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EMERSING^ was unlucky for Elaine, it's a very plausible construction from EMERSION, which I'm surprised Susie didn't at least mention. Also, REGIMENTS was there that round.

Edit: Too slow.

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Has any champion got less than 100 before over their reign? I was thinking the exact same thing too. I'm pretty certain it's a no, in terms of 15-rounders. Obviously, it happened plenty of times in the 9-rounders era. :geek: Incredibly, he's not even close to the 'honour' of lowest scoring two-game...

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Agreed.

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I've never had a problem with this. It's not that difficult to look up the answer if you're interested, and since different people on here seem to have different ideas of how to conceal text effectively (see: Phil), some people would probably still have it spoiled accidentally for them anyway. And y...

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Jack Worsley wrote:What about PIRACIES in round 3? It's valid on apterous but PIRACY is listed as a mass noun in the ODE 3.

It's a mass noun in all senses in ODE2r as well, and PIRACIES doesn't seem to have been expressly allowed on the show before, so I can't see why it's allowed on apterous.

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Thomas Carey wrote:Warning!

C2: Challenger Rob Mackay. He’s Robin Mackay on apterous.

Are you sure about this? There's a "Rob Mackay" from Scotland on apterous too.

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It was interesting to see Rachel asking Raj if he'd written his numbers method down before allowing him to correct himself, wonder if the crew had a discussion similar to the one here following Michael's shambolic numbers game last week? Or has this happened before?

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If you briefly sustain the final T sound in 'castigate', it sounds similar to 'castigates'. Probably what happened.

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Andy McGurn wrote:How about Innis. In Hispanic culture its a girls name, albeit with a slightly different spelling (Ines). Then there'll be the countdown link and the slightly unusual, but not unheard of name.

And don't worry about people thinking that 'Innis' is a boys' name. I assure you this never happens.

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Quarter-finals: Bob De Caux 4-3 Innis Carson Bob-110-98 Innis Innis 107-90 Bob Innis 129-112 Bob Innis 99-95 Bob Bob 116-93 Innis Bob 134-124 Innis Bob 106-103 Innis Just a brilliant series of games. Could tell right from the start that I was in for a very hard time, particularly when it was Bob's c...

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Nothing can keep me away from this. Hope some of you guys will be willing to make the trek!

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I guess it could be fun to have a deliberately slightly silly tournament and see what happens.

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I think Cthulhu is perhaps more widely known that you realise Phil, particularly on the Internet. I'd heard of it and had no idea it was anything to do with Lovecraft.

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Sounds more like a sustained 't' to me, which sounds similar to an 's'. Only fair to give her the benefit of the doubt either way.

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John Garcia wrote:LIVELONGS for 9 in the selling/solving round near the end.

Very nice, I went for "lovelings" like an idiot.

And yep, pretty impressive play by Michael.

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To be a Gevin's Delight, I think one player gets to pick all the rounds. Should be interesting! How is this fair? The FA Cup is not fair. Fair is not necessarily automatically desirable. Fair is generally biassed towards the strongest players which can make for a predictable (dull?) tournament. Fai...

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Maybe if Gevin's Delight wins, we could do it based on aggregate score over 2 games, with one person picking each? Not sure that's perfectly fair either (the person picking the second game still has an advantage, I think) but it fixes the balance somewhat. I'm sure it would be fun whatever way you d...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:To be a Gevin's Delight, I think one player gets to pick all the rounds. Should be interesting!

How is this fair?

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Diluting juice, diluted properly, tastes fine. Water on its own tastes fine. So why does overdiluted juice taste so unbearably bad? Not just "not as nice as properly diluted juice", but actually revolting. What is it about this particular intermediate concentration of juice that the body r...

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Jordan Leckonby wrote:i think on apterous carl williams is keith williams

Interesting, what makes you think that?

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Congrats once again Peter, you definitely had a much harder-than-usual run of opponents and it must have taken a great deal of composure to hang on until the end. Nice that you had a relatively relaxing game to end on. I liked the Jack cameo at the end too, adds a bit of a friendly-rivarly atmospher...

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I barely scraped by Scott Gillies after two tense games, both going to crucials:

Me 107-95 Scott
Me 87-75 Scott

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My childhood ambition (decided when I was about 6, and probably based on nothing whatsoever) was to be a vet. Lost interest in that as soon as the time came where I had to start working towards it, and decided instead to be a "chemistry guy". 3 years into my degree, I have no clearer ambit...

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I'm really hoping to go to this, just depends how much money I have nearer the time. Consider me about 80% committed. Is there a limited number of places?

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Round 9: R G W N I O E D I C1: WORDING (7) C2: WORDING (7) DC: WIDGEON (7) OT: DOWERING (8) WEIRDING (8) Score: 77–57 (max 98) I didn't quite catch this round, so not sure if these are the words, but they did both spot a 7. Peter had IGNORED, but Stephen's is right. Good recap as always, thanks for...

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No, I don't understand. What are you actually complaining about? If you refuse to participate in any social setting with existing friendship groups then you'll be in for a fairly solitary existence. There's nothing preventing anyone else from having a private forum and forming their own "cliqu...

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Unfortunately I disagree with Craig on this one, Jon seems like a funny guy, he is obviously after a bit of banter, I think he is a character you either like or you don't but I quite like him. Every forum has these characters and I am a member of a golfing forum and we have those characters on ther...

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Well played both of you, especially Peter - I'd been thinking that your run had been rather dry of nines so far, but you certainly made the most of the opportunity when it finally came. And credit where credit's due, Ann wasn't nearly as bad as she has been on previous occasions, I even enjoyed her ...

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Very well played Peter, a tough opponent well fought off. I'm reluctant to say "it's hard to imagine you losing if you keep that standard up", given what happened to the last guy I said it about, but it's true.

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I don't really see the controversy behind pluralising mass nouns, the rules clearly state that you cannot pluralise a mass noun but you can pluralise a food eg tandoori/tandooris although 'sedations' could be plausible in the fact that maybe an animal could have had 2 sedations in its life, I dont ...

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Has the dictionary entry for SEDATION changed at all since ODE2r? If not, that's very unfair on Victoria who may well have seen SEDATIONS allowed on the show before (or made the mistake of paying attention to the contestant guidelines).

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As far as Google knows, I'm the only Innis Carson in existence. Win. What's all this then? I could be wrong, but I think that's just the Gaelic words 'innis' and 'carson' appearing next to each other in a sentence, rather than somebody's name. Perhaps someone on here who knows Gaelic will be able t...

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As far as Google knows, I'm the only Innis Carson in existence. Win.

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They need to at least warn potential contestants if they're going impose such a counter-intuitive "no apterites who have played X games" rule. If someone is enough of a fan of Countdown to want to be on it, there's a pretty good chance they'll look for Countdown websites and stumble upon a...

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Not bad, but can you get the only (as far as I'm aware) apterous-valid eleven-letter word?

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Agree with all of that, although personally I would give going with a more commonly used word even higher priority (although obviously never at the expense of score). It's just nicer I think, makes it feel more like a word game rather than a symbols game, even if this is a delusion.

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Count me in.

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He's saying that you and Kirk moaned about the randomness last time, because you had to play each other. Also that when you were actually on the show, it wasn't random, so, having done well at your audition, you didn't have to face any top players in the heats. But he still agrees with Josh. Oh, OK...

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On the random vs seeded thing (dunno if you said above which is gonna happen, CBA reading through) I think random would be best tbh. I think that way it would give more people a chance and you'd see unexpected people emerging from not evenly spacing out all of the best candidates. Probably makes it...

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Ouch, what an absolute nightmare. Poor guy. Especially the last numbers, he was clearly a good numbers player, but it's remarkable what tiredness/panic can do to the mind.

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Mark seems like a cool guy, he handled a convincing defeat (and rather bizarre mockery from Nick) with good humour. Sri definitely deserved to win though, will be hard to imagine him losing if he keeps that standard up.

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Very well played Jack, I'd say you definitely had a higher-than-normal standard of challengers to deal with, which makes your consistent high scoring all the more impressive.

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Jack gave INVADERS. But he had declared 7, and there was no R or S in the selection. Yet it was just accepted without comment. ?????????? INVADED wasn't it? Tbh I thoutgh it sounded like INVADERS but judging by the selection and the fact that it's Jack I assumed I'd misheard. Sounded unambiguously ...

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Round 7: L L B U E I S U T As soon as the last letter comes out, Nick remarks "law graduates will enjoy that one". I wonder, was he referring to SUIT? Or BULLIES? I was confused by this too, perhaps he was meaning that the selection looks a bit like "libel suit"? Or maybe there'...

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Round 7: L L B U E I S U T C1: BULLIES (7) C2: BULLIES (7) OT: BILLETS (7) BULLETS (7) TUBULES (7) Score: 42–39 (max 52) As soon as the last letter comes out, Nick remarks "law graduates will enjoy that one". I wonder, was he referring to SUIT? Or BULLIES? I was confused by this too, perh...

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Thought TANNERIES was there in some round or other but obviously not as I seem to be the only person that spotted it. Nope you're right, it was there in the TRANNIES round. Anyway I quite liked Nick, there were a few good moments where his wit shined through the inevitable nerves. Once he gets the ...

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I can't be the only person who spotted the continuity error at the end of the show, although I may well be the only person who cared the slightest bit about it! Jon buzzed for the conundrum and got it, but when they went to the full shot neither contestant's light was on, then when Jimmy presented ...

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I think point still stands, runner up in GotW can't really be GotY. I don't agree with this, the decisions made in the GotW vote were made under different circumstances to now and aren't necessarily applicable any more. Quite often people are wowed by what seems like a great performance in a new va...

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Think pretty much everyone would agree that the runner-up's prize is a better prize in itself, but in a way it's nice to have it like that, it softens the blow for whoever loses the final and keeps the contest friendly. If the winner's prize was something highly valuable/desirable, the runner-up cou...

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In please.

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#2: 44 days without food or water spent in a glass box over the Thames by David Blaine

On second thought, he did have water, maybe this isn't exactly right. Or perhaps it's another mistake.

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#4 must be something along the lines of 1874: Alexander Bell called (something something) "Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you"

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Awesome. Pulling off that final 6 small solve in such a tense situation has to be one of the all-time greatest Countdown achievements. Fantastically well done Graeme, you've been great to watch and you truly earned the title, not just for being a great player, but for holding your composure so well ...

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Mark, HUGE respect for being so gracious and humorous about this, and still going through the motions of advertising your appearances on Facebook etc. It can't have been easy, especially knowing how much it mattered to you. Please don't view this as a failure. You've been amazing.

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Good contest, was nice to see the return of "probably the same 7".

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A strong performance indeed by Phyllis, 11 maxes by my count (could easily have been 13 with the two other numbers rounds).

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Thomas Carey wrote:Another reason I wanted to get on quickly was the fact I know it's not gonna last long.

What makes you say this?

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Doesn't sound like a change they would make by their own choice, as far as I can recall there's only been about 3 or 4 under-16 contestants in the past few years anyway so it's not like they were taking over the show. If it was anything to do with Damian's concern about young males being overreprese...

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Jack Worsley wrote:Amazed DC missed DEVIANT in round 1.

Me too, I wondered if perhaps they had it but politely glossed over it to avoid embarrassing Paul, who spotted it two games earlier.

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