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...