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.
Current Duel Leaders
| # | Player | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen R | — |
Format: 10 rounds of 25 seconds.
[Vote for the next Duel's format]
Latest Pencils
Top Dog
| # | Player | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Holford | 98% |
These are the finest bones dug up lately,
in Mr Dog's opinion (patent pending).
Discussions
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Apterous has been playing up!!!
Announcement by John Carpenter. Status: Unconfirmed.
As I expect members have found out, you can get access to this main title page but at the time of writing that is far as it goes! When clicking on the 'play' icon the message: 'disconnected' is displayed. ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
8 1 11
'Cannot Challenge' - Entire Room Disabled
Brainstorm by Phil Collinge. Status: Unconfirmed.
Today I was greeted by the following message in the main room - 'Cannot Challenge - You cannot have more than 3 outstanding games with bots. Please finish some of these games first'. The message sits ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
11 9 21
Amend ascension to make it more relevant for actual Countdown
Brainstorm by Transude Transude. Status: Unconfirmed.
Everyone loves a 0.7 second WAKIZASHI solve: [
link] But more seriously, these sorts of words, although appearing ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
8 10 16
Remove Watchwords or radically overhaul them
Brainstorm by Transude Transude. Status: Unconfirmed.
Watchwords are items that you receive for getting the same word as one of the people whose names are on the watchwords got on the show: [
link] Typically you receive ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
14 0 4
Apterous ATP Tour 2019 - THE RETURN!!!
Announcement by Andy SC. Status: Unconfirmed.
I thought with Two months to go it would now be a good time to announce this. The return of the Apterous ATP Tour. The 2019 Apterous ATP Tour is a series of 66 tournaments which will follow the calendar ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
14 1 13
The Mole - Altern8 Reality - £ Prize
Announcement by Zarte Siempre. Status: Unconfirmed.
DO NOT ENTER ON THIS TICKET The Mole is coming back. Do you like something a little bit different? Do you like a game on Apterous that ANYONE can win, irrespective of ability? Do you like to think ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Leader boards to show more than just top 25
Website feature request by Gevin Chapwell. Status: Unconfirmed.
Other than Pro Ranks, I think all leaderboards have just one page of the top 25. But positions are calculated for other players, and you can find them out by being them, having them as your rival, or going ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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"Top letters players (all languages)" Statland page
Website feature request by Quinn James. Status: Unconfirmed.
So, this is kind of my fault. Seven years ago, I left a comment that led Charlie to fix a bug where the "Top letters players" page wasn't being filtered by lexicon. I was okay with that, though I continued ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Apto-Tude League XXVII
Announcement by Piaras M Carney. Status: Unconfirmed.
Nice to see you, to see you nice, There are still 6 days left to sign up for this [ link] the Apto-Tude League Cycle 27! Some of you may or may not have heard ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Tournament licence
Website feature request by Charlie Reams. Status: On-going.
A small number of people run most of apterous' many excellent tournaments, and currently they spend a lot of time waiting around for me to approve them. I suggest a system in which people with a reasonable ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Duel entries
Website feature request by John Beresford. Status: Unconfirmed.
On the homepage where it gives the details of the current daily duel, it says 'ENTRIES SO FAR'. I think it would be nice to able to click this and get a list of all the entrants, along with their scores, ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Mole 2019?
Miscellaneous topic by Zarte Siempre. Status: Unconfirmed.
This is not, NOT, *not* an announcement. As it stands, there is no Mole in 2019. However I had a handful of people nudge me and try to get me to reset it up. I was content with letting it die a death ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
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Apto pub quiz - Monday 22nd October 2018 7.30pm
Announcement by Callum Todd. Status: Unconfirmed.
As per [ link], I have decided to schedule the quiz for the night of Monday 22nd October 2018. Will aim to start at 7.30pm. This will be the same quiz that ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
5 0 7
Is the Aptotude League still a thing?
Brainstorm by Piaras M Carney. Status: Unconfirmed.
I've been looking through some older tourneys lately (i.e. in the past few hours) and I was wondering, is the Aptotude League still being run? And if it's not, is there any possibility of its revival? ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
12 1 12
A Tampermonkey script to remove conundrum attack max spam from the front page
Announcement by Matty Artell. Status: Unconfirmed.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer, I have no idea what I'm doing, this is probably a really shitty method but it seems to work without drastically breaking anything, so fuck it) I got tired of the daily ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
13 1 16
Apto Misconceptions
Miscellaneous topic by Spike Guthrie. Status: Unconfirmed.
Hi all, A bit of light humour in this thread as I was enquiring as to whether any one may have any amusing anecdotes about the misconceptions about apto terminology or the way things worked. This thread ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
25 1 7
Hawaiian language
Game feature request by Stephen R. Status: Unconfirmed.
Do you like languages that aren't Indo-European? Do you like vowels? Think there are too many letters in existing languages? Then the Hawaiian language is for you! Hawaiian represents a completely new ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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Searchable Pro Ranks
Website feature request by Andy SC. Status: Unconfirmed.
On a regular basis I look over old pro ranks in order to find various bits of information and that from the pro ranks. At the moment there is current the previous week, next week and current week buttons ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
10 1 5
Linking to a lockdown round makes all of the letters red
Website feature request by Matty Artell. Status: Unconfirmed.
Web address of affected page: Any lockdown round, for example [ link] Bug description: Normally lockdown rounds are displayed with the ... [Read more] [More feature requests]
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October 2018 dictionary update
Announcement by Charlie Reams. Status: Unconfirmed.
From tomorrow, 111 words will be added [link] and 18 removed [link] ... [Read more] [More miscellany]
News
20 November 2018
- News: Game of the Week was won by Apterous Rex's 512 - 505 Goatdown win against Rob Foster! This week's vote is now open.
- New: apterous History: October 2018.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Jim Michael tied the high score for Nice Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Jim Michael tied the high score for Nice Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Jim Michael tied the high score for Nice Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Gevin Chapwell commented on Hyper Numbers: Group Stage.
- Dave Barnard's 130 - 0 game with Apterous Prune received a nomination for Game of the Week. [×7]
- Mark Murray tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Zarte Siempre's 122 - 0 game with Apterous Prune received a nomination for Game of the Week. [×8]
- Bradley Horrocks commented on Weakest Link Mayhem: Round 8 - Spoilage 9. [+2 others]
- Matthew Tassier commented on Weakest Link Mayhem: Round 9 - Spanish Conundrum Attack.
- Matthew Tassier commented on Weakest Link Mayhem: Round 6 - Hyper Letters Attack. [+1 other]
- Mark Murray tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Dave Barnard tied the record number of maximums for Bullet 15 with 15 maxes.
- Mr Dog awarded the dog bone for best Top Dog performance to Sarah Johnson, who lasted 13 rounds with a target of 8. Woof!
- The Duel was won by 34 people (Mark Murray, Sean Fletcher, George Armstrong., Robin M, Tim Down, Roger Vincent, Tony Atkins, Chris Hare, Norm Ahmad, Jack Worsley, Eoin Monaghan, Matt Hamer, Zarte Siempre, Jamie French, Ian Birdman, Stephen R, John Beresford, Matthew Tassier, Thomas Cappleman, Bradley Horrocks, James Hurrell, Jack Slane, Vincent Barcet, Ray Wilding, Phil Collinge, Graeme Cole, Chris Butler, Patricia Lockhart, Johnny Canuck, Dave Barnard, Gevin Chapwell, Thomas Carey, Ian Volante and Scott Gillies) with a score of 90 from 90.
19 November 2018
- News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
- Thomas Carey's 133 - 130 game with Marcus Hares received a nomination for Game of the Week. [×8]
- Tom Chafer-Cook tied the record number of maximums for Nice 9 with 9 maxes.
- Tom Chafer-Cook tied the record number of maximums for Junior 9 Rounder with 9 maxes.
- Hazel Drury tied the record number of maximums for Goatdown 9 Rounder with 9 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Chris Hare tied the high score for Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Keith A Williams commented on Weakest Link Mayhem: Round 10 - CSW Conundrum Attack.
- Jim Michael tied the high score for Nice Conundrum Attack with 200 points, and tied the record number of maximums with 20 maxes.
- Zarte Siempre commented on The Multiverse 4: Splitsville: Lockdown Week.
- Zarte Siempre set a new high score for Lockdown 15 with 122 points.
- Chris Butler commented on his game with The Duellist.
- Hazel Drury tied the record number of maximums for Goatdown 9 Rounder with 9 maxes.
- Mr Dog awarded the dog bone for best Top Dog performance to Matty Artell, who lasted 13 rounds with a target of 6. Woof!
13 November 2018
- News: Game of the Week was won by Quinn James's 201 - 0 CSW Letters Attack win against Apterous Prune! This week's vote is now open.
12 November 2018
- News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
6 November 2018
- News: Game of the Week was won by Thomas Carey's 152 - 92 15 Rounder win against Matty Artell! This week's vote is now open.
5 November 2018
- News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
2 November 2018
- News: The Duel for October 2018 was won by Matt Hamer!
- News: A total of 26 Duel Necklaces were awarded for October 2018.
30 October 2018
- News: Game of the Week was won by Bradley Horrocks's 200 - 0 Hyper win against Apterous Prune! This week's vote is now open.
29 October 2018
- News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
23 October 2018
- News: Game of the Week was won by Emily Cox's 179 - 0 Hyper Unlimited 15 win against Apterous Prune! This week's vote is now open.
22 October 2018
- News: Updated ProRanks for this week.
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