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Gavin Chipper wrote:Is the test available online?

Worryingly easy

ёж. My favourite Russian word
Almost took the gloss off my spectacular russian letters attack record.

Clive:"Possibly the mark of a factoriser, which I admit to being." I don't understand this. The target was 767, which is close to 770. Factorising gives 7x11x10, which is easily obtainable, keeping the 2 and 1 by to subtract afterwards. I did it Matt's more intuitive way. The 770 route lo...

Yes please, I'll play a qualifier.

I've been having trouble with hyper conundrums, similarly to Julie's problem above. Whether in the last round of a Hyper15 or a single hyper conundrum both players are getting "waiting for opponent" but nothing appears. I was playing Norm and he said a similar thing happened when he recent...

In the numbers games, you will be awarded a max when you are within 5, if the closest possible is within 5. However, if your opponent declares the exact target, then you are not awarded that maximum. Here's an example. If you are within 5 and the closest possible is within 5 but closer than you, yo...

Alec Rivers wrote:

Matthew Tassier wrote:
More than 9 letters. No need to spell it correctly.

Hyper variants?

Hyper? Impossabley Compilicated. Not worth trying.

Alec Rivers wrote:

Matthew Tassier wrote:... let alone the two occurances you've given it!

And you gave 'occurrences' none at all!

More than 9 letters. No need to spell it correctly.

On another topic, is there a place that the latest dictionary file that apterous uses is kept? The one I use for my own ends seems out of date. The latest one I have is this one , but it's probably around due for an update (Kirk's been busy lately in the errors thread). Thanks Jim, that's cool. I t...

I wonder how many 9's there are with just 2 vowels? Approx 1910 I believe. Impressive if you knew that off the top of your head. Apterous makes it 1,922. A further 25 have only 1 vowel:- Surely Scary rather than Impressive that I knew that off the top of my head. On another topic, is there a place ...

As a lesser player, though always reasonably good on the numbers, I started on here getting about 5 maxes per game and now after 1000 games I get around 7. As a % increase in maxes spotted I expect this compares with Chris. If I had Superstats I imagine it would show improvements over time (and not...

Marc Meakin wrote:I wonder how many 9's there are with just 2 vowels?

Approx 1910 I believe.

As a lesser player, though always reasonably good on the numbers, I started on here getting about 5 maxes per game and now after 1000 games I get around 7. As a % increase in maxes spotted I expect this compares with Chris. If I had Superstats I imagine it would show improvements over time (and not ...

Not sure if this counts as a bug or not but this :arrow: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=171460 shouldn't be allowed on an active duel. Yes it should. Oh, I get it, only those that have completed the duel can view it. I saw the offending comment (though I could not see the actual rounds) ...

Speed: Matthew Tassier 2-0 Peter Lee

Matthew Tassier 49 - 44 Peter Lee

Matthew Tassier 45 - 18 Peter Lee

Flight A: Lee Simmonds 2-0 Matthew Tassier Lee Simmonds 92 - 77 Matthew Tassier I was pleased with a nice early 8 to put me ahead, but Lee had overtaken me by the time we got to a crucial conundrum which he just beat me to. Lee Simmonds 96 - 80 Matthew Tassier I was pleased with a nice early 8 to pu...

There's a problem with Hyper numbers. When you enter your declaration and the clock runs down, it hangs and doesn't ask you to input your solution, sometimes never at all and other times it takes 4 or 5 minutes to kick into that phase of play. I've had to quit a few games as i've waited for ages an...

D Eadie wrote: Also, not sure if this is meant to happen or not, but last night i got a game where i picked 2 large in Hyper and the 150 came out twice.

In Touchdown and Hypertouch numbers are picked with replacement. So you could very well get a selection like 150,150,9,8,8,8,8,3

Some possibilities: You could exclude games that are only self-nominated. Self-nomination is a good way to bring a notable game to others attention but if no-one else is impressed enough to nominate it then obviously it is not as exciting as was thought. Perhaps when nominating a game people should ...

Flight A: Matthew Tassier 2 - 1 Peter Lee Peter Lee 101 - 74 Matthew Tassier Brilliant first game from Peter, getting 12 maxes which could well have been 13 if I hadn't meanly pick 6 small in the last numbers game. Matthew Tassier 85 - 77 Peter Lee Close game with the numbers rounds tipping it in my...

Speed games:

Matthew Tassier 53 - 31 Tom Rowell
Tom Rowell 45 - 51 Matthew Tassier

Two fairly unimpressive games, except maybe for Tom's DEACONED, and I survived a crucial conundrum to record my first 2-0 victory.

EDIT: Sorry Kieran, since I kinda killed your puzzle straight away. In an attempt to make up for it (aside from the above question) - can anyone find any 7 or 8 letter words that can never be a darren in any valid selection? Obviously ignore words that themselves have an anagram and the fruitful 7s...

Flight A : Matthew Tassier 2-0 Lloyd Pettet Matthew Tassier 81 - 70 Lloyd Pettet Matthew Tassier 83 - 73 Lloyd Pettet Two very close games, the first decided on the final numbers and then in the second Lloyd came back from 27 down with three rounds to go, only for me to narrowly pip him to the tiebr...

Flight A: Ian Dent 1-1 Matthew Tassier

Matthew Tassier 44 - 24 Ian Dent
Ian Dent 42 - 35 Matthew Tassier

Two games where the numbers rounds made the difference. After two losses each in the first week it's nice to get off the mark!

Flight A: Matthew Tassier 2 - 0 Edwin Mead

Matthew Tassier 87 - 68 Edwin Mead
Edwin Mead 71 - 92 Matthew Tassier

Couple of close games with IGNITABLE and a 6 small putting me ahead.

Both tournaments please.

Div B: Niall Seymour 90 - 178 Matthew Tassier

Niall miscalculated in a couple of the early rounds, which seemed to put him off rather for a while. This did allow me to post a good goal difference in the battle for second place.

We played the proper tournament game, so I don't need to post this ... but you'll have to excuse me for showing off!

Matthew Tassier 200 - 150 Sarah White

I've been after a max numbers game for AGES.

Our tournament game wasn't there when we were ready to play, so here is the link:

Gareth Mitchell 140 - 177 Matthew Tassier

Hi, Matthew, and welcome to the forum! :D Matthew - I think you're being modest! We've played 4 games on apterous over the past few months, and you've won all 4, and in 3 of them you got the crucial conundrum! ;) Hope you like the forum. :) Thanks! I think you've just been unlucky for me to get 3/4...

Yes please. And mine's a pint of ale.

Hi, I'm Matthew Tassier and I've been a Countdown fan ever since my excitement at the upcoming televisual extravaganza that was going to be the launch of a fourth television channel became bemusement when a couple of adults started playing spelling and adding up games. Since becoming self-employed a...