Frustration

[Paul Howe]

I've had some frustrating times trying to break the hypertouch letters attack record recently:

"BACKDATE might be two words, better play it safe and go for TEAHEADS". Record was 190 at this point so would've been a new one.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=221698

"KLAVIERS is a much cooler word than BAULKIER"

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=222547

"DISTURBABLE: its blatantly a word"

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=222761

Never have I been so close to an act of apto-inspired violence.

On the plus side, hypertouch is a really fun little game, its a pleasure to actually use your brain again when playing countdown.

[Michael Wallace]

Oops.

[Michael Wallace]

What a time for a conundrum you've never heard of

[Stuart Arnot]

Bummer, indeed

[Michael Wallace]

Bloody foreigners.

[David O'Donnell]

OSMUNDA + S?

[Ryan Taylor]

OSMUNDA + S?

*Snort*

[James Robinson]

How close can you be to perfection

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=259329

[Liam Tiernan]

How close can you be to perfection

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=259329

Maybe if you had taken the extra time? Sorry, James, you can't ignore a feed line like that. Seriously though, some lovely spots there, very hard luck.

[Miriam Nussbaum]

If I knew how to say "So close!" in Hebrew, I would…

[Marc Meakin]

If I knew how to say "So close!" in Hebrew, I would…

This may help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRusZMP5kZs

[Eoin Monaghan]

If I knew how to say "So close!" in Hebrew, I would…

This may help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRusZMP5kZs

lol

[craig]

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 5099846142

Been trying for ages for a 200 all 6 small and I finally get a game where It's possible and screw it up. So upsetting.

[Gavin Chipper]

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 5099846142

Been trying for ages for a 200 all 6 small and I finally get a game where It's possible and screw it up. So upsetting.

It's still a pretty impressive game, although to be honest I'm not sure it's something I'd perservere at given that it's largely out of your hands (most games would have a sub 200 max).

[Miriam Nussbaum]

I've been trying to beat my Hyper Unlimited Letters Attack score of 208 for a while now…now that I've gotten better at spotting 11's and learned some things that can and can't be -NESSES, I can get pretty close to the average of ~10.5 per round that I would need to beat it. Then, this: after the first 10 rounds, I was on for a score of about 218. I started getting pretty excited. I continued to get approximately 10 points per round, so that after round 18, all I needed was 16 points from the last 2 rounds for 208. So basically, I thought, one more SENSELESSNESSES and I'm home free. But no! Although I probably should have gotten BETIDED, it wouldn't have helped much, because in the last round all I could see was GUNMAN anyway…for a max.

[Gavin Chipper]

It's quite annoying how there have been four separate games on touch numbers attack where I've got 19 out of 20 spot on and the other one has been impossible. Of course there have been many where 200 has been possible but I've just been too rubbish to get it.

And yeah, I could have settled for the 197 and a max score in some of those but it's not what I'm after!

[Ben Wilson]

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=354871

Falseagrams are only useful when you actually remember that they ARE falseagrams...

[Liam Tiernan]

Losing this game really pissed me off, especially considering velvets PB going into the game was 138.

[Kai Laddiman]

So you have this choice between two 8-letter words, which if you get right, you'll probably get your first ever max game.

[Joseph Krol]

In my recent pencil mining activities I ended up playing a Finnish Aegilops Letters Attack. I ended up declaring no valid words and must now play many finnish aegilops conundrums to finish the game (aka will have it on my apterous until the end of time). Probably not the place to vent my annoyance but I had to put it somewhere.

[Stuart Arnot]

I'm a bottling bastard.

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[Gavin Chipper]

I'm a bottling bastard.

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Harsh.

[JimBentley]

I'm a bottling bastard.

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On the plus side, your beard is looking awesome. Makes Richard Brittain's beard look like crap.

[Liam Tiernan]

Chickened a max
Edit:And again, the very next game

[Stuart Arnot]

On the plus side, your beard is looking awesome. Makes Richard Brittain's beard look like crap.

Not even a contemporary photo. I have two weeks' growth - the very definition of a crap beard.

[Adam Gillard]

Finally on for a 200 in Normal Numbers Attack and this happens

[Liam Tiernan]

19/20 number 14

[Kai Laddiman]

2 and a half years after joining apterous and I get my first max game, and it won't show up as such because it was a Duel.

[Steve Balog]

Figured I'd brush up a bit on my best number selection seeing how the Top Dog is currently that

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=444618

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK DIE IN A FIRE R18

[Gavin Chipper]

Figured I'd brush up a bit on my best number selection seeing how the Top Dog is currently that

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=444618

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK DIE IN A FIRE R18

Unlucky. Once I maxed a 2-large game and Apterous just wiped it from existence. Still I don't think either compare to round 14 in this game.

[Steve Balog]

Figured I'd brush up a bit on my best number selection seeing how the Top Dog is currently that

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=444618

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK DIE IN A FIRE R18

Unlucky. Once I maxed a 2-large game and Apterous just wiped it from existence. Still I don't think either compare to round 14 in this game.

Ah yes, one of the classic pressure solves. I did get it playing along but I mean it's so much harder when you're on the show and you HAVE to get it to stay in the game.

Worst part about the game I linked is that the last two were slam dunks. Ah well, I'll give the max game another attempt today.

[Philip Jarvis]

I've equalled my highest score of 127 a couple of times, but haven't come close for ages. Then this happens 2 days running:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=454443

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=455019

On for 135 and 136 resepctively, but bottled it on the conundrum both times.

[Steve Balog]

Just posted my 3rd 19/20 max 2 big numbers game.

The first two, at least I could say the round I missed was, to an extent, a fairly difficult round.

There is NO EXCUSE for me to miss round 8 in my most recent one-miss fail. Seriously. 100 + (7*10) + 2 is a completely inexcusable miss. There's even (100 - (10+(7-3))) * 2 there and I was trying for a 86*2 solve for a lot of that time in the round.

I will fly one day

[Steve Balog]

I'm not sure what would've been worse here -- getting the last round and blowing a first max nums attack on THAT round, or not making the typo (100 PLUS (50/2), NOT MINUS YOU DOLT) and losing it on round 20.

Though that last round's solution may have given me an epiphany on my weakest 2 large rounds -- 50 25 x x x x -> 850+. Subtracting a small from 25, then x 50 to get close, or on certain targets a small from 50 then x 25, can get those. Usually I'm bewlidered by them, especially if the smalls aren't very cooperative for (75+/-X)*(Y).

I get this weird feeling I'll have at least 5 more posts here before I finally get one

[Thomas Carey]

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 6019225056

See the comment. Itwould be so amazinghaving a max game and pencilling 1/3 of the letters rounds (could have done half - HOKKU hasn't been pencilled) and yet I failbecause I forgot to take the S off a word.

[Thomas Carey]

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 6019225056

See the comment. Itwould be so amazinghaving a max game and pencilling 1/3 of the letters rounds (could have done half - HOKKU hasn't been pencilled) and yet I failbecause I forgot to take the S off a word.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=526948

[Steve Balog]

First ever numbers attack I played I got a 190, missing round 18,

200 attempts later

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=651087

that's not even a remotely hard round

[Steve Balog]

the final result is 180 attempts

max game brought to you by Vyvanse, which, while it functionally serves the same purpose as alcohol in that it makes me want to play numbers attacks, differs from alcohol in that in does not cause me to play badly or misenter a solve once a game.