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by Tim Down
Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:11 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
Replies: 44
Views: 16828

Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024

Many thanks again, Ben, for another excellent weekend. I look forward to returning to Pot C next year. I thought the social club was a big improvement on the Fox as it was last year. All the proper post-COLIN sports were available with enough room to mingle, reasonable beer and excellent prices. The...
by Tim Down
Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:21 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83766

Re: Music

I think paying for downloads is almost as mental as buying physical music. Four reasons to pay for downloads: 1. Not all music is available to stream 2. Once downloaded, no reliance on the internet 3. Making compilations for others 4. Less energy use 5. The artist gets paid for their talent and eff...
by Tim Down
Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83766

Re: Music

This is my top 5 5. Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens 4. Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) - The Darkness 3. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade 2. All I Want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey 1. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl Really disappointed in your number 2. ...
by Tim Down
Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co-event dictionary
Replies: 34
Views: 3680

Re: Co-event dictionary

Up to a point, it really doesn't which words plus arbitrary collections of letters masquerading as words we use, so long as there is a definitive list of them. I'd strongly suggest the position for all events in the short term should be "just use the Apterous dictionary", whether it be vi...
by Tim Down
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:40 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
Replies: 44
Views: 16828

Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024

This is your reminder that COVID is still a thing and is still capable of ruining your life, so I'd suggest as many attendees as possible try do a lateral flow test shortly before we all share the same small spaces for a weekend. This goes for any CO event, really, until there's one that's fully out...
by Tim Down
Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co-event dictionary
Replies: 34
Views: 3680

Re: Co-event dictionary

Using Oxford Online at an event seems like a bad idea to me because of all the usual ambiguities that are resolved when making an update to the Apterous dictionary. Up to a point, it really doesn't matter which words plus arbitrary collections of letters masquerading as words we use, so long as ther...
by Tim Down
Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:50 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: What’s the best three-word phrase formed from the conundrum answers on consecutive days?
Replies: 13
Views: 1395

Re: What’s the best three-word phrase formed from the conundrum answers on consecutive days?

I love how this has become "these were from my run". So in keeping with that, from my run, "wandering polluting columnist" is a great descriptor for Owen Jones. Although not from my run, I do like "disinfect qualified awfulness" from Series 42. Try to limit the Tory bi...
by Tim Down
Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
Replies: 44
Views: 16828

Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024

Thomas Cappleman wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:52 pm Tim finally found a way to break the Tim Down curse and get an actual good seeding then
The goodness of my seeding for this year seems more outrageous than any previous bad seeding, but I'll happily take it. Now watch me singularly fail to live up to it.
by Tim Down
Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:38 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co:Lon - 26 August 2023
Replies: 27
Views: 10454

Re: Co:Lon - 26 August 2023

Something has come up that means I can no longer make it. Apologies.
by Tim Down
Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:47 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: CoRugby 2023
Replies: 31
Views: 13750

Re: CoRugby 2023

COVID test just now very positive indeed, so I’m definitely out.
by Tim Down
Thu Mar 16, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: CoRugby 2023
Replies: 31
Views: 13750

Re: CoRugby 2023

Irritatingly, I now have COVID and it seems highly unlikely I'll be testing negative by Saturday, so I probably won't make it. I'll do a test on Saturday though, more in hope than expectation.
by Tim Down
Tue Feb 28, 2023 4:51 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
Replies: 103
Views: 12125

Re: Countdown adjudication dictionary

Should be on the Co events thread but what dictionary is used there? Depends. At my one Co-event we used a combination ODO Premium, Lexplorer and Taking Tim Down's Word For It depending on what people had access to at each table While a significant part of me quite fancies being the authority on wh...
by Tim Down
Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:21 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: CoRugby 2023
Replies: 31
Views: 13750

Re: CoRugby 2023

It's quite frustrating living so close to Rugby but having train travel cancelled! Will anyone be driving through the Warwick/Coventry/Leamington area on their way (and way back) on the day? Happy to contribute fuel costs. I'll probably end up just skipping the parkrun but on the off-chance that an...
by Tim Down
Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:42 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023
Replies: 52
Views: 13090

Re: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023

Another great COLIN weekend, big thanks to Ben for organizing it yet again, and to everyone for the fun.

Rhys: the score for the Hangover final should be 76-86 rather than 75-85.
by Tim Down
Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:32 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023
Replies: 52
Views: 13090

Re: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023

A reminder that COVID hasn't gone away, however much we all pretend that it has, and we're all going to be sitting in a room without air filtration for hours on end, so it would be good for as many as possible to do a lateral flow test before attending. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023...
by Tim Down
Sun Nov 27, 2022 12:56 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83766

Re: Music

Four reasons to pay for downloads: 1. Not all music is available to stream 2. Once downloaded, no reliance on the internet 3. Making compilations for others 4. Less energy use 5. The artist gets paid for their talent and effort. Yeah, I get that there are upsides to not streaming. Although I would ...
by Tim Down
Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:02 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83766

Re: Music

Jon O'Neill wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 10:13 pm I think paying for downloads is almost as mental as buying physical music.
Four reasons to pay for downloads:

1. Not all music is available to stream
2. Once downloaded, no reliance on the internet
3. Making compilations for others
4. Less energy use
by Tim Down
Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:56 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83766

Re: Music

Hail to the Theif is underrated as a Radiohead album. I thought after Kid A and Amnesiac I found Hail to the Thief to be a let down apart from the 2 singles. I love In Rainbows so much more in fact as a body of work it's just about my favourite Totally disagree. In Rainbows was a disappointment for...
by Tim Down
Sat Oct 08, 2022 3:46 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 392748

Re: People you shouldn't trust

People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them as their default name - e.g. Morning Run or Afternoon Run. Some people took this to a new level today by doing the London Marathon but leaving it titled as "Morning Run", with no description about it or anything. That's truly psychop...
by Tim Down
Tue Feb 01, 2022 2:47 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Cyclists. Love Em Or Hate Em?
Replies: 6
Views: 650

Re: Cyclists. Love Em Or Hate Em?

In response to the thread title, you shouldn't hate cyclists. It's a much better form of transport for short journeys than driving, but the road infrastructure makes it not practical or safe in many cases. Ideally, bikes shouldn't have to share the same bit of road with cars at all. In the Netherla...
by Tim Down
Tue Jan 25, 2022 12:35 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XVII- Countdown in Lincoln, 29-30 January 2022
Replies: 54
Views: 16002

Re: COLIN XVII- Countdown in Lincoln, 29-30 January 2022

Please could as many as possible do a lateral flow test before coming to COLIN? There is still tons of COVID going around and coming to COLIN represents a pretty big risk of exposure, so it'd be great if we could reduce the risk a little.
by Tim Down
Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:10 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 392748

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Speaking of activity tracking - people who do a run/race that is a set distance in miles or km, but always just leave their watch in the other unit rather than changing it for the event. (I've seen a lot of people log their parkrun in miles.) People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them ...
by Tim Down
Thu Dec 16, 2021 2:45 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 392748

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Speaking of activity tracking - people who do a run/race that is a set distance in miles or km, but always just leave their watch in the other unit rather than changing it for the event. (I've seen a lot of people log their parkrun in miles.) People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them ...
by Tim Down
Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:23 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 392748

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Also, people who wear their watch in bed. Borderline pyschopathic. I wear mine in bed because it monitors my heart rate and sleep, and one day that extra data might be useful. It hasn't had any value beyond satisfying a bit of curiosity so far, I admit. It's all moot anyway because I cross my 7s an...
by Tim Down
Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:44 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Which words are the most useful to know?
Replies: 92
Views: 36045

Re: Which words are the most useful to know?

Also using Anki - got things set so that the total words to revise a day stays within a given range, which works out as 7 9-letter and 20 other new words a day. Been doing it for about a year now, which shows up perfectly on the letters graph here: https://www.apterous.org/superstats_user.php?user=...
by Tim Down
Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:33 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
Replies: 479
Views: 160782

Re: Words You Would Have Thought...

Yep. Number one on my list of weird omissions too. It's used *all the time* in sport.
Gavin Chipper wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:46 pm SEEDINGS obviously. A bit of a joke omission.

Edit - Further discussion.
by Tim Down
Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Olympics 2020
Replies: 135
Views: 16294

Re: Olympics 2020

In a wider sense, you could argue that fairness of competition is meaningless. You can have all these rules to make sure people don't have elevated testosterone levels etc., but success in athletics is largely determined by your genetics anyway, certainly at the top end where you can't expect to ga...
by Tim Down
Mon Jul 26, 2021 4:30 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Hardback
Replies: 5
Views: 3050

Re: Hardback

I played this a few weeks ago with some friends and enjoyed it. I've also played Paperback (an older game by the same people) with the same friends and I think they'll be more keen to play Paperback in future because we felt the deckbuilding element was more important than the anagramming in Paperba...
by Tim Down
Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:12 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
Replies: 66
Views: 13783

Re: Politics in General

Just listen to women. Fiona's here and telling us how it is. They are saying that they are routinely sexually harassed, and nearly all of it goes unreported largely because nothing good will come of it for the victim (often the reverse). While I'm sure it's true that only a statistically small numb...
by Tim Down
Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:18 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
Replies: 66
Views: 13783

Re: Politics in General

Just listen to women. Fiona's here and telling us how it is. They are saying that they are routinely sexually harassed, and nearly all of it goes unreported largely because nothing good will come of it for the victim (often the reverse). While I'm sure it's true that only a statistically small numbe...
by Tim Down
Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
Replies: 66
Views: 13783

Re: Politics in General

I'm not going to debate this but please, just listen to women. They're not lying.
by Tim Down
Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:43 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
Replies: 24
Views: 13854

Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?

Graeme Cole wrote: Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:16 am
Callum Todd wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2020 4:30 pm Any hints and tips for a chess rookie?
You can go any distance uppie-downie or leftie-rightie.
Bravo! Just a shame it took you nearly a year.
by Tim Down
Sun Dec 13, 2020 1:57 pm
Forum: Other game shows
Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
Replies: 314
Views: 107466

Re: ...and that's ZoomDown

I saw that word first and didn't declare it because of how it sounds so I'm fully behind the decision (if it was a decision and not just an oversight) of DC to not mention it. It's hardly a big deal; there's no reason for DC to reel off all the boring maxes anyway. I know they normally do, but I'm ...
by Tim Down
Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:37 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Best lexico example sentences
Replies: 12
Views: 5772

Re: Best lexico example sentences

Came across this beauty today "If you really must go for a jog in the middle of a thunder storm, remember to vaseline nipples thoroughly beforehand." https://www.lexico.com/definition/vaseline Gev, can you confirm if this is sound advice? I favour medical tape. More effective and less mes...
by Tim Down
Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:29 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: apterous update
Replies: 34
Views: 14288

Re: apterous update

Interesting that CDB is down, but the Wiki is up. I would have thought that since they were both [site].apterous.org, there would have been more of a correlation there? Not necessarily. A subdomain (e.g. whatever.example.com) can point anywhere, often to a different server to the main domain or oth...
by Tim Down
Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:28 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: FOCAL scoring system
Replies: 57
Views: 39890

Re: FOCAL scoring system

So without resorting to a poll -- rather, to keep this well rounded conversation going -- how do we feel about introducing Gev's points system in January 2020? Unsurprisingly, I'm strongly in favour. Publishing the details of the scoring system somewhere easily findable would be good. I've tried an...
by Tim Down
Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:10 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Thread Of Random (for Marc)
Replies: 168
Views: 50972

Re: Thread Of Random (for Marc)

Not one to court controversy but I have believed global warming to be a conspiracy theory with very little hard evidence to support it. Certainly not enough to suggest 'climate change ' is happening now. A conspiracy theory by who? Who would benefit from it? Who benefits from all conspiracy theorie...
by Tim Down
Thu May 16, 2019 11:28 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Online Trophy
Replies: 4
Views: 6460

Re: Online Trophy

Ashton Hancock wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 7:34 am I will then start a 30 second time which when Tim is up I will text ‘Answers Please’ In which you will both send your answers.
Sorry Ashton, I'm never up, only Down.
by Tim Down
Thu May 09, 2019 11:58 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 392748

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Gavin Chipper wrote: Fri May 03, 2019 4:28 pm People who add the "hat" onto their 5s at the end as a separate line, rather than starting with it in the top right as you would with an S.
I do that as well. I'm failing all the handwriting ones. Also, I cross zeds, which I can't believe is trustworthy.
by Tim Down
Fri May 03, 2019 4:03 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 392748

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Graeme Cole wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:08 pm People who draw horizontal lines through their 7s.
I do that. I didn't really know why until now: I am innately untrustworthy.
by Tim Down
Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:09 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: The CoC Predictions Game
Replies: 81
Views: 46952

Re: The CoC Predictions Game

Denied by rodent. It was fun, thanks for running it.
by Tim Down
Wed Jan 09, 2019 2:19 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XV- Countdown in Lincoln, 19-20 January 2019
Replies: 59
Views: 61075

Re: COLIN XV- Countdown in Lincoln, 19-20 January 2019

Seedings are based on averages of finishing positions from the previous 5 events (which all had more or less the same number of participants). Slightly worse news is that most prospective unconfirmed sign-ups are likely to slot in in the top 12. Great, thanks. As I suspected, what I need to do boil...
by Tim Down
Wed Jan 09, 2019 12:14 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XV- Countdown in Lincoln, 19-20 January 2019
Replies: 59
Views: 61075

Re: COLIN XV- Countdown in Lincoln, 19-20 January 2019

Time for the usual outrage that are the provisional seedings. :-) I've used the same 'algorithm' to determine seedings as I did last year, hence why it looks like there may be a few anomalies in there. But it all makes sense, honest. 1 Jack Worsley [snip] 28 Tim Down [snip] 38 Mark Mills No outrage...
by Tim Down
Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:10 am
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
Replies: 604
Views: 307063

Re: Is Apterous down?

Seems to be down again, doing the same thing as last time where it disconnects immediately when trying to log in.
by Tim Down
Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:31 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason
Replies: 66
Views: 118051

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

I've only ever worn pyjamas to go swimming in. Bollock-naked is the way to sleep, and if you're cold like that, you need a better quilt. I've only once worn clothes in bed that I can remember (apart from when sharing rooms, when I think general decorum suggests at least keeping my pants on), and th...
by Tim Down
Sat Sep 22, 2018 4:45 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: How to host an event (for dummies)?
Replies: 44
Views: 34430

Re: How to host an event (for dummies)?

I've never really understood why the "group" format (often used with Bristol-style, but in principle could be used with Edinburgh-style too) has endured. You play three games, and that decides what section of the table you're going to finish in. If you're 9th after three games, you go int...
by Tim Down
Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:50 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: FOCAL scoring system
Replies: 57
Views: 39890

Re: FOCAL scoring system

I've already given a system that I think would work. Basically, in a one-person event, they'd get 50; for two it would be 66.7, 33.3; for three it would be 75, 50, 25 etc. There's a formula out there somewhere but I can't be bothered to find/work it out again right now. I think it's the fairest lin...
by Tim Down
Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:11 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: FOCAL scoring system
Replies: 57
Views: 39890

Re: FOCAL scoring system

I get the issues people have with the current system, and I get that it's not perfect. But I felt that it was the right one at the time, and I'm yet to see one that eradicates enough issues to make it worth changing it when it's guaranteed to lose much of the simplicity and self-calculation. Ultima...
by Tim Down
Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:02 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: FOCAL scoring system
Replies: 57
Views: 39890

FOCAL scoring system

I’d like to propose a new scoring system for FOCAL standings from 2019 onwards. The current system works fine when there are similar attendances at each event. However, a particularly large event such as CO:LON, which has roughly double the number of players of an average event, carries so many poin...
by Tim Down
Wed Jul 11, 2018 11:28 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Which words are the most useful to know?
Replies: 92
Views: 36045

Re: Which words are the most useful to know?

I did an analysis on which words would be most useful to learn for each of 3, 4, and 5 vowel picks in standard letters rounds. You can find the results here: http://bit.ly/2KXffJw Download the file as an Excel spreadsheet (don't try and open it as a Google Sheet) and feel free to play around - you ...
by Tim Down
Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:06 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 18th June 2018 (Series 78, QF3)
Replies: 9
Views: 5159

Re: Spoilers for Monday 18th June 2018 (Series 78, QF3)

Ciaran McCarthy wrote: Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:15 am 3rd number round:-

10 x 6 x (7+5) - (3+1)
Indeed. Not that complicated, so I was quite surprised Rachel missed it in 30 seconds and then very surprised she didn't get it over the ad break, unless it was cut.
by Tim Down
Thu May 03, 2018 10:50 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: App.terous
Replies: 3
Views: 5072

Re: App.terous

I would vouch for this but it would be a large hassle to make I'd imagine. It definitely would. What would be more feasible would applying a responsive design to the existing web version, by which I mean a design that adapts the layout to the screen size of the device. Still not a small job but mas...
by Tim Down
Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:40 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co:LeedsLeedsLeeds - Saturday 21st April 2018
Replies: 22
Views: 21248

Re: Co:LeedsLeedsLeeds - Saturday 21st April 2018

Will there be post-tourney boozing? Likely. The co:event will finish at 5:30pm and the post-event quiz at around 6:30pm so there will probably be some people in the pub by 6ish and many by 7ish. The pub of choice last year was The Bridgewater Arms in Cardigan Fields, and I suspect it will be so aga...
by Tim Down
Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:00 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co:LeedsLeedsLeeds - Saturday 21st April 2018
Replies: 22
Views: 21248

Re: Co:LeedsLeedsLeeds - Saturday 21st April 2018

Will there be post-tourney boozing?
by Tim Down
Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:37 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7th March 2018 (Series 78, Prelim 42)
Replies: 14
Views: 6942

Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7th March 2018 (Series 78, Prelim 42)

Zarte's awesome obviously, but has anyone else ever scored with a three letter word declaration? If so, I suspect it wouldn't be someone with a near-perfect record of century game scores! I did (eh eh, nudge nudge), although I was not in anything like Zarte's league, as is apparent from that link.
by Tim Down
Sun Feb 11, 2018 3:37 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Friday 9th February 2018 (Series 78, Prelim 24)
Replies: 5
Views: 5333

Re: Spoilers for Friday 9th February 2018 (Series 78, Prelim 24)

Elliott Mellor wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:48 pm Got 404 too, surprised she missed it. Though she is only human I guess.
Same. It's still significantly more frequent that she gets one I've missed than vice versa though.
by Tim Down
Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:19 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: COLIN XIV- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2018
Replies: 38
Views: 34319

Re: COLIN XIV- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2018

Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:36 pm I'm probably going to do the Linkin parkrun before COLIN. Rumours suggest Giles and Zubair may also be doing it. Anyone else?
Ego and the usual stinkage problems prevent it for me.
by Tim Down
Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:44 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 16th January 2018 (Series 78, Prelim 6)
Replies: 7
Views: 4925

Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 16th January 2018 (Series 78, Prelim 6)

Surprised Susie didn't extend Mary's NOTATE to ANNOTATE in R1. Bad miss! I was doubting as to whether I was seeing a phantom letter there :D I doubt she missed it - she likely just didn't want to embarrass Mary and so withheld it. If she did miss it though then meh, it's much easier to do sat at ho...
by Tim Down
Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:29 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Friday 15th December 2017 (Series 77, QF2)
Replies: 17
Views: 9858

Re: Spoilers for Friday 15th December 2017 (Series 77, QF2)

Cheers Ray & Samir! If he had declared 814, it would have been a 14 point swing, would have won by 8. It was tense in the studio watching it! Quite right, if all the other rounds had gone the same. So it was quite fortunate for me! Maybe it made up for the awkwardness of some of the letters rou...
by Tim Down
Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:29 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Fantasy Countdown (will contain series 77 spoilers)
Replies: 35
Views: 12755

Re: Fantasy Countdown (will contain series 77 spoilers)

Yep, I like this.

Game 1: LOWER
Game 2: HIGHER
Game 3: HIGHER
Game 4: HIGHER
Game 5: LOWER
Game 6: HIGHER
Game 7: HIGHER