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Posted: **Thu May 07, 2009 3:32 pm**

For those games which are neither brag nor scrag, just agonising.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=56781

The line on the clock told me the conundrum hadn't revealed the last letter (bug); I had ADIEU but was unsure of the spelling, and was unaware of the plural.

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2009 4:47 pm**

My round 4 pick hasn't made it to the ODE, would've been one of my best ever picks otherwise.

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 5:41 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=57844
86 points after 7 rounds and then just 28, thought about DELETIONS but in the end left it, should have got the conundrum, this couldve been such a high score!

Posted: **Sun May 10, 2009 1:17 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58175

Posted: **Sun May 10, 2009 1:41 pm**

Kai Laddiman wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58175

MEMES MEMES MEMES MEMES MEMES MEMES everywhere.

It would be cool if someone compiled a list of OED words from newest to oldest.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 5:21 pm**

Lost out on a perfect game from a nine I hadn't heard of, touch annoyed about missing purloin but missing the easy numbers game fluffed any chance of the high score table.
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58726

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2009 5:52 pm**

Probably the closest I'll ever come to a max speedgoat

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=63888
Only one darrenic round, so it was pretty easily, but it would've been nice nonetheless.

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2009 7:58 pm**

Neil Zussman wrote:Probably the closest I'll ever come to a max speedgoat http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=63888
Only one darrenic round, so it was pretty easily, but it would've been nice nonetheless.

That's a great game.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 9:31 pm**

Harsh conundrums?

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2009 5:22 pm**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=68917

14 maxes, and one chicken.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2009 5:33 pm**

Innis Carson wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=68917

14 maxes, and one chicken.

Wow! Extreme frustration. Well played.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2009 5:36 pm**

Arrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhh

I even pressed the B before Rexy cut in

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2009 5:44 pm**

Paul Howe wrote:Arrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhh

I even pressed the B before Rexy cut in

Quite outstanding Paul, very unlucky.

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2009 11:20 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69126 A really good and close game, 12 maxes between us.

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:51 am**

Epic game Paul well done

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:09 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 2#r1018362

*smacks forehead*

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:49 pm**

Daniel O'Dowd wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69126 A really good and close game, 12 maxes between us.

I can see a reasonably allowable 8 in Rd 13

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:51 pm**

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Daniel O'Dowd wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69126 A really good and close game, 12 maxes between us.
I can see a reasonably allowable 8 in Rd 13

And a similarly scatological 7, but sadly neither are valid.

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:55 pm**

Funnily enough (or not) I did quite strongly consider offering shitpile, though I'm thankful I didn't. It's odd, isn't it, how when you're out of form slightly in Standard, the interactive element of Goat (or What If?, in fact, Charlie could that be implemented as a variant?) tends to spur the mind to greater things

Posted: **Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:47 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69967

Nearly my very first perfect game. Admittedly its in juniors, so not much in terms of bragging right compared to others, but still very frustrating! Personally i'd never heard of the conundrum before though.

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:01 am**

J.Levison wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69967

Nearly my very first perfect game. Admittedly its in juniors, so not much in terms of bragging right compared to others, but still very frustrating! Personally i'd never heard of the conundrum before though.

Very good, I know from my own experience that getting a max junior game is considerably harder than it looks.

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:20 pm**

J.Levison wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69967

Nearly my very first perfect game. Admittedly its in juniors, so not much in terms of bragging right compared to others, but still very frustrating! Personally i'd never heard of the conundrum before though.

Did they not teach technology in you school?

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:31 pm**

Eoin Monaghan wrote:
J.Levison wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69967

Nearly my very first perfect game. Admittedly its in juniors, so not much in terms of bragging right compared to others, but still very frustrating! Personally i'd never heard of the conundrum before though.
Did they not teach technology in you school?

Do they not teach grammar in you school?

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:52 pm**

Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote:
J.Levison wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69967

Nearly my very first perfect game. Admittedly its in juniors, so not much in terms of bragging right compared to others, but still very frustrating! Personally i'd never heard of the conundrum before though.
Did they teach technology in you school?
Do they not teach grammar in you school?

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:27 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=70050

Frustrating - damn numbers. Would have been a sweet max game, especially since it was a 10 seconder.

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:44 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=70050

Frustrating - damn numbers. Would have been a sweet max game, especially since it was a 10 seconder.

Ouch, especially so as Speed 15 has never been perfected.

Posted: **Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:55 pm**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=74027

Victory denied! Round 13 is why you must always check your spelling.

Posted: **Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:11 pm**

Ben Hunter wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=74027

Victory denied! Round 13 is why you must always check your spelling.

What was the word you misspelled?

Posted: **Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:29 pm**

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Ben Hunter wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=74027

Victory denied! Round 13 is why you must always check your spelling.
What was the word you misspelled?

Apron.

Posted: **Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:19 pm**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=74101

Same deal but worse D: (conundrum)

Posted: **Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:06 pm**

Ben Hunter wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=74101

Same deal but worse D: (conundrum)

AAPA!

Posted: **Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:25 pm**

Yay, I've got a 9! Oh dammit, it's Hyper Unlimited.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:30 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2332349181

Would have been a sweet max game with lots of darrens and obscure words.

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:01 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=76526

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:06 pm**

Sorry to cut in, but how does this situation work? Do you have to apologise to yourself, Kai, or does someone else act as a proxy and apologise for you?

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:34 pm**

Missing an easy 8 against my favourite player, costing me a max game

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:53 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81333

Grr I even had MENACE in round 2 but forgot CONMEN was two words. What a prick.

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:56 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81333

Grr I even had MENACE in round 2 but forgot CONMEN was two words. What a prick.

Pay attention chap!

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:00 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81333

Grr I even had MENACE in round 2 but forgot CONMEN was two words. What a prick.

I decided not to give a shit in the last 2 rounds, so it's all incidental anyway. Innit, Kirk?

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:04 pm**

Matt Morrison wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81333

Grr I even had MENACE in round 2 but forgot CONMEN was two words. What a prick.
Pay attention chap!

Haha! I know CONMAN^ is two words. I have no idea why I went for it. I see it on TV often and always avoid it. I had a lapse of concentration.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:52 pm**

What's the longest word ever offered? I offered a 15 in SENSELESSNESSES today but sadly the new dictionary isn't up yet and it was disallowed. What's been the longest valid offering?

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:28 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:What's the longest word ever offered? I offered a 15 in SENSELESSNESSES today but sadly the new dictionary isn't up yet and it was disallowed. What's been the longest valid offering?

I put RELENTLESSNESS, shoulda stuck -ES on the end though

Still waiting for UNCONSCIOUSNESSES

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:09 am**

in hyper unlimited you could play POSSESSIONLESSNESSES, which, if nothing else, is the word with the most Ss in it.

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:25 am**

James Hall wrote:in hyper unlimited you could play POSSESSIONLESSNESSES, which, if nothing else, is the word with the most Ss in it.

Of course you could play it, but it's not in the dictionary.

(Besides it'd be playable in normal Unlim anyway)

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:31 am**

This inevitably calls to mind Rowan Atkinson's monologue as Sir Marcus Browning MP:

We must have purpose. We mustn't be purposeless. We must not exhibit purposelessness. We must be... purposelessnessless.

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:23 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=85431

With two rounds to go I looked certain to better my 11 max record. But no!

All annoying misses, although still I feel some nice finds in the game.
The quest continues..

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:18 pm**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=85837

Speaks for itself.

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:11 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=90227

Arrrggghhh - frustratingly close to my first speedgoat max game.

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:34 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=90484

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=90497

Not frustrating at all, and my opponents played really well, but it would've been nice to have eeked out a victory somewhere. If I'd stuck with TORNADO in the first game and spotted HANDLES in the second I'd have won both

.

Posted: **Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:47 pm**

http://81.154.103.125/viewgame.php?game=104011

Probably the best chance I'll ever get to break the dreaded Flat 15 record.

Posted: **Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:41 pm**

Innis Carson wrote:http://81.154.103.125/viewgame.php?game=104011

Probably the best chance I'll ever get to break the dreaded Flat 15 record.

Ouch. Someone please tell Jason that 1 large is easiest to choose. He chooses 2 large and then can't do them, even the really easy ones.

Posted: **Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:02 pm**

Oh dearie me!

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:04 pm**

I actually can't believe I screwed this up, I am so bad, FLURRYING!!!!!!!

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:15 am**

Would have been my sweetest max game, grrr

http://217.36.210.230/viewgame.php?key= ... 3077070291

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:27 am**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=104458

Would've beaten the Hulme-meister if I'd remembered to put an S on the end of a word.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:25 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Innis Carson wrote:http://81.154.103.125/viewgame.php?game=104011

Probably the best chance I'll ever get to break the dreaded Flat 15 record.
Ouch. Someone please tell Jason that 1 large is easiest to choose. He chooses 2 large and then can't do them, even the really easy ones.

Two large generates the highest percentage of solvable solutions. I assume Jason took this into consideration when he made his selection.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:09 pm**

ARGH!! Would have been my sweetest max game to date including 2 nice nines, the latter gaining me a pencil.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 4160975177

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:23 pm**

Missed out on a max game and personal high score by missing a very gettable 9:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=105184

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:37 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:43 pm**

And then straight afterwards, a very gettable 6 missed, meaning the max was missed.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=105291

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