ThunderThighs wrote:THANKS! We have one more tomorrow night and then Woot! Clue! is on hiatus for a while while we evaluate the data and see how to improve. And boy, have I been collecting data!

How does one interpret data from something like this? Or is it more of a "I feel that this worked well, but this area needs improvement" thing? Are there numbers and trends involved? (I am a computational chemist)

ThunderThighs wrote:THANKS! We have one more tomorrow night and then Woot! Clue! is on hiatus for a while while we evaluate the data and see how to improve. And boy, have I been collecting data!

sorry... no more data from me. I won't be off work till approx the time a guess is confirmed (give or take 5 minutes)

madcow19 wrote:Thanks for hosting the game! It was only my second time playing! I'll make sure to drop a note by gatzby's box to let'em know how great this is. Thanks again!

yes let Gatzby know if you have suggestions or if you just really love the game! keep Thunderthighs employed AND have fun and win prizes! win-win

I haven't been actively playing (mostly because I check in on the website too late), but it's been fun reading the clues and guesses. Interesting to see how quickly the game evolved.

ThunderThighs wrote:Yes, I've been counting participants since it started along with user names so we can see how many times people played. How many unique players. How long each game lasted. The number of participants has been slowly climbing which is great.

As I've said (and Gatzby agrees), this has been quite a success. It was my experiment to see how a community game would work. Now we look it over and see what we can do to improve it, reach more people, etc.

I'd suggest having the game be it's own forum thread. Because the game goes on for a while and many posts are made, it makes it quite difficult to get through the comments about the actual daily deal.

And maybe use a live refreshing RSS feed gadget (like live twitter gadgets or even google search) so we can follow it more easily. Constantly refreshing and scrolling up/down is a pain and all the refreshing is an extra load on the servers and use of bandwidth that could be avoided.

Just my 2 cents. Should I be sending my suggestions to @Gatzby directly?

Sad that the winery never came back and answered the retail price question.

ThunderThighs wrote:Yes, I've been counting participants since it started along with user names so we can see how many times people played. How many unique players. How long each game lasted. The number of participants has been slowly climbing which is great.

As I've said (and Gatzby agrees), this has been quite a success. It was my experiment to see how a community game would work. Now we look it over and see what we can do to improve it, reach more people, etc.

Cool. It'd be interesting to see all that stuff. I've been using forums and their precursors (newsgroups, etc) since the early 90's, and this has been one of the most fun web games I've played in years. Web 2.0 is so overrated. With the exception of Twitter. It's like newsgroups and IRC had some kind of bastard offspring...

michaepf wrote:Sad that the winery never came back and answered the retail price question.

They actually did come back but didn't answer that question for some reason.

Did a split with some friends at work:

Current numbers (updated each minute)
First sucker: bizbirk
Speed to first woot: 2m 33.060s
Last wooter to woot: bsevern

Looking forward to trying this out!

Wow, a first:

Last wooter to woot: bsevern

mschauber wrote:I'd suggest having the game be it's own forum thread. Because the game goes on for a while and many posts are made, it makes it quite difficult to get through the comments about the actual daily deal.

And maybe use a live refreshing RSS feed gadget (like live twitter gadgets or even google search) so we can follow it more easily. Constantly refreshing and scrolling up/down is a pain and all the refreshing is an extra load on the servers and use of bandwidth that could be avoided.

Just my 2 cents. Should I be sending my suggestions to @Gatzby directly?

good suggestions, i'm sure they can use all the tips they can get. here's Gatzby's PM link

http://www.woot.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=0&UserID=275268

be sure to let him know if you enjoyed the game too and if you want it to come back!

Anorion wrote:Cool. It'd be interesting to see all that stuff. I've been using forums and their precursors (newsgroups, etc) since the early 90's, and this has been one of the most fun web games I've played in years. Web 2.0 is so overrated. With the exception of Twitter. It's like newsgroups and IRC had some kind of bastard offspring...

let her boss know you had fun and would play again. Tomorrow is the last night! here's Gatzby's direct PM link:

http://www.woot.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=0&UserID=275268

ThunderThighs wrote:I'm with you there. Started in the early 80s probably. I banked with the first online banking in the 80s.... StarText.

I remember my first modem~ 300 baud, and you had to dial the number by hand and slam the phone into the rubber cuffs, and start the comms program.

C=64 is still the best computer ever. I miss mine.

Anorion wrote:I love those clues! Remind me of the clues to puzzles in old Infocom IF games~

If I remember correctly from Trinity "The grass drags you back to the sidewalk kicking and screaming". I think I still have the glow in the dark plastic rock from Wishbringer as well somewhere.

ummm... just received my order for this. The bottle says 13.8% alcohol, NOT 14.2% as stated in the ad. We'll see how it tastes...

Anyone try this yet??

I had a bottle, thought it was pretty good. A little vanilla/oak/butter (actually wouldn't have minded a bit more), but not over bearing.

Nice fruit, although subdued, maybe it'll open up with a rest.