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What is apterous?

The first thing to say is that apterous is definitely not Countdown. It is not endorsed by Countdown, Channel 4 or anyone important at all. However, it is a game with rounds including numbers, letters and conundrums. This may sound familiar. You can play against your friends over the Internet, or other people's friends if you don't have any of your own. To play, just register and then log in. If you're having problems, head over to our FAQ and, if that doesn't work, please do email me and I'll do my best to help.

News

28 January 2012

27 January 2012

  • New: The coffee milk cup lid collector is now open for business.
  • Improved: All time-sensitive Leaderboards now show a count of how many people are currently eligible to appear on them. (Thanks Gevin.)

26 January 2012

23 January 2012

  • News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
  • Improved: You can no longer enter non-numeric characters in the numbers declaration box.
  • Improved: Apterous Nude is now a woman, as was always intended.
  • Fixed: Duel results in chat should no longer be spurious if someone completes a Duel after the deadline.
  • Fixed: No more duplicate Ascension conundrums... hopefully. (Third time lucky?)
  • Fixed: You should now be able to enter arithmetician-beating numbers solutions even in maxes only etc.
  • Fixed: Some strange comments from the DC guest when you declare a nine in non-nine letter formats.

21 January 2012

  • Improved: Glory Roll now includes a separate section for discrete achievements (rather than ranked things).
  • Fixed: Superstats Ratings graph no longer gets tangled up with different variants and dictionaries.

20 January 2012

  • News: ProRanks comments are temporarily on holiday.
  • Improved: Comments on Glory Rolls now fold up and all that other nice stuff.

16 January 2012

15 January 2012

  • News: There will be some planned downtime today -- exact times TBC.
  • News: The game will be down from 17:15 (GMT) for about an hour. See you all later!
  • News: And a little earlier than planned... we're back! Thanks to all our lovely subscribers, I've invested in a significantly beefed-up server, so the game should now be faster and more reliable. Hooray!

9 January 2012

8 January 2012

7 January 2012

6 January 2012

  • News: The system will be down for planned maintenance from approximately 10pm til 11pm GMT today.

5 January 2012

  • Improved: Top All-Rounders now shows percentage of max and is generally a bit prettier (thanks Matt Morrison ages ago).

4 January 2012

  • Improved: Started and restarted Top Dog games are now announced in chat. (Thanks Gevin.)
  • Improved: More useful Top Dog format description when you start the game (thanks Hugh Binnie).
  • Fixed: Occasional wrong max in Spoilage. (Thanks Matt Bayfield.)
  • Fixed: DC not mentioning a max if a player had noted it but declared something longer (thanks Dave Mattingly).

2 January 2012

  • News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
  • New: Superstats now includes a Time Played breakdown (thanks Graeme Cole).

31 December 2011

  • New: In the numbers round, Ctrl+Space declares the exact target; Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down adjust your current declaration by one in the respective directions. Handy! (Thanks Matthew Tassier.)

30 December 2011

29 December 2011

  • New: CSW has been updated to CSW12, bringing us into line with the Scrabble world. Note that the long word list has not yet been made available so only words up to 15 letters are valid in CSW now. (Thanks Ollie Garner and Nick Deller.)
  • Fixed: Dictionary fixes (thanks to the usual). Added: ANAMORPHOSES ANCHORPERSON ANCHORPERSONS ANCHORPEOPLE ANDROCENTRISM ANDROCENTRISMS ANDROPAUSES ANERGIC ANOINTMENT ANOINTMENTS ANTHROPOLOGICALLY ANTIVIRALS AMBIGUOUSNESS AMBIGUOUSNESSES AMIDSHIP AMORTISATIONS AMORTIZATIONS AMPED AMPING AMPHISBAENAS ARCHAEAL ARCHAEALS ARCHAEANS ARHYTHMIA AROMATISATIONS AROMATIZATIONS ARROGATIONS APELIKE APERTURAL APHASICS APHERESES APNOEIC APPETENCE PILOTAGES HAST AX HADST. Removed: ANAMORPHOSISES ANECDOTIST ANECDOTISTS ANTIVIVISECTIONISM ANTIVIVISECTIONISMS AMPUL AMPULS ARCHBOARD ARCHBOARDS ARCTOPHILIA ARCTOPHILIST ARCTOPHILISTS AREOLOGIST AREOLOGISTS ARGYROPHIL ARGYROPHILIA ARREAR ARTERILISATION ARTERILISATIONS ARTERILIZATION ARTERILIZATIONS STOORY STOURY YAWPER YAWPERS APPALL APPALLS DULOTIC LEUCOTIC.

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