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Will be down for the next few hours most likely.

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I've edit this to correct the max, see http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6229 .

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I'm okay with an imperfect answer, I'm sure we can get somewhere with a bit of stochastic hill climbing or some such. (I haven't tried this myself yet but it would make an interesting contest I reckon.) Hill climbing methods don't seem directly applicable here, since everything in sight is discrete...

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Michelle Nevitt wrote:also been to the Cayman Islands but it's not on the list so not sure what this falls under?

It's counted as part of the UK I think.

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For the hardest, it might be something stupid like 11, 12, 13, 14 or even 100, 99, 98, 97. Yeah, I think 97-100 is a good shout. Charlie, I'll be able to answer that question restricted only to 4L picks in the next few days. Over all picks 6S to 4L, it seems to me to be intractable to get a complet...

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I've been to the following: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Costa Rica Cyprus Denmark France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom (England, Scotland, and Wales) United States which puts me in the surprisingly popular 22 Cl...

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Great topic, enjoyed reading all this!

Harder question: if one were designing a new variant, which four large numbers (in the range 11-100) make the game hardest (i.e. fewest games solvable) and which easiest (i.e. most games solvable)?

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Thanks for fixing this. If you're likely to leave pages under construction for a while, it might be useful to define a template saying so and use that everywhere. That also makes it easier for you to find the unfinished pages later.

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I expect I'd be embarrassed by them now, but would definitely be curious to hear them again anyway. I can probably host them somewhere if you can get them to me.

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Those are templates meant for inclusion on the front page, they aren't articles per se.

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The winner of this should be called the Co.mk Don.

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People are always squeamish on this topic but I'm curious about it so hopefully a nice anonymised poll will bring out some facts. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the amount of income that appears on your tax return (or would do if you did one).

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People who...

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I notice they all have at least one anagram in some language according to apterous. Although for such short "words" that's probably not remotely surprising. Anyone have any idea how that might be significant?

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None that I can recall. Oh come on, people are often going back a step ("7 x 100 is.... no wait, add the 5 to the 100 first" kind of thing) and provided they're pretty brisk in doing so, Rachel will allow them to continue. Draw it out as if you're clearly making it up on the fly, and she ...

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I quite like the "impartiality" of the other rounds. Isn't it sort of partial that the letters distribution is very heavily weighted towards "nice" letters, providing a steep learning curve for lexonerds at the expense of everyone else? :o I'm not sure what would happen with a m...

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Don't have anything to add but I'm enjoying this thread. Lots of shit being chatted on this topic elsewhere.

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Look at the amount of numbers games where people change their mind None that I can recall. People occasionally say "then add, sorry, subtract 7", but that's a completely different type of mistake to saying "now either add the 7, or is it subtract the 7?" and (at least for an NWD...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:I quite like the "impartiality" of the other rounds.

Isn't it sort of partial that the letters distribution is very heavily weighted towards "nice" letters, providing a steep learning curve for lexonerds at the expense of everyone else?

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(Not rules so much but just a general judgment question): If a nine came up in the letters round that you had planned to set as the conundrum, would you change it? Would it matter if either/both/neither contestant had got the nine?

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I agree with Graeme. The "take the first answer" rule is so ubiquitous that it's often not even stated, so (since some rule has to be taken as the default) it makes sense to use that one. Then fix the rules for next time. If you clearly state "I have to take your first answer" th...

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Quick update: it's a problem with our ISP, they're looking into it. Can't guarantee how long that will take; hopefully in the next few days we'll be back. Subscriptions will be extended accordingly.

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Looks like our IP address got changed, even though I'm paying for that to not happen... While I chase this up, I've pointed apterous.org to the new address, so it should reappear in the next few hours (not necessarily at the same time for everyone).

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C1 and C2 both declare the same target in a numbers round, both not written down. C2, who declares second, transcribes his method to Rachel, who accepts it. C1 says "I've done it the same way". As there is no way of proving this, C2 (playing devil's advocate) says that C1 may have cocked ...

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Jordan F wrote:
James Robinson wrote:No idea, and why is this not in the Game Show thread??
A. There's a Game Show thread?
B. I was used to there being a thread per series.

I suspect James meant the Game Show subforum, to which I have just moved it. Enjoy!

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Okay.

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Got it! Took me about 45 mins, would imagine others could solve it much faster.

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Graeme, do you have any data on games where errors have been corrected during the game? You'll only find the one I've quoted in you happen to remember it or if you trawl through Mike Brown's scans. Sadly, in the mad rush to complete the historical recapping project, nuggets of information like this...

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Phil Collinge wrote:Down since just before midnight.

edit : just seen the news. Although still not back up as of now.

Fixed.

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http://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=2730

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I think this is now fixed.

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It seems like our domain host is having some trouble, because the site still works fine if you go to it directly ( http://81.149.128.31/ ), and it works for some people in some places and not others. Unfortunately it's out of my hands and their website is also down so I can't check what they're doin...

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I updated our bulletin board software for the first time in... hmm, six and a half years as far as I can tell. There's so much new stuff since then that I don't even know where to start. Enjoy exploring the new features and please draw our attention to anything particularly cool or troublesome.

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Slightly niche but I'm on the hunt for games which may be "forgotten classics". Could you tell us the game with the highest joint score in which neither contestant made the finals? (And, maybe better, highest joint maxes?) Top 20 by joint score in 15 rounders: EP TX DATE SCORE JOINT 5791 ...

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Slightly niche but I'm on the hunt for games which may be "forgotten classics". Could you tell us the game with the highest joint score in which neither contestant made the finals? (And, maybe better, highest joint maxes?)

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You should see substantial improvement starting about now. Please let me know if not.

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Several other people are playing so I don't think it's down.

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Coming a bit late to this party but I'll do my best... At exactly what (faster-than-light) speed would you have to travel in order to escape a black hole? There's no speed fast enough, it's just not possible in the geometry of the universe. A very closely equivalent question, which is much easier to...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence with some tweaks.

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Will be back this evening.

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Discounting finals games, the seven-time winner with the highest losing margin is David Franks in this game (48). This game seems particularly worth highlighting. You might expect that the biggest defeat of a 7-time winner would come about from a few high-volatility rounds and some nines, but this ...

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http://blog.apterous.org/2014/06/unplan ... ntime.html

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I made this for my sister, who is about to qualify as a midwife, for her birthday. Since I know a handful of you are game for a tricky puzzle, I thought I'd share it with you. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who tries it whether you finished it or where you got stuck. https://www.dropbox.com/s...

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People who claim fraudulent credit card chargebacks for their apterous subscription, then continue playing.

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If you enjoyed this thread, you might also enjoy this episode of This American Life.

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I emailed Mr Belmont but his reply made no sense at all. Something about protecting Transylvania from the forces of darkness? Certainly no mention of a world record.

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Steven M. McCann wrote:world record

lol

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You could organise a PvP GotY if you wanted.

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Well, she certainly would've done a better job of this feature. (I know that isn't Susanna Reid, but the point stands.)

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Is it fair to just do an unannounced first come, first served sign up? There's going to be more than 32 who want to play I would think - maybe I should allow all signups for a period and then randomly draw 32 from those? What's best? I think a random draw is fine, provided you do the draw far enoug...

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I agree with Matt insofar as it's his prerogative. Tournaments with far stranger rules regularly pass without comment.

Also the weird logic to do Extra Time and Penalties has been sitting idle in the code for the last four years so it'll be nice to see that in action again.

Also, in.

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Any thoughts on switching to the new 15 format? I'm fairly indifferent but I suppose it seems logical.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Is there any way of doing that without editing the opening post? Seems a bit messy.

Nope, and I agree.

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If anything I would look at a shorter time limit. In most cases people could've played faster than they did because they relied on running into their opponent rather than fixing a time. Provided you state the limit clearly at the start, no one can feel too aggrieved, and it's to the benefit of every...

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I can see that it's slightly weird that Sainsbury's should be next door to Tesco, and fairly weird that you have to visit two shops and seek a second opinion before buying a frozen pizza, but I'm a bit lost as to the weirdness of anything else. Maybe the role of the headphones means you have misrea...

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I was recently shopping for some dinner for me & Ms Hatred in Tesco, and since she was back at home, I took a photo of the available frozen pizzas and texted it to her to get her opinion. Just at that moment, I heard some shouting but I had headphones in and, this being north London, random publ...

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Or Stirling's approximation for even better results.

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Anthony Endsor wrote:Looks like another Java problem, as the Java circle goes round but nothing happens when you log on.
Getting a bit fed up of this Java crap. Seems to be a problem with it every week now.

People are playing right now. Not sure what problem you're experiencing but it's not that the site is down.

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I don't remember Punt and Antopolski doing "satire" about horrific violence against women.

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