If I may make a suggestion...

Can the Fifty-Fifty game be changed so that the difficulty is player selectable? This would be extremely helpful, especially when it is part of the monthly Team Scoring.


Respectfully,
elburcher

I'm not sure I like it to be player selectable since it becomes more likely that there won't be enough players in a difficulty/division for someone to qualify for win points. However, I would like to see it rotate (maybe weekly) so that we don't always have a given difficulty level during the same time window. So maybe one week have easy start at 12 and 6, medium at 2 and 8, and difficult at 4 and 10. Then the next week easy could start at 2 and 8, medium at 4 and 10, and difficult at 12 and 6. (In other words, the first set on Monday would be the same difficulty as the last one on Sunday and then the rotation could continue from there.)

While I understand your concern, currently all you have to do to avoid the difficult category, is wait for intermediate to roll around. Having a weekly rotation would not work well when Fifty-Fifty is part of the monthly team scoring because you'd have, depending on the rotation, one possibly two weeks on the easy difficulty that wouldn't count for team scoring.


Respectfully,
elburcher

I like it the way it is. When it is a team game, I know the time slots when I need to plan to play, and when I can relax. IF I could set it to a countable game each time, I would feel increased pressure to play every two hours (bad for my sleep!) and the increased pressure of deciding which level of difficulty to choose. I am often surprised to find that my top score of a day when I was playing came from one of the difficult sets, not the intermediate ones that seem easier. I haven't taken the time to actually analyse it, but I suspect there is a time factor involved, meaning that the same time for getting them all correct gets a better result in the difficult game. Whatever the reason, having the extra dimension of choosing a difficulty level would make the game less enjoyable for me.