We hoped you enjoyed our reversed colored cards April Fools day prank (I know it’s getting old but I still enjoy it quite a bit). This year, though, someone out there decided to prank us back. I got a text message from Jim today that said, “Check the SHT high scores for [april] fools day!” So I pulled them up and had a good laugh. In case you missed the April 1st, 2010 high scores for Seahaven Towers, here’s a screenshot:

Looks like someone wrote us a poem! If we look in our records we can tell in what order the usernames were created and use that to untangle the poem:

YET THE CARDS THEY WERE STOCKED IN A WAY THAT I GRIEVE
THE CARD COLORS ARE PECULIAR
THAT FOR WAYS THAT ARE DARK AND FOR TRICKS THAT ARE VAIN
IT WAS APRIL THE FIRST AND QUITE SOFT WAS THE SKIES
WHICH IT MIGHT BE INFERRED SOLITAIRE WAS LIKEWISE
YET THEY PLAYED IT THAT DAY ON DAVID AND JIM
IT WAS SOLITAIRE. THE SAME HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND
WHICH I WISH TO REMARK AND MY LANGUAGE IS PLAIN
WHICH THE SAME I WOULD RISE TO EXPLAIN
BRET HARTE: THE HEATHEN CHINEE (September 1870)
WHAT A FOOL, WHAT A FOOL

It’s a riff on an old poem, and very funny :-). Hats off to kingfisher for using his mad replaying skills in a clever way. We both thought it was an great prank.