c4countdown

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:49 pm**

David O'Donnell wrote:Played through this game already, frustrating yes but the woeful miss (by your high standards) was counter-balanced by sufficient awesomeness.

Aww thanks, now I need to go and delete all those things I said about you in my Countdown Experience (which needs to be seriously shortened before I send it to Mike...over 6000 words!)

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:16 pm**

If only I could do 4 large, I'd have beaten Rex:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1963554286

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:11 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=106830

^ between me and supee. It's just bad bad bad. We both are better than that game, honest.

Posted: **Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:17 am**

It seems churlish to complain after my first 13-max game for a while, but damn! I wish I'd got this game when I hadn't just woken up. Maybe the most gettable max for a 15-rounder ever?

Posted: **Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:04 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 8288426191

Argh! I thought I had Prime done and dusted when I was 36 ahead with some good words. Then I failed to score for the remainder of the show and I lost

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:04 am**

"Show"?

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:41 am**

Jon Corby wrote:"Show"?

Haha, amazing

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:50 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 5304325152

Argh! I could have had Rex. Crucial conundrum, and I pressed C straight away for CONSONANT and it locked my C in and then locked me out and he just beat me. Ffs. 0.7 seconds is sooo hard to beat and I was quick.

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:35 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 4093997602

Maybe this should be in scrag? Round 1 was a terrible miss with loads of easy words including several -ED words. Then I went on to max the last 14 rounds. A simple max game slipped through my fingers. Ridiculous.

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:29 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=107421

Argh! Now I know how Paul Howe feels. I pressed C immediately for CRAZINESS and was already celebrating when I was locked out. Still yet to get a max game on goatdown (although this would have been a max game against a crap opponent like apterous prune I want a proper max game). For f*** sake.

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:29 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Argh! Now I know how Paul Howe feels.

Awesome and sexy?

Seriously though, Apterous Rex is a bastard. The lag on my end is such that I often get beaten to the buzzer even when I try to blag it. Very frustrating on the few occasions I've managed to force a crucial.

Posted: **Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:00 pm**

Argh. Look at the three letters maxes I dropped here:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=108277

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:12 pm**

Bugger

Posted: **Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:23 pm**

Argh - what a game though.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=108871

Posted: **Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:25 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Argh - what a game though.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=108871

Would that have been your first Goatdown max game?

Posted: **Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:48 pm**

Eoin Monaghan wrote: Would that have been your first Goatdown max game?

Yes but I'm sure one will come along soon enough.

Posted: **Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:55 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote: Would that have been your first Goatdown max game?
Yes but I'm sure one will come along soon enough.

End of this week I bet

Posted: **Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:03 pm**

Playing against Jim is always a fun occasion, but this round was agonizing.

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:31 pm**

In one day:

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117087
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117305
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117385

And nearly here (after chickening R2):

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117402

Posted: **Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:47 pm**

Argh, and now this:

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117692

I had BETIME and BETIMES noted down and knew only one of them was valid, and picked the wrong one. Never bottled a game more aggravatingly than that.

OK, I'll stop now.

Posted: **Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:13 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 9438954806

Fat bloody fingers, grrr

Posted: **Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:50 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 9438954806

Fat bloody fingers, grrr

On the show you could've argued that you have a spontaneous fenland accent. Unlucky.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:01 am**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=-6 ... 6117010532

I'd even nailed the G for the conundrum when I was locked out. Argh.

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:25 am**

Occasionally lady luck is kinda to us mere mortals, but it doesn't stop us choking.

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:02 am**

An easy max game chance and I blew it.

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:52 pm**

Henry Meier wrote:An easy max game chance and I blew it.

I'd say LIEGES is quite difficult actually.

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:34 pm**

Arghhhhh!

This is a record but it should have been a max game - I got UNLOOSE right on the bell but didn't find the U key in time. Soooo frustrating. Notice it's bloody round 13 too.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=136823

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:36 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Arghhhhh!

This is a record but it should have been a max game - I got UNLOOSE right on the bell but didn't find the U key in time. Soooo frustrating. Notice it's bloody round 13 too.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=136823

That's still freakily good, though! Unlucky.

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:00 am**

This is frustration as it's only star 27 of tadpole but it's so bloody hard to beat the Guardian. I'm coming up with obscure 5s and 6s and he's getting them and then when I have a hope of pulling some points back with a 7, he gets it too. It's insane. He should miss more than he does, even at star 27 level.

Look at this - it's insane - I played well here (apart from maybe the last round but I was dead anyway and annoyed) and I lost 40 rating points.

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:22 am**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141170

Nearly got a max game on speedgoat against Innis and look at the one max I don't get....I don't notice the other S. Argh!

Posted: **Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:41 pm**

Frustration? You don't know the half of it.

Posted: **Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:49 pm**

Ben Wilson wrote:Frustration? You don't know the half of it.

Oh burn, that's really fricking unlucky.

Posted: **Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:38 pm**

Ben Wilson wrote:Frustration? You don't know the half of it.

Oh really?

Posted: **Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:46 pm**

Argh!!!
Round 2 - had TODAY and missed TODAYS.
Round 4 - had URBANISE and missed URBANITES.
Round 10 - had 765 but clicked 21+4 instead of 21x4.

I really should have been ahead after this numbers but I'm not.

Round 13 - Excellent. A 9 to get me right back in the game where I should be - HELOTAGES. Computer says no, when it's in. Infinite frustration.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1833073360

Posted: **Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:34 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Argh!!!
Round 2 - had TODAY and missed TODAYS.
Round 4 - had URBANISE and missed URBANITES.
Round 10 - had 765 but clicked 21+4 instead of 21x4.

I really should have been ahead after this numbers but I'm not.

Round 13 - Excellent. A 9 to get me right back in the game where I should be - HELOTAGES. Computer says no, when it's in. Infinite frustration.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1833073360

This post layout remindeded me of a post-recap Larsen critique

Posted: **Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:26 pm**

A rare chance at Steve Briers' 117 slips away...

Posted: **Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:36 pm**

A 21-point comeback, thwarted by an E.

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:59 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=152153

On behalf of Innis.

Posted: **Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:43 pm**

Some sexy words in this game and was a goatnundrum off maxing it and I bottle it again.

Posted: **Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:10 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Some sexy words in this game and was a goatnundrum off maxing it and I bottle it again.

I ate schnitzel on Friday, it was really yummy.

Posted: **Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:03 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Some sexy words in this game and was a goatnundrum off maxing it and I bottle it again.
I ate schnitzel on Friday, it was really yummy.

My cousin had schnitzel in Munich too, in the Augustiner bier hall restaurant opposite our hostel. Except she described it as one of the most disgusting things she'd ever tasted, a combination of "dog fanny and rotten milk". We had been being sick all morning though, thanks to it being the afternoon after our first ever proper night on Jägermeister, so that may have clouded her judgement somewhat.

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:46 pm**

Immediately after having my duel torpedoed by a mistyped conundrum, I attempt a Junior Letters Attack and this happens. Blinded by the csw-only 7 in round 19 costs me not only a would-be record but what would've been a huge improvement over Bevins's.

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:00 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=163205

This was SOOOOO frustrating. The conundrum never showed for me, Chris buzzes in to win the game. This has happened a few times recently but it has never cost me the game! Aargh.

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:07 am**

Star 27 of the first path is hard to complete and I nearly had him until I missed a simple (ish) 9. Losing with 18 maxes hurt and I really should have won. Muppet.

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:12 pm**

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FFS!!!!

My greatest ever word ... I see I need the S for an awesome 8 in goatdown so I pick it and apterous locks up! No way! TZADDIKS was there waiting to be declared...my best word ever and I couldn't declare it. So angry.

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:57 am**

Kirk Bevins wrote:ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FFS!!!!

My greatest ever word ... I see I need the S for an awesome 8 in goatdown so I pick it and apterous locks up! No way! TZADDIKS was there waiting to be declared...my best word ever and I couldn't declare it. So angry.

Did you file a bug report to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:03 am**

Charlie Reams wrote: Did you file a bug report to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?

Just filed one now on an unrelated matter.

Posted: **Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:04 pm**

GRRRRR

Had winkled, amongst some dodgy words in rd 6 and ended up going for wanked. I think wanked cost me a max game.

Not many people can say that.

Posted: **Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:11 am**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=190223

Would have gotten my first perfect 15-rounder had I not missed the incredibly easy UNLOAD. I'll probably not come this close again.

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:02 am**

Was quite pleased with this game in places. Got a sexy pencil and beat Craig on a 6 small. However the maxness was ruined by a promising fish that Craig and I were both sure was there. Followed by more aquatic plural mishaps

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=190739

Posted: **Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:13 pm**

Had BINDAAS disallowed in today's duel, thought maybe I'd dreamt it up but ODE2 confirms it as a valid word

Posted: **Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:19 pm**

Rich Priest wrote:Had BINDAAS disallowed in today's duel, thought maybe I'd dreamt it up but ODE2 confirms it as a valid word

Err, spoilers aside,in which round? There's no S in round 7.

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:38 pm**

I was more than 10 points ahead of Richard Brittain with just the conundrum left and then the server cut off and wiped out our game. First time I ever played him and had overturned huge rating gap (had 4% chance of winning). GRRRRRRRR

Posted: **Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:47 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=208901 So close! Missed a sitter for a max game.

Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:10 pm**

Can't believe I blew that last numbers game and missed the record. If only prune picked 2 or 3 large in hyper, hint hint.

Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:38 pm**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=-2 ... 3825100133

It was all going so well...

On a related note, I got quite nervous going into the last few rounds. Has any one else ever been in a similar nervy state on the cusp of a first-ever max game? Or am I just a big weirdo?

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:16 am**

Edward McCullagh wrote:On a related note, I got quite nervous going into the last few rounds. Has any one else ever been in a similar nervy state on the cusp of a first-ever max game?

Only if I'm playing in front of loads of girls.

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:56 am**

Ben Hunter wrote:
Edward McCullagh wrote:On a related note, I got quite nervous going into the last few rounds. Has any one else ever been in a similar nervy state on the cusp of a first-ever max game?
Only if I'm playing in front of loads of girls.

So you were on the verge of a max game, got nervous, and a load of girls were watching: bit of a stab in the dark here but did you make the next day 'laundry day'?

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:53 am**

Edward McCullagh wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=-2 ... 3825100133

It was all going so well...

On a related note, I got quite nervous going into the last few rounds. Has any one else ever been in a similar nervy state on the cusp of a first-ever max game? Or am I just a big weirdo?

Happens to us all mate. Just shows how hard it is to play when nervous so apterous is a good training tool in that respect.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:38 pm**

If someone could find me a more easily gettable NA max than this, do let me know

c4countdown

Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration

Re: Frustration