req.co.uk Codex newsletter #104
posted by Breadmower on Sun 12th Oct, 08 at 14:33:33
What's this newsletter all about then?
Welcome to the Codex newsletter, where we bring you up to speed with what's going on at the site and - more importantly - let you know the results of the weekly leaderboard, and what accolades have been awarded to the movers and shakers this week.
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In this issue
- No, wait - actually it's next week
- What is two but then three?
- Leaderboard update
- Prizegiving
No, wait - actually it's next week
So, last night (after a coding session), I was getting a bit stressed out because I'd got it into my head that today was Codex's second birthday, what with this being newsletter 104 (2*52). In fact, I'd even written half of today's newsletter whilst still thinking about it... until I thought about it a bit harder, and realised that it's not today, it's actually next week. See, we started with #1, so #52 is the last one of the first year, and #104 is the last one of the second year - meaning that #105 is the big milestone. Panic over. Seeing as next week is going to be the important one, I won't say anything about updates this week, and will save it for the birthday issue.
Leaderboard update
When the leaderboard closed for the week, here's how things looked (rank - user - average guesses):
1st - sharon - 4.08 (12 games)
2nd - bin1 - 5.09 (11 games)
3rd - Bunnery - 5.17 (24 games)
4th - DOM - 5.35 (65 games)
xx - Smonkey - 8.0 (2 games)
Total games played: 121
See the full leaderboard, along with a trend graph for the top five players on the .
Prizegiving
This week:
- The Secret Admirers award (for receiving the most challenges) goes to DOM, who was challenged 30 times
- The Open Relay award (for sending the most challenges) goes to sharon, who sent 35 challenges
- The Turing award (for the most solo games played) goes to DOM, who played solo 38 times
- Hhe Enigma award (for sending the hardest codes) is awarded to Sarah, whose codes took an average of 8 guesses to break
- Rhe Plaintext award (for sending the easiest codes) is given to DOM, whose codes took only 4.33 guesses to break on average
- Ehe Quick Thinking award (for the fastest game) goes to bin1, who completed a game in 6 seconds
- Ehe Deep Thought award (for the slowest game) goes to DOM, who took 18:00:21 to finish one game
- The Upgrade award (for most improved average) goes to sharon, who decreased their average by 1.02
- The Downgrade award (for most worsened average) is given to Smonkey, whose average increased by 2.5
- The Brute Force award (for the highest average) goes to DOM, who took an average of 5.35 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 4.08 over 12 games
Aww, bit of a quiet week - only 5 players completing 121 games in total. Perhaps we'll manage to attract a few more people soon, but in the meantime let's see how the current names have done. Well, Sharon's up at the top with a final score of 4.08 over 12 games, winning this week's Bletchley award - nice work. On her way there, she also won Upgrade (improved by 1.02) and Open Relay (sent 35 games).
Receiving the most games this time was DOM (30, winning Secret Admirers), along with Turing (played the most solo games), Plaintext (set codes that took an average of just 4.33 guesses to find), Deep Thought (took 18:00:21 to finish a single game) and Brute Force (final average of 5.35 over 65 games - snatched from Smonkey, who was this week's frozen out player). Smonkey did, however, win a Downgrade award (for disimproving by 2.5). Finally Bin1 managed the fastest game (6 seconds, winning Quick Thinking), and Sarah won Enigma (set codes that took an average of 8 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.
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See the full award details on the .
Until n3xt week...
That's it for this newsletter, thanks for reading. Want to make a comment or suggestion? Leave a comment on the blog.
Remember, you've got under seven days to make your mark on this week's leaderboard... get to it!
Have fun,
Breadmower and the rest of team req.co.uk
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