Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to NiconRossi, who was challenged 20 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to DOM, who sent 62 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to Bunnery, who played solo 6 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Sarah, whose codes took an average of 5.71 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.2 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to NiconRossi, who completed a game in 4 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:59:52 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to DOM, who decreased their average by 0.78
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to sharon, whose average increased by 0.5
• An Optimal Algorithm award (for finding a code with one guess) is given to NiconRossi
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Bunnery, who took an average of 5.33 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 20 games

It was a quiet week (only 80 games played), but NiconRossi burst back onto the scene with a score of 5.15, but also an Optimal Algorithm award (found a code in one guess), a Quick Thinking award (finished a game in 4 seconds) and a Secret Admirers award (received 20 games). Only problem was that he'd played the fewest games, so he was frozen out. Still, could be worse - at least he didn't miss out on a Bletchley because of that: this week's Bletchley award went to DOM for his final score of 4.5 over 20 games - nice work, DOM. In addition, he also picked up the Open Relay award (sent 62 games), the Deep Thought award (took 1 day 23:59:52 to complete one game) and the Upgrade award (improved by 0.78).

Sharon was only just behind DOM on the leaderboard, but had consolation prizes of the Plaintext award (set codes that took an average of 4.2 guesses to find) and the Downgrade award (disimproved by 0.5). Sarah was at the opposite end of things difficulty-wise, winning the Enigma award (set codes that took an average of 5.71 guesses to find. Finally Bunnery won the Turing award (played 4 solo games), but also finished with the highest average (5.33), 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.

Until next week...