Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 20 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to Sarah, who sent 33 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to sharon, who played solo 13 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Bunnery, whose codes took an average of 5.46 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to Smonkey, whose codes took only 4.33 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Sarah, who completed a game in 10 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to sharon, who took 1 day 23:59:26 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to sharon, who decreased their average by 0.01
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.46
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Bunnery, who took an average of 5.39 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to Sarah, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.66 over 29 games

Only four players this week (my excuse is that I was sat in front of a copy of Dreamweaver all week, what's yours? :-) ). For a change, however, it wasn't all the usual suspects from recent weeks: no Breadmower and no Smonkey, but we did see the return of Sarah for the first time in, uhh, a while. Not only that, but she jumped straight to the top of the board with her final average of 4.66 over 29 games. Here, have a Bletchley as a welcome back gift of sorts. Not good enough? OK, what about an Open Relay award (for sending 33 games) and a Quick Thinking award (for finishing a game in 9 seconds) as well. Nice work, Sarah.

DOM might have been relegated to second place, but he did receive the most games - 20 in total - winning him the Secret Admirers award. Sharon played the most solo games (14) winning Turing, along with Deep Thought (took 1 day 23:59:26 to complete one game), Upgrade (improved by 0.01) and Brute Force (highest non-frozen average of 5.08 over 24 games). Smonkey set the easiest codes (taking an average of 4.33 to find), winning the Plaintext award. Finally, Bunnery won Enigma (for setting codes that took an average of 5.46 guesses to find) and Downgrade (disimproved by 0.46).

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...