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- Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:53 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:MyArs April 31st
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6669
Re: Co:MyArs April 31st
Ashton confirmed entry yet?
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1625
- Views: 767057
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What actually is the purpose of those padding spaces we're always supposed to add in certain fields of the Countdown Wiki recaps, such as the space preceding the first numbers round number? (Yes, I know this is off-Off-Topic, but meh.)
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 1:58 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 244
- Views: 160267
Re: Countdowners in the news
Slow news day I suppose!
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:52 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Quizzes/game shows you'd like to see return?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17269
Re: Quizzes/game shows you'd like to see return?
Grand Slam? Anyone?
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday 14th February 2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1856
Re: Spoilers For Friday 14th February 2020
ELEGIAST to beat LEGATES.
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 11th February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 29)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1268
Spoilers for Tuesday 11th February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 29)
Why not Zoidberg? ...Um, I mean (7+6-5)*100-5. Why not (7+6-5)*100-5?
- Fri Feb 07, 2020 2:08 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 6th February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 26)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6879
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 6th February 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 26)
Edward Woodward, not Wood, amirite?
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 30th January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 21)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1645
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 30th January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 21)
That game had Veronica's name written all over it.
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 24th January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 17)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1513
Re: Spoilers for Friday 24th January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 17)
Square-ulous way to 361: (25-3-3)*(75/5+4)
- Sat Jan 18, 2020 10:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday 13th January 2020
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6585
Re: Spoilers for 13th January 2019
Um. 2019?
- Tue Jan 14, 2020 2:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday 13th January 2020
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6585
Re: Spoilers for 13th January 2019
And if so, I wonder if the target would have happened to be 200.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:34 pm I wonder if she would have gone for six small in the last round if she'd still been on zero.
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:07 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 3rd January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3578
Re: Spoilers for Friday 3rd January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 2)
Did Susie totally ad-lib that definition (and pronunciation) of TIMEOUS? I thought it was a synonym of timid.
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 3rd January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3578
Spoilers for Friday 3rd January 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 2)
4th Numbers Alt.: 100 * 8 - 75 + 2 + 4 + 8. Amirite?
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Baby Riley-Kovalev
- Replies: 55
- Views: 33907
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 22nd November 2019
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2555
Re: Spoilers for Friday 22nd November 2019.
GALLERIAS to beat LAIRAGES
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:36 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 19th November 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 101)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2237
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 19th November 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 101)
I wonder if MRBOYMALE was a reference to International Men's Day.
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Celebrity Countdown - Tuesday 19th November 2019
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6378
Spoilers for Celebrity Countdown - Tuesday 19th November 2019
It's like they've mixed Countdown with the WWE.
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Celebrity Countdown Tuesday 12th November 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10215
Re: Spoilers for Celebrity Countdown Tuesday 12th November 2019
If you're going to use raw scores, let the second player buzz in on the conundrum after the first player is right too.
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 11th November 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 95)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2349
Re: Spoilers for Monday 11th November 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 95)
REGGIANOS in R1.
4th numbers alt.: (50 * 9 - 6) * (10 - 8) - 5
4th numbers alt.: (50 * 9 - 6) * (10 - 8) - 5
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 8th November 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 94)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2278
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 1:05 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 407748
Re: Is Apterous down?
Thanks! Sincerely hoping this will be the only weeknight you'll need to do this.Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:47 pmI have now given you the maxes on the wiki.Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:52 pm Is the word list available anywhere online other than Lexplorer? All my other ducks are in a row as far as the recap is concerned.
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:52 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 407748
Re: Is Apterous down?
Is the word list available anywhere online other than Lexplorer? All my other ducks are in a row as far as the recap is concerned.
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday 30th October 2019
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7111
Re: Spoilers for 30th October 2019
And it's even more likely if we include people whose heat runs are only partially in Series 81..... :!: :!: :!: It would defeat the purpose if the top nine seeds aren't all octochamps though. It says on the wiki that Luke Johnson-Davies will appear in December. Has he not got enough time for 8 then...
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday 30th October 2019
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7111
Re: Spoilers for 30th October 2019
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Return Of Celebrity Countdown!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 77807
Re: The Return Of Celebrity Countdown!!
I'll bite: What's the format?
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Return Of Celebrity Countdown!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 77807
Re: The Return Of Celebrity Countdown!!
Shall I put these in the C series (starting at Episode C9) on the wiki, or in the S series with the "civilian" specials? Gotta be the uber-geek who asks.
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 16th October 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 77)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2810
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 16th October 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 77)
I’ll bet they spotted this and it was cut.
Nick: “Anything else?”
DC: “...Not a lot.”
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 5:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 266983
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 4:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 4th October
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2993
Re: Spoilers for Friday 4th October
WEEDICIDE... “joint” decision... I see what ya did there
- Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Which Is Your Favourite Joke?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 14993
Re: Which Is Your Favourite Joke?
"Trod" contributed way more to my laughter over this joke than it should have.JimBentley wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:03 pm"I wasn’t particularly close to my dad before he died…which was lucky, because he trod on a land mine".
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 13th August 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 31)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5452
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 13th August 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 31)
Agreed, pretty amusing. All I can speculate is that she must have remembered that 9 9s are 81 and "spoonerised" that.David Williams wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:44 pm Did she actually say "Eight eights are ninety-one"? Was I dreaming?
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 12:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7th August 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 27)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4737
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7th August 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 27)
Also a blank declaration (by Chris in R13) and a numbers mistake (R14). Quite a comedy of errors, this one!
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 30th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 21)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1797
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 30th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 21)
Guess that probably wasn’t “N G” from Apterous then.
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 17th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 12)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1917
Spoilers for Wednesday 17th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 12)
FLAMBEAU to beat FUMBLED.
Quite a simple conundrum today -- just stick the A in the front of the scramble and you've got it. Admittedly, the word itself wasn't the easiest though.
Quite a simple conundrum today -- just stick the A in the front of the scramble and you've got it. Admittedly, the word itself wasn't the easiest though.
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday 8th July 2019 (Series 81 Prelim 6)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6471
Re: Spoilers For Monday 8th July 2019 (Series 81 Prelim 6)
Someone needs to put a clip of her declaration that “HENTAI is brilliant” on social media.Brett Davids wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:27 pmSusie's definition of HENTAI was suitably censored for a daytime audience!
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 4th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 4)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3722
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 4th July 2019 (Series 81, Prelim 4)
Apto says no dice -- it must need to be added.Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:34 pm FALGATES in R8. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/falgate
- Thu Jun 27, 2019 12:00 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 27th June 2019 (Series 80, 2nd Semi-Final)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7927
Spoilers for Thursday 27th June 2019 (Series 80, 2nd Semi-Final)
There's time for one last frantic Countdown-a-palooza before the grand finale.
Won't be able to make the recap until tomorrow night so someone else can fill in.
Good luck to Dinos and Brendan, as well as to Nick on not embarrassing himself with his pronunciation of the former's surname this time.
Won't be able to make the recap until tomorrow night so someone else can fill in.
Good luck to Dinos and Brendan, as well as to Nick on not embarrassing himself with his pronunciation of the former's surname this time.
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 1:39 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 7th June 2019
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8694
Re: Spoilers for Friday 7th June 2019
That used to be valid, but I'm afraid it's been removed (PAINTY must not be specified) -- have tried it multiple times before on Apto!
MICROXEA in the COMRADE/EXORDIA round, though I still prefer the full-sized xeas.
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Countdown in Brinsworth 2019
- Replies: 41
- Views: 25569
Re: Countdown in Brinsworth 2019
Will there be a pub crawl?
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 95487
- Thu May 30, 2019 3:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 30th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 92)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2340
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 30th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 92
Who would have thought we'd ever get to use BATMOBILE^ = BOMBILATE?
- Tue May 28, 2019 2:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 27th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 89)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10673
Re: Spoilers for Monday 27th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 89)
Well, this one will go down in the upcoming official compendium of Countdown history, "1061 and All That". Eternal congratulations, Square!
- Mon May 20, 2019 3:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 20th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 84)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4113
Re: Spoilers for Monday 20th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 84)
Forget Game of Thrones. This week's real entertainment is Game of Teapots!
- Fri May 17, 2019 2:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 17th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 83)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15670
Re: Spoilers for Friday 17th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 83)
Crikey blimey! I'm going to let someone else do the recap today -- I am not worthy!
Phenomenal job by Elliott, and major commiserations to both his opponent and Zarte!
Phenomenal job by Elliott, and major commiserations to both his opponent and Zarte!
- Thu May 16, 2019 4:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 16th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 82)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7914
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 16th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 82)
Gonna be unlaptopped for a few hours yet - anyone else who wants to can make the recap earlier. Awesome job Mellorine I’m sure.
- Tue May 07, 2019 3:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 7th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 75)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1366
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 7th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 75)
PLOSIVE and DATIONS! I'd say Sandra has the potential to win 8, and judging from the episode table, if she does she dodges a bullet.
(EDIT: For anyone not in the know, Elliott Mellor is scheduled to begin his run on 16 May.)
(EDIT: For anyone not in the know, Elliott Mellor is scheduled to begin his run on 16 May.)
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 29th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 69)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2934
Re: Spoilers for Monday 29th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 69)
CITRONISE and CORNEITIS in R4 ARABINE in R8 Could just put the H in TERMITE for THERMITE in R10 Wow it's amazing how you can just add on one letter to another word for loads of words. Adding H to TERMITE, Adding A to IDIOT and RANCHER. Adding R to VIOLATE, X to GULLIBLE, E to MAROODI... the list is...
- Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 68)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4068
Re: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 68)
That's the second easiest scramble of INCLEMENT they've ever used.
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 64)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4628
Re: Spoilers for Monday 22nd April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 64)
In my opinion, ERECTABLE is a rather more obscure word than CELEBRATE -- I wonder if the answer board originally had CELEBRATE as the intended answer, with the alternate solution edited in.
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 1:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 19th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 63)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3727
Re: Spoilers for Friday 19th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 63)
Minor 2nd numbers variant: could use (8+3)*(9-7) to make the 22.
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 1:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 19th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 63)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3727
Re: Spoilers for Friday 19th April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 63)
Get it together, Rach!
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 12:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 3rd April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 51)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3422
Spoilers for Wednesday 3rd April 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 51)
Won't be able to do the recap early today due to an appointment, so it's up for grabs if anyone else does. Good luck to our own Charlie (well, one of them!) today.
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 311079
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Considering going to Captain Marvel -- is it worth it?
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 8th March 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 33)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4905
Re: Spoilers for Friday 8th March 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 33)
That was a very strong performance from Maggie - much better than yesterday's. She could easily be an octochamp playing like that. There was a Julia Wilkinson who was an octochamp across series 47 and 48. I can't remember what she looked like though. She was from Southampton too! Have her pencilled...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 3:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 497408
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Had a dream recently that a society/club was trying to encourage me to sign up whilst telling me they had "a diverse range of virgins". One of their main selling points was that Paul Erdunast was a member. You just made me snort with laughter and get a bunch of strangers on the bus to giv...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:23 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown words spotted in real life
- Replies: 122
- Views: 61629
Re: Countdown words spotted in real life
Not strictly speaking a spot of a Countdown word, but you know you're pretty invested in Apterous when you see a story like this in The Onion and your first thought is trying to determine if the catchy, neologistic product name has a 9-letter word available from it. EDIT: And then I read the article...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th February 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 16)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10126
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th February 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 16)
What's lmgtfy?
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:46 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 1 February 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 8)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5006
Spoilers for Friday 1 February 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 8)
Recap will have to wait until tonight unless someone else wants to do it first (they're welcome to) -- going to lunch with company today.
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:27 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 28th January 2019
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5781
Re: Spoilers for 28th January 2019
The "error" was that DC suggested TOMGIRL, which turned out to be premium-only and not added to Lex yet. Going to remove now.
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 29th January 2019 (series 80, prelim 5)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5692
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 29th January 2019 (series 80, prelim 5)
First octochamp sorted. Two new contestants. Can we get another run like last series? Let's find out If Adam plays like he did today, despite the nervy start, then I would say that a double octochamp run would not be out of question. Unholiest was a cracking 9 and Carriage was a good spot too. Also...