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19 May 2012

• Jonathan Rawlinson's 107-110 game with Marcus Hares received a nomination for Game of the Week.
• Matthew Tassier commented on Most multitalented numberists. [+3 others]
• Jonathan Rawlinson commented on his game with Marcus Hares.
• Jonathan Rawlinson's 107-110 game with Marcus Hares received a self-nomination for Game of the Week.
• Adam Gillard's 68-149 game with Innis Carson received a nomination for Game of the Week. [×22]
• Scott Gillies commented on Adam Gillard's game with Innis Carson. [+3 others]
• Steve Balog commented on his game with The Duellist.
• Dylan Taylor commented on his game with Apterous Prune.
• Mr Dog awarded the dog bone for best Top Dog performance to Jonathan Rawlinson.
• The Daily Duel was won by Jen Steadman with a score of 140 from 145.

18 May 2012

• Apterous Velvet's 77-127 game with Rob Foster received a nomination for Game of the Week. [×7]
• Thomas Carey commented on the CSW Letters Attack (Semifinals) Tourney. [+2 others]
• Eddie McCullagh's 119-79 game with Barry Bridger received a nomination for Game of the Week.
• Hugh Binnie's 98-115 game with Daniel Pati received a nomination for Game of the Week. [×7]
• Adam Gillard commented on The Duellist's game with Jen Steadman.
• Dylan Taylor commented on Apterous Velvet's game with Rob Foster.
• James Nguyen tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with a score of 200.
• Mr Dog awarded the dog bone for best Top Dog performance to Paul James.
• The Daily Duel was won by Lauren Hamer, Quinne James, James Nguyen, Dinos Sfyris, Adam Gillard, Innis Carson and Ryan Taylor with a score of 90 from 90.

17 May 2012

• Jen Steadman tied the high score for Unlimited Flat 9 with a score of 86.
• Michelle Nevitt's 51-41 game with Daniel Pati received a nomination for Game of the Week.
• Michael Cullen commented on the 6-Pack Challenge Tourney. [+3 others]
• Quinne James commented on Top conundrum players. [+1 other]
• Miriam Nussbaum tied the high score for Unlimited Jnr Numbers Attack with a score of 200.
• Matt Bayfield tied the high score for Numbers Attack with a score of 200.
• Mr Dog awarded the dog bone for best Top Dog performance to Mark James. [×2]
• The Daily Duel was won by Mark Tournoff, Jim Bentley, Dicky Boy and Matthew Tassier with a score of 80 from 80.

16 May 2012

• Improved: Tournaments are now organised into rounds, you can browse rounds of each tournament, and all that sort of stuff. [Discussion]
• Hugh Binnie tied the high score for Touch Jnr Conundrum Attack with a score of 200.
• Gareth Mitchell tied the high score for Junior Numbers Attack with a score of 200.
• Jen Steadman commented on Most max games.
• Ian Volante commented on his game with The Duellist.
• Dylan Taylor commented on James Nguyen's game with Apterous Prune. [+2 others]
• Nick Deller commented on his game with The Duellist.
• Matt Bayfield commented on his game with The Duellist.
• James Nguyen commented on his game with Apterous Prune.
• Mr Dog awarded the dog bone for best Top Dog performance to Gregor Morgan.
• The Daily Duel was won by Dan McColm, Lauren Hamer, Thomas Cappleman, Mark Deeks, Captain Smiles, Gareth Mitchell, Ross Allatt, Bob De Caux, Adam Gillard, Karen Pearson, Edwin Mead, Mark James, Phyl Styles, Jen Steadman, Nick Deller, Dicky Boy, Keith Bennett, Norm Ahmad, Jim Bentley, Ryan Taylor, Jason Turner, Graeme Cole, Martin Long, Nathan Cullen, Andrew Feist, Tom Rowell and Chris Hare with a score of 110 from 111.

15 May 2012

• Adam Gillard commented on Henry Meier's game with Dale Levell.
• Elliot Bowker tied the high score for Touch Jnr Numbers Attack with a score of 200.
• David b Barnard commented on Pro Ranks for 14 May 2012. [+2 others]
• The Daily Duel was won by John Slater, Thomas Cappleman, Marcus Hares, Gareth Mitchell, Mary Lauren, Adam Gillard, Ross Allatt, Matt Conway, Mark James, Gevin Chapwell, Tony Smith, Miriam Nussbaum, Scott Gillies, Ryan Taylor, Barry French, Steve Balog, Martin Long, Chris Enado, Matt Croy, David Smith, Thomas Carey, Robin McKay, Heather Styles, Peter Stirling, Hugh Binnie, Nick Deller, Paul Sheppard, Jim Bentley, David Maddams, Stephen Read, Elliot Bowker, John Gillies, Mark Tournoff, Nathan Cullen, Dave Mattingly, Rebecca Farren, Michelle Nevitt, Dan McColm, Jimmy Porter, Ken Gabnash, Barry Bridger, Phil Collinge, Ben Wilson, Damian Banks, James Reeve, Simon Myers, Keith Bennett, Daniel Milward, Ian Volante, James Roper, Zarte Siempre, Jason Turner, Gerry Tynan, Judith Young, Jack Worsley, Martin Smith, Ben Maggie, Andrew Feist, Tom Rowell, Lauren Hamer, Samir Pilica, Dan Seasmith, James Hurrell, Fiona H, David b Barnard, Mark Deeks, Captain Smiles, Matt Bayfield, Jamie French, Innis Carson, Giles Hutchings, Edwin Mead, Michael Lachime, Jen Steadman, Dicky Boy, Norm Ahmad, Jayne Wisniewski, Jon Wells, Matthew Tassier, Peter Lee, Graeme Cole, Lorrie Bronsema, Michael Cullen and Chris Hare with a score of 50 from 50.

14 May 2012

• News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
• News: New blog article, the first in the new series Vox Ludio: an interview with Innis Carson. Comes with ungrammatical Latin as standard.
• Improved: The list of your recently disallowed words is back. Read it and weep!
• Samir Pilica commented on Barry Bridger's game with Matt Croy.
• Jordan Leckonby commented on his game with Graeme Cole.
• Gareth Mitchell tied the high score for Junior Numbers Attack with a score of 200.
• Quinne James tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with a score of 200.
• James Doohan commented on his game with Apterous Prune.
• Apterous Prune's 0-200 game with James Doohan received a nomination for Game of the Week.
• James Doohan tied the high score for Omelette Numbers Attack with a score of 200.
• Mark Deeks commented on his game with Lauren Hamer. [+1 other]
• Matthew Tassier's 200-170 game with Martin Long received a self-nomination for Game of the Week.

9 May 2012

• New: Statland: Best pickers (Normal variant). Suggests a surprising conclusion...

7 May 2012

• News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
• News: I've written a short blog post discussing the new front page.
• New: You can now explicitly opt out of receiving further notifications from topics you've commented on, and opt in to notifications from topics you haven't. (Note that you'll still be notified if you the topic directly relates to you, even if you unsubscribe; this only applies to notifications received because you commented on the topic.) [Discussion]
• Improved: Most Multitalented Letterists now includes Nasty, and Most multitalented uses the new-format Nasty 15. [Discussion]

6 May 2012

• Improved: Perfect games has been replaced with the more generally useful most maxes, which also shows up on your Glory Roll now. [Discussion]
• Improved: Individual high scores now uses raw scores, to be consistent with the format pages.

4 May 2012

• New: Latin! [Discussion]
• Improved: Numbers round now remembers your previous pick and makes it the default. [Discussion]
• Improved: You can now block and unblock players even when they are offline, via their user page. A list of your currently blocked players is also available in your Settings page. [Discussion]

3 May 2012

• New: Leaderboard for hardest Conundrum Attacks. [Discussion]

1 May 2012

• New: Lexplorer can now find the longest words from any given selection. (Remember that Lexplorer queries are logged, so it's not a good idea to use this to cheat.) [Edit: run into a technical problem with this, it'll be back soon.] [Discussion]
• Improved: All format pages have been majorly revamped.
• Improved: Experimentally, all URLs in comments are now made into links.
• Improved: Format high scores now show each player only once, use raw scores rather than game scores, and always show your position even if you're not the top 25 (or whatever). This should put some cats amongst some pigeons! The old lists are still available under all high scores. [Discussion]

30 April 2012

• News: Updated ProRanks for this week.

27 April 2012

• Improved: When applying to run a tournament, you can now leave notes to keep potential applicants informed and so on. [Discussion]

26 April 2012

• Improved: Star Chart: Path Leaders is less of a disaster.
• Improved: Star path leaderboards now always show your position. [Discussion]
• Improved: Pencilvania is now a proper leader board, and (of course) shows your position even if you are outside the top 30.
• Improved: Most Classic games played now shows your position wherever you are. [Discussion]
• Improved: Top players (by vowels) now always shows your position (or positions), and is prettier to boot. [Discussion]
• Improved: Ascension: Highest Climbers now always shows your position. [Discussion]
• Fixed: Very long words in comments no longer break page formatting.

25 April 2012

• News: I've been busy.
• New: When you complete a game, you now get a nice "Rematch" link to immediately challenge the same opponent in the same format. [Discussion]
• New: A certain much-requested item is now awarded for offering a max that was spelled out in the selection. [Discussion]
• New: Nasty Blitz! [Discussion]
• New: Statland: Most played human-vs-human formats. [Discussion]
• Improved: Major dictionary update (thanks to Giles Hutchings amongst many others). [Full listing]
• Improved: All languages now have a flag in the background of the "Noted words" box. Also, the Finnish flag is my new favourite flag.
• Improved: The game now remembers your preference for "Sort by" on the player roster. [Discussion]
• Improved: The clock music continues from where it left off if someone buzzes incorrectly on the conundrum. [Discussion]
• Improved: Nasty letters are now actually nasty, by which we mean the most common letter (E in most languages) is not available. The high scores for the relevant formats have been reset accordingly. [Discussion]
• Improved: Custom games now get slightly more informative descriptions in chat. [Discussion]
• Improved: Display Cases now link each item to its item page.
• Improved: Item pages now always show your position. [Discussion]
• Improved: Duel standings now always show your position, and are linked to from the Hall of Fame.
• Improved: Tournament fixtures can now be deleted. (If the game is already in progress it will still be logged, but won't appear in the tournament listing, so everyone is happy.) [Discussion]
• Fixed: Grimoires of Gillies are now awarded correctly. [Discussion]
• Fixed: CSW conundrums cooked by the introduction of CSW2012 have been removed. [Discussion]
• Fixed: Duel now correctly awards the Duel Jewel even for short Duels. (Jewels have been awarded retrospectively if they were missing before.) [Discussion]
• Fixed: Flags in the "Noted words" box now display at the correct size, even if you resize the window. [Discussion]

24 April 2012

• Improved: "List of Nines" has now been replaced with "Big Words", showing 9s and 12s and that sort of thing from suitable variants. This applies to both Superstats and user pages. [Discussion]
• Improved: Best Goatdown pickers now always shows your ranking (and no longer gets confused by maxes-only games). [Discussion]
• Improved: Fastest Conundrum Attacks and related pages now show your position. [Discussion]

23 April 2012

• News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
• Improved: Statland: Most 9s now shows your position. [Discussion]
• Improved: Most Game of the Week nominations now shows your position. [Discussion]
• Improved: Top letters players and various related leader boards now always display your position (if you are eligible). [Discussion]

22 April 2012

• Improved: Star Chart: Most Stars now always shows where you are. [Discussion]

20 April 2012

• New: Daily Dog Bone winner is announced on the front page (see below). [Discussion]
• New: Have a Nice day! [Discussion]
• New: Most Multitalented and related leader boards now show your position wherever you are. [Discussion]
• Improved: Top All Rounders now shows your position. [Discussion]
• Improved: Most career maxes also shows your position. [Discussion]
• Fixed: Discovered and resolved a bug that caused the hardest conundrums to get stuck at 2/10. Oops. [Discussion]