that because of the limitations in the combinations of 4-large, if someone was sufficiently dedi...

Gavin Chipper

I don't think this has been done before - what target from 101 to 999 is the least likely to be gettable? Generally the higher it is the harder, but also numbers with fewer factors are harder. 997 is the highest prime target but it's also only 3 away from a multiple of all the large numbers, which c...

Gavin Chipper

JackHurst wrote:I think you are one of the best ever players, and would have been a strong contender to win any series, infact I'd say you would have been the outright favourite in all series apart from 54, 60 and 61

I think I might add 48 and 57.

Gavin Chipper

By the way, what did Eoin declare in the ORGASMED round? I don't think the recap is up yet, and I couldn't catch it. There's a bit of a clue here: http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5178 But, if you can't be arsed to look, it was RADOMES. No - I just didn't think to look there. I'm not the expert you...

Gavin Chipper

By the way I thought that AUBADES round was a bit strange. Maybe it was the editing, but I'd not heard of the word before, and Marcus says "Oh bads", and then Susie, without asking him how to spell it looks it up and finds that it's a word, even though she must have known it was a word to ...

Gavin Chipper

Excellent game and excellent performance over the whole series by both players.

By the way, what did Eoin declare in the ORGASMED round? I don't think the recap is up yet, and I couldn't catch it.

Gavin Chipper

Another excellent game - Jack was put under pressure but came through. Excellent game by Marcus too. Nominate Jack for best numbers solve by a contestant. That would definitely qualify for an oxygen mask, if not a spacesuit. Yeah - it makes me wonder whether 1000 and 10000 are the best thresholds to...

Gavin Chipper

Just been catching up with these games - excellent game. Both played very well and could have gone either way. First numbers game: Deja vu? http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4127 I think I suggested once that because of the limitations in the combinations of 4-large, if someone was sufficiently dedic...

Gavin Chipper

Some interesting answers. I would say it like "sinner-world", which from the comments seems to be what other people are saying, but no-one's actually voted for it. "Sinna-world" and "wy". Like cinema world, but without the 'ma', for obvious reasons, I'd hope. ^ Only Cor...

Gavin Chipper

I've just been bitten by the numbers interface. 25 × ... no, hang on, I need to do the 6 + 4 first.... Stewart. I miss brackets. I quite like the not having brackets. I think before it was a bit awkward and difficult to implement without allowing people to buy extra time by opening unnecessary brac...

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Answer.

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Apterous Sieve presumably. Suppose you could go more complex and mimic a human memory, have words stay for a certain period of time or use like a cardbox system if words come up frequently enough during a period that they 'stick' for longer. I presume the 'difficulty' of conundrums is used for the ...

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:No more new topics please.

Does it matter? At least they're not death threats.

Gavin Chipper

I went a recent recording the first 6 letters came out as W N A E R K guess the rest....but they had to change the selection because it was inappropriate for daytime viewing. :) http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3425 From what I remember, round three in this game wasn't edited or bleeped or anything...

Gavin Chipper

Nice numbers solve in the last round from Tom...I just about got 273 in the 30 seconds by doing 75 x 3 = 225 then adding 8x(9+7-10). There were several ways to get it - I was very surprised that Daniel declared nothing. I'd say it was the pressure of the quarter final, but maybe it was the apathy o...

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:New policy: I deduct one silver bug for every duplicate report.

Sometimes I would have thought it would be good to know errors aren't one-offs.

Gavin Chipper

How many words did Sponge know when it started beating people?

Gavin Chipper

Jose Mourinho = Mark Tournoff

Gavin Chipper

Moustache bit first and then the rest in some order. Always electric because wet shaving gnarls your face!

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