Subject: Is it that hard?
Date: Thu May 3 22:37:06 2007
User: aprcosta
Message:roo,
Can't you beat him?
Date: Thu May 3 22:59:54 2007
User: roo.
Message:??
Date: Thu May 3 23:49:06 2007
User: aprcosta
Message:Talking about those 3 Freakouts.
Date: Fri May 4 00:29:57 2007
User: roo.
Message:Well not in those I couldn't.
I don't understand what you are getting at.
You're lucky I opened this thread. I leave a lot unopened these days. Makes it easy not to open joey's.
Date: Fri May 4 01:11:06 2007
User: aprcosta
Message:Never mind. I'm sorry about that.
Date: Fri May 4 02:02:12 2007
User: Mastermind
Message:I am not clear if aprcosta is implying that beating Mastermind should not be difficult or that he should be beaten at all costs. For me this is only a minor recreation and I do not care if I repeatedly beat any one or am repeatedly bested by any one.Of course I do take analytical interest in some games and even post about them.
Roo, as indeed like so many others here, is an excellent player and has got the better of me on many occasions.
Date: Fri May 4 05:18:51 2007
User: kangaroo
Message:Maybe Mastermind, but I'm only a tuppenny pop-gun. None of the top seven rated freakout players have played for at least a month and 13 of the top 20 haven't played in that time. Is there a mass boycott happening? Is WRAC's abstinance rubbing off on all of them?
Date: Fri May 4 11:57:15 2007
User: +-Sandy-+
Message:that's what she said
Date: Fri May 4 18:55:35 2007
User: roo.
Message:WRAC's back! Bewdy!
Date: Fri May 4 19:04:40 2007
User: CubicSprock
Message:and doesn't look too rusty so far considering the long layoff
Date: Fri May 4 19:29:36 2007
User: roo.
Message:Boy this contest is hotting up! Kaos and WRAC each solve a different 8x2 and now the race is on to see who can get the other one first.
Date: Fri May 4 19:42:58 2007
User: kenwa
Message:wait a minute,I hope the other players don't consider it disrespectful that you are commenting on a tournament while it's in progress roo. I'm trying to see how when you do it it's ok but when I do it it's not?
Date: Fri May 4 22:53:33 2007
User: roo.
Message:What? I thought I made it clear that my objections applied only to *actual competitors* of that particular tourney making comments while it was still going.
This time I wasn't able to play and therefore I was free to comment on an interesting development. Nothing wrong with that.
I note that Kaos won the other 8x2 immediately after my last posting and I thought the 6x5 could fall (not that I looked at it), but that WRAC would do it. Congrats Kaos for proving me both right and wrong!
Date: Fri Dec 28 20:00:10 2018
User: Kaos
Message:From the Friday Freakout on 28-Dec. Not solved tonight but someone figured it out previously.
Date: Fri Dec 28 20:04:13 2018
User: roo
Message:It was 1/107 after I first played it and decided to pretty well leave it alone until the end. Several other tough games, but well played Kaos! #7 6x5 was a ripper!
Date: Sat Dec 29 00:40:14 2018
User: joeygray
Message:Took me a while to find it. Linked is the 'joey's post' to which roo refers in the 4th post of this thread. Miss you Pony.
Link: The post not to open
Date: Sat Dec 29 09:21:44 2018
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:Joey,
So you were playing 12 sums way back when? Did you create the competition to get others to join you?
J
Date: Sat Dec 29 11:53:43 2018
User: joeygray
Message:Heh heh. No, I don't suppose I thought of it that way, though in retrospect of course if you publish a stat in a room full of competitive people you are gonna get folks trying it out. And, if they are like me, liking it.
It really just grew out of a little race ix and I had a few years ago to see which of us would first simultaneously hold a 100 streak in 5 12-sum variants. I forget who won, but we were thinking at the time nobody else had done it.
The obvious extension is 6 12-sum variants. I hold out some hope I could eventually hit a hundred in 6x6. I think my chances on 12x0 are very slim.
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