Countdown tools

[Martin Gardner]

I'm just looking on the Countdown Corral. I have a couple of issues.

First of all the recap writer is absolutely brilliant, but as the for wiki an alternative one for 9 rounds and 14 rounds would be useful. I'd like to put all the games on Mike's site on the wiki but all of them are either 9 or 14 rounds. Although the recap writer does work for this, sort of, for 14 rounds it's difficult because there are 4 numbers games and 2 conundrums. For 9 round games you can just miss some fields out then edit the round numbers, for 14-round games this doesn't work at all.

Secondly I can't get Countmax to work. I'm sure it's my fault and I'm doing something wrong, but all the same it's not working for me.

Martin

[Charlie Reams]

First of all the recap writer is absolutely brilliant, but as the for wiki an alternative one for 9 rounds and 14 rounds would be useful. I'd like to put all the games on Mike's site on the wiki but all of them are either 9 or 14 rounds. Although the recap writer does work for this, sort of, for 14 rounds it's difficult because there are 4 numbers games and 2 conundrums. For 9 round games you can just miss some fields out then edit the round numbers, for 14-round games this doesn't work at all.

Cheers for the compliment There actually is a "secret" 9 round mode, which for some reason is not linked to from anywhere - I'll resolve that. I'll add a 14 round mode some time too.

Secondly I can't get Countmax to work. I'm sure it's my fault and I'm doing something wrong, but all the same it's not working for me.

You'll need to provide more details. Which bit doesn't work?

[Martin Gardner]

You'll need to provide more details. Which bit doesn't work?

I can see how that would be helpful, yes!

On downloading and unzipping and then double clicking on the icon, I get :

"This application has failed to start because MFC71.DLL Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Which by the way it doesn't.

Oh wait I've just downloaded the dictionary so i don't actually need Countmax anymore, I can run it through Aide aux jeux de lettres. By the way, what exactly is the dictionary used by Countdownmax?

Martin

[Charlie Reams]

On downloading and unzipping and then double clicking on the icon, I get :

"This application has failed to start because MFC71.DLL Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

I can't believe the error message was quite that ungrammatical...