apterous is a UK-based puzzle game where players compete to solve word and number puzzles. You can play in British English, French, German, Welsh, global English and a variety of other languages.
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Game feature request by Marty P. Status: Unconfirmed.
Conventional behaviour for Ctrl + LEFT/RIGHT is to make the cursor/caret jump to the beginning/end of the current/previous/next word. It is therefore quite unexpected and IMO unwelcome that using this ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Miscellaneous topic by Maurice Conway. Status: Unconfirmed.
Hey, I can't make sense of the rating system and how points are allocated at the end of a game. Could you help me understand please? [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Game feature request by Marty P. Status: Unconfirmed.
I thought it would be handy if you let users pre-configure custom challenges for their preferred game formats and include links to these on their profile pages so other users could straightforwardly send ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Game feature request by Innis Carson. Status: Unconfirmed.
My understanding of the current conundrum set-up is that both players are shown the scramble at (as close as possible to) the same time, with independent timers starting on each end when the scramble appears. ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Game feature request by Martin Hurst. Status: Unconfirmed.
In Superstats, you can access a list of your most disallowed words. It has columns for "hits" (i.e. the number of times you have submitted it), and "words" (which shows the invalid word) Could a 3rd ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Game feature request by Adam Finlay. Status: Unconfirmed.
Feel free to come up with a better item for this, but thought it was worth implementing the following: An item for when the answer to the numbers game is solved by adding up all the numbers. Exhibit ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Announcement by Christy Cooper. Status: Unconfirmed.
I haven't done one of these for a while. I will need 8 or more players - each player will be separated into their own individual chatrooms to give their answers privately, with the main chatroom being ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Game feature request by Fiona T. Status: Unconfirmed.
I think it would be useful if, when a game is accepted, other challenges are cancelled. Some players (often newer ones) send multiple challenges. The suggestion is that once a challenge is accepted, ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Game feature request by Piaras Last-Name. Status: Unconfirmed.
This item goes to the last person to declare a word that is later taken out of the dictionary. For example, as the last person to declare WHOONGAS while it was still a valid word(1), Chris Hare would be ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Brainstorm by Ahmed M. Status: Unconfirmed.
I think we can borrow from Chess here; they have Rapid and Blitz modes with their own separate ratings. Modes like berserk/bullet would become more popular(in my opinion) and in turn promote more competition ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Game feature request by Johnny Canuck. Status: Unconfirmed.
If you click the up and down arrows to adjust your declaration in the numbers interface without typing a number in and pressing Enter first, the up arrow will change the value to 1 and the down arrow to ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Website feature request by Philip Aston. Status: Unconfirmed.
Borrowing from George Armstrong’s ongoing and successful Premier League/EFL Championship tournaments (with his permission ;) At present, Champions League format uses Winners only scoring. The aforementioned ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Brainstorm by M S R. Status: Unconfirmed.
Brum is back, baby! Bigger than before. Some slightly miffed train drivers may have dented the numbers for Birmingham’s 2022 return to the FOCAL calendar, but it didn’t stop us having a rather spiffing ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Announcement by Rob Foster. Status: Unconfirmed.
Here's the latest version of the usefulness document following the dictionary update: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QA7zt6lAC-8-AO5Dy5mMDuQ1fjwu4g6a/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=102346750340488444279&rtpof=true&sd=true ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Brainstorm by M S R. Status: Unconfirmed.
Trying something new to help in my slightly cock-eyed attempt to get better at this. Putting it out here so A-You can try it should you wish and B-I'm wanting to finesse things, and feedback is welcome ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Variant idea by Tal Lessner. Status: Unconfirmed.
I don't think any explanationis is required. Instant rules, with hyper selections. Because Instant is fun, Hyper is fun, so Hyper Instant sounds hyper fun. [Read more] [More variant ideas]
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Game feature request by Matthew Tassier. Status: Unconfirmed.
In Spoilage you have to pick 4, 5 or 6 large numbers. Currently all the bots pick the least challenging 4 Large selection in all circumstances in Spoilage. In every other variant different bots choose ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Game feature request by Dave Kempshall. Status: Unconfirmed.
As someone who loves playing a tournament, but often gets knocked out in the earlier rounds, I'm interested in following the tournament progress, but find it hard to keep track of how that tournament is ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Announcement by James Robinson. Status: Unconfirmed.
OCK AYE!!! BACK NORTH OF THE BORDER WE GO!!! Time once again to bring Countdown back to the Scottish capital once again!!😄😎👍🏴🏴🏴 ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Game feature request by Louise O'Brien. Status: Unconfirmed.
Is there any way to stop the play tab flashing red every time somebody logs in that you have an unplayed tourney game with? Its very distracting whilst you are mid game with somebody else and totally ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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