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Subject: 2015-16 SSC Reminder -- PLAY SATURDAY.


Date: Fri Sep 2 02:51:30 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is Saturday, 3 September 2016, in 7x4 (Hard difficulty). The best daily 7x4 streak is 56 (Kaos), 10th best is 47 (2x tied 10th), and 100th best is 35 (8x tied 93rd). The last time 7x4 was played, 23 weeks ago, on 9 April 2016, there were 59 participants (but 9 of the top 27 were not SSC “regulars”). Hopefully CubicSprock will be home soon and we will have some scores!!

Date: Sat Sep 3 13:47:15 2016
User: Crunch
Message:
What is SSC? What is 7x4 (Hard difficulty)? Is it the 7x4's not possibly winnable as opposed to the winnable ones?

Date: Sat Sep 3 13:50:30 2016
User: Crunch
Message:
Is it level 7 or higher difficulty on the Custom Game selection for random 7x4's?

Date: Sat Sep 3 15:11:42 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
The "SSC" is the "Saturday Sreak Competition" which is 22 of the "regular" variants played in a peculiar rotation. Each competition last 24 hours, from midnight to midnight Eastern Standard Time. There are 3 groups of variants (note: "sum" is the sum of the columns plus the freecells): Group-0 = 10 variants: ("7x3", "11x2", "9x1", "10x3", "8x2", "9x4", "10x0", "12x1", "6x4", "8x5"); .......... 10 sum = very hard, or 13 sum = very easy. Group-1 = ("9x3", "7x5", "11x1", "10x2", "12x0"); ..................................... 12 sum = medium. Group-2 = ("6x5", "13x0", "10x1", "8x3", "11x0", "9x2", "7x4"); ........... 11 sum = hard (except that 13x0 is actually fairly easy). The group-0 games get played once every 30 weeks. The group-1 games get played once every 15 weeks. The group-2 games get played once every 21 weeks. It takes 210 weeks for the cycle of games to repeat! Today's 7x4 (last in group-2) just happens to be the 210th week that the SSC has been played. Next week will restart "at the beginning" with 7x3. I hope this helps!??? It is all that I have time for right now!

Date: Sun Sep 4 03:24:04 2016
User: Crunch
Message:
Thanks TitanicTony Very interesting. It is basically a focused streak of the day with a lot of players. My only question is do we select "Winnable Variants" or "All Variants" from the pull down? Like on the 7x4 which is listed in both categories. I would think they are not in the same set of games. Some of the group variants are not in the "Winnable Variants" pull down categories so the choices would only be one, not two. Regards Crunch

Date: Sun Sep 4 03:45:40 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
Crunch, The SSC always plays the regular (random) version of the variant. I think that when the SSC first started, a little over 4 years ago, the "winnable" variants had been even been created. Btw, the 2 sets of games (regular and winnable) are exactly the same, but when you play the winnable version, only the games that are known to be winnable are dealt. It was free@last who wrote a program to check all 1,966,080 games (32768*6*10) to determine which games are winnable! Apparently the program wasn't quite perfect and failed to win a few of the winnable games (which really doesn't matter at all, imo).

Date: Sun Sep 4 09:45:41 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Another way to answer Crunch's last question is that since "SSC" (not the "Superconducting Supercollider", which had that acronym first) is "Saturday Streak Competition", it's on Saturday, and is only the "regular" games (All Variants), while the "WWC" is "Wednesday Winnables Competition", and thus uses the "winnables" universe. Early in this competition, several of us, especially myself, since we weren't terribly astute, incorrectly were playing the regulars on Wednesdays, to moderate good-natured frivolity.

Date: Sun Sep 4 19:35:59 2016
User: hotnurse
Message:
I remember that. I had a good streak going until it hit me that I was playing the wrong variant. It was fun while it lasted.

Date: Fri Sep 9 15:22:56 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is tomorrow, Saturday, 10 September 2016, in 7x3 ("very hard" difficulty). The all-time Best Daily 7x3 Streak is 26, 10th best is 17 (6x tied 10th) and 100th best is 13 (32x tied 69th)!

Date: Fri Sep 16 13:47:00 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 17 September 2016, in 9x3 (medium difficulty).

Date: Fri Sep 23 13:43:58 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 24 September 2016, in 6x5 (hard difficulty).

Date: Fri Sep 30 11:13:58 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 01 October 2016, in 11x2 (Easy difficulty).

Date: Sat Oct 1 16:38:08 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
hey guys, how many games are y'all planning on trying to win? Do I need to aim for a near all time daily best just to win this week?

Date: Sat Oct 1 19:24:31 2016
User: kenwa
Message:
I messed up to ease the pressure a little :O)

Date: Sat Oct 1 20:31:41 2016
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:
As a conciliatory gesture, and speaking only for myself, I will not press the issue.

Date: Sat Oct 1 21:11:54 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
I decided to crash mine too to keep it interesting...let's see if d16 has enough time and energy to pass me :-)

Date: Fri Oct 7 12:56:15 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 08 October 2016, in 7x5 (Medium difficulty).

Date: Fri Oct 14 18:26:34 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 15 October 2016, in 13x0 (Hard difficulty).

Date: Fri Oct 14 18:38:27 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
13x0 is in the "hard" group, but is actually one of the easiest of the SSC variants, imo!

Date: Sat Oct 15 00:11:43 2016
User: joeygray
Message:
Yeah. As noted in the past, 12x0 and 13x0 ought to be switched.

Date: Fri Oct 21 00:14:54 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 22 October 2016, in 9x1 (Very Hard difficulty).

Date: Sat Oct 22 20:21:12 2016
User: stinky_cootified_peach_tree
Message:
Fun game: Game #: 9x1 16475 Game stats: 30/2/6.67% Difficulty: 5

Date: Fri Oct 28 15:27:43 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 29 October 2016, in 11x1 (Medium difficulty).

Date: Fri Nov 4 19:03:07 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is tomorrow, Saturday, 5 November 2016, in 10x1 (Hard difficulty), I think!?

Date: Sat Nov 12 07:04:50 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
REMINDER: The next SSC is today, Saturday, 12 November 2016, in 10x3 (easy difficulty). Where are you CubicSprock???

Date: Fri Nov 18 08:35:15 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
In the absence of CubicSprock,... REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 19 November 2016, in 10x2 (medium difficulty). The all-time best 10x2 daily streak is 313 (ValpoJim), 10th best is 194 (also ValpoJim), and 100th best is 102. All level 10 games have been played. 10 level 10 games have never been won, and only 91 level 10 games have win rates <= 27.27%)!

Date: Fri Nov 25 10:34:31 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
Date: Tue Nov 22 16:11:57 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:
thanks Tony. I've been super busy and haven't had a chance to update things. If anyone wants access and an explanation of the online microsoft sheets I'm using just ask and then multiple people will be able to do updates.

Apparently CubicSprock is still super busy, so here is the SSC reminder for tomorrow:

REMINDER: The next SSC is this Saturday, 26 November 2016, in 8x3 (hard difficulty). The all-time best daily 8x3 streak is 111 (CubicSprock), 10th best is 59, and 100th best is 42 (11x tied 90th).

And, here is the SSC schedule for the rest of this year:

Variant: 8x3 8x2 12x0 11x0
======= ====== ======= ====== ======
Date: 26 Nov. 3 Dec. 10 Dec. 17 Dec.
Difficulty: Hard Very hard Medium Hard

Date: Sat Nov 26 00:15:43 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:
You all remember what happened last time 8x3 came up?

Date: Fri Dec 2 09:46:10 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
Apparently CubicSprock is still super busy, so here is the SSC reminder for tomorrow: REMINDER: The next SSC is tomorrow, Saturday, 3 December 2016, in 8x2 ("VERY hard" difficulty -- about 10% of the level 5 games have never been won). The all-time best 8x2 daily streak is 27 (ValpoJim), 10th best is 21 (5x tied 10th), and 100th best is 14 (3x tied 98th).

Date: Fri Dec 9 05:22:53 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
From Costa Adeje, So. Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, here is the SSC reminder for tomorrow: REMINDER: The next SSC is tomorrow, Saturday, 10 Dcember 2016, in 12x0 ("medium" difficulty). The all-time best Daily streak for 12x0 is 53, 10th best is 48 (2x tied 9th) and 100th best is 36 (4x tied 97th).

Date: Fri Dec 16 11:53:16 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:
From back home in Geneva, Switzerland, here is the SSC reminder for tomorrow. Please note that it will be MY LAST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that there will NOT be an SSC on either 24 December, or 31 December!! REMINDER: The next SSC is tomorrow, Saturday, 17 December 2016, in 11x0 ("hard" difficulty). The all-time best Daily streak is 25 (firenze), 10th best is 21 (6x tied 10th) and 100th is 15 (15x tied 86th). All of the level 5 games have been played (a lot), and 6239 have never been won (down 4 from 6243 the last time, 23 July 2016)!

Date: Fri Dec 16 12:24:02 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:
That 25 is remarkable. If one uses a winning rate of 80% (and it *could* be slightly higher; possibly) for that variant, getting 25 winnable ones in a row comes out to about 3 chances in 1000.


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