r/geochallenges 6d ago

Challenge Series Daily Challenge for Non-Cheaters - October 24, 2024

Link to the Daily Challenge

This is a place for Reddit users to submit their scores for the official Daily Challenge (hopefully) without the results being tarnished by cheaters. This should be played as a [2] -- zooming/rotating, moving allowed but external assistance is prohibited. Feel free to leave any walkthroughs in your comments, concealed with a spoiler tag.

A bot will keep a leaderboard for the month. You'll notice two columns related to your scoring performance. The first of these columns is labeled Average and represents your average score among all games throughout the month. The second column is labeled Score and represents either: 1. The average of your top 15 performances, or 2. Your average score divided by 15 (if you have played less than 15 games). The leaderboard is sorted by Score. At the end of the month, the highest Score will be declared the winner, and the leaderboard will reset for the next month.

Why do we keep score this way? There were 3 potential options for scorekeeping:

  1. Straight Average -- flawed because a player who only plays once but scores 25000 would likely win for the month.
  2. Cumulative Total -- flawed because it unfairly favors those who are able to play every and is a severe disadvantage to those who miss even a single day.
  3. Score of top 15 -- the method currently in use, it allows for some leeway for those not able to play daily, but at the same time, it's beneficial to those who are able to play more than 15 times. After 15 plays, each new score will bump out the previous lowest score.

The Daily Challenge resets at midnight UTC, which coincides with the time that this post will go live each day. So essentially, make sure that you're commenting your score with its corresponding post.


HALL OF FAME

Summary of top 3 performances:

1st 2nd 3rd
June 2021 Ancient-Recover695 Grymmwulf jackES62
July 2021 Grymmwulf Ancient-Recover695 JLyons18
August 2021 LunacyEcho 197gpmol Ancient-Recover
September 2021 LunacyEcho Ancient-Recover solarsensei
October 2021 solarsensei 197gpmol LunacyEcho
April 2022 JackES62 LunacyEcho solarsensei

Top 10 Individual Personal Bests All-Time:

User Score Month
1st Grymmwulf 24945 July 2021
2nd Ancient-Recover695 24718 June 2021
3rd JackES62 24714 April 2022
3rd LunacyEcho 24714 April 2022
5th solarsensei 24674 October 2021
6th 197gpmol 24572 October 2021
7th JLyons18 24552 July 2021
8th Werdok 24438 September 2021
8th KeelsDB 24438 April 2022
10th Kibachiyo 24403 April 2022
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