This game was super exciting and fun to watch! Both Dan and Antoinette played great.
ELEGIACS in that one round, I think.
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- Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Grand Final Spoilers For Friday December 19th 2014
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7701
- Fri May 31, 2013 8:08 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 392266
Re: Is Apterous down?
I get my computer back from being repaired, decide to check whether my Java issues are solved, and what do I get? "Attempt 54 of 500…"
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:14 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointless Series 5
- Replies: 216
- Views: 42978
Re: Pointless Series 5
I'm saying that that was a silly thing to put on the list when they set the question -- I'm not surprised that only 4 people in the survey named "pantaloons", but it was a weird thing to choose as one of the 12 responses to put in the question, since you're rewarded with a very low score f...
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:39 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointless Series 5
- Replies: 216
- Views: 42978
Re: Pointless Series 5
Is there a rule on this show that you can't just give last names? Things like "Howard Webb" for "Robert Webb" seem to happen amusingly often on Pointless. If it were me I'd just say "I'll say that Mitchell's partner is Webb", but have they ever mentioned a Pointless-spe...
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday December 14th 2011
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8806
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday December 14th 2011
And with the 5 second gap when SLOPPED was declared, Carl didn't even look down at his notes. When you don't like a player it's all too easy to assume every hesitation to be evidence of foul play, even to the extent of supporting your prejudice with non-existent evidence as Giles has done. There ar...
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday December 15th 2011
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4107
Re: Spoilers For Thursday December 15th 2011
He forgot to mention that at the end they come across the statue of liberty and realise they are still on planet earth. Also the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. And that Jesus gets crucified in The Bible. What is the acceptable interval before one's allowed to discuss a plot twist publicly? (When w...
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday December 14th 2011
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8806
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday December 14th 2011
Hereby joining the rapidly growing chorus. I don't know you, Mark, as I haven't been on Apterous for about a year, but I remember watching your games in the summer, which were great…and let's just say there was no day I was hoping you would win more than today. He may not be liked on here, but you h...
- Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:25 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
My theory: if you get it at almost the same time as someone else and they're having lag, they might have gotten it before you did (and a message will therefore display), but it will appear under yours because of the lag.
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:58 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481385
Re: Feature requests
I don't know if this has been brought up already, and I apologize if it has been, but in the scoresheets for Goatdown, is it possible to show what the needed letter was for Metamax, or what word would be the metamax word? It would be nice. When Goatdown was first implemented we had a shortage of da...
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:26 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 3
- Replies: 58
- Views: 13424
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:25 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 2
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17582
- Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:25 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 1
- Replies: 89
- Views: 22028
- Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:12 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Round 1
- Replies: 89
- Views: 22028
- Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:28 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: The rather awesome thread of word creation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2532
Re: The rather awesome thread of word creation
There should be an equivalent to fewer for more, so we can have another thing to feel pedantically superior about. The fact that there isn't is one of the reasons that I argue that it's fine to use "less" instead of "fewer". The argument goes - "less" is just the oppos...
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Marc Meakin......mentally ill, or misunderstood?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6161
Re: Marc Meakin......mentally ill, or misunderstood?
There once was a man named Mark; Whose jokes were transported by Ark. Originally in Latin, So misshapen an' shat in, Humour leaves him in the dark. Just for the record, who makes you laugh. Btw it's Marc. Would have sent you a poem back but nothing decent rhymes with either david or O' Donnell alth...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:26 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
Is the Duel working at all today? Last night I saw in chat that someone had finished it, but he was ranked "#1 of 0" and it didn't show up on the home page. And at this point there are still no Duel rankings on the home page.
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:22 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Attention Ladies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4037
Re: Attention Ladies
Yeah, the top 25 people on Most Time Played are also male. (Although…I'm 27th. I end-round-early against Prune quite a lot, though.) Thought Supee (S J) was on this list. Oh, right. See, I don't know who anyone is, especially those who just go by initials. XD I wouldn't worry about having several f...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:26 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Attention Ladies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4037
Re: Attention Ladies
possibly a bit patronising IMHO This. However, if there were a bunch of different filters (like if you could set your age on your profile and see the ratings of people over/under/between certain ages, or if you could set your location and see where you stand among all the Americans, &c.), then ...
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:05 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Tournament sign-up
- Replies: 64
- Views: 13629
Re: Apterous Winter Tournament sign-up
I wrote:You wrote:Count me in for all of them.
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:07 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187184
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
TUBIST^ nearly lost me a game just now. Either it's more obscure than I thought or the world outside of the US has some special secret word for "tuba player" that I don't know. XD
- Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Times Crossword
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2370
Re: Times Crossword
AGOUTI was an answer in the LA Times Crossword the other day. I was amused.
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:16 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481385
Re: Feature requests
When I look on Statland I would love to see where I sit outside of the top ranks. To explain that better... If I look at, for example, "Statland: Most multitalented players" - I see the Top 30 but I have no idea where I rank, albeit I'm probably somewhere near the bottom. But if I could s...
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Palindromes
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4436
Re: Palindromes
Oh yeah, I forgot to count the "palindromes of length 1". Makes perfect sense now.
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Palindromes
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4436
Re: Palindromes
rF = (Sum of squares of lengths of palindromic sections)/(Number of palindromic sections) eg BANANA would score (1^2 + 5^2)/2 = 13. AGAMEMNON would score (3^2 + 3^2 + 3^2)/3 = 9. Unless I've understood something wrong, the rF for MIRIAM would also be 9. But intuitively, I wouldn't think it should s...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:28 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Foreign dictionary Apterous
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15585
Re: Foreign dictionary Apterous
Can we challenge foreign lexicons? In Dutch, I was very surprised to have BLAFJES disallowed. BLAF is bark (of a dog, etc.) and is both a verb and a noun. The diminutive of the noun is, naturally, BLAFJE. The plural is formed with -S as expected. Plenty of hits on google.nl and there's even a websi...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:13 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Good idea for a variant?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 39122
Re: Good idea for a variant?
So, would a certain rule then be adapted as "American words are OK, but American pronunciations are not?"
- Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:30 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187184
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
I'm really surprised that RATIONALS^ isn't in. Like the set of rational numbers. (If it were, I would have beaten my Goatdown Letters Attack PB by 12 points!)
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:26 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
Today's duel keeps saying that everyone who plays it is ranked "#1 out of 0"; won't let me view my own game (saying that you have to have played the duel to view it…which I have); and when I logged out and came back in, it gave me the challenge for it again.
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: American English
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2920
Re: American English
Like, totally.Peter Mabey wrote:AbsolutelyGeorge F. Jenkins wrote: Has the word YES disappeared from our spoken vocabulary. All I hear on television is YEAH, which is American, and possibly came from the German word JA.
- Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:56 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: American English
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2920
Re: American English
In high school, I knew some people who would use "bloody" as an intensifier, because it was British and therefore cool (in contexts where they wouldn't use more obscene intensifiers). It's not considered nearly as bad a word here as I've been told it is in the UK. I also hear people saying...
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:54 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
The English wordlist gets modified/updated, right? Could one do the same with the Finnish one to put personal pronouns and things in?If you can find a better one, I'll happily use that.
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:20 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
As awesome as it is to be able to play Apterous in Finnish, it gets a bit frustrating when common words like minä 'I', te 'y'all', talo 'house', sain 'I received', &c. are missing from the dictionary… Also, inflections – nominative singular AINE 'subject' is in, but nominative plural AINEET^ is ...
- Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:20 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Frustration
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23973
Re: Frustration
I've been trying to beat my Hyper Unlimited Letters Attack score of 208 for a while now…now that I've gotten better at spotting 11's and learned some things that can and can't be -NESSES, I can get pretty close to the average of ~10.5 per round that I would need to beat it. Then, this : after the fi...
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Le thème C4C français
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4556
Re: Le thème C4C français
I was trying to say "If only I had a second native language! Monolingualism is infinitely boring…especially if one only knows English" (i.e., as I do). (Mostly just for the sake of making a semi-on-topic post in the French thread but in Finnish. )
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Le thème C4C français
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4556
Re: Le thème C4C français
Kunpa minulla olisi toinen äidinkieli! Yksikielisyys on äärrettömän tylsää…varsinkin jos vain osaa englantia…
Sorry, wrong 'F' language.
Sorry, wrong 'F' language.
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:23 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481385
Re: Feature requests
Most of the guys on apterous nowadays, how many do their own laundry, cooking, shopping, work, make their own beds, parent etc ? Some of them are up until 4am. Probably true, but for what it's worth, 4 AM is 11 PM my time and I get the impression that many or most of the (rather few) other people w...
- Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:27 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Favourite Numbers Selection
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1931
Re: Favourite Numbers Selection
I can't decide between "I hate 6 small" and "I hate 3 large".
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:01 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187184
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
I would have beaten my Junior Unlimited personal best just now if I'd declared PEEWEE or even WEEP instead of BEWEEP^. >>;
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:13 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
In unlimited, seeing as the conundrums are the same as normal games, shouldn't you be awarded pieces of talc, gypsum etc when you buzz in and get them right? Not sure if this applies to any other variant as I can't be arsed to check them all, but its probably just unlimited This made me wonder why ...
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:51 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
Conundrums aren't working – if I type something in the box, it lets me type but doesn't register a buzz (so I'll have the answer all typed in, but time will run out without the game acknowledging that I buzzed). I also tried clicking on the letter, which worked as far as buzzing goes, but the time l...
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:31 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Playing apterous in real life
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5129
Re: Playing apterous in real life
At work recently someone (probably me) wondered aloud what was the longest word that's also a valid hexadecimal number (i.e. uses only the letters A-F). Similarly, words that consist entirely of the letters A through G (so that they can be spelled with musical notes). The best I've ever come up wit...
- Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:49 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: The pencil thread
- Replies: 72
- Views: 12175
Re: The pencil thread
Speaking of Welsh words, I'm rather proud of this one . Dictionary Corner gave it to me earlier tonight, and I was like "how could I have missed that, it's just FOISTED". Eight games and two new personal bests later, I started having the worst lag I've ever experienced on Apterous, ever, a...
- Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:46 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 63592
Re: Official thread of scrag
I recognised the jumble immediately then spent 30 seconds failing to remember what it unscrambled to. I used to have a Stickie on my old computer with a whole list of conundrums I came up with…one of them was DEAR SHAPE / SPEARHEAD. Then one time I actually had it in a game…I forget what the scramb...
- Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:38 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: COC14 Petition
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7880
Re: COC14 Petition
OK.Robert Baxter wrote:Back to topic.....
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:30 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
On the Apterous news feed, if your gender is set to "female", you "celebrate her X-hundredth win" but "comment on his game with Y"/"Z's game with him". (E.g., on Jayne Wisniewski's page; I've seen it on mine before, too.)
- Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:51 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: COC14 Petition
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7880
Re: COC14 Petition
Apparently the joke is that the epenthetic /t/ between the /n/ and the /s/ can be mistaken for a "real" /t/ with some affrication (I've definitely seen contestants on the show who speak dialects that have this feature), and the reduced vowels /ɨ/ and /ə/ sound pretty similar. Linguistic fi...
- Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:33 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187184
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
LENITION is in but not FORTITION^.
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:48 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Classic Aptochat moments
- Replies: 222
- Views: 178755
Re: Classic Aptochat moments
More like a "copper-tone" pencil, amirite?Kirk Bevins wrote:2010-07-15 18:59:47 Scott Phillips got a bronze pencil for SUNBATHING!
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:14 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481385
Re: Feature requests
Or pick either one consonant or one vowel, like that one pair of duels the other week.Kai Laddiman wrote:I think more could be made of the Nasty variant. Maybe, in letters rounds, you only need at least 1 consonant and 1 vowel. And I think it should become an official format (together with Nastynums and Nastycons).
- Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:22 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187184
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
On the flip side, I'm surprised that WYSIWYG is in.
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:04 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
- Replies: 114
- Views: 68782
Re: You know you're playing too much apterous when
…you read the following in the bug reports thread:
and immediately think "SPORULATE"Andrew Feist wrote:ClientGame624 [CXPLAY]: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Character cannot be cast to [Lapterous.game.RoundSummary;
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:57 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Max Game Moment: What Would You Do?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4657
Re: Max Game Moment: What Would You Do?
Somewhat related, what if your opponent typoes the conundrum? If you wouldn't have known it or spotted it, then it wouldn't be very nice to steal it, especially if it's crucial. But what if they typed in OSURDOUGH or something and you had SOURD in before it told you that they'd buzzed at all (in whi...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:56 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
For some reason I can't start games – I tried to challenge Prune to a custom game to practise for the Duel (never played Goatblind before and wanted to see what it was like beforehand), and the window didn't pop up. There was a teaser going on and I tried to answer it, but nothing showed up in the c...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:19 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 481385
Re: Feature requests
Then you wouldn't know if you had a typo until it was time to declare it…not that that hasn't happened to me anyway…Michael Wallace wrote:Is it impossible to, say, make the text you use for noting words white?
- Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:51 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Good idea for a variant?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 39122
Re: Good idea for a variant?
Dreidel scoring?Andy Wilson wrote:you get a point for winning the round, but if the round is drawn, no one gets that point until the next round has been won
- Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:37 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Summer Open 2010 Week 5
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6442
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:27 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Frustration
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23973
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: The pencil thread
- Replies: 72
- Views: 12175
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:14 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Summer Open 2010 Week 1
- Replies: 69
- Views: 9849
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:25 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 499216
Re: Bug reports
As awesome as it is to have an ambulance in my inventory, I shouldn't have gotten one after this round. I seem to remember reading about someone having this happen a while ago…so it's still happening.