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...