Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 31 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who sent 37 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 132 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Bunnery, whose codes took an average of 5.56 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to Smonkey, whose codes took only 4.5 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Smonkey, who completed a game in 10 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to Bunnery, who took 1 day 12:27:24 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Smonkey, who decreased their average by 1.06
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.41
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Bunnery, who took an average of 5.59 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 4.92 over 26 games

Bit of a slow week this time, unless you're DOM: 255 games in total, 172 by him. Of course, that wins him the Turing award (136 solo games played), but he also went on to win Secret Admirers (received 31 games) and Enigma (set codes that took 5.63 guesses to find on average). No Bletchley for him, though - that went to Sharon, who played considerably less (26 games), but finished with an average of 4.92. Nice work, Sharon :-)

Elsewhere, Smonkey won three awards: Plaintext (codes took an average of 4.5 guesses to find), Quick Thinking (completed a game in 10 seconds) and Upgrade (improved by 1.06). Bunnery took home the rest of the week's awards, winning Open Relay (sent 37 games), Deep Thought (took 1 day 12:27:24 to complete one game), Downgrade (disimproved by 0.41) and Brute Force (final average of 5.59 over 27 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.

Until next week...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 57 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to DOM, who sent 60 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to Bunnery, who played solo 24 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Smonkey, whose codes took an average of 5.29 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.86 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to sharon, who completed a game in 17 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 22:41:03 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to sharon, who decreased their average by 0.47
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.08
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Sharon, who took an average of 5.1 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 4.81 over 52 games

Yeees, well... just a bit quiet this week: three players on the board, one of whom was frozen out. I'll keep things simple, and just go through everyone in turn...

First up is DOM: he finished up at the top of the board with a final score of 4.81 over 52 games. OK, so we know that earns him this week's Bletchley award, but what else did he win for himself? Looks like he sent the most games (60, winning Open Relay), received the most games (57, winning Secret Admirers) and played the slowest game (took 1 day 22:41:03 to finish, winning Deep Thought). Nice work, DOM.

Next we have Sharon: she finished with 5.1 over 51 games. On the way, she picked up Turing (played 11 solo games), Plaintext (set codes that took 4.86 guesses to find on average), Quick Thinking (completed a game in 17 seconds), Upgrade (improved by 0.47), and (due to Bunnery being frozen out) she also won Brute Force (for the highest average).

On the subject of Bunnery, she won the Downgrade award (for disimproving by 0.08). Finally, Smonkey (whilst not being on the leaderboard) won the Enigma award (for setting codes that took an average of 5.29 guesses to find).

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.

Predictions

Don't get too excited - this isn't quite the return of Bunnery Vs Bin1, but it is a bit of news. I had a chat with Bin1 earlier in the week, and it turns out that he's just been internet-less for a while, which is why he's been so quiet. I think he said that he was moving house this week, so hopefully that means that he'll get hooked up again soon, and we'll start seeing him again.

Until next week...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 59 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to sharon, who sent 55 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to sharon, who played solo 27 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to sharon, whose codes took an average of 6.17 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to Smonkey, whose codes took only 4.86 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Smonkey, who completed a game in 9 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:59:54 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to DOM, who decreased their average by 0.34
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Breadmower, whose average increased by 0.56
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Smonkey, who took an average of 7.74 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 4.89 over 19 games

So, five players on the board this time, one frozen out (but then, they only did play the one game). DOM finished up at the top with a final score of 4.89 over 19 games, winning this week's Bletchley award - nice work :-) In addition, he also received the most games (59), winning the Secret Admirers award. He was also responsible for the slowest game of the week (1 day 23:59:54), winning Deep Thought, and improved the most (by 0.34), winning Upgrade. Seemingly, that wasn't enough, as he also won an Optimal Algorithm award for finding a code with one guess.

Sharon and Smonkey won three awards each: Open Relay (sent 55 games), Turing (played 27 solo games) and Enigma (set codes that took an average of 6.17 guesses to find) for Sharon; Plaintext (codes took 4.86 guesses to find on average), Quick Thinking (finished a game in 9 seconds) and Brute Force (final score of 7.74 over 31 games) for Smonkey. Finally, Breadmower managed to disimprove the most (by 0.56) and wins this week's Downgrade award.

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...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to sharon, who was challenged 44 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to DOM, who sent 53 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 121 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Smonkey, whose codes took an average of 5.5 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to DOM, whose codes took only 4.48 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Bunnery, who completed a game in 8 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:59:44 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to sharon, who decreased their average by 0.26
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.26
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Smonkey, who took an average of 7.29 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to laura, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.6 over 10 games

274 games by 6 players, with one frozen out (ah, that'd be me). Laura was the one at the top of the board this week, with 4.6 over 10 games. Not bad, considering they were her first games in over a month. Nice work, have a Bletchley :-)

At the other end of the scale was Smonkey, who finished with an average of 7.29 over 17 games, winning the Brute Force award. Still, as well as being sent hard games, she managed to send out the hardest ones (taking an average of 5.5 guesses to find), and wins the Enigma award. The easiest games were sent by DOM (taking 4.8 guesses to find on average), who wins the Plaintext award. Not content with that, he also won the Open Relay award (sent 53 games), the Turing award (sent 122 games) and the Deep Thought award (took 1 day 23:59:44 to complete one game).

Bunnery played this week's quickest game (8 seconds), winning the Quick Thinking award, along with the Downgrade award for her disimprovement of 0.26 - oddly enough the opposite of Sharon, who won this week's Upgrade award for her improvement of 0.26. Nicely balanced there, ladies :-)

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...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who was challenged 30 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who sent 59 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to Bunnery, who played solo 12 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Mr.Puzzlewit, whose codes took an average of 5.43 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.5 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Bunnery, who completed a game in 13 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to sharon, who took 1 day 23:47:11 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 sharon, whose average increased by 0.55
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to DOM, who took an average of 5.38 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to Bunnery, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.71 over 21 games

Eeep - even quieter this week: 102 games by 5 players - and it's only just 5 players. Mr.Puzzlewit didn't play many games this week (8) but that was still enough to not get frozen out, as fortunately for him, Smonkey played just one game. In fact, her one game gave her the worst score (14), but seeing as she's frozen out, she doesn't win this week's Brute Force award - no, that honour goes to DOM, who finished with 5.38 over 24 games. Still, he did manage to win another award: Plaintext, for sending codes that took an average of 4.83 guesses to find. Sharon also managed to pick up a pair of awards: Deep Thought (took 1 day 23:47:11 to complete one game) and Downgrade (disimproved by 0.55). Mr.Puzzlewit was busy setting the hardest codes (taking 5.43 to find on average), and wins an Enigma award.

Finally, everything else was won by Bunnery. Yep, that's an Open Relay (sent 59 games), Secret Admirers (received 30 games), Turing (played 16 solo games), Quick Thinking (finished a game in 13 seconds), Upgrade (improved by 0.71) and this week's Bletchley award for her final score of 4.71 over 21 games. Nice work, busy Bunnery :-)

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...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to sharon, who was challenged 48 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who sent 57 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 123 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Mr.Puzzlewit, whose codes took an average of 7 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to Breadmower, whose codes took only 2 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Bunnery, who completed a game in 9 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 20:32:25 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who decreased their average by 0.3
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.79
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Smonkey, who took an average of 6.25 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 4.74 over 47 games

Ah, another quiet week - 268 games, 5 players, 1 frozen, and a similar introduction to last time. Let's face it though, I do seem to say the same things a lot... and use too many commas... and ellipsis... Anyway, enough waffle - it's too warm to be sat here, I think I need to go and sit in front of the freezer. Oh, wait, I'm waffling again. No, Ceiling Cat - don't hiss at me!

Yeah, so, this week our top player was Mr.Puzzlewit, who finished with a final average of 4.6... except for the minor fact that he'd played the fewest games this week (5), so was frozen out. Sorry Mr.Puzzlewit, this week's Bletchley award goes to Sharon, who finished with an average of 4.74 over 47 games. Nice work, Sharon. She's also the most popular player this week, winning the Secret Admirers award (received 48 games).

Bunnery was busy this week, winning the Downgrade (disimproved by 0.79), Open Relay (sent 57 games) and Quick Thinking awards (completed a game in 9 seconds). In fact, Mr.Puzzlewit and DOM also completed games in 9 seconds, so I think I'll have to let them have a Quick Thinking award each too. In addition, Mr.Puzzlewit won the Upgrade award (improved by 0.3) and the Enigma award (set codes that took an average of 7 guesses to find), whilst DOM won the Turing award (played 124 solo games) and the Deep Thought award (took 1 day 20:32:25 to finish one game).

Breadmower set the easiest codes this week (taking a rather pathetic 2 guesses to find on average), winning Plaintext, and Smonkey finished with the highest average (6.25 over 12 games), winning the Brute Force award.

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...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to sharon, who was challenged 28 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to DOM, who sent 36 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 179 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Sarah, whose codes took an average of 7 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.62 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to DOM, who completed a game in 11 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:59:34 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Bunnery, who decreased their average by 0.92
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Breadmower, whose average increased by 1.08
• 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 Bunnery, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.63 over 19 games

Another quiet-ish week, I'm afraid: 260 games, 5 players, 1 frozen. DOM was the busiest this week, playing 201 games (just over 75% of the week's games). For his effort, he won five awards: Open Relay (sent 36 challenges), Turing (played 180 solo games), Quick Thinking (for finishing a game in 11 seconds (or -3589 if you beleive the statistics page (which is an hour out, for some reason)), Deep Thought (took 1 day 22:59:34 to complete one game) and Brute Force (for his final average of 5.19).

Elsewhere, Sharon picked up the Secret Admirers award (for receiving 28 challenges) and the Plaintext award (for setting codes that took only 4.62 guesses to find on average), whilst Sarah won Enigma (for setting codes that took an average of 7 guesses to find) and Breadmower won Downgrade (for disimproving by 1.08). Finally Bunnery found a code with one guess (winning an Optimal Algorithm award), which helped her to win this week's Bletchley award for her final average of 4.63. Nice wor, Bunnery :-)

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.

Predictions

Still nothing going on here, but I'll try to rally the troops for next week, OK?

Until next week...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to sharon, who was challenged 21 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to DOM, who sent 31 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 51 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Bunnery, whose codes took an average of 5.62 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to sharon, whose codes took only 4.71 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Bunnery, who completed a game in 7 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to sharon, who took 1 day 22:42:54 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who decreased their average by 0.53
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to DOM, whose average increased by 1.18
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to DOM, who took an average of 5.62 guesses to break codes
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to Mr.Puzzlewit, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.67 over 12 games

Hmmm... quiet week: only five players on the leaderboard, and one of those frozen out - yes, Mr.Puzzlewit played a few games on Saturday night to get ahead of Breadmower, freezing him out (that'll teach him to write about himself in the third person). Anyway, Mr.Puzzlewit is our Bletchley winner for the week, with his final average of 4.67 over 12 games, following his Upgrade-winning improvement of 0.53. Nice work, Mr.Puzzlewit.

Down at the other end of the board is DOM, who played the most games (66), but also picked up four awards: Open Relay (sent 31 games), Turing (played 54 solo games), Downgrade (disimproved by 1.18) and Brute Force (final average of 5.62).

Sharon won three awards, whilst Bunnery grabbed the remaining pair: Secret Admirers (received 21 games), Plaintext (codes took an average of 4.71 guesses to find) and Deep Thought (took 1 day 22:42:54 to complete one game) for Sharon; Enigma (codes took an average of 5.62 guesses to find) and Quick Thinking (finished a game in 7 seconds) for Bunnery.

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.

Predictions

Ah, no predictions made this week, and, uhhh, no forfeits set either. Perhaps I should leave it at that and make a quick getaway...

Until next week...

Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who was challenged 11 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to Bunnery, who sent 29 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who played solo 13 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Mr.Puzzlewit, whose codes took an average of 6.5 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to Bunnery, whose codes took only 4.33 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who completed a game in 10 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:09:19 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to DOM, who decreased their average by 0.89
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.69
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to laura who took an average of 6.75 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 4.44 over 9 games

I'll start with the weird one: the statistics page says that DOM won the Deep Thought award for taking 2 days 00:09:19 to finish one game. Yeah, I know - that's impossible. It's just due to the messed up date thing - it really only took him 1 day 23:09:19, so that's OK. DOM also improved the most (by 0.89) winning Upgrade, and won this week's Bletchley award for his final average of 4.44 over 9 games. Nice work, DOM.

Bunnery was busy this week, winning four awards: Open Relay (for sending 29 games), Turing (for playing 28 solo games), Enigma (she set codes that took 6.75 guesses to break on average) and Downgrade (disimproved by 0.69). Mr.Puzzlewit won a pair of awards: Secret Admirers (received 11 games) and Quick Thinking (finished a game in 10 seconds). Sharon won the Plaintext award (for setting codes that only took an average of 5 guesses to find). Finally, Laura won this week's Brute Force award for her final average of 6.75 over 4 games, despite the fact that she didn't have the highest average (Smonkey performed worse, but had played the least 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.

Predictions

Ah, still not normal service down here in the predictions section, so I don't really have much to say. Bunnery didn't even suggest a forfeit for anyone last week. Hmmm... I'll tell you what, how about this: to encourage me to plough on with the rcu update, how about suggestions for a forfeit for me if I don't (honestly) report that I've made some serious progress by this time next week. Bunnery can pick the winner (in lieu of setting a forfeit last week), or perhaps just set one herself if no-one else does. Actually, I'm thinking that something like "play all of my backlogged Codex games" might be one suggestion... hmmm, maybe no-one would've thought of that if I hadn't mentioned it. Never mind.

On an entirely unrelated note: Bin1, I've only just seen your question about the background - I'll try to find the place that I got it from and let you know (though I think it might've been iStockPhoto).

Until next week...