damn, nice job arnpoly. I will take consolation in knowing I made it a couple levels further

First of all where are the rankings? You mention where people are in the standings but IDK where u found that out.

2ndly I wanted to ahead and say that I stole the ten spot and messed up your list for that spot, (Sorry Velinos) and I'm super excited to have my first top 10 Finish on a weekly contest! Now maybe I can go ahead and try to not suck at next weeks game either...

Congratulations to arnpoly, our big Puzznic winner!
He proved that he is no puzzle game beginner!
Next come the scores of khog, Santa, and EgasKrad,
All of which were extremely rad!
These are followed by the scores of ookii, Balloon_Kid, and BriGuy82,
Which were very impressive too!
BilltownSparty, gutsman004, and The Duffy15 round out the top ten,
And I'm sure we will see great scores from them again.
The scores of Velinos and jump_man95 deserve some recognition,
For each week they always have a score submission.
I salute you all to another successful week,
Because if it wasn't for you, the contests would be looking pretty bleak.
And to Puzznic we must now say goodbye,
So wipe away that tear forming in your eye.
We will revisit this game another day,
So for now let's put it back on the shelf for display.
The challenge of Trog is what you now must face,
So show those cavemen that dinosaurs are the master race.
I'm sure some of you will play this until morning light,
But for now I wish you all a good night.

My god, Bimmy's on FIRE!!!

I got a challenge for you for your next poem, make some ABBA rhymes, hehe

Haha, don't you tempt me,
Or I will come up with stuff so funny you will all pee.
Speaking of pee, my avatar looks like he has to go to the bathroom,
And if he doesn't get there soon, his bladder will go boom!
Look at poor Bimmy hop, skip, and jump,
But don't worry, he doesn't have to take a dump.
Uh oh, it looks like the bathroom is in use,
Oh why did Bimmy have to drink so much juice!
He looks so funny doing his little pee-pee dance.
If he doesn't go soon, he will have to change his pants!
People are starting to gawk,
So maybe he should just give a little knock.
"I'll be out in a few minutes" comes a very loud shout.
"I'm going to wet my pants" says poor Bimmy, "And that's no doubt!"
He looks to his left and sees a dark alley.
Bimmy is about to pee, so there's no time to dillydally.
He goes behind a dumpster and it's such a relief
To finally be over all that grief.
He looks to his left and sees the police,
Who immediately say "Your public urination must cease!"
They throw Bimmy in the police car and cause such a clamor.
And now they're taking him off to the slammer.
Bimmy learned a valuable lesson on that horrible day,
And it was that peeing in public is definitely not okay.

I'm really surprised I was able to get 1st in any of the games in this contest. I was getting worried that my scores weren't going to be good enough to pass khog and I was definitely right ... it took me a last ditch effort. Really impressive score!

FWIW, I had my strats out as far as 9-5 and I was able to get to 7-1 consistently without using my notes. The real battle was executing without mistakes ... it's so easy to slip up on any level and it seemed like I always spent a retry because I did something silly.

Also, love, love, love the poems Bimmy!

Now I'm ready for everyone to blow me away in Trog!

A couple of monster scores! Congrats!

I didn't get much time to play, so a question for Arnpoly and Khog... does the time multiplier bonus keep going up by 50 pts per level?
If so, since you guys only made it half-way... finishing the game would potentially be considerably more than double the score.

Pretty crazy to think about.


I will say that in the little playing I was able to squeeze in, I was pretty disappointed that combo bonuses were worth so little relative to time bonuses.
Seems like a missed opportunity in game design.

Duff!!
Congrats on making the top 10 for Week 3! I didn't think you'd post another score.

On where I got my stats mentioned in the naughty list... I compiled them on my own based on the scores submited and the summary posts made by guillavoie and gutsman004. (Also looked back at the 1st Half Stats.)

I love making lists.
Here is my UNOFFICIAL Results so far.
(Unofficial as I am neither the game Master or Moderator.)

2nd Half - Week 1: Duck Tales
1.    EgasKrad:                $16,795,000     +11pts
2.    Balloon_Kid:            $16,313,000     +10pts
3.    khog143:                  $12,341,000     +9pts
4.    arnpoly:                     $12,007,000     +8pts
5.    arch_8ngel:             $11,771,000     +7pts
6.    BilltownSparty:       $11,368,000     +6pts
7.    CLAYB1RD:             $10,068,000     +5pts
8.    Velinos:                    $7,937,000        +4pts
9.    jump_man95:         $5,023,000        +3pts
10. mattbep:                    $1,570,000        +2pts

BriGuy82:                        $1,361,000          +1pt
babywuchki:                   $1,272,000           +1pt
gutsman004:                 $384,000              +1pt
Commander Santa:      $178,000              +1pt
TheDuffy5:                      $4,000                   +1pt   

**Czar5 posted a score of $15,881,000, but did not include a screen shot.


2nd Half - Week 2: Legendary Wings
1.   Balloon_Kid:               1,207,900     +11pts
2.   CLAYB1RD:                 1,182,500     +10pts
3.   Commander Santa:   1,136,500     +9pts
4.   gutsman004:               1,120,200     +8pts
5.   BilltownSparty:            1,119,200     +7pts
6.   ookii_risu:                    1,087,500     +6pts
7.   BriGuy82:                     1,078,500     +5pts
8.   khog143:                      1,002,100     +4pts
9.   NESMASTER14:            902,600     +3pts
10. arnpoly:                           276,800     +2pts

mattbep:                                194,300     +1pt
EgasKrad:                             188,000     +1pt
bencoffeehall:                         76,940     +1pt
fatalfuryspecial:                     66,000     +1pt
Velinos:                                     34,100     +1pt
jump_man95:                          18,900     +1pt
TheDuffy5:                                10,200     +1pt

**Czar5 posted a score of 851,900, but did not include a screen shot.

2nd Half - Week 3: Puzznic
1.   arnpoly:                            1,567,400     +11pts
2.   khog143:                         1,453,850     +10pts
3.   Commander Santa:         332,200     +9pts
4.   EgasKrad:                          281,150     +8pts
5.   ookii_risu:                          274,600     +7pts
6.   Balloon_Kid:                      224,600     +6pts
7.   BriGuy82:                            137,400     +5pts
8.   BilltownSparty:                    97,600     +4pts
9.   gutsman004:                       80,500     +3pts
10. TheDuffy5:                            73,700     +2pts

Velinos:                                       66,750     +1pt
jump_man95:                            20,300     +1pt      


2nd Half Leaderboard (Combined)
1.    Balloon_Kid:                   27pts
2.    khog143:                         23pts
3.    arnpoly:                            21pts
4.    EgasKrad:                       20pts
5.    Commander Santa:      19pts
6.    BilltownSparty:              17pts
7.    CLAYB1RD:                      15pts
8.    ooki_risu:                         13pts
9.    gutsman004:                  12pts
10.  BriGuy82:                         11pts
11.  arch_8ngel:                       7pts
12.  Velinos:                              6pts
13.  jump_man95:                   5pts
14.  TheDuffy5:                         4pts
15T. mattbep:                           3pts
15T. NESMASTER14:             3pts
17T. babywuchki:                     1pt
17T. bencoffeehall:                  1pt
17T. fatalfuryspecial:               1pt

Again, these results are 100% UNOFFICIAL. I've just been using these as a personal reference (and motivator).
I don't think I can win any of the genre categories, but I really want to make the playoffs this half and try to go from there.

Thanks, this helps me visualise stuff, and it's pretty cool. As for you making the playoffs I remember the summer playoffs had the top 21 players being divided into 3 tiers. You are currently 5th so I think you would be like in teir 1. This would make me in like teir 2. So i guess I'm doing good? What ever, good luck and on to week 4!

Yes it does!  I know when you get to Level 11 the end level bonuses go up from 10,000 to 15,000.  I don't remember what the time multiplier does at that point though.

Also, since the level time also increases, I imagine finishing the game without continuing would yield a score well into 8 figures.

The big take-away from last season is that consistency wins the day.

A lot of people will jump in here and there for a few points, but consistently making the top 10, or even just consistently playing will get you most of the way into the tournament.

Good to know.

Good to know, thanks. This is my first, uh whats the word, Season?, of contests.

The contest is over so now I'm sad.
Maybe I'll go eat some Spam.



Okay, I'm no poet. Sorry.