Countdown Game & Solver 4+
Numbers and Letters
Lawrence Anthony
Designed for iPad
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- Free
Screenshots
Description
Countdown is a game show on British television (French original: Des chiffres et des lettres). This app reworks the “Numbers” portion of the game show as a Scrabble®-like tile game for your iPhone or iPad. It includes a Universal Solver that finds all possible solutions to any Numbers puzzle you care to throw at it.
Feature List:
• The “Numbers” rounds of the Countdown game show, reworked as a Scrabble®-like tile game.
• More than 11 million unique starting configurations at your disposal. (The precise figure is 11 918 700.)
• Play the game by dragging numbered tiles onto the game board and progressively building up arithmetic expressions to a final result that matches the target number (or comes within ten of it).
• Includes a Universal Solver that finds, within a few seconds, all possible solutions for a given initial configuration. Furthermore, if no solution is found, you can be sure that no solution exists.
• In generating the list of solutions, the Universal Solver recognizes new solutions that are near-duplicates of pre-existing solutions — e.g., with minor variations in the order of the arithmetic expressions — and culls such new solutions in order to the keep the list of solutions manageable.
• Fully integrated with Apple’s Messages app, so you can share your accomplishments with your friends and issue challenges to them.
• A single universal app which runs on all your iOS devices: iPhone, iPad, and/or iPod touch.
What’s New
Version 1.0.9
What's New in Version 1.0.9:
• Hints.
Ratings and Reviews
Love this app but have one major question for developers
Absolutely love this game! I’m obsessed with doing countdown math problems & this lets me do as many as I want easily. It works perfectly every time.
My one big question is - what do the different color tiles mean? Sometime when I’m solving one, the numbers turn red or green or brown when I use them in the board but there doesn’t seem to be a pattern. It’s driving me nuts!
Fun game on paper, awful UX
I just can’t get past the way this app has to be used in order to enjoy it. And the Countdown Numbers Game (“Le Compte Est Bon”) is one of my absolute favorites! This is such a disappointment because most other versions of this game are missing the solver, which is great here.
But this is basically a gamified calculator, and while even cheap, physical calculators work by pressing buttons, the only way to play this game is by dragging numbers around the screen. Tapping to calculate isn’t even an option. That makes gameplay slow and unwieldy. And even though I actually like the lack of timer (though it would be nice to have as an option) I still want to get the calculation out of my head as fast as possible!
Great replica to practice on
Everything is great except when you make a mistake. There needs to be an undo function or way to clear the board.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your favorable review and suggestion. Reset button coming right up; look for it in the next version.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Lawrence Anthony
- Size
- 30.4 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.1 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.1 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018–2023 Lawrence Anthony
- Price
- Free
Supports
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