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- Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 795
- Views: 314494
Re: Politics in General
As well as many political opinions, I share a birthday with Tom Harwood. Which would be nice if I didn't have a huge inferiority complex. I guess it's time for me to decide whether I want to model my political views after Neil Kinnock or Lady Gaga I guess it's time for me to decide whether I want t...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2166
Re: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
Let's not forget her basic inability to ask questions in a coherent manner on The Weakest Link. E.g. if the question was "What is Countdown - a gameshow or a type of shoe?" she would say "What is Countdown, a gameshow or a shoe?" like all three things were part of a list and it led to confusion. Th...
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 5:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 289
- Views: 58627
Re: You Are The Ref
Based on the reverse declaration discourse going on at the moment... It is the final numbers game in a 15-rounder, and C1 is trailing 76-84. The selection is 100 75 50 25 10 1 --> 813. C1 is sure they can do 811, and may be able to do 813 but isn't sure. The time runs out and the host asks C1 for t...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 795
- Views: 314494
Re: Politics in General
I was ashamed that same sex marriage was being pushed for, that it made its way onto the political agenda, and very disappointed that many gay people were campaigning for it as though it were an advancement of gay rights. Personally I think it is a backward step... and a rather petulant one at that...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:16 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6172
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
You can go any distance uppie-downie or leftie-rightie.
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:18 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6172
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
I'm 9 episodes into this inaccurately-named "speedrun" of chess by Daniel Naroditsky. He's a grandmaster, playing on chess.com under a pseudonym, starting with a very low rating, playing against players of similar ratings*. As he plays, working his way up the ratings ladder, he talks through the ta...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:44 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6172
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
I'm 9 episodes into this inaccurately-named "speedrun" of chess by Daniel Naroditsky. He's a grandmaster, playing on chess.com under a pseudonym, starting with a very low rating, playing against players of similar ratings*. As he plays, working his way up the ratings ladder, he talks through the tac...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:27 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6542
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that? 500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page. None of this seems particularly relevant however, as the ...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 9508
Re: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
I understand that due to Nick Shielding and Colin Murray being unavailable ther will be no filmiming of Countdown Next week. Hopefully we wont have to get repeats because of this Who is Nick Shielding and why is he unavailable? I'm told they have enough shows recorded to last until 4th March, anyway.
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the record for the same number of matching declarations in a game? 11, between Jack Hurst and David O'Donnell in this 30BC game . I've taken "matching declarations" to mean that in a letters round the players declared the same word and scored the same number of points, and in a numbers roun...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the record for the same number of matching declarations in a game? 11, between Jack Hurst and David O'Donnell in this 30BC game . I've taken "matching declarations" to mean that in a letters round the players declared the same word and scored the same number of points, and in a numbers roun...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers for Tuesday 22 December 2020
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1275
Re: Special Spoilers for Tuesday 22 December 2020
R6 alt: 3 times the sum of the rest.
Well played both. Still surprised that BIG-HEADS hasn't lost its hyphen.
Well played both. Still surprised that BIG-HEADS hasn't lost its hyphen.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers for Monday 21 December 2020
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2364
Re: Special Spoilers for Monday 21 December 2020
Why not also refer to Colin as "the Richard"?Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:18 pmI thought getting the host rather than the Carol to pick was a nice touch.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers for Monday 21 December 2020
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2364
Re: Special Spoilers for Monday 21 December 2020
There are two options for the next permanent Countdown host: the right choice (Colin Murray) and the wrong choice (anyone else). Great game, well done to Tom and George. Could, not Would. Would have been if they just chose to go with the result of the first. But yeah I see your point. I don't think ...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:25 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1792
Re: Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
My solver doesn't have anything precomputed - when you put in a selection, it works out all the expressions you can make from that selection (by representing each expression of N numbers as a tree, and combining them with the remaining numbers to make (N+1)-number expressions), and therefore what t...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 2:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1792
Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
Published yesterday: an interesting new Computerphile video about the Countdown numbers game, and a method of generating every possible solution using Reverse Polish Notation. Analysis of this kind has been done on this forum before, but one thing that I hadn't realised was that even targets are sta...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 11:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 18 December 2020 (Series 82, Grand Final)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3786
Re: Spoilers for Friday 18 December 2020 (Series 82, Grand Final)
Congratulations Luke and commiserations to Sam. MAEGBOTE was a great spot. Thanks also to all the finalists and the production team for giving us series 82 in such difficult circumstances.
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 16 December 2020 (Series 82, First Semi Final)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1814
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 16 December 2020 (Series 82, First Semi Final)
Just posting to say well played to Luke and Ian, and that I also got CREAMABLY. There's enough of us that it almost qualifies as a R15 alt.
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:40 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 14663
Re: Obscenity democracy
The reason I am not happy to simply let this go, is that it is a point of principle. Forget all the bluster, hot air, and white people pretending to be offended by things they are not offended by... this boils down to one simple question for me: If I go back into that post from last week, and remov...
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 14663
Re: Obscenity democracy
There is NO WORD in the English language (including the dreaded N-word) that is so taboo that in cannot be used in any context. There are countless examples online... If you wanna do a cursory search for the n-word, you will find hundreds of thousands of articles, forum posts, etc. that contain the...
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 348
- Views: 54247
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
So having harassed Dominic Cummings for not technically breaking the rules, Beth Rigby and Kay Burley break Covid rules. You couldn't really make it up. Just remembered I wanted to reply to this post. Dominic Cummings did break the rules. Even if you argue that his trip from London to Durham was al...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:57 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 196
- Views: 21841
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
DC doesn't have to announce every possible max This is slightly my fault as I've told them it makes it a lot easier to write the recap if I don't have to split DC/OT words, because the recap writer churns them out as DC-words-then-OT-words when we actually list them in alphabetical order regardless...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:29 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 196
- Views: 21841
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
I don't know if this refers to my or Eoin's post, but just in case, this is obviously not what I was suggesting.Paul Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:18 amI’m quite triggered at the suggestion we don’t know what we’re doing![]()
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:23 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 196
- Views: 21841
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
On a real TV show with real producers who know what they are doing, PACKIES (with not even a hint of a racist or unpleasant definition in the dictionary) would be shown, and would not be bleeped out. As it happens, something similar might have happened on Countdown, which as I'm sure you know is a ...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 196
- Views: 21841
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
Maybe other like-minded people share your moral code, but why should it be imposed on the majority? What on Earth makes you think you're in the majority here? Know, not think. When John Chew pushed through a "Naughty list" whereby certain 'offensive' words were blacklisted in the US version of tour...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Tom Chafer-Cook is the only double-barrelled champion, and he played Bradley Horrocks, so yes. Can confirm. I think T-Cap misread the question but got the right answer anyway. Erm, yes, so did I. I thought it was only asking about finals. There's exactly one episode in Countdown's history where bot...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Can confirm.Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:10 pmTom Chafer-Cook is the only double-barrelled champion, and he played Bradley Horrocks, so yes.Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:30 pmIf the series 82 final ends up being Luke v Sam, will it be the first CD episode ever with both contestants having double-barrelled surnames?
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
What’s the highest number of points conceded for an octachamp? Great question! Another good question inspired by this is which players have the highest and lowest aggregate score difference over all of their games. Elliott Mellor had an aggregate margin of 854 over his octorun opponents. Glenn Lean...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Assuming we're counting only points scored by opponents in the relevant heat run, the highest is 585 by the opponents of David Edwards.Patrick Thompson wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:17 pmWhat’s the highest number of points conceded for an octachamp?
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
New 15 rounder: 0 wins: Alan Flanagan, Ross Lander (82) 1 win: Jean Wright (151) 2 wins: Peter Fenton (262) 3 wins: Jill Hayward (374) 4 wins: Margaret Lawless (359) 5 wins: Zarte Siempre (656) 6 wins: Gemma Church (602) 7 wins: Callum Todd (747) 8 wins: Dylan Taylor (974) Could we have an update o...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Any non-finalist who averaged over 90 in their games? (excluding those who couldn't make the finals) The following list is sort of that - I haven't got a way to exclude people who qualified for the finals but didn't turn up for whatever reason. Furthermore, I've taken the relevant series finals to ...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
How many times has the max been 100 or more, and how many times has at least one contestant hit 100 or more? (Basically, "century success rate", please.) I know no one ever got a century in 9-rounders but I'd like to see how often it was possible...! Up until the end of series 81... Format Times ce...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 5:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Historical recaps
- Topic: Monday 29 November 1982 (Series 1, Prelim 16)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3681
Re: Monday 29 November 1982 (Series 1, Prelim 16)
Ahead of his time, many years before co-events started doing this. I almost expected him to ask for a CV7.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:39 amAndrew, who asks for letters more than one at a time, gets comments from Richard as to how fast he picks the letters.
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 4:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Historical recaps
- Topic: Monday 29 November 1982 (Series 1, Prelim 16)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3681
Re: Monday 29 November 1982 (Series 1, Prelim 16)
Rating and Petty Officer are naval ranks.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:39 amRichard describes Countdown as having "really upset the ratings, and the petty officers aren't too pleased either". I don't get it either.
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 7:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 301
- Views: 125980
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 6th November 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 152)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1188
Re: Spoilers for Friday 6th November 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 152)
Did anyone notice that after Andy's incorrect conundrum guess, the contestants suddenly had yesterday's nameplates? After the end of the round they were back to normal.
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 348
- Views: 54247
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Stop dodging the question - would he eat a speech?Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:40 pmI've met Boris & Carrie's dog and I have a phobia of dogs. He wouldn't hurt a fly.
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9324
Re: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
If it's good enough for Will D Downing...
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9324
Re: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
There’s always going to be a certain amount of trust required though in such things. And for 99% of people, it works perfectly. That’s why I find the few that abuse it so contemptible. Suddenly everything has to change just to accommodate them. It’s genuinely ridiculous that a group of people whom ...
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 12:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9324
Re: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
A similar analysis of his opponent's looks to the side would likely give much clearer "evidence" if one wished to believe he was cheating (again, I'm not suggesting this is the case and don't for one second believe it to be the case). Just to clear something up. I was using an overlay to type in nu...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9324
Re: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
If you think that means I should shut up and accept your verdict that no cheating occurred Whose verdict is it that no cheating occurred? I don't think anyone from ZoomDown has said "I am satisfied that game was completely legitimate". Rather, I get the impression they've accepted there's reasonabl...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:16 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Three words
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1506
Re: Three words
Whose 11.5.2.6.18.20.1.1.19 features beer?
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
I would be interested to see some stats along the lines of "max % for top seed versus max % for the other seven seeds" for each series. This might be one way to evaluate players who were most "ahead of their time" in comparison to other strong players from the same era. I think this is vaguely simi...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Was looking at this game: http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6645, and the champ stops scoring from R7-onwards. Has any champ stopped scoring points before that point? If you're talking about 15-round heat games and only counting players not in the first game of their run, no. That's the only 15-roun...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
One thing I've been wondering- who's played the most number of old 15 rounders without having ever played any other format? I'd be surprised if it wasn't Jack Hurst. Similarly, who's played the most number of old 9 rounders without having ever played any other format, including 14 rounders or maste...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
How many 9-letter words have appeared on the show exactly once (both including and excluding as a conundrum)? I’m thinking of DIARRHOEA for a start. I'm taking "appeared on the show" to mean "either or both of the contestants offered the word", mainly because I can't do it if I define it as anythin...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Is 82 the biggest range in terms of scores in which a player has got in any 15 rounder? Thinking about how Sam's 1st opponent got 115 the game before and then 33 the next. Wondering if that is the largest range? According to the database which only goes up to series 81, the largest min-max range by...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
How many times has an error been made in dictionary corner, whereby they allowed a word not in the relevant dictionary, or disallowed a word that was...? I can't claim credit for this, but I think what you want here is the category on the wiki entitled Episodes affected by administrative errors . H...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Apologies if it’s already been asked but what is the longest valid word that’s come out in the selection stage? LOUNGED certainly came out in one of Julian Fell’s games. I don't have a definitive word list, but I'd expect this is it (round 8 in this game ), possibly along with other equally-long wo...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the longest run of teapots there have been? There have been 5 in a row (and counting) at present. Getting rather expensive in the porcelain dept! If you only count heat games and ignore intervening finals, seven teapots in a row is the record. It's happened on three occasions: Episode 2902 ...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the longest DC guest run? Phil Hammond just did eight. Kenneth Williams’ gig in Series 1 and 2 comes to mind but that might not be it. This is it. Kenneth Williams was the DC guest in 39 episodes in a row spanning most of series 1 and some of series 2 . The next longest run is 17, on two oc...
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Xmas Specials
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1549
Re: Xmas Specials
Where does it say both players have to be former contestants?Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:45 pmI wish I'd been on by now so I could do one with Heather. Best of luck to everyone who puts themselves forward for this, great opportunity!
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 810
- Views: 237209
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why won't the oven work unless the clock is set? My (Neff) oven does this too. It's to rid the world of the scourge of people's oven clocks blinking midnight. On a related note, why does my oven display midnight as "24:00"? And why is it only midnight that gets the 24 treatment? It goes 23:59, 24:0...
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:39 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 289
- Views: 58627
Re: You Are The Ref
Numbers round 75 1 4 6 7 7 -> 777 Clock finishes: [P1] 770 [P2] 777 [P1] 75 - 1 = 74 [P1] 6*7 = 42 [P1] 74*42 = ... [Rachel] 74*42 is? [P1] hesitates [Nick] We're going to have to hurry you along now P1, we can't allow hesitation [P1] Well 74*42 is 777X4 (whatever that is), so I was going to divide...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:09 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 289
- Views: 58627
Re: You Are The Ref
By Graeme's logic you could set something like RAXELNAST and not give the points when somebody buzzes in with RELAXANTS which would be ridiculous. Remember that TV viewers aren't aware of the plural rule, so they would be outraged. Also I'm aware that some people in the community take answers in th...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:51 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 289
- Views: 58627
Re: You Are The Ref
The Shambolic/Choliambs example I don't think should set a precedent here. To me it looked like an oversight from the production team, or a deliberate (sneaky) attempt to challenge Kirk who was at the time on course to break Records and was easily cruising to victory in every game in his Octorun. S...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 289
- Views: 58627
Re: You Are The Ref
(Maybe the wrong place to ask this) So I know (I think) there are two conundrum rules: - No plurals - Only one valid solution Are there then any possible 9 letter selections with two valid 9 letter words which could be used as a conundrum? So imagine SHEEPLANT was a valid word. ELEPHANTS is also va...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Black Takeover Day" - Autumn 2021
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7399
Re: "Black Takeover Day" - Autumn 2021
Yes Graeme... the 'change things for a day' in and of itself would be a weird and pointless idea. The opponents of the 'black takeover day' would likely consider it not simply worse, but MUCH wrse because they will be black. This is not about changing things around at random or for whimsy, but rath...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Black Takeover Day" - Autumn 2021
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7399
Re: "Black Takeover Day" - Autumn 2021
To all those up in arms about this... Suppose, as an experiment, Channel 4 announced that just for one day, Countdown and some other shows were going to change their entire presenting team for new people. Maybe it'll go well, maybe it won't, but whatever happens it's only one day and the following m...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1476
- Views: 398131
Re: Ask Graeme?
Has there ever been an episode in the 15-round era in which every letters selection contained only 3 vowels? There have been six: http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3876 http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3954 http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4381 http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4682 http://wiki.apter...