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I've made a few more changes to the rules, shown in bold. Most of them are minor bits of tidying-up but there's one important change; if you don't make a "play" post within 1 hour of a successful "snap", you lose 10 points and any other player can make a "play" post. Hope that's clearer now.

I won't start a new game until I've heard back from AC (he hasn't opened my PM yet).
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GuyBarry wrote:
Tube Geek wrote:
GuyBarry wrote: I'd hoped that AC would want to take part, but I've heard nothing. Should I send him a PM?
If you want to. I've had an idea for a time-based game, not sure if it would though. I'll give details if you like, but not in a new thread yet
Have done so. Please let me know your idea!
It is (in a nutshell) this: Basically, you get points depending on what the digits of the time of your post add up to. You get 10 pts for 5-9, 20 for 10-14, 30 for 15-19, 40 for 20-24, 50 for 25-29, 60 for 30-34, 70 for 35-39. However, you get 1 bonus points for every extra number to the post before (e.g. 18:54:24 would get 40 [24], then the next post at 19:24:46 would get 50 [26], plus 2 bonus points, so 52)
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Tube Geek wrote: It is (in a nutshell) this: Basically, you get points depending on what the digits of the time of your post add up to. You get 10 pts for 5-9, 20 for 10-14, 30 for 15-19, 40 for 20-24, 50 for 25-29, 60 for 30-34, 70 for 35-39.
The maximum is 38 isn't it (19:59:59)? If you miss it by 1 second and post at 20:00:00 instead, presumably you get no points at all!
However, you get 1 bonus points for every extra number to the post before (e.g. 18:54:24 would get 40 [24], then the next post at 19:24:46 would get 50 [26], plus 2 bonus points, so 52)
I don't quite get this. Are you saying that you get points for the 9 and the 6 because those digits don't occur in 18:54:24?

It's quite a nice idea but wouldn't you just get a flurry of posts at certain times of day and nothing whatsoever for the rest of the time?
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GuyBarry wrote:
Tube Geek wrote: It is (in a nutshell) this: Basically, you get points depending on what the digits of the time of your post add up to. You get 2 pts for 0-4 10 pts for 5-9, 20 for 10-14, 30 for 15-19, 40 for 20-24, 50 for 25-29, 60 for 30-34, 70 for 35-39.
The maximum is 38 isn't it (19:59:59)? If you miss it by 1 second and post at 20:00:00 instead, presumably you get no points at all!
Yes, i meant to put the bold bit in aswell!
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However, you get 1 bonus points for every extra number to the post before (e.g. 18:54:24 would get 40 [24], then the next post at 19:24:46 would get 50 [26], plus 2 bonus points, so 52)
I don't quite get this. Are you saying that you get points for the 9 and the 6 because those digits don't occur in 18:54:24?
No. you get the bonus as the sum of the digits is 2 more than the sum of the digits in the post before
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GuyBarry wrote:
Tube Geek wrote:
GuyBarry wrote: I'd hoped that AC would want to take part, but I've heard nothing. Should I send him a PM?
If you want to. I've had an idea for a time-based game, not sure if it would though. I'll give details if you like, but not in a new thread yet
Have done so. Please let me know your idea!
I've been away over the weekend! I will play, if that is OK
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A Challenge wrote: I've been away over the weekend! I will play, if that is OK
Fine. Timesnap will start tomorrow, at an unspecified time between 06:00:00 and 08:00:00 when I make a "play" post.

EDIT: Sorry, I was late!
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Smap
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Snap
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How did I get that?
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What was the "Smap" post for?
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Play
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GuyBarry wrote:What was the "Smap" post for?
It was a late (and invalid due to spelling error) snap post! I then tried again, and succeded! It was late as I typed the post after checking the clock seconds at 07 sec.
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OK. Just checking that you hadn't made an unsuccessful "snap" post and edited it - you'd have lost 10 points!
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GuyBarry wrote:OK. Just checking that you hadn't made an unsuccessful "snap" post and edited it - you'd have lost 10 points!
Are invalid claims -10 then? I don't think that is a good idea!
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