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May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 6:41 am
by Howard Somerset
Although I'm making typos a little less frequently nowadays, I still made two in yesterday's duel which cost me 14 points and a very respectable, for me, 13th position.

Very carelessly entered TRAISPE instead of TRAIPSE.

And immediately realised that I'd pressed X instead of + in the second numbers round.

I see in a different thread that we've got a new numbers interface. I look forward to trying that, and wonder if it would've enabled be to correct my X.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:27 pm
by Ian Dent
Off to a flyer this month. Aiming for top 30 at the end of May.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:31 pm
by Michael Wallace
I can only say I was somewhat amused to see the results of yesterday's duel. Quite pleased to see my numbers managing to actually be helpful for once, though.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 3:01 pm
by Kai Laddiman
ONCE AGAIN, if it weren't for a couple of tpyos, I would be top. :|

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:45 pm
by Matt Morrison
ONCE AGAIN, if it weren't for being utterly shit at the game, I would be top. :|

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:28 pm
by Andrew Feist
So did half the field go for definites in round 6 yesterday? (I didn't check everybody that scored 0, but there were 27 nils that round out of 55 people.)

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:44 pm
by Phil Collinge

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:47 pm
by Phil Collinge
Charlie, it was mentioned on the bug thread but the league table hasn't been reset since month end.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:48 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Andrew Feist wrote:So did half the field go for definites in round 6 yesterday?
Wow - just had a look and quite a few shit-hot players did, including Kirk, Charlie and Damian.

Not being shit-hot myself, I scored some points that round with INFESTED. 8-)

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:13 am
by Matt Morrison
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:So did half the field go for definites in round 6 yesterday?
Wow - just had a look and quite a few shit-hot players did, including Kirk, Charlie and Damian.
Odd that you've missed my name off that list. Oh well, must have been an oversight.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:40 am
by Phil Reynolds
Matt Morrison wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:quite a few shit-hot players did, including Kirk, Charlie and Damian.
Odd that you've missed my name off that list. Oh well, must have been an oversight.
Looking down the list in alphabetical order, I stopped before I got to M. :|

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:38 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:So did half the field go for definites in round 6 yesterday?
Wow - just had a look and quite a few shit-hot players did, including Kirk, Charlie and Damian.
Yup. Some people just don't learn.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:04 pm
by Ben Wilson

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:10 pm
by Neil Zussman
Ben Wilson wrote:Get in. :)
You did max it, you can't be that surprised that you won! :roll:
Well done though.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 6:13 pm
by Kai Laddiman
That's annoying. I had a max game apart from my mental block in Rd 1 :|

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:14 pm
by Matt Morrison
That's annoying. I had a max game apart from my mental blocks in Rds 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 :|

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:22 pm
by Kai Laddiman
That's annoying. I have a funny feeling that a meerkat in a baseball cap is copying everything I say :|

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:31 pm
by Matt Morrison
Kai Laddiman wrote:That's annoying. I have a funny feeling that a meerkat in a baseball cap is copying everything I say :|
Dammit. I can't even parrot you without looking up who your avatar is. Mind you, you just called a dog a meerkat, so here goes:

That's annoying. I have a funny feeling that David Beckham in fancy dress is copying everything I say :|

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:08 pm
by Ben Wilson
Is it just me or after round 5 did everybody play a different duel yesterday?

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 6:33 am
by Ross Allatt
Yeah, just came in to say what Ben said - we've all done different duels from Conundrum 6 onwards :?

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:20 pm
by Mark Harrison
With apologies...

Image

:ugeek:

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:37 pm
by Matt Morrison
Mark Harrison wrote:Image
I can't believe you've never looked at Kirk's profile! Shameful.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:50 pm
by Darren Carter
Hands up whoever managed to score any points in today's ridiculously hard duel..........

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:54 pm
by James Doohan
Duel was ridiculous today, would it be possible to have two duels so thicko's like me could enjoy doing the duel instead :x

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:44 pm
by Jon Corby
james doohan wrote:Duel was ridiculous today, would it be possible to have two duels so thicko's like me could enjoy doing the duel instead :x
Don't worry too much mate, I think everyone struggled to get many points today!

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:12 pm
by James Doohan
Jon Corby wrote:
james doohan wrote:Duel was ridiculous today, would it be possible to have two duels so thicko's like me could enjoy doing the duel instead :x
Don't worry too much mate, I think everyone struggled to get many points today!

I didn't struggle, I got zero with style

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:34 pm
by Ben Wilson
Darren Carter wrote:Hands up whoever managed to score any points in today's ridiculously hard duel..........
Cool, everyone found it hard then, I jacked it in after 7 rounds and only 1 point, I'll pick it up again later and hope to come out with about 3 or 4 (usually I consider less than 2/3 of maxes in the duel a failure and less than 50% a complete disaster).

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 4:54 pm
by Howard Somerset
On duels like today's I'm thrilled to get as much as one point. I know last time we had one like this, I ended up with zero. Seeing that others also found it hard has really encouraged me. :)

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 11:08 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Wow - I came 30th on the duel because apterous crashed before I saw the conundrum. When I logged back in it said I'd already finished the duel despite not seeing the conundrum (which is easy). Had I got it I'd have had a max game and come 1st. Stupid computers.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:06 am
by Allan Harmer
Kirk Bevins wrote:Wow - I came 30th on the duel because apterous crashed before I saw the conundrum. When I logged back in it said I'd already finished the duel despite not seeing the conundrum (which is easy). Had I got it I'd have had a max game and come 1st. Stupid computers.
I know the feeling Kirk - The same thing happened to me on Tuesday, as my screen locked whilst the conundrum was coming up and by the time I saw it my time was up.

As you say, bloody computers!

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:25 am
by Howard Somerset
Kirk Bevins wrote:Wow - I came 30th on the duel because apterous crashed before I saw the conundrum. When I logged back in it said I'd already finished the duel despite not seeing the conundrum (which is easy). Had I got it I'd have had a max game and come 1st. Stupid computers.
Sounds good to me. There's little other chance I've got of coming only six positions behind you, Kirk. :)

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:13 pm
by Ian Volante
Kirk Bevins wrote:Wow - I came 30th on the duel because apterous crashed before I saw the conundrum. When I logged back in it said I'd already finished the duel despite not seeing the conundrum (which is easy). Had I got it I'd have had a max game and come 1st. Stupid computers.
I'm not complaining, that's given me probably my best result to date in the Duel :D

Good old kelpies.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:07 am
by Kirk Bevins
Hmm yet again some of us had different conundrums for the duel. What's going on? Also I suck.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:23 am
by Howard Somerset
Kirk Bevins wrote:Hmm yet again some of us had different conundrums for the duel. What's going on? Also I suck.
It's nothing to do with time of day. I noticed that Damian was doing his duel challenge at the same time as me. Yet we only had one conundrum in common out of four.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 1:11 pm
by Ian Dent
A 6 small duel....

:(

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 1:22 pm
by Junaid Mubeen
A 6 small duel...

:D

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 4:18 pm
by Darren Carter
Ian Dent wrote:A 6 small duel....

:(
It started off nicely with two easy ones, but then went quickly downhill!

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 4:20 pm
by Daniel O'Dowd
That was well fun :D Probably one of my best performances in such areas, more in future please!

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:02 pm
by Neil Zussman
I'm pleasantly surprised by how well I did on that duel. 4th?! What happened to everyone else? Mind you, it was nice to have an opportunity to show that, despite what it may look like from my appearances on the show, I can actually do the numbers pretty well, so thanks Charlie. :)
Particularly liked round 9- only two of us maxed it! Did everyone else enter 998 then try to fudge it?
Edit: Just noticed Junaid got 1006, and couldn't get any closer than that, which is pretty impressive. Has anyone ever declared anything above 1000 on the show?

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:10 pm
by Junaid Mubeen
I rock. Chuffed with rd 4 particularly. Bring on a 4 large 'un!

(need all the morale boosters I can get after COMA final)

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:17 pm
by Neil Zussman
Junaid Mubeen wrote:I rock. Chuffed with rd 4 particularly. Bring on a 4 large 'un!

(need all the morale boosters I can get after COMA final)
56*17+12?!!! Not surprised you're pleased with that, awesome spot.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:47 pm
by Mark Harrison
Didn't do as well as I wanted to in the 6 small shootout, not helped by a crash in the middle which robbed me of 7 points. Still, a respectable showing, I'm happy with 12th :)

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:02 am
by Ian Volante
Mark Harrison wrote:Didn't do as well as I wanted to in the 6 small shootout, not helped by a crash in the middle which robbed me of 7 points. Still, a respectable showing, I'm happy with 12th :)
I crashed about four times taking me down to 71st. Still, could have been worse...

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:25 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Junaid Mubeen wrote:I rock. Chuffed with rd 4 particularly. Bring on a 4 large 'un!

(need all the morale boosters I can get after COMA final)
18 maxes is ridiculous. Probably one of the best duel performances of all time. Well done!

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:49 pm
by Oliver Garner
Ian Volante wrote:
Mark Harrison wrote:Didn't do as well as I wanted to in the 6 small shootout, not helped by a crash in the middle which robbed me of 7 points. Still, a respectable showing, I'm happy with 12th :)
I crashed about four times taking me down to 71st. Still, could have been worse...
I was awful. From beating Jono to coming 40th in 3 days - OUCH

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:59 pm
by Ben Wilson
Is today's duel rolling over due to the prolonged down time?

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 10:29 pm
by Charlie Reams
Ben Wilson wrote:Is today's duel rolling over due to the prolonged down time?
41 people managed to play, so I don't think that'll be necessary.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:07 am
by Barry Evans
Hypercountdown - yeh - thats tricky. Hypercountdown where only maxes count - yeh - that sounds trickier! Hypercountdown where only maxes count AND a five second time limit - thats insane! I will happily go to bed with my one point! :D

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 7:47 am
by Karen Pearson
Barry Evans wrote:Hypercountdown - yeh - thats tricky. Hypercountdown where only maxes count - yeh - that sounds trickier! Hypercountdown where only maxes count AND a five second time limit - thats insane! I will happily go to bed with my one point! :D
1 point for me too. I really thought I was going to get zero but I managed one of the numbers.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 8:20 am
by Matt Morrison
Unless anybody has done it before, I'm demanding some kind of dunce-based item for my two 0s in a row.

Not really important but I was only getting about 2 seconds for each conundrum today too.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:38 am
by Adam Dexter
Neil Zussman wrote: What happened to everyone else?
wow... I was 21st out of 72 in a 6 small? Woooo!

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:01 am
by Kai Laddiman
Yesterday's duel was RIDICULOUS. Seriously.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:20 am
by Neil Zussman
Kai Laddiman wrote:Yesterday's duel was RIDICULOUS. Seriously.
I think it was great. It's a nice feeling to get (significantly) less than half and still come 7th. Much more interesting than the duels where one tiny error moves you down about 20 places.
Also, Conor is insane...

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:03 pm
by Howard Somerset
I'm very happy with yesterday's. Coming level with Allan, Rich and Jim, to name only three, is an achievement as far as I'm concerned.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:27 pm
by Ian Volante
Kai Laddiman wrote:Yesterday's duel was RIDICULOUS. Seriously.
As far as I could see, the site was down for about nineteen hours, but it looks like it saved me some pain...

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:28 pm
by Ross Allatt
I thought yesterday's was the best duel ever ;)

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:42 pm
by Kevin Davis
Kai Laddiman wrote:Yesterday's duel was RIDICULOUS. Seriously.
And today's ISNT?!?

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:45 pm
by Ian Dent
Duel today was quite tricky.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:55 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Neil Zussman wrote: Also, Conor is insane...
Seconded. The lad is a machine.

Re: May daily duels

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:57 am
by Kai Laddiman
Er, why do the guys who came first yesterday get 63 points yet there was 60 entrants? Unless there's a special bonus or something.