Fun with the custom challenges
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
And Ben was playing 10 second rounds...
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
But to be fair I was playing prune... as I was in this game- http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3841
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
I fancy trying another 100-rounder tomorrow against Caesar (Apterous, not Julius) but this time with two conundrums - rounds 50 and 100. Otherwise one contestant chooses 50 rounds and the other 49.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
Or you could have 99 or 101 rounds.Martin Gardner wrote:I fancy trying another 100-rounder tomorrow against Caesar (Apterous, not Julius) but this time with two conundrums - rounds 50 and 100. Otherwise one contestant chooses 50 rounds and the other 49.
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
I did this with 101 rounds. lol!
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I won!
Incredibly close game actually, including two nines in the last two rounds. Before that, I was seriously contemplating a crucial conundrum - after 99 rounds! Still I had something to eat and drink this time so I concentrated a bit better than the last game, although the score was lower, that was because of a better opponent.
Incredibly close game actually, including two nines in the last two rounds. Before that, I was seriously contemplating a crucial conundrum - after 99 rounds! Still I had something to eat and drink this time so I concentrated a bit better than the last game, although the score was lower, that was because of a better opponent.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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this game is the new record. Note the SHITTYOIL conundrum near the end of the game.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Presumably it's possible to adjourn and resume these ultra-long games, as with normal games? If so, I'd've thought that someone would have set up a several-thousand round game and played it over the course of a few days by now. Or is this sort of thing verboten?
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It's fine with me. I played my 500-rounder over the course of a day with a couple of restarts. I wasn't really intending to start a competition for longest game though, it gets pretty boring after a while.jimbentley wrote:Presumably it's possible to adjourn and resume these ultra-long games, as with normal games? If so, I'd've thought that someone would have set up a several-thousand round game and played it over the course of a few days by now. Or is this sort of thing verboten?
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
That new "blind" variant is well hard. Obviously it doesn't stop you cheating by writing them down but if you're playing alone and testing yourself, then it's a right hard custom. Nice addition though.
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
It's a nice feature, but say the selection was something like: H E P L A K N O S - you could type PLANK and HOSE into the box and then thats all 9 letters, no longer unhidden.Kirk Bevins wrote:That new "blind" variant is well hard. Obviously it doesn't stop you cheating by writing them down but if you're playing alone and testing yourself, then it's a right hard custom. Nice addition though.
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Re: Fun with the custom challenges
Yeah. And in regular Countdown, you can just type all the letters into CountMax, see what the max is, and submit that. It's a matter of trust, really.
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Most selections are rather harder to remember, too. But sure, if you want to cheat then it's not hard.Joseph Bolas wrote:It's a nice feature, but say the selection was something like: H E P L A K N O S - you could type PLANK and HOSE into the box and then thats all 9 letters, no longer unhidden.
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I thought what he might have meant was you come up with the words PLANK and HOSE and enter them (as you might do) and then for the rest of the round you've got your own words to stare at - more likely if you come up with HOSE first as you probably wouldn't bother if you already had PLANK.
I've not played the blind variant, so it might mean that what I'm saying is bollocks.
I've not played the blind variant, so it might mean that what I'm saying is bollocks.
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That's pretty much it. I was just merely saying, what is to stop someone from splitting the letters up into 2 or more words and then entering them in the box, so all you have to do for the rest of the round is look at those words, to see if you can come up with something longer.Gavin Chipper wrote:I thought what he might have meant was you come up with the words PLANK and HOSE and enter them (as you might do) and then for the rest of the round you've got your own words to stare at - more likely if you come up with HOSE first as you probably wouldn't bother if you already had PLANK.
I've not played the blind variant, so it might mean that what I'm saying is bollocks.
EDIT: I was thinking maybe that the box could be disabled for about 25 seconds, so that when its the last 5 seconds, you type in the longest word you have then, but that might pose problems.
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Je ne parle pas Francais?
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16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Re: Je ne pas Francais?
Oh yes. I've been meaning to fix this for a while.Kai Laddiman wrote:The most French words in the world.
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Re: Je ne parle pas Francais?
Does the title mean anything? I don't actually do French at school, I do German.Charlie Reams wrote:Oh yes. I've been meaning to fix this for a while.Kai Laddiman wrote:The most French words in the world.
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16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Re: Je ne pas Francais?
Not really. Literally translated it would mean "I not French". You really need some sort of verb in there, such as "je ne suis pas Français" (I am not French) or "je ne parle pas Français" (I don't speak French).Kai Laddiman wrote:Does the title mean anything?
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Re: Je ne parle pas Francais?
Thanks.Phil Reynolds wrote:Not really. Literally translated it would mean "I not French". You really need some sort of verb in there, such as "je ne suis pas Français" (I am not French) or "je ne parle pas Français" (I don't speak French).Kai Laddiman wrote:Does the title mean anything?
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.