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Cheating

apterous is a community, and by cheating, you're undermining the work that has gone into creating the game, and the work of those who practise long and hard to improve legitimately.

Cheating is:

• using any kind of artificial aid to alter your performance in the game
• using an anagram or numbers solver program or website (including Lexplorer!) to generate solutions or to check your words
• using multiple accounts to play yourself and boost your rating
• using multiple accounts or some other means to see the rounds of the Duel before playing it
• using word lists during the game
• looking up words in the dictionary before declaring

This list isn't exhaustive, but you get the picture.

On the other hand, cheating is not:

• declaring spurious numbers solutions and then attempting to solve it on the fly
• exploiting weaknesses in the bots

These things may be annoying but they're not cheating.

What happens to cheaters?

apterous has an automatic cheat detection system called The Cheatomatic built-in, which monitors all rated games for suspicious activity and reports back to the administrator. Evidence is then reviewed and the parties suspected of cheating will be contacted privately.