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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 8#r1604648

I just beat apterous rex to a conundrum in 0.1 seconds :)
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I wonder if there'll ever be a breakaway unofficial 3rd party thread of brag?
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First attempt at the junior goatdown 15 gave me a max game with loads of 7s. May be a hard record to beat? What it shows you whilst playing (but doesn't show you on the review) is the metamax for this game is 109 so I messed up 1 point.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1119172914
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Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=114611

Perfect picking! Yay!
Could you define perfect picking? I'm confused as you missed the max in two consecutive rounds.
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Jon O'Neill wrote: Could you define perfect picking? I'm confused as you missed the max in two consecutive rounds.
The max = metamax.
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A long time in the making. My first max game :D http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=116700

Almost had a heart attack when I nearly left ESOTERIC mistyped as my keyboard was playing up! So I decided to take my time typing in the conundrum but luckily it was the easiest scramble in history. Ever.
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=116982
Not the hardest ever, but, I'll take it. :D
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:A long time in the making. My first max game :D http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=116700

Almost had a heart attack when I nearly left ESOTERIC mistyped as my keyboard was playing up! So I decided to take my time typing in the conundrum but luckily it was the easiest scramble in history. Ever.
Well done Dinos, I didnt look at the numbers, but you certainly pulled out some great words in the letters rounds! Great performance.
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117262

Pretty rubbish until the nice little comeback at the end. :)
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Kirk Bevins wrote:Probably my best max game yet

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 8243510880
I'm glad you said that because me and a few of the others were just saying how some of your max games were actually pretty shit.
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Darren Carter wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117262

Pretty rubbish until the nice little comeback at the end. :)
Fitting round 13 word.
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I dare say that my being second in the rankings after Innis won't last long now that I've made it known, but I decided to play a few games using the French dictionary version.

http://www.apterous.org/allplayers.php?variant=0&dic=2

Although, not being fluent, I only get mainly 4 or 5 letter words, with sometimes 6, and less frequently 7, since there are only 3 other players apart from Prune (and I've been playing Prune!), I'm second (out of 5!).

I was rather please to get a conundrum once, although it was rather a guess. Means SLIDE apparently.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117737
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Julie T wrote:I dare say that my being second in the rankings after Innis won't last long now that I've made it known, but I decided to play a few games using the French dictionary version.

http://www.apterous.org/allplayers.php?variant=0&dic=2

Although, not being fluent, I only get mainly 4 or 5 letter words, with sometimes 6, and less frequently 7, since there are only 3 other players apart from Prune (and I've been playing Prune!), I'm second (out of 5!).

I was rather please to get a conundrum once, although it was rather a guess. Means SLIDE apparently.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117737
That's pretty cool, maybe I'll give it a try. I'm amused that Martin Gardner is ranked #3 despite being a fluent speaker and rather an expert in French Scrabble (using the same dictionary).
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Charlie Reams wrote: That's pretty cool, maybe I'll give it a try. I'm amused that Martin Gardner is ranked #3 despite being a fluent speaker and rather an expert in French Scrabble (using the same dictionary).
The statistics are rather skewed, I suppose, because there are only a few games played.
If more people play, I dare say that Martin will excel. :)
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Part of me didn't wanna post this cos it might rub it into him, but the other part of me thought, the fact that I'm posting this shows that I think he's amazing.
I beat Dinos Sfyris :D
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=118293
Not only that but we declared the same thing in 7 rounds so I'd like to think my train of thought is one with a master's. :ugeek:
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Kieran Child wrote:Part of me didn't wanna post this cos it might rub it into him, but the other part of me thought, the fact that I'm posting this shows that I think he's amazing.
I beat Dinos Sfyris :D
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=118293
Not only that but we declared the same thing in 7 rounds so I'd like to think my train of thought is one with a master's. :ugeek:
Haha cheers for that although I reckon you'll probably manage to put quite a few victories past me as you're not too bad yourself, particularly at 4 large :)
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Richard Brittain wrote:Wow, look at that new record.
I wonder if that's more or less tragic and pointless than this. I reckon we're about tied.
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Ha. You guys are such attention seekers!
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:Wow, look at that new record.
I wonder if that's more or less tragic and pointless than this. I reckon we're about tied.
Wow, that record actually is unbeatable; impressive. Mine and Ben's record is certainly beatable, but it's probably only worth breaking if someone is really going to raise the bar to a new level, and post a score of around 650. I'm actually hoping that this will become a new sport on Apterous, a subsidiary activity almost as popular as playing the normal game. It requires discipline, focus, and patience, mental endurance; a willingness to keep going, to keep pushing at the task even when it seems pointless and tedious, which it is. It also encourages mutual respect and team co-operation between opponents. I'm hoping that eventually a Usain Bolt will come along and just really decimate the previous records and bring the game into new areas which were previously unimaginable.
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The game that held the previous tie-break record is hilarious: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=23318
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Ben Hunter wrote:The game that held the previous tie-break record is hilarious: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=23318
I think POMITIZED could be the new GANDISEEG.
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Ben Hunter wrote:The game that held the previous tie-break record is hilarious: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=23318
No offence to Tom (I did check before making this comment; he hasn't played since June) but I love the way you can just imagine Nude taking a big breath, sighing, and then going "fiiiiiine" before it finally decides to answer one and put him out of his misery.
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I don't often come first. :)
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Stuart Arnot wrote:I don't often come first. :)
That's not what I heard!

zzzzzzzzzzzing

BTW well done, that's a seriously impressive statistic.
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Not a patch on Bevins, Travers, Howe, Carson, Davies et al but probably my best.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=120096
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David O'Donnell wrote:Not a patch on Bevins, Travers, Howe, Carson, Davies et al but probably my best.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=120096
Lovely game mate and a quick conundrum spot to boot.
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Henry Meier wrote:I can die happy
Well done mate.
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Yeah, it's prune, but I'm still quite proud of this one- http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=123100
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LOL! What the fuck?
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That was mint! I don't know what you're on, but can I have some?
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Awesome. Max=Metamax AND you smashed the high score record. Nice going mate.
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Wow, excellent job!
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What's so impressive about beating Prune? He didn't even have any allowed words. Rubbish.
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Michael Wallace wrote:What's so impressive about beating Prune? He didn't even have any allowed words. Rubbish.
I know what you mean Michael, I cant think of any human player on apterous who would miss ISPAGHUL, apart from Innis.
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JackHurst wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:What's so impressive about beating Prune? He didn't even have any allowed words. Rubbish.
I know what you mean Michael, I cant think of any human player on apterous who would miss ISPAGHUL, apart from Innis.
I think he may have been taking the piss bro. (Also that's his excuse any time he says something stupid.)

Nice work Innis, 1st, 2nd and 3rd on the high scores. I think the new super-friendly Prune should help topple quite a few of the Goatdown records.
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Charlie Reams wrote:Nice work Innis, 1st, 2nd and 3rd on the high scores.
I was just browsing the joint highest score...
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Deleted. Not really as brag-worthy as I first thought. ;)
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I extended my winning run against Corby with this performance. Also my first max game for a while.
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Richard Brittain wrote:I extended my winning run against Corby with this performance. Also my first max game for a while.
Hahaha. A 2 round max game. Nice one.
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Not sure if I'm quite getting into the spirit of this thread, but given that my rating is a mere 852 at present, I was rather pleased with THIS GAME

as at the end of round 7 I was still in the lead. An unfortunate incorrectly declared 9 in round 8 was my undoing, but I was still rather chuffed at doing so well against one of the greats.
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1% chance of winning! Screw you eye of apterous.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0585895681
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Very narrowly took the Touchdown 15 record, I'm sure this is still beatable.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=125756

EDIT: Also the highest joint score by some way.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:1% chance of winning! Screw you eye of apterous.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0585895681
Quality, Kirk. :)
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Kirk Bevins wrote:1% chance of winning! Screw you eye of apterous.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0585895681
I do believe that there game marks the award of the first ever holy rex. :)
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Apologies to Chris, as he was obviously having an off-day, but here's something I never thought would happen...
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Mark Harrison wrote:Apologies to Chris, as he was obviously having an off-day, but here's something I never thought would happen...
But to compensate for that...
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=128054 :D
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:shock: :shock: :shock:

Nice!
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