req.co.uk Codex newsletter #98
posted by Breadmower on Sun 31st Aug, 08 at 20:57:07
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
- I bought some really nice trousers in Camden...
- Leaderboard update
- Prizegiving
I bought some really nice trousers in Camden...
...they is well hardcore with pockets and bits. Bonus marks if you recognise the quotation. Anyway, due in part to these trousers, I didn't manage to get anything done this week. No, wait, that doesn't make sense. I was doing a networking job this week, and the trousers are fancy ones with kneepads for if you're kneeling down. Basically, I had a lot of "real work" to do, so the site took a back seat. Don't worry - I've scheduled some time over the coming days to make up for it.
Leaderboard update
When the leaderboard closed for the week, here's how things looked (rank - user - average guesses):
1st - DOM - 4.99 (90 games)
2nd - sharon - 5.1 (49 games)
3rd - Sarah - 5.14 (29 games)
4th - Bunnery - 5.14 (21 games)
xx - Mr.Puzzlewit - 6.0 (1 game)
Total games played: 198
See the full leaderboard, along with a trend graph for the top five players on the .
Prizegiving
This week:
- The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to sharon, who was challenged 38 times
- The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to DOM, who sent 45 challenges
- The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 72 times
- The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to DOM, whose codes took an average of 5 guesses to break
- The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.84 guesses to break on average
- The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to sharon, who completed a game in 12 seconds
- The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to Bunnery, who took 1 day 12:57:02 to finish one game
- The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Bunnery, who decreased their average by 0.25
- The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Sarah, whose average increased by 0.17
- The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Bunnery, who took an average of 5.14 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 4.99 over 90 games
Bit of a busier week this time, with 198 games played in total. DOM stormed to the top of the board, playing 90 games and finishing with an average of 4.99 - just 0.11 ahead of Sharon (who in turn was just 0.04 ahead of Bunnery and Sarah). Hardly the biggest lead, but enough to win a Bletchley - nice work, DOM. In addition, he's also the recipient of this week's Open Relay and Turing awards for sending 45 games and playing 73 solo games.
Sharon received the most games this week (38) winning Secret Admirers, set the hardest codes (average of 5.3 guesses to find) winning Enigma, and completed a game in 12 seconds to win Quick Thinking. Sarah disimproved the most (by 0.17) to win Downgrade, whilst Bunnery improved by 0.25 to win Upgrade. Not only that, but she also set the easiest codes (4.85 guesses to find on average) winning Plaintext, won Deep Thought (took 1 day 12:57:02 to complete a single game), and had the highest (non-frozen) score: 5.14 over 21 games, winning Brute Force.
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 .
Until next week...
That's it for this newsletter, thanks for reading. Want to make a comment or suggestion? Leave a comment on the blog.
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
Egads! He's back!posted by Breadmower on Mon 1st Sep, 08 at 15:25:00Fancy seeing you here...
Busy, yes - annoying, isn't it? Umph, yes - but see previous point :-(
New Codex: am wary of setting a specific date, as that'll probably cause me to miss it. Am progressing reasonably well with the non-Codex stuff, so it'll be sooner (*) rather than later (**). If you're interested, there's some new greenness to see in the usual greenness area.
(*) This is relative
(**) This is also relative
Welcome back bin1!!
You finally figured out how to plug your computer back in?
:-)