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Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:17 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Really? I'm sure I've been paying attention to Countdown and not seen KISMET come up. I've heard of destiny and fate all the time but nobody has ever said kismet. You lads need to start socialising with normal people.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:59 pm
by Jon Corby
Kirk Bevins wrote:Really? I'm sure I've been paying attention to Countdown and not seen KISMET come up. I've heard of destiny and fate all the time but nobody has ever said kismet. You lads need to start socialising with normal people.
Or you need to broaden your horizons
I did do a Lexplorer search to see how common it was (and found that I was among many to miss it) but then I realised that it's not really important, people miss common words all the time.
That wasn't to detract from Junaid's games, or his spotting of KISMET either. It's clearly a good spot as it appears to be missed so often, but I don't think it's a "wtf" word. Just one of those things. I was the same with LEYLANDII, but I appear to be in a minority of never having heard of it when I speak to others. I remember a capable player on here questioning "how someone could come up with words like ADROIT unless they'd played apterous to death" (paraphrasing) and thinking "wtf? Everyone uses ADROIT" so some people (including me) just don't know some common words.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:02 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Kirk Bevins wrote:Really? I'm sure I've been paying attention to Countdown and not seen KISMET come up
Were you not watching on 13 January 2006?
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:35 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Haha no. I never saw most programmes until after David O'Donnell. I remember someone posting on here congratulating DOD on winning the series and I was like "shit, yeah, forgot the finals had been shown already". I was out of touch when at uni spending most of my time entering competitions or darting.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:04 pm
by Ben Wilson
Even if I did just catch him on an off-day (off-evening) something like
this is still rare enough to be brag-worthy.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:30 pm
by James Robinson
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:48 am
by Matt Bayfield
I claim the record for holding an apterous record for the shortest time.
At 1:29 a.m. today, I broke the record for Touchdown Jnr Letters Attack by scoring 133 in
this 18-max game.
At 1:30 a.m. today, Chris Davies set a new record of 135 with
a 19-max game.
I officially held the format record for one minute!
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:25 am
by Charlie Reams
Matt Bayfield wrote:I claim the record for holding an apterous record for the shortest time.
At 1:29 a.m. today, I broke the record for Touchdown Jnr Letters Attack by scoring 133 in
this 18-max game.
At 1:30 a.m. today, Chris Davies set a new record of 135 with
a 19-max game.
I officially held the format record for one minute!
That's cool. Both scores are ridiculous considering the highest ever max is 138, and the best-case max is only 140.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:35 pm
by craig
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0259265497
As I'm a giant noob I don't know if that link worked but it's supposed to show that I've finally got a bullet numbers max. It may have taken over 100 tries but I got there in the end, woop woop!
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:41 pm
by Gavin Chipper
That's brilliant. Well done!
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:56 pm
by Ben Wilson
Easily both my best ever word and best ever pencil. It's a duel game so you may have to wait a bit for it to come up.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:14 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:01 pm
by Kirk Bevins
This makes me so happy
Edit: Well I was actually above Rex but now I'm not as people gave him more rating points
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:07 am
by Marc Meakin
Kirk Bevins wrote:This makes me so happy
Edit: Well I was actually above Rex but now I'm not as people gave him more rating points
Maybe someone should do a screenshot.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:48 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:22 pm
by craig
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=201155
Although they weren't the hardest games, I'm still pretty chuffed with this all 6 small numbers attack max.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:15 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:50 am
by Matt Bayfield
In tribute to Eoin Morgan earlier this week becoming the first cricketer to score a One Day International century for two different countries, I think I've just become the first person on apterous to score a Standard 15 century in four different languages:
English (
122)
German (
109)
Dutch (
101)
French (
101)
Quite pleased with that, y'know...
--Matt "Umlaut" Bayfield
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:54 am
by Charlie Reams
Matt Bayfield wrote:In tribute to Eoin Morgan earlier this week becoming the first cricketer to score a One Day International century for two different countries, I think I've just become the first person on apterous to score a Standard 15 century in four different languages:
English (
122)
German (
109)
Dutch (
101)
French (
101)
Quite pleased with that, y'know...
--Matt "Umlaut" Bayfield
In a sense this is the most impressive Brag of all, at least in terms of how long it would take me to achieve something comparable. Very very good. Russian next?
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:42 pm
by Chris Davies
I beat the 'max' in a Hyper 15.
Beat the arithmetician in the first numbers round, but missed the max in one letters round.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 3707857841
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:03 pm
by Ben Wilson
Either way that's the most maxes in a Hyper 15 by a hell of a distance.
Nice one!
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:55 am
by Kirk Bevins
Another set of
back-to-
back max games. Couldn't
follow it upwith 3 on the trot though. Notice the numbers rounds on max game 1 - it's a max but isn't......oohh controversy!
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:20 am
by Matt Bayfield
An unusual brag: I currently hold the apterous record for both the
longest max word and
shortest max word to have been awarded pencil inventory items.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:33 am
by Dinos Sfyris
They're the same link. Epic word though
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:43 am
by Matt Bayfield
Thanks Dinos. Second link now edited.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:16 pm
by Josh Hurst
The first time I've posted on this bit. I set out on a mission to get the pencil section of the homepage full of my declarations. So I figured that a custom hypergoat letters marathon would be the best way to go about it. Here is the
result, although it wasn't really a great performance. I also took a screen shot, but I'm too retarded to figure out how to upload it. If anyone is interested (which I know maybe none of you will be) could you help me out on this?
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:58 pm
by Charlie Reams
Josh Hurst wrote:The first time I've posted on this bit. I set out on a mission to get the pencil section of the homepage full of my declarations. So I figured that a custom hypergoat letters marathon would be the best way to go about it. Here is the
result, although it wasn't really a great performance. I also took a screen shot, but I'm too retarded to figure out how to upload it. If anyone is interested (which I know maybe none of you will be) could you help me out on this?
Email the pic to me and I'll make it happen.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:55 am
by Matt Bayfield
I've just managed the same feat as Josh, in filling the apterous homepage pencils list, although I've taken the rather easier route of doing it with ten German words (including a remarkable four nines).
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:51 am
by Marc Meakin
I am sure he won't mind me posting this on his behalf
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=214914
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:01 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Commenting in your own max game is a bit like posting it in the thread of brag anyway.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:44 pm
by Michael Wallace
I very rarely have cause to post in here but
this was pretty mind-blowing for me, even if it should maybe be in the frustration thread in terms of a max game missed.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:16 pm
by Michael Wallace
This has taken me so, so long (33 NAs).
Particularly proud of managing rounds 17 and 18, which are pretty unremarkable in isolation, but the pressure was getting insane by that point.
Edit: Just noticed, what a way to celebrate:
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:50 pm
by James Robinson
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:34 pm
by Oliver Garner
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:16 pm
by Ben Hunter
Me too... I also got a pencil and got a word that caused me to miss a
previous would-be max game.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:10 am
by Stuart Arnot
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:12 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Haven't posted on this thread for a while (wonder why?) but here's my first max speed 9.
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=42 ... 2224586640
I'm sure many others would have done the same, but I am happy.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:57 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=-6 ... 7436996635
Wasn't a max game, but it's Mark Tournoff I beat! A series champion!
Also got my best EVER word, ISPAGHUL.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 4:40 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Eoin Monaghan wrote:Also got my best EVER word, ISPAGHUL.
Awesome. I've been hunting that one for a while now.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:55 pm
by Michael Wallace
I maxed an omelette 9 for the first time recently, but it was shit, so
I maxed it again, and this one I'm actually pleased with.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:47 pm
by Ben Wilson
This only took almost 200 attempts.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 3:15 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:41 pm
by Adam Gillard
Interesting apterday this one. First, I broke the high score for Omelette Conndrum Attack:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=256665. Then I had an epic 3 games with Kirk. First, this bullet conundrum attack:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=256705. Then, this speed conundrum attack (Kirk didn't learn his lesson from the earlier close shave):
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=256709. Finally, Kirk taught ME a lesson with a manly performance in the following 15 rounder:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=256723. (My win yielded 64 rating points; his yielded 3
)
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:57 pm
by Ben Wilson
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:48 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:39 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
A week old but worth a mention. When the multilingual Karen challenged me to Portuguese I don't think
this was what she expected! Has anyone else managed a Portuguese 9? It also held the high-score record for about a day despite me scoring in only two letters rounds!
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:22 am
by Karen Pearson
Dinos Sfyris wrote:A week old but worth a mention. When the multilingual Karen challenged me to Portuguese I don't think
this was what she expected! Has anyone else managed a Portuguese 9? It also held the high-score record for about a day despite me scoring in only two letters rounds!
I admit that I DID expect to win but not by much as my Portugues experience is limited to 2 hours a week for one year but that was 26 years ago (before Dinos was even a twinkle in his mummy's eye)!! And there was always a pretty good chance that Dinos would beat me on the numbers.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:39 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Scored a new personal best of 137 in
this game
Bloody ANHINGA! Although if I had spotted it I'dve probably tried to fudge the last impossible numbers to get a maxi thus not getting a new pb. In hindsight it's a good thing I didn't know it
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:45 am
by JackHurst
Sorry to be a smug bastard, but I'm pretty happy with my top maxes column at the moment:
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:46 am
by David O'Donnell
JackHurst wrote:Sorry to be a smug bastard, but I'm pretty happy with my top maxes column at the moment:
You smug bastard.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:36 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Not the best max game in the world, but a max game nonetheless, second one of mine. I was getting so frustrated at getting 14 maxes all the time.
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=281868
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:53 am
by Jon Corby
Eoin Monaghan wrote:I was getting so frustrated at getting 14 maxes all the time.
Yeah, that would be annoying
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:13 am
by Jon O'Neill
I have an alright job, a hot girlfriend, I'm 6' 4", I'm healthy, my family's healthy, I have lots of friends, I live in a nice house in a safe country.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:46 am
by Jon Corby
I know Jon O'Neill.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:01 am
by Ian Volante
I have my own willy.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:05 am
by Jon Corby
Ian Volante wrote:I have my own willy.
Me too. And mine goes hard sometimes
(Sorry George)
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:43 am
by Matt Morrison
Jon Corby wrote:I know Jon O'Neill.
Wrong thread.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:02 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Matt Morrison wrote:Jon Corby wrote:I know Jon O'Neill.
Wrong thread.
http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 02&p=89579 instead.
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:55 pm
by Jon Corby
I gave Ben Hunter a yeast infection
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:35 pm
by Ben Wilson