Official thread of scrag
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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.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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I don't think Kai's talking about me in round 1, but he's got the rest of you losers nailed on.Kai Laddiman wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32606
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Oh, cackwires!
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I thoguht it was pretty good. Oh, no, wait, you mean your worst game ever. Smashed my record for speed and normal.Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32979
worst game ever
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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round 3 singular summed me upKai Laddiman wrote:I thoguht it was pretty good. Oh, no, wait, you mean your worst game ever. Smashed my record for speed and normal.Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32979
worst game ever
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This was pretty horrific on my part:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32985
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32985
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Round one wasn't your best...Nick Wainwright wrote:This was pretty horrific on my part:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32985
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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4 disallowed words in a row is not the best start to the game.
(and yes, I know it's spelt COLLIERS, but I had nothing else)
(and yes, I know it's spelt COLLIERS, but I had nothing else)
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=35224 Probrably my worst game ever!
Dunno what happened.
Dunno what happened.
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thats pretty good considering you're only 10!Callum Laddiman wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=35224 Probrably my worst game ever!
Dunno what happened.
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Looks okay to me mate, a good few maxes and everyone has some disallowed words occasionally.Callum Laddiman wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=35224 Probrably my worst game ever!
Dunno what happened.
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Might seem odd to post a 12-max game in Scrag, but this could easily have been a max game in more expert hands.
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Nah. Round 5 was hard.Charlie Reams wrote:Might seem odd to post a 12-max game in Scrag, but this could easily have been a max game in more expert hands.
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I got that with the first thing I tried. But I would almost certainly have missed SNOOZER and some others.Kirk Bevins wrote:Nah. Round 5 was hard.Charlie Reams wrote:Might seem odd to post a 12-max game in Scrag, but this could easily have been a max game in more expert hands.
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Tough but hardly brain-shattering. Most of the maxes were quality enough to have kept it out of scrag I'd have thought.Kirk Bevins wrote:Nah. Round 5 was hard.Charlie Reams wrote:Might seem odd to post a 12-max game in Scrag, but this could easily have been a max game in more expert hands.
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You lost to Richard Brittain, that really is scrag.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Ha, worst game I have played in an absolute eon.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36117
Just 5 maxes. Ridiculous.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36117
Just 5 maxes. Ridiculous.
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I think this just illustrates that maxes are a very weak metric for quality.Kirk Bevins wrote:Ha, worst game I have played in an absolute eon.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36117
Just 5 maxes. Ridiculous.
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First game I play in 2 weeks, and I collapse in the third half. I'm pleased with the words I did see, I'm just disappointed I missed some sitters, though I was nowhere near on the niner.
First game I play in 2 weeks, and I collapse in the third half. I'm pleased with the words I did see, I'm just disappointed I missed some sitters, though I was nowhere near on the niner.
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ARRRRGGGH I had BIPODS down...but in my head thought of a tripod standing up, and figured a "BIPOD" would probably just fall over... and so there'd be no point in there being such a thing!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36637
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36637
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Yeah good point, what stops if falling over? Still this is definitely not SCRAG.Andrew Hulme wrote:ARRRRGGGH I had BIPODS down...but in my head thought of a tripod standing up, and figured a "BIPOD" would probably just fall over... and so there'd be no point in there being such a thing!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36637
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Now that's what I call SCRAG lol.Paul Howe wrote:Erp
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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That's so shit you deserve to be banned from apterous for life. Fuck off.Andrew Hulme wrote:ARRRRGGGH I had BIPODS down...but in my head thought of a tripod standing up, and figured a "BIPOD" would probably just fall over... and so there'd be no point in there being such a thing!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36637
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Ok Fair enough its not SCRAG... but I couldn't find a thread called "Im so annoyed I'm gonna explode"
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Spotted JINXED too late and mistyped it, and missed a really easy numbers game (saw the solution just after declaring one away). And I just couldn't solve the conundrum as I thought it was 'occupancy', not 'occupance'.
Spotted JINXED too late and mistyped it, and missed a really easy numbers game (saw the solution just after declaring one away). And I just couldn't solve the conundrum as I thought it was 'occupancy', not 'occupance'.
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Yep, good numbers but the letter rounds were pretty poor from both of us.Michael Wallace wrote:Just, wow...
Edit: Although, 92 is quite good for me.
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You had some good spots, VAMPIRE and SHACKED I thought were quite nice. I'm not sure when the last game where I got zero letters maxes was, but I then managed the same feat in my next game.Darren Carter wrote:Yep, good numbers but the letter rounds were pretty poor from both of us.
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ul mate, you'll get that 200 one day.Michael Wallace wrote:Cocks.
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Look at the words missed by me here. Yet I still somehow contrived to get 91. What a max too!
Look at the words missed by me here. Yet I still somehow contrived to get 91. What a max too!
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Damian will surely be fast tracking me past the auditions and straight into series 61 after witnessing this performance.
Damian will surely be fast tracking me past the auditions and straight into series 61 after witnessing this performance.
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To get AURAS, but not AURORAS; to get NUISANCE, but not NUISANCES; to spot WHOOPSIE and WHOOPERS, yet risk neither. This is scrag.
To get AURAS, but not AURORAS; to get NUISANCE, but not NUISANCES; to spot WHOOPSIE and WHOOPERS, yet risk neither. This is scrag.
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A pretty bad game anyway (how do I go from 13 maxes yesterday to 3 today?), but round 13, in particular, makes my blood boil.
A pretty bad game anyway (how do I go from 13 maxes yesterday to 3 today?), but round 13, in particular, makes my blood boil.
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Second consecutive century may not seem like scrag, but my seemingly continued willingness to offer spurious nines based around ration is highly scragular. Totally not candles!
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Yessss. That's what I get for typing so quickly I mix up the letters. It happens sometimes at work too; I'll be typing a sequence of shortcuts and they'll maff up, but we've got new keyboards now which are impossible to type quickly on. Thankfully I don't have to use them here! Srsly though, I'm really pleased with how much I'm improving that that game I posted earlier is scrag, a little while ago it'd have been brag.
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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=44984 One of my worst 15 rounders against a bot- absolutely horrific. Although this is a lovely word:
13. SIRMFOPIS prisms 69 - 13 — pisiforms
13. SIRMFOPIS prisms 69 - 13 — pisiforms
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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=47943
8 days until my audition
8 days until my audition
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Why are you playing Goatdown if you have an audition in 8 days?Oliver Garner wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=47943
8 days until my audition
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Because I find when I play speed round (normal or goat), it makes normal 30 second games seem easier.Charlie Reams wrote:Why are you playing Goatdown if you have an audition in 8 days?Oliver Garner wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=47943
8 days until my audition
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I think it's safe to say that I'm rubbish!! I cannot get to grips with scoring even decently in the letters games
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=49517
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=49517
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Practise mate, you'll get better. Practice, dedication, belief and willpower - the four keys to success.Steve Rogers wrote:I think it's safe to say that I'm rubbish!! I cannot get to grips with scoring even decently in the letters games
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=49517
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You forgot prayer, good hygiene and self esteemKirk Bevins wrote:Practise mate, you'll get better. Practice, dedication, belief and willpower - the four keys to success.
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He doesn't want to give away his secrets, does he?Dinos Sfyris wrote:You forgot prayer, good hygiene and self esteemKirk Bevins wrote:Practise mate, you'll get better. Practice, dedication, belief and willpower - the four keys to success.
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Cheers guys. I shall keep plugging away! Now if Countdown was 15 rounds of numbers games, I'd be confident of doing well!
Lots and lots of letter practice required for me
Lots and lots of letter practice required for me
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Good to see MAINTOP getting a cheeky reprise after today's show.Chris Davies wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=50060
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This is what happens when mid-epic-game Emma comes and sits on the end of the bed and starts singing
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I was going to suggest that 'singing' was a euphemism, but then I checked the game and you've made all the jokes yourself - she gave you an ERECTION and then everything went downhill.Dinos Sfyris wrote:This is what happens when mid-epic-game Emma comes and sits on the end of the bed and starts singing
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Haha v funny :pMatt Morrison wrote:I was going to suggest that 'singing' was a euphemism, but then I checked the game and you've made all the jokes yourself - she gave you an ERECTION and then everything went downhill.Dinos Sfyris wrote:This is what happens when mid-epic-game Emma comes and sits on the end of the bed and starts singing
To be fair to Emma I'd never heard of BIRLINN, BIPHASIC or CENTRIOLE (surprising the latter as its very high freq letters) so I wouldn't have gotten them.
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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
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