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Fenella Fielding - for me, the sexiest voice ever!

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When I'm on holiday I have a full English (and don't need lunch) but it's too much hassle to cook for myself.

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8x51 was obvious, and then saw 17 was available

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Last numbers was a bit boring, so found a fun alternative: (5x5-1)x(8+9)

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One from Catsdown

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What is unfortunate is that it is probable that as other octochamps come along he'll be pushed further and further down the list of seeds - although I don't think there are enough rounds left for him to lose a final place altogether.

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When one of my friends died his family kept his site up so that his friends could post in remembrance

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 01, 2018 6:24 pm
Society seems to think you can't be pro Palestinian without being accused of being an anti-semite.

.. which is ironic because the Palestinians are also a Semitic race

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After doing 75x8=600, and needing to take off 76, it was astonishing that the challenger didn't at once see that he should have used 7 as the multiplier - pressure of the occasion, I guess.

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BA (pass only) Maths - subsequently paid fee to register as MA. Oxford/Cambridge? Or does anywhere else do this? I don't know anything about this, but it reads like "I got a BA and then I paid to upgrade it to an MA without doing any work". Is that what is meant? Is this common? There's probably so...

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Noel Mc wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 21, 2018 6:54 pm

Peter Mabey wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:04 pm
BA (pass only) Maths - subsequently paid fee to register as MA.
Oxford/Cambridge? Or does anywhere else do this?

Cambridge

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Dunno why 114 was tricky : it's obviously 19x6 , so 25+3-9 x 7-1 with time to spare

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BA (pass only) Maths - subsequently paid fee to register as MA.

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ABORAL to beat ARBOR

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Harlan Ellison - legendary in the SF fan world

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GARTERED as alternative to REGRATED

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INDWELT to beat BLEWIT
A couple of interesting alternatives for the numbers:
(25+9x(6-4))x(10+1) = 473
(75/3-7)x9 = 162
If I see factorisation of a the target, I like to go for it & I saw these in time

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More concise way for last numbers: (75-6)x7 = 483

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I hoped to beat MEGABIT with GAMBITED, but the verb doesn't seem to be allowable, even though it's regularly used by chessplayers

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ALGATES is OK, not that I saw it at the time

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Was hoping to beat WAHOOS with ATISHOO but Scrabble only

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Although Y isn't in the 'vowel' box it is certainly pronounced as one in RHYTHM

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 27, 2018 5:40 am

Peter Mabey wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:49 pm
(100+7)x50x9/75+25 = 667
If you legitimately got that, especially in time, that's amazing.

Way out of time - took around half an hour after exploring blind alleys (2001/3 and 23x29 obviously weren't going anywhere, but 100+567 looked promising)

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(100+7)x50x9/75+25 = 667

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DEMERARA to beat DREAMER

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Odd that in the last numbers she could have got within 2 by simply taking the 30 she had from her 900, but decided to use the 50 to finish further away - heat of the moment, I suppose !

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A simpler way : (25-9)x5x6 = 480

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It was a pity that it wasn't realised that this episode would have been transmitted on International Women's Day, so there was no recognition of the occasion

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FUNGOUS to beat FAMOUS

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As I commented in 'add up the numbers' the first one can be found without rearranging - (25-4+6)x(3x5-4)=297

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A nice variant is to try to achieve the target by simply inserting operators & brackets without rearranging the numbers
e.g. (25-4+6)x(3x5-4)=297

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Furthermore, Rachel sometimes beats Susie (not to mention the audience) on the words !

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There is still some music to be found on Radio 3 and Classic fm even though the latter is invaded by film and game stuff, and Einaudi pootling around aimlessly

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Great game. Great show. Great players. Great series. Need I say more? Well done to both! I echo this. Except to add - shit conundrum. Should be a real word. I concur - however, although I didn't get the conundrum, it is a word I'd had occasion to use in my days in the aerospace industry (back in th...

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Was hoping for WARISONS in R1, but Scrabble only

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RAMULUS in R4

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I guess that Susie was really relieved to find SLITTIER was valid, as there was an H there to give an alternative

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Third numbers alt.: (50+7)x4x2

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It always surprises me that when contestants can get near the target by multiplying the large number by something they fail to see that all they need to do is adjust the multiplicand by using one of the small numbers, as Rachel showed in the first and third numbers rounds here.

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 04, 2017 7:51 pm
Did I hear "only an 8" used in a round today?

Yes - it looked as if MILEPOST + A was going to come to something - "epistomal" perhaps, as EPISTOME is OK, and you'd expect the related adjective to exist, as PERISTOME/PERISTOMAL are listed.

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Last numbers alt: 4x(6+7)x(3x5+2)

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La donna e mobile - because the Duke is such a loathsome character

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so why should non-tea drinkers be expected to faff about with tea? Because to make an adequate cup of tea, you literally put a bag in a cup then pour water on it. But what foreigners don't understand that the only way to get it right is that it must be BOILING water - as my mum said 'take the pot t...

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Chat up girls

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You only need a maximum of four colours to make a political map of the world without any adjacent countries having the same colour Is this still true when considering exclaves and colonies that aren't connected to the countries' main landmasses (e.g., Sint Maarten as part of the Netherlands)? No, t...

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As I meant to say here - PURLIEUS to beat USURPER

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PURLIEUS to beat USURPER

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Also PATRIOTS - I was hoping to beat MELODIES with EMBOLISED, but that's Scrabble only

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Alt 3rd numbers: (25+6)x(10+100/50) = 372

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Last numbers alt: (9x5+3)x(5+7)=576
previously (6x10+9)x8=552 and (75-50/25)x3=219

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AGARIC to beat CHAIR

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PORKIES instead of SPOKIER

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I was hoping to beat RELATER with AXLE-TREE, but it's only in (with the hyphen) as an obsolete version of AXLE.

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I guess that the Clegg wanted the Liberal Democrats to get into government to try to introduce a fair voting system, and was forced to drop the manifesto commitment on fees, being prevented from opposing the Tory policy as a condition of joining with them. Of course, the Conservatives could see that...

Peter Mabey · Re: Spoilers for Friday, 26 May 2017 Last numbers: (75-7)x50x9/(10x10) = 306

Last numbers: (75-7)x50x9/(10x10) = 306

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After all that chat about football, surprised that nobody got OFFSIDES in RI

Peter Mabey · Spoilers for Tuesday 21 March 2017 R1 TUTORIALS

R1 TUTORIALS

Peter Mabey · Re: Spoilers for Friday 17 March 2017 DOWERING to beat WEEDING

DOWERING to beat WEEDING

Peter Mabey · Spoilers for Thursday 16 March 2017 R1: FELLOES

R1: FELLOES

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