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Notes from the organizer: Welcome to Revolver, an on-going set of Apterous challenges for you to try as much as you like. I set a challenge once every five days, and each one runs for 20 days so four challenges run at any time. This one is numbers-based, and the challenges rotate through letters, numbers, conundrums and a mix of all three.

You can play whichever challenges you like, as much as you like; all you need to do is sign up to one on its round page (signing up is optional but it's helpful as feedback if nothing else) and get started on it. Every challenge has an objective you need to complete, with extra points available depending on how you do it. These points then get converted into final scores as follows:

1st place: 100 points
2nd place: 80 points
3rd place: 70 points
All others: scaled between 20 and 60 points
In the event of ties points get split equally, so if two people tie for second they get 75 each.

The tournament has an overall leaderboard https://sites.google.com/site/apterousrevolver/leaderboard which is the total of all these final scores you've achieved.

So, here's the latest one, numbered N3 because it's numbers challenge 3. It's a bit like the numbers equivalent of the first letters challenge (Pangram) if you remember it. It might be one to play in moderation.

Name: COUNT UP

Objective: In a Numbers Attack in any variant, use every number from 1 to 20 as intermediate steps in points-scoring rounds. Note that if you are given a number to start with and use it (as opposed to reaching it using other numbers) this counts, as do the targets/declarations themselves. You only have to score in a round for it to count; you DO NOT need to get a max.

[example working: 2+9=11; 6+4=10; 11x10=110. This uses the numbers 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 110]

Variant/format: A Numbers Attack in any format where's it's available. Obviously some are better choices than others; for example, there's no reason to play Lockdown or Omelette as they're always more restrictive than Normal, but (e.g.) Nasty might be a good idea if you think having 12 as a starting number helps.

Scoring: If you can use every number from 1 to X (X is at least 20 for a completion), you score X² points since numbers get progressively harder to use. So using everything from 1 to 22 scores 484. I'd recommend checking these off (say from 1 to 25 if you're aiming for that much?) in the in-game chat box or somewhere like that if you want to keep track of what's left, although you can just check the game recap at the end if you're feeling confident.

If you complete the challenge and want me to know about it, COMMENT ON THIS PAGE with a link to your game. If you better it, comment again and that will replace your previous game. After every few completions I'll put up a table of who's scored what.

Hopefully that's all clear, but if not let me know. Good luck everyone!

Ran from: 1 – 20 May 2014. Format: Nice Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 6. Completed: 6.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)