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Charlie Reams wrote:195, which is higher than 194.
Are you *sure*...?
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Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:195, which is higher than 194.
Are you *sure*...?
100%.
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:195, which is higher than 194.
Are you *sure*...?
100%.
Really? I make it 0.052%.
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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=56736

Probably my most schizophrenic game ever. Fantastic nines (including a fantastic pick by yours truly in round 2), surprising omissions from the ODE in rounds 4 and 12, and my keyboard going completely to pot in round 9 followed by frustration taking over in round 10 (especially seeing as 0.1 seconds afterwards, I solved the damn thing).
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58226

Kai and me pioneering Supersonic Hypergoat Max: 3 second hypergoatdown LLLLCLLLLC.
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Presenting my long lost twin, Peter Sheehy...

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=60250

Either that or he was looking over my shoulder the whole time. :o
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Not a single letters max over 7 here.
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Stuart Arnot wrote:Not a single letters max over 7 here.
Wow, a 12-max game scoring just 93. Ouch.
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yeah, i misclicked the easy second numbers. That's kind of a relief now, because ARMOIRE is one I never see. If i'd messed up a max game on the last letters, that would have hurt more.
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Not so much strange games, but strange rounds (round 10 in particular)

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61847
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Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 7#r1018737

Check out rounds 1 and 6.
:lol:
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16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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What's so strange?
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Eoin Monaghan wrote:
What's so strange?
The words, the 7s, the scoreline...
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Kai Laddiman wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote:
What's so strange?
The words, the 7s, the scoreline...
I would've posted it in Brag, but doesn't matter.
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I would have put it in brag
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=73145

Huge lead, cut back, big lead again, pwned on relatively sedate numbers. Odd and enthralling!
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Daniel O'Dowd wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=73145

Huge lead, cut back, big lead again, pwned on relatively sedate numbers. Odd and enthralling!
Hardly my finest hour really was it :p
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=77268

Strange because Josh played extremely well - well above what would be expected by someone with his rating. Getting both nines was superb play from someone rated just above 1000.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=77268

Strange because Josh played extremely well - well above what would be expected by someone with his rating. Getting both nines was superb play from someone rated just above 1000.
Yeah, never would have got CENTESIMO
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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=77653

Rounds 1 & 2- hmm...

Round 3- Yay CoLei :D
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87335

Particularly rounds 5 and 6. I typed C for CONQUEROR in round 5 and realised it was RECONQUER so pressed space bar to hide my suggestion. I told Innis about my retardedness and then in the very next round out popped CONQUEROR. Amazing.

A few other conundrums I missed due to fat fingers and carelessness too.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87335

Particularly rounds 5 and 6. I typed C for CONQUEROR in round 5 and realised it was RECONQUER so pressed space bar to hide my suggestion. I told Innis about my retardedness and then in the very next round out popped CONQUEROR. Amazing.

A few other conundrums I missed due to fat fingers and carelessness too.
That's insane. It would've been ten times funnier if you'd started typing RECONQUER the second time. OH WELL!
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87341

One of the quickest ever conundrum spots in round 1. Well, actually, not true: Innis' incorrect suggestion after 0.8 seconds was shown before I could type my answer in so I have no idea how it counted it as 0.2 seconds as it was more like 1.2 seconds.
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Stuart Arnot wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 7#r1018737

Check out rounds 1 and 6.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=98062

Check out 8 and 12
Ouch, two bad pluralisations in a row.
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If it wasn't for fucking DIABOLO I was going to say how funny it was that the only two maximums I miss are when I get MORON and IDIOT.

Anyone know an IDIOT ALBINO MORON?

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=98387
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=56184

4 TBs required to decide this very close game.
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I found this game interesting because about 75% of the conundrums were very difficult which doesn't normally happen.

Or am I exaggerating?
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JackHurst wrote:I found this game interesting because about 75% of the conundrums were very difficult which doesn't normally happen.

Or am I exaggerating?
Ouch, yes. It is pretty much uniformly random right now so I think you were just unlucky.
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Not really a strange game, just a strange round:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 9#r1743399

The word was spelt out....and missed.
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=134666

An exceptionally hard Bullet Conundrum Attack - and agonisingly the only one I missed was relatively easy.
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Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=134666

An exceptionally hard Bullet Conundrum Attack - and agonisingly the only one I missed was relatively easy.
Nice lag you have there, with a few of the conundrums being around the 5 second mark.
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Heh, at the time that didn't even occur to me because I was a bit annoyed at missing three nines, but now I see what you mean... :shock:
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Good bit of from-memory solving... (Come back, Neil Zussman, all is forgiven!)
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142777

Dinos managed to hack into my computer and copy all my answers. I tried the throw him off the scent in the last letters round but this only freed him up for a nine!
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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142925

This is the most incredible game I ever played, because I won the game by 50 points but the game recorded it as a 30 point defeat.
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Richard Brittain wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142925

This is the most incredible game I ever played, because I won the game by 50 points but the game recorded it as a 30 point defeat.
This is the strangest sentence I have ever read, because you wrote it.
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Working my way up the riddler's route has seemingly turned into a greatest hits parade.
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From a 3 to a 9. Could this be the biggest margin in points scoring in consecutive rounds? Particularly interesting since Dale had a 2!
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A new record the the lowest max in a 15 rounder, 99 points.
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Henry Meier wrote:I've had worse
Ouch! :lol:
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Henry Meier wrote:I've had worse
Ha! On the show though, you'd probably get the audience chuckling away so it would give it away.
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Richard Brittain wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142925

This is the most incredible game I ever played, because I won the game by 50 points but the game recorded it as a 30 point defeat.
What dictionary are you using?
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Kirk Bevins wrote:If it wasn't for fucking DIABOLO I was going to say how funny it was that the only two maximums I miss are when I get MORON and IDIOT.

Anyone know an IDIOT ALBINO MORON?

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=98387
Saw not one but two of them.
On the X-Factor last week.
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Liam Tiernan wrote: Saw not one but two of them.
On the X-Factor last week.
Man, how long ago did I post that...and you've managed to find it to tell us you've spotted some? Impressive.
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Chris Davies wrote:A new record the the lowest max in a 15 rounder, 99 points.
Another low max of 102 Notably low winning score as well due to many disallowed words!
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Saw not one but two of them.
On the X-Factor last week.[/quote]



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I managed to beat the max score in round 3 of this game.
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