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Just crossed the 20K downloads mark

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James Robinson wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:22 pm Harbottle Suite

Excellent name for a room to host a countdown event in.

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OK thanks. It seems strange that you'd have two sources of conundrums, one up to date and one not, though. I agree. This is mostly stemming from the fact that that game supports full offline functionality. Oh right. Got it. Maybe I should play it more and I'd know. Maybe you will get game 100000 an...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 4:31 pm OK thanks. It seems strange that you'd have two sources of conundrums, one up to date and one not, though.

I agree. This is mostly stemming from the fact that that game supports full offline functionality.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 10:42 am What do you mean by an external source? Where's it getting them from?

The backend.

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Today will be the day we hit 100000 games on the app!

I'll give out a prize to whoever gets game 100000 if it's a 15 rounder scoring over 100

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Version 1.64 is out today. Unfortunately there was an issue introduced in 1.63 with numbers targets being repeated. Turns out the root cause of this is an actual bug in the Android Source code 😱. In spite of JetBrains best efforts to ruin the numbers game I have found a workaround and targets should...

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So this is if the dictionary update happens on the same day as that conundrum rendering a valid conundrum invalid? There are two types of Conundrum in the app: - Provided by an external source. For example the daily challenge gives all rounds from the backend. - Random. For example when you play a ...

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Looking at the first of today's daily challenges (the one with 8 conundrums), by clicking through to people's games on the leaderboard everyone seems to have been given a different conundrum in round 4. Why is this? 🧐🧐🧐🧐 I added a fallback to generate a random conundrum in the app in the event the ...

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FWIW, have never really been in favour of people making multiple appearances. Would be far more interested in seeing new talent performing under the spotlight. Personally, would find it a tad inconsiderate towards others presumably eagerly awaiting to make the first appearance. Very easy to say if ...

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Another interesting one from the weekend: A player declared a word in one game, but misspelled it so got no points. The next game the same word turned up in a selection (though this time the singular rather than plural). The player declared it, and stated that they'd checked with the previous game ...

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Player 1 buzzes Player 2 buzzes just (but very clearly) after and says the word. Player 1 says they had the word and they're reputable. Do you: Allow Player 1 to have the conundrum Use another conundrum Happened at Lincoln twice from what I gather. One game allowed Player 1 to have it. One game had...

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Great weekend! Thanks to Ben for organizing, and well done to Conor and Tim D, both thoroughly deserving winners.

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There's a preview of fun mode on today and tomorrow. This mode aims to have simplifications to make the standard game more accessible to new and beginner players. Numbers: Most of the time the target is easier Letters: When you hit "Save" button you get told whether your word is valid or n...

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Until there's an account on there of what actually happened at Co:MK I've been telling everybody that Rob Foster only dropped 5 points during the whole day. Obviously this is a lie.

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got a 16 today that was easier than the 100% 14! Also it's disappointing to see the share content only shows 100% even when you beat it - am now wondering how many 100%s above are actually higher. Nice. Be sure to give the app a try. It's not my finest work, but I am still currently the _only_ resu...

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JackHurst wrote: ↑Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:44 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote:Wow. You really need to get a life.
Still applies.

Haven't actually scrolled up to see why I was slagging off Gevin, but just for the laughs: Still applies 9 years later.

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People haven't really been talking up James Haughton too much but he would be the number 3 seed... Agree completely with people underplaying James. I disagree with your obsession to try and put seedings on to things all the time just by adding points scored together 😂 . The situations of games vary...

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Ahmed and James the two standout player of the competition and they didn't fail to deliver. Great Job guys. Commiserations to James, but big congrats to Ahmed so proud of you man. :) Conundrums have been exquisite and they are in the end what proved Ahmed to be on the next level. Was also not a huge...

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Brilliant game. Dan was superb but Ahmed held his nerve and produced the goods on the conundrum. Conundrum difficulty has got a little bit less crazy since Chatoyant. I actually sent POPLITEAL as a con to Ahmed on WhatsApp this Monday. Thankfully he just answered it without giving me any spoilers 😂 ...

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This was a great match. I rate James and Adam both highly as players who perform at their best under pressure, so it was a treat to see them go head to head and put on a high quality and close show. Nice one lads

Adam must be the most successful player to never get a 9.

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Surely with words such as DOUGLAS, GIAOURS (and other derogatory terms), it is best to let the players declare them, actually televise them and let Susie explain why they are derogatory. This would serve an educational purpose and, in my view, would be better than just editing the words out. I'm so...

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Surely with words such as DOUGLAS, GIAOURS (and other derogatory terms), it is best to let the players declare them, actually televise them and let Susie explain why they are derogatory. This would serve an educational purpose and, in my view, would be better than just editing the words out. I'm so...

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Well Done Ahmed for a stunning performance today. Brilliant to beat Luke by the margin he did. It was a great performance by Luke too and I think against any other player without the pressure he's not making those mistakes on the numbers and winning the game.

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Countdown Team wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:49 pm Also, i get married in April, so i'll need to keep working to help towards the plastic surgery bills.

TTT
FACTFILE : Stare at the elevator, it makes you look better.

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Nice work! Congrats on your first max game. Hopefully first of many

Good work keeping it together to spot the tricky Darren in Rd 13

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:09 amBut I predict Sam and Elliott to go through anyway.

This aged well.

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When two players are at the top of their game, tactics become futile - there’s so little you can do other than play the best you can. Yeah it an interesting argument. However you could also argue if two top players are playing you know it will be close so it could be tactics that makes the differen...

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What a game. Solid performance from Dan there today. Commiserations to Elliott. The 2 QF conundrums are a step up in difficulty from the 8 R16 conundrums so far. As Graeme said, Dan did the right thing to approach it like a 14r game. Never really understood Elliott's obsession with 5 vowels. It tend...

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Great win for Florence. What a game!

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So you'd say Ahmed is god tier but not Elliott? Ahmed's word knowledge is god tier. I think for a long time WTF have been the three players clearly ahead of everybody else, but since he came back Ahmed has managed to start knocking on the door too. Elliott will get to God Tier if he wants to, he's ...

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The pressure was completely off for the final numbers game, so it didn't matter so it doesn't really matter, but 925 from the 4 larges and the 1 can be an instasolve if you play enough 4 large and practise the tricks.

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Good win for Sam. This game had some really tricky rounds so he did well to control the game like he did. The r9 numbers solve was a great spot under the pressure.

Can't believe we're going to have a husband and wife playing in the QFs of a Countdown C of C!

FORASTERO yet another juicy con.

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Great win for Dan! TAWDRIER and LETTIGAS both quality spots.

Another great conundrum in this episode too!

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I think Rachel may be right when she said the Championship of Champions Winner may come from the third Quarter-Final next Monday, both Ahmed and Luke have strong potential apart and of course, we'll know the answer either by next Thursday or Friday. I thought it was a bit harsh on the rest of them ...

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Never take it for granted that you will get another go. You set yourself up to be very disappointed after a long long time of anticipating getting back on. It's completely up to the discretion of the team and there are so many factors at play. It's like applying for jobs. Best applicants don't alway...

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Cracking episode! Commiserations to Tom. Great win for Adam - he outplayed by Adam on the day both in terms of performance and tactics.

Nice Conundrum.

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What a performance from Ahmed!

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If you update to version 1.62 there's a new mode which lets you try a different game mode each day. Today's is Jokerdown letters.

From the game setup screen choose mash up on the left menu.

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Great work from Elliott today.

Can't wait to see if tomorrow's conundrum is:

ADAGIETTO

Though I doubt it. Damian knows the game and the players well enough to know that he can get away with two in a row, but if you go further then players spot the pattern and have a good go at second guessing...

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Absolutely love a tough conundrum, that was a great one. I reckon about 5 or 6 of the players in that c of c would have solved it which feels like an appropriate level of difficulty. FWIW I have a personal list of around 1000 conundrums which are not on Apterous but are the most common words in the ...

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For those who want to play this game more than once per day and who have an Android phone, I made an app! I made my own twist to the scoring system so there's a focus on using a variety of different letters of the alphabet. It currently has 20 levels and is overall very basic, but I hope a few of yo...

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🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #7

Length Score: 100%

Rare long word found!

Letter Score: 29

Play Wordiply: https://www.wordiply.com

Today's starter: 🄱🄰🄲🄺

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Low point for me was generally every time I tried to slice a malt loaf for breakfast. They seem to have air bubbles in them and it makes them impossible to slice nicely.

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I sincerely hope you all had a good year and that you have a good Christmas and new year. I know that Christmas is a different experience for different people and can be challenging for some. Let's all just agree that anagrams are the best. Number are ok too. What was your high of 2022? And (If you ...

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Appears to happen to me roughly 1/10 times a log in. Thought I was going mad the first couple of times it happened.

Surely this is a fuck up so bad by the hosting provider we can get a free year from them or something...

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Pass and play is what I think you mean. I'll have a think about how that would work, and where to prioritize it. Full blown multiplayer isn't something that I'm close to supporting yet, but would love to have. The problem with this is then I have to deal with cheating and I can see it being a huge t...

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... They even gave the show an extra Saturday slot for 8 weeks... I had forgotten about the Saturday slot. That's a great achievement. Thinking about how TV scheduling works, I suspect this was down to "We need to fill 45 mins on Saturday for 8 weeks with something cheap and reliable" rat...

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This sounds like quite a superficial analysis though. What were their total scores? Unfortunately the games from the day don't seem to have been published anywhere so I couldn't say. Edit 2 - But yeah, three games isn't very many to commit you into a group. Don't forget all of the first three round...

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Why do Train strikes only seem to happen on the same days as Co-Events

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RIP David. Thoughts with his family.

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Get a haircut

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Fastest conundrum solve? Adam G unscrambled ALLIGATOR in 100ms Person who's declared the most nines? 579 - Joshuorgz 434 - SNATCH-IT! 395 - Joshuorgz (he must have got a new phones at some point) How many nines have been declared on the app overall? Who's won the most Daily Challenges? 9165 Who's w...

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Sam Prouse: Played 6 won 3 Eeshan Malhotra: Played 6 won 3 Both players got all 3 of their Losses vs players in the top 7 and all of their wins vs players not in the top 7. End of the day Sam: 8th Place, 680 Focal points Eeshan: 17th Place 320 Focal points So for a roughly equivalent performance fro...

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For a few days there will be 2 daily challenges per day. I'll be keeping a close eye on how it affects the overall daily usage stats.

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Count me in. Looking forward to this format!

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What's the biggest points difference between two Octochamps A and B where A got a higher octo total than B, but B had a better % of available points scored in their octo run?

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The way I designed the backend isn't really coping with the amount of data we now have. I need to redesign it but this will take some time. In the mean time, the safest thing to do is not to restore the old data. That data is there backed up, but I will wait until I have re-architected the backend b...

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3 goat picks in a game isn't enough

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What do people think about groups of players conspiring against another? For example "James I will give you 3 brick and 3 wood for one ore so you can build three roads and take the longest road away from Bob" Feels like a perfectly legitimate and fair thing to do in some circumstances. Whe...

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