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Sue Sanders wrote:Are any of the girls going to the finals - for possible room sharing potential??

You can share a room with James Robinson.

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I had a really good time yesterday, and I'm looking forward to the next event in January (providing it doesn't clash with exams). Congratz to Jono for a great win, and for making us laugh a couple of times. I think you were the only former contestant attending who I have no recollection of seeing on...

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All you polite hand shakers take note.

I will have to shake lefty today, because my right hand is a little tender.

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Talking of picking vowels, I remember one game a couple of years back where they only had 2 vowels in one of the rounds, I was very excited about this at the time. Anyone remember it? Anyone got linkage?

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I've tired contacting Dod to arrange a time, but have not had a response yet. As i am not available tomorrow or saturday, im starting to worry if we will get our game done on time or not.

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Not sure if this is the right topic.

I think we could set a group challenge for all apterous users to get the number of perfect 9 rounders up to 100. I think A time span of 100 days would also be reasonable, if we could encourage people to play 9 rounders instead of 15 rounders.

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Michael Wallace wrote:What's so impressive about beating Prune? He didn't even have any allowed words. Rubbish.

I know what you mean Michael, I cant think of any human player on apterous who would miss ISPAGHUL, apart from Innis.

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Jimmy Gough wrote:I'm the best.

Kimbo>Jimmy.

But apart from that I'd say he is about right.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Wow.

I have seen this exact post made by Jason Multiple times.

Wow indeed.

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Charlie Reams wrote: You'll get them physically, along with a map etc, a few weeks before the recording.

Yay.

Are you going to both days or just the second?

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Ben and I got our tickets today from the lovely new ticketrix, Saralee, although apparently there are very few left. Anyone else making the trip? I received an email a couple of weeks ago telling me that I was booked in with four tickets. Will I physically receive tickets, or just need to give them...

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Charlie Reams wrote:A reminder to please post your name, your opponent's name and the score, as well as a link to the game. I have a lot of games to manage here.

JackHurst wrote:My game Vs James

Jack Hurst 160, James Doohan 149.

There you are.

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote:Are trams that few and far between in Manchester?
They certainly are at the moment - they haven't been running through the city centre for at least six months.

I remember one been Derailed in the street when I went to see Radiohead

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James Robinson wrote:Round 4 - GOOSANDER for 9!

Snap. Although my Grandad never believes me when I have a nine unless dictionary corner have it too, so he wasn't impressed with me at all.

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My game Vs James

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Very smoothly done Charlie

Just in case it comes up for people at any point, are you letting tied scores be decided by a tie break conundrum as usual, or will it be something else?

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Shake your DOJO

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Jason Larsen wrote:Matthew, I was trying to be nice to Nigel!

Jon, my PM was just a friendly warning stating that I would speak to him on the condition that he would tell me if he didn't like himself.

And Darren, I like Drew Carey!

Hi jason.

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I got the word 'fuckload' onto my S1 exam, and got an A :D My mate wrote a load of explicit gay lyrics on the back of his GCSE DT exam and was severely reprimanded. I usually just write some jokes on the back to try and win the examiner over- example from A-Level Nazi Germany this year: Which film ...

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Well done Jeffrey, you seemed like a really decent lad, so I'm glad you won. I still cant believe you didn't get a century, a good few of your 8 wins were good enough performances to warrant one. Good luck in the finals, I'm glad its you who might have to play Andrew in the semi finals and not me! A...

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I hardly ever do duels, so I understand if you don't want to listen to me, but a duel containing which contains Junior, then Standard and then Hyper; having one letters, and numbers and one conundrum in each would be cool.

Yes I know, I can't use punctuation very well.

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Sue Sanders wrote:
JackHurst wrote:colinear=LONICERA
Next time you spot colinear, remember to declare LONICERA.
Honeysuckle

I didn't know you liked me enough to give me such an endearing nickname.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
If someone got a max game today, I'll have your babies.

Unfortunately for you, it turns out that Jo Brands mad-ass tactics finally payed of and she got a max game.

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I thought of the crazy nine PSORYASIC in the PROSAIC round, but when looked in my dictionary it was having none of it.

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colinear=LONICERA
Next time you spot colinear, remember to declare LONICERA.

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Just finished watching on 4+1,another good performance Jeffrey. I am surprised DC missed DEVIATORS. All the stems I've remembered payed off in todays game, helping me to get 2 nines, and the conundrum in a quick time. I sucked at the number emmencely(sp?) though. I imagine 6 wins will be enough to g...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Man she was fit.

She wasn't that fit, just under 60. She did seem like a really nice person though, shame she had to lose to the Mighty Burginator.

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To be fair, you and Kirk did spend a few minutes saying RB was a dick and accusing Lancelot of being RB in disguise. Lancelot grassing on you is therefore to some extent besides the point. Can't complain about him stirring when you've poured everything into a saucepan and handed him a spoon. I had ...

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The end result is that i now bare grudges towards Richard and Lancelot, and about 6 more people on apterous currently think I'm an arsehole. Do you mean "six more people besides Richard and Lancelot" or "six more people than did previously"? ;) I meant Six more than did previous...

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I'll give my series of events for anyone who cant be bothered to read the chat log: Richard quit a game against me on the last round and claimed it was because his browsers were slowing his computer down (or something like that) I Got pissed off at this and called him a "MASSIVE COCK" He c...

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This will make some interesting reading when its done.

http://apterous.org/chatlog.php?log=1253465195346

Ill explain it later.

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I found this game interesting because about 75% of the conundrums were very difficult which doesn't normally happen.

Or am I exaggerating?

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Charlie Reams wrote:By popular demand.

Thats one record page I am not itching to get onto.

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A page like this but for letters round instead.
i.e, showing us the amount of vowels, and what percentage of the time a word of length X is the max. There already a page like it here, but I'd like to see a fruther breakdown like there is in the numbers one.

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On the recent remake of King Kong, how did they get him back to America after they sedated him with the chloroform bottles?

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A long time in the making. My first max game :D http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=116700 Almost had a heart attack when I nearly left ESOTERIC mistyped as my keyboard was playing up! So I decided to take my time typing in the conundrum but luckily it was the easiest scramble in history. Eve...

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GARROTTE is the spelling in the oed
GAROTTE is an alternate spelling
garrote is an alternate US spelling
garote is not in at all.

I get incredibly confused when any of these words are available in a selection.

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I liked todays episode. I was sad to see Bob lose, but glad it was to someone who seemed as nice as Jeffrey. Id rather Jeffrey Had one, because we still have a chance of seeing bob in the finals, whereas we wouldn't have seen Jeffrey again if Dob won. Bobs delight at unscrambling the conundrum made ...

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D Eadie wrote:ITV own the rights, not C4.

Am I right in thinking this means ITV could Air old episodes of countdown if they chose to do so?

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Philip Jarvis wrote: I wonder what Callum, Conor, Jack and Charlie make of it?

Thats probably about right, I was a right little terror from the age of 11 and below.

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Jimmy Gough wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Home Ed kids are invariably weird. Discuss.
That's why they're home educated.

Which is the cause and which is the effect?

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Sheventeen. Thats one bit of autism for every year of my life. I think There were about 8 or 9 answers where i wasnt sure what to pick between 2 answers, so I could have got a few points either side of what i did. My friends wont believe that i got "normal" on an autism test, they all thin...

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Hi all - I'm Karin - live in Salisbury Wilts and will properly introduce myself sometime over the next days. I actually joined nearly 2 months ago but had to suddenly travel to Holland (where Í'm from originally) as my mother is quite ill and am currently looking after her. As said - look forward t...

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I'm probably not the only one who is waiting to see who else signs up before committing. We need a way to break this cycle of dependency... I'm going. There. Now everyone else can jump on board 8-) Me and Josh will be attending. I'm probably a deterrent, so i wouldn't expect people to jump on board...

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Thomas the tank engine theme tune. I'd also wear a spiderman mask for my game(s)

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nice idea Gavin, but not the one I was aiming for. If their eyes are at the same level then I don't think it's possible, but you never know. 5 can see the despair in 6's eyes... and the twitch in his nose as an itch develops.... and.... Is the other thing that he can "see" is that number ...

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Charlie Reams wrote:I used to shave my armpits.

I hoarded some of this shaven hair, and to this day, it is kept in my wallet.

I have false teeth, and im only 17.

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they can still only look in the direction they are facing right?

and do they know the number of walls, and how people are situated?

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If you are a good but not exceptional player and you are drawn against an exceptional player, that's just tough luck. I recorded last week and came up against a bloke called Rex Apterous. In all honesty, I expected to become a teapot owner, but I got whooped convincingly on my first go and ran off ...

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Sue Sanders wrote:Des Lynam was on it. He declared GASED thinking it was GASSED.

And then I GLASED him later in the bar for not knowing hot to spell.

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Not seen the show yet but looking at the comments on the numbers above, if nobody on the show got it, I wish I'd have been on. Got it in about 7 seconds: 75+9=84 50x3=150 84x150=12,600 12,600+100=12,700 12,700/25=508 Damn you! I had this, but it took me the whole commercial break. I came on here to...

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I saw a nice STEP question once that basically asked you to prove that there were exactly five Platonic solids. And now, 5 years later, I can't remember how to do it at all. I had a lecture on it at Leeds. I can recall some of it, heres a shabby explanation. Its do do with how the internal angles o...

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This was a waste of a chance to impress my countdown idol. Still, Mark was a nice guy and it was a pleasure to play with him. Mixed emotions really.

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Im going to try and predict the score, in the style of a child who gets asked to predict the score outside the ground before the game on match of the day.

2-1 to Chris Davies.

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Playing against Jim is always a fun occasion, but this round was agonizing.

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Ben Hunter wrote:
Douglas Wilson wrote:Who's Supee?
You know. Supee.

Super Super Supee?

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I don't get all this stuff about Ed being a sore loser... He played very well, and was understandably upset afterwards?... I think I was the only person to use the phrase "bad loser" in this thread, and I meant it as sarcastic exaggeration. I can empaphize with Eds disappointment, as ther...

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Was his cube lubed?

I didnt see a handshake, was it off camera, or did bad loser Ed just refuse?

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Im assuming the champs scrabble experience came to be partly detrimental in this game, because he appeared to have risked words that were valid in scrabble but not in countdown. I liked todays conundrum.

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