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Happenings
The Duellist's 0-15 game with Hugh Binnie received a nomination for Game of the Week. 36 minutes ago.
Matthew Tassier celebrated his 1000th win! 2 hours ago.- Jason Larsen's 53-51 game with Ally Macleod received a nomination for Game of the Week. 3 hours ago.
Eoin Monaghan commented on Jason Larsen's game with Ally Macleod. 3 hours ago.- Jason Larsen's 53-51 game with Ally Macleod received a nomination for Game of the Week. 3 hours ago.
- Jason Larsen's 53-51 game with Ally Macleod received a nomination for Game of the Week. 4 hours ago.
- Miriam Nussbaum celebrated her 1000th win! 7 hours ago.
- Ronan Kilduff celebrated his 400th win! 10 hours ago.
- Kirk Bevins commented on The Duellist's game with him. 10 hours ago.
- Jason LarsenE's 53-51 game with Ally MacleodE received a nomination for Game of the Week. 11 hours ago.
- Kirk Bevins's 121-50 game with Keith Williams received a nomination for Game of the Week. 13 hours ago.
The Daily Duel was won by Simon Myers, Hugh Binnie, Kirk Bevins, Richard Priest, Matthew Tassier, Josh Hurst, Dinos Sfyris and Ryan Taylor with a score of 9 from 10. 13 hours ago.- Adam Gillard commented on Matt Bayfield's game with Apterous Sponge. 14 hours ago.
Jason Larsen beat Ally Macleod 53-51, overturning a 710-point rating gap! 14 hours ago.- Ryan Taylor beat Innis Carson 117-115, overturning a 488-point rating gap! 16 hours ago.
- Hugh Binnie celebrated his 1900th win! 16 hours ago.
Callum Costello tied the high score for Junior Numbers Attack with a score of 200. 17 hours ago.- Hugh Binnie commented on The Duellist's game with Kirk Bevins. 17 hours ago.
- Innis Carson celebrated his 7300th win! 17 hours ago.
- Shaun Hegarty commented on Dale Levell's game with Apterous Prune. 18 hours ago.
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.
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News
29 July 2010
- News: New user registration is briefly unavailable, should be back within 24 hours.
22 July 2010
- New: All items now have ranking pages in Statland, which also appear in the Glory Roll. Currently a bit of a mess but the info is there.
- New: Users can now comment on the weekly ProRanks.
- Improved: For conundrum attacks, an extra column in the recap now shows the hardness of each conundrum (thanks Matt). Remember you can always see the hardness of an individual conundrum in any recap by hovering your mouse over it.
- Improved: The explanation of the conundrum difficulty balancer has been updated to reflect the current system.
- Improved: A couple of missed Statland pages have been added to the Glory Roll.
- Improved: Scoring for Aegilops and Omelette is now step-down from the max rather than from the target (thanks Matt et al).
- Fixed: Chat no longer announces that players got pencils for Classic Games when they didn't (thanks Andrew Feist).
- Fixed: German Lexicon is working again.
- Fixed: Some broken partial games have been deleted, releasing a small number of common pencils. Finders keepers!
21 July 2010
- New: New statland section, Pencilvania!
- New: Every user now has a Glory Roll, showing all the leaderboards on which they appear. (To see another user's Glory Roll, follow the link from their user page.) This has required significant work on every Statland page so please report any bugs.
18 July 2010
- News: Congratulations to Joe Denniss, whose Unlimited 15 score of 142 is now the longest standing record in apterous history, at 495 days... and counting!
16 July 2010
- Improved: Duel Standings now show players who've completed all duels this month in bold.
11 July 2010
- Fixed: Latest Pencils is back from holiday (thanks Raccoon).
10 July 2010
- News: New version of Java is available today; please download it if it's offered to you (thanks Matt).
7 July 2010
- News: There may be some disruption this morning. Caveat emptor.
- News: The Recommend A Friend special discount offer has been extended indefinitely, since it's kinda cool.
- Fixed: User nine lists now correctly include Goatblind, Touchdown, Nastynums and Dogfight (thanks James Doohan).
- Fixed: Various non-English conundrums that weren't working are now working again (thanks Karen Pearson and Anglo-Italian).
6 July 2010
- New: Marathon Jerseys have been awarded. Congrats to those who received them.
4 July 2010
- News: Thanks to everyone who took part in yesterday's Marathon. You solved 13660 conundrums in 24 hours! Congrats to our winner, Mr Kirk Bevins, with an apt score of 2010. Prizes, stats and final placings will appear later in the day.
- New: The final Marathon Leader Board and list of jersey winners is now up.
- New: Pencils are now announced in chat.
3 July 2010
- New: It's only the bloody apterous Marathon!
2 July 2010
- New: Your PB, and your opponent's, in the relevant format is now shown at the start of each game.
- New: Muting someone in chat now hides their challenges and website comments, and secretly deposits their aptomail into the great Recycle Bin in the sky.
1 July 2010
- News: We've had some disruption today and some unfinished games were lost, apologies.
- New: Apterous Prune now makes the same numbers picks as you did in the previous round, making it easier to practise 6 small etc. (thanks Raccoon).
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