req.co.uk Codex newsletter #87

posted by Breadmower on Sun 15th Jun, 08 at 21:12:04

What's this newsletter all about then?

Welcome to the Codex newsletter, where we bring you up to speed with what's going on at the site and - more importantly - let you know the results of the weekly leaderboard, and what accolades have been awarded to the movers and shakers this week.

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In this issue

• Nothing to see here, sorry
  
• Leaderboard update
• Prizegiving

Nothing to see here, sorry

There's been a little progress this week, but nothing that you'll see yet, I'm afraid - plenty of scribbles on the whiteboard, though, which is always a good sign. No, really. I'm planning a "work on rcu all day" day for the coming week, which should help me catch up a bit.

In other news, it looks as if MattWaddy's photo didn't win the Canon competition, which - frankly - is a travesty, and makes me glad I bought a Brother printer instead of a Canon one. That'll show them. Well, perhaps not, but it makes me feel better.

Leaderboard update

When the leaderboard closed for the week, here's how things looked (rank - user - average guesses):

1st - Bunnery - 4.71 (21 games)
2nd - Mr.Puzzlewit - 4.75 (8 games)
3rd - sharon - 5.29 (41 games)
4th - DOM - 5.38 (24 games)
5th - Smonkey - 14.0 (1 game)

Total games played: 102

See the full leaderboard, along with a trend graph for the top five players on the statistics page.

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who was challenged 30 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who sent 59 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to Bunnery, who played solo 12 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Mr.Puzzlewit, whose codes took an average of 5.43 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.5 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Bunnery, who completed a game in 13 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to sharon, who took 1 day 23:47:11 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Bunnery, who decreased their average by 0.71
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to sharon, whose average increased by 0.55
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to DOM, who took an average of 5.38 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to Bunnery, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.71 over 21 games

Eeep - even quieter this week: 102 games by 5 players - and it's only just 5 players. Mr.Puzzlewit didn't play many games this week (8) but that was still enough to not get frozen out, as fortunately for him, Smonkey played just one game. In fact, her one game gave her the worst score (14), but seeing as she's frozen out, she doesn't win this week's Brute Force award - no, that honour goes to DOM, who finished with 5.38 over 24 games. Still, he did manage to win another award: Plaintext, for sending codes that took an average of 4.83 guesses to find. Sharon also managed to pick up a pair of awards: Deep Thought (took 1 day 23:47:11 to complete one game) and Downgrade (disimproved by 0.55). Mr.Puzzlewit was busy setting the hardest codes (taking 5.43 to find on average), and wins an Enigma award.

Finally, everything else was won by Bunnery. Yep, that's an Open Relay (sent 59 games), Secret Admirers (received 30 games), Turing (played 16 solo games), Quick Thinking (finished a game in 13 seconds), Upgrade (improved by 0.71) and this week's Bletchley award for her final score of 4.71 over 21 games. Nice work, busy Bunnery :-)

Congratulations to everyone who won an award - they'll now be visible on your personal statistics pages so that the rest of us can marvel at your skills.

Got a suggestion for a new award? Let us know - leave a comment on the blog.

See the full award details on the statistics page.

Until next week...

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Remember, you've got under seven days to make your mark on this week's leaderboard... get to it!

Have fun,

Breadmower and the rest of team req.co.uk