Prizegiving

This week:

• The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to punkxrocker, who was challenged 6 times
• The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to sharon, who sent 10 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 7 guesses to break
• The Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to DOM, whose codes took only 4.5 guesses to break on average
• The Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to DOM, who completed a game in 32 seconds
• The Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 1 day 23:44:47 to finish one game
• The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to Smonkey, who decreased their average by 0.24
• The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Bunnery, whose average increased by 0.35
• The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to Bunnery, who took an average of 6.56 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 5.19 over 47 games

Quite a few more games played than last week - ah, that must mean that DOM's back, presumably with a Turing award... yep, there he is: 51 solo games played for the Turing award, a game finished in 32 seconds for the Quick Thinking award, 1 day 23:44:47 spent pondering a game for the Deep Thought award, and a few easy codes set (taking 4.5 guesses to find on average), winning the Plaintext award. No Bletchley for DOM this week, though - that went to Sharon, who finished with an average of 5.19 over 47 games, along with an Open Relay award for sending 10 games. Nice work, Sharon.

Receiving the most games (6) this week was punkxrocker, who's relatively new, but has yet to play any games. The trickiest codes (taking 7 guesses on average to find) were set by Bunnery, winning Enigma - she also disimproved the most (by 0.35) to win Downgrade, and was at the bottom of the leaderboard (average of 6.56 over 9 games), snatching the Brute Force award from Smonkey, who was frozen out. Smonkey did, however, improve the most (by 0.24), winning Upgrade.

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...