The Beerhunter

mollusque commented on the list the-beerhunter

With the current number of unique words in Wordie, it takes 1249 random clicks to have a 50% chance of finding a cache of bottles. Once you have the first 98, it will take 123,753 clicks for a 50% chance of getting the last one.

September 25, 2008

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

We'll see! By the time I get to the last one I might fancy my chances :-)

September 25, 2008

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

This is a list of genius - I'm tempted to start a competitor list and engage you in a game of bottle bingo.

September 26, 2008

mollusque commented on the list the-beerhunter

Yarb, maybe it should be a collaborative effort rather than a competition. In the list description bilby didn't say he had to be the discoverer. (I've hit two in my random wording. I put 33 bottles on my former ghosts list, but don't recall what the other was.)

September 26, 2008

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

You can join in yarb. Beer sharing!

September 27, 2008

jennarenn commented on the list the-beerhunter

I'm sure that u would be honored.

September 27, 2008

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

I'm off the mark! I must have run into at least half a dozen of these before this list, though.

October 2, 2008

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

Good work yarb! Cheers!

October 2, 2008

mollusque commented on the list the-beerhunter

I just found 10 bottles, bilby.

October 3, 2008

mollusque commented on the list the-beerhunter

And 38 bottles, 20 minutes later.

October 3, 2008

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

Found 6 bottles today.

October 4, 2008

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

Wheee, coming to the end of the first month and we've had 14 hits. Of course it will get harder as we go along with the target narrowing. I think I'll start mentioning (in the comments) 'repeat' hits of which I haven't had any so far.

October 9, 2008

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

Yes, I was planning on noting repeat bottles, too.

October 9, 2008

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

And a few hours after saying that, I rediscover 14 bottles. How many bottles would have to be discovered to give a 50% chance of rediscovering a previously-discovered bottle?

October 10, 2008

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

I think it depnds whether we've durnk the botles already discovvered *hic*

October 10, 2008

mollusque commented on the list the-beerhunter

Just found my finding of 38 bottles. I'm starting to read it as bott-les.

October 18, 2008

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

Do you think we'll end up with enough for a temple?

October 25, 2008

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

I found a few bottles on bus song :-)

November 8, 2008

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

Just found 62 bottles. My last two hits have both occurred moments after thinking to myself "I'm about due for a bottle". If I think about it deliberately, though, it'll stop working. The search calls for an empty mind.

April 28, 2009

bilby commented on the list the-beerhunter

You can be the Beer Whisperer yarb. Go on.

April 28, 2009

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

I'm on a roll! The 70's becomes the first decile more than 50% complete!

April 28, 2009

chained_bear commented on the list the-beerhunter

Wow. Geek out!

April 29, 2009

yarb commented on the list the-beerhunter

We found a third of them, in the end.

January 14, 2012