req.co.uk Codex newsletter #103
posted by Breadmower on Sat 11th Oct, 08 at 21:07:07
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
- No, really - a proper update on the update
- Leaderboard update
- Prizegiving
No, really - a proper update on the update
OK, so you probably noticed that this is being written at the end of the week instead of the start, but (for a change) there's a good reason: there's been a whole chunk of stuff sorted out for the Codex update. Don't get too excited - you can't see it yet, as it's going to be included in the next version of Codex. So, what, that's going to be in a few months or something? Well, actually, it should be a lot sooner than that... I'll admit that I'm going to miss the target date that I was aiming for, but only by a (very) small amount. More in the next newsletter...
Leaderboard update
When the leaderboard closed for the week, here's how things looked (rank - user - average guesses):
1st - Sarah - 3.9 (10 games)
2nd - DOM - 4.88 (76 games)
3rd - sharon - 5.1 (10 games)
4th - bin1 - 5.22 (27 games)
5th - Bunnery - 5.33 (18 games)
6th - Breadmower - 5.4 (5 games)
xx - Mr.Puzzlewit- 6.5 (4 games)
7th - Smonkey - 6.71 (7 games)
Total games played: 165
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 DOM, who was challenged 34 times
- The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to sharon, who sent 41 challenges
- The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 45 times
- The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Sarah, whose codes took an average of 6 guesses to break
- The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.09 guesses to break on average
- The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to bin1, who completed a game in 6 seconds
- The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:47:16 to finish one game
- The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who decreased their average by 1.08
- The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to sharon, whose average increased by 0.64
- The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Smonkey, who took an average of 6.71 guesses to break codes
- The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to Sarah, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 3.9 over 10 games
168 games by 8 players, that's not too bad. Sarah was at the top of the list for the first time in a while, finishing with a rather impressive score of 3.9 over 10 games. Nice work - have a Bletchley. What's that? You want more? Well... maybe an Enigma as well (for setting codes that took an average of 6 guesses to break).
Sharon might have sent the most games this week (41, winning Open Relay), but it looks as if they were all pretty easy, as she won the Plaintext award (they took an average of 4.38 guesses to find). She also disimproved the most (by 0.64), winning Downgrade. Improving the most was Mr.Puzzlewit, who won Upgrade for his improvement of 1.08.
DOM picked up 3 awards this week: Secret Admirers and Turing (received 34 games and played 48 solo games), along with Deep Thought (took 1 day 23:47:16 to complete a single game). This week's fastest game was played by Bin1 in a speedy 6 seconds (winning Quick Thinking), whilst this week's Brute Force award was won by Smonkey for her final score of 6.71 over 7 games.
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
Hey - isn't this a special day? The 2nd Anniversary of Codex?
WooHoo!!
Looking forward to the future changes - but I hope you have at least sorted out a Birthday logo for the site :-)
Calm down, dear...posted by Breadmower on Sun 12th Oct, 08 at 18:37:21...it's not until next week. Don't worry - I thought the same thing this morning. Thanks for the (early) birthday wishes, though :-)