Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to doktorfausto, who was challenged 7 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who sent 13 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to sharon, who played solo 41 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to sharon, whose codes took an average of 5 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to DOM, whose codes took only 4.33 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to sharon, who completed a game in 7 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:59:34 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to DOM, who decreased their average by 0.9
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to sharon, whose average increased by -0.09
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Smonkey, who took an average of 7.46 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to DOM, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.5 over 6 games

Almost a photo finish this week, with three players finishing with a sub-five average. DOM was slightly ahead, though - his final average of 4.5 over 6 games edging him ahead of the frozen out Breadmower (with 4.8 over 5 games). Nice work, DOM - have a Bletchley. It looks as if DOM improved the most on his way to the top (by 0.9), winning the Upgrade award, and he also picked up the Plaintext (set codes that took an average of 4.33 guesses to find) and Deep Thought (took a leisurely 1 day 23:59:34 to complete one game) awards

Sharon partially mirrored him this week, winning the Downgrade award (disimproved by 0.09), Quick Thinking award (completed a game in 7 seconds) and Enigma award (set codes that took an average of 5 guesses to find). She didn't win Brute Force (for that perfect mirrored effect) - that went to Smonkey (7.46 over 26 games) - but did win the Turing award (for playing 41 solo games). The final two awards - Open Relay and Secret Admirers - went to Bunnery (13 games sent) and doktorfausto (7 games received) respectively.

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.

Until next week...