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Andy Platt

BUSHIDO as a great alt in the HUSBAND/ABOUNDS round. p.s. I'm guessing Andy was fishing for OUTSTAGED in the dotages/outages round? In which case bad-luck with the final letter. BUSHIDO is very nice OUTSTAGED is invalid in the ODE as far as I know, and after a bit of research with Lexplorer on apte...

Andy Platt

Thought this would be more hotly debated - maybe nobody's had a chance to watch it yet, or maybe nobody cares as much as I expected (shame on you fuckers) - but I thought that Susie was objectively wrong to disallow DOTAGES. Coincidentally it was allowed one year ago to the day . Not sure how much m...

Andy Platt

The main issue is the consistency. I'm quite happy for FLORUITED to be disallowed if there is a sensible rule in place that covers it and all other words without arbitrary add-ons. Really it's up to the dictionary to specify. If it doesn't, it should be allowed. I'd rather have words that "are...

Andy Platt

Cheers Grant. 8 centuries (enuretics) has been done 6 times previously I'm told. I would love to add my name to the list, although I think it could potentially be devalued as a statistic by getting only 100 in the new format (I took an average of 9.25 from the numbers rounds and just 6.3 from the le...

Andy Platt

Cheers for your kind words Brian (& others, naturally), and some good points on the ongoing language debate.

Andy Platt

Thanks for yet another high quality re-cap GC I agree with you on the format. It's hard to be neutral on this one - (a) I enjoyed this day's filming more than the first anyway for a few reasons (regardless of results, I was more relaxed and less tired, I think I got on with my opponents better too) ...

Andy Platt

Lol, nobody was really bothered / could remember

Andy Platt

Fair play to the woman in the audience who solved it - most deserved Countdown mug of all time. 10/10 difficulty. I even saw it at the start of February, probably didn't note it down thinking 'ah that's too hard, Damian would never set that' :mrgreen: :oops: Edit: Loved the way Andy fished for the A...

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Well, I didn't count the conundrum as it had been mentioned to me previously that it had come up, and I wouldn't have got it otherwise, but what was the max, cause I had 110 for the first 14 rounds, I think? If you matched me on everything but then beat me on the numbers I missed and nailed UNMEANT...

Andy Platt

Nice solve Zarte, was that pretty quick?

I noticed (25*2+75)*4 + 8/8 is possible too, afterwards. Was bloody hard to get to 500 without using the two 8's (the logical way of making the 1) under TV pressure.

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The truth was actually that Carl had actually failed his audition, but due to a contestant from Ireland having pulled out due to bad weather, they had to get someone local and available to fill in at the last minute. No idea where this came from, but in the interests of accuracy...... Carl had an a...

Andy Platt

Follow up to recent apto-chats, it's pretty self explanatory. Tried to make it well balanced but biased towards being hard. Generous time limit should compensate

http://www.sporcle.com/games/andyp99x/some-anagram-shiz

Andy Platt

Dave Preece wrote:Does anyone know anyone who is due to appear in the series who might challenge Andy?

Not after spoilers, just more in the hope that contestants get better, as this could be a one horse race?

Eyes open on the 3rd April to see how Giles gets on

Andy Platt

Graeme has made this list previously, Keith, and it was 544 points by Eoin Monaghan.
Maybe you could retroactively edit the font colour of your post with a little warning, not that it helps Brian too much unfortunately

Andy Platt

they had to get someone local and available to fill in at the last minute. Streuth, wish I'd known, I work only about 5 minutes walk away. On second thoughts coming up against AP in a preliminary round might not be such a good idea.... I'd prefer a chance of actually winning at least once. What baf...

Andy Platt

Excellent again Andy, I loved your solution in the 905 numbers game when (25-7)*50+4 was available. :D Cheers. At least some people appreciate the fun way, because there are certain people who think I'm just being a dickhead, but I think their opinion says more about themselves, to be honest... I d...

Andy Platt

Pretty sure it's me but I'm still not convinced I want to. Anyone else fancy it? I'd ask Conor again but he probably has uni work to prioritise.

Andy Platt

Some great one-liners, we need you writing more recaps

Conor wrote:think twice about criticizing errors made under the lights, and think four times if they're made on the numbers! Still, that was a terrible miss.

Epic!

Andy Platt

Well played again Andy. Cheers dude I noticed DC offered PELAGE but not PELAGES. PELAGES is valid on apterous, but the dictionary gives it as a mass noun only - "the fur, hair or wool of a mammal". So I'm wondering whether Susie would actually allow PELAGES. I think it's very similar to t...

Andy Platt

You played safe in the hidalgos round - had you seen that but not been 100% definite with it? Got the feeling a couple of times today that if you'd needed to step up a gear against a stronger challenger you'd have done so no problem - custard, regular and the 845 in particular I suspect you'd have ...

Andy Platt

Wow. Another impressive game. Can't help wondering though if you were looking for a (too) clever way of getting 845 Andy? If you are capable of doing (100 × 50 + (6 + 6) × 75) ÷ 25 = 236, then why didn't you see (7 + 4) x 75 + (5 x 4) = 845? Not meant to be a criticism as I know how tough it is and...

Andy Platt

Think Conor's got this one, mate
Edit: or did he pull out?

Andy Platt

Sounds more like a celebrity mini series!

Andy Platt

Looking forward to the excuses for every non-maxed round. Bit of a dick comment to make to be honest. Which round was this comment? I did watch it all but might have accidentally missed some of the talking when fast-forwarding some clock time. Mark was talking about my post in the Tuesday thread - ...

Andy Platt

Ah, looks like I added only 7 for round 14 when it was possible. Owned!

Andy Platt

Robbo wrote:How come I got 149 as the max then

Did you add ten points for round 5 when it was impossible?

Andy Platt

I did not even see Samurai because I fixated on Marussia since I am a fan of F1. Obviously I knew that would not be in, but even if I had seen Samurai I would have either ruled it our as capitalised, or tried adding an S to it! :oops: Very well played Andy. I loved the gasps from the audience when ...

Andy Platt

I'm finding it interesting, some of the challenges are very well designed and others just seem random (unless I'm too stupid)

Andy Platt

Yup, nice one

Andy Platt

Jon O'Neill wrote:Selection?

You, my man, have played this before on apterous, at least in the singular

Selection S H R M A U I A S

Andy Platt

What music?

(that kind of answers the question I guess)

Andy Platt

Cheers, I got fewer maxes than yesterday but it was a harder game I think. Still no takers on the missed max in round 1??

Round 10 was 25 10 4 1 4 5 @651

Andy Platt

Mark Deeks wrote:Looking forward to the excuses for every non-maxed round.

Bit of a dick comment to make to be honest.

Anyone get the nine in round 1?

Andy Platt

Looks clever, that. I got up to the rat holes before giving up, will certainly have another go at some point

Andy Platt

Cheers for the kind comments. Loving the pictures GC! :) Just a couple of things from me without sounding like I'm writing an essay. R1 was pretty senseless - trying too hard I think. Waste of 6 points as I had INVADE. R5 wasn't as hard as I remembered, but from the chair it just wasn't happening - ...

Andy Platt

Heh, he gets everywhere that guy. Interesting character. He came across as a bit distant or anti-social for whatever reason in the green room. Oh well

Andy Platt

Question. Has anyone ever tried to have Countdown as a special subject on Mastermind?

Andy Platt

I have an interesting question. Why is the Y very very slightly darker than the rest of the letters?

Andy Platt

I gave this one a 10, I just felt the level of consistency and concentration required to max 96 letters rounds in a row, even though it's Nice, is higher than getting 116 maxes in a mocktorun with what Conor said was pretty easy numbers, but that's just me and probably biased by the fact I'm decent ...

Andy Platt

That was cool. 27/30. Some of those scrambles are really well done.

I missed COSPLAYER MASOCHIST XENOPHOBE.
TOMBOYISH CASSEROLE took me bloody ages!

Andy Platt

Presumably they'd just stick the same bad consonants at the top again, rendering the exploitation fruitless, and give you a warning? Still probably worth a try! Likely that once you'd got CCCCCC and asked for another C, Rachel would tell you that you need 3 vowels now, so the first 6 letters, howev...

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Trying to work out how many people voted from those decimal places, was it 12?

Andy Platt

Heh, the one i voted 10 didn't even make the top 3.

Congrats Conor

Andy Platt

In a related theme, in the guidelines I noticed that it said (and I wish I had the exact words in front of me, but I don't) that a failure to conform to these rules (and I remember they are official rules ), would result in the round being scrapped and the contestant having to pick them all again. N...

Andy Platt

A Rachel v Susie special has been oft mentioned. It'd be excellent, but I don't think it would ever happen unfortunately.

I reckon Rachel would octo.
Not sure about Susie, it's always hard to say. You'd expect her to be pretty good at the letters but no evidence about the numbers games.

Andy Platt

Yeah probably consistently higher scores but less fluctuation/standard deviation so 146 maybe becomes slightly more elusive. I'll do a case study later maybe

Andy Platt

How do you reckon previous octochamps' totals in the classic 15 rounder format convert into the new 10-letter, 4-number 15 rounder format? Much difference? Maybe a few points a game on average? This will be interesting to see over the next few series

Andy Platt

Possible decent shout for Giles?

Andy Platt

I think you are too into this, why not just make an unofficial site like Dave's Countdown Hall of Fame or something and leave it at that

Andy Platt

Tinamou is the bird. Manitou is the one Susie usually offers & defines when the pair comes up on Countdown, you guys need to watch it more

Andy Platt

I got the conundrum fairly quickly thanks to remembering the scramble from Julian Fell's 146 game. Did anyone else? http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3387 DETONATE as an alt to TALENTED in round 9 (don't think DC mentioned it). I didn't remember that it was the exact scramble, but I did remember tha...

Andy Platt

Hi, the arrangement was that I would write Friday recaps during the 30th Birthday Championship, but I hadn't been planning to write any more. As far as I know, Thomas Carey is going to pick up the Friday reins again... I did think that you were only doing the 30BC, Heather. But, I can't see Thomas ...

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I'm stepping in to do this one with James's blessing, as Heather & Tom have proper things to do, and I'll be spending today hung over and in my PJs 8-) After Sam's great comeback against a very solid player in our very own Philip Jarvis, he is rewarded with the champion's chair for this game, on...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:
Conor wrote:Nobody ever practises 3 large so it seems unfair to refer to 'standard methods'.
I see, I'm a nobody now... *huffs*

If you're a nobody, and nobody's perfect, then what does that make you?

Andy Platt

In WIndows 7, whenever I move a window and it touches the top of the screen the system takes over and full-screens it. This is never what I want and is driving me mad. Does anybody know a way of configuring it, or killing it outright? http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00GCbQHafETvqD/Sledge-Hammer-...

Andy Platt

Might sound like a stupid question but I'm at work and can't remember this game - what's the challenger's full name again? Cheers

Edit: ah is it the young girl?

Andy Platt

Everyone wrote:Some stuff

Even as a numbers-biased player, I would probably prefer to see this tournament as just letters.
There's also the practical element to omitting the numbers rounds too, no extra fiddling about with random number generators and stuff.

Andy Platt

OK so could it be that Nick's button both starts the clock and enables the contestant buzzers?

Edit: I could just have invented this from somewhere

Andy Platt

They told me that it would only activate in sync when Nick presses the conundrum scramble reveal button and wouldn't have any effect before that

Andy Platt

As for timing out the picker, if there's too much hesitation I/the game's host will pick a final consonant or vowel from the pile to make the selection up to 5C4V or as close as possible. On Apto you simply get get an S shoved in your face. This might be easier? EDIT: And it'll be a 9-round format ...

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