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Steve Balog

Seems fairly simple: 100 1 1 2 2 3 --> 100 -- I believe 27 is the largest you can get with the smalls here. Might be a bit harder to try and make one with a two-large selection, with one 100, where 100 = 100 is the only solution. I'll think about that one. 4 large is impossible for obvious reasons, ...

Steve Balog

Congrats, Ed. I waited for the recap before posting in this thread because I actually wanted to read through it, but another excellent effort. I'm very, very impressed by round 5, especially with 7 off being the best possible: I see those numbers and that target and I probably actually throw my penc...

Steve Balog

Also damnit Charlie you wiping the player vs. bot games killed a 1,000 round numbers attack I was 260 rounds in at almost 10% maxes above my current average :cry: I mean, I know that lag and all and that helps, but still :cry: :cry: Not sure what you're talking about, I didn't wipe anything intenti...

Steve Balog

Assuming that something bugged out in the client? That was a pretty easy round, with 50 sec. to boot. Also damnit Charlie you wiping the player vs. bot games killed a 1,000 round numbers attack I was 260 rounds in at almost 10% maxes above my current average :cry: I mean, I know that lag and all and...

Steve Balog

Just did a conundrum marathon which resulted in a bit of strange behaviour from the conundrum generator. This is apparently a valid word actually -- it's a Yiddish term for an object of little value, like a trinket or bagatelle -- or a "pretty woman" (I'll hold my tongue). Now, why on ear...

Steve Balog

I'm going to try and make more of these when I get new ideas. I have two more -- one that's reasonably easy , one that... well.... isn't . Second one is only rated Hard because of how many "that was soooooo easy" comments I've gotten (I by default now rate everything a level lower than I t...

Steve Balog

Soory about my impatience, but wasn't there meant to be a new variant 11 days ago? I don't think I'm really going to do this every month, there just isn't enough time in the day. You can always just do something like GoatLock or something (if it's possible to just mash the code together, if not jus...

Steve Balog

I played a Bullet Hypernumbers Attack recently, and managed to get a target that Apterous's solver wasn't able to get in 3 seconds. It doesn't count a perfect solve that the game can't get as a max though -- it is possible to change the code so a perfect numbers solve is counted as a max even if the...

Steve Balog

Yea, I really'd like to see the return of known words that can be very hard to unscramble because of all kinds of red herring stems and letter patterns, rather than "hey here's a word only Apetrous users know by Rote memorisation and no one knows the meaning of". I like EAVESDROP, (and as ...

Steve Balog

So one night I'm bored and I'm like HEY WOULDN'T BULLET HYPERNUMBERS BE AWESOME!? So I decided my first hypernumber attack would be 3 seconds a round because, you know, why the hell not? I expected to get like 4. I did a bit better , including one the game couldn't get. Though 16 wasn't out of the q...

Steve Balog

"I have diarrhoea"

Steve Balog

Eh, again with Deal or No Deal here they go out of their way to pick the dumbest or most spastic contestants that apply. I don't watch the show much, but I know people who do and they tell me people who have like bills or a mortgage to pay off will go for it on a very common basis with like a $5 and...

Steve Balog

Also, on either a much lighter or much more sad nte (depending on how twisted you are, guess where I fall here, go on), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOL0CtQR4I I think the think that angers me the most is that the fourth person didn't say her case had $50,000 . And one more video for good measure...

Steve Balog

Biggest fucking idiot today I have ever seen. I only ever leave it on after Countdown if someone does really well to begin with and it makes for some interesting deal decisions. In those situations, I always want the person to do well cos I'm a nice guy. Today I wanted her so badly to fucking fail....

Steve Balog

Rhys Benjamin wrote:By closing down the mines so as to save the miner's lives.

Huh? I thought the right wing was all about profit, human life be damned?

I'm confused now

Steve Balog

Yea, gotta agree with that. And, as I mentioned before, supporting the Conservative party would put you pretty much as a moderate in America. To be "right wing" in America, I'm pretty sure you have to have at least 2 of the classical signs of sociopathy. Actually, if you ever want to pull ...

Steve Balog

Here is all I know or care to know about Thachter

Steve Balog

Awwwww, Rhys thinks he's a right winger. How cute. Come to America, where you'll be branded a Communist, Socialist, Marxist Nazi if you're to the left of Mussolini, elected officials write bills that would, for example, have women put to death for miscarrying (Google "Georgia bill HB 1" if...

Steve Balog

I don't even know what on earth an AV is or was, but if the right wing is so against it they're running ads to try to get it stopped, I support it.

Steve Balog

Everyone in the world knows it apart from the idiots on this forum and in the audience. Yea, I mean my mom told me "loadspace" was the first word I ever said. I think a better idea would be words that obvious stems that don't use them (GANDISEEG -> DISENGAGE, for instance, with its false ...

Steve Balog

I think I slightly overrated #1396 to be honest... I had it as fiendish before but it got demoted somehow hahaha Also if you can actually 10/10 #1387 [that was the one I was referring to in my original post] in one go I will book that room. In England. Bear in mind I live in America, so that'd be a...

Steve Balog

Still very, very strong for that (Excellent work even getting the groups in time, I was trying my best to be a total dick there), but I have a hopelessly high intellectual standard for such encounters. C'est la vie. EDIT: Though I noticed that you even getting the groups in time downrated the diffic...

Steve Balog

I think I slightly overrated #1396 to be honest... I had it as fiendish before but it got demoted somehow hahaha Also if you can actually 10/10 #1387 [that was the one I was referring to in my original post] in one go I will book that room. In England. Bear in mind I live in America, so that'd be a ...

Steve Balog

Bump because I am really, really digging this game. Also Puzzgrid would be a lot better if all the grids weren't terrible -- alas, Sturgeon's Law may have been a bit kind. I had my hand at making a fair, completely solvab-oh who am I kidding I was a total dick the whole time I was making it. You sho...

Steve Balog

Pfffft, no respect for your elders*. For shame.

No consoles since have been nearly as good as the NES/SNES/Genesis generation.

*in before "I was playing my Atari 2600 before you were born" ... which is probably true for some of you. I grew up with NES/SNES.

Steve Balog

That was an epically thought-out post, Steve. Never mind grumpy drawers. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/insanesteve/f-the-fun-police.png Yea I really don't mind such comments, I just shoot them with eye lasers. Well, in a couple months, at least. They aren't quite finished yet. For now, I'l...

Steve Balog

I think I know what Rhys is predicting here, hold on: After the chalk sweeps the quarters, one of the producers is going to get blazed backstage, and intentionally switch the match-ups in the semis to troll Apterous (I mean, those bastards raised the standard to the point where things like LOADSPACE...

Steve Balog

Matt Bayfield wrote:A load of carbolics.

Not going to lie if there was one item list I'd want to be on top of it'd be that one

I'll have to settle for my one bar of soap for pissed somehow being a max, though.

Steve Balog

Matt Morrison wrote:I don't know what you're talking about Steve (Charlie will, he loves memes) but I still fucking love you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus -- it's something you can watch while Apterous is down

Steve Balog

I think I can help a bit -- I'm American and I was the only person actually playing when the ISP went down -- the timestamp on the post I made in the Frustration thread is probably very accurate as to when it went down, as when I went back to try to get that damn 200 was when the slowdown started. H...

Steve Balog

hey Charlie Apterous isn't working I don't know if anyone has told you that but I'm freaking out man

TOTALLY FREAKING OUT

Steve Balog

I'm a bit surprised GREATER was missed by both in round 7 for a 7 --- I mean, the last 5 letters were in order haha But yea, I know such things as nerves exist and all, but a maths teacher scoring 0 in 3 numbers rounds, two of which weren't even maxed by her opponent, and the 3rd being pretty easy.....

Steve Balog

Just posted my 3rd 19/20 max 2 big numbers game. The first two, at least I could say the round I missed was, to an extent, a fairly difficult round. There is NO EXCUSE for me to miss round 8 in my most recent one-miss fail. Seriously. 100 + (7*10) + 2 is a completely inexcusable miss. There's even (...

Steve Balog

Thanks for your diligent work in this. Also glad you are doing this -- always great to be able to put a face to that inexplicable R14 numbers solve that puts the game out of reach :lol: It's kind of weird though -- I actually had my image up on the game client before I went to bed yesterday, and it'...

Steve Balog

How about a Prisoner's Dilemma variant where if the players offer the same word, they both get zero. Maybe extending on this -- for letters, if both people declare the same word, only the person who found it faster (typed it in the "enter your words" box) gets points. Or, perhaps this can...

Steve Balog

Drunken thread necromancy GO

terabyte, petabyte, and exabyte are all good. As are megabit and gigabit. So, why not terabit, petabit, and exabit?

Similarly, Propane, propene, and butane are good -- why not butene?

Damn having a scientific mind

Steve Balog

Ok, I don't know why on earth this bothers me so much. Playing a drunk 2 big numbers attack against Velvet. In two rounds, I get: 50 25 2 10 10 3 -> 160 50 25 3 2 3 9 -> 837 Guess which one (and only one) of these two I managed to get. Now guess which one (and only one) the bot got. I mean I see (50...

Steve Balog

A bit disappointed the last consonant in round 12 wasn't a G, you could've gotten GANDISEEG for 9 then

Steve Balog

Whoops, guess my memory of civilisations wasn't quite as good as I thought. Thanks for clarifying that.

Steve Balog

I just finished my Master's degree (not sure of the equivalent in Europe, it's 6 years after grade 12) like last week and have no real responsibilities yet, so yea drunk Apterous at 8 AM after a night out why not

Steve Balog

Well considering I think I can still pull 60+% max at 2 large even after I lose the ability to walk ummmmmmm yea I'm probably an alchy, but because my mind reacts to alcohol in the weirdest way ever -- also I'm from the US so if you're playing me right after you wake up it's probably night here and ...

Steve Balog

bump for the bizarrely opposing darrens I managed http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=447221 in rounds 7 and 9 in this game even weirder I'm probably sitting at about 3x the legal limit of alcohol right now and have no clue how I puller either of those spots out of my ass, let alone both of th...

Steve Balog

Figured I'd brush up a bit on my best number selection seeing how the Top Dog is currently that http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=444618 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK DIE IN A FIRE R18 Unlucky. Once I maxed a 2-large game and Apterous just wiped it from existence. Still I don't think either compare to r...

Steve Balog

Figured I'd brush up a bit on my best number selection seeing how the Top Dog is currently that

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=444618

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK DIE IN A FIRE R18

Steve Balog

When you're selecting a custom game, could English rather than Dutch be the default language? Yea definitely do this. I've seen an accidental Dutch conundrum attack and hilarity ensued. As for the "give the max" -- it depends. I mean, in the normal game, some rounds are going to be very e...

Steve Balog

Yea, that's it. Saw it declared in DC on a really ragged selection a while back and almost lost it, especially since I had unlasting disallowed a couple rounds before

been looking for a spot to declare it or its plural ever since but never seen one yet

Steve Balog

I have a bit of a bizarre idea for a new format. It came to me when I caught one of those "[name] got a 9 from GANDISEEG, can you?" messages in chat and got the answer, but realised that if I didn't know there was a 9 I'd never have declared it from the selection. It works just like a nor...

Steve Balog

I have a bit of a bizarre idea for a new format. It came to me when I caught one of those "[name] got a 9 from GANDISEEG, can you?" messages in chat and got the answer, but realised that if I didn't know there was a 9 I'd never have declared it from the selection. It works just like a norm...

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