word up gossip

[Guest]

I may very well do. Except I don't play WU and only play the quiz games, but happy to watch and learn.

Maybe we can both learn from each other.

Sexy!

[ZAX]

Let us know when youre coming up to Notts Bob and/or your itineray. Be interesting if nothing else to see a board clearance for the first time ever...

[angie]

I forgot to mention this at the time, but when I was in Oxford, not only did VAJINALBOB appear on WU scoreboards but also, on at least one board, did JEMIMABOB (in the bar beside Trinity college IIRC). So does VBOB have a sister? Do any of the VBOB regulars know if this is a legitimate spin-off or an infringement of copyright...or just a complete coincidence?

[Ernest W. Quality]

[fotherz]

Cheap imitation.

[Ernest W. Quality]

The JEMIMABOB was already there when we got to the pub, so a coincidence on this occasion. However, we have been back to some previously visited to places to find people have got scores and left names like "NOT BOB", "WHO IS BOB", "RINGME BOB", etc.

[Istenem]

had an n/c 1628 yesterday inc two PIZZERIASes, i was left with IVOL in an L shape, shuffled it but VIOL wasn't on. by my arithmetic that would have been the fourth best score ever. as it is it didn't even make the local top score board.
consoled myself with a workmanlike one shot one kill: 1860 at the comedy near piccadilly. got £8 for that which is a rarity.

[Ernest W. Quality]

On Saturday we had two 1750+ non clearances, and one of them had a Q left since there weren't enough Us, so that would have been the second best ever score had we been able to use it. :x

[fotherz]

Bob screwed up a 2232 on Friday.

Failing to enter IRE cost us 515 points (and about a fiver). Ouch.

[Istenem]

was househunting in shepherds bush (decided against it in the end)
and noticed Bob had sent a landing party. i got both the common 13s at belushi's but nothing to crow abaout, however at the o'neills "PETER" was proudly atop the high words with another old chestnut: QUIZZICALLY, a new Bobber? surely not an isolated maven who apparently has only played WU once?

[Guest]

Bob screwed up a 2232 on Friday.

Failing to enter IRE cost us 515 points (and about a fiver). Ouch.

At least I had spotted the endgame in the first place, Fotherz.

[ZAX]

Bob, Fotherz etc

Sorry I didnt make it down for Notts. My spies tell me your name is now on Via Fossas WU, but you didnt manage to knock off the unknown player.

How did you get on overall then? Was it worth your while?

[Istenem]

i'm not a Bob but the website has been updated with the tale of the tape

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/nfm24/scores.html

[Guest]

Bob, Fotherz etc

Sorry I didnt make it down for Notts. My spies tell me your name is now on Via Fossas WU, but you didnt manage to knock off the unknown player.

How did you get on overall then? Was it worth your while?

Yeah - we knocked them off the second machine in Via Fossa but didn't really have much of a go at deposing them on the first one. Would have probably needed to sit down with a mind to playing for a while to do that, but didn't have time as we wanted to get in as many places as possible (Via Fossa was our first stop). Similarly, WORDUP remained top at Fellows Morton & Clayton as we had to run off to catch our train home.

Here's a rundown of the weekend's action:

NOTTINGHAM

Via Fossa - m1 - "WORDUP" 2159, "WORDUP" Quizzically, TT VBOB 8870
- m2 - "WORDUP" 1957, "WORDUP" Exponential, VB 1833, 1850, 1894, 2012, Quizzical, TT 6780

Lloyd's - "WORDUP" 1895, "WORDUP" Quizzers, VB 1807, 1812, 1854, 1885, 1902, Bastardised, Fizzling, Quizzical, TT 8980

Fellows Morton & Clayton Ltd - "WORDUP" 1909, VB 1830, 1860, 1896, iconoclasm

Roebuck Inn (Spoons) - m1 - "WORDUP" 1942, 1875, 1809, Quizzical, VB 2013 Quizzically TT 8020
- m2 - "WORDUP" 1809, VB 1883 Zillionaire

Yates's - "WORDUP" 1911, VB 1808, 1827, 1853, 1889, 1908, 2004, Clarinetists, Frizziest, Quizzical x2

The Goose - VB 1705

Squares - VB 1539

Pit and Pendulum - "WORDUP" 1830, 1904, 1912, VB 1838, 1841, 1874, 2040, Squirreling

Langtry's - VB 1819

Murphy's - VB 1965, Embezzlers

Tap & Tumbler - "WORDUP" whizzing, VB 1916, "RES" TT 7620

Horn in Hand - M1 VB 1862
- M2 VB 1753

Wetherspoon's - "WORDUP" 1875, Vivaciously, VB 1862, 1874, 1919


LOUGHBOROUGH (with 'Gus')

Amber Rooms (Wetherspoons) - M1 - 1655 Tranquilliser 468
- M2 - 1788 Tranquillize 528

The Swan in the Rushes - 1700ish

Moon & Bell (Wetherspoons) - M1 - 1791 Embezzlers
- M2 - 1861

The Phantom - 1795 Quarantined

The Unicorn - 1741 TT 8370

The Old Pack Horse - 1800 (SU 2363)


LEICESTER

Yates' - 1871

Varsity - 1817

The Goose - 1837 (local lej "KING KONG", best about 1250)

O'Neill's - M1 - 1769 (local lej "JIM" best 1683)
- M2 - 1829 TT 8660

The Last Plantagenet - "WORDUP" 1838, VB 1973, TT 7880

[Istenem]

anyone who is reading this knows that Word Up is the best game in the world, we could get it sanctioned by twin galaxies (an organisation which tracks record scores on other types of skill video game (pacman etc) and provides guinness book of records etc with stats). it is possible that it could bring other players out of the shadows such as the Nottingham enigma. i have made tentative enquiries and they seem okay about acknowledging WU. or would you prefer to keep the exclusivity of it.
any thoughts?