Hypercountdown

Hypercountdown, derived largely from what was known as Countdown Advanced, is a variant of Countdown that was typically always played over MSN Messenger, and is now played on Apterous. It was originally invented by Gevin, and refined by Ben Wilson.

Differences with Regular Countdown

Each round of Hypercountdown is designed to be an increase in difficulty and complexity from regular Countdown. Letters games and conundrums contain 12 letters instead of 9, numbers games have 8 numbers instead of 6 (with 150 and 200 as additional large numbers), and a 4-digit target to reach. Hypercountdown is available on Apterous.

Example game

(based extremely loosely on Episode 5654)

Rnd	Selection	Player One	Score	Player Two	Others	Max.
1	CGNEAIHPTLMG	CHEATING	8 – 8	CHEATING	PHLEGMATIC*	10
2	LMGOEISRUDLA	MOUSIER	15 – 15	MISRULE	GLAMORISED*	20
3	YTPOIANLSTEP	SOAPILY	15 – 24	PONYTAILS	POTENTIALS*	30
4	50 75 100 25 9 9 7 10 → 4830	4840 (9 × 50 + 25 + 9) × 10	20 – 29	4820 (9 × 50 + 25 + 7) × 10	RR: 4830 = (100 × 9 + 75 − 9) ÷ (50 ÷ 25) × 10	40
5	LMZIEONARGTS	NORMALIZES	30 – 39	NORMALIZES	GLAMORIZES*, MAGNOLITES*, MATRONIZES*, MELIORANTS*, MORTALIZES*, ROSEMALING*	50
6	IEOFAILHREOI	fiesta ☓	30 – 39	ageist ☓	AEROFOIL*, FIREHOLE*	58
7	CTDVNWEAECSD	VENDACES	38 – 47	VENDACES	DECADENTS*, DESCANTED*	67
8	100 10 6 8 7 10 9 1 → 9450	9450 ((100 − 6) × 10 + 8 + 7 − 10) × (9 + 1)	48 – 57	9450 ((100 − 6) × 10 + 8 + 7 − 10) × (9 + 1)		77
9	MYLOSYLLABIC		48 – 67	SYMBOLICALLY (0.5 seconds)		87