Official Thread of Brag

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:43 am

Conor wrote:The rounds were flatter than those in Paul's game, but: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3298

Nice!

Added bonus for beating Rexie!

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:57 pm

There's nothing big or clever about doing this to your non-Countdowning friends, but there is something sadistically entertaining about it. Pretty nightmarish rounds for a new player.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:34 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:There's nothing big or clever about doing this to your non-Countdowning friends, but there is something sadistically entertaining about it. Pretty nightmarish rounds for a new player.

Brilliant - NET was scored in one round: MNTXAOEIT

Even I can manage NOTE.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:35 pm

My first ever 11 letter word at hypercountdown, still can't beat Dinos' highest score though.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:56 pm

Martin Gardner wrote:My first ever 11 letter word at hypercountdown, still can't beat Dinos' highest score though.

Nice one. I believe the only 12 (which scores 24!) by a human is CRIMINALISED by Joseph Bolas (an excellent offering which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned in this thread.) The only other one is EVERLASTINGS by Apterous Rex (against me, typical.) Both of these were in Hypergoatdown. The hunt for a standard Hyper 12 goes on.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:45 pm

Not much compared to those above, but I had a pleasing max game going until the Evil Jim ruined it with a horrendous 4 large round. I lost concentration a bit after that but still it's a quite a nice game.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:06 pm

Improved my hypergoatdown high score http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3876

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:15 pm

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Improved my hypergoatdown high score http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3876

Hmm.. it didn't even improve your own high score, let alone the high score.

http://www.apterous.org/statsummary.php

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:42 pm

Oh dear! Well I think I've managed a very high losing score in a normal game, against Paul. We both got 13 maxes. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3881 Has anyone scored higher than this and still lost?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:04 am

Apterous Rex can claim to have a losing score of 121. If you don't count bots, you might argue that Conor could quite easily have accepted a losing score of 121 in the same game, had he been so inclined, so in that sense he's also ahead of you. But other than that, 115 is the best, so a commiseratory well done.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:55 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:
Martin Gardner wrote:My first ever 11 letter word at hypercountdown, still can't beat Dinos' highest score though.
Nice one. I believe the only 12 (which scores 24!) by a human is CRIMINALISED by Joseph Bolas (and excellent offering which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned in this thread.) The only other one is EVERLASTINGS by Apterous Rex (against me, typical.) Both of these were in Hypergoatdown. The hunt for a standard Hyper 12 goes on.

DECLARATIONS was available in and Ian Volante vs. Apterous game, but neither contestant got it.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:24 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:Not much compared to those above, but I had a pleasing max game going until the Evil Jim ruined it with a horrendous 4 large round. I lost concentration a bit after that but still it's a quite a nice game.

Great. Show everyone the game where I was complete shit. Oh wait, I am shit. Carry on.

Charlie Reams wrote:Apterous Rex can claim to have a losing score of 121. If you don't count bots, you might argue that Conor could quite easily have accepted a losing score of 121 in the same game, had he been so inclined, so in that sense he's also ahead of you. But other than that, 115 is the best, so a commiseratory well done.

While we're on the general subject of bots, Apterous Rex has scored 197 against me on Numbers Attack, which would beat my record (if bots counted).

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:19 pm

This must be a record for something. Stupidity, at least.

(Note that my esteemed opponent finally got a numbers game right in Round... 435!)

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:52 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:This must be a record for something. Stupidity, at least.

(Note that my esteemed opponent finally got a numbers game right in Round... 435!)

I'm sort of equally impressed and horrified at the same time.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:25 pm

I know it's nothing for most of you freaks of nature but I now have a Prime on a stick, my biggest scalp. It wasn't even a very good game considering I failed to score in the first three letters games.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4088

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:34 pm

Do you only get the things on a stick for certin games? I've beaten Rex in a single conundrum game and got nothing for it.

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:44 pm

Would've thought it was just the standard TV format. For obvious reasons.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:48 pm

I think it's any 9 round game or higher, so a 9 round conundrum shootout would suffice.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:44 pm

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4160

May only be second highest speed game but I've got my prime on a stick back and in style!

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:23 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:This must be a record for something. Stupidity, at least.

(Note that my esteemed opponent finally got a numbers game right in Round... 435!)

This is the new record, for stupidity, or whatever you call it

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:06 am

Joseph Bolas wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:This must be a record for something. Stupidity, at least.

(Note that my esteemed opponent finally got a numbers game right in Round... 435!)
This is the new record, for stupidity, or whatever you call it

Round 498 is a particular highlight of that game.

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:26 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:This is the new record, for stupidity, or whatever you call it
Round 498 is a particular highlight of that game.

I'm quite surprised that you can get points for that.

For anyone who is not able to view the game any more, it was a 700-round match between myself and Apterous Prune with the end score being 4636 v 153.

Round 498 offered the letters E K T O T D T M E and although I saw DEMOTE, I risked TOTEMED and it was disallowed. Apterous Prune, on the other hand, offered the word M and got 1 point

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:15 pm

Me and the mysterious Ecclesiastes Myanmar just notched up the highest joint total between two human players (joint highest if you include the nonhuman record between Conor and Apterous Rex )

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4511

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:48 pm

RB in disguise?

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:57 pm

Nah, this guy's miles better than RB, who has a deeply scornful attitude to the kind of obscurities Mr Burma conjures up. Of course, he may also have disguised..... his PERSONALITY! A tricky thing to do in his case, I suspect.

Anyway I asked Eccles about his word prowess and he (she? it?) said they played a lot of scrabble, and since Charlie has apparently been pimping the site on ukscrabble I'm going for a tournament scrabble player.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:02 pm

Jon O'Neill wrote:RB in disguise?

I dunno he offered me a game 4 times in a row while I was already playing a game and I declined everytime. I don't like anonymous players either because there's always the possibility that they're using Countmax or something.

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:13 pm

Well this guy is pretty good at the letters but useless on numbers and conundrums. He generally gets conundrums between 10 and 20 seconds.

Not suspicious at all. No sir.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:43 pm

Jon O'Neill wrote: He generally gets conundrums between 10 and 20 seconds.

That's always the key. If they're so good on the letters, coming out with obscure words etc, then surely they can solve PRINGTEEN in under 10 seconds!?

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:59 pm

Yeah I found the SECTARIES spot a little suspicious, it's my understanding only the truly hardcore scrabbles bother learning nines and it's a very impressive thing to spot cold.

That being said, such allegations have been misdirected before and it's easy to think the worst of people.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:00 am

Paul Howe wrote:Yeah I found the SECTARIES spot a little suspicious, it's my understanding only the truly hardcore scrabbles bother learning nines and it's a very impressive thing to spot cold.

That being said, such allegations have been misdirected before and it's easy to think the worst of people.

It's not that that bothers me so much, it's the fact that he matched me when I was already playing and continued to do so a total of 4 times. Politeness never hurts.

Ben Pugh · Post by **Ben Pugh** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:33 pm

Highest Speedgoat score.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4618

Of course it's a lot easier to break a record playing Apterous Caesar than when playing Paul Howe!

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:20 pm

Paul Howe wrote:Yeah I found the SECTARIES spot a little suspicious, it's my understanding only the truly hardcore scrabbles bother learning nines and it's a very impressive thing to spot cold.

That being said, such allegations have been misdirected before and it's easy to think the worst of people.

But it's the plural of SECTARY which is 7 letters. I think CREASIEST is valid as well, isn't it?

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:30 pm

Martin Gardner wrote:
Paul Howe wrote:Yeah I found the SECTARIES spot a little suspicious, it's my understanding only the truly hardcore scrabbles bother learning nines and it's a very impressive thing to spot cold.

That being said, such allegations have been misdirected before and it's easy to think the worst of people.
But it's the plural of SECTARY which is 7 letters. I think CREASIEST is valid as well, isn't it?

It's a -y to -ies plural of an obscure word which IMO is a nightmare to spot in a selection with many other things to try, but of course it's still possible. I don't think creasiest is valid, in fact when I was learning I taught myself creasiest = SECTARIES to help me spot it.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:37 am

Paul Howe wrote:That being said, such allegations have been misdirected before and it's easy to think the worst of people.

I remember an allegation being made to me in private against Conor Travers before he appeared on the show, and of course when he did appear on the show at 14 he averaged 110 points per game. But of course the Internet games are generally a haven for cheats, nothing could be easier. I suspect someday on the Apterous site there will be someone who gets the max in every round.

PS maybe this should be formed into another thread?

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:36 pm

Woohoo! Finally - the practice is starting to pay off!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4777

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:06 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:Woohoo! Finally - the practice is starting to pay off!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4777

Yes, get in!

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:20 am

It'll probably have changed by the time you look at it, but for now, woohoo!

http://www.apterous.org/top.php

I did cheat slightly by conundrum challenging apterous prime but the last seven wins came from speedgoat so I feel entitled to a moment of braggadocio.

I also don't understand Mishkin Zion's low rating considering he's got a 100% record and beaten some good players (unless some of the games were unrated?)

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:16 am

Paul Howe wrote:It'll probably have changed by the time you look at it, but for now, woohoo!

http://www.apterous.org/top.php

Just incase it does, before anyone else sees this, well done Paul for getting the top spot in the rankings table.

Paul Howe wrote:I also don't understand Mishkin Zion's low rating considering he's got a 100% record and beaten some good players (unless some of the games were unrated?)

Has Mishkin actually been on Countdown before, or are they a new person to Countdown?. I have looked in the Wiki, but from what's avaiable, their name doesn't come up.

Matthew Green · Post by **Matthew Green** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:33 am

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4850

Rather proud of this first numbers game in 15 seconds.
Rather embarrassed about the first conundrum though...

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:00 pm

My highest score yet, although nothing compared to the greats. Just thought I'd try and put Martin off a bit before our semi final! For the record I saw REPLACER but didnt risk it as Ian declared first, so only real annoyance was round 11 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4941

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:26 am

Dinos Sfyris wrote:My highest score yet, although nothing compared to the greats. Just thought I'd try and put Martin off a bit before our semi final! For the record I saw REPLACER but didnt risk it as Ian declared first, so only real annoyance was round 11 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4941

Well done Dinos. Only 6 short of the maximum.

Also some good words to learn there; EMBOLUS, TOILWORM and TOXAEMIA.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:08 pm

On the same note, there's this game.

I dropped just one point on the letters with ABORNING although I also dropped 6 points on the numbers.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:11 pm

Dinos Sfyris wrote:My highest score yet, although nothing compared to the greats. Just thought I'd try and put Martin off a bit before our semi final! For the record I saw REPLACER but didnt risk it as Ian declared first, so only real annoyance was round 11 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=4941

Aye, a very good lesson you gave me there!

Matt Coates · Post by **Matt Coates** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:34 pm

check out http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=5227

the game went to a 7th crucial conundrum.

i know its in the brag section but there wasnt a section for being crap

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:39 pm

Paul Howe wrote:It'll probably have changed by the time you look at it, but for now, woohoo!

http://www.apterous.org/top.php

I did cheat slightly by conundrum challenging apterous prime but the last seven wins came from speedgoat so I feel entitled to a moment of braggadocio.

I also don't understand Mishkin Zion's low rating considering he's got a 100% record and beaten some good players (unless some of the games were unrated?)

Sadly it's changed now and you're 2nd.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:51 am

Matt Coates wrote:check out http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=5227

the game went to a 7th crucial conundrum.

i know its in the brag section but there wasnt a section for being crap

In fairness you both had 60 out of a possible 61 before the conundrum.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:31 pm

Just played a Numbers Attack against Apterous Prime - he beat me 190-180 after a crucial conundrum, damn him for his impudence. Anyway, does that mean that if we'd both been a little bit better, we could've been 200-200 after twenty rounds, so 210 is actually the best possible score?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:53 am

jimbentley wrote:Just played a Numbers Attack against Apterous Prime - he beat me 190-180 after a crucial conundrum, damn him for his impudence. Anyway, does that mean that if we'd both been a little bit better, we could've been 200-200 after twenty rounds, so 210 is actually the best possible score?

Sort of. You could indeed have scored 210, but it wouldn't show up in the Game Browser or high scores as being a Numbers Attack.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:14 pm

jimbentley wrote:Just played a Numbers Attack against Apterous Prime - he beat me 190-180 after a crucial conundrum, damn him for his impudence. Anyway, does that mean that if we'd both been a little bit better, we could've been 200-200 after twenty rounds, so 210 is actually the best possible score?

Does that mean that if there's a tie in a letters or numbers challenge, there's a conundrum at the end?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:16 am

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:24 pm

Was quite pleased with my major ownage of Mr Matthew Green

Some tricky numbers games here. The first one I spotted just outta time. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=5651

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:58 pm

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Was quite pleased with my major ownage of Mr Matthew Green Some tricky numbers games here. The first one I spotted just outta time. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=5651

With the gap being 85, is this then the biggest winning margin on a Apterous game, with two human players (going by the round format)?

EDIT: Because I got the maths wrong, I think there have been bigger winning margins

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:56 pm

Joseph Bolas wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Was quite pleased with my major ownage of Mr Matthew Green Some tricky numbers games here. The first one I spotted just outta time. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=5651
With the gap being 115, is this then the biggest winning margin on a Apterous game, with two human players (going by the round format)?

I think you ought to brush up on your maths - the gap is actually 85.

Julian Fell · Post by **Julian Fell** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:03 pm

Joseph, if you mean is it the largest margin for that particular format, I don't know. If you mean is it the largest margin for any Apterous game, I think Kirk may know of a game where there was a larger one

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:08 pm

Julian Fell wrote:Joseph, if you mean is it the largest margin for that particular format, I don't know. If you mean is it the largest margin for any Apterous game, I think Kirk may know of a game where there was a larger one

Do I?

Julian Fell · Post by **Julian Fell** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:11 pm

vs. Rich Priest, remember?

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:25 pm

Julian Fell wrote:Joseph, if you mean is it the largest margin for that particular format, I don't know. If you mean is it the largest margin for any Apterous game, I think Kirk may know of a game where there was a larger one

Yes Julian, what I meant was, was that 85 the biggest margin under the 14-rounded Goatdown style game format.

I wouldn't know about the other round formats, sorry.

Ben Pugh · Post by **Ben Pugh** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:53 pm

Joseph Bolas wrote:
Julian Fell wrote:Joseph, if you mean is it the largest margin for that particular format, I don't know. If you mean is it the largest margin for any Apterous game, I think Kirk may know of a game where there was a larger one
Yes Julian, what I meant was, was that 85 the biggest margin under the 14-rounded Goatdown style game format.

I wouldn't know about the other round formats, sorry.

That wasn't normal Goatdown, which is 15 rounds and also has two less numbers rounds and one less conundrum than was featured in Dinos' game vs. Matthew Green.

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:16 pm

Ben Pugh wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:
Julian Fell wrote:Joseph, if you mean is it the largest margin for that particular format, I don't know. If you mean is it the largest margin for any Apterous game, I think Kirk may know of a game where there was a larger one
Yes Julian, what I meant was, was that 85 the biggest margin under the 14-rounded Goatdown style game format.

I wouldn't know about the other round formats, sorry.
That wasn't normal Goatdown, which is 15 rounds and also has two less numbers rounds and one less conundrum than was featured in Dinos' game vs. Matthew Green.

Oh yes, I knew that wasn't the normal structure for a Goatdown game, but I was just wondering if out of all the Goatdown games that have been played in that customised 14 round format, if that was the biggest winning margin.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:23 pm

Not that special, a lot of flat rounds, etc. etc. but I was quite pleased with this game in that I only dropped 3 points (Nick's lightning conundrums aside...).