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- Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
Will be down for the next few hours most likely.
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 6:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Friday 16th October 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 73)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2297
Re: Friday 16th October 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 73)
I've edit this to correct the max, see http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6229 .
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 4:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 42426
Re: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
I'm okay with an imperfect answer, I'm sure we can get somewhere with a bit of stochastic hill climbing or some such. (I haven't tried this myself yet but it would make an interesting contest I reckon.) Hill climbing methods don't seem directly applicable here, since everything in sight is discrete...
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 96264
Re: How many countries have you been to?
It's counted as part of the UK I think.Michelle Nevitt wrote:also been to the Cayman Islands but it's not on the list so not sure what this falls under?
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:29 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 42426
Re: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
For the hardest, it might be something stupid like 11, 12, 13, 14 or even 100, 99, 98, 97. Yeah, I think 97-100 is a good shout. Charlie, I'll be able to answer that question restricted only to 4L picks in the next few days. Over all picks 6S to 4L, it seems to me to be intractable to get a complet...
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 96264
Re: How many countries have you been to?
I've been to the following: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Costa Rica Cyprus Denmark France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom (England, Scotland, and Wales) United States which puts me in the surprisingly popular 22 Cl...
- Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 42426
Re: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
Great topic, enjoyed reading all this!
Harder question: if one were designing a new variant, which four large numbers (in the range 11-100) make the game hardest (i.e. fewest games solvable) and which easiest (i.e. most games solvable)?
Harder question: if one were designing a new variant, which four large numbers (in the range 11-100) make the game hardest (i.e. fewest games solvable) and which easiest (i.e. most games solvable)?
- Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Records on the wiki
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6725
Re: Records on the wiki
Thanks for fixing this. If you're likely to leave pages under construction for a while, it might be useful to define a template saying so and use that everywhere. That also makes it easier for you to find the unfinished pages later.
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: It has officially been a year...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5801
Re: It has officially been a year...
I expect I'd be embarrassed by them now, but would definitely be curious to hear them again anyway. I can probably host them somewhere if you can get them to me.
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 2:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Wiki Spamming
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10302
Re: Wiki Spamming
Those are templates meant for inclusion on the front page, they aren't articles per se.
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: .co.mk - Countdown in Milton Keynes - Saturday 22nd August
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11075
Re: .co.mk - Countdown in Milton Keynes - Saturday 22nd August
The winner of this should be called the Co.mk Don.
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How much do you earn?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3206
How much do you earn?
People are always squeamish on this topic but I'm curious about it so hopefully a nice anonymised poll will bring out some facts. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the amount of income that appears on your tax return (or would do if you did one).
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:42 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 470863
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:52 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: New puzzle
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14591
Re: New puzzle
I notice they all have at least one anagram in some language according to apterous. Although for such short "words" that's probably not remotely surprising. Anyone have any idea how that might be significant?
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
None that I can recall. Oh come on, people are often going back a step ("7 x 100 is.... no wait, add the 5 to the 100 first" kind of thing) and provided they're pretty brisk in doing so, Rachel will allow them to continue. Draw it out as if you're clearly making it up on the fly, and she ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
I quite like the "impartiality" of the other rounds. Isn't it sort of partial that the letters distribution is very heavily weighted towards "nice" letters, providing a steep learning curve for lexonerds at the expense of everyone else? :o I'm not sure what would happen with a m...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 5:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Lance Armstrong and "doping" generally
- Replies: 121
- Views: 43216
Re: Lance Armstrong and "doping" generally
Don't have anything to add but I'm enjoying this thread. Lots of shit being chatted on this topic elsewhere.
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
Look at the amount of numbers games where people change their mind None that I can recall. People occasionally say "then add, sorry, subtract 7", but that's a completely different type of mistake to saying "now either add the 7, or is it subtract the 7?" and (at least for an NWD...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
Isn't it sort of partial that the letters distribution is very heavily weighted towards "nice" letters, providing a steep learning curve for lexonerds at the expense of everyone else?Gavin Chipper wrote:I quite like the "impartiality" of the other rounds.
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
(Not rules so much but just a general judgment question): If a nine came up in the letters round that you had planned to set as the conundrum, would you change it? Would it matter if either/both/neither contestant had got the nine?
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
I agree with Graeme. The "take the first answer" rule is so ubiquitous that it's often not even stated, so (since some rule has to be taken as the default) it makes sense to use that one. Then fix the rules for next time. If you clearly state "I have to take your first answer" th...
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:37 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
Quick update: it's a problem with our ISP, they're looking into it. Can't guarantee how long that will take; hopefully in the next few days we'll be back. Subscriptions will be extended accordingly.
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:02 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
Looks like our IP address got changed, even though I'm paying for that to not happen... While I chase this up, I've pointed apterous.org to the new address, so it should reappear in the next few hours (not necessarily at the same time for everyone).
- Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
C1 and C2 both declare the same target in a numbers round, both not written down. C2, who declares second, transcribes his method to Rachel, who accepts it. C1 says "I've done it the same way". As there is no way of proving this, C2 (playing devil's advocate) says that C1 may have cocked ...
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 9:32 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect Series 11
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8974
Re: Only Connect Series 11
I suspect James meant the Game Show subforum, to which I have just moved it. Enjoy!Jordan F wrote:A. There's a Game Show thread?James Robinson wrote:No idea, and why is this not in the Game Show thread??
B. I was used to there being a thread per series.
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 9:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Andy Murray feigning injury?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2191
- Sun Jun 21, 2015 11:28 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Quick cryptographical one
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5146
Re: Quick cryptographical one
Got it! Took me about 45 mins, would imagine others could solve it much faster.
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: FIFA Rankings..........
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1918
- Sun May 17, 2015 11:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167267
Re: You Are The Ref
Graeme, do you have any data on games where errors have been corrected during the game? You'll only find the one I've quoted in you happen to remember it or if you trawl through Mike Brown's scans. Sadly, in the mad rush to complete the historical recapping project, nuggets of information like this...
- Sun May 17, 2015 5:33 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
Fixed.Phil Collinge wrote:Down since just before midnight.
edit : just seen the news. Although still not back up as of now.
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:07 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect Series 10
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14918
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Problems with Java
- Replies: 25
- Views: 22098
Re: Problems with Java
I think this is now fixed.
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
It seems like our domain host is having some trouble, because the site still works fine if you go to it directly ( http://81.149.128.31/ ), and it works for some people in some places and not others. Unfortunately it's out of my hands and their website is also down so I can't check what they're doin...
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: We got upgraded!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5681
We got upgraded!
I updated our bulletin board software for the first time in... hmm, six and a half years as far as I can tell. There's so much new stuff since then that I don't even know where to start. Enjoy exploring the new features and please draw our attention to anything particularly cool or troublesome.
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754072
Re: Ask Graeme?
Slightly niche but I'm on the hunt for games which may be "forgotten classics". Could you tell us the game with the highest joint score in which neither contestant made the finals? (And, maybe better, highest joint maxes?) Top 20 by joint score in 15 rounders: EP TX DATE SCORE JOINT 5791 ...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754072
Re: Ask Graeme?
Slightly niche but I'm on the hunt for games which may be "forgotten classics". Could you tell us the game with the highest joint score in which neither contestant made the finals? (And, maybe better, highest joint maxes?)
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:50 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
You should see substantial improvement starting about now. Please let me know if not.
- Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
Several other people are playing so I don't think it's down.
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 716975
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Coming a bit late to this party but I'll do my best... At exactly what (faster-than-light) speed would you have to travel in order to escape a black hole? There's no speed fast enough, it's just not possible in the geometry of the universe. A very closely equivalent question, which is much easier to...
- Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:18 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Code puzzle
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4068
Re: Code puzzle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence with some tweaks.
- Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:40 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
Will be back this evening.
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754072
Re: Ask Graeme?
Discounting finals games, the seven-time winner with the highest losing margin is David Franks in this game (48). This game seems particularly worth highlighting. You might expect that the biggest defeat of a 7-time winner would come about from a few high-volatility rounds and some nines, but this ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:38 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 6:05 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Childbirth: The Crossword
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2778
Childbirth: The Crossword
I made this for my sister, who is about to qualify as a midwife, for her birthday. Since I know a handful of you are game for a tricky puzzle, I thought I'd share it with you. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who tries it whether you finished it or where you got stuck. https://www.dropbox.com/s...
- Thu May 29, 2014 3:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 470863
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who claim fraudulent credit card chargebacks for their apterous subscription, then continue playing.
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Coincidence
- Replies: 224
- Views: 88087
Re: Coincidence
If you enjoyed this thread, you might also enjoy this episode of This American Life.
- Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Generous odds on a female?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11541
Re: Generous odds on a female?
I emailed Mr Belmont but his reply made no sense at all. Something about protecting Transylvania from the forces of darkness? Certainly no mention of a world record.
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Generous odds on a female?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11541
Re: Generous odds on a female?
lolSteven M. McCann wrote:world record
- Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:47 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Game of the Year (GotY) 2013 - voting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5264
Re: Game of the Year (GotY) 2013 - voting
You could organise a PvP GotY if you wanted.
- Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Rachel To Be The New Susanna???
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1587
Re: Rachel To Be The New Susanna???
Well, she certainly would've done a better job of this feature. (I know that isn't Susanna Reid, but the point stands.)
- Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:52 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous World Cup 2014 - Announcement
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8504
Re: Apterous World Cup 2014 - Announcement
Is it fair to just do an unannounced first come, first served sign up? There's going to be more than 32 who want to play I would think - maybe I should allow all signups for a period and then randomly draw 32 from those? What's best? I think a random draw is fine, provided you do the draw far enoug...
- Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:47 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous World Cup 2014 - Announcement
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8504
Re: Apterous World Cup 2014 - Announcement
I agree with Matt insofar as it's his prerogative. Tournaments with far stranger rules regularly pass without comment.
Also the weird logic to do Extra Time and Penalties has been sitting idle in the code for the last four years so it'll be nice to see that in action again.
Also, in.
Also the weird logic to do Extra Time and Penalties has been sitting idle in the code for the last four years so it'll be nice to see that in action again.
Also, in.
- Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:18 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS.04
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7521
Re: aptoSOS.04
Any thoughts on switching to the new 15 format? I'm fairly indifferent but I suppose it seems logical.
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:15 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS.03
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6078
Re: aptoSOS.03
Nope, and I agree.Matt Morrison wrote:Is there any way of doing that without editing the opening post? Seems a bit messy.
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:00 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS.04
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7521
Re: aptoSOS.04
If anything I would look at a shorter time limit. In most cases people could've played faster than they did because they relied on running into their opponent rather than fixing a time. Provided you state the limit clearly at the start, no one can feel too aggrieved, and it's to the benefit of every...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird stuff that's happened to you
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10925
Re: Weird stuff that's happened to you
I can see that it's slightly weird that Sainsbury's should be next door to Tesco, and fairly weird that you have to visit two shops and seek a second opinion before buying a frozen pizza, but I'm a bit lost as to the weirdness of anything else. Maybe the role of the headphones means you have misrea...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:26 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird stuff that's happened to you
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10925
Re: Weird stuff that's happened to you
I was recently shopping for some dinner for me & Ms Hatred in Tesco, and since she was back at home, I took a photo of the available frozen pizzas and texted it to her to get her opinion. Just at that moment, I heard some shouting but I had headphones in and, this being north London, random publ...
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:33 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Easy odds puzzle
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10936
Re: Easy odds puzzle
Or Stirling's approximation for even better results.
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 382123
Re: Is Apterous down?
People are playing right now. Not sure what problem you're experiencing but it's not that the site is down.Anthony Endsor wrote:Looks like another Java problem, as the Java circle goes round but nothing happens when you log on.
Getting a bit fed up of this Java crap. Seems to be a problem with it every week now.
- Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: My Weekly Review Blog
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12663
Re: My Weekly Review Blog
I don't remember Punt and Antopolski doing "satire" about horrific violence against women.