Fun with the custom challenges

[Ben Wilson]

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=438

'Nuff said.

[Martin Gardner]

I did the same thing!.

Note that over 100 rounds, you beat my score by 6 points.

[Charlie Reams]

And Ben was playing 10 second rounds...

[Ben Wilson]

But to be fair I was playing prune... as I was in this game- http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3841

[Martin Gardner]

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.

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

Or you could have 99 or 101 rounds.

[Jon O'Neill]

I did this with 101 rounds. lol!

[Martin Gardner]

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.

[Martin Gardner]

this game is the new record. Note the SHITTYOIL conundrum near the end of the game.

[JimBentley]

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?

[Charlie Reams]

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?

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.

[Kirk Bevins]

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.

[Joseph Bolas]

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.

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.

[Jon O'Neill]

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.

[Charlie Reams]

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.

Most selections are rather harder to remember, too. But sure, if you want to cheat then it's not hard.

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

[Joseph Bolas]

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.

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.

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.

[Kai Laddiman]

The most French words in the world.

[Charlie Reams]

The most French words in the world.

Oh yes. I've been meaning to fix this for a while.

[Kai Laddiman]

The most French words in the world.

Oh yes. I've been meaning to fix this for a while.

Does the title mean anything? I don't actually do French at school, I do German.

[Phil Reynolds]

Does the title mean anything?

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]

Does the title mean anything?

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).

Thanks.