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Apterous Prune's 0-136 game with Lloyd Pettet received a nomination for Game of the Week. 13 minutes ago.- Apterous Prune's 0-136 game with Lloyd Pettet received a nomination for Game of the Week. 46 minutes ago.
Kirk Bevins commented on his game with Jeremy Bentham. 1 hour ago.- Apterous PruneE's 0-136 game with Lloyd PettetE received a nomination for Game of the Week. 1 hour ago.
- Charlie Reams commented on Apterous Prune's game with Lloyd Pettet. 1 hour ago.
- Apterous PruneE's 0-136 game with Lloyd PettetE received a nomination for Game of the Week. 1 hour ago.
- Apterous Prune's 0-170 game with Paul Howe received a nomination for Game of the Week. 1 hour ago.
- Matt Morrison commented on Apterous Prune's game with Paul Howe. 1 hour ago.
- Apterous Prune's 0-170 game with Paul Howe received a nomination for Game of the Week. 1 hour ago.
- Matt Morrison commented on Dave Mattingly's game with Jayne Wisniewski. 1 hour ago.
Jeremy Bentham beat Chris Davies 84-78, overturning a 614-point rating gap! 1 hour ago.- Adrian Smith commented on his game with Mark James. 1 hour ago.
- Kirk Bevins commented on Dave Mattingly's game with Jayne Wisniewski. 1 hour ago.
Chris Reid played her first game. 2 hours ago.- Adam Gillard commented on his game with Apterous Prune. 2 hours ago.
- Adam Gillard's 6-0 game with Apterous Prune received a nomination for Game of the Week. 3 hours ago.
- Matt Morrison commented on Adam Gillard's game with Apterous Prune. 3 hours ago.
- Adam Gillard commented on his game with Apterous Prune. 3 hours ago.
- Adam Gillard's 6-0 game with Apterous Prune received a nomination for Game of the Week. 3 hours ago.
- Cillian McMulkin commented on Adam Gillard's game with Apterous Prune. 3 hours ago.
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News
10 March 2010
- New: Most time played (thanks Raccoon).
9 March 2010
- Improved: Mousing over the position trackers on Pro Ranks now shows last week's position.
- Improved: Minor tweak to Pro Ranks, some players may have gained or lost a few points.
8 March 2010
- News: The Pro Ranks have been updated, and our top player Kirk Bevins is still on the brink of that elusive 2000-point barrier. Could this week be his week?
7 March 2010
- News: Thanks for all your feedback following the launch of Top Dog. The contest starts in earnest today!
- New: Mr Dog now gives you a score for your performance. Who knows where this may lead?
- Improved: Word notes box now has a flag to remind you what language you're playing in (thanks Simon and Alec).
- Improved: Top Dog nines are now announced in chat (thanks Kirk).
- Improved: Mr Dog now makes it really very clear that the time goes down with each successive round.
- Fixed: Top Dog games should now give you (mostly) the same items as normal games (thanks Kirk).
- Fixed: Aborted Top Dog games no longer count towards your daily quota.
- Fixed: Out-of-credits message for Top Dog now correctly says "daily" rather than "weekly".
- Fixed: Mr Dog now longer gives you more time after Round 20.
- Fixed: Long-standing bug fixed: Final Goatundrum letter now comes up where the line shows.
- Fixed: Conundrums work again (thanks everyone).
- Fixed: Flags now pop correctly for everyone (thanks Andrew).
6 March 2010
- New: Statland: Top multilingual players (thanks Matthew Tassier).
- New: Who's Top Dog?
- Improved: New font because I felt like it, thanks.
- Improved: Compact game view for Duel and Top Dog games.
4 March 2010
- New: Pro Ranks Superstats.
- Improved: The Pro Ranks have been updated, with a more robust algorithm. They should be fairly stable from now on.
- Improved: Historical Pro Ranks data can now be browsed. As you can see, our current leader has been there since August 2009!
- Improved: Pro Ranks now shows your position explicitly if you're not in the top 25 (thanks Ian Volante).
3 March 2010
- Fixed: Classic Games no longer duplicate the round if you get disconnected during the time (thanks Eoin).
- Fixed: Superstats Pencils list now puts umlauted words in the correct place by length (thanks Matt Bayfield).
2 March 2010
- News: Server may be a little slow for the next hour as we perform various software updates.
- Fixed: User nines table now handles umlauted characters correctly (thanks Matt Bayfield).
- Fixed: Lexplorer now correctly searches for umlauted words (thanks Matt "Umlaut" Bayfield).
- Fixed: Lexplorer's Wikipedia links are now correct for words starting with non-English characters.
28 February 2010
- New: Apterous Pro Ranks.
25 February 2010
- Improved: Games must now receive at least two nominations to be candidates for Game of the Week.
24 February 2010
- Fixed: Superstats: Unique Words now has correct length breakdowns (thanks Kai).
16 February 2010
- Fixed: Two different pencils in the same round are now shown separately in Latest Pencils (thanks Eoin).
15 February 2010
- Fixed: Email notification pester now disappears if you click No (thanks Adam).
14 February 2010
- Fixed: And you will know the Classic Players by their trail of [C]s (thanks Kirk).
13 February 2010
- Improved: Classic Games window restructured with more information.
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