hmm first Czechs only, now ladies. It's good to be a lady Czech on this site!

Lady's only Mothers day prize.....

hahahaha.....Pedro, Maxxina and Vikings...please remove yourselves hahahaha.

This is a prize tourney for the ladies and the prize COULD be a pair of lacy knickers LOLOLOL...now wouldnt you all look nice in them ROFLMBO :)

Thank guys for understanding :)

Thad: I'm with you. I knew 11 had a chance of falling this time. I had been betting 13 and wouldn't have gone near 11 ( as per my post on discussion board).

i believe it was meant to be ironic, perhaps funny. I think Thad has an irony deficiency though, hence the reaction.

how can u cheat in a pond?

HEY NOTHINGNESS, IF YOU THINK I'M CHEATING, OFFER SOME PROOF. IF YOU CAN'T, THEN SHUT THE **** UP!!

If we chanted 10, do you think it would help?

Congrats to everyone still alive in The very first run. We are half way!

I'll sometimes check the ones with a * by their bet, but usually not that close to the time so I bet as if I never checked

of course, I don't look at all the profiles every hour, but when I'm on-line, it's sometimes worthy to check out some of them...

ok, thats too much work for me, but a very good bet in one of the games

OK: Let us say there is a pond with one day time limit. The moves should be made, say, at 3am today. Now when you go to somebody's profile shortly before the deadline and see that the last time this person was at BK was BEFORE 3am yesterday, you can set your bet to this person's last bet +1 and be sure you won't fall in the pond.

how unless they told someone?

Are you serious? It's so easy to get to know...

how would anybody know

Vikings: What's suspicious about that?

Arctic Warrior: another suspicious bet, some people somehow knew that Ryan From Ohio would not be updating his bet the last couple of days and bet only 1 higher than him

BIG BAD WOLF:
I concur

Arctic Warrior: At time like that I wish I could look back 1 round to see if maybe they had 0 points left to bid or something...

How did 3 ppl know that MJL was gonna bid "0" ?
http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=10
They only bid 1 which seems suspicious to me.

Walter Montego: Yup, for me there were two options: bet low or bet high...I assumed lukulus would think I would bet everything and bet 1226 (I didn't actually realize that in this case, 1225 would be as good as 1226) + I wanted to bet as high as possible just for the case he would bet low. That's why I went for 511.

Pedro Martínez: A wild finish. Just looking at how the numbers add and subtract must have made for a lot of thinking about what to bet on that turn. Had you gone with 510, you would've won assuming lukulus stayed with betting your amount. He must've figured you'd bet 1225 and was going to watch you fall into the Pond when you guys tied for high bet and no one got the bonus. Lots of bluff here. If he thought you'd bet 511 or less he could've taken it all with 600.

Walter: I had 1225 points and bet 511, lukulus 1439 (1225), Maxxina 250 (250).

It'd be nice if there was a previous move button for Run around the Pond games like there is for every other game on this site.

I'd like to check out how that game you just posted about ended with both players bidding 714 and falling in at the same time. The rounds just before it must've been unusual.

BIG BAD WOLF: There may be no winner but they still get tied for first place :)

Pedro Martínez: Wow - Looks like it might be the first pond with no winner! (If the last bids are the same, everyone falls into the pond and there is no winner!)

... at least I would think both of you would bid the max, but I have seen stranger things.

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=133

Let me invite you to a slightly different pond than usual The player with the highest bet and the player with the lowest bet is eliminated in every round (except the 1st) - see rules ...

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=179

10 players left - 10 players in the pond, and one of the closet games - less then 600 points between the 10 remaining players.

Walter Montego: options are always great for me ;)

Hrqls: Perhaps such a set up could be made an option for the Pond creator? Sooner or later there's going to be option for the starting points and bonus. Seems like having an option to start the round when all have bid would be another one. I recommend having it so that it goes the whole time limit unless every person enters a bid. That way someone that misses getting to the computer that day will have the most time to log in and will still get their last bid to play if they don't make it on time.

BIG BAD WOLF: i also like the idea of ponds going into the next round as soon as every player has submitted their move.

its just like with all other games on here. if you only come online once a day on a fixed time like in bbws example .. then you will not have any games running with 1 day per move .. so you shouldnt have any ponds running with 1 day per move either

only join ponds with 2 or more days per move and you will be fine.

Czuch Chuckers: It would depend on what prize was being offered????

I have had 3 or 4 prize ponds with 4 prizes, they had nothing to do with Fencer, I paid for the prizes and postage to Texas Toest, Mike UK,Maxxina, and Sinay...there was a bonus prize sent to Arctic Warrior because he fell in the first round.
At this stage Texas Toest has hers....Im waiting to get confirmation from the others :)

okie dokie

Czuch Chuckers and Stevie: I have realized that I had explained the rules of this pond wrong. I had to ask Fencer to add some days to make sure that everyone gets the message about that before the round is closed. Now I think it´s ok, so I asked Fencer to "start" another round ...

Stevie: Thats weird. I checked all the other running games and none of them are longer than they are meant to be.... OH FENCER!

Bry, if it is not supposed to be described as a prize game without Fencer already having the money or being assured of the prize in advance, as far as I remmber.

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?p=0&g=145

This tournament's description has been edited.

However, this was originally described as a "Prize" pond, and has been changed since it started. There no longer looks like it's a prize pond.

Is this/should this be allowed??

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=175

Minimum number of players: 26
Maximum number of players: 26
Time per move: 3 days
Start: 13. February 2005, 12:00:00
Current round number: 2
Current round deadline: 24. February 2005, 12:00:09
Time left: 4 days

ahh I see, just filter to finished games. Thanks

Stevie: Here you go Stevie

rod03801: I agree. Either let them finish or disqualify them. Either way it would ensure pond games are played more...um....'accurately'?

I agree with Thad. I think it would solve a lot of problems if pawns were allowed to finish ponds they were currently in.. Just like it is done with tournaments etc.. already..

Czuch Chuckers: Yes, but wouldn't it solve all the problems, if it was the same for every round, with players who suicide with a "0" bet when they dont want to play anymore.

Do we have an official list of pond winners etc yet on here?

redsales: It's worth thinking about.

i think that if membership expires during a pond game, the nascent pawns should sluice into a new pond called the cesspool. It would be an extremely frustrating version of pond designed to take half a year or more to complete with 7 days per move. However, the winner, for resilience and fortitude, would be offered a knight membership equal to the amount of days they spent in the cesspool. What do you think, Fencer, is that a great marketing tool or what?

Thad: That wouldnt be quite as bad if others didnt keep bidding 0 ;o)

I think players whose membership expire should be able to finish out their existing pond games. The way it is now, they are just clogging up our games and removing most of the fun.

... but also brings me to a question - Is the limitation for ponds in place for Knights?

And hopefully the membership detail page can be updated with this information - http://brainking.com/game/PaidMembership?p=1

Pawns could never join ponds - some pawns are in tournaments now since their membership ran out after they were in, but they are unable to actually move in those ponds.