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Notes from the organizer: Game Five! Can I interest you in a pickled walnut?

Your game is a Hyperlock Letters Attack; your aim is to score as highly as possible. To make that slightly more interesting, you'll earn extra points according to the following tariff for each round:

-- If the selection has exactly one locked consonant, you'll score normally;
-- If the selection has exactly two locked consonants, your declaration's score will be multiplied by 1.25;
-- If the selection has exactly three locked consonants, your declaration's score will be multiplied by 1.5;
-- If the selection has no locked consonants, you'll be burned at the stake for witchcraft.

The choice, therefore, is up to you (half of the time; the other half is entirely at Prune's whim). Play safely, play riskily, or hedge your bets and play somewhere in the middle. Is there an optimum strategy? Feel free to feed all the Hyperlock games in Apto-history into one of those new-fangled computermabobs and find out. Maybe the little pop-up paperclip chappy can help.

The BONUS TOURNAMENT POINT for this round will be awarded to any player who declares and scores points with a four-letter word.

If you have any questions about the rules, scoring, or anything else pertaining to this tourney, please feel free to ask.

Here is a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ihS3JL1pa50yoy-U7fJ55vhry0rynVbOsW6Z_lWgNdM/edit?usp=sharing

Runs from: 16 December 2024 – 1 January 2025. Format: Hyperlock Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 47. Completed: 27.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)