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Martin Gardner

I was thinking of trying a Euro 2008-style tournament with 8 groups of 3 people, with players playing the other two people in their group, meaning of course that everybody gets 2 games minimum. The two non-qualifiers could then play in the plate and there would be eight qualifiers for the quarter-fi...

Martin Gardner

The interesting thing about TREASONS is that you'd never actually need to play it as long as you know that it's the anagram of SENATORS. There are quite a lot of words like this where there's a word you could be unsure of but there's an anagram that's perfectly valid and a common word, so you can ju...

Martin Gardner

I used to play chess when I was a teenager and that's where the name Mglovesfun comes from actually, which according to Yahoo! was registered in 1999, so nearly 10 years ago now. But I'm terrible at chess, I tried to make a little comeback on Yahoo! and only won one game on a checkmate and a couple ...

Martin Gardner

Michael Wallace wrote:Hmm, the CV solution in round 14 gets it spot on by my count (for the sake of completeness).

Yes I just hit the wrong key, nothing more sinister.

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Martin Gardner

Gavin Chipper wrote:It's all in the title.

Is Gavin Chipper really his name, if so how did anyone find out?

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Martin Gardner

This game features former semi-finalist Martin Gardner, and Kirk Bevins who lost on his first appearance to a former semi-finalist. However these two met at COLIN 2005 where Kirk beat Martin by 10 points and was 20 points ahead before the conundrum. So who would be the winner this time? C1: Challeng...

Martin Gardner

Martin, I'm available all day Tuesday and during the day on Thursday if you are. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings I'm busy. If you wanted to start today (Tues) at 5.45 or something like that, that would be fine by me. I think in that case we could finish before the second game started, so we...

Martin Gardner

This might sound harsh, but there were a lot of flat rounds i.e. 8 possible sevens, but no eights or 8 possible sixes, but no sevens. It's the sort of game where you could get the maximum on the letters, apart from INHAULS and ALLUSION which were hard.

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Martin Gardner

I remember a mate of mine, although I don't think we really "knew" each other at the time, wanted to put money on me to be the Series 49 champion, went down to the bookies and they explained to him that he couldn't because it had already been filmed. I'm a bit intimidated by bookies and I ...

Martin Gardner

Yeah I find it unnecessary to say that though, Lee. It's like something I read on the Internet Scrabble Club in someone's personal profile: "Those that accuse other people of cheating should occupy themselves with their own racks, there's often more that can be done." If you'd have got the...

Martin Gardner

I've been watching Major League Baseball for about 9 years now, I always feel it's very involving, like a whole world of its own and you can just get lost in it, like escapism. So I'll just pick my favourite from the actual list, which is not that easy.

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Martin Gardner

I'm as usual free pretty much all week during the day and the evenings, I just have stuff to do in the day that I can get done before I get online.

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Martin Gardner

Unfortunately I have to drop out of the plate competition because of computer issues, my laptop is broken and it will apparently take at least a month to have it fixed and while I can access the Internet from this computer, for some reason it won't allow me to sign into Windows Messenger. On the br...

Martin Gardner

Damian E wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:
He wont be there for long.
.....longer than you were dude.

I was thinking the same thing.

Martin

Martin Gardner

These are the current tournament odds being offered by Paddy Power: Evs Julian Fell 7-4 Paul Howe 7-2 Damian Eadie 4-1 Kirk Bevins 8-1 Ben Wilson 8-1 Jason Cullen 8-1 Martin Gardner 10-1 Rich Priest 12-1 Richard Brittain 25-1 Dinos Syfris 40-1 Karen Pearson Evens has to be such a bad price on Julia...

Martin Gardner

Yeah I fckued that up, I wasn't online. Anyway thanks to BW for hosting.

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Martin Gardner

Ross Allatt wrote:Just heard on 5 Live where he's been interviewed - Neil McKenzie of Notts County on this afternoon (30/06/08)

At least he's good at Countdown then (laugh).

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Martin Gardner

Unfortunately I am busy tonight and will not be able to host any COOT games taking place this evening :cry: . So if Martin or anyone else would do the honours of hosting that would be great. Good luck to all who are playing tonight :D Yeah I think I can be there, I have a couple of things to do bef...

Martin Gardner

Ginger Jono wrote:I can post them this evening, about 6PM, if you like.

If you use the recap writer you can just do 'make wiki recap' and overwrite what I've done.

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Martin Gardner

Has anyone done a recap of my game with Jono? If so I could do one sort of with the letters and numbers not in the right order as I have mine and Jono's words written down, but not the letters and numbers themselves, but in most cases you can work out the letters from the two words played.

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Martin Gardner

I think Countdown is a fairly narrow skill and it doesn't necessarily translate to other fields. On the other hand, it very often does! Generally Countdowners, Scrabble players, chess players, they're mathematical people more interested in puzzles like sudoku than reading novels and stuff. I can pla...

Martin Gardner

Shocking result as Martin Gardner beats Jon O'Neill 98 - 94. Well it suprised me, anyway.

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Martin Gardner

Richard - you just have to ask anyone involved in S57 finals. There was a definite 'attempt' to cheat, which was quashed and handled very well by the Production Team, but this aside, I did find him quite a character and he definitely added to the shows he appeared on. Based on what I experienced ov...

Martin Gardner

I graduated from Cambridge with a Double First, finishing 2nd in a class of 81. My much-beleaguered dissertation was in the top 8 for the year and won an "Outstanding Dissertation" prize, despite the best efforts of my supervisor to avoid reading it. Personal highlight was the final paper...

Martin Gardner

I thought to continue the "good luck" theme, people might want to post their exam results on this board. Some people may not have them yet, of course Well mine are all passes, 120 credits out of 120 passed with an 82/90 in French and a pretty dismal 43/90 in British politics, 40/90 being t...

Martin Gardner

I'm free tomorrow onwards every evening between 6pm and 8pm as that's when my gf is out. Tonight I have some work to do at that time, they afterwards we're off out to celebrate my exam results (I'll post them on the off-topic board).

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Martin Gardner

I also don't mind hosting if Jason is not available.

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Martin Gardner

I'm available a lot this week, just not Monday night and Tuesday I'll be getting my exam results, which will surely call for a drink!

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Martin Gardner

Just to say that I won my game 93 - 65. I know James is not experienced with MSN Messenger and I think that contributed, and also can people avoid sending messages between the rounds, as that makes the letters and numbers move upwards! Also one request would be that there's a pause given between the...

Martin Gardner

James Hurrell wrote:Shall we make it 7:30 to get you out of cooking?? OK - 6pm it is. I have notified Jason.

Well Christine's not home at that time, so if I don't cook, I don't eat!

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Martin Gardner

Yeah I'll definitely be online at that time (6pm). I'd prefer to be finished by 7.30 because it's my turn to cook, but I can be flexible.

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Martin Gardner

Suits me fine, just about any time that evening would be fine. Just log on and we'll play.

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Martin Gardner

James, My Countdown only email address is mgcountdown@hotmail.fr (was logged onto the French MSN when I decided to create the account, by chance!) although I don't usually read my emails for that account. Otherwise if you reply on this board I'll read it, I'm free most evenings but I share the compu...

Martin Gardner

So overall well done to David, clearly the best player of the Series and well done to Richard as well who deserved to be an Octochamp and should still return for the next CofC. Martin Funny you should mention the C of C. I've got 13 of the 16 participants sorted out so far, and was thinking about h...

Martin Gardner

Yeah very well done, for my part I wasn't home in time to watch the first five rounds so I'm trying to get them online, I might try YouTube next. But very well done I'm very impressed David and the #1 seed has done it again. Note that the two players in the final were the two with the highest averag...

Martin Gardner

I'm away in France from the 25/07 until the 19/08 so if that counts me out, so be it.

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Martin Gardner

I got AERATED as my only 7 but went for WONDER in the ENDOWER/WONDERER round. A great game today not as close, thanks to the nine. I just have one question, I think Peter did say 6 - 3 = 2 so perhaps he shouldn't have got the ten points there. Did anyone else hear the same thing I did? Oh and finall...

Martin Gardner

I think I had the same as Jonathan in every round, including the conundrum (I mean I didn't get it)

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Martin Gardner

Incidentally that first link verifies that Chris Cummins had a valid word disallowed in his 123 game, in fact there's NOVATED for 7 in that selection which DC didn't get.

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Martin Gardner

Countdown_Update_UK as it was known, it hasn't been updated since about 2005 but it still exists. It looks horrible and most of the information is now well out-of-date, but anyone who wants to can look at it, a Google search of the title should so it.

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Martin Gardner

Yeah best game of the series for definite. Bravo to both of them to be honest, very high standard and a very close game.

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Martin Gardner

Just a note for anyone who can see the show on Sky, Patricia Pay a member of our British French-language Scrabble association is appearing on DCeDL on the 23rd of June.

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Martin Gardner

I just wanted to post a brilliant coincidence. Both I and Jonathan Coles had 647 points after 7 games, on our eighth game we both got 99 and in the quarter-final we both got 101 meaning that through 9 games we have exactly the same points total (also after 7 and 8 games). So I just need him to get l...

Martin Gardner

I seem to think you were one of the original recappers from Series 50 and you've never had a break since have you? And yes I like the recaps with the definitions, so thanks for that.

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Martin Gardner

That's 4/4 for my predictions then, my final three are

DOD over Jonathan
Richard over Peter
DOD over Richard.

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Martin Gardner

No beaters or anything as I had the TV on but didn't actually watch the rounds per-se. I just wanted to say I'm now 3/3 for predictions and I just need Jonathan to win tomorrow for me to be 4/4, and have a chance of 7/7 overall.

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Martin Gardner

I really only care about the maximums, sub-optimal words don't interest me.

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Martin Gardner

I suppose the point is even if he doesn't have time to play, it takes seconds just to let us know... I'd rather forfeit than keep a tournament wait three months. Having said that I hope he comes back and does a tournament soon.

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Martin Gardner

That gives me two out of two for my QF predictions, so I'm happy with that.

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Martin Gardner

I got MALEATE, it came up earlier this series.

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Martin Gardner

I thought David was excellent today and seemed to beat Dictionary Corner in a couple of rounds like NORTENA and TZARINA. He certains looks streets ahead of the other players. The only round I could beat him on was the conundrum, which I didn't think was easy at all and I'm even surprised I got it. M...

Martin Gardner

In fairness I'm in the north of England and I'm trying to get a job over the summer, and there's very very little to go out, even for someone with pretty good A-levels.

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Martin Gardner

Yeah DEPILATES was a word worthy of winning a game. I couldn't beat DC in any round, some equallers such as RETRAIN, BOLERO and ANNEALS, nothing better.

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Martin Gardner

I just wanted to congratulate Joseph on being the first person to get to 1000 posts.

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Martin Gardner

Just for the sake of it, what does COOT stand for?

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Martin Gardner

(6-1) * 75 = 375
375 + 100 = 475
8 / 2 = 4
475 - 4 - 471

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner wrote:MODULES, possibly GLOOMED I haven't checked yet.

Martin

Yes, GLOOMED is ok

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Martin Gardner

BERATE and REBATE - only one E!

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Martin Gardner

MODULES, possibly GLOOMED(^) I haven't checked yet.

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Martin Gardner

The Spanish for 'curtain' is 'una cortina'

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