What is apterous?

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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Current Duel Leaders

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1Tim Down—  

Format: 11 rounds of 30 seconds.
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Top Dog

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1Fiona T100%

These are the finest bones dug up lately,
in Mr Dog's opinion (patent pending).

Discussions

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Show creation date on tickets in the front page's "Discussions" pane

Website feature request by Graeme Cole. Status: Unconfirmed.

Sometimes, recent comments or voting activity on a very old ticket can cause it to resurface and end up back on the front page. But it isn't always obvious to a user looking at the front page that this ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

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Calling all Irish Apterites Countdown in Dublin Saturday September 28th.

Brainstorm by Ed Byrne. Status: Unconfirmed.

I was trawling the pro rankings this morning and I noticed that quite a few users are Irish. I want to make you all aware of an in person Countdown Tournament I am running on Saturday 28th September. It ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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August 2024 word list update -- it's the big one

Announcement by Charlie Reams. Status: Unconfirmed.

As many of you will have picked up from other threads, Oxford made a huge update recently including a huge number of deletions (nearly 100K!) and a few hundred new words too. It's been an epic effort by ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Olympics Superbru

Announcement by Andy SC. Status: Unconfirmed.

Like the Olympics? Like predicting sporting results? Like sports in general? If you have answered yes to any of those questions then this is exactly for you. I've set up three polls on Superbru for ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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People's Choice Weakest Link

Brainstorm by Andy SC. Status: Unconfirmed.

I was thinking of ways that I could make the People's Choice Weakest Link different for when I next half it, whenever that might be. I've detailed various options I've come up with below. Open to other ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Will bots' optimal picks be updated to reflect the much-reduced dictionary?

Miscellaneous topic by Sam Cappleman-Lynes. Status: Unconfirmed.

In this ticket (https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=5970) it was explained data had been crunched to enable optimal bot picking in a number of variants. I got the impression that bots do not ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Better indication of deadline for tourney games

Website feature request by Thomas Carey. Status: Unconfirmed.

At the moment, I have a lot of tourney games clogging up the purple front page box. Most of these are human games with a long deadline, which happens in some large round robin tourneys (most notably EC). ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

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Fantasy football 24/25

Announcement by Adam Latchford. Status: Unconfirmed.

Hi League is set up again for next season https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/9ezi6g If you were in the league last season and use your email again - you'll automatically be involved. ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Resources for unlearning

Miscellaneous topic by M S R. Status: Unconfirmed.

I'm sharing this so I've got some more motivation to get the bloody thing finished. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12mRogu3C8-m7e0wtSCaqlcNsM5M9kt3LpLdMfU3-TqY/edit?usp=sharing ^Have nicked the ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Updating other language dictionaries

Brainstorm by Roger Peak. Status: Unconfirmed.

Can someone tell me - do the dictionaries for other languages ever get updated and what drives that ? [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Effect of Dictionary Changes on Ascension

Miscellaneous topic by Steve H. Status: Unconfirmed.

Hello all Have been unable to find the ticket for the last time Ascension had a large conundrum update which IIRC addressed this issue so do bear that in mind, but what happens to Ascension when conundrums ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Only One News Announcement When Conor Travers Ties The Record Blitz Maxes 9 Times

Website feature request by Richard Brittain. Status: Unconfirmed.

I feel that the News feed on the main page has been unduly cluttered by this. I feel that one line could suffice, rather than nine. In addition, Jono's 3 comments on them could, debatably, be compressed ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

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Ratings and new players

Brainstorm by Fiona T. Status: Unconfirmed.

AIUI you have to play 11(?) games in a variant to cement a rating in that variant. While you're provisionally rated, you can see swings of several hundred in your rating but it should pan out by the ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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Consolidate front page high score announcments

Website feature request by Fiona T. Status: Unconfirmed.

Suggestion is that instead of 20 announcements that "Player X tied the high score for Junior Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes." there is just one ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

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Amalgamate multiple instances of max records by one person on the front page

Website feature request by Matty Artell. Status: Unconfirmed.

Currently, when one of the top players goes through ascension (or anything similar, such as repeatedly doing touch jnr conundrum attacks for no reason), the front page ends up looking like this; http://i.imgur.com/Iz6KHaD.jpg ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

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Add OED search to the lexplorer links

Website feature request by Fiona T. Status: Unconfirmed.

Since the demise of lexico, there hasn't been a good source for definitions. OED do a definition preview which isn't paywalled. e.g. https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=APTEROUS ... [Read more] [More feature requests]

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Calling all parkrunners!

Announcement by Fiona T. Status: Unconfirmed.

I've created a Countdowner parkrunners group on Strava - if you're an apto parkrunner, and on Strava, please join up! https://www.strava.com/clubs/c4cparkrunners You might also be interested in the ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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How do I improve at the game?

Brainstorm by Dashan Delany. Status: On-going.

Firstly sorry if this is the wrong place to ask such a question. I've just made an account and it's unusual to have a web forum handle its bug reports and public discussions via the same front-end ticket ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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96,000+ words removed from the game! (full list of deletions)

Announcement by Eoin Jackson. Status: Unconfirmed.

Oxford Dictionaries dropped a nuclear bomb on the game we love. It was to undo a silly change implemented in 2015, so ultimately is a good thing, however much of a pain it is in the short term. If you ... [Read more] [More miscellany]

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