OSKI - 2nd championship is finished

Second championship played on LG is finished. We have two winners: Jordi from Spain and michael from Belgium. They won all games and their game was draw. It was only draw in tournament.

This is position two moves before end. michael lead by two points.





But jordi found move ASSIGNING (9 points) and michael found "only" TRUEING (7 points). Most longer word in tournaments was in game #1247703 where player kingofthebesl found word ANIMALISTS (10).



BTW I lost all my games :(

OSKI for iPad - review

On Design City is review of OSKI game for iPad: http://www.design-city.co.uk/index.php/2010/11/oski-for-ipad-is-the-thoughtful-persons-word-game-with-a-lot-of-twists/

T-shirts

I add WYPS logo and game example to Zazzle shop: http://www.zazzle.com/wyps_game_tshirt-235185444924107323
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WYPS for 5 players

There is attempt to play WYPS with more than two players. Game is played as standard WYPS until game board is full. For score are important largest connected areas for every player. Example of game for 5 players on board-13:






Final score:

Yellow: 17
Green: 11
Red: 8
Black: 7
White: 7

For more interactivity could be used scoring where for every pair of players is scoring difference between players (for example Red give 3 points to Green):

Yellow: +35
Green: +5
Red: -10
Black: -15
White: -15

WYPS championships with new rules

On LittleGolem began a several championships and all tournaments began with new rules. There are link to final groups:

Main WYPS championship: http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/tournament/tournament.jsp?trnid=wyps.ch.7.1.1

First OSKI championship is finished

First OSKI championship was finished on September 30th. Player eaeaeapepe from Argentina won all his games. Winner won every game with difference at least 5 points.

In tournament were played four 9 letters words: IMPOSTERS, PLANFORMS, WORSENESS, AGNOMINAL. Two of these words played eaeaeapepe.

There is one problem from game between 2nd and 3rd player. In this position was score equal and player on move found 8 letters move.

 Second championship is ongoing and in this championship play 41 players.

WYPS - new rules [updated]

Game WYPS has a completely new rules. Short description:

• Pool and rack has 7 letters. For all sizes of boards.


• Words can be created only in line.


• All used letters are flipped to player's color


• Game is won, when you connect all sides, and opponent on move is not able break off it.

Game has more strategy. Game is very interesting already on small boards. Rules are simpler.

There is link on game example played on Little Golem: Game #1246548

Complete rules will be added soon.

Rules.

Oski HD for iPad - version 1.3

New version of Oski HD was published on Apple App Store.

There are three main changes:

• New graphics for game from profesional graphic designer.


• Implemented special version of directed acyclic word graph suitable for playing with different levels of game.


• Added Slovak language.

List of features for future versions:

• more languages


• turn based online game


• global score tables


• email and facebook support

Play OSKI online

On turn-based Little Golem server is possible to play OSKI online. Supported languages: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Slovak, Greek.

New championships in WYPS

Today start a new championships in game WYPS on Little Golem server. Until now there was championship in English on board 13. There is link on first league group in current - 5th championship.

Today start these new championships:

WYPS English on board 7

WYPS with numbers

German version

French version

Spanish version

228 problems from WYPS 4th championship

Wyps4th - 228 problems

In this PDF file is 228 problems from 4th WYPS championship. All positions are from played games. Problems are separated into 4 categories (Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, Expert) and every category is separated into 4 levels.

On end of file are all solutions.

WYPS - 4th championship is finished

4th WYPS championship won imperatore from Italy. He lost only one game with labradors from Honduras on second place:

White on move won with move NONARTS

Third player was Malaj from Hungary.

Final order:

1. imperatore


2. labradors


3. Malaj


4. Cadavaca


5. Michal Piszczalka


6. Allan Mertner


7. Henrik Sjøl


8. r_malenfant


9. acr01

Links:

1st league: wyps.ch.4.1.1

2nd league: wyps.ch.4.2.1 wyps.ch.4.2.2

All groups

OSKI - Dice Random Generator

There is more than one thousand words in SOWPODS dictionary suitable as first move for OSKI: 3-letters long with various letters. If you want play variant with random letters you can use one dice, roll it four times and use next pdf doc for determine your random word.

For example for values 5, 6, 5, 3 is your word WAY. If for your combination, there is not word, you must throw dice again.

Oski dice

OSKI 1.1: AI, German

Version 1.1 of OSKI HD is in App Store. There are two main features:

1. Play against computer. There are 50 levels from very simple to very hard levels.

2. German support. I add German vocabulary to game and is possible to play OSKI in German.

Oski in AppStore

Today I receive mail from Apple: Oski game is in AppStore. Application cost 0,99$ or 0,79 EUR.

Implementation of Oski is very simple:

• Allow play between two players


• Check words with vocabulary and check rules

I am now preparing new version with AI player.

WYPS in Greek

On Little Golem is new supported language for WYPS: Greek language.

3rd LG championship

3rd LG championship won player acr01 from United States. acr01 won all his games. Two games acr01 won in less than 10 moves. In first game acr01 beat cobweb (finished as 3rd) as white in this position:

In second game acr01 beat Marius Halsor in next position:

On second place finished quiddity. Decision game between him and acr01 was one of longest in tournament. Finally acr01 won game in this position:

Final order in main group:

1. arc01


2. quiddity


3. Cobweb


4. r_malefant


5. labradors


6. Marius Halsor


7. Aganju


8. FatPhil


9. ypercube


10. Nafy Fathy

Some more problems from tournament:

Solutions:

Game #1141976 [Cobweb vs. arc01]: RESEES
Game #1141980 [Marius Halsor vs. arc01]: ENRANGE
Game #1141979 [acr01 vs. quiddity]: CHODE
Game #1141991 [Cobweb vs. labradors]: ARAISE
Game #1141975 [acr01 vs. labradors]: TAGLINE
Game #1141993 [Nagy Fathy vs. labradors]: NOMISTIC

Oski sheet for print – updated

There is simple PDF sheet for print: OskiSheet

Updated: new version of sheet.

OSKI Rules published

I love paper and pencil games. When I was child, we in family and in school often play Gomoku, Dots and Boxes, Go or Hex. I always want invent some good word game, playable as board game.

WYPS was initially developed as paper-and-pencil game too, but I was not satisfy with it and I change rules. Quentin is very simple and it is not board game - there is no board.

Finally there is OSKI. OSKI is very simple word game. Maybe simplest. I read about similar game played on orthogonal board several years ago. But I am not able to find any mention about this game now. I hope my rules are better.

OSKI - rules.

Game QUENTIN

Quentin is very simple word game. There are a little changed rules against rules published on www.littlegolem.net.

Rules:

First player wrote two letters word. Next player must add one letter and from all letters must create some new, unused word. If is not able create some new word, she can strikes some letters. Player who first strike more than 8 (or any other limit) letters is out of game. Last players win game.

Game example:

3 -players game with 4 strikes limit:

1. AM
2. MAY
3. MANY

1. MEAN (Y was strike) [3 strikes left]
2. MEANS
3. MAKES [3]

1. ASKED [2]
2. BASED [3]
3. ABLE [1]

1. TABLE
2. LATER [2]
3. CLEAR [0]

1. EARLY [1]
2.  REALLY
3. CLEARLY

1. CALLED [-1] player is out of game
2. HE next player start again with new word
3. THE

2. THEY
3. TYPE [-1]

Second player won whole game.

2nd LG Championship

Second championship was very close. In final group was 11 players. As many as four players won 8 games from 10 players. For determine final order was used Sonnenborn-Berger tie-breaking system. Winner is again Cobweb from United Kingdom. Final order of main group:

1.  Cobweb        16

2.  r_malenfant   16

3.  acr01         16

4.  maraca        16

5.  FatPhil       10

6.  klaashaas     10

7.  Friendless     8

8.  Leo Green      6

9.  tomletermite   6

10. Looser         4

11. Paradox        2

One of nicest moves in tournament was played between Cobweb and maraca. In game #1110410 Cobweb as black beat maraca with really incredible move:

In game #1110420 r_malenfant as white beat Cobweb with incredible move too:

Some other very hard problems from tournament:

Solutions:

Game #1110410: SORCERESS

Game #1110420: BROTHERED

Game #1110457: GALORE

Game #1110456: SOAKEN

Game #1110494: GEOIDS

Game #1110504: TAGINE