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Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:23 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Martin_May wrote:
Anyways, apologies for my incessant ranting.
INCESSANT is an anagram of....?
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:08 pm
by Chris Davies
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:21 pm
by Martin_May
Kirk Bevins wrote:Martin_May wrote:
Anyways, apologies for my incessant ranting.
INCESSANT is an anagram of....?
Erm INSTANCES..... which I'm sure I would probably type as INSTANCED
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:22 pm
by Martin_May
It did hurt a bit as it is the closest I have come to beating you for quite some time.....
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:31 am
by Michael Wallace
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:23 am
by Andrew Feist
It started as a standard 15-rounder. It became
so much more.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:47 pm
by Ben Wilson
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:58 pm
by Darren Carter
Yes, complete and utter scrag.....
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 6:09 pm
by Charlie Reams
Obviously this isn't really scrag but, for lack of a better topic...
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 1:30 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=57700
This was just so bad, I'm not even gonna say what went wrong.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:30 pm
by Ian Volante
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 8:16 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58812
MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:15 pm
by Kirk Bevins
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=60140
Not really scrag as Jojo played really well but this is a lovely game which could be GOTW but I missed an easy nine and therefore deserves to go in scrag.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 6:40 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Well done Innis and Aaron:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61070
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61061
And Conor:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61058
I'm just not thinking straight lately,I am getting too bogged down on my ratings I think, hopefully next week I'll be better, I hope!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:23 am
by Darren Carter
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61236
Couldn't do numbers and was making up words......that means its time for bed.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 7:45 pm
by Daniel O'Dowd
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61620
TAILBONE and PESHWARI seemed great spots, and I had the backup SHARPIE in the latter, but this all went horribly, horribly wrong...21 up turned into a loss.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:38 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Some lovely words but until round 11 this was scrag city. Got a bit better after that but I still lost. Well done Chris.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61729
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:48 pm
by JackHurst
I said to myself that id have a quick go on apterous, and get an easy century against apterous nude
it took me 13 attempts
http://www.apterous.org/headtohead.php?p2=99&p1=2399
amongst some of the games are good words, but in general my performances were dispicable. Not massive scrag, but so incredibly frustrating
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:17 pm
by Chris Davies
I'm on the show tomorrow, and I've just played like
this
What the fuck happened to me?
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:41 pm
by Charlie Reams
Chris Davies wrote:I'm on the show tomorrow, and I've just played like
this
What the fuck happened to me?
Just a bit of last-minute nerves. Once you get in the studio and hear the clock, it'll all come back to you.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:57 pm
by Chris Davies
Charlie Reams wrote:Chris Davies wrote:I'm on the show tomorrow, and I've just played like
this
What the fuck happened to me?
Just a bit of last-minute nerves. Once you get in the studio and hear the clock, it'll all come back to you.
Thanks.
I really hope so!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:20 am
by Matt Bayfield
The only positive to come from Chris' game there was that despite having what can only be described as an absolute nightmare, it showed he was a perfect gent in defeat. And I suppose it's also encouragement to us mere mortals that even the very best players go blank sometimes.
Anyhow, very best of luck to Chris at the recordings - hope he goes on to do great things and in years to come, I'll claim that I once beat a Countdown superstar!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:08 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Oh wouldn't it be swell if I could
spell
Think I made up for it though with my pick in round 9
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:11 pm
by Paul Howe
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Oh wouldn't it be swell if I could
spell
Think I made up for it though with my pick in round 9
That is frickin awesome
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:16 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Cheers
I'd like to thank Jason Cullen as I picked it up from one of his conundrum alphabets once. Its definitely been worth the wait to be able to play the word in a game!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:20 pm
by Oliver Garner
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 8:33 pm
by Jimmy Gough
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:37 pm
by Oliver Garner
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:57 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:41 pm
by Charlie Reams
Not really scrag of course, but
fucking frustrating to blow a double-max game like this...
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 12:13 am
by Chris Davies
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=68047
Absolute complete and utter shit. I know I was tired, but this is just despicable. I knew exactly how to do the last numbers (91x9) and STILL managed to get it totally wrong.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 10:52 am
by Eoin Monaghan
Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=68047
Absolute complete and utter shit. I know I was tired, but this is just despicable. I knew exactly how to do the last numbers (91x9) and STILL managed to get it totally wrong.
Bob's pretty good!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 6:52 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=68403
Rachel Riley eat your heart out. I accidentally pressed 1 instead.
(Tip: Don't try to be smart!)
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 4:36 pm
by D Eadie
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=68883
Been chasing Ben Wilsons record for a day or two now.
Kicked ass all the way through this one, then MISTYPED the bloody conundrum.
Elusive yet not impossible. I'll try again.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:09 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=68047
Absolute complete and utter shit. I know I was tired, but this is just despicable. I knew exactly how to do the last numbers (91x9) and STILL managed to get it totally wrong.
Ah, the target of 937 with a 1 in the selection in round 10 is going to cause a lot of smiles for 4 large fans ---- 937.5 rule coming into obvious play right there.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:57 pm
by Chris Davies
I'd already declared 938 (don't know how the hell I decided upon that) and realised immediately that I could have got it exactly by subtracting the 1 before dividing by 100/50, but was just a tad too late to change my declaration. Only thought of taking that route in the last few seconds of the round.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:51 pm
by JackHurst
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=75693
Literally no maxes in letters. i ripped my eyes out afterwards. Now i play via braille.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:04 pm
by Jimmy Gough
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:59 pm
by Jon Corby
No points at all on the letters in a
Junior game
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:37 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Jon Corby wrote:No points at all on the letters in a
Junior game
That is awesome Corby. I clicked refresh and the picture of face-palm kept changing. Was that deliberate?
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:44 pm
by Matt Morrison
Kirk Bevins wrote:That is awesome Corby. I clicked refresh and the picture of face-palm kept changing. Was that deliberate?
Yup, if you look at the image URL it's not actually an image at all, it's a PHP script. Whenever you request a script, it dynamically generates and then returns the content (like the dynamically-generated pages that make up the Apterous site), which in this case is an image.
Very cool, but I guess also frustrating - the first time I saw it yesterday it was an utterly awesome facepalming, and every refresh since has been a bit hit and miss.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:12 am
by Jon Corby
Kirk Bevins wrote:That is awesome Corby. I clicked refresh and the picture of face-palm kept changing. Was that deliberate?
Yeah. I have already used it somewhere else on this forum actually, but I forget where.
It's a neat device to deflect attention away from shit games in this thread, by the looks of it.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:11 pm
by Ben Wilson
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:16 pm
by Charlie Reams
Hahaha. I'm sure at least some of those would've got past Des "Hearing Aid" O'Connor.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:01 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:03 am
by David O'Donnell
Missed four nines and struggled even to get GRADIENTS FFS!
Andrew also had a bit of a mare!
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=88755
I think this is also the highest ever max available, wasted on a patzer like me!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:18 pm
by Kirk Bevins
My lowest score for some time:
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87479
I couldn't keep my eyes off MINCEPIES in round 2!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:33 pm
by Kai Laddiman
David O'Donnell wrote:Missed four nines and struggled even to get GRADIENTS FFS!
Andrew also had a bit of a mare!
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=88755
I think this is also the highest ever max available, wasted on a patzer like me!
4 nines in a row!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:40 pm
by Charlie Reams
Kai Laddiman wrote:
4 nines in a row!
Imagine the item you could've got for that!
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:47 pm
by Marc Meakin
Charlie Reams wrote:Kai Laddiman wrote:
4 nines in a row!
Imagine the item you could've got for that!
So thats how you get an Ace of Diamonds
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:38 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:57 pm
by Chris Davies
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:12 pm
by Ian Dent
It's all relative Chris.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:32 am
by JimBentley
I think if I played like
this all the time, I'd just give up. It was nightmarish. Absolutely fucking awful. Sorry Kai.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:57 pm
by Kai Laddiman
JimBentley wrote:I think if I played like
this all the time, I'd just give up. It was nightmarish. Absolutely fucking awful. Sorry Kai.
I still can't decide whether Rd 11 was worse for me or you, but it was pretty damn awful.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:16 pm
by Ben Wilson
How to suck donkey balls at Hyper.
Naturally I followed that up with a pb 11-max (12 spotted) speed 15. Go figure.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:52 pm
by JimBentley
Pff, you should have seen my Duel yesterday. I'm shit at Hyper, but I plumbed
new, unexplored depths of shit with that one, including forgetting to declare 6400 in round 8 despite having it after about two microseconds.
I think it's good that I still get a bit annoyed about stuff like this.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:22 pm
by JackHurst
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 6#r1541586
I was quite happy with my performance up until round 15. You may punch me in the head for stupidity.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:21 pm
by David O'Donnell
LOL, easily done. I believe I have missed COUNTDOWN on occasion.
Re: Official thread of scrag
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:43 am
by Jason Larsen
Ladies and gentlemen, I did something that I'm sure no other contestant has ever done before in the history of Countdown.
I declared a 1-letter word. Unfortunately, the word was I and I got no points.