Will Scramble 4 Food
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Will Scramble 4 Food
To all members of the FOCAL Team,
Just wanted to let you know that if you're ever in need of developing large volumes of witty conundrum scrambles for CO-events (even the night before they happen), you can always contact me and I'll throw together a couple hundred that I had planned to use as chat teasers. If you need conundrum words as well as scrambles, you can give me a rough idea of the difficulty you want for them and I'll make a good list; if you already have a list of conundrums, I can also check over your lists to verify that there are none with multiple solutions. Finally, if you want themed conundrum scrambles and/or answers (e.g., all scrambles for a future .co.mk event beginning with "MK"), you can inform me of this in advance and I'll incorporate the theme.
Aptomail is the best route for getting in contact with me.
I've noticed that some of the scrambles at recent events look suspiciously random/Apterous-like; do people still care about making their own scrambles?
Cheers,
JC
Just wanted to let you know that if you're ever in need of developing large volumes of witty conundrum scrambles for CO-events (even the night before they happen), you can always contact me and I'll throw together a couple hundred that I had planned to use as chat teasers. If you need conundrum words as well as scrambles, you can give me a rough idea of the difficulty you want for them and I'll make a good list; if you already have a list of conundrums, I can also check over your lists to verify that there are none with multiple solutions. Finally, if you want themed conundrum scrambles and/or answers (e.g., all scrambles for a future .co.mk event beginning with "MK"), you can inform me of this in advance and I'll incorporate the theme.
Aptomail is the best route for getting in contact with me.
I've noticed that some of the scrambles at recent events look suspiciously random/Apterous-like; do people still care about making their own scrambles?
Cheers,
JC
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
We write our own ta, but thanks for the offer!
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
I could have sworn I saw one event where pretty much all of the scrambles were dictionary words with 1 or 2 letters changed (e.g., RESIDEXCE => EXERCISED; DNESCENDO => CONDENSED), which is how Apterous' shuffler generates them. But that might be co:incidence; they could have been written by someone. No problem.
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
I think that's the plan. He was hoping to get all the conundrums.Thomas Carey wrote:Next time you're over here, come to an event!
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
Sometimes!Johnny Canuck wrote:which is how Apterous' shuffler generates them
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
It's been revamped, then.Charlie Reams wrote:Sometimes!Johnny Canuck wrote:which is how Apterous' shuffler generates them
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
I might take you up on that offer for Co.Dublin!
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
Fantastic! You'll only need 7 conundrums for that in total, correct?Edward Byrne wrote:I might take you up on that offer for Co.Dublin!
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
After a bit of research, it appears this may have been the tourney I was talking about with the vaguely Apter-ish scrambles. That was a while ago though.
P.S.: Props to whoever created the scrambles for .co.mk containing the names of various players. That was cute.
P.S.: Props to whoever created the scrambles for .co.mk containing the names of various players. That was cute.
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
Deliberately- that's always (or at least for the past few years) how I've done conundrums for COLIN/CoNot.Johnny Canuck wrote:After a bit of research, it appears this may have been the tourney I was talking about with the vaguely Apter-ish scrambles. That was a while ago though.
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Re: Will Scramble 4 Food
Come to think of it, this is a good idea on some level because it helps avoid the appearance of well-known falseagrams. For a lot of conundrum answers like REMBETIKA, if KIAMETERB (DIAMETERS + 2 letter changes) is used it's going to be deservedly challenging, but if BREAKTIME is used it may be artificially easy for people who already know that BREAKTIME has an anagram. Definitely not trying to knock your tourney-organisation skills in any way.Ben Wilson wrote:Deliberately- that's always (or at least for the past few years) how I've done conundrums for COLIN/CoNot.Johnny Canuck wrote:After a bit of research, it appears this may have been the tourney I was talking about with the vaguely Apter-ish scrambles. That was a while ago though.
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