WYPS in November 2011

WYPS - numeric version

In November was finished 6th championship in Numeric version. It was played according to a new rules. Tournament won Nevermind - won 10 games from 11. On Little Golem is a new number version too - played on small board. He lost only one - very short game with Luca Bruzzi (finished on 2nd place).


WYPS - English on small board

On November start 9th championship on small board. Final group was very quick and already is finished. Winner is Nevermind too !! There are some interesting Nevermind's positions from his games:

In all three positions white on move connect all three sides and fill all empty fields !

Some interesting facts:

Shortest game #1390168 has only 6 moves and whole board was filled !

Longest game #1390294 has 17 moves.

Longest word was MINISTERIAL and ANCHORETIC:


Most popular words were QAT and QI (3x).

WYPS and Siri

Did you try Siri on iPhone ?

WYPS in October 2011

10th championship in WYPS

In October was finished 10th championship in WYPS. It was first championship played according to new rules. Winner is Malaj from Hungary, winner of 9th championship too. Most important game was between Malaj and Paradoxx.


In this position Malaj found ingenious move: MAQUILA and won game in next move.

Interesting game was game #1348948 from final group. Game was played to last letter.

Several statistics:

Number of games: 261
Longest game: 50 moves.
First player won 46% of games.
Number of moves: 4443
Longest words 11 letters: MANTELSHELF (played in line !), FIELDSTONES, NEUTRALISER, PARASELENAE. All four players who found so long words lost these games !!
Most popular words: ZEE, QI, TEE, TRY, JET

8th WYPS championship on small board

In October finished 8th championship on small board too. Winner is imperatore.

There was found two 11 letters too: TEPEFACTION and ESTERIFYING. Both found Nagy Fathy and he will be play in final group in next championship.

Other championships

October was really rich for finished championship. Finished:

7th German championship
7th Spanish championship
8th French championship
9th Italian championship

WYPS in September 2011

Numeric WYPS

In the last month finished 5th championship in the international version of WYPS. Winner is klaashaas from the Netherlands. Tournament was played according to old rules, where letter after flip became not flippable. New 6th championship is played according to new rules, similar to the standard version of WYPS.

French WYPS

Jean Herbert from Canada won 7th championship in WYPS - french version. He had the same number of points as Paul Gautherot - both lost one game. Jean Herbert probably won next French championship too, because he already won with Paul Gautherot.

Small WYPS

40 players are played in 8th championship in small WYPS. Tournament started on 5th September and probably will be finished in October.

WYPS in store

Finally is possible again to buy WYPS. Price is until now 24.00€ and shipping 5.00€ and I hope it will be not higher. You could buy WYPS in store.

Handicaps in WYPS

When I played WYPS with children it is not very interesting game because I am very strong. We invent a handicap version, where I have only a few stones in rack - for example three or four. Our rules for handicap WYPS:

• Stronger player is black and has less stones in rack - 6,5,4,3 or 2.
• Weaker player is white and starts games
• There is no swap move.

In this video is example of handicaps where black player win with only two stones in rack.

Rules in PDF

I create a PDF document with rules. It is suitable for printing. Document is here.

Finished tournaments in August

In August were finished several championships.

On August 1st finished 8th Italian championship. Championship won beppi. He won 7th, 3rd and 2nd championship too.

On August 14th finished 7th English Small championship. Tournament won gpallis. About interesting game between 1st and 2nd player we wrote in previous blog.

On August 17th finished 6th Spanish championship. jose.ibiza won all his games.

Longest word in 7th English Small Championship



White player - maguire from Germany - played FLUTTERED.

WYPS - idea for universal version

Spiel des Jahres 2011 became game QWIRKLE - http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25669/qwirkle. Stones for Qwirkle and definition of word could be used in WYPS too. Rules for international version of WYPS - Q version:

• Size board 8. It is 36 fields.
• 36 stones. There is 6 characters in 6 different colors.
• Rack size is 5 stones.
• Other rules are the same as in last version of WYPS.

Two interesting games

There are two interesting games from ongoing tournaments on LitteGolem.

Full Board

This game was played in 10th WYPS championship between JeanHerbert and chianti. Game was played to last stone and last 13 moves were atari moves. There is final position:


The win with a few stones

Second game is played in 7th WYPS championship on small board. Game is played between gpallis and Michal Piszczalka. gpallis is a new champion on small board and this interesting games is his only lost. In this position:

gpallis plays excellent move REFILTER.



White is not only connected, but there is only one free field in corner, very distant from important letter R. But Michal Piszczalka found right solution.



In final position has black only 9 stones against 19 white's stones. But it is enough to be connected.

New videos on YouTube

I create two new videos. There is a new special page with these videos too. Video with game on small board has every move commented - there are explained rules.

WYPS - new rules and new tournaments

There are a new  official rules for WYPS. In short:

• Size of board - 13.
• Every player has 7 stones in rack.
• First move is choice. 
• ZigZag move is allowed and player could turn one opponent's stone.
• If move is in line, player turns all opponent's stones.
• Atari is move, when player connect all three sides of board.
• Game is finished, when opponent is not able break off opponent's atari.

And changes on Little Golem:

• Championship is played according to new rules: groups
• Monthly cup is played according to quick variant - first atari won game
• Championship on small board is played too according to new rules: groups.
• New rules will be in variant with numbers too. Next championship will start probably in August.

Ultimate WYPS tournament finished

On March 16th I wrote about Ultimate variant of WYPS. It is variant where is no luck influence. On LittleGolem was played small tournament with this variant.

Winner of tournament become JeanHebert. He won all his games.

Tournament Table.

I am champion !!

I won 6th championship on small board. I love playing on small board, because my English is not very good for searching long words on bigger board. I was successful in 1st championship too, where I was 3rd and lost only 4 games from 27 games.

5th WYPS championship on small board

Championship on small board was finished. Winner is Michal Piszczalka. There is picture from one his game.

WYPS on 1000 fields

How long is game when is played on 1000 fields ?

8th WYPS championship is finished.

8th WYPS championship was finished. Championship was played with old rules (shared pool of letter). Winner is labradors from Honduras. Congratulation !!

New rules on LittleGolem

In this post I mention possible change of rules. New rules are added to this web site and these rules are now on LittleGolem too.

On LittleGolem was added Ultimate WYPS too. First tournament will start on April 18th.

There is summary of all variants of WYPS.

Ultimate WYPS

Ultimate WYPS is a variant of WYPS where is no influence of luck. WYPS is played according to standard rules with changes:

WYPS - small change in rules ?

In last months I tested a new small change of WYPS rules. There are suggestions for change of WYPS rules:

October 2010 monthly cup WYPS is finished

There are all groups in tournament.

Interesting is game from final group between first and second player. Game was played until whole board was full.

OSKI - 3rd championship finished

3rd championship finished with the same result as 2nd: Two winners - Jordi and Michael won all games and their game is draw.

In next position Jordi found 9-letters word and game was draw.

Jordi found word STACKINGS.

Jordi won all his games without problems. Michael won two his games only by 1 point.

In tournament played 47 players in 6 groups.

Two championships finished

On February 21st were finished two championships: 3rd Italian championship and 3rd Number championship.

3rd Italian championship



There are three winners: beppi, Luca Bruzzi and Aganju. Aganju won 6th English championship, 1st and 2nd Spanish championship.

3rd Number championship

In Number championship played 44 players - it is second most popular WYPS championship (after English version). Author of WYPS - Richard Malaschitz, finished on 3rd place.

Changes in Italian letter distribution

For Italian version of WYPS is there new letter distribution:

Ix12, Ax11, Ex9, Ox8, Rx7, Tx6, Nx5, Sx5, Cx4, Lx4, Mx3, Px3, Ux3, Bx2, Dx2, Fx2, Gx2, Vx2, Zx1

Game is played without letters H,Q,J,K,W,X,Y. Letter H has appearance 0.48 letter pre 91 letters.

If somebody wants H in game, distribution will be:

Ax11, Ix11, Ex9, Ox8, Rx7, Tx6, Nx5, Sx5, Cx4, Lx4, Mx3, Px3, Ux3, Bx2, Dx2, Fx2, Gx2, Vx2, Hx1, Zx1

WYPS championships in foreign languages

On LittleGolem is WYPS championships played in Spanish, German, French and Italian. There are links to tournament tables and name of winners.

German

2nd champioship

Winner in maraca.

In this position maraca played move ORGANE and connect all three sides.

Italian

2nd championship

Winner is beppi.

French

2nd championship

Winner is tomletermite.

Spanish

2nd championship

Winner is Aganju.

Finished WYPS championships

In last week finished both WYPS championships in English: 7th championship and 3rd championship on small board.

Main championship was very close. Four players has 10 points - 5 wins and 3 losses: Hollo (Hungary), labradors (Barbados), Cllint (United States), Allan Mertner (United Kingdom). According to secondary criteria winner became Hollo.



There is one position from final. Hollo (as white) play excellent move (turn 3 black stones, connect all three sides of board).

Answer:

Championship on small board won gpallis. He lost only one game. By the way gpallis won 1st championship on small board too.