Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 68 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to sharon, who sent 62 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 60 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Sarah, whose codes took an average of 5.35 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to DOM, whose codes took only 4.25 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to DOM, who completed a game in 14 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:39:45 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to sharon, who decreased their average by 0.7
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.39
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Bunnery, who took an average of 5.54 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to sharon, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.4 over 30 games

Hmmm, now last week Bin1 briefly resurfaced, and pointed out that I'm losing the umph in my blog writing, and to be fair, he does seem to have a point. "No problem", I thought, "I'll just write something really interesting this week to make up for it". Ah, except the problem is that this week we only have 3 players, 1 frozen, and 192 games played. Not much to work with, I'm afraid, so I'll have to keep this one a bit on the factual side again.

Sharon was this week's player with the lowest final average - that'd be 4.4 over a total of 30 games. Rather a nice score, winning her this week's Bletchley: nice work, Sharon. In addition, Sharon also sent the most games this week (62, winning Open Relay) and improved the most (by 0.7, winning Upgrade). DOM was our second (and lowest non-frozen) placed player, with a final average of 5.28 over 128 games. Not only does he win this week's Brute Force award, but he also received the most games (68, winning Secret Admirers), played the most solo games (60, winning Turing), set the easiest codes (needing an average of 4.25 guesses to find, winning Plaintext), and completed both the fastest and slowest games (taking 14 seconds to win Quick Thinking and 1 day 23:39:45 to win Deep Thought).

Sarah set the hardest codes (taking 5.35 guesses to find on average, winning Enigma), whilst Bunnery disimproved the most (by 0.39, winning Downgrade), but missed out on the Brute Force award due to being frozen out.

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...