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- Sat Jan 11, 2020 9:49 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 96543
Re: Only Connect
This may be addressed elsewhere, but I'm too lazy to check: When is Only Connect filmed? More specifically - is it ever filmed in the summer, so someone with (amazing, but) inflexible work holidays (like a teacher) could take part? Many of the episodes are filmed at weekends or during Easter holida...
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 6:30 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: ProRanks history video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7684
Re: ProRanks history video
Oh whoops. Yes, that actually is the reason - my code gathering the data from each page expected names to contain letters and spaces only. Also means that any week that you should be in is wrong, as everyone else's rating will be shifted by one. Will upload a fixed version later. Would this non-alp...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 408731
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who set their clocks fast. I've never understood anyone who has done this because they all know that it's 5, 10, or whatever minutes fast, which surely defeats the point... A frequently-quoted and plausible reason why people do this, is that the computation you have to do, e.g. "my cloc...
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 8:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Outing Gevin! (& similar fun activities suitable for a rainy Tuesday afternoon)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14547
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XV- Countdown in Lincoln, 19-20 January 2019
- Replies: 59
- Views: 65482
Re: COLIN XV- Countdown in Lincoln, 19-20 January 2019
Tom Carey.Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:00 pmMore on the seedings: there's another very strong player whose name isn't on the list yet but who will almost certainly enter and will almost certainly end up in pot C. There's a spare COLIN XIII hangover mug for anyone who guesses who.![]()
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:20 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason
- Replies: 66
- Views: 122477
Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason
I have never owned an umbrella. An umbrella is a device which deflects rain coming only from directly above you. This, together with its tendency to flip inside out and/or act as a sail, makes it largely useless in even a moderate wind. (Funnily enough, wind and rain often go together.) Even when it...
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 3:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you think it is wrong ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9143
Re: Do you think it is wrong ?
...last letters round, I'm 40 points ahead, the first eight letters are NNSTRIEO... You didn't need to go to the 8th letter - what kind of amateur picks five consonants to start, and not some permutation of 4C 3V from the first seven? Back to topic, I'm not aware of any rating system which is parti...
- Thu May 17, 2018 11:06 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 81183
Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
Adding to the debate on COCMEAT eligibility, I've listed 32 different apterites/Countdowners, none of whom I knew prior to getting involved in Countdown-related activities, who I have subsequently met completely outside the context of Countdown, Scrabble, or organised quizzing (with the sole excepti...
- Tue May 15, 2018 7:12 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 81183
Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
My COCMEAT Index is swelled - and is probably well in excess of 50 nowadays - by my attendance at quizzing events. There's a large intersection in the Venn diagram of quizzers and Countdowners. (I still think the total would be somewhere between 30 and 50 if quiz events were excluded, though I didn'...
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 10:31 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: A Conundrum Alphabet... while you wait
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10338
Re: A Conundrum Alphabet... while you wait
It's TOKOLOSHE, I think. Very much a word which instantly jumps out if you've heard of it, but is otherwise fairly unguessable.
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:44 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 96543
Re: Only Connect
1) Mark Lewis-Francis Obikwelu
2) Yelena Isinbayevalerie Adams
3) Steve Cramantle Montsho
4) Lorraine Ugenzebe Dibaba
2) Yelena Isinbayevalerie Adams
3) Steve Cramantle Montsho
4) Lorraine Ugenzebe Dibaba
- Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dartsdown
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4322
Re: Dartsdown
I've come up with a letters variant. In brief: The host picks 2 consonants, 1 vowel. The clock starts, player A has a combined n seconds (again, I suggest n = 60) to throw 6 darts at a board annotated with letters in the various scoring segments and form a word. The 6 letters player A throws are com...
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dartsdown
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4322
Re: Dartsdown
Lots of pissibilities for variants here. Given that we only have one board, I propose each round as follows: 1. The officiator generates a target, e.g. 797, and keeps it secret from other players. This target remains the same for all players. Non-playing spectators may be told the target, e.g. by wr...
- Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIV- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2018
- Replies: 38
- Views: 38150
Re: COLIN XIV- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2018
It's noticeable that a room for COLIN weekend is more expensive than a room for either the weekends before, or the weekends after. I think Travelodge may have realised that their Thorpe-on-the-Hill establishment is in demand for the last weekend every January. Current prices (before application of t...
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 4:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO-MSO 2017
- Replies: 34
- Views: 26247
Re: CO-MSO
That conundrum scramble must have been METALATES, not METALITES as currently recapped, to maintain the theme running through the solutions?
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 5:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown in the pub
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16177
Re: Countdown in the pub
I've been a fan of the Frank & Walters for years, so I'd always wanted to visit Cork City. (Yes, I got a picture in front of the mural on the old Kino...) We liked Cork - it seems to have pretty vibrant sports, arts, and social scenes. We got chatting to a couple of folks who had turned one of t...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best 9 of all time
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15201
Re: Best 9 of all time
If we're talking about the related subject of Dictionary Corner spots, then CUNJEVOIS fell out of the selection brilliantly in Episode 5344 when a J appeared as the ninth letter. However, words like CUNJEVOIS, MYOGLOBIN, LORAZEPAM, etc, appear more impressive as they are outside of normal vocabulary...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown in the pub
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16177
Re: Countdown in the pub
Ha! Loz and I have been in Cork City since Sunday and we walked past this pub today. We had no idea it was a hotbed of Countdown and quizzing.)
(Sadly, it's our last night in Cork, so we won't be able to pay a visit. A shame I didn't see this thread earlier.)
(Sadly, it's our last night in Cork, so we won't be able to pay a visit. A shame I didn't see this thread earlier.)
Re: TENNIS
Federer is one of a small number who has a valid claim to be the greatest men's singles tennis player of all-time, and his men's singles results of 2017 strengthen that claim. Greatest tennis player of all-time is an entirely different matter, and must also include career achievements in men's doubl...
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:54 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Count to Infinity in Pictures
- Replies: 53
- Views: 41982
Re: Count to Infinity in Pictures
Embracing the classics:
![Image](https://i0.wp.com/www.internetculturale.it/opencms/directories/ViaggiNelTesto/leopardi/foto/b35.jpg)
![Image](https://i0.wp.com/www.internetculturale.it/opencms/directories/ViaggiNelTesto/leopardi/foto/b35.jpg)
- Sun Jun 25, 2017 12:30 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Count to Infinity in Pictures
- Replies: 53
- Views: 41982
Re: Count to Infinity in Pictures
And in history of Pakistan:
![Image](http://www.biseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Quaid-e-Azam-Day-25-December-2013.jpg)
![Image](http://www.biseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Quaid-e-Azam-Day-25-December-2013.jpg)
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Count to Infinity in Pictures
- Replies: 53
- Views: 41982
Re: Count to Infinity in Pictures
Turning out for a Chennai Super Kings XI...
![Image](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/11/20/0484F86A000005DC-3268665-image-a-1_1444593365146.jpg)
![Image](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/11/20/0484F86A000005DC-3268665-image-a-1_1444593365146.jpg)
- Fri May 12, 2017 3:53 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Too quick!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6758
Re: Too quick!
Vik: You can try playing in Practice mode. It has much, much more generous "patience time" on each step of the numbers interface, and likewise much more generous "patience time" to type in each following letter of your conundrum solution once you've typed in the first letter. Go ...
- Thu May 04, 2017 6:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Lance Armstrong and "doping" generally
- Replies: 121
- Views: 37729
Re: Lance Armstrong and "doping" generally
...Kathy Cook's 49.40s was set around that time because she was competing against them. It's still the British record and I don't think she was cheating. If my memory (backed up by Wikipedia) is correct, Cook's British record was 49.43. This was surpassed by Christine Ohuruogu's 49.41 at the 2013 W...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 9:08 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Music connection question
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43794
Re: Music connection question
Nice work.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:16 pm ...
Ryan Lawrie, pop singer
Lawrie Lee, author
Lee Newton, comedienne
...
Minor note: I can't find a Lawrie Lee at all. Did you mean Laurie Lee?
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Football grounds you've been to
- Replies: 57
- Views: 44333
Re: Football grounds you've been to
Quiz question. Two different grounds, on each of which I've seen three different teams play a home game. There must be lots of example of three teams having used the same ground over a short period, but the only one which springs to my mind immediately for English professional clubs is Selhurst Par...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Football grounds you've been to
- Replies: 57
- Views: 44333
Re: Football grounds you've been to
I've seen either club or international football matches at: Carrow Road (Norwich City) De Kuip (Feyenoord) The Valley (Charlton Athletic) National Hockey Stadium (MK Dons, former stadium) Wembley Stadium (England) Stonebridge Road (Ebbsfleet United) Vicarage Road (Watford) There are other football g...
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 6:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ways to improve your Countdowning skills...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14642
Re: Best ways to improve your Countdowning skills...
In addition to all of the above, if you want to win a series, I'd say apply early - like before about 2001. The standard of the top players has gone up quite a lot since around then, and obviously even more after Apterous came into existence in 2008. Gevin's advice is endorsed by past Countdown cha...
- Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Your preferred format for CO-events
- Replies: 74
- Views: 32750
Re: Your preferred format for CO-events
But yeah it's good that Jono's cheating is counteracted - then again as this was computer-based, I thought the algorithm would be Countdown-style, and not allow for the freak rounds we had a couple of times where we had 4 of the same consonant/vowel and so on. My Excel spreadsheet (which is the one...
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:02 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 81183
Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
Even excluding gatherings in Manchester to watch recordings of Countdown, my list would include at least 34 Countdowners/apterites. (I'll spare you the list.) If I add on people I've met at Countdown recordings, I imagine the total would be over 50.
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 8:45 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowner's Homes I've Been In game (CHIBIN)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46799
Re: the Countdowner's Homes I've Been In game (CHIBIN)
Excluding picking people up from outside their houses, from memory: Jeff Clayton (previous residence) Matt & Heather Jack & Josh Hurst (previous residence) Anna Woodward In theory, Loz (previous residence) as well. I'm also proposing the game PIMPVOC (Passengers in my Private Vehicle off Cou...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 8:37 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 31914
Re: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
We'd prefer a reputation as antisocial buggers, but we've had the pleasure of visits from:
Andy Platt
Giles Hutchings
Graeme Cole
Jeff Clayton
Jen Steadman
Mark Deeks
Zarte Siempre
Loz can also claim Jen, Mark and I at her previous address.
Andy Platt
Giles Hutchings
Graeme Cole
Jeff Clayton
Jen Steadman
Mark Deeks
Zarte Siempre
Loz can also claim Jen, Mark and I at her previous address.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in London 2011
- Replies: 180
- Views: 43178
Re: Countdown in London 2011
I owe it all to Jimmy Saville I remember saying Jim fixed it for me when accepting my trophy. An unfortunate claim, given the subsequent revelation of his crimes, but at the time of writing (Saville's death was announced shortly before the final of COLON2011), it was a topical gag reflecting the un...
- Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 412956
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
That'll be the last time I attend one of your dreams where the round template is drawn from a hat. Gevin's Delight, indeed...Ben Wilson wrote:So last night I'm hosting CoNot, which luckily has a massive attendance (including a phenomenally pissed-off Matt Bayfield)...
- Sat Dec 24, 2016 12:34 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 701053
Re: Ask Graeme?
In the first 9 of the 10 letters rounds in this game , the longest word(s) available were all 8 letters in length. Only in the final letters round, was this perfect pattern spoiled, when the maxes were only 7 letters in length. Is this the closest a televised (old or new) 15R game has ever been, to ...
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 5:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Your preferred format for CO-events
- Replies: 74
- Views: 32750
Re: Your preferred format for CO-events
I think one or two of the criticisms of classroom are a bit harsh, particularly the "randomly-drawn games can cause anomolies". It's all part of the fun... We disagree here. I wouldn't describe the thrashings that result far more often from random draws, to be much fun for anyone. The mos...
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 9:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Your preferred format for CO-events
- Replies: 74
- Views: 32750
Re: Your preferred format for CO-events
Nowadays, I prefer Co-events to be played on a board of 15 squares by 15 squares, with each player having their own selection of seven letters, which they must also manage in order to retain favourable selections for future rounds. Scoring should be based, in loose terms, on the obscurity of the let...
- Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 84839
Re: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
To score near the elevated available maxes of recent times, you'd need a player who regularly spots most of the new ODO obscure but high probability nines. This is someone for whom e.g. RANTIPOLE becomes a routine spot, in much the same way that e.g. SEALPOINT became a routine spot for apterites of ...
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 2:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: New fivers not meat-free
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4498
Re: New fivers not meat-free
* although the new notes don't burn, they just melt in an intriguing manner The lengths the Bank of England will go to, to spoil Cauty and Drummond's fun. I'm interested to see if the Scottish banknote issuers (Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank) now capitalize on what must b...
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:09 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterites who have yet to appear on Countdown
- Replies: 50
- Views: 37429
Re: Apterites who have yet to appear on Countdown
AFAIK: - Rob, Nguyen and Bayf don't want to go on I can confirm that even when I was a regular Co-event attendee, I never had any desire to appear on televised CD. I achieved my final English language Countdown goal when I finished 8th at Co:KL 2015 (thereby giving me a full set of top ten finishes...
- Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guinness World Record Attempt....
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8841
Re: Guinness World Record Attempt....
The Guinness site lists the current world records as 11 (tennis balls in 1 minute, individual) and 14 (soft toys in 30 seconds, team of two).
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Le Mot Le Plus Long
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2513
Re: Le Mot Le Plus Long
As far as I'm concerned, this once excellent 1960s show jumped the shark in 1972.
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What books have you been reading lately?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 19762
Re: What books have you been reading lately?
I've read three books this year. In what might be the narrowest niche of literary tastes, all three are autobiographies of female American guitarists: Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein (published 05-Nov-15) Living Like A Runaway: A Memoir by Lita Ford (07-Apr-16) The Rise,...
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:12 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 701053
Re: Ask Graeme?
Would it be possible, in terms of comparing scores for different formats, to go through the entire database, and determine: Lm = mean score for a Letters round, which I imagine is something below 5, bearing in mind that many contestants score zero because their opponent has a longer word Nm = mean s...
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4728
Re: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
Ah, Gary PALLISTER in Episode 5689. Very nice.
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4728
Re: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
Round 1: S H N E U O W M I Tim: SHOWMEN (7) Margaret: WHINES (6) DC: INHUMES (7) WINSOME (7) OT: HEINOUS (7) MOHSINE (7) Score: 7–0 (max 7) When I watched this show, the first thing I saw in this round was legendary Nigerian footballer E SHOWUNMI . Anyone remember any other sports stars' names maki...
- Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:45 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Trident alternatives
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8270
Re: Trident alternatives
Assuming it could be manufactured, your steel sphere would weigh approximately 4 million metric tonnes. I'm guessing that finding a power source to move a non-buoyant object 80 times the mass of the QE2 liner, might be a problem.
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Celebrity fun
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5168
Re: Celebrity fun
You only need to check Google/Wikipedia or whatever to see what his mum's maiden name. I hope Dyer's changed his security question on his bank account. I wonder if we could extend this thread to wrongs which we have done to celebrities. I'll open the bidding by admitting that I once stomped on the ...
- Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many UK cities have you been to?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 16507
Re: How many UK cities have you been to?
England: Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Chester, Coventry, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Hereford, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool, London*, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Ripon, Salford, Sheff...
- Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Legalities of posting clips on Youtube
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5421
Re: Legalities of posting clips on Youtube
Is there where the max was SOCIETY and you said "that's a f***king great word"?
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 84894
Re: How many countries have you been to?
I've visited, and stayed for at least 2 nights, in all of the following: 1. UK (England, Wales, Scotland only) 2. The Netherlands 3. Belgium 4. France 5. USA 6. Australia 7. Norway 8. Canada 9. Republic of Ireland 10. Spain 11. Germany 12. Austria 13. Liechtenstein I've also stopped off for a few ho...
- Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How many Letters puzzles are there in total?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6090
Re: How many Letters puzzles are there in total?
How many possible contestants are there? The population of the world is 7 billion, so 6,999,999,999 unless you somehow persuade Matt Bayfield to apply. Can we have 'likes' back etc.? Seriously Matt though, apply now. Kind of you to suggest it, Jim, but Graeme's right. I'm sure the last sort of appl...
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 412956
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
You'll have to try harder than that, Heather, if you want to convince Susie to allow PLASTICINES^ under the "restaurant" rule.
(Although I do suspect that under the current format, there might also be a problem with not all the letters being there.)
(Although I do suspect that under the current format, there might also be a problem with not all the letters being there.)
- Fri Nov 20, 2015 7:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 594
- Views: 302708
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Similarly, and more recently, in his early career, triple jumper and occasional Countdown DC guest Jonathan Edwards, a devout Christian at the time, refused to compete on a Sunday. (I don't know whether his faith extended to his refusing to train on a Sunday.)
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:06 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 594
- Views: 302708
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
With a time of 13:19 , Michael McCabe is the fastest wheelchair athlete I can find in parkrun records. Presumably that time was achieved in a racing chair. I'd be curious to know the fastest time in a conventional chair, although this would be hard to determine as the type of chair is not recorded. ...
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:52 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown mentions on other shows
- Replies: 315
- Views: 139905
Re: Countdown mentions on other shows
Funnily enough, whilst viewing this episode of OC, "ways of picking Countdown numbers" was my first guess as soon as "Whitehall" appeared. I would never have risked it for 5 points had I been on the show.
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 594
- Views: 302708
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Cambridge Freshers' Fun Run - surely race of the day https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQ8tJ_aWsAABRy-.png Ha, I've done that race three times - sadly in the years before the full results were recorded online - but my training diary has the following recorded: 10-Oct-93: 20:06 (no position recorded) 08-O...
- Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 412956
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Not a dream.Ben Wilson wrote:Andy Platt complains that every single word declared is not a word.
- Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:34 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Quick cryptographical one
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4978
Re: Quick cryptographical one
Cheers Jim. I'd got "a" and space correct, as it turns out, but trying to work out common words in the first line, I got stuck due to the presence of proper nouns!
- Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:19 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Quick cryptographical one
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4978
Re: Quick cryptographical one
One of the non-printing characters appears to be a backspace, which makes me think these are all shifted by a certain step to a character later in a character set, more usually obtained with e.g. an alt-code. I did manually try to match the most commonly-appearing letters of the alphabet in English,...