Ah yeah! Awesome!Innis Carson wrote:Was meaning the scramble, but I'll remember that as well.
Strange Games
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Prune getting all 3 numbers games
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16453
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Lol'd at JUNIORITYOliver Garner wrote:Prune getting all 3 numbers games
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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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Amazingly, you missed the same word twice.Innis Carson wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16343
Round 6 is clearly divine intervention.
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
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This is a strange coincidence: compare this game and the next one. Same players, same score and the exact same cast! What are the chances?!
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I got the same conundrum in two consecutive games!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=17665 (A scrag game)
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=17666
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=17665 (A scrag game)
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=17666
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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This conundrum scares me really badly.
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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Kai Laddiman wrote:This conundrum scares me really badly.
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The scramble.Charlie Reams wrote:Kai Laddiman wrote:This conundrum scares me really badly.
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Ah good spot. I thought you missed ARTICHOKE in one of your games and it's haunting you.Gavin Chipper wrote: The scramble.
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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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Round one of this game must be unique.
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I'm claiming the longest word spelt out in the letters (AMARETTO).
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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"I may be barking up some mad tree here, but is BRACONID a word?" - Mel Giedroyc trying to claim a DC word. Useless shithead.Chris Davies wrote:I can match that with BRACONID here.
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Lol.Ben Wilson wrote:Round one of this game must be unique.
Oh, don't you just love pets..... Ahhhhhhh......
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Round five of this game is a strong contender for the best round where it's easy to get one away, but hard to get it spot on.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Carol's way was bizarre but cool. I'd have done 75+50+10+10-(100/25), much more straightforward.Martin Gardner wrote:Round five of this game is a strong contender for the best round where it's easy to get one away, but hard to get it spot on.
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Ha we played along with this round in the pub today on Simon's internet phone and I got it Jim's method. I also thought it was hard and bet on both contestants only getting 140 which they did. To be fair I'm not sure I did it in 30 seconds as we don't time, we just scroll through games spending some time on selections trying to hit maximums.JimBentley wrote:
Carol's way was bizarre but cool. I'd have done 75+50+10+10-(100/25), much more straightforward.
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On the grounds that it qualifies as both brag AND scrag, I'm putting it here- http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=27737 -falling foul of the ODE/CSW differences 3 rounds out of 4 (MODDERS* is the only one that's completely bad), I then put in the final 6 rounds of my dreams. Ho hum.
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Fairly poor game for both of us, culminating with four conundrums at the end. I wanted to keep going for more, but Jimmy decided to take the game.
Fairly poor game for both of us, culminating with four conundrums at the end. I wanted to keep going for more, but Jimmy decided to take the game.
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Round 7- do I go for the E for FRUITCAKE or the W for 'Sorry Kai'?
Round 7- do I go for the E for FRUITCAKE or the W for 'Sorry Kai'?
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Ah that's brilliant. I didn't even know that FUCKWIT was valid.Ben Wilson wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28100
Round 7- do I go for the E for FRUITCAKE or the W for 'Sorry Kai'?
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What an excellent conundrum scramble
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355
Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.
Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.
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Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355
Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.
Why does that count as strange?
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I dunno. I thought it noteworthy but couldn't think of any other existing thread in which to post it. In hindsight, it wouldn't have been out of place in the 'comebacks' thread.Karen Pearson wrote:Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355
Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.
Why does that count as strange?
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Missed out on one of the easiest max games ever. No darrens!
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Sexy 9s everywhere but only found one between us! http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=29818
Also for scrag factor I thought 2x2x(50-5) was 190
Also for scrag factor I thought 2x2x(50-5) was 190
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Didn't Paul have an all-darrens game once?Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?
Edit: Yes
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Check Round 16, where I apparently beat the max.
The score isn't great because it was my first time playing Hyper Numbers...
Edit: I assume this is a common occurrence because it just happened again.
Check Round 16, where I apparently beat the max.
The score isn't great because it was my first time playing Hyper Numbers...
Edit: I assume this is a common occurrence because it just happened again.
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Yes, but that was goatdown and my ass-whooping from Prime wasn't.Charlie Reams wrote:Didn't Paul have an all-darrens game once?Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?
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Oh, fair enough. For a 15-rounder, 8 darrens is probably a record, yeah.Ben Wilson wrote:Yes, but that was goatdown and my ass-whooping from Prime wasn't.Charlie Reams wrote:Didn't Paul have an all-darrens game once?Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?
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Prime certainly "had" you in round 3Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?
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Prime and I got a max game between us, except for the last numbers. However only one round did not feature a beater. Also, every beater was the unique max. We seemed to take in in turns to drop off. Prime the Merciful!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=31130
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=31130
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That's a bad miss in round 8.Junaid Mubeen wrote:Prime and I got a max game between us, except for the last numbers. However only one round did not feature a beater. We seemed to take in in turns to drop off. Prime the Merciful!
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This must be among the darreniest 9 rounders.Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?
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Yes, it's CSW, but Charlie needs to keep Prune off the Red Bull.
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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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Amazing game this. Deliberately dropped 20 points to make Jimmy happy on audition eve. Knew LEXONERD^ wasn't in, had MINTIER but went for MINUTER^ cos I'd just played MINUTEST (incredible omission) and had TEAMING but played MINUTE for the same reason. I also only picked S in round 14 to make FRUITGELS
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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Deliberate server breakage attempt? Certainly I can pick out at least one round there I could do within the time limit but the computer couldn't.
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How about being the first person ever to solve a hyperconundrum in the wrong language? I often guess at these when time runs out, so I guessed at RHINOPLASTIE which turns out to be the French for RHINOPLASTY, but alas not allowed in English
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34762
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34762
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
Re: Strange Games
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34788
Strange indeed that i play my most solid game of the night after half a dozen beers, but earlier on when totally sober i was complete pants. Sometimes even the most common words elude me, then i can pull something pretty obscure out of the hat moments later. Does anyone else suffer from terrible inconsistency or lack of concentration?
Strange indeed that i play my most solid game of the night after half a dozen beers, but earlier on when totally sober i was complete pants. Sometimes even the most common words elude me, then i can pull something pretty obscure out of the hat moments later. Does anyone else suffer from terrible inconsistency or lack of concentration?
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Possibly.Martin Gardner wrote:How about being the first person ever to solve a hyperconundrum in the wrong language?
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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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It happens to me if I play too much. If I take a few days off then I'm normally much more consistent when I get back.D Eadie wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34788
Strange indeed that i play my most solid game of the night after half a dozen beers, but earlier on when totally sober i was complete pants. Sometimes even the most common words elude me, then i can pull something pretty obscure out of the hat moments later. Does anyone else suffer from terrible inconsistency or lack of concentration?
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Holding Prime to a crucial conundrum in three seconds. I can't count it as brag as I lost!
Holding Prime to a crucial conundrum in three seconds. I can't count it as brag as I lost!
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Hmmm...check out the time on this conundrum. Super lag?
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 63#r517263
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 63#r517263
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The conundrum times are local times, so you can't lag against that. Times like Damian's are caused by some other bug which sometimes makes the clock run slow, which I have been chasing for a while.Kirk Bevins wrote:Hmmm...check out the time on this conundrum. Super lag?
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 63#r517263
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In fairness this is more funny because the game ended 20 - 0.
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This was a 15 Rounder game, but it is strangely marked down as a Custom game:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25484 the score became tied after the 15th round and it took five tiebreak conundrums to separate us, as we didn't get any of the previous four tiebreak conundrums.
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Me and Innis + Hypergoatdown = this
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.
Re: Strange Games
Charlie Reams wrote:The conundrum times are local times, so you can't lag against that. Times like Damian's are caused by some other bug which sometimes makes the clock run slow, which I have been chasing for a while.Kirk Bevins wrote:Hmmm...check out the time on this conundrum. Super lag?
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 63#r517263
Tends to only happen when i play at work - on my break times of course. The lag is horrible and often i get just 6 or 7 letters on screen, only to find that the bot has already answered Almost impossible to beat Prime at a game in this situation. I tend to get the first 2 rnds okay, then it slows up bigtime and eventually freezes altogether. When i answer straight away, it registers on the clock as anything between 5 and 10 secs, even though i've only just got the 9 letters up on screen.
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=35331
Seven rounds of Jekyll, six of Hyde.
So surprising was the recovery, that Jimmy warned me that "cheating was bad, Charlie willl know"...bless him.
Seven rounds of Jekyll, six of Hyde.
So surprising was the recovery, that Jimmy warned me that "cheating was bad, Charlie willl know"...bless him.
Oh, cackwires!
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Ha, only just spotted the word spelled out in round 11
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=35352
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Interesting round 9. I'm pretty sure it is possible, although the computer says you can't get within 10. Either they should both get a point for maxing (with nothing) or the max for the whole game should be 19, not 20. Very very slight bug I suppose.Ben Wilson wrote:Deliberate server breakage attempt? Certainly I can pick out at least one round there I could do within the time limit but the computer couldn't.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?