Official thread of scrag

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:23 pm

Martin_May wrote: Anyways, apologies for my incessant ranting.

INCESSANT is an anagram of....?

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:08 pm

Martin_May wrote:Grrrrrr this is as close a topic as I could find for this but.......

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=52905

Saw the conundrum straight away, but mistyped DISCUSSED as DISCUSSES

Why the hell are S and D next to each other on the keyboard?? This was clearly a major issue waiting to unfurl itself >:

Anyways, apologies for my incessant ranting. I'm at the limit of self-containment

It happens to the best of us. And also to me.

Martin_May · Post by **Martin_May** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:21 pm

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

Martin_May · Post by **Martin_May** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:22 pm

It did hurt a bit as it is the closest I have come to beating you for quite some time.....

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:31 am

You don't get much better chances than this...

Andrew Feist · Post by **Andrew Feist** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:23 am

It started as a standard 15-rounder. It became so much more.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sat May 02, 2009 3:47 pm

So, so close...

Darren Carter · Post by **Darren Carter** » Sat May 02, 2009 10:58 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:So, so close...

Yes, complete and utter scrag.....

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sun May 03, 2009 6:09 pm

Obviously this isn't really scrag but, for lack of a better topic...

Eoin Monaghan · Post by **Eoin Monaghan** » Sat May 09, 2009 1:30 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=57700
This was just so bad, I'm not even gonna say what went wrong.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Mon May 11, 2009 6:30 pm

What a bag of shite this was!

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58762

Eoin Monaghan · Post by **Eoin Monaghan** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:16 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58812

MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED, MOUNTED!

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:15 pm

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.

Eoin Monaghan · Post by **Eoin Monaghan** » Sat May 16, 2009 6:40 pm

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!

Darren Carter · Post by **Darren Carter** » Sun May 17, 2009 12:23 am

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61236

Couldn't do numbers and was making up words......that means its time for bed.

Daniel O'Dowd · Post by **Daniel O'Dowd** » Sun May 17, 2009 7:45 pm

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.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:38 pm

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

JackHurst · Post by **JackHurst** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:48 pm

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

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:17 pm

I'm on the show tomorrow, and I've just played like this

What the fuck happened to me?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:41 pm

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.

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:57 pm

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!

Matt Bayfield · Post by **Matt Bayfield** » Wed May 20, 2009 10:20 am

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!

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Thu May 21, 2009 12:08 pm

Oh wouldn't it be swell if I could spell

Think I made up for it though with my pick in round 9

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Thu May 21, 2009 12:11 pm

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

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Thu May 21, 2009 12:16 pm

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!

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:20 pm

Some people just don't learn
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 37#r938537
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 64#r938564

Jimmy Gough · Post by **Jimmy Gough** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:33 pm

Oliver Garner wrote:Some people just don't learn
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 37#r938537
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 64#r938564

Yeah I know right

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Sat May 23, 2009 4:37 pm

Need I say more
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=64230

Eoin Monaghan · Post by **Eoin Monaghan** » Sat May 23, 2009 4:57 pm

Oliver Garner wrote:Need I say more
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=64230

Yes, go on.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed May 27, 2009 11:41 pm

Not really scrag of course, but fucking frustrating to blow a double-max game like this...

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:13 am

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.

Eoin Monaghan · Post by **Eoin Monaghan** » Sat May 30, 2009 10:52 am

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!

Eoin Monaghan · Post by **Eoin Monaghan** » Sat May 30, 2009 6:52 pm

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!)

D Eadie · Post by **D Eadie** » Sun May 31, 2009 4:36 pm

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.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:09 pm

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.

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Sun May 31, 2009 10:57 pm

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.

JackHurst · Post by **JackHurst** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:51 pm

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=75693

Literally no maxes in letters. i ripped my eyes out afterwards. Now i play via braille.

Jimmy Gough · Post by **Jimmy Gough** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:04 pm

JackHurst wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=75693

Literally no maxes in letters. i ripped my eyes out afterwards. Now i play via braille.

Ha.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:59 pm

No points at all on the letters in a Junior game

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:37 pm

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?

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:44 pm

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.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:12 am

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.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:11 pm

Gah, gah, gah, gah.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:16 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:Gah, gah, gah, gah.

Hahaha. I'm sure at least some of those would've got past Des "Hearing Aid" O'Connor.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:01 pm

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81111

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:03 am

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!

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:18 pm

My lowest score for some time:

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87479

I couldn't keep my eyes off MINCEPIES in round 2!

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:33 pm

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!

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:40 pm

Kai Laddiman wrote: 4 nines in a row!

Imagine the item you could've got for that!

Marc Meakin · Post by **Marc Meakin** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:47 pm

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

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:38 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:My lowest score for some time:

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87479

I couldn't keep my eyes off MINCEPIES in round 2!

Nice to see that you're as gracious in defeat as in victory!

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:57 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=91023

This may haunt me forever. Just appalling.

Ian Dent · Post by **Ian Dent** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:12 pm

It's all relative Chris.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:32 am

I think if I played like this all the time, I'd just give up. It was nightmarish. Absolutely fucking awful. Sorry Kai.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:57 pm

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.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:16 pm

How to suck donkey balls at Hyper.

Naturally I followed that up with a pb 11-max (12 spotted) speed 15. Go figure.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:52 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:How to suck donkey balls at Hyper.

Naturally I followed that up with a pb 11-max (12 spotted) speed 15. Go figure.

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.

JackHurst · Post by **JackHurst** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:22 pm

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.

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:21 pm

JackHurst wrote: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.

LOL, easily done. I believe I have missed COUNTDOWN on occasion.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:43 am

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.