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.