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Will it still be Bristol style? Is Bristol style the one where everyone picks to the same letters? That'd be pretty rubbish if only one person in the room was picking the goatpick at a time, but weirdly it might be hella interesting if every pair gets the goatpick between them so you could have a s...

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In all fairness Zarte, http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5259. Please ignore 252 as my brain was still asleep at 10:00 am after the excitement of the night before. By 10:30 I was awake again. Today's program was presumably an evening recording. :) My point was, I don't think it's fair to make what P...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:In all fairness Tony, I play 3L and it took me a while to see that.

In all fairness Zarte, http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5259.

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I think that date is quite close to London and to Leamington Spa, so it would overcrowd the calendar a little bit if it were to be just a case of the same format again, and I'm not just saying that because of my involvement with the second one, it's just, you know, steak every night is great, but to...

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Philip Jarvis wrote:It was interesting when I went for ANDISOL because Susie initially ruled it out and I just accepted this as I was only 50% confident. There was then a brief pause before she realised her mistake. I think she must have heard Andy Platt screaming at the TV in the green room.

Guilty!!!!

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Jonathan Drinkwater-Rawlinson

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Round 9: QIBLAS Nice Q word when there's no U. I like how they talked about World Maths Day a fair bit. I wonder why the date has been moved in the last few years from the original March 14th date, which was more appropiate because of pi being equal to 3.14. Probably cos there are better things to ...

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As far as the game is concerned, when I look back, my only true disappointment was missing the 9 letter word in round 1. I told Rachael between rounds that the only thing I could see for the first 20 seconds was “WANKIEST”. I never thought of putting the other “S” on the front as I tried to find an...

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Adam Gillard wrote:
Andy Platt wrote:It was a virus, Adam. Countdown Team now have all your credit card details and browsing history.
Heh, they probably expected to get it a couple of years ago! Good scam though.

Yep, Damian's getting a new speedboat for Christmas. And they know about the dwarf porn.

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It was a virus, Adam. Countdown Team now have all your credit card details and browsing history.

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Anyone know what's up with Rob? He hasn't played since the 12th Feb

Very strong letters & conundrum player, he'd be up there and challenging for any given series.

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I was hoping to at least think about it, but I'm scheduled in to work the whole weekend.

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Well done Philip, very nice to see you get a win after over 10 years, and to get it against someone as strong as Rachael must feel good too. Speaking of which, as I said before, it'd be sad for me to see either of these two lose, and very unlucky Rachael to lose after a strong four games. I hope wi...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:Good intro from Mr Jarvis there and a strong start so far from him against the champ. FRAENUM as a beater in Round 4 I think.

Yep, you're right, darrenic if I remember rightly

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Pretty much all of 'em

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Well that's an ironic question but I'll presume you mean "players" not "contestants" ;) If you look here real quick you will see a good indicator. So, we're looking at people like Dylan Taylor, James Nguyen, Kevin Stoba, Giles Hutchings, Jen Steadman, Josh Hurst, etc, (but not me...

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Keith Bennett wrote:Great to see Rachael back on again. Great score today, hope it lasts all week. When are you on Andy?

Tuesday 19th March

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Looks ok

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James Robinson wrote:
Andy Platt wrote:Weirdly, I saw that MINISCULE could have come up with a final vowel pick, and indeed LUMINESCE too.
I was actually waiting for an A for CALUMNIES/MASCULINE.

Heh, good call, missed that pick

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Wasn't MINISCULE only recently added to the dictionary (before which it was one of those things pedants liked to get off on 'correcting' people for mis-spelling)? Yeah, fair play, maybe as a writer, Rachael had more awareness to it - apparently (after a cheeky Google search) it's related to the Lat...

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Did they have to refilm the BANKERS round after the declaration of the W- alternative? Ha, no they didn't, but you can tell that part of Rachael really really wanted to declare it. Should have just done it! Haha. I feel I must complain that today's show was by no means the mundane affair we had bee...

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Did I hear that right? Nick's idea of a perfect night in is with a glass of wine and a growler? :shock: Haha yes a little bit of that got edited out apparently - he did turn round at some point and really obviously go "I love a good growler" or something R1 - SUPERNAL/PURSLANE as alternat...

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That is fucking brilliant. My god. Hahahaha http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/28000513.jpg Could go for the less subtle approach? 2013-03-03 15:45:18 Nick Wainwright * says: Dan want a game 2013-03-03 15:45:30 Dan McColm says: I do actually 2013-03-03 15:45:32 Dan McColm says: how about a ...

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Depends what the question means really because in terms of the best standard Countdown has ever been played to, then we saw that in this tournament from Conor.

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I set that up quite a while ago so that, rather than having to tart up an article every month or else feature an error message, it just cycles through the same 12 ad nauseum. But I agree they have rather enjoyed their moment in the sun, so suggest a handful of well-written new ones and I'll update ...

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Question for Jack: If Conor had been on 137 and you spotted the conundrum before him, would you have possibly considered delaying a scond or two??? (Oh and Scott Mearns is the featured article yet again - might be worth revising?) This changes monthly. It was Allan Saldahna last month. Yeah but it ...

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Question for Jack: If Conor had been on 137 and you spotted the conundrum before him, would you have possibly considered delaying a scond or two??? I'm not Jack's PR agent or anything but I know Jack well enough to know that he'd still go for it. It would be a farce otherwise, it's not a practice g...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:It's a spoilers thread.

You missed the point beca...

Hmm, can I be arsed? nope

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It's a crucial. No fixes. Score after 449 rounds: Mark Deeks 3116 – 3118 Innis Carson
http://greem.co.uk/cgi-bin/caper/viewga ... e=marathon

They're playing out the crucial on the main stage any minute now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Z8Gkz0pq8

Edit: scramble WERELAPSE

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Now that it has ended, let's vote on the WOTT. LORAZEPAM was DC's finest hour. In terms of contestant words, VIHUELAS gets our vote. Were you by any chance watching chat nines when I missed it on apterous not long before the filming? Either way, that was incredible, I didn't even see it second time...

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Yes - it will be good to see Rachael again and the other mere "mortals" as Nick Hewer referred to next weeks contestants. That will probably be an accurate description when compared to some of the performances we have seen over the past 8 weeks. It's so true :( Very hard act to try and li...

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Without wanting to detract from the 146, I have to say I'm completely baffled by the frequent choices of a 5th vowel at the end of unproductive selections. It just seems to limit what's available, particular in two of the final letters games where just a single extra point would have beaten Julian'...

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szodiac wrote:
Andy Platt wrote: GLOMERULI

Trying to pass the buck now!! hahaha

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round 2 ?? well... it wont be a max game now !! Mauro I'll leave the learned among you to find the 9 - then it would have been three 9s in a row !! ( round 6 It is now!!) I'll give you a clue it starts with GL - a cluster of nerve endings. M What are you on about? This isn't the fucking puzzle foru...

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szodiac wrote:round 2 ?? well... it wont be a max game now !!

Mauro

What did you have in round 2?

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I'm saying this like I don't know the result, you have to think both players are looking for 14 maxes including the conundrum because at this level, there's typically no room for any more mistakes than that.

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They keep getting interrupted by these obnoxious women lol

Edit- Bedtime for me, 3h 30 in they're on round 85, so thats on course for like 600 rounds.

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5308

For anyone curious, Innis reckons they'll get through ~750 rounds, so 750x7 is a decent guesstimate

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http://www.justin.tv/countdownmarathon

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No Conor-beaters in this game.

You know what that means.

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Have fun guys, enjoy yourselves and hopefully you aren't too ruined by it. We respect you shit loads for doing this. Will try and keep tabs on the game as I actually have tomorrow and the day after off work - would loved to have come and helped or watched or some shit if I wasn't moving house. PS di...

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How much of Jack's emotion at the end did the cameras show? Cos that was nice They showed a little bit of it, although he was quite obviously crying when the credits were rolling Cool, well, that's great to see. Clearly such an involving and intense experience that even the most cool are starting t...

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How much of Jack's emotion at the end did the cameras show? Cos that was nice

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Haven't seen it back on TV yet, but I remember it was definitely another really enjoyable game, so fair play to both of you. I was very impressed with the 2nd numbers solve where you went via 5000 but I wondered why you felt the need to do it that way when 3x100+75+25+2 was available? :D (100*50+25)...

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The Top Gear presenters would be good with lots of interesting things to talk about not just cars etc, probably James May suits the stereotypical viewer best? Or one of the 8/10 cats guys coming back like Sean or Jon, there's clearly a good relationship already between the two shows already establi...

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Mark James wrote:I've gotten that but I don't get the relationship with the numbers. I knew the answer to the one Ryan linked to but I don't know how [22b] is supposed to lead me to that.

Conundrum scrambles [series, letter if more than 1 conundrum was used]

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The Top Gear presenters would be good with lots of interesting things to talk about not just cars etc, probably James May suits the stereotypical viewer best? Or one of the 8/10 cats guys coming back like Sean or Jon, there's clearly a good relationship already between the two shows already establis...

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Conundrum scrambles

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In DC all this week, for only her 2nd stint in DC, is the comedienne and part-time Loose Woman, Jenny Eclair. I'm actually quite surprised that they've chosen Jenny for this week. I don't not like her, mind - but, this being the final week of what is basically the second Supreme Championship, did t...

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The two sisters cast in the play wanted to be the main protagonists, but in the end they were only offered [66]

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An NFL-style top 12 (top 4 get byes to quarters) wouldn't be terrible but honestly it's already great how it is.

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I have a question. Will the website link also automatically archive the rounds? So lets say i tune in at the two-hours-played stage, can i see the previous rounds too? I realise I'm probably sounding quite demanding or annoying here but it would be a cool addition that apto-spectating doesn't have

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Graeme has rigged up a scoring system that will function essentially the same as Aptospeccing. Bloody love Graeme. Awesome. G-Man can you put up a link for that somewhere on the forums/apterous/facebook? Cheers! http://4pl.4players.de/data/gallery/images/ae/a0/2010-08-30_12-49-57_WhosAwesome.jpg

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Graeme: I'm interested in how Numbers skills have evolved over the series of Countdown, specifically with regard to the Numbers round picks that contestants have selected. I seem to recall that in the early days, when Countdown was dominated by Scrabblers, it was very rare that anyone would pick an...

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I can only eco the comments already made.

Didn't notice this - great comment

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Anyone spot a 30BC contestant sporting a little more hair on Classic Mastermind today (BBC2)?

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My only (microscopic) complaint stopping this being arguably the best performance ever is that the numbers were flatter than Keira Knightley. Would have been great to see two of the best numbers players ever actually be challenged to do a difficult solve under pressure , but unfortunately that wasn...

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