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- Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:21 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 392198
Re: Is Apterous down?
It's now so broken even the "oops" message has gone
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:50 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Autumn Tournament
- Replies: 186
- Views: 36223
Re: Apterous Autumn Tournament
(Back from a summer hiatus and definitely) In!
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday June 10th 2011
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5653
Re: Spoilers For Friday June 10th 2011
Well I got DICHOTOMY in about half a second so you never know...
- Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: In case anyone's interested...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3053
In case anyone's interested...
In preparation for my first appearance on the show, I made loads of little cue-cards for "revision" purposes. (Fruitful 6s, 7s and 8s, and 6-,7-,8- and 9-letter falsagrams). Seeing as they're not a lot of use to me any more, but many hours went into making them, I wondered if anybody else ...
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: CountMax errors
- Replies: 727
- Views: 92509
Re: CountMax errors
Yeah, sorry about that.Mark James wrote:TOUGHED still isn't allowed on apterous. The only reason I declared it was because of James Hall's reappearance on Countdown toady.
- Wed May 11, 2011 5:33 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481343
Re: Feature requests
In Lightweight mode, could we lose the pictures from the chat window as well as the ingame pictures please?
- Tue May 10, 2011 11:14 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499156
Re: Bug reports
taken from the front page moments ago: "Mark Tournoff commented on Catriona Cappleman's game with her." Are there still some issues here or has Mark just decided to self-identify as female?
- Thu May 05, 2011 6:04 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Premier League
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8737
Re: Apterous Premier League
Yeah I'll do it
- Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:12 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous FA Cup
- Replies: 195
- Views: 33324
Re: Apterous FA Cup
Sorry to all about my lack of appearances recently! (Specially Karen, Rhys and Ryan T.) Situation now rectified, and Karen and I should play a proper game tomorrow.
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 2:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 12th April 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 62)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1543
Re: Tuesday 12th April 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 62)
Cheers guys, I fixed the couple of typos
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 12th April 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 62)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1543
Tuesday 12th April 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 62)
Hello and welcome to the Countdown recap for Tuesday 12 April 2011. As the week continues and we approach hump-day, the episode count approaches the series number and will have overtaken it before the end of the week. Let's get on with it shall we? There's some Rachel-Jeff banterific discussion abou...
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:55 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Puzzle Hunt
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1259
Puzzle Hunt
The annual Melbourne Puzzle Hunt started yesterday. I thought it may be of interest to some of you puzzle-y types. The puzzles are pretty tough, but very rewarding if you complete one of them!
http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzzlehunt/ for the full hunt.
Enjoy!
http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzzlehunt/ for the full hunt.
Enjoy!
- Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:00 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
- Replies: 221
- Views: 38065
Re: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
Excellent. I may be 5 minutes late and/or slightly inebriated because we're going for pizza to celebrate the end of term. The pupils have finally buggered off for the next couple of weeks!
- Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:27 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
- Replies: 221
- Views: 38065
Re: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
Ack, tomorrow's no good for me unless it's a bit later (10ish). Any good?Matt Morrison wrote:
Incidentally, despite her annoyance I did make her sign in and stay that way for about half hour from 9:45 to 10:15 but no sign of James.
She's busy tonight, smelling more like tomorrow now, sorry.
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:28 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
- Replies: 221
- Views: 38065
Re: aptoSOS - Simulation of a Series
Is Heather about at the moment? I've been keeping an eye out for her online but haven't seen her recently.
- Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: All Around Standard Numbers Tournament
- Replies: 50
- Views: 10229
Re: All Around Standard Numbers Tournament
Count me in please!
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:23 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: A sequence challenge
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4418
A sequence challenge
The head of maths here has presented me with a sequence. It was apparently in an old year 7 question sheet, and it has flummoxed the entire maths department. What are the next few terms and/or what is the formula for the sequence?
Here it is:
Here it is:
Any thoughts welcome!1, 2, 6, 15, 16, 16, —15, —17
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What University Did You Go To/Are you at/Are you going to?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 15731
Re: What University Did You Go To/Are you at/Are you going t
Pleasing to see a couple more Warwickians on the list!
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:26 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What would you do with £500?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5477
Re: What would you do with £500?
Aaah but which ones? Discussion of that could end up needing a whole new thread of its own.Charlie Reams wrote: I would probably buy a load of board games.
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What would you do with £500?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5477
Re: What would you do with £500?
The West Wing complete box set , the complete Thunderbirds collection , 10 kilos of chocolate , every bond film ever made , 36 cans of your favourite alcoholic beverage , a 12oz fillet steak , next year's subscription to apterous , a Countdown teapot , the complete works of William Shakespeare and ...
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday March 24th 2011
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3270
Re: Spoilers For Thursday March 24th 2011
Anybody else notice that the conundrum was practically just the solution written backwards?
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3366
Re: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
...good point.
OK, mid-series then?
OK, mid-series then?
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday March 21st 2011
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2939
Re: Spoilers For Monday March 21st 2011
Shame he blobbed on the 6 small, maybe he would have got it normally and it was just the pressure that got to him. It was quite a lucky selection for the guy to get considering the situation, the exact sort of one you would expect somebody half decent at 6 small to get, and anybody else to get nowh...
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3366
Re: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
The episodes this week were only recorded last Monday, possibly the shortest gap between filming and transmission but I'm sure I will be corrected by the experts if I'm wrong. Given the week's gap in filming though, I would think that I was in the pretty unique position of knowing who I was going t...
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:21 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3366
Re: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
And something I feel I should add (although I've already said it to him in person) is that I couldn't have come up against a friendlier opponent than Andy - I wish him all the best in any future game(s) he has
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3366
Re: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
Quite right, but I can't help feeling the dictionary is wrong here. I seem to recall souping used to be disallowed in a similar fashion because it was only listed as a verb under 'soup something up', which has now been amended. Susie seemed to be thinking along the same lines - she did say to me af...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 21st March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 46)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3366
Re: Monday 21st March (Series 64, Prelim 46)
And just when we wanted an A to appear (I think James may even have been fishing for one with that final vowel for EXPIATED), we get an A-less round. I was actually hoping for a third E for EXPEDITE (partly as a Portsmouth in-joke as well as the obvious 8 points), but would have been happy with an ...
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:49 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Dog Eat Dog Tournament May-June 2011 - apply here
- Replies: 84
- Views: 15431
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Friday 11 March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 45)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3092
Re: Friday 11 March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 45)
Well if you're watching carefully next Monday you might just see me...James Robinson wrote:Do you have any plans to appear on the show soon, James
- Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Friday 11 March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 45)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3092
Re: Friday 11 March 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 45)
I tend to agree with you, Graham, although I seem to recall there was a previous occasion where both contestants agreed to offer a shorter word (can't remember the details at the moment; maybe someone else can?). I think it was when the 6-letter word FUCKERS appeared - no idea what the date was tho...
- Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous FA Cup
- Replies: 195
- Views: 33324
Re: Apterous FA Cup
I'll play
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:35 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous on iPhone
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3781
Re: Apterous on iPhone
That said, it is still handy for a bit of practice on the train/in the bus queue/somewhere where a computer and decent internet connection would not be available.
Mind you, the dictionary's not perfect either...
Mind you, the dictionary's not perfect either...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 15th February 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 27)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1764
Re: Tuesday 15th February 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 27)
Thanks James! I enjoyed doing it
Fixed the Rachel thing. It's up on cdb now too.
Fixed the Rachel thing. It's up on cdb now too.
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:00 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 15th February 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 27)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1764
Tuesday 15th February 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 27)
Countdown recap for Tuesday 15 February 2011. Hello and welcome to a late recap. You've got me today because Oliver's got more important things to be doing. It's February 15th, Youtube's 6th birthday in the USA. And with that piece of utterly useless trivia, on with the game! C1: Champion Andy Campb...
- Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 15th?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1206
Tuesday 15th?
Is there a recap for Tuesday 15th in the pipeline? If not, I'd quite like to have a shot at writing one...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Conundrum alphabet
- Replies: 335
- Views: 23696
Re: Conundrum alphabet
1.WONDERFUL 2.BLACKBIRD 3.COLLECTOR 4.DISPROVEN 5.ENERGETIC 6.FRISKIEST 7.GLEEFULLY 8.QUAINTEST 9.HAUGHTILY 10.INSPECTED 11.AMPHIBIAN 12.JUNGLIEST? 13.K________ 14.LENGTHIER 15.YELLOWISH 16.NUMERATOR 17.OCTAGONAL 18.PERSONAGE 19.M________ 20.SELECTION 21.XYLOPHONE 22.R________ 23.TEACUPFUL 24.UNIVER...
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:22 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Masters 2011
- Replies: 167
- Views: 30090
Re: Apterous Masters 2011
Too late to get into the qualifying stage? Or just in time?
Qualifier please, if possible!
Qualifier please, if possible!
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday February 8th 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3995
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday February 8th 2011
A masterclass today, again - Octochampdom will surely be a mere formality at this level. That said, I did manage to get to the conundrum first, which happens very rarely so I was very pleased! As Ryan is still indisposed, and I'm inconveniently unavailable, I've decided to hand over the recapping re...
- Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 1st February 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 17)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4617
Re: Tuesday 1st February 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 17)
R4: Stodgier?
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:51 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481343
Re: Feature requests
How about for conundrum-worthy 9s they have their difficulty listed on Lexplorer?
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 24th 2011
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3643
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 24th 2011
Got the first numbers before time
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 17th November 2010 (Ser. 63, Prelim 93)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2015
Re: Wednesday 17th November 2010 (Ser. 63, Prelim 93)
Heh doing some practice at work on an old PC that doesn't have Java
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 17th November 2010 (Ser. 63, Prelim 93)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2015
Re: Wednesday 17th November 2010 (Ser. 63, Prelim 93)
Should that not be ((10 / 5) x 50) + 9 - 4 - 3?James Robinson wrote: Round 5: 50, 3, 10, 5, 9, 4. Target: 102.
C1: 102. ((10 / 5) x 100) + 9 - 4 - 3 (10)
C2: -
Score: 21–14 (max 38)
- Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:14 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 5
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6818
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:14 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 5
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6818
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Round 5
Flight A: I managed to beat Apterous Nude 2-0, but it was the worst I've played for a long time. I honestly have no idea what happened to me in the second game. Pleasing to come back though! http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378268 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378283 Still, a wi...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: RAISING THE BAR ON COUNTDOWN
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4680
Re: RAISING THE BAR ON COUNTDOWN
ooh who can we look forward to watching this time?Ryan Taylor wrote:There are at least 3 serious contenders lined up for next series I think.
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:01 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: General feedback
- Replies: 284
- Views: 53344
Re: General feedback
SecondedPaul Howe wrote:Having the goat metamaxes in the recap is brilliant
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499156
Re: Bug reports
http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?section=joint_high_scores At the bottom: "Key:- Max games are in bold; new records are in red ; long-standing records are in blue". Not really a bug but hey, that's just confusing. Also, different (more-buggy) bug, during the duel today I guessed at a g...
- Sat Dec 25, 2010 2:27 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Crossword WITH PRIZES!!!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5367
Re: Crossword WITH PRIZES!!!
That link is really quite brilliant.
Nice one Ryan
Nice one Ryan
- Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:41 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sleeping Beauty Problem
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8049
Re: Sleeping Beauty Problem
There are three points at which you can be woken up: - On Monday after a heads toss - On Monday after a tails toss, or - On Tuesday after a tails toss. In two of these three cases the coin landed on tails. Given that you have just woken up, it is twice as likely that the coin landed on tails. Probab...
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:59 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481343
Re: Feature requests
Out of interest, how many Junior conundrums are there?
- Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:08 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Another crossword with a prize!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2117
Re: Another crossword with a prize!
One ambulance winging its way to Ryan, perhaps?Ryan Taylor wrote: Just remember 9 prizes, yeah 9, you heard me right 9.[/size]
- Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:01 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499156
Re: Bug reports
http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?se ... t_climbers seems not to be updating any more - I know I'm higher up than that now!
- Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:05 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481343
Re: Feature requests
Any chance of Junior conundrums having difficulty ratings (as their standard counterparts do)?
I'd also play a Junior ascension if there was one but I may be the only person who would...
I'd also play a Junior ascension if there was one but I may be the only person who would...
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:27 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Crossword WITH PRIZES!!!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5367
Re: Crossword WITH A PRIZE
Well, I say clueless, I have plenty of clues, just no idea what links them!
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:21 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Crossword WITH PRIZES!!!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5367
Re: Crossword WITH A PRIZE
Nice crossword!
I now have them all except for one! (Which I know how to make but can't work out) and another half.
I am, however, utterly clueless on the connection...
I now have them all except for one! (Which I know how to make but can't work out) and another half.
I am, however, utterly clueless on the connection...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:37 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: How ratings work
- Replies: 51
- Views: 75950
Re: How ratings work
Aaah OK. I just wanted to have a browse of rankings in other variants, which it seems I can't do any more - they still seem to exist though because I still get a report at the end of every game etc. Is there any way to find them out?
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:07 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: How ratings work
- Replies: 51
- Views: 75950
Re: How ratings work
Have standard rankings completely fallen out of use and been replaced by pro ranks? I can no longer find the ratings page anywhere on apterous.
- Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:49 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 1
- Replies: 89
- Views: 22028
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Round 1
Main Event Flight C or the lowest one or whatever James Bradley 2 - 0 Rhys Benjamin Rhys Benjamin 17 - 95 James Bradley Miss Carol coming up in Round 14 :-( Could have had 24 instead :-( James Bradley 72 - 42 Rhys Benjamin Had a 4 large selection (by me :-D) and target came up as 952. Unfortunately...
- Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 1
- Replies: 89
- Views: 22028
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Round 1
The Green Pool table for the Speed Tournament seems to have a mistake in it -TB lost to JB 125-30 and EM beat TB 125-30 - which is the true result?