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Thomas Carey

I guess since basically every other finalist has commented i'll say some shit. All of my cons except my final game (with George) were crucials (and all of his were crucial except our game too!) Caseiform - I think this is decent but surprised people are saying it's one of the best of the day. I don'...

Thomas Carey

Squeeze me harder. I think my thing is Maus with the emoji but I've had a few variations for no good reason

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:19 pm Well this is exciting!!

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/yarboroughleisurecentre/

Y was looking like the trickiest alphabet letter for me - York being crazy expensive! Too good an opportunity to miss for me.

Anyone wanna join me for this one?

Yes

Thomas Carey

Used to be the case. Nowadays you have MGQASHIYO and friends

Thomas Carey

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:21 pm
Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:18 pm Could do with some overages right about now
Would you take a 50/50 gamble where you get either some overages or a sarcoid?

Depends on the amoont

Thomas Carey

Could do with some overages right about now

Thomas Carey

I love Graeme's post and generally think jack's 'blend' post is the way to go - obviously there's no objective measure of difficulty so something you think is pretty tough one player might think is a piece of piss or vice versa but that's part of the fun. Another food for thought since someone menti...

Thomas Carey

Steve Hyde wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 2:07 pm Apropos of nothing, what is the smallest number vowels ever picked by an Octochamp across their entire octorun? Has anyone managed a perfect 120?

And the obvious reverse question. Jonny Rawlinson maybe?

Thomas Carey

I'm most likely doing dollis hill parkrun (Gladstone apparently) because it's the nearest to my crappy budget hostel. 500 points each if nobody else joins us I guess

Who else is doing mso? I'm signed up (unless I'm not in which case Tony please yell at me)

Thomas Carey

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:54 pm Isn't/wasn't Maus/Tom Carey too/as well?

Not to my knowledge but I'm weirdly pleased people thought this

Thomas Carey

see we know you can blind solve the cube but paul didn't throw you the cube on zd so I want to know if you caught the cube the first time

also ggwp

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Thomas Carey

I'm glad England are there although tbh they probably didn't deserve to get past Nigeria. Still think they'd be worthier winners than Spain, because winning the whole thing despite losing a game 4-0 with 77% possession feels a bit silly 🪿

Thomas Carey

Dublin was put on the wiki by the mysterious BeachyBoy99

probably some others on the wiki too

https://wiki.apterous.org/Co:Dublin_2023

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GET IN!!!!!!

Thomas Carey

JackHurst wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 2:49 pm Tomorrow on the Android app will be the first Saturday Showdown. Every hour there will be a new challenge, meaning there will be 24 challenges in total!

Is this brutish time or local time or ut c or what

Thomas Carey

Fiona T wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:18 pm https://twitter.com/mattround/status/16 ... 2920623104

We can all try beat Adam!

'former countdown contestant' yeah and Chris eubanks 'enjoys tennis'

Thomas Carey

Played this a bunch in an airport recently. Rule 28 was my pb, could have done more since it was easy enough to slot in but I forgot about Paul for too long. Would like to have a deeper run but that's what next week's airport all nighter will be for

Thomas Carey

This is fun! Got to 306 after a few goes: MOTIVES, EXEDRA and GLUMLY being highlights and then managed to clear the board. Learned to value vowels since I always ran out and then couldn't clear with my pile of consonants. Not sure what dictionary they are using, but seems to accept a lot of wanky co...

Thomas Carey

4 and a half p? Take me there

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:41 pm I declared SUBFINITE in a game last month, assuming it would be valid, but it wasn't.... It's a mathematical term.

A lot of us got burned at Newcastle by bijects not being in. And rationals not being valid still surprises me

Thomas Carey

Philip A wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:48 pm Kirk Bevins will be on Channel 5 game show Puzzling with Lucy Worsley. Thursday 6th July @ 8 pm on Channel 5 and My5.

Haven't seen it yet - but I'm rooting for my mate Jack (who also knows Sam C-L so is pretty well connected to countdown!)

Thomas Carey

Ronan M Higginson wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:50 pm Good game by both players and nice to see a 2nd rematch confirmed. Anyone know if there's ever been 2 rematches in a set of finals before?

30 35 37

Thomas Carey

swap two letters in his name and get a 9

Thomas Carey

Did a lot of video games as a teenager but don't thing I was amazingly good at any other than brain training memory type stuff. But that and the kind of board games I'm good at are probably things that people better than me at countdown are also good at. So not them. Except, German. There's a German...

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Adam Dexter wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 7:51 pm Yeh - I think if you somehow managed 154 without scoring every round that would be somewhat amazing

Zarte got 150 despite that prick taking a round off him!

Thomas Carey

From one very amaterur parkrunner to another -

Dump your bag with all the other bags at the start, there's a million other vpolunteers buzzing about so it won't get nicked.

Just run, you'll figure out how well you can do the distance once you've done the parkrun innit

Thomas Carey

This was before covid, but when I got hit by the taxi in late 2019 I got there on the Sunday afternoon, they did all the xrays and stuff and kept me there, had surgery on the Tuesday and once they were happy I could use crutches released me on the Thursday morning (could have been Wednesday if I'd f...

Thomas Carey

I've contacted the restaurant George suggested and they can accommodate us in the main restaurant, but we need to pay a deposit and will need to pre-order. Please can you let me know asap if you definitely want to go for dinner on Saturday. I need to confirm numbers after the weekend. The alternati...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:17 am A phenomenal team on Eggheads on 19 April 6:30 on Channel 5 - Lauren Hamer, Aaron and Aidan Linge, and David Stainer.

I think it's Ronny Jackson, not Aaron Linge? Exciting nonetheless

Thomas Carey

Parkrun wise I assume we'd be doing Woodhouse Moor? It's very close to the venue and having been there a lot (but not to run) I can confirm it's a nice park. The Library pub at one of the corners (that I was in 18 hours ago) is decent too, but maybe not at 9am :D Open to other suggestions, but it's ...

Thomas Carey

Age graded thingy. Dan went top after manchester obvs. Perhaps unsurprisingly the top 3 here are the only three who've done two of them 1. fiona 1657 2. maus 1186 3. dan 1000 4. gev 929 5. bradley 714 6. mike 643 7. matt 600 8. david 571 9. callum 429 10. dinos 357 11. latchford 286 12. eeshan 214 1...

Thomas Carey

Alex Hardwick. Love him or hate him?. Looking forward to Mondays final but one contestant is dividing the public. I found his flirting with an opponent in an earlier round cringey but otherwise he is a good player if eccentric. My family however can't stand him I know her and Elia fairly well from ...

Thomas Carey

I mostly try and find a pdf of the book I want to read nowadays and read it on my phone. If I can't get one, generally the electronic version anyway. I do like physical books but I do so much traveling with limited bag space that I don't want to sacrifice some to something I can do on my phone which...

Thomas Carey

I think my main take about the dictionary thing is - with no place where you can reliably look up whether or not a word is in - whether or not that's a paper dictionary, online one, word list, just a lookup page, whatever - is if you're a casual viewer or just want to play the game with your mates. ...

Thomas Carey

Yeah I hate when I'm watching football and the players are better than me.

Thomas Carey

1:22 on my first attempt, but yeah it's a typing speed thing more than anything, since I don't need any thinking time for these. It's like conundrums. For a lot of them, me and my opponent see them instantly, but my 'instasolve' time is somewhere between 0.8-1.2 seconds on the buzzer whereas there's...

Thomas Carey

And now for something completely different.

About a month ago the Metro did this interview with Colin, who used to work there. The filming day the guy saw had Jo Brand in DC, so it's this week's episodes. https://i.imgur.com/hCLOpIs.png

Thomas Carey

ok i want to see this now. fiona will walk it (ironically) if she keeps coming to most of the events but let's do a side table. tableside age graded 2023 table after colin. will try and post them if i remember but someone competent may take over 1. gev 929 2. fiona 857 3. maus 786 4. bradley 714 5. ...

Thomas Carey

Potentially do it like goat? If they pick a final consonant, choose the consonant that will give the flattest round? Same with vowel? Could even do this logic for the last 2 letter picks (pick the letter of the flavour they picked to maximise min(biggest number of maxes if they pick a vowel last, bi...

Thomas Carey

I assume you mean me. I'm happy with whatever's easiest, especially since I've now broken my never repeat a course streak lmao, so doddington is fine. But up to you lot

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Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:12 pm TIL Adam Latchford is the first player to defeat two members of the 1,000 club – back-to-back as well. Giant killer indeed.

After this game, he was moaning about the CoC draw making it impossible for him to play both Elliott and Luke to collect them all

Thomas Carey

I did a parkrun this morning- not sure if it counts for anything? It was very up hill and down dale, hence my 43:58 time! Fastest was just under 20m so presumably a good indicator of the difficulty? There's this website which tells you how fast on average courses are. Having stalked your profile, t...

Thomas Carey

Have put my application in :) have put more details than previously so hopefully get a call :) Good luck Adam! You can't octo i'm afraid though, as the adam - octochamp ratio at co events would be ruined. Just win 7 then win the series from there glglgl And then one of the 7 you beat can win a seri...

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Happy birthday Tracey!

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Some co events used to do walk on music for the finalists. Think I nailed it here

https://youtu.be/O550_EFVRFQ

Thomas Carey

Wondering as to whether there'd be demand for a way for 2 players to play a game on the app? I know that when the finals were being filmed, Ed Byrne and John Aziz played each other in-person on the app... I've told Jack this at least 5 times :) most of my usage of the app is playing someone in a pu...

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Tried many times, never stuck until the start of this year. Been keeping about 1-6 paragraphs each day depending on the eventfulness of the day. I noticed that I got a lot more detailed as time went on, for instance my one for COLIN in January didn't even mention my opponents, whereas newer co event...

Thomas Carey

Seems like as good a place as any to post this. I recently bought a set from a charity shop. Is there any official letters distribution to check they are all there in the correct quantities? Same for numbers (I assume 2 of each plus 4L covers that). Generally accepted thingy is A 15 E 21 I 13 O 13 ...

Thomas Carey

:0 years of co events ruined!

As for Gev's question, it uses the live version of apterous. If apterous is down at the time, it gives an error.

Thomas Carey

I'm happy to do Oriam. Will run there from my accomodation (near venue) and make use of the changing facilities afterwards. Do you have a plan for getting to the venue from there after Fiona? Happy to share a taxi with you if buses aren't an option. i'll do oriam and join whatever you guys end up d...

Thomas Carey

I'm staying at the Novotel and may partake in the Parkrun. I will almost certainly be last so just as well I'm going to be local! Since it apparently goes past the venue, could you take a break when you get to the venue, play some countdown and knock out the rest of the run in the evening to get a ...

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[*] [Not my words, but someone else's, who can identify themselves if they want] In a divisioned event, if a top player gets a tough draw early on and ends up in a lower division, it not only sucks for them but also every other player in that division , who now will have no chance of winning their ...

Thomas Carey

I will say that I think there is some sense of occasion though - I still have my third place group B trophy from Leamington 2013 (before I 'got good') with all my winner, RU etc trophies, which I remember being excited to win (despite a SF loss to Tom Cappleman, who I assume was among the best 8 pla...

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[*] [Not my words, but someone else's, who can identify themselves if they want] In a divisioned event, if a top player gets a tough draw early on and ends up in a lower division, it not only sucks for them but also every other player in that division , who now will have no chance of winning their ...

Thomas Carey

Are we doing the Fleetwood Promenade parkrun for this one (just round corner from venue) or are folk staying in Blackpool? I'm gonna do the Blackpool one because I'm staying near there and a non-countdown mate I want to catch up with does that one. But if everyone else does Fleetwood and I get my o...

Thomas Carey

This, basically. To me, there's no such thing as a bad apple (except for rotten ones, or the song) but there's definitely a hierarchy. My ex was very into pink ladies, during which time I learned that they are pretty good and surprisingly expensive. If we're doing a full tier list I'd put them up t...

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Steve Balog, wherever he is now, once suggested a version of countdown where your score is your points multiplied by your blood alcohol content. Not sure what the strategy is there. I find my numbers tend to go to shit far quicker than letters when drunk

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It's an interesting one, because yeah, at the top level, 9 letter conundrums are pretty unsuitable. It's fine for the odd game/final if you get a suitable WETHARDON esque one (see this amazing Graeme post , which should be required reading for anyone setting conundrums). But for an event where you n...

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Gutted for Marina, hope she gets a starring role in a future series. This Quinn guy is pretty good

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