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Joseph Bolas

C1: DINOS SFYRIS C2: JOSEPH BOLAS DC: NICK WAINWRIGHT R1. T S C V O U A I D R2. H R U T A N I Y A R3. E E W L S A S S S R4. 8, 1, 5, 4, 3, 10, Target: 764 R5. P Q D U I I I N B R6. I G L A O G S N U R7. O I N R R R T O O R8. 100, 75, 50, 25, 9, 1, Target: 730 R9. T O F U C A F E S (conundrum) R1. T ...

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(25 x 10) - 4 = 246

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Not for long.

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jasoncullen wrote:IRONCLAD

Well spotted Jason.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:OUTPLACES is a no no! I learnt that last time the selection came up, and this time spotted COPULATES straight away.

Isn't it the same with OUTPLACED and COPULATED?

Joseph Bolas

I don't think anyone is going to get these words, so I will reveal the answers:

02. ALMUCEJUS = MAJUSCULE
09. ELECTCORE = RECTOCELE
20. REAMSISIS = AIRMISSES*

*AIRMISS is listed in the dictionary as a noun so not sure if this can be pluralised.

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mikebuk wrote:OUTPLACES as an anagram of COPULATES ?

I think you can only have COPULATES, but not sure of that.

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Martin Gardner wrote:Conor Travers beat Chris Wills 2-0 in the best of three, the second of those games is here : http://www.countdownwiki.com/COMA_-_Chr ... %2C_game_2.

Martin

What time was this match on last night? I logged on to see if I could catch it and I think I missed it.

Joseph Bolas

How well will Andrew do today?

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Having said that some of the variations are much better, and I'll probably take a book of them to do on the plane to Tenerife this Friday. What about a Countdown book :P or get someone to set you some extra tough countdown puzzles to do on the plane :D. EDIT: I have actually come across a book I di...

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Jason Larsen wrote:So, Countdown is not too hard after all.

To play? IMO - At home yes (very easy to play), in the stuido no (especially when nerves kick in).

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Jason Larsen wrote:That's ok, Joseph.

Foreign words aren't allowed on Countdown, I take it.

I think its only American-spelling words that arent allowed. There will be French words, Spanish words etc that will be allowed, but probably just not as many as you can have in Scrabble.

Joseph Bolas

Yeah, I saw DERAILING a few seconds after I declared danglier. Went blank on two numbers games and made some silly mistakes/misses. But I didn't set out to be a multichamp - I was happy to just to win one. And I was glad I lost to someone as pleasant as Andrew. Most people would be happy with just ...

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Jason Larsen wrote:I was talking about Countdown, I'm sorry.

My bad, I thought your reply after Martin's post was to do with his Scrabble post (to do with the luck involved) etc.

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David O'Donnell wrote:I did it multiplying 126 * 3 so not only is it not impossible there is more than one way!

Theres probably not that many solutions though, so to some, it can seem impossible.

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Craig Beevers wrote:1 + 50/25 = 3
100 + 1 = 101
101 * 3 = 303
303 + 75 = 378

Well done for finding a solution, I could only get 376 so was quite pleased with that

.

Joseph Bolas

im not sure this has been covered, but does anybody know of a selection where it is possible to get every number from 100 to 1000, would be interesting to know Not here, but in the mailing list this topic did appear. To quote Ray Folwell (who devised a program to work this out). "According to ...

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Good luck to Joe on his 2nd game.

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Jason Larsen wrote:I thought foreign words weren't allowed.

http://www.absp.org.uk/words/languages.html

Here is all the words, in different languages that are allowed in Scrabble

.

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Sudoku's so fucking boring! I haven't gone out of my way to find these variations, but if they're variations on Sudoku, I imagine there's only so much potential in them. Killer Sudoku is better than a normal Sudoku puzzle IMO as it focuses on maths as well as logic (especially if the totals in the ...

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Jason Larsen wrote:That's right!

If you know English very well, you're good at the game and if you're lucky, you pick the right letters.

Not only English. There are quite a few foreign words you can have too.

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Ginger Jono wrote:11. FUNDCATTY candytuft
21. RECOVERUS verrucose

These are correct

. That just leaves 'A', 'M' and 'R':

02. ALMUCEJUS
09. ELECTCORE
20. REAMSISIS

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Also, there was a TV version of Scrabble on 25 years ago. It was hosted by Chuck Woolery, who hosted the revived version of Lingo 6 years ago (I was told you did get that in the UK,) and he was the original host of Wheel of Fortune here in the US. Scrabble just ran its course. We have had Lingo in ...

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It is one of those weird things like the TV show Lost, Mozilla Firefox and Sudoku, that, despite being pretty crap, people seem to get really obsessed with. I don't trust such things and would advise staying well away from them. How can you not like Sudoku? If you don't like the original Sudoku, th...

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I don't think you have included yound Dinos's efforts. Here a couple more: COLLECTOR, FRICA S SEE, NIFTINESS and the dodgy SAINTSHIP? You are right, I did forget Dinos' words, sorry Dinos :oops:. All of Dinos' are correct too and FRICA S SEE, NIFTINESS and the dodgy SAINTSHIP are correct too. Sorry...

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They didn't mention it was St. Patrick's Day, did they? And they missed Irish word of the day BLARNEY too! No they didn't and they normally do mention saint days etc. At the time of the recording they would've known it was St. Patrick's Day surely? or maybe because of the Cheltenham Festival, the r...

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01: IRRIGABLE? 03: JAUNTIEST 04: DIGLOSSIA 06: SCAREFIES (why does this word remind me of Indiana Jones?) 07: GENOCIDAL 12: LIQUEFIED 13: THYLACINE 14: BRUTALISM 16: KERBSTONE 17: UNDERSIDE 22: PAEDERAST 26: EMOTIVITY. I don't have SCAREFIES for #06, but the rest are correct :). That leaves: 02. AL...

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I hope JC and DS don't mind, but I would like to set a conundrum challenge :D. If the word list I have got is up to date then all these words should be in the ODE2r. Some of these words may have been used before, so hopefully it wont be too hard :D. Also #22 IS jumbled up ;). 01. AGILERRIB 02. ALMUC...

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Martin Gardner wrote:Can the group inform us of any games that are going on and what dates, I'd quite like to watch, as would many others.

Martin

I normally stay away from Countdown games in Messenger, but I would like to see the final, if it hasn't been played yet.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:I think today's challenger Joe is a member of this group, so well done to him for winning today's game.

He is. Well done Joseph on a nice win. Pity you never got a century but then LIFEBLOOD was a tricky conundrum (for some reason I thought it was BLOODLIFE

).

Joseph Bolas

I don't play Scrabble that much, but I honestly didn't think it would've mattered much if you played 1st or 2nd as long as you get good letters and can play a few bingoes too.

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Charlie Reams wrote:Anyone else here play Kingdom of Loathing? If not, you should.

Not really a fan of online RPG games to be honest.

P.S. Your link doesn't work

.

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I wonder if Des and Carol will be wearing green. I don't think Carol would suit green.

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Happy Birthday Jono.

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I just got this game today (American import) and it is a brilliant game

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Happy Birthday Corby

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2nd numbers Alt: (((25 + 3) x 10) + (3 - 2)) x 2

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harry wrote:My favourite request of the existing ones is the "Motown selection".

I can't remember the name but I liked the one where the contestant asked Carol for a selection similiar to the arm movements of a flight attendant (when showing the location of the exits etc).

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Round 4 - SNAFUED? (Think I've spelt that right).

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You know what to do.

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Here are my attempts for now JC :D 2. MAULPARIS = MARSUPIAL 3. CIGARETTS = STRATEGIC 4. HOOPWRILL = WHIRLPOOL 6. DANJUICED = JAUNDICED 8. ADOZETAPA = ZAPATEADO 15. APIEVOTED = VIDEOTAPE 16. JADECRACK = CARJACKED 17. MAMYSHEEP = EMPHYSEMA 19. AIMONARCH = HARMONICA 21. FLINBLODD = BLINDFOLD 23. DAUNTD...

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Charlie Reams wrote:17. ASSORTER - not roasters

If this isn't ROASTERS, I was thinking it could be ASSERTOR, but the 'A' has already been used up with ARACHNID.

Joseph Bolas

The maximums for the word rounds were:

R01: CULIMNATE
R02: LOVEBIRD
R03: MORTUARY
R05: ROISTERED
R06: APERTURES
R07: ABRIDGED / BIRDCAGE / BRIGADED
R08: FORELOCK

Sorry Damian, but there were no typos with round 3's selection. I don't think you can have BIRDCAGED too for round 7 either.

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Bryan Conlan wrote:X is XYLORIMBA.

Thank you Bryan for eliminating 'X'

.

I thought #22 was 'X', but because it's not 'X', MEGAPIXEL stood out at me

(I hope I have spelt it right

).

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David O'Donnell wrote:
jasoncullen wrote:The word is CATECHISM Joseph
SCHEMATIC is a valid word though, Jason.

Here are the unsolved words:

06. GUMONDIRK
09. HOMIPLANE
11. BARMYOXIL
12. IDUSQURRY
17. RATYPOKEY
20. MANYCRAPI
22. IMAGEPLEX
25. MOOVYVALT

The S word must be #12 David.

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David O'Donnell wrote:I spotted a few others in addition to those but I have never heard of ZUCCHETO, nice one Joseph.

I almost put ZUCCHETTI to begin with

. I know I have only put 1 C in my spelling of ZUCCHETTO

.

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I can see:

01 - CATECHISM
04 - LIQUORICE
05 - QUICKSTEP
13 - ZUCCHETTO (have added the 2nd 'C' in the spelling

)
14 - HIERARCHY (have got the I and E the right way round

)
16 - AMPHIBIAN
19 - WOODLOUSE
21 - EARTHWORM
23 - JAYWALKER
26 - OTHERWISE

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David Roe wrote:I believe they change it every 6 months or so, so you should be OK. (Even if they didn't, they will now! )

Well actually the audition was in 2003, so its been almost 5 years since then

.

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Joseph Bolas wrote:Will Barry become an octochamp today? I am going to say yes.

I guess I was wrong

.

Well done to Barry though for getting 7 wins and more importantly, beating his wife

.

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Actually I am just wondering now if it was alright to post these audition rounds, because I don't actually know if any of them are still used in todays auditions

.

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M. George Quinn wrote:I can't remember him in that Fort Boyard thing but I do remember he hosted a very crappy daytime quiz show.

You're right, he hosted the general knowledge game show Whittle. How did I forget that

.

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Will Barry become an octochamp today? I am going to say yes.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:That was my audition too. That last numbers game is so easy to get 1 away. I can't believe I was only 4 away in the audition. Inexperience mixed with nerves - a deadly combination.

I actually got 5 away myself and got 363. My best was the 1st numbers, where I was only 1 away.

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Is Tim Vine the guy, who hosted a programme called Fort Boyard Takes On The World, in which he shows how different countries play Fort Boyard? It's a shame that's how you identify him, as he is a massively underrated comic in my opinion. How much are the tickets? Let me know if the value ever drops...

Joseph Bolas

Just to finish off the alphabet completely, I have had a look in the ODE2R and there is one 12-letter word beginning with 'X'

.

TURNIPHEXISM

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Paul Howe wrote:16 is WISECRACKING. I thought I hade HONDODMURDER with rhododendrum, but then I realised the flower ends in -dron. Ah well.

Sorry Paul, #16 only has 1 I and 2 S's. I think you're right though and Dinos may have said the wrong letters

.

Joseph Bolas

I think everyone is likely to say "and a better one" at one point during a Countdown game.

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Could 21 be BICENTENNEAL (sp?)

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So people can keep track, the unsolved ones are:

05 ANGRIESTDIET
11 SINNINGTREAT
12 CRAPPEDTITIE
14 HORDEDFAMELY
15 HONDODMURDER
16 SCREWGINSACK
21 CLIENTNETBAN
22 SCROUNGEDINE
25 ANIODINESALT

EDIT: Ooh I know two YAY:

05 - DISINTEGRATE
25 - NATIONALISED?

Joseph Bolas

you had to wait a whole year? that must have been agonising, i am lucky i auditioned and filmed 2 weeks later, programme/s still waiting to be aired so i wont post spoiler/s. It was a long wait indeed. After about 11 months of waiting, I phoned up to find out when they wanted me and I got my record...

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