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Graeme Cole

Here are the results and final standings. Oliver Garner and Mark Murray played in the final, and Oliver won 65-47. STANDINGS Players are ranked by wins, then points. P W Pts 1 Oliver Garner 6 5 389 2 Mark Murray 6 5 384 3 James Robinson 6 5 383 4 Paul Erdunast 6 5 365 5 Tom Cappleman 6 5 354 6 Eddy ...

Graeme Cole

I thought Clarkson hadn't been too bad as host, but that howler with the ibex question was unforgivable. As examples of What Not To Do As A Quiz Show Host go, saying (exact words) "I'm not even going to look at the screen" before confidently telling the contestant they've got the answer right must b...

Graeme Cole

The first guy ended up being the best one. Didn't take the game-ending risk that the others did. I didn't think he was that bad anyway. Yes. Some people on Facebook's Quiz Discussion Group were bemoaning the general knowledge level of the contestants (as you'd expect from a group of quizzing enthus...

Graeme Cole

And well done personally on your performance as captain, encouraging your team throughout (despite what the Mail claims!) I had no idea what this was a reference to, so I looked for it. Anyone else can find it too, so I won't help the Mail by linking to the article. Suffice to say that all they've ...

Graeme Cole

I'd have thought a low-budget remake of Blockbusters themed entirely around internet and old-computer-game-related questions was a pretty niche interest, but I guess the Venn diagram intersection between fans of old technology and fans of old game shows isn't exactly small. Enjoy: https://www.youtub...

Graeme Cole

I'm in.

Graeme Cole

0.068 tonnes.

Graeme Cole

Yesterday: Crap standard of play today. "2 good players" mmm...yeah.... No disrespect intended but it stretches the definition of good a bit... And today: Quality still at a low level today. At least some rise in play today with an alright challenger.. Still quite dire though Sigh. Barbed comments l...

Graeme Cole

The little "4" logo in the corner of the screen has moved from the top left corner to the top right corner.

Graeme Cole

In Round 1 of this game , the first three letters drawn were QXZ. Have all four of the "difficult" letters (those three plus the J) ever appeared in the same round? If not, how many times have three of them appeared? No selection has ever had J, Q, X and Z in it. 18 selections have had three of tho...

Graeme Cole

Turns out this thread is still a thing. Following on from the infamous FREEDRUTH incident, how many times has a conundrum answer been used more than once in a series? I know PROUDSTEP => SUPPORTED was also used twice, about 2-3 weeks apart, during or around the time of Robbo's original run in Series...

Graeme Cole

Pete Cashmore puts the view that the long-running game show Countdown has become "a hunched, wan shadow of its glorious former self". Dull, past its prime, and out of new ideas, Pete Cashmore is a former series champion.

Graeme Cole

I hope nobody at the Express or Sun is reading this. What if they found out that thousands of past contestants, including us, received the same guidelines about wardrobe and game procedure when they went on the show and didn't give them to the press, on the paper-thin pretext that we didn't think it...

Graeme Cole

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:20 pm
Detectors

Detectorists!

(Edit: clip I wanted to include with this post but couldn't find at the time.)

Graeme Cole

I think I know the answer to this question, but I'm genuinely curious: All spots for the Series 77 finals are now claimed, and there are still seven heats left in the series. If someone wins the next six games and loses the seventh and last heat, and six wins proves to be enough to make it into the...

Graeme Cole

I just came on here to paste the results in, thinking I was doing it really early. Then I find that Ben has been even keener and has already done it.

Still one result to go, though...

Rob Foster won the final against Jen Steadman, 76-42.

Graeme Cole

The conundrum round is filmed with both contestants positioned in clear view of the camera, so it's relatively easy to see who's hand pressed first in these instances. We look back on the hard-drive and see that Graeme pressed first. Not ideal, but fair. Thanks for clarifying. I take back the bit a...

Graeme Cole

I was in the studio for this one, the conundrum was actually very controversial. I think Nick said 'good luck to you both' or something on those lines after asking to roll the crucial conundrum. So the board flipped a good second or two before the clock began, and I think they both tried to buzz. G...

Graeme Cole

If you want even more commentary on the New Crystal Maze, Iain Weaver's Weaver's Week article has done a similar analysis of the series. The main difference is that he realised the series was over at the time he wrote his article, and when I started this thread on Thursday I thought we were still in...

Graeme Cole

Good essay. They've made those games harder as well - you have to get two out of three, when Mumsie would have been happy with just one (content warning: wrong aspect ratio). For the new maths game, the Jailer puzzle in the Medieval zone, it looks like they're still tinkering with the format. In mo...

Graeme Cole

Also in the Aztec Zone... you know that game with the balls on the circular tray suspended by four pulleys? I'm not sure if it's a nice idea with the difficulty pitched wrong, or if the teams have just been rubbish at it. It seems infuriatingly fiddly. You decide: [1] [2] I think this game is ridic...

Graeme Cole

(Starting a new thread on this rather than using the existing "Crystal Maze" thread, because that's about the experience in London rather than the TV show.) Now we're a few episodes in to the reboot of the Crystal Maze, here is what started as a reply to Gevin's post in another thread, quickly grew ...

Graeme Cole

I've just playtested this further. Out of 15 rounds, I solved 3 exactly, was 1-5 away on 8 of them and was 6-10 away on 1 of them. It seems that as long as you get a reasonable selection, getting 1 or 2 away is usually doable.

Graeme Cole

You've heard of chess boxing . You've heard of... erm... yes, it turns out there are other hybrid sports . Now, inspired by a recent Facebook comment thread, I've invented Dartsdown! One-sentence synopsis Dartsdown is the Countdown numbers game, but you pick your starting numbers by throwing six dar...

Graeme Cole

Disillusioned with the price of the weekend at the Thorpe-on-the-Hill Travelbodge stubbornly refusing to drop below £100 for several months? Wish there was a way of spending only a small fortune on the hotel this year rather than a large one? Well, this weekend they're doing a discount, and it expir...

Graeme Cole

Calibration score Mean confidence: 71.60% Actual percent correct: 70.00% You want your mean confidence and actual score to be as close as possible. Mean confidence on correct answers: 76.00% Mean confidence on incorrect answers: 61.33% You want your mean confidence to be low for incorrect answers a...

Graeme Cole

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:15 pm
It can take years of studying CSW in order to win the WSC.

I studied the ODE for ages. Where's my Duke of Edinburgh award?

Graeme Cole

Martin Hurst wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 24, 2017 9:03 pm
And when will someone notice that someone has nicked the K tile?

I hadn't noticed this. Turns out we haven't seen a K since a month ago.

Graeme Cole

Here are the results. All games were 9-rounders except the final, which was 15 rounds. The final was between the two previous Co:KL winners, Stephen Read and Rob Foster. Rob won the final 109-73 to win Co:KL 2017 and effectively the Co:KL Championship of Champions. Many thanks to Mike for putting th...

Graeme Cole

Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑
Sun May 21, 2017 12:52 am
Gotta admit, I don't really get it...

A few months ago, actor Ricky Tomlinson claimed that Richard Whiteley was an MI5 spy. Details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-39141060

Graeme Cole

Oliver Garner beat Rob Foster 65-62 on the crucial conundrum BUMPROBES to become CO:LON 2017 champion. Here's the rest of the copy-pasta.... STANDINGS Players are ranked by wins, then points. P W Pts 1 Rob Foster 6 6 378 2 Oliver Garner 6 6 360 3 Conor Travers 6 5 392 4 Dan McColm 6 5 352 4 Giles Hu...

Graeme Cole

I kept expecting Nick to go off on a rant about immigration. I think it was his tie.

Graeme Cole

In please!

Graeme Cole

I dreamed that I was on Countdown and Susie's origins bit was something interesting about words related to marine animals. It was interesting enough that well into the next round I was distracted thinking about various fish parts and how they got their name, so I could only find a three letter word...

Graeme Cole

I dreamed that I was on Countdown and Susie's origins bit was something interesting about words related to marine animals. It was interesting enough that well into the next round I was distracted thinking about various fish parts and how they got their name, so I could only find a three letter word....

Graeme Cole

The round 2 fixtures are almost complete, except for two tables which contain Nick Wainwright, Hugh Binnie, Mark James, CF, Phil Makepeace and Heather Badcock in some configuration. A picture shows that Nick was playing Hugh. Phil and CF had already played each other in R1 so would have been on dif...

Graeme Cole

Adam Gillard wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:29 pm
Seagull was flying tonight.

And shitting over everyone else.

Graeme Cole

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:45 pm
VERY consistent! Wonder if that has happened before?

According to the database, no, not in a 15-round game. That's the first time a contestant has offered the same length word in every letters round.

Graeme Cole

I know someone's going to ask "What if the consonant pile on my table has, say, five Qs in it? Am I not allowed to remove any? What about three Qs? Two?" My "you are the ref" take on this would be to show the deck to the organiser, and if they're satisfied it has a silly distribution then they can r...

Graeme Cole

lots of stuff There's nothing wrong in itself with shuffling away runs of five Es or whatever. I believe apterous does this, and as Jono says, even on Countdown it seems they shuffle face up because you almost never get four of the same letter in a row. It's not as if anyone's planting words, or th...

Graeme Cole

But how far would someone conceivably go when it comes to sorting the deck? I remember being in a game years ago (COLIN? Cobliv?) where we removed all but one of the many Qs from the deck, which seemed reasonable. Ideally we'd have the thing people have suggested before, where we decide on a standa...

Graeme Cole

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 17, 2017 3:19 pm
So do they issue corrections if a dart them falls out?

Yes.

Graeme Cole

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 17, 2017 3:20 pm

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 17, 2017 2:50 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:58 am

Textarea? Fucking hell.
WTabsoluteF gevin
You don't impress anyone by leaving out the space.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_textarea.asp

Graeme Cole

Another scenario: Ryan is really tall and instead of throwing the darts, just sort of falls into the board with his feet still behind the line and gets all his darts in the treble 20. Is this allowed? Another scenario: A Mr Chapwell is really short but has like a 7 foot long telescopic dart and jus...

Graeme Cole

Another scenario: Ryan is really tall and instead of throwing the darts, just sort of falls into the board with his feet still behind the line and gets all his darts in the treble 20. Is this allowed? No. Physically touching a dart while it's in the board would end your turn. He could probably lean...

Graeme Cole

If a dart falls out of the board before a player has completed their throw, or if it's knocked out of the board by another dart, it doesn't count. Specifically, a dart must have its point touching the board at the completion of the throw to count. A player completes their throw when they remove thei...

Graeme Cole

Thomas Cappleman wrote:Is that a round 1 or round 2 question?

Round 1. It's things the Fox and Hounds usually run out of on the last Saturday in January, along with space and beer.

Graeme Cole

Lincoln/Bristol format: I'd play either, but I prefer Lincoln-style. I find it's more sociable and less like an exam or a classroom, and when there's a dedicated host for the game, conundrums work much better than the Bristol-style "look at the screen at the front, tap the table to buzz, and write t...

Graeme Cole

People who think the week starts on Sunday.

Graeme Cole

Mark Deeks wrote:People who, after racking up a game of pool and lifting the black up to see where the spot is, spin it on the spot when putting it back. Barbaric behaviour.

I do this. It's going to be an awkward pool session at the Fox and Hounds in January.

Graeme Cole

What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely... What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode? https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s Without having heard this before or read the lyrics, it sounds to me like...

Graeme Cole

I always think of the Bambi episode by the Young Ones when I think of University Challange. Btw Paxman is piss poor as the presenter. He rarely hurries the teams He does hurry the teams, but usually only towards the end of the quiz, or at other times if the team deliberate for ages. Compare him to ...

Graeme Cole

People who say "reading" rather than "studying" in their University Challenge introduction.

Graeme Cole

Graeme doesn't seem to be answering questions on the forum anymore, but I'd be interested to know what the record is for the number of times a player has failed to score because their word isn't valid or they've got the numbers round wrong. Yesterday's show was a bit cringeworthy... The main reason...

Graeme Cole

I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56. This is a brilliant shout. I urge people to check it out. I would send a screencap but it's the mannerisms that are ba...

Graeme Cole

Quite a few adverts show customer data at the bottom of the screen such as "84% of 189 women agree" and so forth. This can easily (if you're stupid or not paying attention) be misread or misinterpreted as "84 out of 189", which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement. Why don't they restrict the sample...

Graeme Cole

I wonder what happened with that first conundrum? We never saw the flippything turn over - it was already revealed before the clock started.

Graeme Cole

Gavin Chipper wrote:
JimBentley wrote:And he would have gotten away with it if wasn't for that pesky fact that he wrote about it in his autobiography!
It was just freak chance that anyone actually read it.

I wondered why he'd only been arrested now, when the autobiography came out a year ago. This is the best explanation yet.

Graeme Cole

Marc Meakin wrote:As it is Monday I thought I would ask this :
HWM NYFY WLLNDS TNDTHS ?

HWM NY HV SPTT DTHT YMSSD T N R?

Graeme Cole

I've never really got Twitter to be honest. I think it's OK if you're a celebrity and you just want to fire off stuff to people, or if you're just a consumer of other people's tweets, but that's about it really. It's not a very good forum for any sort of discussion or interaction. The 140-character...

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