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I think you need to adjust the variation of scores, I got 1650 actually guessing, then realized most of the scores were low and got 1800 by just always guessing 239

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Ah! Good idea. Hurts replayability though, since we probably get not more than one 1000 pointer each week.

Just change the range of scores. If you're not going to deliberately weight the set of stories to include outliers, then the whole game is really played in the 150-400 range anyways, so make that the slider.

Include some 0 to 4 score posts with interesting headlines. Should be pretty funny I think :)

For example:

Rubin Observatory Discovers Surprise 'Tail' on Iconic Galaxy - 2

Vera Rubin's primary mirror gets its first reflective coating - 157

I got 2038 by just going with the default 373 for all 5

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