SueQ: right! you see the points that are left and what was bid but no clue who bid what. So for the bunch of folks who know what some folks bid at times it makes it really tough!

Rose: Nice...thanks.

SueQ: Welcome. Come join some and have fun in em!!!

BIG BAD WOLF and Hrqls:

Thanks for the answers. Perhaps I'll start to win some ponds.

jryden: uhm .. i posted some answers from an experienced me but that should have been some answers from an unexperienced me :)

have fun!!!! :)

Does anyone know how a pond I created ( Club WebTV Dark Pond #2(Fellowship Members ONLY) ..) started with only 15 people????

rod03801: I count only 15 also, I would report that as a bug

rod03801: I bet someone left the game just after it started but before it kicked off (whatever the distinction is in the back end).

Maybe... I filed a bug report anyways

rod03801: LOL I saw that. I just thought you pushed your magic button.

42 is no longer safe for an opening bid

Vikings: In all honesty I think one reason that may be is someone a few weeks ago mentioned on here a good opening bid was 40-42 LMAO everyone the reads the board plays it now!

I would love to see 100 not be a safe opening bid!

so .... to start something ... everyone should bet 100 as opening bet in the next couple of ponds :)

come on ... you will just lose about 50 points .. which isnt that much compared to the end rounds .. and you might get the bonus if noone goes along ...

lets all bet 100!!! ;)

I'm betting 101

Congrats to Harley on her first win in Monkey off your back pond run # 4!!!!

These are ponds only for people without a previous win yet!
Here is # 5

http://brainking.com/en/Pond?g=1011&trnst=0

Vikings: 42 is no longer safe for an opening bid.

Isn't it? Did you fall in in the first round with 42? Or somebody else? Got a link?

http://brainking.com/cz/Pond?g=980

Oh my...I'm glad I didn't sign up to that one...

Maxxina: Wow. I guess if I was making an opening bid, I would now start off in the 50's to be safe. (53-55)

*sits back and waits a couple of weeks until this no longer works*

yeaa - im making it - from 50 to 55 . :]

Just looked at my most recent Dark Pond - First bid to fall was 39, with a couple of 43's right behind that. Yea, 50's would be my bet - maybe even the high 50's now that I think about it more - would rather play safe - and 10-20-30 points extra you bid now will make almost no difference in the game at a later point.

http://brainking.com/en/Pond?g=979&trnst=10&tp=1001

Pedro Martínez: Thats not the first pond thats happened in, I just HAPPEN to be the one to fall in on that pond!!

thanks for the link Max.
Chuz, you may have your wish about 100 in a few weeks,I'll bet 50's wont be safe for long at all

On a side note, My wife delivered a baby yesterday, it's a BOY!

Vikings: Congrats on your son, Vike...:)

Pedro Martínez: thanks, I'm on my way back to the hospital now. He is in intensive care, but he will be fine, he wouldn't breath for about 2 minutes and turned as purple as Barney, they think the cord was compressed durring delivery.

Vikings: I can't believe you came home and got on the computer to get on-line while your wife is at the hospital after having a baby!

Next time get a laptop which can get on-line from the hospital - that way you can be on-line longer since you don't have to spend time driving and such!

BIG BAD WOLF: hahaha..

he can't afford a laptop.. not with a new baby .. He should have just shoved the nurses away from the desk and used theirs.. hahaha

BIG BAD WOLF: I have 3 other kids, one who is two years old, we are trying to keep life as normal (ha ha) as possible for them, yesterday I spent 14 hours there and today 13 hours. the hard part will be when my wife is released tomarrow and the baby will have to stay there until saturday. We will have to take shifts there, but my wife will be there more since I'm not equiped to feed him. This is the main reason that I quit playing 1 day ponds and have saved all my vacation days for my other games, sorry Pedro, no auto plays here, I know you will check my log-ins.

Vikings: they baby is doing better now i hope ? how is the mother doing ?

congrats again! ;)

got to change my prediction, in 10 days aissi will become #1, arpa #2.
Sorry bbw

http://brainking.com/cz/Pond?g=1035&trnst=0

Congratulations to Vikings on winning #40

Vikings: Congrats! It is hard to come home empty handed. My daughter had twins. One stayed 21 days the other 23 days. Now they are almost 3. They can do so much for those little ones today.
I was in a pond and saw tonyh was winning. I said Congrats! and see that Pedro won it. Tony what happened? Here is the Link..
http://brainking.com/en/Pond?bms=10&g=482

Pbarb2: Thanks Pbarb, he finaly came home yesterday, 11 days later.
As far as that game it's like the one we had last week, a 50-50 chance if there is a 500-1000 point spread between 1st and 3rd and less than a 500 point spread between 1st and 2nd

Vikings: Good he got home and is doing well. They grow so fast..he will do ok. :)
I see what you are saying in that game. Thanks

Pbarb2: in my mind TonyH should have bet 847 which is 1 more than Pedro had and he would have gotten the 500 bonus but he didnt and pedro got the bonus and hence won :)
but I could be wrong...it has happened before once lolol

BerniceC: Yea, it looks like the pond was still a 50/50 chance for either player.

If Tony bet 1 more then pedro, then he took the chance that pedro would have just bet the min. amount of 99 and would have won that way.

With it still close like that at the end - it was still a good chance for either of them to win.

18 people are eligible for the 10 Wins Pond...yet only 11 have signed up to date. If the pond doesn't start by September 1st, I'll delete it.

Pedro Martínez: I think I predicted July didnt I? *pats self on back*

Pedro Martínez: Have you sent them invites?

Vikings: I have sent invites to those who might not have known about the pond. 3 people signed out, Kata Liana has me on her enem. list.

Wait until the last hours before making a move. Then check all other players to see if they have been online to play. Especially check anyone who has a star nex to their name from the previous move. If you cannot find someone who is on an auto move, then play very conservatively, and repeat on the next round. Soon enough someone will will play an auto move that is very low and you can play safe a very low bid that will put you in the lead. When the game gets near the end, all you have to do is bid one more than the lowest player, and voila', plenty of top finishes and a very high BKR.... no thinking required!

Czuch Chuckers: Yup! Like many games on BrainKing, some hard work like that can sometimes give you an edge.

BIG BAD WOLF: Dark Ponds are the only true measure of a great Pond player....

You are right Czuch .

This watching to profile of player is imho unfair. I play betting game , not beeing a big brother

Czuch Chuckers: You have never done that, Chuck?

Maxxina: How is it unfair?

There are many player , who visit a site for couple of minutes to makes there move and dont watch everybody time clock when they was on last time . Its like big brother .


What would be nice , add a little feature , these players which are playing regular or rain ponds should have time when they was last on cloaked .

Pedro Martínez: LOL... of course I have done that before. I just dont have the patients to do it routinely, and I do understand that it is stupid to purposly not do it, since someone else will alweays do it and the point is to be competative. Thats why I like the dark games, because nobody can play this way and the actual intent of the ponds and the way they are played are in effect.