BongoBingo just took me to school on 3 timed games. I think he was taunting me on the last one, when he beat me 40k to 39k and saved his last play until the last seconds.

lol sorry about that

hahaha <shakes fist angrily>

Didn't expect my score to be any good anyway, was shocked to be in contention. The last roll was terrible for me but it must have been even worse for everyone else.

my game in yesterday's DC was the classic worst possible result - a really good game with a slight flaw that makes it not quite optimal... good for second place

Reason to hate cats number 432: he just walked across the keyboard when I was on the final rack of the daily challenge. He somehow managed to crash the tab so I can't finish it. At least I wasn't on for a decent score.

I can't play anymore, it seems like I'm totally ****ing up every challenge lately.

You made more than double my score.

I misguessed rack 1-3 and then I played for the miracle rolls to justify my early strat and it was all wrong lol

Site is down for maintenance

probably fixing the Gabethebabe-wins-too-few-daily-challenges bug

hahaha

I hope it's the kioshk-gets-too-many-3's bug.

It's called level 11.

TC is back up with 2 noticeable things so far:

1) ads (can't blame him at all. He deserves to make money off of the site).
2) Master/professional/expert/journeyman etc classifications for timed and DC.

Anything else Zac?

Yup, there's more. Those were both things I threw in on a whim. I did a major overhaul of the guts of the site in preparation for a new game mode (will give details when it's further along). While I was at it I decided to change some things about timed mode that people have been requesting.

Unfortunately with the number of behind the scenes changes I've made there were bound to be some bugs that I didn't catch during development. As soon as I'm done squashing those I'll post a full list of feature updates.

Might be a bumpy ride for the next couple of days, but I'm pretty sure it will be worth it.

Now that timed mode seems to be somewhat stable, here's what you'll find:

- As soon as all players finish their game, the round ends
- If two players have the same score, the faster game wins
- If you start a game with >= 2 minutes left on the clock and don't finish it, your score is set to 0. If you start with < 2 minutes and don't finish, your score is not counted.
- Timed ratings are updated as soon as the game ends (mouse over the colored bubble)
- When a game is complete, game time is displayed instead of "0 remaining" (game time is measured from the start of the round, not from when your first die is placed)

Hope you guys like the changes, let me know if you see any bugs or have any other requests.

I appreciate the game so much. I'm fine with the ads. The color-coding I'm not wild about because it makes the page seem a little cluttered and a little too busy imo. I always liked the contrast of the relatively gray page with the bright new colors once the chains started forming.

Its getting to that time again. HOOOOLD.

Fair point about the colors. I mainly wanted an indicator of rating during timed mode so people could see their progression without having to click over to the leaderboard, but it was easy enough to carry over to the font page so I went for it. I'll see how it goes for a while and then reevaluate.

I also wanted to point out that I upped the uncertainty in the rating algorithm, which has 2 results:
- ratings move more quickly with good/bad challenge results (as some people have requested)
- the daily rating for people with a ton of games played has gone down, since the minimum rating penalty rises along with uncertainty

Could be fun to make a prop bet where we make gimmick accounts and have 1 week to try to get our timed rating as high as possible. Would you have a problem with that zac?

Anybody wanna take me up on the challenge?

Yes

k as long as zac is fine with it it'll be fun. How much do you want to play for? I'd do anything <$50 on stars (you're euro right?). We can find an escrow if you want, plus iron out the rules

FREDERICKSBUUUUUUUUURRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!

uhoh, looks like the DC isn't ending at 3 today. I was excited since I just moved back 2 hours so wouldn't have to stay up til 3 to play.

Doesn't show up as a win on my page though . Does it normally count joint wins?

It normally does, must be a bug after the changes.