Strange Games

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:44 am

Innis Carson wrote:Was meaning the scramble, but I'll remember that as well.

Ah yeah! Awesome!

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:32 pm

Prune getting all 3 numbers games
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16453

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:51 pm

Oliver Garner wrote:Prune getting all 3 numbers games
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16453

Lol'd at JUNIORITY

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:52 pm

Innis Carson wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16343

Round 6 is clearly divine intervention.

Amazingly, you missed the same word twice.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:56 pm

This is a strange coincidence: compare this game and the next one. Same players, same score and the exact same cast! What are the chances?!

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:11 pm

I got the same conundrum in two consecutive games!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=17665 (A scrag game)

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=17666

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:13 pm

This conundrum scares me really badly.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:14 pm

Kai Laddiman wrote:This conundrum scares me really badly.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:58 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:This conundrum scares me really badly.

The scramble.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:59 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: The scramble.

Ah good spot. I thought you missed ARTICHOKE in one of your games and it's haunting you.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:55 pm

umm... hmm!

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:17 am

Ben Wilson wrote:umm... hmm!

Super-lolage!

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:35 pm

Two sweet nines and I missed them both

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:09 pm

Round one of this game must be unique.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:21 pm

I'm claiming the longest word spelt out in the letters (AMARETTO).

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:31 pm

Kai Laddiman wrote:I'm claiming the longest word spelt out in the letters (AMARETTO).

I can match that with BRACONID here. And it wasn't Goatdown

This game here has a mix of quite decent playing and complete incompetence from me.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:47 pm

Chris Davies wrote:I can match that with BRACONID here.

"I may be barking up some mad tree here, but is BRACONID a word?" - Mel Giedroyc trying to claim a DC word. Useless shithead.

Callum Laddiman · Post by **Callum Laddiman** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:52 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:Round one of this game must be unique.

Lol.

Stuart Arnot · Post by **Stuart Arnot** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:39 pm

Callum Laddiman wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:Round one of this game must be unique.
Lol.

I thought similarly about round 12 of this game.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:42 pm

Round five of this game is a strong contender for the best round where it's easy to get one away, but hard to get it spot on.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:51 pm

Martin Gardner wrote:Round five of this game is a strong contender for the best round where it's easy to get one away, but hard to get it spot on.

Carol's way was bizarre but cool. I'd have done 75+50+10+10-(100/25), much more straightforward.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:59 pm

JimBentley wrote:
Carol's way was bizarre but cool. I'd have done 75+50+10+10-(100/25), much more straightforward.

Ha we played along with this round in the pub today on Simon's internet phone and I got it Jim's method. I also thought it was hard and bet on both contestants only getting 140 which they did. To be fair I'm not sure I did it in 30 seconds as we don't time, we just scroll through games spending some time on selections trying to hit maximums.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:19 pm

On the grounds that it qualifies as both brag AND scrag, I'm putting it here- http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=27737 -falling foul of the ODE/CSW differences 3 rounds out of 4 (MODDERS* is the only one that's completely bad), I then put in the final 6 rounds of my dreams. Ho hum.

Joe Denniss · Post by **Joe Denniss** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:38 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=26025

Fairly poor game for both of us, culminating with four conundrums at the end. I wanted to keep going for more, but Jimmy decided to take the game.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:52 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28100

Round 7- do I go for the E for FRUITCAKE or the W for 'Sorry Kai'?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:10 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28100

Round 7- do I go for the E for FRUITCAKE or the W for 'Sorry Kai'?

Ah that's brilliant. I didn't even know that FUCKWIT was valid.

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:54 pm

What an excellent conundrum scramble

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:24 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355

Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.

Karen Pearson · Post by **Karen Pearson** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:46 am

Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355

Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.

Why does that count as strange?

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:20 am

Karen Pearson wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355

Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.

Why does that count as strange?

I dunno.

I thought it noteworthy but couldn't think of any other existing thread in which to post it. In hindsight, it wouldn't have been out of place in the 'comebacks' thread.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:58 pm

Missed out on one of the easiest max games ever. No darrens!

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:36 pm

Sexy 9s everywhere but only found one between us! http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=29818

Also for scrag factor I thought 2x2x(50-5) was 190

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:33 am

Could this be the most darrenic game ever?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:30 am

Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?

Didn't Paul have an all-darrens game once?

Edit: Yes

Joe Denniss · Post by **Joe Denniss** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:43 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30833

Check Round 16, where I apparently beat the max.

The score isn't great because it was my first time playing Hyper Numbers...

Edit: I assume this is a common occurrence because it just happened again.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:09 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?
Didn't Paul have an all-darrens game once?

Edit: Yes

Yes, but that was goatdown and my ass-whooping from Prime wasn't.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:15 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?
Didn't Paul have an all-darrens game once?

Edit: Yes
Yes, but that was goatdown and my ass-whooping from Prime wasn't.

Oh, fair enough. For a 15-rounder, 8 darrens is probably a record, yeah.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:13 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?

Prime certainly "had" you in round 3

Junaid Mubeen · Post by **Junaid Mubeen** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:21 pm

Prime and I got a max game between us, except for the last numbers. However only one round did not feature a beater. Also, every beater was the unique max. We seemed to take in in turns to drop off. Prime the Merciful!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=31130

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:23 pm

Junaid Mubeen wrote:Prime and I got a max game between us, except for the last numbers. However only one round did not feature a beater. We seemed to take in in turns to drop off. Prime the Merciful!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=31130

That's a bad miss in round 8.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:07 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:Could this be the most darrenic game ever?

This must be among the darreniest 9 rounders.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:10 pm

Yes, it's CSW, but Charlie needs to keep Prune off the Red Bull.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:10 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32587

Rd 6: a collective term for DC?

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:28 pm

Amazing game this. Deliberately dropped 20 points to make Jimmy happy on audition eve. Knew LEXONERD^ wasn't in, had MINTIER but went for MINUTER^ cos I'd just played MINUTEST (incredible omission) and had TEAMING but played MINUTE for the same reason. I also only picked S in round 14 to make FRUITGELS

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:54 pm

Deliberate server breakage attempt? Certainly I can pick out at least one round there I could do within the time limit but the computer couldn't.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:00 pm

How about being the first person ever to solve a hyperconundrum in the wrong language? I often guess at these when time runs out, so I guessed at RHINOPLASTIE which turns out to be the French for RHINOPLASTY, but alas not allowed in English

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34762

D Eadie · Post by **D Eadie** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:35 am

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34788

Strange indeed that i play my most solid game of the night after half a dozen beers, but earlier on when totally sober i was complete pants. Sometimes even the most common words elude me, then i can pull something pretty obscure out of the hat moments later. Does anyone else suffer from terrible inconsistency or lack of concentration?

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:59 am

Martin Gardner wrote:How about being the first person ever to solve a hyperconundrum in the wrong language?

Possibly.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:07 pm

D Eadie wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34788

Strange indeed that i play my most solid game of the night after half a dozen beers, but earlier on when totally sober i was complete pants. Sometimes even the most common words elude me, then i can pull something pretty obscure out of the hat moments later. Does anyone else suffer from terrible inconsistency or lack of concentration?

It happens to me if I play too much. If I take a few days off then I'm normally much more consistent when I get back.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:17 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34939

Holding Prime to a crucial conundrum in three seconds. I can't count it as brag as I lost!

Jack Morgan · Post by **Jack Morgan** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:23 pm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34001

#7

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:38 pm

Hmmm...check out the time on this conundrum. Super lag?

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 63#r517263

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:48 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:Hmmm...check out the time on this conundrum. Super lag?

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 63#r517263

The conundrum times are local times, so you can't lag against that. Times like Damian's are caused by some other bug which sometimes makes the clock run slow, which I have been chasing for a while.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:33 pm

Jack Morgan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34001

#7

In fairness this is more funny because the game ended 20 - 0.

Jojo Apollo · Post by **Jojo Apollo** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:37 pm

This was a 15 Rounder game, but it is strangely marked down as a Custom game:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25484 the score became tied after the 15th round and it took five tiebreak conundrums to separate us, as we didn't get any of the previous four tiebreak conundrums.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:49 pm

Me and Innis + Hypergoatdown = this

D Eadie · Post by **D Eadie** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:22 am

Charlie Reams wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Hmmm...check out the time on this conundrum. Super lag?

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 63#r517263
The conundrum times are local times, so you can't lag against that. Times like Damian's are caused by some other bug which sometimes makes the clock run slow, which I have been chasing for a while.

Tends to only happen when i play at work - on my break times of course. The lag is horrible and often i get just 6 or 7 letters on screen, only to find that the bot has already answered Almost impossible to beat Prime at a game in this situation. I tend to get the first 2 rnds okay, then it slows up bigtime and eventually freezes altogether. When i answer straight away, it registers on the clock as anything between 5 and 10 secs, even though i've only just got the 9 letters up on screen.

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:06 am

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=35331

Seven rounds of Jekyll, six of Hyde.

So surprising was the recovery, that Jimmy warned me that "cheating was bad, Charlie willl know"...bless him.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:19 am

Ha, only just spotted the word spelled out in round 11

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=35352

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:05 am

Ben Wilson wrote:Deliberate server breakage attempt? Certainly I can pick out at least one round there I could do within the time limit but the computer couldn't.

Interesting round 9. I'm pretty sure it is possible, although the computer says you can't get within 10. Either they should both get a point for maxing (with nothing) or the max for the whole game should be 19, not 20. Very very slight bug I suppose.