 | Adam Latchford No! It is bad! Am not appy! (Sorry just practicing) |
| Adam Latchford Also rip aegilops, a lost soldier that would have worked wonders here |
 | Dan Southwell What the...!? My brain just fried reading the instructions Dave! Some practice for this one methinks....! |
 | Jon Stammers More annoying than ever not being able to see best possible answers we could have got round by round... it's all pioneering wordgaming, like no one has ever done this before ever! |
 | Sean D With his ability to come up with new forms of torture Dave K is surely a Mossad operative |
| Jon Stammers So since aegilops isn't actually valid the best we could do would be beefily??? |
| Sarah Binns Out with anno in round 12.
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 | Stu Harkness I need my Staircase points! :D |
 | Mike Lee Dave. This was a good round and glad you included it but I think if you repeat it, the bonus should be for 6 letters of more rather than 5. |
 | Dave Kempshall Yes, I agree Mike. First time in tournament, so was difficult to gauge the difficulty. |
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| Sean D It seems relatively east to get mainly 4s, tricky but not impossible to get 5s and very hard to get 6s. I think a great addition would be to include reverse alphabetical declarations, with a 1 point bonus for valid reverse alphabetical declaration of 4 or more. In case this isn't confusing enough! |
| Dan Southwell or make it hypertouch to allow chances to get those longest ones in? |
| Dave Kempshall All good suggestions. Dan, I considered Hyper Touch, but felt that might be a layer of confusion too much. |
 | Mark Jeary-Fairbairn Well personally I needed it basic after my catastrophic last three rounds, so thank you! |
| Jon Stammers Nice challenge! In terms of the bonuses maybe in future you could have something like a 2 point bonus for a 5, 5points for a 6, 10 points for a 7?? |
Notes from the organizer: Adam has now started to stretch his lead marginally, but it can all still change quickly.
Leaderboard - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YSYOdmZKGElwGkMRG89M4PBvmvH6vu-9/edit?gid=1911279472#gid=1911279472&range=A1:M1
Round 7 is one that I’ve considered previously but opted against (largely due to the marking of it potentially frying my brain), but this year we give it a go.
It’s a Hyper Letters Attack with one key rule - every word you declare needs to valid words and contain letters in alphabetical order to keep your game alive.
If you make a mistake and declare a word with letters out of alphabetical order, an invalid word or no word at all then your game scoring ends.
However, there is no minimum word length rule in play, so you could plod your way through with one letter words for a guaranteed 20 points if slow and steady is your style,
Examples - DEFT would be a deft touch, LEFT would see you left behind. BEGIN would be a great way to start, FINISH would be a terrible way to end.
A word such as AFFIX, which repeats the same letter consecutively, will be counted as being in valid alphabetical order so will get you points.
- There is a 5 point bonus if you score in every round without resorting to 1 or 2 letter words.
- And another 5 point bonus if you find a single word of 5+ letters that meets the scoring criteria.
Good luck!
Ran from: 19 – 30 November 2025. Format: Hyper Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Level scores: Drawn. Approved.
Matches: 49. Completed: 47.
Fixtures: 49. Played: 47. Unplayed: 2.
Fixtures: 49. Played: 47. Unplayed: 2.
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser.
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