okey guys

wins…the guy who make the LAST POST

before 2007 hehehe

..lets start…

mee!

im winning

Not anymore.

not so fast eddddd

You have too much spare time.

Which timezone?

mmm doesnt mather because

the forum

says what time we POST

ejample

“19 minutes ago

Robin Which timezone? "

and then..that transform to

25/12/06

kpato means: the server's time zone.

Kpato as always with his spam ideas! Frankly what a stupid game!

sorry to take your leadering andrey

I won't be online during the last minutes of this year. My wife had a good reason to be angry (or worry about my mental health) otherwise.

I understand the servers's time is CET = UTC (or GMT) +1 .

For kpato this should be easy to catch, in his early evening of 31-Dec.

I don't have a problem to allow him win this “spam” game.

hehe naaa

thats the fun of the game..

because..all of the players of LG have a life

we have go make other things in that days

anyway..

Well, I have no life, so as soon as I figure out the server's time zone as it relates to here…I will win this!

:-)

Careful! Someone is bound to use an automated procedure, so it shouldn't be too hard to come very close to midnight… without having to be in front of a computer, of course.

Well, where did I put my crontab again…

sorry judy

im winning now (H)

It's not over yet……

now we are more close to…

hehe :P I'm winning now :P

But there is still more then one day ;)

Save your posts to last seconds ;)

I have discovered the server time, but I won't be at home to post :(

We can play such game each midnight, but what for?

It will be last midnight before next Year :D Special one ;)

Then why not :D

NEW RULE!

Only ONE posting allowed in this topic after 11:30 pm, server time!

This will prevent people from clicking their mouse a few dozen times, attempting to get in the last post. Anyone posting more than once after 11:30 pm automatically loses.

Nice idea :D I like it :D

u guys should better be somewhere out celebrating with friends, not infront of a monitor watching time and writing last post into LG phorum. No offence.

exactly ;) Who said that I won't be :P

let me .see if i understand

…after 23:30

of december 31

1 post per player.

thats it?

PD: (im winning)

where i can find the SERVER TIME?

Server time is CET = +1 releated to greenwich-meantime

The probem I see is, : The posting-time is not displayed.

Hubbie

Now it is 23:17 pm

but…

what is that formule :S

some link…where i can see the SERVER TIME

Best whishes to new year too all. Best whishes to new year too all. Best whishe

est whishes to new year too all. Best whishes to new year too all. Best whishes

st whishes to new year too all. Best whishes to new year too all. Best whishes

t whishes to new year too all. Best whishes to new year too all. Best whishes

whishes to new year too all. Best whishes to new year too all. Best whishes

whishes to new year too all. Best whishes to new year too all. Best whishes

I hope this ist he first posting in the time-window : last 30 min. in 2006.

Hubbie

OKEY !!!

I WIN

if my calcules are good :)

Happy new year…

…kpato , get a life!

23:58… God, the father of Jesus Christ bless you in the new year 2007!!!

CONGRATS Jonny

okey…i lose

BUT

i have the FIRST POST of the year

WELCOME 2007

greets to all the LG players

Many light and power in the new year too all.

Good healthy and happyness.

hubbie

i guess it's quite late haha

Feliz Ano to all the little golemers :)

Darn ;P I miss last post ;P

Happy New Year all :D

technically I'm now leading the 2007 game. :-)

OMG, Good Luck! ;))

By the way… chinese new year is about to pop up…

im winning now (H)

I hope kpato is not planning to play this game again. As usual I probably won't play between Xmas and New year…

i will not be online, neither… But, hey! i'm now winning :P

My few seconds of glory

wrong again :)

leadering

Bwahahahaha!

did you miss me?

i'll try…

helloooo!

Got you!

mecachis!!!!

jurl

ifoooooo

:)

pimienta!

busted!

pimp

trooooooooodels!!!!

eheh. I'm winning…

sure?

ahahaah I'm winning!!!

:S What is the premium? :S xD

tiki taka

saliiiiiinas

nachos

i guess i won't win :(

pq no te callas??!!!!

lol

somebody can tell me where is the time of this web now?

to make my calculates

and what is the premium!!…

waiting…

Current time: 19:46

tigas, do you mean prize?? (There no prize.)

yes, prize. I'm portuguese and sometimes my english is a little badly…

Ohhhhh, there's no prize… xD

30 dic?

yes, 30 dic

Happy new year!

HNY

HNY everybbody!

tic tac tic tac

i cant wait anymore

i have to go , to see the firework to the ENTEL TOWER.

greets to everybody

and congrats to the winner.

it was a funny year here on LG

cheers to all my playermates :D

happy new years

Happy New Year 2008, to all the players on Little Golem.

so the winner is?

It seems that you won your own stupid game.

Happy New Year to all :)

i think dj won.

21:11 minus (20 hours + 1/2 hour margin) = posted 00:41 or later.

im winning!!!

After Tasmanian devil leadering of 11 months.

What would Little Golem be without this annual tradition?

ok,,,, now nobody post until 2009 :P

I was starting to feel worried that kpato was sick or something :)

oh no not again this game. Please don't reply because it will keep popping up otherwise

What a simple trick, Hjallti. You can't win this way.

BTW: for me, last year's result looks like

2007-12-31

kpatocl

2008-01-01

dj

Is this my local time? If anyone else sees the same result (because it's either the server's local time or UTC or whatever), then this game makes some sense.

Congrats to kpato, for winning the 2007 Final Forum Post Championship ;)

Dates and times are server's local time (GMT+1 if i'm not wrong).

(Oh, this can go possibly to the FAQ)

…as an additional game?

By the way, I can't win, I know, because I won't log on the 31st, certainly not close to midnight

Maybe 1 day before will be enough ;D

how can i play this? :P

.

You're too early kpato!

just in case.

Any rule this year about how many posts? How about only one post the last hour, i.e. after 23:00 CET?

that rule already exist.

is the last halfhour.

Is it good or bad to win this game?

What is good or bad this last day is also what was good or bad in the year 2008…

Are the LG bots allowed to play in this game?

There is neither human nor machine discrimination in the golem community :)

i'm not human, nor machine, but i hope i'm allowed to play :)

I will not play that silly game!

yeah…better ..lets close this Thread.

DO NOT POST anymore.

there's a rule no to play more than once today

there's a rule no to play if your name starts with G

Am I too late? What is the server's timezone?

This is as good or bad as it gets… HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Ricardo

yawn~~

:D

It's only 3:00 pm in my time zone, but… Happy New Year!

so now how do we know who won?

Happy New Year

Little golem's clock is 18 minutes late. So long, suckers :D

happy new year

seems i lose or loose.

any way. HYN 2 Every LGplayer. :)

seems i lose or loose.

any way. HYN 2 Every LGplayer. :)

I guess Ed got this one… :) New chance next year (or this year) Who is the last to go into 2009 on Little Golem?

ahhhhhhhhh perdi por salir a andar en bici!!!

Y el proximo juego es en 365 dias!!!!!!!!

Now the dates are visible :D

yeah..that was checking right now.

Congrats Isometry.

congrats

Thanks…such a proud moment for me…

I want to thank my parents…God…Satan…

but im not going to let u to lead the 2010 competition.

Let's do 2009 first.

Pah, if Isometry can use his smarts to win this one, I may have to use more underhanded means to win next year's…

bumping for those who don't know this.

yeah sure…

yeah sure!

sure?

Yes, since I linked otapk to this.

okey , lets play the 4th version of one of my games.

THE LAST POST.

i will remember the winners:

2007: Jonny

2008: dj

2009: isometry

donot post. it was just some info…

thanks for the reminder!

Damn you, kpt,

I was already playing and winning the game. As organizer you should interfere with that your post was really an 'organizing' post and should therefor not have been. I have leading this version now for 9 months, which is 3 quarters of the year and probably be loosing again. I feel like a chase away group in cycling who is taken back before the real final began. And note that I tooke the lead again… in December… in the final so to say.

I think Kpato was just trying to play and take the lead whistling somehow ;)

Who will ever know?

Anyways, My tactic to win was to make the last post of the postgame sequence in february and hope somehow everyone forgot. I don't blaiù kpato, I just wanted to win and now my chances are gone, all gone… unless out of compassion with me nobody replies anymore.

It would be so nice of you all to let me win

pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase!

Yes, I support that, let's all not post to this thread anymore from this moment on, so Hjallti can win. After all he is such a nice guy!

whatever you do, please keep in mind: It does not make any sense to post anything in this thread before the 31st of december. There is bound to be somebody to post on that very day.

A good point you are making there, Bernhard!

I don't understand the rules, obviously:

For me, currently there are those winners up to now:

Last post

2006 hubbie_c (Many light and power in the new year too all.)

2007 euhuang

2008 Ricardo (Santos)

According to my post from 2008-12-23, it looked different one year ago

Seems Richard now displays UTC time for the posts?

My time is now 22:30 CET = 21:30 UTC on 05-Dec-2009

Can somebody post in about 3 hours how things look for him?

Or rather in 2 hours ? good night ;)

22:36 CET here dec 5th

I'm pretty sure this will be visible as 6-Dec, as it is 9:20 UTC now.

Bad luck for isometry, that his excellent 2008 victory (even taking the wrong server time into account) is withdrawn now.

Anyway, I won't participate in the “2009 last post” contest.

Objection Your Honour!

Rejected!

Witnesses may be wrong, let's face the evidence:

Just scroll up a bit and see yourself. Fame vanishes quickly.

okey , anyway…this investigation have no sense.

because this thread is cancelled.

so do not post anymore.

Kpt, I join your request to cancel the game, as the result of last year is not longer correct. isometry of course is the winner. Otherwise in real life soccer all games where a player scored after receiving a pass on the same line as the last defender and was called off side (very old rule) should be counted and maybe another team would have won the world cup.

In volleyball it would be even worse. Old game had longer sets. If you would recount than a game at 8-6 for ages would suddenly be over.

I agree that Michael X has showed us this game is totally useless!

to end with the same words as kpato:

“so do not post anymore. "

i agree!

You conveniently cut off the “evidence” just before I was congratulated for winning.

I hope you don't take my “rejection” too serious, isometry ;)

Sure, things looked different some time ago.

And I think, Ricardo does not claim the “last post 2008” victory.

(Perhaps your vanishing fame was refreshed, effectively)

“so do not post anymore. "

the history its clear and fair.

these are the past winners.

2007: Jonny

2008: dj

2009: isometry

any complain???

Michael X pointed out that the midnight has changed, and that was in fact not so smart of him, as we might all have been focused wrong!

oops, did I reveal some secret information?

General Rule 1: “don't talk about ongoing games” also applies to this everlasting (?) one.

General Rule 2: “There's no way to enforce rules” I beg your pardon, anyway.

To KPT (any complain???): Yes: the last post 2009 is not decided yet.

But in general I agree : " do not post anymore. "

Yes you influenced the game very dramatically, and now you did again… and kpt wanted to keep this a simple game…

ok :)

The newest rule is that you must have leaded the game at least 10 days to be able to win. :-)

I know I am not going to win, but that does not stop me from wishing all my gaming friends here a happy new year and all the best for 2010 :-)

Happy new year golemers

Happy 2010 to all

Happy new year to all

Happy new year!

Happy new year

happy new year again…

;-)))

ahhhhh I FORGOT

Well

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy new year!

i wish you a happy new year and good luck in 2010's Last Post Game ;)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy new year!!! And I hope I'm the winner for 2009!

happy new year everyone!

this is an early entry for 2010-11. happy new year!!

while I take the lead for 2010's, let me share the tension of waiting two days to know who won 2009's :)

Happy New Year!

Congrats Elisa!!! You won!!

Elisa won with just one post in the whole thread!

People, learn from this! Just make one post at the right moment!

By the way: I hope I will lead for a while now ;-)

thx

But this is my second post. Last year I missed a win by 1 minut.

Congrats Elisa , good job.

bump

Hjallti had the lead definitely too long ;)

Damn, again my plan failed… each year this happens in December…

I'm ready ;)

12.32558206 days left…

how did you count that?

Using Excel, for example… (11.4693256944447000 days here)

Just one silly try. (Trying to display the server's time.)

Excuses if it shows error or whatever.

It displays nothing. No php.

right.

The player of the bottom in this thread.

Is an stupid.

Not more than the one above him though :)

I agree!

in january 7th of the 2009

this game , was cancelled.

Too bad, I was going to participate this year… :(

Kpato, you announced a 4th edition at the end of 2009.

Let's just cancel it with this post then…

okey, Hjallti. lol

:-)

so, is it cancelled?

Well Gregorlo, you can compete without prize.

ah ok, thanks!

so?

Cancelled or not… I'm ready ;)

+++++

Cancelation

+++++

There is no competition whatsoever so it is also untrue you could compete without prize

it's a pity :(

The new rule is:

Nobody can post in this thread until 12am of the 1st Jan.

From now on!

Is that 'can', 'may', or 'should'?

Good point!

In Spanish “nadie puede” should be translated as “nobody is allowed” in this context. (No matter how much I read or write in English every day, my subconscious forces these mistakes.)

ah ok, now I understand. So let nobody post!!

understood

I don't understand…

There is no competition, no prize but there are rules and referees :-)

As I understand the game on 12am 1s Jan you already lost. By the way, 12am on what time zone?

i'm not sure :P

“As I understand the game on 12am 1s Jan you already lost”

That's the idea.

“on what time zone?”

.. somewhere in Europe with maybe hours of time shift from official time. The whole game is about guessing (or if you really want to win, finding out) the server's time. 12 hours are enough to lose.

“.. are rules and referees”

It wouldn't be funny without that. This is the game where everybody talks and finally Elisa Kabiljo wins with only one post. ;-)

the trick is to find out when the server has midnight. PHP and javascript of course don't work.

So you need to find a way to get a timestamp from the server, and do some math, and then post so that your post will get the timestamp 23:59:59.999 on Dec/31, or as near as you can manage. There will be many similar posts, as others try too.

… I have it nailed down to about 30 seconds… :-P

That is a good reason to cancel this game it would over stress this server…

so don't post here anymore!!!!

As I understand it this game is cancelled, so there is no need to worry about server time or time zones. Just celebrate the New Year and leave this thread alone.

Definitely one of the most amusing threads I've read in quite some time! Thanks for the laughs. It's just too bad it's been canceled now.

Indeed.

Yes, I'm preparing for the New Year now, so no more posts, Please!

Yes, I'm preparing for the New Year now, so no more posts, Please!

Yes, I'm preparing for the New Year now, so no more posts, Please!

That I'd call a hattrick :)

That I'd call a hattrick :)

Boy, it's a good thing we all understand that we shouldn't post in this thread. :)

yes, I agree

Damn, and I was going to play this year. Oh well, lock it up.

ok, joke's getting old now.

I propose the following rule:

If you make more than two posts in sequence, they don't count for winning.

Reason: You could just catch the 'send' post, and put it in a browser and hold the refresh key down, which would result in multiple posts per second. That is too easy and should be discounted.

I think Aganju's proposed rule is good. The winner is the poster of the last message of 2010 that is both preceded and followed by a post from someone else.

It's not too easy; the lot of you are gonna be too drunk to compete and I will win this as easily as in 2008.

yay!

…er … just practicing …

drunk? It depends on where you are… In NewZealand, it will be like New Years Day lunch time when the server strikes midnight. And in Hawaii, it will be New Year's Eve lunch time. They should be recovered/not yet started with the drinking respectively.

congratulations aganju and happy new year

well, my first post…. I guess i Won't win this game. ANyway, happy new year to you all!

You lead the game for almost 20 minutes, slaapgraag. I doubt I will… Anyway, happy new year to all!

no, you led actually for 84 minutes!

Obviously only complete jerks post to this thread.

I take that as an invitation.

I created a monster…

what about half-jerks? can I play too?

what time-zone counts ?

the server's display here (meaning the servers time zone, which is UNKNOWN, which is the whole point of the thread). After 48 hours, the display changes from 'xx seconds/minutes/hours ago' to a date. The last entry showing 2010-12-31 wins!

Last year, the server was about 19 minutes early of Ireland time. This year - who knows…

And who knows who knows ?

Even if I don't win, I can still say I played!

Happy New Year everyone

You too!

Happy new year !!

Happy new year to everybody in the MEZ time zone!

Now :)

GG this year

Happy new year and have fun!

Happy new year to everybody :-)

Feliz ano novo, happy new year everyone!

Happy 2011 yo u all! 8-)

Happy new year!

Once, there was NO fun… This was before MENU planning FASHION statements or NAUTILUS equipment… Then, in 1985… FUN was completely encoded in this tiny MICROCHIP. It contains 14,768 vaguely amusing SIT-COM pilots! We had to wait FOUR BILLION years but we finally got JERRY LEWIS, MTV and a large selection of creme-filled snack cakes!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy new year everyone

lolwut

what is a besl anyway?

Happy new year!

Buon anno!

king-of-thebes and the numeral 1

Did I win?

Another 5 hours before we really know

this section contains the winner, but who will be clear when 2011-01-01 appears for the first time…

2010-12-31

Aganju the server's display here (meaning the servers time zone, which is UNKNOWN, which is the whole point of the thread). After 48 hours, the display changes from 'xx seconds/minutes/hours ago' to a date. The last entry showing 2010-12-31 wins!

Last year, the server was about 19 minutes early of Ireland time. This year - who knows…

47 hours ago

ypercube And who knows who knows ?

47 hours ago

blargdragon Even if I don't win, I can still say I played!

46 hours ago

TUMRAK Happy New Year everyone

45 hours ago

klaashaas You too!

45 hours ago

bennok Happy new year !!

45 hours ago

Aganju Happy new year to everybody in the MEZ time zone!

45 hours ago

Ricardo (Santos) Now :)

44 hours ago

kp4to GG this year

Happy new year and have fun!

44 hours ago

Mojmir Hanes Happy new year to everybody :-)

44 hours ago

Ricardo (Santos) Feliz ano novo, happy new year everyone!

43 hours ago

Marius Rombout van Riemsdijk Happy 2011 yo u all! 8-)

Hjallti, you lost doubly! Even your prediction on which group of posts will contain the winner was wrong by four!

:-)

Congrats stickman!

i'd like t thank th academy …

mmm stickman, did u made multiple post, between 23.30 hrs and 00.00 hrs. (Ed Collins rule)

thats get you out of the contest, and convert Elisa a Winner again.

Sorry, I went according to Aganju's rule. I didn't know about Ed Collins' rule. My bad.

I even took more than I expected to be needed to be sure and I failed miserably. I also lost a totally won dots game in the same 5 minutes… i should log in when I am tired…

Congrtas to Elisa!

The “Ed Collins” rule. That's pretty funny. I had to scroll back (four years!) to even remember what kp4to was talking about.

What about the game being cancelled rule..?

Or the don't post anymore rule?

I'd say stickman won, but since it is kp4to's game I guess he is the referee.

im not the referre.

Any one can jugde the winner.

And i think that even if i want to cancel

This game… i couldn't.

in fact.

im very confused about the past winners of every year.

I'm confused about the future winners. Of every year.

Actually, it may be Gregorio who is the winner. He did the last post 2010-12-26 before kp4to cancelled the game ;).

Well, I guess I'm in the lead now for 2011, since the game is not cancelled yet… But, I agree, it is a little confusing, anyway congrats to stickman for winning the 2010 game!

Elisa won the 2010 game.

kpato,

Do you consider “2011-01-01 stickman: what is a besl anyway?” as a failed last post, or do you punish stickman's multiple entries before?

I agree, Elisa plays a very clean LAST POST game, congratulations.

Assuming s/he lives in Central Europe, should have better things to do at that time and leave this game to Americans or Bots.

This game have to be fun. But without precise rules and referee, it is not fun for me anymore. There is no winner accepted by all because there is no rules accepted by all. Every new rule proposed can be interpreted as attempt to win a game. I really don't know who have to be winner.

For me clue to win this game is to guess exact server time, and send one message at correct time. For this I used 'Remaining time' in Game of Empathy. This didn't work perfectly for me this year: I expected to send a message at 23:59:55, but it seem that I send it a little bit earlier.

And I'm 'he'.

It's just a silly game. Fun to play, fun to win and fun to lose ;)

I guess everybody know if he won or not.

If I were Elisa I'd know who's won this year ;)

Greg , u are right.

This game is fun to play, fun to win and fun to lose.

Just have fun.

But for me, the winnear its clear.

just testing kpato's reflects.

You mean reflexes? I don't think he will reply now.

i bring myself in position

Who won last year?

Hard to say. Now, it looks like Mojmir Hanes won, but from the discussions it was either Elisa Kabiljo or k man (stickman at the time). The last post was k man's but some think he was disqualified due to some obscure rule addition (one of many) from four years ago. So, in my opinion it was k man who won.

It certainly appears that Mojmir won last year….were times adjusted in the recent littlegolem crash, perhaps? did littlegolem go through a wormhole? Maybe it was Kman or Elisa before, but a time warp has altered destiny….and now Mojmir is last year's champ!

And it also looks like Jonny has usurped Elisa for the last post of 2009…

although Jonny posted twice at the end, so does that mean Aganju won 2009?

Alarm: Richard seems to intend to change the

server (and server time zone) on December 31, 2011.

This will make this game extremely difficult.

The clue was mentioned by Richard himself, the server is now in a kitchen. Usually kitchen clocking devices are not nanosecond calibrated, so the time the light takes from your location to Bratislava is not really an issue. It is just a game, I will give it one try for the fun of just wishing everybody a happy new year.

My tactic is to post as last in january february and then everyone forgets about it… but no, every year someone brings it back…

I have and idea now to win 2012…

I predict a rush of posts on Dec 21, 2012….the winner may well be the last person who posts before the world ends…what time of day will the world end, I wonder? Will the winner of such a contest be exalted on high?

Wouldn't it be more fun to be with friends or family on new years eve rather than trying to get the last post in some online thread?

“that's why I'm not playing” , RIGHT????

why doesn't someone clarify the rules this time…?

This is the main problem with this game, if you want to play seriously: no one can specify the exact rules, since they do not exist. All references to rules can be understood as an attempt to win the game.

Another problem is that the winner depends on the system time, which can be changed, and was changed over time. Therefore, it is impossible to check who was the winner in previous years by simply looking this thread. In addition, to know the winner we have to wait two days, and during this time it is possible to change the system time.

Therefore, it is impossible to play this game seriously, play it just for fun (if that is fun for you).

And of course this message can be interpreted as my attempt to win this year.

I agree, so I propose a rule that whoever introduces a new rule is automatically disqualified.

I suggest even better rule: whoever writes in this thread will be automatically disqualified. The rule applies retroactively. :-)

???

Unwritten posts typically displayed with

???

are not considered to be written and therefor not to be disqualified.

???

This thread is loading very slowly, it is getting too long. Please open a new one.

im not having any problems with this thread.

the game of “the related word” its bigger and nobody says nothing.

by the way.

THE ONLY RULE of this game is the “Ed Collins rule”

the others rules of courses are jokes. u don't need to be too smart for knowing that.

And i know that the time it is screw up now.

but i think that it will be fair. to not change the past winners.

i promise, in january i will post the past winners.

gl

locks thread

Thanks, unique!

???

Here it is: (I guess it lacks that this applies to the date of December 31st)

ED COLLINS RULE!

Only ONE posting allowed in this topic after 11:30 pm, server time!

This will prevent people from clicking their mouse a few dozen times, attempting to get in the last post. Anyone posting more than once after 11:30 pm automatically loses

Members can delete their not-winning posts, though, down to one.

You guys are just too funny.

I wonder if I should ad the “Ed Collins” rule to the FAQ.

:) (Just kidding.)

Ed, just don't delete your rule from this thread :)

to the FAQ!

do it.

He can't remove that rule from the forum…

i can remove the whole thread

kpato, you will by lynched when you do that.

“be” instead of “by”

It is getting closer… ;)

All forums seem rather quiet. I guess I'll just have to step in and making the winning post here.

51 hours and 28 minutes remaining

[x]

I have an idea for modifying the game by relativation:

Not the last post of the year in this thread is winning,

but the last post in this thread (in this year) that is

posted before any other post in any other thread (!= this

one) of the LG forum (in this year).

One naive strategy for going for this trophy would be to make

a double shot: First one message here and immediately later a second

one in another thread. Of course this is not what I want to

encourage. So, an analogue of the Ed-Collins-rule has to be

incorported: Only those will be considered who have at most one

posting in the last 30 minutes of 2011.

Gentlemen, start your brains!

To make it more clear:

Only those will be considered who have at most one

LG-posting in the last 30 minutes of 2011.

Ingo.

This is not an analogue but a turn around of Ed's rule. At this moment you can win without posting in the last 30 minutes and there is a restriction to late posting. Now you create a obligation for late posting.

I don't think this is advisable.

Of course I am not really a player because I live in the same time zone as the server and celebrate new year

We may have two categories in the game:

(i) the classical one (including Ed Collins rule)

(ii) my advanced league (including the Ed Collins “turn around analogue”)

So far, the winners were

\\\* Classical end of the year game ***

2004 —-

2005 —-

2006 Jonny

2007 kpato

2008 Isometry

2009 Elisa Kabiljo

2010 Elisa Kabiljo

2011 **** to come ****

\\\* Advanced end of the year game ***

2004 —-

2005 —-

2006 ????

2007 ????

2008 ????

2009 ????

2010 ????

2011 **** to come ****

Question marks mean that there must have been

a winner, but in retrospective it is not possible

to determine that person.

Or, does Richard keep server protocols?

Richard, could you have a look or two, please?

Ingo.

Did I shock everybody, or is it just the

silence before the storm?

What time zone is the game?

Is it just posts in this thread that are considered for the victory?

> What time zone is the game?

That's the game.

(And for “advanced participants”: Is there a clock drift on the server?)

To spoil the game a bit: Richard moved to a different server, recently, and plans to move again, “soon”. Seems this server shows dates UTC based, but the old one showed them as UTC+1. Thus, the old winners are not visible any more.

Others feel the game is to argue with kpato (the starter of this thread) about the rules. And about the winners, of course.

IMO, whoever wins this round, must be a strange fellow, or live in a time zone very far away.

Happy New Year, to all of you. CU next year.

“IMO, whoever wins this round, must be a strange fellow….”

Spoken like a true sandbagger. :)

“Happy New Year, to all of you.”

Ditto.

Has there ever been a shortness of strange fellows on Littlegolem?

IMO: whoever writes in this thread, at any time, is a strange fellow ;)

Here comes my last posting for this year:

I just finished an EinStein game against TUMRAK,

achieving a lucky win. This pushes my rating up

to 1759, means rank 26, and one point ahead

of Luiser.

What a pleasant moment for turning to the new year.

My best wishes to all of you, Ingo!

Happy New Year from Dublin! :)

Happy New Year from Oslo!

Happy 2012 to everyone! 8-)

Happy New Year from Basel,Bale,Basle !

Happy new year from Barcelona!

Happy New Year from Los Angeles. 9 hours to go, but this seemed like a good time to post. :)

Happy new year to all!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year and congratulations to the winner

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Athens!

Hi,

Ricardo (Santos) hs been winning the advanced league.

His posting was 40 hours before the writing of this message.

39 hours before the writing of my message was a Street Soccer

posting by Duke of Prunes.

And 21 hours before this writing was the next message

in this thread,

Congratulations to Ricardo!

Congratulations bennok. You must have just edged me out. When I clicked “send message” my clock showed about 5 seconds before the hour. :)

Congrats to bennok!

For the records:

\\\* Classical end of the year game ***

2004 —-

2005 —-

2006 Jonny

2007 kpato

2008 Isometry

2009 Elisa Kabiljo

2010 Elisa Kabiljo

2011 bennok

2012 **** to come ****

\\\* Advanced end of the year game ***

2004 —-

2005 —-

2006 ????

2007 ????

2008 ????

2009 ????

2010 ????

2011 Ricardo (Santos)

2012 **** to come ****

Congratulations to all winners and participants”

Ingo.

@OneStone_c > my clock showed about 5 seconds before the hour

But to win you need to match the error of LG's clock.

great research Prof Ingo.

Those are the real winners of the past games.

This game is not only fun on LG. Instead participants,

silent observers, and analysts can learn a lot for more

serious applications, for instance for

\* high speed trading at the stock markets (especially for the

seconds directly before closure of the daily sessions)

\* auctions at Ebay which have a fixed deadline.

Ingo.

bump

It is a pity the time shift is undone… It was my chance to win this game, without having to be online during the newyearsparty !

In case the world ends tomorrow, I think I will make my post early this year…

thats really wise

could someone clarify the basic and advanced rules?

Nice try, Thnikkaman.

You thought that you could prevent any new posts by posing a tricky question nobody would dare to answer. Ha ha ha. Now I have taken the lead from you.

Maybe Ingo can clarify the rules of the variants. Something is described in this thread, but I do not understand it 100% myself.

@all: Enjoy the upcoming days and the new year.

Thomas

locks thread :)

please don't go off topic, I only want someone to reply if they answer the question at hand

Very simple: we look at the tread on 3th of january. By then it will be clear who has posted as latest on the 2012-12-31. That player is the winner.
There is one restriction: you are not allowed to post twice in the last half hour.

There is one additional winner: the player have leaded most during the last year. This is won by 7 months by Hjallti.

I think the only rules that should be taken seriously are the rules for “the advanced end of the year game”… ;)

Sorry guys. The game was cancelled this year due to the end of the world.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

What are the rules for “the advanced end of the year game”?

Advanced rules:
Your post has to be the last post of the year.
You have to stand on one leg and write the post with your left hand.
Your post must contain the words “Happy New Year”
You have to be part of the discussion of who won the game and what the rules should be.

I thought the message should on a AZERTY keyboard to be legal.

anyway Happy NewYear

I'm pretty sure I have the original text of the real advanced rules (not the nonsense suggested here recently) somewhere on my old computer. I'll try to spot them. Stay tuned!

Is it allowed to manipulate the “internal” clock(s) of LG with the
purpose to win this game?

Do you mean by delaying the earth rotation in some sense?

No, I mean hacking.

i like it.
i guess using that kind of rules, richard had some advantage.

Really?

I hoped he would re inforce the time shift that was happening some time ago :)

Currently we have these slow response times on LG.
Perhaps this is a first hint that something clock-related
is in Richard's pipeline. Who knows ?!

All the best for the new year to all of you.

Consider this post to be posted in exactly 12 hours 47 minutes and 30 seconds:

Happy New Year!

happy new year

you can stop playing since this is the winning post

Nice try, Hjallti, but we are more clever ;-)

buuuuuuuuuuuuuurp. you're welcome oh and happy new year :)

Since it is already clear who wins the advanced game this year, I'll give it a try in the master game now… ;)

Have the official 2013 'End of the World' dates been released yet?

Just in case the server is about to go down I'll get my effort in now. Happy New Year everyone :o)

Being sick at home, I may have a shot at winning this. Happy new Year to everybody anyway.

Happy New Year everyone

Inkululeko!

Happy New Year from Los Angeles! I wonder what time it is right now…?

I am at the exact same spot as last year and I'll try try to have the same good luck this time with this same stupid challenge! I love you all foolish little golemners! My wife says “va te f'…”

2013!

Happy new year!
I FORGOT IT!!!

Happy 2013

Have a New Year!

'meow-meow, meow, meow'

Happy New Year!

Congratulations to wanderer_c. It would appear that he (it) posted exactly at 23:59:59, while I was 1 second earlier. bennok was way off at 00:00:07. :-D

wanderer_C isn't a bot?

Maybe we should create a “bot category”. So, Isometry seems to be the new champion in the
“human category”

My bad. The Wanderer account is used for my Wanderer bot. But Wanderer is not programmed to play the Last Post game. I was logged in as Wanderer, noticed the time seemed right, so jumped right in.

Come to think of it, it would be an interesting challenge to write such a Last Post bot. E.g., would it have to take into account the number of other bots (and humans) trying to get in at just before midnight?

@isometry: Thanks and my numbers pretty much matched what you reported.

i think is a good idea.

Congrats to @wanderer_c and to @isometry for 2nd place!

@kpato: You were disqualified anyway, it's allowed to use the word “forget” (in any tense).

I meant: it's not allowed.

For the records:
For the records

\\\* Classical end of the year game ***
2004 —-
2005 —-
2006 Jonny
2007 kpato
2008 Isometry
2009 Elisa Kabiljo
2010 Elisa Kabiljo
2011 bennok
2012 Richard Lorentz (with the Wanderer_c account)
2013 **** to come ****

Question to Richard: What did you wife say concerning your
activities in the last hours of the year?

Ingo.

3rd place :D

Congratulation to Richard L

This year there will be a new category:

“Bot's Category”
Any user can program just 1 Bot for the propose of this game.
The bot profile must say in the info , who is the programmer.
They run with all the others rules of the game
(not multiposting the last 30 minutes)

@Ingo: Yes, that is indeed a significant issue. However, midnight LG time is 3:00 p.m. Los Angeles time. Miki was busy preparing for our evening adventures while I attended to equally important matters on the computer. P.S. Nevertheless, she will remain unaware of my glorious victory. :)

tell her!

@kpato: Then we'll have a separate Alien competition, then a separate Dolphin competiton, an Alien Bot competition, a Dolphin Bot, …

You see where this discrimination against bots is leading us? It's destroying the game.

And maybe bots have been already playing, who knows.

WJawjjawjawahahahaaga

a pity I do life in the same time zone as the server, and the wife issue is the same…

You could divorce. ,-)

I thought that could be the silliest cause of divorce, but then I googled and it is, at best, the 11-th silliest cause of divorce.

www.oddee.com/item_96664.aspx

We should warm up for the 2013 leg of the game…

i disagree. Is too early.

Ok. It was a naive try: Writing now in the hope that everybody
else would have forgotten the competition when it becomes
December.

Ingo.

erratic got the longest lead this year. congrats!

When I were Richard, I would close this thread immediately!

It is very difficult to respond without contradicting your advice!

Pah, wait until the end of the year.
You all will see your blue miracle!
Ingo.

This is my favourite thread of the whole internet.

My, too. However, there is an analogy in sports.
There was an olympic discipline in cycling,
where the two combattants did nothing but lurking
for an opportunity… and then, at some point out of
the nothing the race started (typically 200 meters
before the goal).

I am lurking…

thread closed!

hahahahaha! ;-)

don't forget to register in the Happy new years tournaments by euhuang

Hm, was hoping everybody would forget this thread, so I could be The One! ;-)

I guess a Californian guy will win again …

:)

Urgent message to our Master Richard:
Please, transfer the server to another time zone (for instance Australian
or to California).

Ingo.

lol!

I better spam this topic with a bunch of messages so yours scrolls off the page and doesn't get seen.

This is a test.

Go Packers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is not a test but an attempt

Happy newyear!

Ik wens al mijn Littlegolem vrienden een gelukkig nieuwjaar!

Where will you be this time tomorrow?

fine-calibrating?

lattitude: 52.2400478
longitude: 6.8991458

dutch precision !

According to my calculations the time is 23:59:59 December 31st on the Klingon planet. Therefore, I win!

If I remember well Klingon has days of 26 hours, therefor, I win! :-)

Sorry Hjallti, its leap day over there this year and they had to cut two hours off the year this time. Won't happen again in your lifetime.

Note: On Klingon leap day women may ask a man to marry them. If he refuses they are allowed to kill him. So be careful when you visit.

Uh oh. Somebody else from Southern California seems to be interested in this game. This could prove interesting….

Richard, I'll be dining and dancing to the big band sounds New Year's Eve so don't worry about me. I'll be nowhere near a computer at the stroke of midnight.

http://www.harryselvin.com/upcoming_events.html

We have guests over, and I don't want to be asocial when counting down. and I am in the same time zone as the server…

see you all next year!

We may be heading out early today, but, of course, this could be the winning post. Re mtbikesman: I am not so easily fooled by your gambit!

Already new year here in China:)

Happy new year and power down your computers NOW!!

Hey, GAMESORRY:
Aren't you on vacation?

Anyway, Happy new year!
And good luck with your moon rover.

Happy New Year to all littlegolems.

HNY to everyone

Happy New Year!!!

Happy new year all!

Happy New Year!

(7 hours early in the time zone where I am, but still.)

Happy 2x19x53

Happy new year from Jena
to all little Golems!

Ingo.

Happy new year to all my favorite opponents!

Do I get any points for predicting that Ingo won?

We will have to wait another 24 hours, but
likely Isometry or I are winner.

@Art: You get a bonus for the tiebreak score
in the 2014 competition ;-)

Happy new year from Oslo!

A late Happy New Year from Los Angeles.

I had every intention of winning again this year, but when I tried to access the forum 35 minutes agoe, I seemed to be locked out. A very clever DoS by somebody!

I also found the forum totally locked at midnight your time. 3:00 pm my time.

Allthough i'm 1 hour late: happy new year everybody, especially some regular einstein opponents! :-)

Happy New Year to all in Little Golem City!

DAMN!
First time that i forgot about my “STUPID game” (As Andrey called it 8 years ago…)

anyway.
HNY to the complete Littlegolem fellowship.

Happy New Year!

Gott nytt år!

@Ingo Althofer:

Yes, I'm on vacation now and wish I won't use up the days too early in 2014.

Good luck with your research and look forward to new games from you:)

Happy new hear from Vancouver!

Also year.

Happy new year, everyone!

Indeed, my end-of-the-year posting was successful.
I am very happy, in particular because the runner up
(or better the pre-runner ?!) is one of my co-authors
of a mathematical paper.

“Second Champagne” for all of you!
Ingo.

It may not be good PR for the paper that two of the authors engage in this sort of activity. Anyway, congrats. ;-)

A clean win. Congratulations. I can't find any rule you might have violated, except for the rule against posting in this thread…

For the records:

Classical “End of the year game”

2006 Jonny
2007 kpato
2008 Isometry
2009 Elisa Kabiljo
2010 Elisa Kabiljo
2011 bennok
2012 Richard Lorentz (with the Wanderer_c account)
2013 Ingo Althofer
2014 …to come…

Congrats

Yes congrats!

test

! http://images.cryhavok.org/d/19012-1/You+Must+Be+New+Here.jpg !

!http://images.cryhavok.org/d/19012-1/You+Must+Be+New+Here.jpg!

Congrats Ingo! Time to start the fine tuning…

kpato, yes, you caught me! XD

OK, I may have lost this game but it was over 80 here today and the rest of you were freezing your buns off. Revenge is sweet :P

Thanks for all the congrats. To tell you from my chamber:
Until 23:40 on December 31, I was very optimistic to have
good winning chances. I had scrutinized the exact discrepancy
(in the subsecond range) between LG server time and the time
on the German clock page www.uhrzeit.org .

But suddenly uhrzeit.org was no longer available (due to heavy
traffic by all thoses guys who wanted to know exact time before
midnight).
I found two other websites with “exact” time. However, they
differed by about 4 seconds - and I could not check, which one
of them was how wrong. I tried with “common sense” reasoning
- and was lucky.

Next year I am willing to play referee in the following way:
“Shortly before” 23:30 h on December 2014 I will give the official
signal that from that moment on participants are allowed to post
at most once when they want to win. That official signal does not
count as a message after 23:30 h.
\\\**************************************

Gentlemen (and gentle girls): the game for 2014 is open!

Ingo.

Taking the lead for now.

Thomas

Good luck with your attempt to keep this thread the longest time in 2014.

Thanks, and nice try. :-)

I think I won't play this game this year…

Yes, neither will I, I suppose.

Nor me, unless no-one answers ;-)

Your turn, Paul.

Ok then, it's the only game we can play here right now…

warming up? that early?

Hello,

after fruitful discussions with my wife I got green light

for participation. But likely, I will start warming up not

before November.

Cheers, Ingo.

And so far I have been able to conceal my participation from my wife (even after my spectacular win a few years ago) so I, too, have the green light – as long as nobody squeals on me.

I'm afraid my wife is not that flexible… So I will try to do it without her knowing ;). But a good chance that I will totally forget it (champagne!). But right now I am in winning position! :D

This is a boring thread….

Won't be played this year.

Happy 4th

So I am the first on the fifth ;-)

I won't play either

Believe it or not, guys: things will heat up soon.

I'm happy with this leading position for now ;-)

I'm impressed and amused that some people even think of discussing such trivial matters with there wives.

Then, second thought, this is not the right place to start trolling, so please don't feed the trolls.

Happy 11th

@Carroll: In our country a wife is often called “the better half of me” ;-)

I live in a weird time zone and in exactly one second it will be the New Year.  Therefore I win.

@Paul Wiselius: Pretty much the same here, too. We say “my better half”. And I'm not sure I've ever heard a woman say it!

@Richard Lorentz: I can't remember that either! :-)

My better half is an ex-research scientist and a current college administrator.   And she is cute and sexy and rides a mountain bike well.  She really is a better half.

I never played against mtbikeswoman here…

Yeah! How better is she with EWN? ;-)

Happy 18th

Happy 18th

was trying to colour text and background, either the mix for the 18th don't work, or it's not allowed, so that could put an end to the game of guess the colours

Happy 19th

Merry Christmas!

Where will you be in 46 hours?

At home, and probably completely forgotten about this game ;-)

Hi Paul,

> At home, and probably completely forgotten about this game ;-)

the same with me.

All who want to bridge the time bysomething funny, may watch

an old report in Swedish culture TV (Kobra). For about 5 minutes

it is shown and discussed how and why I put LEGO®-bricks in

the washing machine. It starts at about 17m:55s in

http://www.svt.se/kobra/se-program/avsnitt-18-21

There are Swedish subtitles, but most of the speaking

is in English.

Have fun (and forget the game). Ingo.

PS. Likely the video will be online only until the end of 2014.

Happy 30th

see you all next year

or even tomorrow ;-)

So who plans to lock up the system a few minutes before 4:00 pm my time (Pacific coast)

I can block only those machines which run

Win XP  ;-)

I run XP

Hmm, my “eraser tool” is blocked in Andorra ;-)

- lucky you

So the last post that has an LG date in 2014 wins? In what timezone lives Richard?

Central european time. And there is an old rule of only one post per person allowed half an hour before midnight. Good luck and happy new year!!

Hm, I guess you just now invented this rule :-P

I can invent more rules. User name has to start with m. ;-)

Actually, the “only one post” rule was implemented several years ago.

William is that your ONE POST?  But then is this my ONE POST?  And if anyone comments is that their ONE POST?

Only one post during the last 30 minutes.

I guess I'm too late, but Happy New Year everybody! Have a good playing year in 2015 ;-)

I just wanted to tell every one I won't participate in this foolish competition this year ! But nevertheless I still want to wish you all a wonderful new year !!

Happy New Year from southern California

2:59 PST or midnight central European time

???

happy new year!

@Paul Wiselius: I think you were too early. But I agree with the sentiment: Happy New Year!

What time is the Little Golem web server set at?  I thought it was central European time

Happy New Year to everyone!

Happy New Year!! (18 min too late)

Happy New Year to all!

40 time zones, so maximum of 40 winners

mtbikesman: I think the server is in Central European Time.  According to Wikipedia, CET is 1 hour ahead of Greenwich, and PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich.  So midnight CET was 3 PM PST.  I made this move a few minutes ago: http://littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1680430&nmove=1  Notice that the time says 00:33.

One more time

It is 3:59 California time or midnight GMT

Happy New Year

daaamn, i FORGOT!!

Happy new years my fellows.

@William fraser, you mean: the “Ed Collins” rule? haha

Happy games!

Happy New Year!

Happy new year to all of you!

Did the dust settle already - or will it take

a full day until we know the winner?

Cheers, Ingo.

I think we have to wait until LG shows the date instead of “xx hours ago”…

But I think Richard Lorentz is close to winning. And mtbikesman may have broken the 30 minutes rule?

I felt like I was a little late. I'm betting either Bill or Art got it.

@Ingo: We were disappointed not to see a competitive entry from you. I believe nobody has ever won twice in a row.

P.S. My wife is starting to get suspicious….   :)

As my wife was not feeling well, I could hide my LG activities for her ;-). Otherwise I even may not have entered a post…

Now she thinks I'm just playing EWN, which is true for 95% of the time…

mtbikesman did not break the 30 minute rule.

I think the only possible winners are bennok, mtbikesman, myself, Art Duval, and Richard Lorentz

I think it's most likely that Richard Lorentz won.  I hit send just about when my computer said midnight in LG time zone (Central Europe), and then Richard's post appeared right after mine.  A few minutes later, when the times of the posts were still being reported as “xx minutes ago”, his number of minutes was always the same as my number of minutes.

And the winner is…mtbikesman!

As each year, we will wait the decision of your tradicional judge: Prof. Ingo

Can anybody tell me where to collect my cash prize?  How much is it anyway?

I just noticed that your Twixt rating is 2016!  You were so close!

For the records:

Classical “End of the year game”

2006 Jonny

2007 kpato

2008 Isometry

2009 Elisa Kabiljo

2010 Elisa Kabiljo

2011 bennok

2012 Richard Lorentz (with the Wanderer_c account)

2013 Ingo Althofer

2014 mtbikesman

Congrats!

The prize money… If I remember correctly, it was not

a cash prize. But: when I should get the prize for 2013, I will ask the donor not to forget mtbikesman.

Cheers, Ingo.

PS. It seems some participants were not fully aware of Little Golem's exact server time.

Guys: you have to work harder on this!

@mtbikesman.  If you like, I can repay my reward of 2011 ? … done!

Congrats to mtbikesman ;-). I'm satisfied with my 3rd place. Not too bad at my first attempt. And the prize for mt of course is the everlasting honor of being first!

Hi, simply want to communicate that chances are low for

my participation in the 2015 issue: My wife and me had

a discussion - and as a consequence certain plans for

December 31 were fixed. Sorry, guys.

Sorry to hear that. We will not play the game this year. So this will be the last post, and I win! ;-)

Any new rules this year?

maybe start a new post called “LAST POST before the new year forum game”

or “LAST POST in the last year forum game”

because the way it is the the will never be a winner,

because we will still be waiting for the last post in the “new year”

Ok, so this will be the last post in this thread. Now I have two chances to win, allthough my wife will not allow me to…

This seems like the right forum to mention the following fact/question: Is it my imagination, or is the LG clock now set to US/Eastern time (i.e., 6 hours earlier than it used to be)?

That's what I see, effectively taking me out of the running this year. Might be time to start thinking about the LastPostNewYearForumGame-bot.

Here we go.

Remaining sleeping - and the win is mine.

Ingo.

In your dreams!  :)

It's getting close !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week my stupid game has turn 9 years. (is that right? “turn”?)

Next year it'll be the last post of the decade.

@kpato: “turned”. Will be interesting to see how the new time zone changes things.

I don't know of any time zone changes but I've read something about making time 'rational'. Considering its effect on me, I've always felt time to be very irrational.

Proposed new calendar would make time rational

Here we go

I read an article about having 13 months of 28 days or 4 weeks exactly.  The 365th day would be “World Peace Day” forbidding any conflict on that day.  Every 4 years there would be two World Peace Days.  I think we should have 6 day weeks and 61 weeks per year and three out of four years the last day would just disappear.

Does anybody know what time it is in Poland?  It is 1:32 pm here in California.

Happy new year everyone!!!!

:-)

to early, mungo

:-))

here we go, guys!

Happy new year.

It is now 2:59 in California.  But what time in Poland?

game over mtbi won!

Happy new year! :-)

23:26 GMT nearly happy

Congratulations mtbikesman – and neighbor!

HNY!!Damn, im late again

Happy new year to all.  But I have an 8 hour wait over here.  Just starting to get dressed for the evening.

? second place for first post ?           !!!!

Happy new year

Happy New Year!!!!!!!

@kpato:  “…has turned 9 years old.”  (Or more informally “…has turned 9”).

What happened? Did TheBurglar win?

maybe the clock is out

are there any codes to insert into messages that will show the current time/date

It looks to me as though TheBurglar won.

Strange. MY second post (congratulations to …) was written definitely about 5 minutes past midnight (CET-zone).

Or are the clocks of littlegolem-net running now in Greenwich mode?

Ingo.

It seems many of you: (1) missed Art's 2015-11-30 message; (2) missed my first 2015-12-31 post; (3) did not appreciate the gamemanship in my 2015-12-31 post where I congratulated mtbikesman.

I think we all should get lives! ;-)

Yeah, I watched our Herman Finkers ;). Much funnier then this game :P (forgot completely about it…)

But congrats to The Burglar!

Professor Ingo is the official Referee of this game. We will wait for his official results.

It seems I am too old now and “ueberfordert” with

playing this complicated game. I will retire and

remain referee only.

My vary pragmatic proposal is:

That person is winner who is the last one with date “201x-12-31”,

shown between 48 and 72 hours after New Year.

Applying the rule already to the 2015 etappe this means

“TheBurglar FreeHosting Net” is winner.

Congratulations also from my side.

For the Hall of Fame this means:

2006 Jonny

2007 kpato

2008 Isometry

2009 Elisa Kabiljo

2010 Elisa Kabiljo

2011 bennok

2012 Richard Lorentz (with the Wanderer_c account)

2013 Ingo Althofer

2014 mtbikesman

2015 TheBurglar FreeHosting Net

Referee Ingo.

PS. Congratulations also to Richard M. for having become such a

devilish time tramper!

time test 00:01:00 gmt

time test 00:02:00 gmt

time test 00:03:00 gmt

time test 00:04:00 gmt

time test 00:05:00 gmt (and wait 50 hours for results)

inbetween time test 00:00:30 gmt

inbetween time test 00:01:30 gmt

inbetween time test 00:02:30 gmt

inbetween time test 00:03:30 gmt

inbetween time test 00:04:30 gmt(and wait 50 hours for results)

Burglar, I like your systematic approach!

@Richard M: Give us another surprise next December by new settings for your time tunnel, please!

Ingo.

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:00:15 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:00:45 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:01:15 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:01:45 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:02:15 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:02:45 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:03:15 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:03:45 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:04:15 gmt

inbetweeninbetweentime test 00:04:45 gmt (and wait 50 odd (or even hours))

last one was closer to 00:04:47 gmt (added to much waffle)

too

suspect clock has been reset

was maybe 4 minutes slow at the end of 2015

Congratulations to TheBurglar!

And thanks to our wise and just referee Ingo! Don't announce your retirement from this game already. Maybe you will have nothing better to do by next turn of the year than posting here ;)

assume clock is right test 23:58:30

assume clock is right test 23:59:00

assume clock is right test 23:59:20

assume clock is right test 23:59:35

assume clock is right test 23:59:59

assume clock is right test 00:00:15

assume clock is right test 00:00:35

assume clock is right test 00:00:50

assume clock is wrong test 23:57:00

assume clock is wrong test 00:00:00

assume clock is wrong test 00:06:50

assume clock is (very) wrong test 00:09:10

late test 2016-01-18 00:06:50

late test 2016-01-18 00:09:20

late test 2016-01-18 00:11:15

late test 2016-01-18 00:14:00

late test 2016-01-18 00:20:20

late test 2016-01-18 00:30:25

late test 2016-01-18 00:35:10

With all these test, how about an interim report on what you've learned about the clock.

Before the late test results ( was 35 hours at this point )

the clock shows the same date for the around midnight messages from 23:57:00 to 00:09:10

so is either more than 3 minutes fast

or more than 9 minutes slow

or ( tri-state logic strikes again ) it's in a different time zone to GMT

@TheBurgral of course it's in a different time zone. It has been mentioned in the thread that it had been changed to UTC-5 (or -6, too lazy to check).

2016-01-20 20:10:10 It's not GMT anymore

@Burglar:

When your learning rate remains stable we have good chances that the next winner will be a new one ;-)

2016-01-20 22:51:10 It’s not GMT anymore

2016-01-20 23:52:00 It’s not GMT anymore

2016-01-21 01:46:55 It’s not GMT anymore

2016-01-21 15:42:55 It’s not GMT anymore

2016-01-21 20:40:00 It’s not GMT anymore

2016-01-22 08:55:00 (off to work we go) It’s not GMT anymore

2016-01-22 19:43:30 It’s not GMT anymore

test 11-12

2016-01-23 11:45:50

test 2-3

2016-01-24 02:05:10

test 3-4

2016-01-24 03:01:05

need some users to post date and time (please use the [more logical] sortable format above) yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

just before and after

05:00 and 06:00 GMT

P.S. if you want to save dated files to sort later (but allow minor edits) save as filename.2016.01.24 etc (dots look best)

please use GMT date not yours

as site clock is nearly GMT-5 (UTC-5)

please try

04:59:45

04:59:55

05:00:05

and

05:00:15

Repeating a comment I made before, namely, it seems most posting oriented games (e.g., word association game, movie association game, reverse empathy) have died since the new LG Web format appeared, I think this post should be sufficient for me to skate to an easy victory in this year's 10th anniversary of the New Year Game.

@wanderer_bot

i think it is not the only thing that died since the new LG web format.

I think the problem is that nowadays most of the players use their phone to play and is not so practical to use the forum so often.

@kpato In your opinion what more died since the new LG format?

@milesd it might be not related: User tournaments, Teams, Every word association game). It might be more a personal thing. I really don't like it. The messages of game results are annoying.

Hi, are we an aging community? Do we have problems to find play via mobile devices convenient?

I think in both cases a “partly yes” is the answer. Nevertheless, even if littlegolem.net should die one day, I will provide a platform for the “last post of the year game”. It is simply too much fun. Already in July and August I am starting to make plans for the best strategy… ;-)

Ingo.

I think the new site design has definitely lowered the participation in user tournaments.  There used to be advertisements for different tourneys at the top-left of the page.

I never post on this thread, because I consider myself a dark horse. No idea where I will stay on december 31 at 12pm. I guess this post is invisible, so: BEWARE!

Just tested system time. It seems to run 6 hours behind Dutch time, so then I should post my last post at january 1, 5:59:59 am!?

(now: 10:49 am)

yes easy to find time, make a move and then check what time it was made

uk would have make last post at 04:59:599999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 maybe use an atomic clock

maybe 5 years to go until the 999th reply making 1000 messages

The_Burglar: yes easy to find time, make a move and then check what time it was made

Right, that was exactly what I did! (at one of my better moments…)

System time can change. Any minute…

I would be happy with

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

been the same as GMT makes it easy for me

???

propose multiple time zones, more winners, more fun

15:00 Tonga

15:15 Chatham Islands

16:00 New Zealand

17:00 Russia

18:00 Australia

18:30 Australia

19:00 Queensland

19:30 Australia

20:00 Japan

20:15 Australia

20:30 North Korea

21:00 China

22:00 Indonesia

22:30 Myanmar

23:00 Bangladesh

23:15 Nepal

23:30 India

00:00 Pakistan

00:30 Afghanistan

01:00 Azerbaijan

01:30 Iran

02:00 Russia

03:00 Greece

04:00 Germany

05:00 United Kingdom

06:00 Cabo Verde

07:00 Brazil

08:00 Brazil

08:30 Newfoundland

09:00 Canada

10:00 USA

11:00 USA

12:00 USA

13:00 USA

14:00 USA

14:30 Marquesas Islands

15:00 USA

16:00 American Samoa

17:00 US

Someone seems to have too much spare time this end of year…

Some people even take their holidays only to prepare for the final of the game…

Join or enjoy, Ingo.

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA !

@clark94:

Yes, time zones make it rather easy for east coast US to grap for a win.

Ingo (old Europe).

Today is the day.

10 years of the glorious birth of this game.

Who can imagine?…

Yes, congrats with your 2nd lustrum :-D

Silly game… (I'm winning, I'm winning!)

Iran Time Test Trial

I'll just quietly coast in for the win.

@Ingo: Isn't the current LG clock set to US East Coast time? That would seem to make it pretty tough for someone there to win!

Richard, shouldn't you be iin bed right now?

Ts Ts Ts, Ingo.

Is the LG clock still set on GMT?  Or 8 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time for us Californians?

I know the time, I know the time -

but it is mine.

Ingo (in swinging mode).

“Time is an illusion.”

― Albert Einstein

time is same as Pakistan (gmt-5)

“Time is money.”

― Benjamin Franklin

Time after time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1wC2YxT8I

Congrats to whoever is awake at the right time/lives in the right time zone to post the winning post.

hao

This proves I have no life whatsoever.  Here I sit at quarter to four staring at my atomic watch.

Happy new year everybody

Welcome, 2017 !

Ok,

now it will take two days until we know who the winner is …

By the way: mtbikesman is disqualified because he had more than one posting within the last 30 minutes before 0:00   :-)

Ingo.

Too early                countdown is 4:44

Off to Bed, last post new years good luck to all, countdown 2:52

Really, only complete morons would participate in this game -.-

I hope everyone has a great year next year, in 2017.

Happy New Year's Day!

Happy New Year from the US east coast!  Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2017.

Looks like it was just you and me, Burglar. Happy New Year everybody!

Ok, guys.

6:37 on January 01 in Germany right now. My wife still peacefully in bed - but I cannot stand the tension.

I just took a screenshot of the thread. The clock of Richard Malaschitz will be decisive. In about two days we will see who is counted to have had the last post in 2016.

Ingo.

Happy New Year 2017!

Looks like 5 of us are in the hunt. I'm feeling pretty good about my chances.  :)

just refreshed this page at 2 seconds past the hour and wanderer_bot was last at 12 hours

so range is = winner - 2 seconds late

just refreshed this page at 2 seconds too the hour and Willian Fraser was last at 13 hours

so range is = 2 seconds early - winner

so will have to wait 48

And the winner of 2016 is: ….

William Fraser !

The man out of the box! Or: The man with the dots…

What a surprise…

More details later. Stay tuned,  Ingo.

PS. Question to Richard Lorentz: What went wrong?

System is just kidding: I had written:  William Fraser- the - man - out- of - the - box

and it changed this to a single non-letter symbol.

Ingo.