Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 38 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to sharon, who sent 42 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 162 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Sarah, whose codes took an average of 5.17 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.3 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to DOM, who completed a game in 17 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 14:18:24 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to sharon, who decreased their average by 1.14
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Mr.Puzzlewit, whose average increased by 0.83
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to DOM, who took an average of 5.19 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 4.46 over 26 games

Six players again this week, clocking up a total of 280 games. 200 of those were down to DOM, who finished at the bottom of the table with an average of 5.19, winning the Brute Force award. Of course, with playing 200 games, you know that there's going to be a Turing award (played 163 solo games) and probably a Secret Admirers award (received 38 challenges). He also managed to grab a Quick Thinking award (finished a game in 17 seconds) and a matching Deep Thought award (took 14:18:24 to complete one game), along with an Optimal Algorithm award (found a code on the first guess).

Mr.Puzzlewit disimproved the most this week - by 0.83 in total, winning the Downgrade award. Sharon won its counterpart - Upgrade - for improving by 1.14. That improvement also pushed her to the top of the board, finishing with a score of 4.46 over 26 games. Here's a Bletchley for that, with a Plaintext to go with it (set codes that took an average of 4.3 guesses to find). Nice work :-)

Bin1 managed to squeeze in a few quick games - 6 in total - but that wasn't enough to stay on the board - he was this week's frozen out player. Work less, play more - that's the solution. Sarah won the final award of the week - Enigma, for setting codes that took an average of 5.17 guesses to find. She also gets a bonus award for giving out a big "woo yay" on her profile, but then gets the bonus taken away for the fact that the "woo yay" is so big that it's four times the width of the rest of the site ;-) I'll put that on the fix list for CDX3.

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...