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Pencils are fast becoming the more sought after prize in Apterous. Talk about your latest pencils here.

I saw this word on the back of a taxi seat once and made a mental note of it for Apterous purposes.

Quite pleased to own the pencil for this.

Quite amused to own the pencil for this.

Quite pleased to own the pencil for this.

My best pencil is probably http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 8#r3007178

Ryan Taylor wrote:My best pencil is probably http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 8#r3007178

Insane game.

I love all my pencils equally of course, they are all my special children. However my two favourite recent-ish pencils are this one and this one.

My best pencil is probably the first one from this game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 5#r2996635

Was also quite pleased to get a pencil for 'jumbucks' in a game today, mainly because it was a complete guess at what prime had picked for.

My proudest recent bronze pencil came from a game of Hypergoatdown, where I had picked the 11 initial letters:

• W A L C I B H E D R T

I then picked an appropriate final "goatletter" to give me one of only two possible 11-letter words. Those of you who fancy a challenge can try to work out which final letter I picked and which 11-letter word I declared. Whilst not exactly a common word, it should be in many apterous players' vocabularies.

Those who would rather be spending their time doing other things can follow this link to the round.

Note: the only other possible 11-letter word would have been BIRDWATCHER, which would have been available by picking a final letter R.

A few of my faves from over the years-

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 96#r435996 -unique in a duel
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 16#r775416
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 3#r2423853
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 3#r2815503 -also unique in a duel
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 5#r1855525 -12!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 6#r1855606 -12 again!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 2#r1732992
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 06#r191006 -very early 12!

And a few of the ones I like for other reasons...

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 377#r66377
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 31#r632331
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 6#r3110536
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 1#r1803411 -look at what format it was...
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 1#r1718751
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 4#r2884114 -my only 'crayon'

JimBentley wrote:this one

Ben Hunter wrote:

JimBentley wrote:this one

Hahah yeah that was really unlucky, sorry Ben. It was funny though!

I like this one.

Ian Volante wrote:I like this one.

Good word.

Some I was quite pleased with.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2 ... 4#r3113334
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1 ... 1#r2849631
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1 ... 9#r2350369

Was a bit surprised to get this, though I know it is a rare selection.
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2 ... 1#r2941351

This is my favourite pencil.

Yeah that's a classic spot. If you liked

Chris Davies wrote:This is my favourite pencil.

you might also like this.

It's a boring word, but it's also my 5000th ODE pencil (if you add together ordinary and bronze)

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2 ... 0#r3249870

This is my favourite recent effort

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2 ... 0#r3147090

Paul Howe wrote:This is my favourite recent effort

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2 ... 0#r3147090

Now that's pencilled in, you can get the ARCOLOGY pencil.

Biggest FML ever for Matt:

Haha! I <3 Larsen

Hues Larsen?

Charlie Reams wrote: this.

Since loads of people got EQUALIZER in the duel whenever it was (I wasn't one of them, hence the moan), I think each word in a duel should only be displayed once so we can see more unlikely spots since the selection only happened once.

A bit contrived perhaps, but I'm quite proud to have snaffled this bronze pencil...

First time that selection has come up in a standard game. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 7#r2995857

Edward hadn't played French for a while. In our first game, he started in Round One with this: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=232960.

Once he had warmed up, by Round 3, he just left me numb.

Simon Le Fort wrote:Edward hadn't played French for a while. In our first game, he started in Round One with this: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=232960.

Once he had warmed up, by Round 3, he just left me numb.

He's a clever bastard.

Who says studying superheavyweight 7s and 8s is a waste of time?

Chris Davies is quite good at anagrams.

JackHurst wrote:Chris Davies is quite good at anagrams.

TAIKONAUT is in the conundrum lists and Chris has spotted it a few times.

Bet you feel stupid about complimenting him now Jack?

Matt Morrison wrote:Bet you feel stupid about complimenting him now Jack?

Lol, yeah I feel a right dunce. Sorry Kirk.

Not so easy to spot a nine though, if you don't know there is one.
And a question that just occurred to me: if several people get the same new word in the duel, do they all get the pencil, or only the first person?

Liam Tiernan wrote:And a question that just occurred to me: if several people get the same new word in the duel, do they all get the pencil, or only the first person?

Only first person.

Liam Tiernan wrote:Not so easy to spot a nine though, if you don't know there is one.
And a question that just occurred to me: if several people get the same new word in the duel, do they all get the pencil, or only the first person?

But this was goatdown and his pick which makes it easier.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Liam Tiernan wrote:Not so easy to spot a nine though, if you don't know there is one.
And a question that just occurred to me: if several people get the same new word in the duel, do they all get the pencil, or only the first person?

But this was goatdown and his pick which makes it easier.

To be honest, it's surprising he got through his audition.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Liam Tiernan wrote:Not so easy to spot a nine though, if you don't know there is one.
And a question that just occurred to me: if several people get the same new word in the duel, do they all get the pencil, or only the first person?

But this was goatdown and his pick which makes it easier.

Did I just get a whiff of jealousy?

Ryan Taylor wrote: Did I just get a whiff of jealousy?

Not at all. I'm just stating that Chris has had far more impressive spots.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote: Did I just get a whiff of jealousy?

Not at all. I'm just stating that Chris has had far more impressive spots.

I was pretty amused by this last night, when I was playing some French games despite not actually knowing French. ^^;

Round 8: DC informs me that there's a word DOIGTES. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=244840

Minutes later, in another game: it comes up again and I get a French pencil. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=244842

I liked the amount of pencils I got in this game. My favourite part about it was that in the second round where i got a twelve, I knew the alternate one too! Pretty chiffed with myself if I'm allowed to say so.

I can't compete with Jack's pencil-grabbing hypergoaty goodness, but I was rather pleased with this picky/spotty thing in the same format.

Not just low probability, but I have no idea why I know this word.

Because i'm such a big child

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 3986774256

I got JUDOKA today. Definitely my favourite since SYPHILIS.

STRAVAIGS and MALAGUETA.

Norm was a bit disappointed not to spot this pencil

Matthew Tassier wrote:Norm was a bit disappointed not to spot this pencil

Best pencil ever!

The shortest apterous pencil so far?

Well happy with this one:

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2 ... 6#r3641646

Although I probably got it by watching the TV too much.

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediapl ... 7&type=mp4

Miriam Nussbaum wrote:!עיפרון

Let's learn Hebrew together in a Chavruta... http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 6#r3724766

Presumably this is the first Hebrew 9: קרבנותיהמ

Anyone for pasta?

Finally got it http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 0#r3742400

A tie for the longest English language pencil so far...

A tautology:
2010-08-13 02:57:55 Miriam Nussbaum got a bronze pencil for PENCILLING!

An unusual example of nabbing pencils for the same word, in two different languages (and two different formats), in the same month:

From Hypergoatdown in English: FISHWIVES
From Aegilops in Dutch: VISWYVEN

Switched back to German to find a relatively Bayfield-free zone and picked up my favourite pencil so far...

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2 ... 2#r4162152

EDIT: Thanks Matt, didn't know that

Bob De Caux wrote:Switched back to German to find a relatively Bayfield-free zone and picked up my favourite pencil so far...

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=293604

There's three there in that there game. Click the round number to highlight a round and update the URL.

Dutch is the only language that yields MILF