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If you fill up a bath with hot sparkling water and get in, do you get the same sensation as being in a hot tub?

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Series 66 contestant James Belshaw admits cheating in his audition to get on the show (not totally sure how this makes the news, but there you go!!!):

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-ra ... -backfired

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Day 1 of the John Cowen court hearing: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15084513/Growling-knifeman-31-stabbed-fellow-Countdown-competitor-arm-convention.html (apologies for using the Daily Fail as the main link, but it is the most comprehensive report amongst many I have seen) A couple of al...

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It's back

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Down now for 38 hours (no vitriol, just facts)

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:58 am Why did the Appearance of the 5Ks on OC go unmentioned here?
Fiona Titcombe, Thomas Carey, and captain James Haughton.
Hopefully the nerves will settle a bit in their 2nd outing...

It was discussed (relatively briefly) on the Only Connect thread

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My opinion: the non-winners had tougher questions overall in Rounds 1 and 2. Agree, and the painful Missing Vowels Round answer. Oh well, to make up, they got the easier wall in Round 3 imo. [spoiler] The first question was pretty much 3 points or 0 points depending on if you recognised the first p...

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The latest team consisting of Countdowners were on tonight.

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Footballer James McAtee and Callum Todd? Or has reading this thread over the years just made me think that everyone looks like Callum now?

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1954859358984019970

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Congrats Brett on the max (insert fire emoji)!

I was wondering if this episode potentially broke a couple of records?

Most combined maxes (25) in a preliminary?
Most maxes (10) by a losing challenger?

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James Burley's (series 83 octochamp) stand-up gig at Glasgow yesterday to raise money for the Mental Health Foundation (link on the video). He smashed it :) (shared with his permission) https://www.facebook.com/james.burley.77/videos/1114065117438965 Did he joke that if he married Liz Hurley, she c...

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A property was mentioned as having an inglenook fireplace on Location Location Location this week.

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Good question. Since this is the spoilers thread, we can talk openly about it. (50*25*10*5-100)/75 = 832. So 62400/75, reaching 62,500 along the way. I'm not sure if it's the highest number that it's been necessary to reach in a game on the show, but it's not the highest possible. See the discussio...

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Monday was June 9th, not 10th

Anyone get the last numbers game?

If you didn't see it

100 75 50 25 10 5

Target 832

Good luck!

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I don't like the UK entry at all this year - too much speeding up and slowing down to make it effective, one line repeated over and over, and generally forgettable. Will be surprised if it is not very close to last. A shame as we seemed to have finally cracked what it took to do well with Sam Ryder ...

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Great performance by Rhys. Should be a cracker against Anthony tomorrow.

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How many episodes have there been that have pitted two contestants both with verbs as surnames against each other?

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https://forgeous.fun/

Another one of these daily things - this one is about speed-forgery of artwork....

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Was that the second lowest combined score for a 15-rounder? I can only find one lower at a glance.

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Don't mind it - family-aimed mix of Taskmaster and Squid Game. Pretty well paced. Presenters are a couple of twerps, but you get used to them, and at least neither of them are called Ant, Dec, Stephen or Bradley. More than adequate Saturday teatime viewing.

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Brilliant work as ever Graeme

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People who think a film is crap because it "isn't the same as the book". You are watching a film, not watching a documentary of a book.

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Poker Face is the one that immediately springs to mind for me - one of the better ones in that strange "more pointless talking than action" era of gameshows (Golden Balls, Deal or no Deal, etc) Problem with Poker Face is it didn’t matter whether you got the answers right or wrong, so that...

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Poker Face is the one that immediately springs to mind for me - one of the better ones in that strange "more pointless talking than action" era of gameshows (Golden Balls, Deal or no Deal, etc)

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:22 am
Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:03 pm Fiona and James Burley chat a bit in today's BBC South Today at the UK Scrabble thingy. Fiona's rather rude word is visible on the TV...
Is this available anywhere?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-07012025

Jump to 22 minutes

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:56 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:51 pm What was the answer then?
512.

Actually it was incubate.

Ha - 512 was my (knowingly wrong) submitted answer

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I'm still struggling with the super tough 1% question from Wednesday 'the 99% of 100 in the room one ' If someone could break it down for me I would appreciate it as logic suggested it was one person not 50 99 out of 100 is 99% If one leaves it is 98 out of 99, which is not 98% If 50 leave however ...

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Chris looks a class apart from anyone else we have seen so far this series for sure.

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https://dartsnews.com/pdc/just-gets-wor ... m-of-darts

Kirk Bevins involved in a minor spat at the darts. Not sure he will be entirely happy with that photo!

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I'd be surprised.

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Gevin 17

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You are at a co-event, and about to watch the final between Players A and B. The host wants some help picking a good conundrum for the final, and the pull you over to consider three options. One of the options is a word which came up in a group chat with Player A yesterday. You know that if this op...

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Did they comment that dation was in but now it is not, or just disallowed it without comment?

Have they mentioned the dictionary cull on the show at all?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 3:22 pm Have you checked anhistoric?

Brilliant. Where's the upvote button?

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Can anyone explain Turkish barbers to me? They're everywhere. My local used to work on his own, was always busy and talked of little other than Everton FC - and he talked a lot about that. Overnight he disappeared and the premises became a Turkish barbers. Two of them, very little English but I did...

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We’re back. 75 shows of Series 90 left. This is the last week of shows in which words from the historical dictionary (OED) were imported into the living dictionary (OD Premium) at the time of recording. From 16th September, historical words such as ‘mislodge’ and ‘paulins’ will no longer be allowab...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:27 pm Series 77 contestant Alex Smith on Password (Episode 2) on ITV X. (Hilarious btw)

Would be a great daily daytime show with a "winner stays on" format and different celebrities each week.

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Andrew Hulme has made it to the final six in a poker tournament in Barcelona where the first prize is over €1.5m, and is already guaranteed to win 300k euros. https://www.pokernews.com/tours/ept/2024-pokerstars-ept-barcelona/5-300-ept-main-event/chips.687979.htm Looks like he finished 2nd and won €...

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Andrew Hulme has made it to the final six in a poker tournament in Barcelona where the first prize is over €1.5m, and is already guaranteed to win 300k euros.

https://www.pokernews.com/tours/ept/202 ... 687979.htm

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:21 pm OVULATE in R4

Do I have to?

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I don't know if still happens because nobody has listened to the Top 40 on the radio for years but even though it was on the BBC they kept stopping to advertise some nonsense so it might as well have been a commercial station. Sure, it might have been in some sense their own stuff they were adverti...

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Surprised nobody has asked this yet, but on the show which contestant has submitted the most words that were both added as part of the great influx of 2015 and subsequently recently removed?

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Possibly an unanswerable question, but.... has anyone ever 'pencilled' a new word on Countdown (i.e. made the first declaration of that word, as a max winner) before it was pencilled on Apterous. After apterous had bedded in, of course I think there's a rule on the show that if it hasn't been decla...

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I see that Wiffin won a swimming gold in the 800m. (TLDW.) representing Ireland yet he is from Northern Ireland. I think Rory McIlroy does the same . How does that work given that a Northerern Irish swimmer won gold for team GB later last night ? If you are from Northern Ireland you can represent I...

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I see that Wiffin won a swimming gold in the 800m. (TLDW.) representing Ireland yet he is from Northern Ireland. I think Rory McIlroy does the same . How does that work given that a Northerern Irish swimmer won gold for team GB later last night ? If you are from Northern Ireland you can represent I...

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Thread title needs to be renamed to "Let's Talk About X"

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will just leave this here in case anyone else somehow believes the trump shooting thing was some set-up or something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor I think it's pretty the funny the number of people who usually (probably quite rightly) scoff at conspiracy theorists that suddenly becom...

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It's gone on a summer holiday.

X on the beach.

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There are different ways to get PR, but probably the most realistic in the UK is Single Transferable Vote (STV). You'd have larger constituencies (maybe 5 or 6 MPs per constituency) so a mini PR election (rather than nationwide). The most popular candidate would still be elected but not simply the ...

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Has anyone ever seen Boris Johnson and Gary Busey in the same room?

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People can still be friends with somebody who has differing politics to them- political tribalism that’s ever so prevalent in this country at the moment harms everyone. I hate the Tories- let’s be honest- but I find they’re more willing to discuss topics with those of opposing viewpoints than the l...

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I wonder if England have shorter odds of being defeated before The Tories ? England are currently 2/1 to lose in the last 16 on Sunday (B365) - their quarter final would be on the Saturday after the election. Of course I haven't factored in here the odds of the Tories winning the election (LOL)

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:42 am I wonder if England have shorter odds of being defeated before The Tories ?

England are currently 2/1 to lose in the last 16 on Sunday (B365) - their quarter final would be on the Saturday after the election.

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https://x.com/iangbland/status/1803897830337319231

Very clever stuff from Series 69 quarter finalist Jonathan Liew (warning: contains football)

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Notable Tories and their current odds on keeping their seat (B365), from safest to deadest...... those in bold are currently odds against being an MP in a couple of weeks. It could be carnage!!!! 1/9 Kemi Badenoch 1/7 Priti Patel 1/7 Tom Tugendhat 1/7 Damian Hinds 1/6 Mims Davies 2/11 Stephen Barcla...

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Would love to see Jessica win this both because we haven't had a female series champion since series 39 (which is a hard to fathom anomaly) and she was very friendly when we played each other at a St Albans co-event years ago, but I can't see beyond a win for Mr Page, and an inevitable "King Ar...

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This Sky News leaders thing is awful; I've had to turn it off. Just blatant 'gotcha' setups one after the other. What's the point in having the two leaders on, advertising it as a chance for voters to see what they can vote for, and then not allowing them to speak freely? What a load of self-congra...

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Starmer comes out ahead on 7 of the 10 individual components there (and often by a fairly large margin) so I'm not sure how they're claiming this as a Sunak win. I would assume "they" are claiming a Sunak win as he got more votes on the "Who do viewers think won tonight's debate?&quo...

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It was a lose/lose question really. If he said yes, then people would be saying he didn't believe in public services; if he said no (as he did), people were going to take the stance you have. Sunak seemed by far the most rattled and certainly the most insincere. I'd be extremely surprised if the ma...

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Sunak clearly won that debate. Starmer looked rattled, especially when he said he would not go private for ideological reasons even for a family member. It is a ludicrous position to take - to be a bed blocker when you can afford private healthcare is letting your country down because of your own i...

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