Matt J's "Word Racing" timewaster/game for the stay-at-home COVID-19 days of 2020

[matt j]

Team/User	Place Race #4	Points Race #4
ad hoc	1	38
diable rouge	2	36
lambers	3	34
Sean of the Shed	4	32
Various Artist	5	30
delicatemoth	6	28
Hot Orange	7	26
Kevin S	8	24
Wouter D	9	22
Sporting	10	20
elguapo04	11	18
Southport Zeb	12	16
slackster	13	14
sits	14	12
Vicarious Thrillseeker	15	10
ursus arctos	16	8
nmrfox	17	6
andrew7160	18	4
San Bernardhinault	19	2

[Diable Rouge]

Wouter evidently cracked part of the code in Race 3 - merely piggybacked off him!

[matt j]

Team/User	Points Race#1	Points Race #2	Points Race #3	Points Race #4	Season Points
ad hoc	6	18	36	38	98
Wouter D	16	24	26	22	88
Kevin S	2	26	34	24	86
sean of the shed	4	22	28	32	86
delicatemoth	14	28	14	28	84
lambers	12	36	2	34	84
andrew7610	18	32	20	4	74
San Bernardhinault	8	30	24	2	64
Sporting		12	30	20	62
ursus arctos	20	2	32	8	62
hot orange		16	16	26	58
slackster	10	14	18	14	56
sits		34	8	12	54
diable rouge		8	4	36	48
Vicarious Thrillseeker	22	4	10	10	46
Southport Zeb		20	6	16	42
elguapo04		10	12	18	40
nmrfox		6	22	6	34
Various Artist				30	30

[matt j]

The fifth race:

This oval track race is expected to feature the fastest racers, times, and words yet.

Imagine if you will a race divided into parts, for arguments sake, lets just pick a number, say 15. Sure, 15 parts. So 15 times around the track is the race. Each racer responsible for maximizing each pass around the track, perhaps we say that's effort. Like 10 out of 10 is maximum effort.

So, continuing this line of thought, if a racer that can put forward maximum effort for all 15 rounds, would put out a max 'word race' of 150. Easy!

Alas, doping officials have decided to focus on this race, keying in on those that might be using 'new-gen' word formulation, the EPO of the sport. "But every Llull is using," you might say. HA! says the federation, cheaters never prosper unless they are the Houston Astros!

As this is a completely secret investigation, every competitive team knows and has time to prepare their racing teams and machines to avoid detection... er, I mean ensure the cleanliness of the competition, and as such also knows not to have two consecutive '10's (e.g. two consecutive perfect scoring letters) or they will be likely to be pulled aside and forced to undergo immediate deconstruction of their mechanics and chemical analysis of their canteens. Delays would be inevitable should this occur.

Three consecutive '10's could mean, to be fairly warned, expulsion from the venue entirely. A fate no man could ever want, unless they found themselves in attendance at a Guns and Roses concert, circa anytime in the 21st century.

"Beware the consecutive 10s!" someone might say if trying to warn the obviously super-clean racing teams.

[Diable Rouge]

Bleat unlit blind

[nmrfox]

Okapi death munch - just ask Arthur Dent about his brother.

[Southport Zeb]

Boxes smell fishy

[elguapo4]

Buzzy wasps annoy.

[Balderdasha]

How did I miss this? No chance of a decent ranking for this round, but I'll start now, and look forward to joining in properly in the next round.

Child leaks pizza.

[lambers]

Trial zumba lunge

[San Bernardhinault]

I have less of an idea of what's going on than before

Ducks break khazi

[delicatemoth]

Devil fires hound

[Patrick Thistle]

Broad beans delay

[Sporting]

Strip jacks naked

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

I am SO out of my depth here.

Never shake hands

[slackster]

Heh - I’m doggedly remaining in lower mid-table obscurity throughout. My Orient deadbeat supporting decades have been extremely good practice for this, for the most part.

Anyways. Race 5: Miser drops penny.

[Hot Orange]

Pilot tulip bulbs.

[andrew7610]

Skate takes steak

[Wouter D]

Quorn steak stink

[context: that stuff smells, and also I'm going a bit overboard with being squeaky clean in these doping-infested times]

[matt j]

Welcome to Balderdasha and Patrick Thistle .

Currently have 15 entries for the last race of the week. I think that takes us to 21 (!!!!!) total racers. I'm assuming our season leader hasn't just declared and wandered off to have a marmalade toast, so everyone missing get your 'totally not doped to the gills' entry in sometime in the next 5-10 hours.

[ad hoc]

Banal ricin party

Brilliant stuff Matt. Really fun and challenging. Many thanks

[Sean of the Shed]

Zonal style layby

[matt j]

17 racers, missing 4. (All entries approved.)

[ursus arctos]

Jazzy kicks reign

[matt j]

I make it as missing Kevin S , Sits , and Various Artist only. Race runs in approx. 3-4 hours.