Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to sharon, who was challenged 95 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to DOM, who sent 103 challenges
• The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 84 times
• The Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Mr.Puzzlewit, whose codes took an average of 5.52 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to Bunnery, whose codes took only 4.71 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to Mr.Puzzlewit, who completed a game in 7 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:03:31 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Bunnery, who decreased their average by 0.87
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to sharon, whose average increased by 0.42
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Smonkey, who took an average of 6.53 guesses to break codes
• Optimal Algorithm awards (for finding a code in one guess) go to sharon and DOM
• The Bletchley award (for top codebreaker) is this week awarded to Bunnery, whose average number of guesses to break codes was 4.54 over 13 games

So, 380 games played and only 5 players on the leaderboard. Looks like Laura was the one frozen out this week, but that's probably a good thing, considering how warm it is outside. Of course, all I know about that is the view from the window at the rcu nervecentre - I don't get to spend much time out in the big room with the blue ceiling.

Anyway, DOM won a trio of awards this week: Open Relay (sent 103 challenges), Turing (played 84 solo games) and Deep Thought (took 1 day 23:03:31 to complete one game). Sharon took away two awards: Secret Admirers (received 95 challenges) and Downgrade (disimproved by 0.42). Breadmower wins the non-existent "Read before starting to write" award for failing to include Sharon and DOM's Optimal Algorithm awards in the above count, meaning that DOM won four and Sharon won three.

Bunnery won three awards (no, really - I've checked): Plaintext (codes took an average of 4.71 to find), Upgrade (improved by 0.87) and this week's Bletchley award (final average of 4.54 over 13 games). Nice work, Bunnery. Mr.Puzzlewit was quite close behind her, with 4.71, but wins two awards as a consolation: Enigma (codes took an average of 5.52 to find) and Quick Thinking (completed a game in 7 seconds). Finally, Smonkey takes this week's Brute Force award for her final average of 6.53 over 17 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

Last week, there was The (rather simple) Collective Noun Challenge: come up with a new collective noun for something. Suggestions comprised of "a cuteness of kittens", "a confusion of Lost viewers" and "an intellect of Codex players". Those of you who watch Lost will appreciate that (no doubt more so after tonight's episode), though I do like the ego-stroking Codex suggestion. As for a winner, well it doesn't really matter, as they were all submitted by Bunnery (I'm guessing that everyone else has been busy sunbathing and having barbecues or something). Well done anyway :-)

So, last week, we had a prediction (yes, "a" (singular)), again from Bunnery: "Breadmower, Bin1, Sharon, Bunnery" which translates to one white peg. I suppose by the same (sunbathing and BBQ) reasoning, that makes her the winner. Well done, sort of.

Normal service resumed next week, perhaps?

Until next week...