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Jimmy Gough wrote:Unless I'm missing something, there's no PINTERS + U

OUP clearly not being as maths-geek friendly as Chambers or Collins...

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Well, it's all over bar the shouting, so who did what, won what, wore what and cocked what up? The theme word for the day was 'football', and the prize of a DVD football trivia quiz (hosted by who else but Sir Jeff Stelling himself) went to Jeremy Miles for his word HEADER in the first round. The ra...

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Blockbusters was 1-on-2 but kind of works.

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umm... hmm!

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Katherine Birkett wrote:For the benefit of filling a knowledge gap, what do you have to do for a recap?

Mr. Reams explains it all.

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As I said in the hotel bar afterwards: Best game of Countdown I have seen ever! Congrats both players for making it so exciting. Its a shame these red hot favourites had to run into one another so early in the competition. Would have made a great final. Well done Steven. Commiserations David. I'm s...

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:All in favour of a new KILLER bot Apterous Blue?

Played Rex lately? :p

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In addition to playing videogames I am a keen collector and possess a... reasonable... collection spanning about 30 years (Combat is still remarkably playable even today). Currently Fallout 3 is occupying most of my time. At least it would be if my Xbox didn't kill itself last week. When you have a...

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Hi everyone

I've just heard from the venue the price for lunch will be £3.50 a head, and there will be 20 available (in case anyone changes their mind at the last minute).

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13/15 is always something to brag about, especially when it's a record score (albeit in an obscure format)- http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=21771

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Ooh, reminds me of another small thing I'd like to see- as well as the max for each format, knowing the minimum would be interesting too, as well as any various averages you'd care to throw at us stats geeks.

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Junaid Mubeen wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:For those getting here ridiculously early (like, 10am ish), will anyone be able to give me and my copious amounts of equipment a lift to the venue? I don't live terribly far away, but far enough.
I should be there by 10am and if so will gladly help.

Awesome, thanks mate.

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Rich Priest wrote:I had FOAMING and then FLAMING but for some reason never thought to add the O...

Well done Charlie, great performance, looking forward to seeing you play Junaid.

I got FLAMING and somehow turned it into MAGNOLIA...

Can't wait for the rematch on Friday!

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Couple more things (this should be it, honest)- -Is anybody able to bring along a windows-fueled laptop I can run Charlie's sexy pairings/triplettings program from? Also -For those getting here ridiculously early (like, 10am ish), will anyone be able to give me and my copious amounts of equipment a ...

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I'm not sure I dare point it out...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_ ... lera_song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obviously
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_(Ja_Rule_song)

If I'd tried for more than one minute I may have come up with more.

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I can't help but think if Damian still browsed the forum he'd be spinning in his crypt.

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roland.keeley wrote:CD has always been for people interested in letters and numbers.

Yep. Which is completely unchanged, and if you record the show, you can fast-forward through the bits you don't like!

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roland.keeley wrote:I am also unconvinced by jeff stelling, a good football commentator but no countdown host.

He light-years better than Des Lynam (in as much as he actually wants to be there) and Des O'Connor (in as much as he's infinitely sharper).

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:He's still rather strong
Grr, more tweaking needed then. Cheers for this, though.

Yes, I would think so

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He's still rather strong

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My COLIN 2009 to do list is looking increasingly threadbare: 1. Baffle everyone with fiendishly difficult conundrums 2. Avenge Kirk inflicted defeat from CONOT 3. Steal Emma off Dinos 4. Play Countdown theme on piano (I'm working on this, but it's fecking hard to get right) 5. Actually get there on...

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Or are you providing conundrums for each game, as happened at COLIN 2008? I believe the latter, since he's asked me to write them (except those for my own games, unfortunately.) Indeed, the conundrums shall be provided, there'll be at least one for every single game played so there won't be any del...

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Charlie Reams wrote:To have a word disallowed and still set a new record is pretty insane. Round 12 is a particular highlight, I personally didn't know there was such a word.

Record or no record, four niners in a row is a highlight in anyone's book.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Oliver Garner wrote:How about the ability to choose your own DC guests
I was thinking that as well. Now there's so many, it's hard to get hold of a particular one.

Ability to pick own hosts would be good as well if only so I can shoot that annoying dog in the head.

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A while ago it became better at numbers rounds, and now letters rounds. Nope. Nope he didn't get better? He's certainly better at numbers than he used to be. He used to be little better than a monkey at a typewriter. All the bots have been given an injection of numbers skill to the point there's li...

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Each reply in this topic must be longer than the previous. Absolutely yes you may positively confirm my entry into the second aptobash tournament that shall be contested on the fifteenth of February in the year of our lord two thousand and nine and am I also to assume that when you insisted on each...

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Junaid Mubeen wrote:Is there anything for non-players to do? I assume they can watch the games and shout abuse at my opponents if necessary.

Sure, there'll be plenty of onlookers on the day so it's not like they'll be sitting back bored. Hopefully.

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Eastern one is easy, but only if you know it [/tarannt]. (It's Lowestoft in Suffolk

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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=21025

Not sure whether this is scrag or 'foaming at mouth pissed-off-edness', largely because I had OUTREACHES wrongly disallowed which affected the scoreline. I suppose the moral of the story is 'don't play hyper'.

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Ian Volante wrote:So what's causing this recent spate of thread-bumping?

You, by the looks of things. [/reams]

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Aptobash II will be in mid-February. Not sure what will happen after that.
Wasn't the Letters/Speed Letters Attack Record Attack Aptobash II?

The forum wrote:Aptochallenge 2: Letters Attack
by Charlie Reams on Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:39 pm

Charlie likes his apto- prefix, to be fair.

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In addition to playing videogames I am a keen collector and possess a... reasonable... collection spanning about 30 years (Combat is still remarkably playable even today). Currently Fallout 3 is occupying most of my time. At least it would be if my Xbox didn't kill itself last week.

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GET IN!

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=20642

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Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:
Howard Somerset wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:I claim the lowest score - 21.
I can think of one at least who's lower. And he'll be at COLIN.

And his surname could well be the highest.
Who?
Is it BOB - which is worth 19 points?

I doubt it'll be Robert.

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R14 from me: (75-9)*(7+5)+10+9. Then I spot the more straightforward way. D'oh.

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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=20539

Ugh, someone stop giving Pruneaid red bull.

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That letter distribution is frigging hideous . So, to answer your second question, here's what I'd do... 1: A E E I O U 2: A A E I O U 3: A E I I O Y 4: A T E I O U 5: R T B C P D 6: G R S X F H 7: Q N S T J L 8: Z L N R K M 9: G N W V K D That took far longer than anticipated and I'm still not happ...

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Ian Volante wrote:They wouldn't let me do Slayer. Too obscure apparently!

Pah. Though to be fair at my (alas failed) audition they only just accepted Van Halen.

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Ian Volante wrote:
Jimmy wrote:And your specialist subject is?
Metallica

Respect.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Hold on Countmax lists GANDISEEG as a valid word

You must have an old version then

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1. RW
2. Jeff
3. Des
4. Deso

Jeff's got off on the right foot but he's got a long way to go to match Whiters in my eyes.

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Alaska north and west, Hawaii south, Maine east.

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Clare Sudbery wrote:What, you mean nobody has come along and written an alternative in Apterous' absence? Pah. I shall have to go and Kountdown instead. ;o)

I can't help but feel in metaphorical terms this is like saying 'damn, out of cow's milk, ah well, dog's milk it is'.

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Karen Pearson wrote:I still can't declare on the duel. Has anyone else managed to play the duel yet today?

Yes, but literally at ten past midnight. I got in first but I'm not sure my crappy score is a fair trade-off for that.

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An opinion piece in the Mirror, bizarre not just for its stereotyping and "alternative" mathematics, but also for the fact that a piece so slight somehow requires an "additional reporting" credit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/more-sport/2009/01/13/rachel-riley-countdown-debut-d...

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I'd be interested to know what you (and others) are like at remembering faces. I've heard there's some sort of inverse relationship with maths skills. I'm absolutely hopeless. I don't particularly forget people's names, I simply don't recognise them. I couldn't do an accurate photo-fit to save my l...

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March 8th, for no better reason than it's Gyles Brandreth's birthday (and also my mum's).

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David O'Donnell wrote:I'd love it, pretty please. I can never justify the expense of attending these events (coming from Ireland) so would love to see just what goes down. .... Is it true about the orgy in a pit of gelatine?

Sadly Jim hasn't signed up yet.

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And as for what the Daily Mail made of it all... well, it's the Daily Mail... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1113322/Rachel-Riley-survives-nervy-Countdown-Carol-Vordermans-replacement.html Awesome stuff from the Mail - "Her first ever numbers game went without a hitch as the cont...

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Lesley, I already had an audition... and just heard, I passed. I'm going to be on the show! V. exciting. And no I didn't mean SLAINTE, I just invented two respectively-anagrammatic words (SLANTIE, ALISTEN) in my sleep. God knows why. But yes, SLAINTE is in there as another real-word anagram. Are th...

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probably the greatest music video of all time and a damn fine song to boot. I've only just clicked on the link 3 minutes after you have posted it, and a message comes up saying "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG." It must've been good then :lol: Should work...

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probably the greatest music video of all time and a damn fine song to boot.

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A few more things- *As always, I'll need as many people as possible to bring along any equipment they might have (board games and ODEs)- if you could confirm in this thread what you're willing to bring I'd be grateful. I myself will be hauling along 8 board games and for the first time ever my ODE2r...

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When you're done, will you be going for speed conundrum attack, then goatconundrum attack, hyperconundrum, hypergoatconundrum attacks? They all need perfecting too...

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probably my stupidest risk on the show was DAPPERS* in my champion of champions first round, which I knew was bollocks from the moment I declared the seven (my opponent had a six). I'm still a bit gutted at having OUTLANDS^ disallowed in the subsequent game though. OK, so what's the difference betw...

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Anybody here an enthusiast of Audiosurf? I've got to admit I absolutely love it and, considering the size of my mp3 collection, I get a hell of a lot of play out of it!

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probably my stupidest risk on the show was DAPPERS* in my champion of champions first round, which I knew was bollocks from the moment I declared the seven (my opponent had a six).

I'm still a bit gutted at having OUTLANDS^ disallowed in the subsequent game though.

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Also worthy of note is this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo which probably has the most people born during its number one duration in 1991 for 16 Bryan Adams-licious weeks Upon further research there was indeed a Countdowner of note who was born during those dark times. ;) And why h...

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I'm utterly amazed no one (myself included) has said Mr. T yet.

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