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re: Six Points Away From 1900
[45563] by "Mike™" (pool-68-161-81-177.ny325.east.verizon.net)   on Mon 10 Jan 2005 10:05:41     reply ] [ up ]
I just played this awesome game, my second best ever. It will only take three more 1800+ games to eliminate all 1700's from the Top Fifty:

http://archive.snoot.org/scribble/05.01/10.10.03.27-1894.html

:-)))))))))))
re: 66 Points away from 1900 ;-)
[45596] by "Mike™" (pool-68-160-240-89.ny325.east.verizon.net)   on Tue 11 Jan 2005 18:11:36     reply ] [ up ]
http://archive.snoot.org/scribble/05.01/11.17.52.10-1834.html

heh. This was a very strange game -- the first L appeared at Tile #93 (the highest possible would've been #95 given that there are four L's; the chance of that happening is probably around one-in-a-billion, no exaggeration).

For a game of this magnitude, the trips were terrible. So terrible, in fact, that this game set the new record for highest "non-trip" sum in a Top 50 game, here a whopping **600** points. The old record was 586, set in the 1st-place game. In Top 50 games, getting anything above 540 or so is rare. Getting 600 is unheard of.

All in all, a 20th-place game.  :-)

Two more 1800+ games to eliminate all 1700's from the Top Fifty.  :)

- Mike