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(Message started by: 99of9 on Sep 28^th, 2004, 5:17pm)

Title: What's going on?
Post by 99of9 on Sep 28^th, 2004, 5:17pm

Why are there so many players on Arimaa all of a sudden?

Lots of new players, Lots of old players...

Are you doing some kind of secret advertising that I don't know about Omar??

This is great!

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by omar on Oct 5^th, 2004, 3:37am

Once in a while Arimaa gets metioned on a forum or a blog somewhere and we get a burst of new players.

I don't know what is causing the busrt of activity from the old players.

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by RonWeasley on Oct 6^th, 2004, 11:36am

I found out through Games Magazine about two years ago. But the upcoming tournament might be the cause. I'm still deciding on whether I can play, but it's looking doubtful. :'(

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 7^th, 2004, 9:20am

I found out about Arimaa through Wikipedia. I don't suppose, however, that Wikipedia is a major source of new Arimaa players, even though the encyclopedia as a whole has broken into the top 300 Web sites in the world. I suspect most of the growth in Arimaa server play is still coming from word of mouth and computer science professors giving class projects.

Yes, the recent spike in activity is probably mostly due to the upcoming championship and challenge match.

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 13^th, 2004, 10:31pm

This is truly amazing. For the twenty-four hours that were Wednesday, October 13 my local time, I count 36 games, involving thirteen different humans. And that's on a weekday!

For contrast the average in October 2003 was 17.9 games per day, and in the first six months of 2004 the average was 12.2 games per day.

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by omar on Oct 28^th, 2004, 3:02pm

I noticed a lot of players joining lately from Hungary. I looked in the server logs and found that Arimaa got mentioned on this Hungarian site:

http://www.szanalmas.hu/

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by 99of9 on Oct 28^th, 2004, 3:56pm

Amazing what even a tiny bit of publicity can do when well placed.

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by Tore on Mar 24^th, 2005, 9:44am

I have an question to you . i want an arima game for computer for free but i dont know where it gives them ???

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 24^th, 2005, 3:32pm

on 03/24/05 at 09:44:53, Tore wrote:

I have an question to you . i want an arima game for computer for free but i dont know where it gives them ???

You can get a free download at

http://www.smart-games.com/arimaa.html

but you have to pay 20 USD for the full version. I recommend paying: I certainly got my money's worth for mine!

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 30^th, 2005, 4:52pm

I paid with PayPal instead of giving a credit card number, which takes care of the security issue. The most you could lose is the amount you pay, and even that's vanishingly unlikely. Fotland has a good business reputation to protect -- SmartGames is for real.

Title: Re: What's going on?
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 30^th, 2005, 6:23pm

I followed the instructions on paypal.com. I don't know if things are different now that E-Bay owns PayPal, but when I did it, I simply gave the account number of my checking account. PayPal made two small deposits into my account so that I could verify it was actually me by telling them how many cents they had given me. Then I authorized my bank to put a certain amount of money into PayPal, which I have used several times to buy things on-line. By now I've probably used it with a dozen different vendors, and I have never had any problems. Strangest of all, PayPal even gives me 2.8% interest on the money I leave there, which is more than my bank was giving me anyway! If you try it, I hope it works for you too.