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Re: Frustration
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:00 pm
by 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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:23 pm
by Michael Wallace
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:18 pm
by Michael Wallace
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:36 pm
by Stuart Arnot
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:01 pm
by Michael Wallace
Re: Frustration
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:36 am
by David O'Donnell
Re: Frustration
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:05 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:21 pm
by James Robinson
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:40 pm
by Liam Tiernan
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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:27 am
by Miriam Nussbaum
Re: Frustration
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:42 am
by Marc Meakin
Re: Frustration
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:09 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:00 pm
by 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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:15 pm
by Gavin Chipper
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).
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:20 pm
by 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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:44 am
by 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!
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:16 pm
by Ben Wilson
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=354871
Falseagrams are only useful when you actually remember that they ARE falseagrams...
Re: Frustration
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:19 pm
by Liam Tiernan
Losing
this game really pissed me off, especially considering velvets PB going into the game was 138.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:25 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:17 pm
by 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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:25 am
by Stuart Arnot
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:34 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:49 pm
by JimBentley
On the plus side, your beard is looking awesome. Makes Richard Brittain's beard look like crap.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:13 pm
by Liam Tiernan
Re: Frustration
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:17 am
by Stuart Arnot
JimBentley wrote:
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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:02 am
by Adam Gillard
Finally on for a 200 in Normal Numbers Attack and
this happens
Re: Frustration
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:43 pm
by Liam Tiernan
Re: Frustration
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:21 am
by 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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 1:10 am
by 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
Re: Frustration
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 4:57 pm
by Gavin Chipper
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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 9:02 pm
by Steve Balog
Gavin Chipper wrote:
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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:39 pm
by 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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 6:59 am
by 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
Re: Frustration
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:48 pm
by 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
Re: Frustration
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:40 pm
by 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.
Re: Frustration
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:00 pm
by Thomas Carey
Thomas Carey wrote: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
Re: Frustration
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:43 am
by 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
Re: Frustration
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:28 am
by 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.