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New BG book?
Posted By: Michael Petch In Response To: New BG book? (David Levy)
Date: Sunday, 8 December 2013, at 8:23 a.m.
I decided to spend the 3.99 for the hell of it.
A third of the book is devoted to advertising their other books and thanking people for the work that was done. A third is a list of players in seemingly (and most likely) random order. And another third that is a quiz where you are given a few letters of a name and blanks to fill in, the remaining letters in random order. and you are to figure out what the correct order of all the letters are to spell out a name. Simple word puzzle. Software generated the quiz from the list of names.
It appears they data mined from a number of sources (probably not many though). One source I think was:
http://www.bkgm.com/features/HallOfFame/
Zoe Cunningham was listed so they must have used another page somewhere to grab names from.
Some people were listed twice (William Robertie and Bill Robertie, Vernon Ball a couple times with different spellings etc). Stick didn't make the list (he was just unlucky enough to not be listed on whatever webpages they mined).
The number 1 player (likely completely random) was Claude Beer.
The books are a scam. I think that was pretty much known from reviews of the other books. They can probably pump these books out enmasse.
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