In this PDF file is 228 problems from 4th WYPS championship. All positions are from played games. Problems are separated into 4 categories (Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, Expert) and every category is separated into 4 levels.
On end of file are all solutions.
4th WYPS championship won imperatore from Italy. He lost only one game with labradors from Honduras on second place:
White on move won with move NONARTS
Third player was Malaj from Hungary.
Final order:
Links:
1st league: wyps.ch.4.1.1
2nd league: wyps.ch.4.2.1 wyps.ch.4.2.2
There is more than one thousand words in SOWPODS dictionary suitable as first move for OSKI: 3-letters long with various letters. If you want play variant with random letters you can use one dice, roll it four times and use next pdf doc for determine your random word.
For example for values 5, 6, 5, 3 is your word WAY. If for your combination, there is not word, you must throw dice again.
Version 1.1 of OSKI HD is in App Store. There are two main features:
1. Play against computer. There are 50 levels from very simple to very hard levels.
2. German support. I add German vocabulary to game and is possible to play OSKI in German.
Today I receive mail from Apple: Oski game is in AppStore. Application cost 0,99$ or 0,79 EUR.
Implementation of Oski is very simple:
I am now preparing new version with AI player.
On Little Golem is new supported language for WYPS: Greek language.
3rd LG championship won player acr01 from United States. acr01 won all his games. Two games acr01 won in less than 10 moves. In first game acr01 beat cobweb (finished as 3rd) as white in this position:
In second game acr01 beat Marius Halsor in next position:
On second place finished quiddity. Decision game between him and acr01 was one of longest in tournament. Finally acr01 won game in this position:
Final order in main group:
Some more problems from tournament:
Solutions:
Game #1141976 [Cobweb vs. arc01]: RESEES
Game #1141980 [Marius Halsor vs. arc01]: ENRANGE
Game #1141979 [acr01 vs. quiddity]: CHODE
Game #1141991 [Cobweb vs. labradors]: ARAISE
Game #1141975 [acr01 vs. labradors]: TAGLINE
Game #1141993 [Nagy Fathy vs. labradors]: NOMISTIC
There is simple PDF sheet for print: OskiSheet
Updated: new version of sheet.
I love paper and pencil games. When I was child, we in family and in school often play Gomoku, Dots and Boxes, Go or Hex. I always want invent some good word game, playable as board game.
WYPS was initially developed as paper-and-pencil game too, but I was not satisfy with it and I change rules. Quentin is very simple and it is not board game – there is no board.
Finally there is OSKI. OSKI is very simple word game. Maybe simplest. I read about similar game played on orthogonal board several years ago. But I am not able to find any mention about this game now. I hope my rules are better.
Quentin is very simple word game. There are a little changed rules against rules published on www.littlegolem.net.
Rules:
First player wrote two letters word. Next player must add one letter and from all letters must create some new, unused word. If is not able create some new word, she can strikes some letters. Player who first strike more than 8 (or any other limit) letters is out of game. Last players win game.
Game example:
3 -players game with 4 strikes limit:
1. AM
2. MAY
3. MANY
1. MEAN (Y was strike) [3 strikes left]
2. MEANS
3. MAKES [3]
1. ASKED [2]
2. BASED [3]
3. ABLE [1]
1. TABLE
2. LATER [2]
3. CLEAR [0]
1. EARLY [1]
2. REALLY
3. CLEARLY
1. CALLED [-1] player is out of game
2. HE next player start again with new word
3. THE
2. THEY
3. TYPE [-1]
Second player won whole game.
