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Andrew Feist

The round in question is here . What happened: I type in lanolin quickly before I notice the lack of a second L. I then type in ANION, and towards the end of time I put in FOLIAR. Being pretty sure I made that last word up, I declare ANION. In the wrapup, Mr. T tells me about FLORIN and FRAZIL, but ...

Andrew Feist

The blurb

Time's up and 2 people got a point; Andrew Feist was the fastest on 10.8 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answer to IANCEHMD was MACHINED.

should probably be changed to reflect the new-and-improved number of bonus points.

Andrew Feist

I suppose I should double-check the timing: is the first game on 2/21, or are the play-in games supposed to be done by 2/21? (I ask since I will be out of town and mostly away from a computer from 2/19 through 2/21, so if I can't get the play-in games in before that time then I need to vanish from t...

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:Least competent numbers round ever.
Not even close

At least you can claim that you knew what was going on, but somehow managed to misclick in a 10-second hurry. We have documentary evidence that we declared one away with a solution that had a 1 left over.

Andrew Feist

Least competent numbers round ever.

Andrew Feist

Got the following in my game against Hugh B when he buzzed late in on the conundrum (on my system it said at 30.2 seconds, not sure if that's relevant): ClientGame606 [CXPLAY]: java.io.IOException: net.BlockingLayerInterruptedException: net.BlockingNetworkLayer$FinalObjectExtractedException: Stream ...

Andrew Feist

Oh I'll go for the "lucky" fresh meat tournament slot.

Andrew Feist

Jason Larsen wrote:Charlie, why weren't we given notice of the 50-game rule until just a few days ago?

I'm guessing it's because the 50-game rule didn't exist until a few days ago.

Andrew Feist

Am I the only person who clicks on the images in the news items expecting to get a list of upsets/celebrations/whatever? (Probably.)

Andrew Feist

lol. It seems I was being too subtle. I thought this whole conversation stemmed from my statement about Americanisms, so that's what I was alluding to. The only people I regard less cultured than us Brits are the Yanks. My resistance to them is not so much based on individual words, but on the arro...

Andrew Feist

So this is implemented now. I don't know if my lag is exceptional (and I practice clean living, at least in the narrow sense outlined above), but so far I've never not gotten the entire conundrum typed in before the letters went away. Don't know if other people are in the same situation? (Also: did ...

Andrew Feist

That's great Andrew, and how it should be played (save even those two changed ones) Given that you don't change your mind after you buzz, one would assume you're not opposed to the proposed change? I'm pretty much indifferent to slightly positive; it will take away some (possible) gamesmanship, at ...

Andrew Feist

I too will be interested in seeing the stats; the discussion here makes me suspect that this is going to be a(nother) difference between the "pro" game and the "amateur" game (if Michael will forgive me), as I'm with Michael on this one -- superstats tells me I've solved 600-odd ...

Andrew Feist

Maybe this is just AmEng, so if someone could check I'd appreciate it, but: TEARED should be in, as the past tense of tear in the sense of "to fill with tears".

Andrew Feist

Not only do we not have January standings, but the duel on the 10th didn't happen apparently (which is a shame since I did okay on that one).

EDIT: Woohoo, fixed! Thanks, Charlie.

Andrew Feist

Not necessarily good or bad, but questions: I assume you can go negative in a round, if not only do you not have all the maxes, but you get beat. If I have two eights and a dodgy nine in my word list, would I be able to score 8 points + a chicken + 3 points for the bet? ETA: One thing I've been tryi...

Andrew Feist

Goatmax duels are fun:

apterous.org Happenings wrote: The Daily Duel was won by Dinos Sfyris and Aaron Higgs with a score of 9 from 6.

Also, were we supposed to still get a point for a max after the last letter was revealed? (Not that I'm upset about getting said point.)

Andrew Feist

How about allowing an overlap at the weekends for games to be played? Start each round Saturday a.m. and finish the following Sunday p.m. So if a player is away for a week or a weekend he can catch up the follwing weekend, playing two matches the same day if necessary. I tried to remember to do thi...

Andrew Feist

In case you haven't been checking the front page of the tournament site, the final results: Championship Flight : Win -- Kirk Bevins Place -- Charlie Reams Show -- Stuart Arnot Flight A : Win -- Nick Wainwright Place -- Matt Bayfield Show -- Michael Wallace Flight B : Win -- Andrew Herbertson Place ...

Andrew Feist

From the "I'm going to read this bit of filler text for once" department:

apterous.org wrote: Hey, you found 2 baseball caps in your pocket. How did that get there? (Check the Items tab above for more details.)

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:Serious? Satire? You decide!

Note, NSFH (Not Safe for Homeopathists).

I now believe satire need not be intended. "Makes the building now not in structure form," indeed.

Andrew Feist

James Hall wrote:If you lose a Star Chart game you still gain 1 experience for it.

You gain one xp for every loss, human or computer.

Andrew Feist

And tonight:

If you want us to play blind, just say so. (Also notice the lack of chat.) There wasn't anything in error tracker, and I forgot to save the console, sorry.

Andrew Feist

Either a bug or a misunderstanding:

When reading the mass of red and pink squares that is the Daily Duel full report, one's own name is not bolded. (It is in the simple table at the top, but not the round-by-round report.)

Andrew Feist

The duel today reminded me: is it possible to make a better distinction between "only maximums score" (one point each) and "Only maximums score" (where they score whatever they would normally be)? Maybe call the first "Number of maximums" or something.

Andrew Feist

Jack: That's what mine looked like too, so ClearType (not ClearFace, that's a font) is the way to go. Control Panel -> Displays -> Effects, if I remember right. I guess I was just misreading what FF was telling me about fonts, then.

Andrew Feist

Can we please get back to complimenting me and Charlie on the website? There's a good bunch. No, seriously, a bit of font usefulness here: If you DON'T have the Calibri font and you DO use Windows - install the Powerpoint Viewer 2007 from the Microsoft site . Calibri is a brilliant font in itself f...

Andrew Feist

The week 6 games for the championship flight have been posted on the web site.

Andrew Feist

Ahem. The game i looked at contained all-maxes. What i meant to say was, why do non-max words appear in bold? Anyway, it was still a max game, so there were no non-max words. I'll just go away. :oops: I think it's just the new "sexy" font for the game pages. I find I have to look pretty c...

Andrew Feist

Well done Nick on winning Flight A - you deserve it after that max game! Mind you, I'm sure the main tie-breaker should've been head-to-head record rather than all this "modified median" nonsense. ;-) Especially after I got knocked out of the top bracket of Speed Demon on a tie-breaker as...

Andrew Feist

This seems like something that is too hard to change, but: if your "current settings" are to variant X, then maybe the challenge button should initiate a game of variant X?

Andrew Feist

Apterous Front Page wrote: Jeremy Bentham achieved a full rating of -17 in OED/Omelette.

Congratulations to Mr Bentham!

Andrew Feist

So technically, week 6 doesn't start until later since we extended week 5. But still, an update can be handy: Championship Flight is to start playoffs this week; two pools are done (unless Corby comes back) but the steno pool needs some games still. Once the standings in that middle pool are determi...

Andrew Feist

tomrowell wrote:ben hunter 2-1 tom rowell

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=158776
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=158783
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=158793

The practical upshot of this game being that Nick Wainwright is our Flight A champion!

Andrew Feist

When voting for GOTW, is 1 the lowest vote, or is "abstain" the lowest vote? (I.e., are we looking at total points, or average over people who gave it a number, or what?)

Andrew Feist

Well done Matt on the new look.

My question is, though, why does everybody's name in the right-hand sidebar have a very small E next to it?

Andrew Feist

Ian Dent wrote:Kirk,

Please tell us how you came to know that word.

Maybe Kirk reads Terry Pratchett.

Andrew Feist

Now that normal service is resumed, this "week" now ends on Wednesday, December 16.

Andrew Feist

Speed Demon playoffs:
Hines 60 - 22 Feist Lesley starts off with a bang, and keeps the pressure on scoring in eight of nine rounds for a big win.
Hines 27 - 57 Feist The rematch goes the other way, as Lesley typoes round 2 and then I get some good words in the second half to put it away.

Andrew Feist

Michael Wallace wrote: Edit: Ah ok, so my 12 points has come from the score of my opponents, and so I would gain 1 if Matt wins this round, Nick would gain 2 if Ben and Hugh win, and so on? Does my 12 points include the guaranteed point from Lee vs. Matthew?

Yes it does.

Andrew Feist

Actually, for all three of you, your first-round opponent is the one that will be dropped, since they are at least one point behind everyone else (so even if they win this round, they're still one of the lowest scores). On the assumption that Nick and Matt win (since otherwise there's no tie to care...

Andrew Feist

Okay, so the speed demon is in playoffs, so everyone is in a new bracket. The prelim standings page is updated with the final results. Basic idea: if you had one or two games left unplayed, those were scored 0-0; if you had three+ games unplayed, those were scored 0-1 to your opponent. The exception...

Andrew Feist

Were Benjamins supposed to have been fixed? They had been working for me for a while recently, but I didn't get one for a game today.

Andrew Feist

You'd think I would have learned that 20+-point deficits can be overcome.

Andrew Feist

Bug report with priority -1000000: At least on Windows, when a new item appears, the items tab says "items [new]" but doesn't resize, so you see something like "items |". When you put your mouse on it, it becomes full-size, thus covering up the rules tab. This doesn't affect anyt...

Andrew Feist

I'm in last place of Flight A according to the stats (truly shameful!), but shouldn't my Net Games be higher than those who didn't play their game in the last round? I have won one more game than them, after all? I'm hoping that the miscreants will play the game, which will solve the issue in the n...

Andrew Feist

Championship flight: Still some games missing -- you'll be hearing from me if appropriate. This week's matchups are available . Flight A: The week 4 matches are up on the website . There were three matches last week that didn't happen; Scott G got a forfeit on Matt Morrison; James Doohan-Barry Evans...

Andrew Feist

Since it's not really a surprise, the three matches (one extra next week!) for the Speed Demon have been posted on the website. Hopefully the advance notice will help us get all the games in by the end of next Saturday (I'm looking at you, pool B).

Andrew Feist

From the speed demon:
Lee 18 - 52 Feist
I spot a couple decent 8's. In round 7 I make up a word, but that's okay because the dictionary beat me to it so it counts.
Feist 50 - 38 Lee
I start this game by spotting Peter 18 points, but get both the numbers and take the crucial for the win.

Andrew Feist

I didn't know you don't play marbles over there.

Andrew Feist

Ian Dent wrote:Dinos, did we play?

I have games from you.

Andrew Feist

This week's games are posted on the website . From the Championship Flight: I am missing the matches Dinos Sfyris vs. Ben Wilson and Charlie Reams vs. Oliver Garner from last week. If you can either point me to those results or make those up, I would appreciate it. From Flight A: The missing Peter L...

Andrew Feist

A 21-point comeback, thwarted by an E.

Andrew Feist

Two results. Nobody's particularly proud of these Speed Demon games... Jim Bentley 54-33 Ian Volante Ian Volante 40-17 Jim Bentley I notice that these results haven't appeared in the cross table - did you notice them? They're in my local file, but the update to the website seems to have gone astray...

Andrew Feist

In the speed demon: Arnot 55 - 59 Feist I had mentioned in my previous game that TION mustn't be much of a suffix, since we had had the letters three times, but none of the maxes used it. Fortunately, I don't listen to myself, allowing me to get AMBITION in this game to at least give myself a chance...

Andrew Feist

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Lesley Hines wrote:ksh every time [...] vi would win
I think I'm in love. (Oh, hang on...)

I bet you even pronounce vi properly.

I always say "vim". (ducking and running far away)

Andrew Feist

Yes, it's a day early, but you people are so splendid that I couldn't help myself. All the week 2 matches are now online . There are also standings up for everybody but the championship flight at the moment (they will be up soon). The speed demon standings are looking awfully competitive already. A ...

Andrew Feist

For completeness:
Two smackdowns
Feist 21 - 60 K Laddiman
K Laddiman 64 - 29 Feist
and two slightly more reasonable games (playing these at 2:30am local time was Not Enough):
Reams 66 - 31 Feist
Feist 33 - 53 Reams

The Week 2 matches are now set and will be posted anon.

Andrew Feist

I didn't quite wash away, but I am currently a ways away from home. I should be back tonight and will get everything updated then. Thanks for your patience.

Andrew Feist

Jon Corby wrote:Why haven't I got any Closed matches scheduled?

I'm guessing you can take tldr too far:

Andrew Feist wrote:Note that each player will have two games in week 6, and a week off during pool play.

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