I set my new personal best last night, one shy of 700 because KC bingoed out on me. I also missed a bingo along the way. The game is here. KC was a really good sport. I hope I would be that good of a sport if someone hangs up a 699 on me.

I've been meaning to write up the Berkeley one-day - I actually had the games uploaded the same day but it took ( Read more... )

Played my matchplay series with Ed yesterday...thanks for tuning in, everyone who did! I hope it was a fun setup. Sorry for hiding my tiles on the edges of my rack.

Before the Berkeley, here's a trivia question - I went through and looked at the top 10 from the last six worlds (WSC 2001 to 2011), figuring that worlds tends to feature more variance ( Read more... )

I went through in semi-sobriety last night and compiled the results of the last 10 nationals (including the 2007 PC, excluding all-stars), dating back to the 2000 Nationals. I went through and just looked at top 5 finishes and did a couple of quick metrics.

29 people have had top-5 finishes since 2000. Of those, a whopping 17 are accounted for by ( Read more... )

Look at the puzzle from yesterday first if you don't want it spoiled!

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This is the first in a new genre of puzzles, similar to a helpmate in chess, in which the goal is to find a way to lose the game. I'm still trying to figure out the exact rules, but in general all plays must be real words and must be legal plays. It's no Kramer puzzle, and I make no guarantees that it's even right, but I hope you get some ( Read more... )

I wrote a good 6000 words on adventuring and then only managed to put up 2500 words today on my term paper that I forgot about until yesterday and that is due tomorrow. talk about priorities!

I told myself that this evening, I would write a full post about the last couple of weeks of my life and go through my games from today's berkeley tourney. Unfortunately, the internet ate my first attempt at doing the former. Screw it. Here we go again. This time it will be twice as funny.

I spent the last two months of my life prior to the SDO DOS ( Read more... )

woo!

wish me luck!

congrats betsy!