Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 28 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to sharon, who sent 72 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 85 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Sarah, whose codes took an average of 6.83 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 5.15 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who completed a game in 8 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who took 1 day 22:55:04 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Bunnery, who decreased their average by 0.71
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to DOM, whose average increased by 0.88
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to sharon, who took an average of 5.6 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to bin1, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.2 over 5 games

Hey, more players and more games: 6 and 223, to be precise. Bin1 finished at the top of the pile with an average of 4.2 over 5 games - quite a triumphant return after his absence. Nice work - celebrate with a Bletchley award.

Trailing by just 0.05 was Mr.Puzzlewit, who though deprived of a Bletchley, still won a matching pair of awards: Quick Thinking (completed a game in 8 seconds) and Deep Thought (took 1 day 22:55:04 to complete a game). Bunnery managed to improve the most (by 0.71), winning Upgrade. DOM played the most games (126 in total), and as you'd expect, won the Turing award (86 solo games) and Secret Admirers award (28 games received). The bad news is that he disimproved the most (by 0.88).

Sarah managed to sneak in without playing any games and win the Enigma award (set codes that took 6.83 guesses to find on average). Its counterpart - Plaintext - was won by Sharon (set codes that took 5.15 guesses to find on average), along with this week's Brute Force award (final average of 5.6 over 70 games), which she snatched from Smonkey (who was this week's frozen out player).

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...