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Thomas Carey

Yeah - I'm very slowly getting into Scrabble. We had a tournament in Berlin recently and I was unsuccessfully trying to explain to the organiser (who was playing, and is a fun person to talk to) how absolutely batshit insane I found it, from a countdowner's perspective, that they were PAYING someone...

Thomas Carey

assuming friday and sunday events don't count, just be whatever events have had a lot - done 12 at lincoln, 7 at mk, 7 at hudds, 5 at london, 5 at blackpool so that's a 5. fairly sure won't be any higher

Thomas Carey

i love your recaps never stop

Thomas Carey

Surely they're both correct. Without looking properly I'm assuming one clue is something like 'winner of the 2024 election' Anyway, some of you will have seen this before but this segment of a NYT crossword is very good Also someone else made this which I found while trying to search for the other ...

Thomas Carey

Bradley Horrocks wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 7:48 pm Is anyone thinking of doing the parkrun?

I will be yeah. My train gets into Durham at 7:59 so probably going straight there with maybe a little noodling around the city

Thomas Carey

I rambled about this here http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=200804&hilit=supernundrum#p200804 We used them a fair bit in lockdown zoom tournaments and it worked well. For the really good players, it meant buzz times separated by about 2 seconds rather than 0.2 - much less dependent on...

Thomas Carey

What up. We decided to make a countdowners 'running club' that you can put on your parkrun profile and stuff. Even if you're a member of a real club you can still add this one as a non primary one so people can see results and stuff https://www.parkrun.org.uk/groups/48972/

Thomas Carey

Would be cool to have full bracket predictions from these. A lot of the time basically everyone guesses the same winner but might think differently for some of the (on paper) closer ones

Thomas Carey

Me Dan Adam Fiona Chris for Hillsborough

Fun fact, co reading parkrun was their 625th and now this Sheffield one was their 504th. Fun for both ends of the numbers pick spectrum

Thomas Carey

Steve Hyde wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 4:13 pm Has any player ever scored more than Alex Robertson (115/92% of max) while winning only one match?

My boy https://wiki.apterous.org/Jamie_Ilett-Jones

Anyone heard from him recently? He's not been to events in a while

Thomas Carey

are there multiple word game geeks or is it just jack

Thomas Carey

i loved the poeticness of both wife and husband pulling off 20+ point comebacks in the first game. this is the first time i've bothered watching countdown on a vpn since i moved abroad, congrats!

Thomas Carey

bongrace

Thomas Carey

I'm the same hosting order as Graeme, except I usually look up the maxes (jack's thing is best for this since it gives sub maxes etc) before writing the thing down, so that I can then tab back in to the timer and put the phone visible to the players as early as possible (usually 10 seconds in or so)...

Thomas Carey

The pacemakers dropped in and out (there were several laps) so it wasn't like in a proper race where they start with you and then drop out when they can't keep it going. I still don't really get why that's illegal. Obviously cars blocking wind and shoes with whatever made them illegal would invalid...

Thomas Carey

What's that whole thing about when your ear goes PING and then you're deaf for a few seconds? I assume it's just like any other random body twitch that makes a small noise, but by being somewhere inside the ear the sound is massively amplified which makes it really loud to that ear and deafens you ...

Thomas Carey

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:28 pm Kelvin Kiptum has died in a road accident. Shit. I mean, fucking hell.

These are the kinds of celebrity deaths that get me the most. I struggle to really care when someone old dies, but he had so much ahead of him

also, not the thread for it, but fuck cars

Thomas Carey

I've really enjoyed the special prizes - calendars (2018 and 2024), mugs, poster, coaster, that t shirt. But I'm lucky enough to be at a level where I was able to win one every weekend it was available (except for one or two of them where someone with a duplicate gave me a spare). I do think having ...

Thomas Carey

Yeah, I'm with Mark on wanting to keep going to the fox for at least one night each weekend, now that it's changed hands again so we aren't likely to get physically attacked by the locals anymore. But I'm a sucker for tradition, this being my 12th colin weekend (though I didn't go to the fox as a ba...

Thomas Carey

Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:46 pm Tom Carey just deaged, put on an American accent and beat the Tetris world record.

I'm so old

Thomas Carey

Series 44 semi-finalist David Roe brings numbers to 28 and sets a new record for most time between consecutive COLIN appearances at 14 years since he played at COLIN 2010. Only two other people have gaps of 10 years or more between appearances- can you name either of them? One of them has to be Kai...

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

Thomas Carey

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

Thomas Carey

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

Thomas Carey

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

Thomas Carey

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...

Thomas Carey

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...

Thomas Carey

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. ...

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