Family Game Night (And the winner is...)

[mallowgeno]

Inspir will ban the final game

[inspiratieloos]

Shame chess has long since been taken.

I'll ban Mancala.

[mallowgeno]

How to play:

I'm not going to go into detail for this because I think you both know how to play Boggle. Connect letters to make words. Rules can be found here if you do want more detail.

How this specific challenge will work:

This will be played separately in two different private forums. It will also be played LIVE. When you are ready I will post a Boggle Board for you. You will have 5 minutes to post as many words as you can from the letters given. After the 5 minutes you must post all the words you have.

If you post longer than 5 minutes after my post with letters you will be severely penalized

. Any longer than 6 minutes and you will be disqualified for the challenge.

Point values are as follows:
3/4 letter word: 1 point
5 letter word: 2 points
6 letter word: 3 points
7 letter word: 5 points
8+ letter word: 11 points

REMINDER

no outside sources may be used, this will be considered cheating.

Please post when you will be available to play and we will set up a time.

[Something_Smart]

I can do pretty much any time in the next twelve hours.

[mallowgeno]

Would 3PM work for you SS? I will confirm with you prior and tell you you need to submit by XX.xx time and I will post at exactly xx.xx time

[Aurathebirb]

Can do anytime from 1pm est to 11pm est, unless something comes up

[mallowgeno]

I can also do 3PM for you as well if that works (EST)

[mallowgeno]

Seeing if I can get private forum access back. If not we will do it via PM

[Something_Smart]

3pm EST sounds good. And I can make a private topic for me, at least.

[Aurathebirb]

I'll do 3:10 est then so we're around the same time

[mallowgeno]

Both topics have been set up.

[Something_Smart]

How are you determining whether something is a word? What is the penalty for writing something that's not a word?

[mallowgeno]

I will be using a Boggle solving website for official words.

There isn't a penalty for having a wrong word, just be cautious of spelling!

[mallowgeno]

Strike that, I feel like that might go down poorly. I will allow for 3 non-words with no penalty. After that each non-word will be -1 point to your score.

[mallowgeno]

If you can't see the private topic let me know. If you CAN see it please post in it so I know you can see it!

[mallowgeno]

Boggle Board:

Spoiler: Something_Smart's Words

3/4 Letter Words:

ate
ten
pea
pan
nap
ape
put
try
ale
let
net
tern
prey
late
leap
pelt
lute

5 Letter Words:

later
plate
alter

6 Letter Words:

pelter

TOTAL: 26 points!

Spoiler: Aurathebirb's Words

3/4 Letter Words:

ret
pan
ate
yet
let
put
net
yen
late
tale
nope
yelp
lute

5 Letter Words:

later
plate

6 Letter Words:

relate

plater

TOTAL: 20 points!

Spoiler: RESULT

Something_Smart wins by 6 points! Congrats you will be moving on to the Final Duel!

Sorry Aura, your score was not good enough to make it into the finals. You came really close but unfortunately your journey ends here. Thank you so much for playing and I hope you enjoyed your time!

[mallowgeno]

Something_Smart's Topic

Aurathebirb's Topic

[Aurathebirb]

gg smart

I really enjoyed this game. Good luck in the finals both of you

rip me

[Something_Smart]

GG!

Let see if I can manage to survive 4 duels

[mallowgeno]

Congratulations on making it to the final 2! You did what 6 other competitors couldn't and now face your hardest trial yet. There are 3 games that still remain unplayed in our pool. At least 2 of them will be played now. The winner of Family Game Night will be the first player to win 2 of these games.

No one will have any advantages going into this and the order they are played will be randomized in the next post.

Best of luck to Something_Smart and Inspiratieloos!

[mallowgeno]

Rolling a d200 for each of these games. The highest value game will be played first, 2nd highest second, etc.

Original Roll String: 1d200

1 200-Sided Dice: (115) = 115

-Zilch

Original Roll String: 1d200

1 200-Sided Dice: (105) = 105

-Mancala

Original Roll String: 1d200

1 200-Sided Dice: (188) = 188

-Take it Easy

[mallowgeno]

Order will be:

-Mancala
-Zilch
-Take it Easy

Rules for Mancala will be posted later tonight. Again best of luck to you two!

[inspiratieloos]

Well, not counting the mess I inherited from Xalxe I'm 3 for 3, let's hope that keep up.

[mallowgeno]

How to Play:

Rules can be found on this page Two Rank Mancala or Basic Mancala

You each will start with 4 stones in each of the 6 cups on your side. On your turn you will choose one of the 6 cups with stone on your side and deposit stones clockwise, scoring in your own basket and skipping your opponents. If you end by putting the last stone in your basket you get an extra turn. If you end by putting the last stone in an empty cup on your side, you capture that stone as well as any across on your opponents' side.

The game ends when one player no longer has stones on their side. Once a turn ends like this, the remaining stones go to whoever has them on their side.

The player with the most stones in their basket wins!

Something_Smart will be the bottom row (moving his stones left), Inspriatieloos will be the top row (moving his stones RIGHT)

Something_Smart's Score:	4	4	4	4	4	4	Inspiratieloos' Score:
0	4	4	4	4	4	4	0

[mallowgeno]

When you move please

BOLD

the spot where you started like so:

Something_Smart's Score:	4	4	0	5	5	5	Inspiratieloos' Score:
0	4	4	4	4	4	4	1

DETERMINING FIRST PLAYER (highest goes first)

inspiratieloos:

Original Roll String: 1d100

1 100-Sided Dice: (32) = 32

SS

Original Roll String: 1d100

1 100-Sided Dice: (15) = 15