The stray one on 3/29 reported by BO above is reported as 11 players. Possibly more than one location but not much more than one.

Possibility of random glitch? ok. Worth keeping an eye on.

Here is another problem. http://www.buzztime.com/site/7961/gameh ... gameid/107 Pretty cool when you can score >10k in BTT when the game isn't even supposed to exist any more!

http://www.buzztime.com/site/29899/gamehistory/gameid/107

I honestly do not understand your point. Please explain.

The site mentioned above as having games of BT of 20 questions is Lakewood California East Side Marios

I visited and had a look Friday 30 March. The site is "disconnected". "Only members who have logged in at this site before may log in now" or some such. Since I had not, I could not. I was also disallowed from creating a new account on the spot, because it hangs upon "checking availability" of the chosen username and then returns to the message above.

My only option was to sign in as a guest. So I did.

The 30-minute blocks between 8:30 and 10:00 consisted of a 15-minute game of Late Shift and then 15 minutes of ads and screen freeze. So I did not get to see how it became possible to double up to 20 questions in that same time frame on the earlier nights.

But I have a theory. What if you rebooted at the perfect moment after the 15-minute game, it gives you another 15-minute game and adds it all together because the scoring mechanism is expecting a reset interval of 30 minutes (because it is countdown that is supposed to be running in those spots). It seemed like all of the 15,000 to 20,000 scores and 20 question games were before 10:00 on those nights. It would have to be something bizarre.

At 10:00, things at ESM became more conventional. I played two games of Late Shift at 10:00 and 10:15, and saw national rankings. My play will not show up in the records because I could only play as a guest.

ESM has a firewall issue that ESM refuses to fix. The only way that you can log on to an account is if you have an established account that existed locally before the firewall installation date. Also, if you had visited and played before that date with an account registered elsewhere, it would allow you to login. In addition, the local players have been playing elsewhere as BT is messed up at the site. Those same players have been talking to management, but have gotten nowhere.