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Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:57 pm
by Charlie Reams
Quality game between an established expert and a rapidly improving new player: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28634

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:03 pm
by Junaid Mubeen
Kirk certainly seems to be rapidly improving, that's for sure.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:06 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Charlie Reams wrote:Quality game between an established expert and a rapidly improving new player: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28634
Wow, I wouldn't call that a quality game. It was quite tight but a lot of the rounds were flat. I can't believe I had SHAMS in round 1 and was SHAMAS away from another max game.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:17 am
by Dinos Sfyris
Was pretty pleased with this one especially round 12. 4th highest Speedgoat of all time http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28739 Would have been highest (and possibly closest max to metamax) if Ian had received my psychic urge to pick another C for COMPACTED!

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:46 am
by Paul Howe
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Was pretty pleased with this one especially round 12. 4th highest Speedgoat of all time http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28739 Would have been highest (and possibly closest max to metamax) if Ian had received my psychic urge to pick another C for COMPACTED!
Nice one. 5 out of 6 nines on your own pick is probably a record, even if one was unintentional.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:30 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Paul Howe wrote: Nice one. 5 out of 6 nines on your own pick is probably a record, even if one was unintentional.
I had 5 out of 6 nines too on speedgoat:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16177

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:32 pm
by Jimmy Gough
Maybe it's because I've rarely played hyper, but don't you think this is fudging amazing?!

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:33 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Jimmy Gough wrote:Maybe it's because I've rarely played hyper, but don't you think this is fudging amazing?!
That's a regular game of Countdown so, er, no.

Edit: You've since changed the link to an actual hyper numbers attack - it was a game from Amey Deshpande only seconds ago. Hmmm

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:34 pm
by Jimmy Gough
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Jimmy Gough wrote:Maybe it's because I've rarely played hyper, but don't you think this is fudging amazing?!
That's a regular game of Countdown so, er, no.
Not sure what I did there! I meant JB's game :oops: . Edited now.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:28 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Got my first speed 9 max game, against Mr Eadie nonetheless.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=29006

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:14 am
by JimBentley
Jimmy Gough wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Jimmy Gough wrote:Maybe it's because I've rarely played hyper, but don't you think this is fudging amazing?!
That's a regular game of Countdown so, er, no.
Not sure what I did there! I meant JB's game :oops: . Edited now.
Much as I appreciate being bigged up and all, but that's one of my most awful Hyper Numbers Attacks ever. It disappointed me.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:23 am
by Charlie Reams
Kirk Bevins wrote:Got my first speed 9 max game, against Mr Eadie nonetheless.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=29006
I think you mean "no less". Better to stick to words of 9 letters or fewer in future I think.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:48 pm
by D Eadie
Surely it doesnt matter who you are up against, if you get a max score, nobody can affect it, unless they distract you with obscene comments in the chat area. I might have to do that next time.

Seriously though, that was very impressive and of course nothing i can do to stop your score, but i was slightly disgraced in only scoring about 20 myself. The speed rounds are too much for me at the moment, i'm so rusty i cannot tell you. Am starting to think that as i approach my 40th birthday, that i'm past it for good. I have two options - one is to swat and be a nerd and really play for hours each week, or the other is to sit down, analyze my grey pubic hair, beer gut and crows feet, and accept that i'm a washed up nothing. The similarities with myself and Christopher Biggins are uncanny.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:21 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Charlie Reams wrote:
I think you mean "no less". Better to stick to words of 9 letters or fewer in future I think.
Haha I'm really no good with words. Even ones less than 9 letters I don't know what half of them mean, and even if I did I'd need to learn sentence structure and grammar.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:59 pm
by Charlie Reams
I feel I deserve some kind of sympathy award for the most painful miss yet in my campaign to get a Speed 9 max.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:42 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Lots of lovely words and 9s amongst this lot:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30283

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:05 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Here's another with Jono and me. Not a bad game considering each round was just 3 seconds long.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30301

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:12 pm
by Jimmy Gough
Kirk Bevins wrote:Here's another with Jono and me. Not a bad game considering each round was just 3 seconds long.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30301
This too http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30303

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:35 am
by Dinos Sfyris
Kirk Bevins wrote:Lots of lovely words and 9s amongst this lot:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30283
CEANOTHUS...OUGIYAS...Unbelievable!

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:58 am
by Phil Reynolds
Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Lots of lovely words and 9s amongst this lot:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30283
CEANOTHUS...OUGIYAS...Unbelievable!
I have a ceanothus in my garden and it never occurred to me until now that that was how to spell it.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:28 pm
by Martin Gardner
I might as well post this: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30414

I don't think it beats what's come before it.

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:16 pm
by Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner wrote:I might as well post this: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30414

I don't think it beats what's come before it.
I'm just gutted I didn't choose a final T in the PROOFED round :? .

Re: Game of the Week nominations: 23 Feb - 1 March

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:21 pm
by Charlie Reams
Not that good overall TBH, but a new PB for me and some nice words.