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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.

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Format: 11 rounds of 30 seconds.
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Discussions

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Top spots.

Website feature request by Jon Stitcher. Status: Unconfirmed.

In this game [apterous link] I was very pleased with my spot in round 10. So much so I'd say it was one of my top 5 apterous spots of all time. Would it be possible to ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

4Up votes 0Down votes 0Replies

Ascension - most correct conundrums page

Website feature request by Adam Gillard. Status: Unconfirmed.

[apterous link] - Please could you update this page to include a percentage column based on how many conundrums were in each Ascension at time of completion ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

5Up votes 2Down votes 0Replies

Game selection picks

Game feature request by Michael Cullen. Status: Unconfirmed.

Can we have a feature where we either automatically get the bot or ourselves to choose every selection in a game, it's available now in star charts and duels, we can do it ourselves, but we have to do ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

9Up votes 1Down votes 22Replies

When will the New 15 high score pass the Old 15 one?

Miscellaneous topic by Charlie Reams. Status: Unconfirmed.

The Old 15 high score has been 170 for well over three years now [apterous link] and will probably never be beaten. On the other hand, there have been two games ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

47Up votes 0Down votes 4Replies

DOCTOR DOCTOR!

Announcement by Emma Hatred. Status: Unconfirmed.

I know my tickets are normally excellent game feature suggestions etc. but this one is different and even better, if you can imagine that. Today Charlie Reams, off of apterous and countdown etc., got ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

19Up votes 2Down votes 17Replies

Apterous calendar

Game feature request by Emma Hatred. Status: Accepted. Priority: 5.

I think this is a long overdue development and many fans of the game will be keen for this to happen. I hope you agree! Please release an apterous calendar featuring a (nude, obv.) photo of Charlie for ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

9Up votes 0Down votes 2Replies

Superstats - active nemesis

Game feature request by Ian Volante. Status: Unconfirmed.

In my superstats, both my nemesis and my sisemen are inactive. Can I have nemeses that have played within the six months or something? [Read more] [More feature requests]

8Up votes 7Down votes 3Replies

More filters for pro ranks......

Website feature request by Jon Stitcher. Status: Unconfirmed.

Hi there, Would it be possible for the pro ranks filters to also allow to search by the following, series champions, series finalists, people who've been on the show, people who haven't been on the ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

11Up votes 4Down votes 1Replies

Can we please have tournament placings put on our glory roll?

Website feature request by Mark Deeks. Status: Unconfirmed.

Can we please have tournament placings put on our glory roll? [Read more] [More feature requests]

10Up votes 1Down votes 0Replies

Custom formats in tourneys

Brainstorm by Johnny Canuck. Status: Unconfirmed.

As it is, when choosing the L/N/C format for a tourney (or round thereof), one must choose from a list of preselected formats. For my ongoing Great Pyramid tourney, I had hoped to use formats like LC, ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

10Up votes 0Down votes 6Replies

Rematching when one player always picks

Game feature request by Mark Deeks. Status: Unconfirmed.

In order to fish for pencils in Goatdown, I like to sometimes either: a) play Rex and have him pick them all (which results in really obscure Darren eights and nines), or b) play Prune and pick them all ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

11Up votes 5Down votes 4Replies

A bit of patience when entering number target.

Game feature request by Jon Stitcher. Status: Unconfirmed.

This problem doesn't come up too often, mostly during spoilage but when running out of time and trying to solve the numbers or work out exactly where you are you have no time to put the number in the box ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

9Up votes 1Down votes 19Replies

New variant: InstaBullet

Game feature request by Mark Deeks. Status: Unconfirmed.

Conor invented this because apparently Bullet wasn't hard enough for him. It's basically Instant with a 3 second clock. Numbers are unchanged I guess, and the conundrum scoring would need rethinking, but ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

9Up votes 0Down votes 0Replies

Enhancements to Duel Results summary

Website feature request by Dave Smith. Status: Unconfirmed.

I'm talking about this page - [apterous link] Just a couple of thoughts on ways I think it might be improved: - the Entries column could be changed from its current ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

9Up votes 0Down votes 2Replies

Better pro ranks toggling

Website feature request by Jack Hurst. Status: Unconfirmed.

There should be a better way of browsing pro ranks for each week since they started. If implemented this feature could also allow us to compare pro ranks from different weeks. [Read more] [More feature requests]

6Up votes 6Down votes 0Replies

In-game max counter

Game feature request by Mark Deeks. Status: Unconfirmed.

Me and Innis are slowly but surely doing our 450 round rematch. He's playing incredibly. We've done 160 rounds and I swear to God he's maxed 150 of them. It would be cool to know how many he has had, ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

10Up votes 0Down votes 0Replies

Winner first when referring to games in GotW Archive

Website feature request by Jon O'Neill. Status: Unconfirmed.

This: [link] may be useful for this: [link] Or, to not use hyperlinks, humans first, then winners first, in the GotW archive. ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

10Up votes 0Down votes 3Replies

Quick-link clickability between tickets

Website feature request by Andy Platt. Status: Unconfirmed.

You know so we can like click between ticket 1587 and 1588 and 1589 with a quick link at the top of the page as a more efficient way of doing what is essentially a vote cruise to see all the most recent ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

10Up votes 2Down votes 1Replies

Expanding the "conundrums" field in Lexplorer a bit further

Website feature request by Mark Deeks. Status: Unconfirmed.

The "conundrums" field in Lexplorer is useful, especially after the recent changes, but could be more useful still (and more entertaining) if it also returned the respective incorrect guesses of the players ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

9Up votes 0Down votes 9Replies

Can the numbers interface be simplified?

Brainstorm by Adam Gillard. Status: Unconfirmed.

[apterous link] - This post and the following one got me thinking - can the numbers game interface on apterous be simplified (without making fudging any easier)? ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

News

20 May 2013

19 May 2013

17 May 2013

  • New: Games now record whether they went to a tiebreak. This has been backdated to the last one million (!) games as much as we could (there are probably some mistakes, but nothing too terrible). This is the beginning of much better handling of tiebreak games sometime in the future. [Discussion]

13 May 2013

11 May 2013

6 May 2013

  • News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
  • Improved: Gym Lad now puts the word he was testing you on as his declaration, so they're recorded for posterity in the recap. [Discussion]
  • Improved: Super Gym now tries a bit harder to avoid setting you the same selection in the same game, even if testing you on different words. [Discussion]
  • Fixed: Apterous Soap no longer occasionally blanks Touchdown rounds. [Discussion]

5 May 2013

  • New: One of the most exciting new things we've launched for ages: enter the Super Gym! This is a new solo play mode in which apterous analyses your entire game history and identifies words that you've particularly struggled with in the past, then sets up personalised rounds to test you on. It's really quite fun. I'm sure you'll all have plenty of feature requests for other things we could do with this, so rest assured that there's plenty more in the pipeline. Enjoy! (PS: Due to the huge amount of personal analysis this feature requires, you'll need SuperStats to play.) [Discussion]

4 May 2013

29 April 2013

28 April 2013

22 April 2013

21 April 2013

  • New: Completed a full Ascension cycle? Itching to start over from the very beginning again? At last you can! An infinite amount of fun can now be yours. [Discussion]
  • Fixed: Metamax is now calculated correctly for "Only maxes score". [Discussion]

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