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Feb 2022
4:41pm, 14 Feb 2022
16,264 posts
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JK *chameleon*
I've added grey circles around the markers, so you can see the hit radius. I see we're narrowing the number down
Looking good. I needn't have been so cautious, those circles are much bigger than I thought they'd be 
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Feb 2022
5:17pm, 14 Feb 2022
44,429 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
I feel slightly guilty asking for things again, but could there in some future incarnation of the game be a way of telling the digits not to land in places where there is a FetchPoint No Entry sign?
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Feb 2022
5:21pm, 14 Feb 2022
44,430 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Oh, I see - the locations chosen by the digits change each day.
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Feb 2022
5:36pm, 14 Feb 2022
16,266 posts
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JK *chameleon*
Re: Collaboration - this could end the game extremely quickly.
With 1,000,000 numbers to choose from, mathematically it should take a maximum of 20 guesses - if everyone starts sharing their guesses this will narrow the choices down significantly.
By keeping things to ourselves, chances are the game will end within 3 weeks (probably sooner as there's bound to be someone gaming it, or able to cycle around picking up all the digits each day, maybe some more than once)
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Feb 2022
5:55pm, 14 Feb 2022
27,206 posts
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fetcheveryone
I have adjusted the 'How to Play' text, to try to encourage people to think a bit more about collaboration. It'll be fascinating to see how this plays out. The person who made the most recent guess clearly hadn't read this thread (or they did, but they didn't trust Groundhog and JK).
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Feb 2022
5:56pm, 14 Feb 2022
44,432 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
My FIL worked in computing a long time ago and he told me about a thing called binary chop. As I remember it ... if you are trying to find a number, you guess halfway between the two limits. Using a tidy example, if your population is 128, your first guess would be 64. If the feedback tells you the number is lower, you guess 32 ... and so on ...
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Feb 2022
6:02pm, 14 Feb 2022
27,207 posts
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fetcheveryone
My FIL worked in computing a long time ago and he told me about a thing called binary chop. As I remember it ... if you are trying to find a number, you guess halfway between the two limits. Using a tidy example, if your population is 128, your first guess would be 64. If the feedback tells you the number is lower, you guess 32 ... and so on ...
The key for the early guesses is to get hold of six digits, and try to get as close to 500,000 as you can. But (if we accept the intel as true), Groundhog tells us that the number is above 736,000. And therefore, to chop the remaining options in half, the most useful guess would be around 868,000.
Getting hold of three zeros might take a while, but the most important number in the guess would be that first 8
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Feb 2022
6:02pm, 14 Feb 2022
14,519 posts
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IT GRANNY 🇮🇸
I forgot to check my map before walking to and from work and then jogging. Rats! Only 1 digit collected.
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Feb 2022
6:03pm, 14 Feb 2022
27,208 posts
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fetcheveryone
...and obviously, 868,123 would be pretty informative!
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Feb 2022
6:08pm, 14 Feb 2022
14,520 posts
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IT GRANNY 🇮🇸
Oh buggery. I used my single digit to see how it works and now I've lost it and have to start over. 😭
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