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Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:48 pm**

Great game with Junaid which went to 3 conundrums, guess who won?: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=6100

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:35 pm**

Jay S wrote:Great game with Junaid which went to 3 conundrums, guess who won?: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=6100

Well played to both. Never heard of SCRUBLAND though, so I though that was a tough conundrum.

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:05 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=6451

108 not exceptional but leading 68- 8 after 6 rounds, from a possible 68 at that point. Still it beat me in quite a few rounds after that.

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:42 pm**

Congratulations to that bastard Kirk Bevins on breaking my Numbers Attack record! Well played, mate. I'm especially annoyed as the 190 I got a couple of days back should've been a 200 - the one I missed (the 19th!) was easy and I was really kicking myself for being so substandard.

Still, I've nicked Jono's Speed Numbers Attack record, so it's not all bad.

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:58 pm**

jimbentley wrote:Congratulations to that bastard Kirk Bevins on breaking my Numbers Attack record! Well played, mate. I'm especially annoyed as the 190 I got a couple of days back should've been a 200 - the one I missed (the 19th!) was easy and I was really kicking myself for being so substandard.

Still, I've nicked Jono's Speed Numbers Attack record, so it's not all bad.

I usually can't be bothered to play 20 numbers rounds but my dad keeps me in touch with setting me a challenge most times we're both on. I want to get to that magic 200 but if it looked like i'd fall below your record of 194 then the competitive streak in me would kick in and I'd go 4 large etc to win. Now on 197 it's gonna be 1 large all the way until I get one wrong.

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:19 pm**

I'm sure he'd be too modest to mention it, but I just spotted this one in the Game Browser. The standard of Speedgoating among the top players now is just insane.

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:54 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:I'm sure he'd be too modest to mention it

I was just going to post that actually

Posted: **Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:58 pm**

I am pleased with this.

Luckily for me, lots of Prime's 3 large selections turned out to be really easy.

Posted: **Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:00 pm**

That's damn good Jimbo.

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:23 am**

Wow, I'm impressed!!

(But then you think I don't look a day over 29, and therefore can do no wrong in my eyes!!

)

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:59 pm**

Cheers, Charlie and Debbi! I thought I might be able to outdo my old record of 168, but didn't think I could get anywhere near that (I've still only managed 194 on the 30-second version, so this is a bit of an anomaly really).

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:30 pm**

I'm claiming the slowest ever conundrum, I got PROCREATE yesterday in 29.8 seconds.

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:33 pm**

Martin Gardner wrote:I'm claiming the slowest ever conundrum, I got PROCREATE yesterday in 29.8 seconds.

Cant remember when it was but once I in a normal game I got the conundrum in 30.01 secs or something!

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:37 pm**

In a speed game (10s) I'm pretty sure I've buzzed in (didn't get it though) on something like 11.6 seconds.

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:03 pm**

Martin Gardner wrote:I'm claiming the slowest ever conundrum, I got PROCREATE yesterday in 29.8 seconds.

I've had one at about 31.8s I think...

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:25 pm**

Two remarkable games, This one where I got all maximums on the letters and numbers, but then gave the wrong response for the conundrum, and then this one where I only dropped one point in the entire game - IONIZES instead of SIMONIZE.

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:48 pm**

Martin Gardner wrote:Two remarkable games, This one where I got all maximums on the letters and numbers, but then gave the wrong response for the conundrum, and then this one where I only dropped one point in the entire game - IONIZES instead of SIMONIZE.

If we're playing the "dropped one point" game, then here's a recent one:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=7330

A quality game where both players scored over 100.

Posted: **Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:42 pm**

This game had some good-quality spots, mostly from Paul:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=7403

Let the record also note that he managed the shamefully amazing spot of TERIYAKI in one of the following games which was wiped after my Apterous froze.

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:31 pm**

This is my closest game to the max score so far, missing out by just 3 points (UNCLOTHE, MANDIR and DISTALLY): http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=7720

Posted: **Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:37 am**

Woohoo! 2nd ever time! Hopefully the 2nd of many...

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=7745

I was pleased with my solution for Round 10. Hover your mouse over "213" and it will tell you my solution.

Posted: **Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:24 am**

Kirk Bevins wrote:I was pleased with my solution for Round 10. Hover your mouse over "213" and it will tell you my solution.

(4 x 100 + 25 + 1) / (8 - 6) is much simpler. You were just showing off and sipping some water no doubt.

Nice game though - well done.

Posted: **Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:50 am**

Dan Vanniasingham wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:I was pleased with my solution for Round 10. Hover your mouse over "213" and it will tell you my solution.
(4 x 100 + 25 + 1) / (8 - 6) is much simpler. You were just showing off and sipping some water no doubt.

Nice game though - well done.

I'd say 4x25 + 100 + 8 + 6 - 1 is simpler still

Posted: **Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:56 am**

Dan Vanniasingham wrote: (4 x 100 + 25 + 1) / (8 - 6) is much simpler. You were just showing off and sipping some water no doubt.

No I wasn't showing off. The basics were 100x2+25-12, on in other words, 100x(8/4)+25-2x6 and then factorising to give:

(100-6)x(8/4)+25.

Much more intuitive than your method, Dan!

Posted: **Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:34 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=7904

What a game! High quality stuff! New record!

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:20 am**

Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=7904

What a game! High quality stuff! New record!

Beautiful stuff.

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:27 pm**

Not really anything to brag about, but Kirk and I just played Apterous' 8000th game, which ended with a 102-101 win for the Bevmeister. We were speed-playing most of the rounds to ensure that no one got in before us, so the standard is mixed, but hey.

Posted: **Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:46 pm**

Nearly hit a max game against Hurrell earlier but picked up 99.3% of the max which isn't too shabby. I now own the top 3 spots on highest scores and as Ben Pugh points out also the highest percentage of max out of those on the top scores table.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=8453

Posted: **Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:53 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Nearly hit a max game against Hurrell earlier but picked up 99.3% of the max which isn't too shabby. I now own the top 3 spots on highest scores and as Ben Pugh points out also the highest percentage of max out of those on the top scores table.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=8453

Both you and James would have kicked my ass there!

Posted: **Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:16 pm**

I love the fact I needed a 6 letter word or more in round 13 to get the best ever score on apterous and the max was a bloody 4! From both getting a 9 to both getting a 4 - must be a record in there somewhere.

Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:40 pm**

Another -1 game (-1 in Duplicate Scrabble means you only dropped one point)

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=8812.

Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:58 pm**

Just had a game with Jim which finished 106-103 without any nines available; the scores were perfectly tied for the first 13 rounds!

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2008 1:17 pm**

Martin Gardner wrote:Another -1 game (-1 in Duplicate Scrabble means you only dropped one point)

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=8812.

Also notable in this game are the letters HIDABUSER coming up in that very order.

Posted: **Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:25 pm**

I'm sure this won't last long since I only scored in 22 of 26 rounds, but for now I have the record for the Marathon, 184.

Posted: **Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:01 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:I'm sure this won't last long since I only scored in 22 of 26 rounds, but for now I have the record for the Marathon, 184.

Correct: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=9023

Oh, and the record for the Goatathon is currently set by me also:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=8994

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:43 pm**

I eventually won this game:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=9113

Is that a record number of conundrums?

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:55 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:Oh, and the record for the Goatathon is currently set by me also:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=8994

Don't know if you know, but you no longer have the record: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=9035

There was a total of eight 9's in the game.

And I got EXORDIA in one round

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:30 pm**

Just bloody tied 246

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=9213

But it was against Prime, if that makes it any more special. (Yes it does)

Notable is the round when i was kicking myself with FAUNA whilst Prime got the triple-darren EPIFAUNA. Actually he had a chance later on to pick EPIFAUNA again, with me geared up to get it. Oh well.

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:23 pm**

Jon O'Neill wrote:Just bloody tied 246

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=9213

But it was against Prime, if that makes it any more special. (Yes it does)

Notable is the round when i was kicking myself with FAUNA whilst Prime got the triple-darren EPIFAUNA. Actually he had a chance later on to pick EPIFAUNA again, with me geared up to get it. Oh well.

Well done Jono

Also your games max broke the 300 mark, whereas mine only did 289, so yeah, it makes yours even more special

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2008 4:09 am**

I managed my 5th century, new high score and in the first 10 rounds I only missed one max. Yay go me

(remember my rating never goes above 300)

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=9403

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:43 pm**

Jimmy wrote:I managed my 5th century, new high score and in the first 10 rounds I only missed one max. Yay go me (remember my rating never goes above 300)

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=9403

Wow, you're improving fast. Good to see

Posted: **Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:43 pm**

Thanks, but the site is really not good for me. I've played almost all weekend.

Posted: **Sun Nov 09, 2008 5:41 pm**

Jimmy wrote:Thanks, but the site is really not good for me. I've played almost all weekend.

Yep, I'm addicted. I'm improving my Countdown skills a lot but my housemates are starting to think I'm weird.

Posted: **Sun Nov 09, 2008 5:54 pm**

Ben Hunter wrote:Yep, I'm addicted. I'm improving my Countdown skills a lot but my housemates are starting to think I'm weird.

That seems to be the general reaction I get at the office too, when I mention I watch Countdown and play this online.

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:30 am**

Once again, nothing to compare to all of you octochamps, series finalists, etc. but I was quite proud of my effort here

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10509

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:08 am**

Jimmy wrote:Once again, nothing to compare to all of you octochamps, series finalists, etc. but I was quite proud of my effort here

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10509

Gotta love HEARTSHAG as your guess for round 7

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:32 pm**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10665

Despite two fucked-up rounds (one where I somehow forgot to click on the new declaration of one away- but prune got it anyway

and one where I thought 16*7=84), I say this: challenge extended, Bentley!

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:27 am**

Ben Wilson wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10665

Despite two fucked-up rounds (one where I somehow forgot to click on the new declaration of one away- but prune got it anyway and one where I thought 16*7=84), I say this: challenge extended, Bentley!

Very impressive Ben.

I did a custom game before involving Hypercountdown Number Rounds and only got 1, just about

, but are there any different techniques to solving these 4-figure targets?

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:23 am**

Ben Wilson wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10665

Despite two fucked-up rounds (one where I somehow forgot to click on the new declaration of one away- but prune got it anyway and one where I thought 16*7=84), I say this: challenge extended, Bentley!

Blimey, nice one, but I'm pretty shit at hypercountdown so there's not going to be much of a challenge from me. Might have a go, though...

[EDIT] 134 for a first attempt, and I was sort of getting the hang of it by the end...sort of...so, er, watch out!

There needs to be a scoreboard for HyperNumbersAttack, though.

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:36 am**

jimbentley wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10665

Despite two fucked-up rounds (one where I somehow forgot to click on the new declaration of one away- but prune got it anyway and one where I thought 16*7=84), I say this: challenge extended, Bentley!
Blimey, nice one, but I'm pretty shit at hypercountdown so there's not going to be much of a challenge from me. Might have a go, though...

I still haven't played Hypercountdown at all. I must do though because I think I might have invented the game.

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:48 am**

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10673

I took Apterous Bevins to a crucial conundrum in a 9-round game, and even led for part of it. I think that's worth bragging about.

Posted: **Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:12 pm**

It had to happen. Great work Dan!

Posted: **Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:51 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:It had to happen. Great work Dan!

Excellent stuff Mr. Vana...Vannasi...Dan!

Also: bollocks. I wanted it.

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:19 am**

Thanks guys! I'm surprised it hadn't fallen already, but having 20 pretty simple games in succession helped.

I'm after the formidable speed numbers 200 now - got the first 17 before getting stumped twice in one effort. Race you there Jim?

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:38 am**

Way to go Dan! Well done.

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:46 am**

Well done Dan

. My best is only 177, so I could do with some practice

On another note, I played a Conundrum Attack challenge with Kirk, the best of 3 games

Funnily enough in each game, the end score was 100 v 80

Game #1, Game #2, Game #3

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:35 pm**

I know this is not as good as the achievements of Bevins and co but a win over Jim in a speed 9 was nice

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=11620

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:36 pm**

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=11623

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:45 pm**

Oliver Garner wrote:I know this is not as good as the achievements of Bevins and co but a win over Jim in a speed 9 was nice
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=11620

You were good! I was good! But you were better.

Your rating of minus 23 doesn't really do you justice.

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:57 pm**

Ben Wilson wrote:http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=10665

Despite two fucked-up rounds (one where I somehow forgot to click on the new declaration of one away- but prune got it anyway and one where I thought 16*7=84), I say this: challenge extended, Bentley!

Oh yeah, of course. I've sort of got the hang of it.

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:34 pm**

Richard Brittain wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=11623

Harsh!

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