WYPS and other games

Oski HD for iPad – version 1.3

RioM — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:04:09 +0000

New version of Oski HD was published on Apple App Store.

There are three main changes:

New graphics for game from profesional graphic designer.
Implemented special version of directed acyclic word graph suitable for playing with different levels of game.
Added Slovak language.

List of features for future versions:

more languages
turn based online game
global score tables
email and facebook support

Play OSKI online

RioM — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:26:19 +0000

On turn-based Little Golem server is possible to play OSKI online. Supported languages: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Slovak, Greek.

New championships in WYPS

RioM — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:19:49 +0000

Today start a new championships in game WYPS on Little Golem server. Until now there was championship in English on board 13. There is link on first league group in current – 5th championship.

Today start these new championships:

WYPS English on board 7

228 problems from WYPS 4th championship

RioM — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:56:42 +0000

Wyps4th – 228 problems 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 … Continue reading →

WYPS – 4th championship is finished

RioM — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:56:04 +0000

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:

imperatore
labradors
Malaj
Cadavaca
Michal Piszczalka
Allan Mertner
Henrik Sjøl
r_malenfant
acr01

Links:

1st league: wyps.ch.4.1.1

2nd league: wyps.ch.4.2.1 wyps.ch.4.2.2

All groups

OSKI – Dice Random Generator

RioM — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:04:49 +0000

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.

Oski dice

OSKI 1.1: AI, German

RioM — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:46:44 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

Oski in AppStore

RioM — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:59:25 +0000

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:

Allow play between two players
Check words with vocabulary and check rules

I am now preparing new version with AI player.

WYPS in Greek

RioM — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:50:02 +0000

On Little Golem is new supported language for WYPS: Greek language.

3rd LG championship

RioM — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:18:34 +0000

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:

arc01
quiddity
Cobweb
r_malefant
labradors
Marius Halsor
Aganju
FatPhil
ypercube
Nafy Fathy

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