A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/
Correct. This has been discussed before.Frank Rodolf wrote:I guess it got in because it's listed as a plural noun, so there is no singular (at least, according to the ODE).Joseph Bolas wrote:I think this is the right place to post this, but I've just played a 9-round game and the conundrum was DATACOMMS, which is a plural
I beat Prune in a game the other day and nothing was said in the chat window.Paul Howe wrote:Just had some more speedgoats with prime and again my losses were reported and not my wins. I may try some different games with bots and see if it's a wider problem.Charlie Reams wrote:Humm. Seems unlikely. Was anyone else online at the time?I may be imagining this, but it seems my speedgoat results vs apterous prime only get announced in chat when I lose
It's because you're a cunt.Kirk Bevins wrote:I like the new bold typeface on reviews for maximums - however, I got a maximum in round 13 but not sure why it's not in bold.
Thanks for that - I was looking forward to a sensible explanation actually.Charlie Reams wrote:
It's because you're a cunt.
I have this problem as well.Lee Simmonds wrote:Not sure why but this morning when I went in there were no robots available to play and no daily duel. I was not able to play a classic game either - Is this a continuation of the problems that you mentioned Charlie, that might occur for a couple of days?
Me too.Oliver Garner wrote:I have this problem as well.Lee Simmonds wrote:Not sure why but this morning when I went in there were no robots available to play and no daily duel.
Thanks for that!Gavin Chipper wrote:In the numbers games, you can click on a number and then click it back up and down again and keep doing that indefinitely to stall for time. I don't think you can do it when all six numbers are up, but as soon as you've done one calculation, I think it lets you do that.
I should have put it in the hints and tips section.Kai Laddiman wrote:Thanks for that!Gavin Chipper wrote:In the numbers games, you can click on a number and then click it back up and down again and keep doing that indefinitely to stall for time. I don't think you can do it when all six numbers are up, but as soon as you've done one calculation, I think it lets you do that.
I think this is fixed now, but someone will need to get a record to test it.Kirk Bevins wrote:Not really a bug as such but the bold typeface for new records (usually you can tell on the high scores page if a record has been broken that day as today's date is in bold) is no longer there.
This is because Charlie doesn't want people to close the daily duel down mid-round, reload the duel and then replay the same round having well more than 30 seconds to look at it. With other types of games, if you crash mid-round and reload it the round is replayed but with different letters. The duel, however, has to have the same letters.Clare Sudbery wrote:When I'm doign Dily Duel and the pop-up window freezes and stops displaying contents (at which point everything else hangs too), if I close everything down and go back in, my daily duel has disappeared from Games In Progress. This doesn't seem to happen with other types of game.
Are you on the Java v.11? That causes problems like that. Using v7 seems to eliminate any freezes for me.Clare Sudbery wrote:P.S. IE7, Windows XP Professional.
The one with the exclamation marks on the top right? You want to get rid of that. Use update 7. I had to uninstall update 11 and put on update 7 to get it to work freely.Clare Sudbery wrote:Java v6, update 11
Judging by the absence of games played lately (except by me, and I have Magic Powers), I'd guess I've made a boo-boo. There's not much I can do about it until I get home this evening. In the mean time I suggest no one attempts to play the Duel, because you won't be able to declare.Phil Reynolds wrote:Anyone else having problems at the moment? I had to quit the Duel because it froze after I declared in Round 1. Then tried playing a bot and exactly the same thing happened.
D'oh! Too late.Charlie Reams wrote:In the mean time I suggest no one attempts to play the Duel, because you won't be able to declare.
Sshhh. You normally just PM these kind of details to the cliqueCharlie Reams wrote:In the mean time I suggest no one attempts to play the Duel, because you won't be able to declare.
If you click on Today's Games you'll see nobody has been able to play since 6:55 am, so your computer's probably fineClare Sudbery wrote:I can't even get in. After clicking Play on apterous.org I'm getting "Login failed: Java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect"
I thought maybe it was cos I did as suggested and uninstalled Java Update 11, but maybe not?
Will leave it until I get further word.
I've had this before. Lots.Paul Howe wrote:Not really a bug as such, but my clock definitely goes round too slowly. Having done some timing this evening I get about 12 seconds in speed rounds. Strangely I tried on two comps and they were both slow by the same amount.
Yeah. I've never got to the bottom of this. Does the clock go round smoothly but slower, or does it stall at some point?Paul Howe wrote:Not really a bug as such, but my clock definitely goes round too slowly. Having done some timing this evening I get about 12 seconds in speed rounds. Strangely I tried on two comps and they were both slow by the same amount.
Aside from having slightly longer to think, it also means I sometimes get 10 points for buzzing after the final letter of a goatundrum has been revealed.
This bug is basically your fault, I made the solution times normally distributed at your suggestion. Therefore I'm not fixing it.Which reminds me that the timing of the bots (apterous prime anyway) on goatundrums could use some tweaking. At the moment it either takes 1.5-3s or doesn't get it at all, so you know you can relax a bit after 3s. Having another window in 11-13s when the bot has a high chance of buzzing would add realism.
I think the best way to describe it would be jittery, it goes round smoothly for a bit, before stalling very (almos imperceptibly) briefly before continuing. I think I get about 10-15 such jitters in a typical speed round.Charlie Reams wrote:
Yeah. I've never got to the bottom of this. Does the clock go round smoothly but slower, or does it stall at some point?
PM me your Java console.Clare Sudbery wrote:chat not working:
"Thread-12 [Initialise chat pane]: java.lang.NullPointerException"
Oh baby.Charlie Reams wrote:Clare Sudbery wrote:PM me your Java console.
Ooh - both problems appear to have been quickly, quietly and efficiently fixed. Charlie, thank you for being so quick, quiet and efficient. Any time you want sexual favours, just say the word. (I'm neither particularly efficient nor quiet, but I am quick.)Phil Reynolds wrote:The Conundrum window seems to have a maximum height and no scroll bar [and] the Done button in the Conundrum window doesn't let you press it using the space bar
I'm afraid you just joined the end of a long queue.Phil Reynolds wrote:Ooh - both problems appear to have been quickly, quietly and efficiently fixed. Charlie, thank you for being so quick, quiet and efficient. Any time you want sexual favours, just say the word. (I'm neither particularly efficient nor quiet, but I am quick.)Phil Reynolds wrote:The Conundrum window seems to have a maximum height and no scroll bar [and] the Done button in the Conundrum window doesn't let you press it using the space bar
As the phrase has it: "Behind every great man there's a queue".Charlie Reams wrote:I'm afraid you just joined the end of a long queue.
All the time, literally. Takes like about 50 refreshes to let me in and then every so often I won't be able to challenge someone and people said that I didn't appear on the list. When I close that window down and try to click "play" again, I get the "connection reset" message.Joseph Bolas wrote:Does anyone else get any of the following messages when they try to log into Apterous:
Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
Login Failed: java.io.IOException: Could not log in
EDIT: It's working again now, thank you
Yeah, it's totally screwed at the moment. Bad.Kirk Bevins wrote:All the time, literally. Takes like about 50 refreshes to let me in and then every so often I won't be able to challenge someone and people said that I didn't appear on the list. When I close that window down and try to click "play" again, I get the "connection reset" message.Joseph Bolas wrote:Does anyone else get any of the following messages when they try to log into Apterous:
Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
Login Failed: java.io.IOException: Could not log in
EDIT: It's working again now, thank you
Aye, it seems to be getting worse for me every day. The Duel crashed on me today too, and the tool couldn't bring up profile windows when I clicked on names. Poo.Jon Corby wrote:Yeah, it's totally screwed at the moment. Bad.Kirk Bevins wrote:All the time, literally. Takes like about 50 refreshes to let me in and then every so often I won't be able to challenge someone and people said that I didn't appear on the list. When I close that window down and try to click "play" again, I get the "connection reset" message.Joseph Bolas wrote:Does anyone else get any of the following messages when they try to log into Apterous:
Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
Login Failed: java.io.IOException: Could not log in
EDIT: It's working again now, thank you
That would be my fault. Please can you fix this Charlie.Phil Reynolds wrote:Not a bug in the software as such, but a glitch in the data: in a game yesterday, William Shakespeare as the DC guest pointed out that I could apparently have had "$wrds" for 7.
