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New record! Goatdown 9. Should have had a max game but got NORTHER just out of time.

Kirk Bevins wrote:My first ever max speedgoat

Awesome.

Kirk Bevins wrote:New record! Goatdown 9. Should have had a max game but got NORTHER just out of time.

Nice work. How long before a maxmetamaxmax I wonder?

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=129215

More of a joint brag this, Frank Turkey and I managed a double-perfect Junior Numbers Attack. Posted here mostly so that Frank's first 200 game doesn't go completely unnoticed, as it'll presumably now be hidden away in the "Junior Numbers Attack + TB" page.

This game is probably my best performance on apterous to date, and the conundrum was probably one of my proudest moments playing the game.

JackHurst wrote:This game is probably my best performance on apterous to date, and the conundrum was probably one of my proudest moments playing the game.

Whichever of Sid and I allowed that through as a valid conundrum must've been cackling wildly as we did so... Great spot.

Charlie Reams wrote:

JackHurst wrote:This game is probably my best performance on apterous to date, and the conundrum was probably one of my proudest moments playing the game.

Whichever of Sid and I allowed that through as a valid conundrum must've been cackling wildly as we did so... Great spot.

Indeed, very nice. You'll have to take the cackling credit though as I wasn't involved in selecting the hypernundrums (I did half of the juniors).

Simon Myers wrote:(I did half of the juniors)

Not Bad for someone with a Goatdown rating of 1048.


Just out of interest, is this the sort of thing that sets the cheatomatic off?

My first max 15 rounder in three months

JackHurst wrote:Just out of interest, is this the sort of thing that sets the cheatomatic off?

You'll find out next time you log in

Charlie Reams wrote: You'll find out next time you log in

OH NOES! You banned me!

Not super-impressive as they're quite common nowadays but here's a perfect 9 rounder without a single 8 or 9. Plus the final scoreline LOL 69

I don't mean to err brag or anything but I was quite pleased with this bullet numbers attack against Apterous Prime. I looked at the record table afterwards and apparently my score of 180 has only been beaten once - by Richard Brittain who got 200. But he played Prune and had all one larges, whereas my game against Prime meant that half of the games were three large. Maybe some of the rounds were a little bit easy though.

It's an extremely rarely-played format, but I've just set a new apterous record in Hypergoat 9. Whilst the record should be reasonably straightforward to beat for anyone so inclined, the game is more notable for a 12-letter word in round 2, which I guess adds me to a relatively small group of folks to have spotted a 12 in one of the Hyper formats.

In frustration, I'm annoyed to have missed out on 3 extra points in the conundrum, as I had spotted the solution before the final letter was revealed and was checking I was correct, when the final letter appeared seemingly slightly before the sweep on the clock reached the 30-second line.

Still, I'm enjoying my one and only apterous record while it lasts... probably not too long, I'd guess!

Matt Bayfield wrote:It's an extremely rarely-played format, but I've just set a new apterous record in Hypergoat 9. Whilst the record should be reasonably straightforward to beat for anyone so inclined, the game is more notable for a 12-letter word in round 2, which I guess adds me to a relatively small group of folks to have spotted a 12 in one of the Hyper formats.

In frustration, I'm annoyed to have missed out on 3 extra points in the conundrum, as I had spotted the solution before the final letter was revealed and was checking I was correct, when the final letter appeared seemingly slightly before the sweep on the clock reached the 30-second line.

Still, I'm enjoying my one and only apterous record while it lasts... probably not too long, I'd guess!

Nice one. I should think that'll start for a while because getting 12s is still pretty hard work.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=133523

New personal best

Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=133523

New personal best

Nice one Eoin

First-ever 14-max game.

Well, first ever 14-max on apterous, at any rate.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2613776875

For only his second game this is super impressive

Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2613776875

For only his second game this is super impressive

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? ...

Alec Rivers wrote:

Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2613776875

For only his second game this is super impressive

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? ...

You mean, why is Eoin bragging about a game in which he wasn't involved? Yes, I thought that was odd.

Was fairly straightforward (apart from the conundrum, which came to me in the nick of time), but here is the first max Omelette game.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=134933

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Alec Rivers wrote:

Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2613776875

For only his second game this is super impressive

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? ...

You mean, why is Eoin bragging about a game in which he wasn't involved? Yes, I thought that was odd.

It's only cos he's not a forumite.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0888437420

My biggest ever scalp.

Niall Seymour wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0888437420

My biggest ever scalp.

I am losing more than often lately, nice one btw but I am raging about that conundrum miss!

Bob De Caux wrote:Was fairly straightforward (apart from the conundrum, which came to me in the nick of time), but here is the first max Omelette game.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=134933

Sweet.

Nothing too mid-blowingly tough, but here's my first 14-max Goatdown. I like how the bodge in round 8 makes it nice and symmetrical.

Quite happy with this since the two rounds I missed were ones I'd miss regardless of the time control.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=136743

Bullet 15 max is just around the corner for someone.

YES

It only cost me around 840 rating points, but I finally got that.... one sun credit. Let this be a warning.

Innis Carson wrote:YES

Unlucky with the mis-clicks in rounds 2 and 8.

Innis Carson wrote:YES

It only cost me around 840 rating points, but I finally got that.... one sun credit. Let this be a warning.

I think this means that "The Riddler's Path" will remain forever locked in my star chart.

But congratulations, nonetheless.

Alec Rivers wrote: Unlucky with the mis-clicks in rounds 2 and 8.

It's not really unlucky. The guardian is rexesque on the 30th star so you need to buzz around 0.7 seconds to make sure you're first. Innis kinda pressed and hoped before actually solving it and in rounds 2 and 8 it didn't pay off. Truly remarkable determination, Innis, well done. You deserve some kinda of pathway trophy.

One of my sweetest max games against the one and only Chris Davies. A little bit of niceness from Chris leaving the conundrum for me though.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 6894763836

Star 30 on Anaesthetist's Avenue. Although, in fairness, it not nearly as tough as some of the other Star 30s seem to be.

New records on Lightning goat 9 and Speedgoat 9 with numbers frustration on both- on the first one time ran out as I was entering my declaration for round 8, and on the second one I must've hit the wrong key on entry as my declaration of (7-5/5)*25+8/2 goes awry and accidentally clicking 5-5 instead of 5/5 costs me a max game and a stratospheric score. Oh well, I'll settle for the record.

Ben Wilson wrote:New records on Lightning goat 9 and Speedgoat 9 with numbers frustration on both- on the first one time ran out as I was entering my declaration for round 8, and on the second one I must've hit the wrong key on entry as my declaration of (7-5/5)*25+8/2 goes awry and accidentally clicking 5-5 instead of 5/5 costs me a max game and a stratospheric score. Oh well, I'll settle for the record.

Unlucky on the 154, but good stuff

A new record in the extremely rarely-played format of "Hyper Unlimited Flat 9". Note that because conundrums are worth 5 points in this Flat scoring format, my performance would be equivalent to a score of 94 (the equal 2nd best score ever) in the more frequently played scoring system of "Hyper Unlimited 9". (In fact, I might have done even better, as you get 45 seconds for Hyper Unlimited in the normal scoring system, compared to 30 seconds in Flat 9.)

It's also a format best of 7 maxes out of 9, although this only shows as 6 due to my 16-letter-word INDISTINCTNESSES being truncated to its first 15 letters in my declaration. (A problem with all words over 15 letters in length, as previously mentioned in the Bugs thread.)

Matt Bayfield wrote:A problem with all words over 15 letters in length, as previously mentioned in the Bugs thread.)

I've been trying to fix this, it's surprisingly tricky because it requires a complete rebuild of the word table, which is ~4 million rows. I could take the server down for an hour to do it but people seem surprisingly resistant to this!

I can understand people's resistance!

Although I do seem to be pretty much the only person who plays Unlimited and Hyper Unlimited enough to get occasional 16+ letter words, I'd still like to see this fixed. Perhaps it's possible one time when the apterous server is down for other reasons anyway?

No worries if it's not practical... although I'll get back to you in the highly unlikely event it ever costs me a max game in future! (Think I'm some way off a perfect Hyper Unlimited 9, although I did once manage to get the first 7 rounds perfect, only to stuff up the second numbers game and the conundrum.)

This game is Brag and Frustration. I was really chuffed with how I played, especially against a former great of the show. I think if I did actually get the seconds numbers, I would have been too nervous to spot some of the words that I did get after it. Tom was unlucky with PASSINGS.

Matt Bayfield wrote:A new record in the extremely rarely-played format of "Hyper Unlimited Flat 9". Note that because conundrums are worth 5 points in this Flat scoring format, my performance would be equivalent to a score of 94 (the equal 2nd best score ever) in the more frequently played scoring system of "Hyper Unlimited 9". (In fact, I might have done even better, as you get 45 seconds for Hyper Unlimited in the normal scoring system, compared to 30 seconds in Flat 9.)

It's also a format best of 7 maxes out of 9, although this only shows as 6 due to my 16-letter-word INDISTINCTNESSES being truncated to its first 15 letters in my declaration. (A problem with all words over 15 letters in length, as previously mentioned in the Bugs thread.)

Boo and hiss to you - that was my only record

The first Flat 15 max game, a new PB, my second max 15-rounder ever... and still nowhere near Stephen's coveted record.

Finally, after 1516 attempts, my first max gamehttp://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=147321 (with a little help towards the end)( Cheers Eoin)
DAINTIES was probably my best spot.
Couple of hairy moments towards the end (was considering germaner rd 11 and scalions rd 12)
Coming straight on the heels of my best nine spot in this game: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=147299

(N.B. no performance-enhancing drugs were used,nor did I at any time handle the ball)

GERMANE was a great spot, well played.

My first Junior 15 max game, and the first by anyone in Flat Scoring (not that that really makes any difference). Woo!

First ever letters attack max game



Edit: It isn't listed as "letters attack" but "custom". Please say this will be listed as a max letters attack game, otherwise I'll cry.

Kirk Bevins wrote:First ever letters attack max game



Edit: It isn't listed as "letters attack" but "custom". Please say this will be listed as a max letters attack game, otherwise I'll cry.

Well done, I'll give you a prize if I get the chance.

Kirk Bevins wrote:First ever letters attack max game



Edit: It isn't listed as "letters attack" but "custom". Please say this will be listed as a max letters attack game, otherwise I'll cry.

It won't count as a max letters attack, because the picking order is wrong (the Guardian picked every round). I can add it as a custom format if you like.

Charlie Reams wrote: It won't count as a max letters attack, because the picking order is wrong (the Guardian picked every round). I can add it as a custom format if you like.

Ah bollocks. How frustrating. I'll just have to max a normal attack then won't I.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote: It won't count as a max letters attack, because the picking order is wrong (the Guardian picked every round). I can add it as a custom format if you like.

Ah bollocks. How frustrating. I'll just have to max a normal attack then won't I.

Which is surely not beyond a man of your calibre, Your Kirkness.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote: It won't count as a max letters attack, because the picking order is wrong (the Guardian picked every round). I can add it as a custom format if you like.

Ah bollocks. How frustrating. I'll just have to max a normal attack then won't I.

Please do. A max letters attack is most of the way to the inevitable back-to-back max games...

I think this is my best comeback (although Scott kinda gifted me at the end) http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=149462

I brag to have been in the same game as Innis Carson to witness this excellent performance!

JackHurst wrote:I brag to have been in the same game as Innis Carson to witness this excellent performance!

I particularly like the conundrum scramble.

Probably my best performance to date: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151979. I had the conundrum but couldn't find the key in time. Against an easier opponent with a full 30s it might've been a max game.

Simon Myers wrote:Probably my best performance to date: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151979. I had the conundrum but couldn't find the key in time. Against an easier opponent with a full 30s it might've been a max game.

I think this is probably your best performance to date - including records of highest losing score and also highest joint score by some way.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Simon Myers wrote:Probably my best performance to date: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151979. I had the conundrum but couldn't find the key in time. Against an easier opponent with a full 30s it might've been a max game.

I think this is probably your best performance to date - including records of highest losing score and also highest joint score by some way.

Well, that happened after I posted the first game

I enjoyed that letters attack though, including the bagging of 3 pencils I think - MONISTIC, INHALATOR and (oddly) SKIMPS. My first ambulance too

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=152618 17-max Letters Attack, a pb in terms of maxes and 2 points off my pb. My secret? Listening to Iron Maiden whilst playing.