17th WYPS championship

17th WYPS championship won Aaron from USA. He won this championship for first time, but he won already:

• 11th championship in small WYPS
• 10th championship in Spanish WYPS
• 11th championship in Spanish WYPS 

There is example of excellent last move in game with player karlhanf (title holder of English infinity tournament) finished on 2nd place. 

White on move found nice word, fill whole triangle in right corner and won game. Aaron lost only one game with player on 3rd place BigChicken (winner of last finished german championship). In next position BigChicken found word with only two letters in rack, and won game.

16th WYPS championship

16th WYPS championship won Nagy Fathy from Egypt (he won 13th championship on small board too). He won all his games. There is one interesting fact: In final group was found 5 11-letters words. And all words was found by Nagy Fathy. For example in this position - black on move.

DILACERATES

On second place was Malaj from Hungary. Third was Nevermind from Vanautau.

There some puzzles from games. In all black on move connect all sides.

#1549049 Nevermind - Bloke

#1549063 Paradoxx - Bloke

#1549078 Paavo Pirinen - Nagy Fathy

In this position Paavo Pirinen resign game. But there was a very difficult solution. 

Solutions:

• #1549049 DARGAS
• #1549063 TEGUAS
• #1549078 HALLALI

New file with rules

On right side is link to new file with rules now. File is big (4.4 MB) and is prepared for printing.

15th WYPS championship

15th WYPS championship won Malaj. He lost only one game with labradors. For Malaj it is his third win. He won already 9th and 10th championship.

There are final moves between Malaj and Nevermind, who finished as 2nd player.

White (Malaj) has more stones, bat he has bad letters: Y,Z,G,Q. Nut in next move he used letters Z and Y.

Black has now a lot possibilities: ARIELS, DROP, PALETTE. But is not so important. After ARTELS:

White now flip letter O and game is finished: OUTGREW.

OUTGREW was very clever move. If be white player play some simpler word, for example LYRA:

black has response ONPLAY, flip Y,  and game is not still finished.

14th WYPS championship

14th championship in WYPS won labradors. He lost only one game with imperatore, who finished on 2nd place. There is final position of this game.

laradors vs. imperatore

There is positions from game between labradors and bloke (finished 3rd). There is only one solution.

bloke vs. labradors

One hard problem from final group. In next position black resign his game. But there is a move to connect all three sides. 

Clint vs. Lieven Marchand

WYPS in Japanese

On LittleGolem is possible to play WYPS in Japanese. Game is played only with Hiragana without diacritics. There is my game example in Japanese played on Little Golem.


Short video with game example:

Review of WYPS

Czech magazine deskovehry.com (Deskove Hry = Board Games) publish review of WYPS. Review is in Czech and English too.

WYPS in February 2012 - 11th Championship

In February finished 9th French WYPS championship (winner Paul Gautherot) and 11th Italian championship (winner Super Chicken). But in february finished main 11th WYPS championship too.

Winner of 11th became Allan Mertner. It is his first win in WYPS championship - congratulation !!



There is final interesting position of game between Allan Mertner and beppi: hero game.org (finished 2nd). For last move Allan used all his stones, but there is no move for white player.



In this position white player (Clint) resigns his game against Allan Mertner. White player could continue in game with move FORLORN, but black has letter F and after his move FORLORN is game finished. By the way in this position has winner 11 stones less than loser ! It is interesting but in game #1388597 had winner 23 stones less than loser !



Longest word was played in this position. White (Nagy Fathy  - winner of group 1 in second league) found word MOISTURIZERS. The same player found in another game word DYOTHELITIC. And I lost only game with labradors - when he found word COROLLARIES.



Position from game #1388517 from second league. Only three games in tournament finished with full board.

WYPS in January 2012

In January 2012 was finished 8th championship of German WYPS. Final group won lehmans, who won all his games.

On 4th January started 10th championship in small WYPS. Tournament play 49 players in 6 group. link

WYPS in December 2011

In December finished 8th Spanish championship (winner is RoByN) and 10th Italian championship (winner imperatore).

In December started a first tournaments in a new Number variant played on very small board. This variants looks as very interesting variant.

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.