Countdown - The Official TV Show App 12+
Barnstorm Games
Designed for iPad
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- £1.99
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Description
It’s time to go up against TV’s most iconic clock!
You may feel that you are good at crosswords and Sudoku, but the official Countdown App of Channel 4’s hit TV show is set to provide the ultimate mental challenge. Compete in all three Countdown disciplines: the letters round, the numbers round and the famous Countdown Conundrum.
Will you be able to generate a nine letter word and achieve the numbers round target before the clock runs down? Finally, with fingers on the buzzer you will need to hold your nerve and find the Conundrum word before your opponent.
• Enjoy the full Countdown experience
• Compete in all three disciplines:
- Ten letters rounds
- Four numbers rounds
- The Conundrum
• Features the Oxford Dictionary of English
• Play against the CPU (Easy, Normal, Hard or Expert)
• Brand new VS mode for 2 players (on the same device)
• Brand new quick play mode
• Achievements
• Leaderboards
• An almost infinite number of randomised challenges
• Detailed player statistics
Will you cave in under the pressure of the ticking Countdown clock?
What’s New
Version 1.2.1
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Dictionary improvements
We hope you like this update! If you do, please leave us a nice review, otherwise please let us know what we can do better: http://barnstormgames.helpshift.com/a/countdown/
Ratings and Reviews
Not written down
I am really enjoying the game but I agree with the reviewer who said the game needs a ‘not written down’ button or something when submitting found words. I often find words late, when there isn’t enough time to write them down. Please add this function. Only been playing the game for half a day so maybe I am not grasping the calculation process for the numbers either, but when solving the numbers during the TV show, I often make two separate calculations then synthesise them at the end, to reach a solution. Seems like the in-game calculation process does not allow for this method, which is annoying, unless I am missing something. These are my only gripes, otherwise the game is very enjoyable, thank you.
Great but sort the Numbers out!
This is therapy for my Countdown addiction and gives more of a competitive ‘buzz’ than playing along with the telly. However, you need to adjust your brain to play in a different way, without a pencil in hand, which freaks me out a bit. I need a pencil in my hand! And I can’t work out how to do the Numbers round - inputting what I’d normally scribble down doesn’t seem to work, so I keep losing my points on this round, which is annoying as it’s the part I’m trying to improve on before hopefully going on the show. I’m glad I’ve found this though.
Rigged
I played against expert level and used an official anagram dictionary solver online. The game doesn’t like it when you beat the higher levels. It lets the computer have the word “Sluggo” which it claimed was a singular word for “Sluggos” which apparently are some sort of men’s trunks?!? The dictionary used is a complete farce. May as well be able to use people’s names because it allows the computer to use the most nonsensical animal or personal names. I used the dictionary to make the word Lardass and apparently that isn’t in the dictionary?? Lol complete fix designed to help the computer win. The bot doesn't like losing. The CPU will struggle with words and only come up with 3/4 letter words like “Help” but always nail the numbers round with the most random of calculations. So the CPU is dreadful at English but an absolute maths genius. Absolute rip off and completely rigged to make the computer win. Rubbish
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Barnstorm Games Limited
- Size
- 290.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 7.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- © 2015-16 Barnstorm Games
- Price
- £1.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.