The Yak Shack Forum

Go to

www.blackpig.com

and on the front page you will see a snowball game - do your best to get as high a score as possible, and for fun, why not post that score here?

The highest score on here will win a really BUMPER prize - when you get to the high score screen, just press "print screen", go to your paint program (paint shop pro, paint, photoshop or whatever), and paste it - save it and send it to us (details below).

Cards Inchave kindly donated some PoAU goodies for the prize:

a UK Exclusive Harry Grey Tee Shirt card,

a UK Exclusive Hermione Black Robe card

and a sealed pack of GOLD PROMOS.

And from LOST, a highly sought after L1-MS promo!

Tom Breyer (Tom Unique (http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?sofocus=unknown&sbrftog=1&rd=0&frpp=50&from=R10&satitle=Potter&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=&sadis=200&fpos=Postcode&ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&seller=1&sass=tomunique)) has kindly upped the stakes to make this the Shack's biggest ever prize!! He has donated


A Goblet of Fire Harry First Task Cloak (2 case incentive card)

AND

A Three Stooges SIX CASE INCENTIVE PROP CARD!!! Featuring part of Curly Joe's desk name plate!!! From the  Breygent Three Stooges Set (http://www.breygent.com/threestooges.htm)


Get practicing snowballing Mark right away! If you are feeling bored - try snowballing the pig - now *that's* animal cruelty (see GoFU thread).

The closing date is the end of Christmas day at midnight GMT (so Boxing Day to our Aussies and dinner time Christmas day to our American pals).

To win the Yak Shack prize send your winning high score screenshot to Santa2005@theyakshack.co.uk

GOOD LUCK TO ONE AND ALL

* In the event of a draw, the Yak Shack 'powers that be' reserve the right to dig up old games that Mark's made to settle it. If it still remains a draw, it will go to a good old fashioned duel. Make sure you have a 'second'!!!*

As suspected I was usless ::) Who were all those people ???

Erm, it says in the title - Mark and his work colleagues!

We could have re-done it with Yak Shacker's faces, but we'd probably have got Mark into trouble at work ;)

Doh sorry for being thick ::)

I'm dense. I can't figure out how to save the screen shot :( I click on Print and it directs me to choose a printer (of which I have one choice). HELP ME :)

Oh actually I might not have been as thick as I thought I had clicked the link from the front screen where it has only has the first part well thats my excuse and I am sticking to it  0:)

Sorry cant help with the screen shot so bad didn't even try ::)

i actually got a pretty good score...pressed print scn button...opened paint and then it disappeared...couldnt paste it and my high score disappered  :o now i have to do it all over again (and im at work so it may be a little hard!!)

also....how many scores can u submit? can you submit a few times or do you put one in and if you end up going better then too bad, you cant send it in?

Joanna, press the print screen button (PrtScn), then go to photoshop or whatever.  Select new from the FILE dropdown munu.  Click OK for the new file.  Press Ctrl, Alt, V buttons at the same time and it will pop up.  That's how my Photoshop works.  Maybe it's similar for other programs too.

Yeah go on - submit as many as you like but only submit another if you get a better score, you will enter only once (with your best score).

:)

try holding the 'Ctrl key' and press 'Print Screen'. That will copy the screen image so that it can be pasted in paint or whatever program.

I'll try that tonight! Thanks :)

I just hit "print screen" and paste into Word - that works for now at least.

Think the highest I got was 26...

Anyone else want to post a high score?  I'm curious what mark I need to beat!  :rofl:

Obviously I can't enter ;) but I got around 17 ;D

NONONONNONONONONO - Don't tell me!! I want to be ENcouraged, not DIScouraged :)

Be encouraged - I topped out at around 13  ;D  It is that rotter in the trees on the left that gets me everytime! |:#

I will withdraw that then - the highest score I got was 17 2.

Don't worry, someone who shall remain nameless (at Mark's work) was TERRIBLE, she couldn't even get 2 :rofl:

I shall not name them in case Black Pig notice a bit of traffic coming from here onto their site and follow the link back to here... and stop inviting me out to dinners and things :rofl:

My high score yesterday was about 360...

are you serious???!!!  :o

I think my problem is that Im on a laptop, with a touch pad mouse...really hard to move fast enough (thats my excuse anyway  ;D)

I had no problems to reach more than 200, but then i lost the patience.

In my opinion it's a tiny little bit too easy. So it's not a question of skill, it's more a question of endurance, concentration and a lot of patience.  ::)  But a lovely idea.  :D

To be fair when I was playing it there were only 20 snowballs available ;), now it's a different game :)

Wow! 360 and 200! That's so much. My best was 34 and  thought I was doing well  :rofl:
The falling snow seems to slow down my computer so, nearly as quick as I see the people pop up, there is already snow in my face!

my best was 21  :'( i blame it on the lap top mouse...ill have to try again when I get home...

You need to have the patience and the time to sit there and do it....its not hard once you get the hang of it..like Tower said, it just takes patience

Yes - Mark also improved the cursor, it was sluggish and slow at first, which I suppose made it like lugging a big gun from one area to another, so now it's a test of patience.

360 huh, Trey?  I'll have to take you down mate!  (:D#

Ooh this is getting UUUUUUUUUUUUUGLY!

;D

I think there must be a few variables I was having a hard time getting my mouse to move the cursor fast enough.  Also Trey and Thomas are you using a joystick?

i got 82 on my 6th try this morning, and stopped to wait to see what others had got. I'm using a regular ball mouse. I think it just takes time. I play video games all the time so aiming is no big deal to me. I haven't had any problems getting it to move fast enough.

I'm using a usual optical mouse.

Yes so am I! ;D

By the sounds of it you might have been playing the older version of the game. The old version is no longer on the server, it had a much "heavier" mouse movement.

Ohhhh its war then ey  >:D

I am just using an optical mouse no joystick

Is this game getting harder?  I was up over 200, now I can't break 50.

Im finally on my home comp, which has a normal mouse, but it wont move fast enough across the game screen; its slow and sluggy...

even though i am a master of games..... well that was a bit hard  :-[ :-[ :-[

I can't get my mouse to move fast enough, either. :-\

This is looking pretty bleak.  Have you thought about awarding 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes?  :-\

I really like the idea. So many nice prices, why should all of them go to the same person?  ::)

I was wondering the same thing, although, if it is just one prize, I envy the person that wins ;)

I can't even get over 25 and I am at work with a T-1 connection, my mouse seems to have trouble keeping up :'(  Oh well I will keep trying.  And I am good to pretty good at vid games.

I'm on a normal dsl but I have a brand new MAC and it laggs for me too :(

I'm just using a phone line. I'm not having any problems.  :D

I love those vid games too, does anybody remember Arkanoid? You can call me the king of Arkanoid and Arkanoid 2.  ;D No joke, i was able to play the whole game with all these 32 levels without losing one single ball. Okay, it worked only once per game, but it worked. :)

This one is similar, you have to move the mouse very fast to a single point. Because of these older experiences i found this game easy. But it's sooo hard to keep the concentration for a longer time, harder than it was in the older days when i was young.  ;)

But now with my third serious attempt, i got a nice result. To be honest, not as much as i wanted, but i was happy when the game was over, my eyes were hurting a little bit. Hard game, Mark.  ::)  I'm not sure if i make another attempt, probably not, i was beginning to hate the game.  ::)

Well I wont win now  :( I posted my high score here which is stupid because when I went to play it again to get a higher score my home computer wont work with the game properly...it runs too slow so u cant play it...so im pretty sure everyone is going to kick my butt now  >:(

I really don't think you have too much to worry about - I think most of us are struggling to get into double figures  :rofl:

 :rofl:

If your computer works its ok, you just need to concentrate. If your computer is slow you cant get over 20  :rofl:

Do we have a winner?

Well I finally made it into double digits for a high score of 11. :-[  No one needs to worry about me in this competition. ::)

i am having the same problem i cam only get to 12 lol

Well, I actually got 385.  My husband bought me a new optical mouse a few days before and I think it helped a lot.  The key for me was keeping the crosshair in the center of the screen until a person popped up, them moving it back to the center to wait for the next person.  It was really slow until breaking 100, then it got faster and the crosshair "calibrated" and moved normally after that.  After 100 was pretty easy.  Now I just want to know if anyone beat that mark.  :o=  And also I want to make sure that my screenshot went throught the email ok.  :o= :o= :o=

The contest is over right?

I have been checking here quite often hoping to find the results.

Not that I am complaining, as it is the holiday season.  But this has been such an exciting contest.... I'm itching to see if anyone was able to top my score.

I can't wait to find out either. I had a good score and I too wonder if I was beat or not. :o= I want to find out who won, then find out the scores. I think its much more exciting for me that way.  :o=

Hmmm. Anybody else with more than 500 ?  ::)

I'm with bandit, lets wait to see who won before we all announce our scores. 

Thomas!  You got over 500?  Good for you brother!  ;)

Yes I did  ;D  Oh no I just spotted the last two zeros.  What I meant was I got more than 5  :rofl:

We do have a winner, however their entry can't be verified as 100% non-dodgy 'til Mark can get to his office and get access to the data on the server, but yes it's all ended and on Jan 3rd (when Mark's office is open again) we'll have a winner :)

I am positive our winner is geniune, but several members have expressed concern about forged entries and so I'm afraid we will have to wait. I don't believe this winner would try to trick us :)

I am pretty sure I won with my 25 :P  I figured it wasn't worth submitting after I saw someone posted 300+.  I don't think my processor was able to keep up as well as my connection :'(  Oh well good luck to all.

Well I got 51 when I tried the game but I haven't submitted it - no point with so many expert gamers on here to go up against! ::) ;)

Oh blow it  >:()  If I had realised that entries could be forged I am sure I would have found that easier that throwing the snowballs  :rofl:

Thanks to Roz and Mark for another great competition and to Tom and Cards Inc for the prizes  ;D

:rofl: :rofl: Actually I wondered about that myself, since everyone was pasting into paint and photoshop.  But I'm sure no one would do that.  ::)

Nice to hear that there's a possibilty of verification. :) And nice to hear that the winner is somebody we know. But waiting until 3rd of January ...  :'(

Well, so let's wait. And so there is still hope for me. ;)

Trust my internet to go down for the entire period this compo was on >:() And Mark I really wouldn't throw snowballs at you otherwise 0:) :rofl:

Good luck to all that entered - and many thanks to Tom and cards Inc for the fantastic prizes!

5th of January, did i miss anything?  ???

Nope, it's not confirmed yet

Well, it's all confirmed now and we are ready to announce our winner.

It's...


....

....

EMMAFAN

With 1404 points :o

CONGRATULATIONS! That's far and beyond anything we thought anyone would take the time and patience to do.

woa, I thought I had a shot with 502. I don't think I could have kept it up that long. oh well.

Good job Emmafan.

Holy cow!  Way to go Emmafan!  Now you have to tell us the secret to winning and how long it took you.  ;D

OH WOW!!!   ;D ;D ;D
I can't even begin to tell you guys how excited I am!!!! 
This has been such a fun contest, and the verification process has really made for two weeks of intense anticipation.

I did practice quite a bit to get used to the game.  As someone mentioned earlier, I always kept my cursor in the middle of the screen.  Then, whenever a head popped up, I knew the exact mouse movement to make to target them.  My final score came on a game that lasted fifty minutes straight.  Needless to say, patience and concentration were the two key factors.  Every once in a while, my eyes would focus out and I'd have to shake my head to get back into it  :D.

First and foremost, I would like to thank Tom and Cards Inc. for donating such wonderful cards.  These are the kind of actions that make the YakShack such a great community! I don't own any of the cards that they are offering, but am really excited to add them to my (albeit small) collection.

Thanks to all you guys for making this a tough competition.  I never thought I would be able to pull it out, as I was certain that one of you would be able to top my score. 

And thanks to Roz and Mark for setting up another fun YakShack competition, I'm just ecstatic that I was lucky enough to win one ::).  Again, to Mark, thanks for setting up such a fun, simple, yet addictive game.

Aaron

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

well to get 502 i think i spent around 15 min. It took me about 15 tries to get that high.

Congratulations Emmafan  ;D  Just remind me to be on your team if the Yak Shack ever gets snowed in anywhere  ;)

Thanks to everyone concerned for another great competition :)

Congrats Emmafan !!!  :D  :D  :D

1404 is fantastic, you really deserved this price and i know what i'm talking about. I had 857 what is also very good i think. :) Needed almost half an hour for that and was glad, when i lost the 4th life. My eyes started burning a little bit.

But you had luck, i lost one life because my mouse was crazy, one life wasn't my mistake. Who knows what would have happened if not ...  ;D

To add to Aaron's bonus, one of the prizes from cards Inc - the Hermione UK case incentive robe, is number 6 of 830. Definitely one of the lowest numbers we have seen. If I remember rightly some very low numbers were sent to people who sent in damaged cards. I also remember Sharon has number 2 of the Privet Drive SS Prop cards.

All the same it's very cool - enjoy!

Sharon, you have #2?  I have #3!  PM me a link to a scan.   8)

Woohoo!  Congratulations Aaron! ;D  Those are all great prizes, I'd love to see the pictures when you receive them (hint ;) ). :D

No scans at the moment I am afraid  :(  But my brother in law who is a web designer has said he will do me a site as soon as I decide on a domain name.  This however is proving easier said than done.  Everything I think of has already been taken, even Mike's suggestion of Troll Patrol  >:()  Who in their right mind would want a web site called Troll Patrol, except me of course  ;)

I am not a huge fan of low numbers, I go by what is on the card and my number two is gorgeous  ;D  And I know this is now totally off topic but since the competition is finished I hope no one minds  :).

Yes, we do mind!

How dare you tell us about your low numbered card with its gorgeous swatch? You are making me go on Ebay again! >:D

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Trust me this is one card you will not see on Ebay.  :rofl:  It's mine, all mine  >:D
 
Actually there has been a lot of really gorgeous cards up lately, the sort we haven't seen for quite a while.  And just when 5 sets are due out :'(