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Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:Has anyone ever done 6-3=3 before?

Nice and fitting conundrum there (nicely solved too - I thought it was "proodness").

I remember someone doing something ×1 and then being one out. This was years ago though. May Graeme can find it.

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Nice miss in round 14 too.

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Andy Platt wrote:Nice miss in round 6.

And not even within 10.

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Round 4: B Y L E I O G S H C1: BOGIES (6) C2: BOGIES (6) DC: BOLSHIE (7) OBLIGES (7) Score: 27–12 (max 29) Fancy a round of golf? Well it's all BOGIES in this round. Six a piece. Rachel put BOGIES up, but do we know it wasn't BOGEYS in one or both cases? I don't think they were asked to spell it out.

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Martin Sinclair wrote:It's impossible to get 100% max percentage if you lose, though. And no, I'm not, Jon.

For some reason I thought you were talking about numbers rounds.

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Martin Sinclair wrote:How, Gavin?

People who lost their first game but had easy numbers.

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If they can play any number of games there will be loads of people on 100%.

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:WORNER as a beater in round whatever. It's not on Apterous but it's an adjective isn't it?
Depends if you think it is one syllable or two...

WORN is one syllable unless you're an alien.

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This may sound harsh but I always think it's strange when people always go for stuff like 3 large when they're not very good at it. Or even if it's just the pressure of the studio, accept that and pick something easier. They have been quite hard 3Large ones as I only got 1 away on that one - though...

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WORNER as a beater in round whatever. It's not on Apterous but it's an adjective isn't it?

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This may sound harsh but I always think it's strange when people always go for stuff like 3 large when they're not very good at it. Or even if it's just the pressure of the studio, accept that and pick something easier.

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I can see now why people blog about absolute shit that nobody else is really interested in, it's actually quite fun just to write stuff down for yourself. Does anyone know how I can get in touch with Clare Sudbery to apologise? Is that why you fell out? What a cunt. I won't be talking to you on the...

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Dave Preece wrote:Susie's job is hard, give her a break FFS!

Is it though?

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Jon Corby wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Have you PM'd him yet?
Yes.

And I've PMed back. None of this "PM'd" rubbish for me

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If the machine is purely trying to fuck you then surely it will never give you any of the bonus things if it can give you 0-3 or whatever. And of course it would never spin a red. So surely that's not actually what it's trying to do. It has to be generous enough to keep people's interest in the game...

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I like how Susie kept everyone in suspense with ROUNDISH by saying "yes" after she found the entry and then pausing for a bit. (She just as often says "yes, I didn't think it would be in" ). She is probably pausing while Damian talks through her ear piece telling her that their ...

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Ian Volante wrote:I have, and the question isn't there! I can't watch video links here.

Scotland has blocked YouTube? Or there is just no internet apart from Edinburgh city centre?

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I like how Susie kept everyone in suspense with ROUNDISH by saying "yes" after she found the entry and then pausing for a bit. (She just as often says "yes, I didn't think it would be in" ).

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Graeme Cole wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:What about declarations under 100?
There haven't been any besides the two I mentioned.

Oh yeah. For some reason I didn't read that bit.

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Alistair's GAUZES not allowed on Apterous but the ODO thing likes it (not that that's in use yet).

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Multiplying all the small numbers together gives 480 in the 480 round.

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Are the written lyrics true to their performance, or is part of the game that you have paraphrased them so as to prevent Googlery? I'm relying on my memory somewhat, but I'm fairly sure they're accurate. I mean, the "headed" might've been "heading" or something like that, but no...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:I'd say if the number is below 7 you should go higher, and vica versa. But it all depends really.

Definitely. Also if you wait around until somebody before you loses a load of money and then pounce. I can't believe you haven't thought of any of this???!!!

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Dave Preece wrote:I'e never understood why mode is used, it can be very inaccurate compared to the mean?

It has its uses.

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Humans famously can't pick random numbers, so what you said Callum could also apply to a human list of numbers that we know not to be random enough! Numberphile on Youtube recently had a video about a true random number generator being made from some dangerous radioactive chemical...??? Why did thi...

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Johnny Canuck wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:Was THAT really necessary?
Was THAT really necessary?
I'd continue the chain, but the maximum allowed font size only goes so high.

I didn't know THAT.

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What about declarations under 100?

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Dave Preece wrote:Airdates
Air dates
Air-dates

Who cares, really?

I agree. So why did you start this thread?

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I saw this article and thought of this thread. End the culture of coaching? Can that happen? How about ending the partitioning of children at age 11 into "intelligent" and "not intelligent"? That's a shit idea, right?

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James Robinson wrote:SATRAP in round 2, GENTLE/GLUTEN in round 4 and HERITOR in round 11.

Presumably when you put this but don't say that they're beaters, you mean they're equallers? You should say!

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With something like CECIL (as opposed to tossing a coin) you have to worry about things like whether each number is independent of what has gone before. If you tossed a coin 100 times and got 50 heads followed by 50 tails, you might decide that the coin is fair, although of course you'd probably be ...

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Andy Platt wrote:Found an insane 9 in the DEMISTED/DEMISTER round courtesy of lexplorer, anyone see it?

No. Tell us what it is. This is the spoilers thread.

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Thanks Graeme! But seriously don't spend too much time in this thread, if you get what I mean.

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Dave Preece wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:What a fucking idiot!
Was that really necessary?
Was THAT really necessary?

Was THAT really necessary?

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Top 20 is too big a list to name definitively. Like all of these kinds of favorite movie, music or whatever kind of lists, they change all the time the more you think about it. The one movie that crops up perennially though which is the one I say is my favorite movie of all time is Die Hard. Is it ...

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Is this a numbers expert picked at random?

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Top 20 is too big a list to name definitively. Like all of these kinds of favorite movie, music or whatever kind of lists, they change all the time the more you think about it. The one movie that crops up perennially though which is the one I say is my favorite movie of all time is Die Hard. Is it ...

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The history that this scoring system carries in the context of the Edinburgh Countdown Club outweighs the frankly small gains in how deserved most people's positions are. You make it sound like this is a great tradition passed down from generation to generation, as opposed to something someone came...

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Innis - ever the diplomat.

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I've just paid for both days. What's the Corby line on Travelodge deals this year? It's looks to me as though Friday is £22.99 and Saturday £42 at the moment. The Friday looks reasonable (I paid £24 for each last time). Edit - I've now booked for the Friday at £22.99, but I'm leaving Saturday for n...

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At exactly what (faster-than-light) speed would you have to travel in order to escape a black hole? Depends on the mass of the black hole. The formula is (2GM/R)^1/2. A simple definition of a black hole is that the escape velocity is greater than c (the speed of light), or at the event horizon, it ...

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Memorial Hall, 317 Newark Road, North Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 9RY South Hykeham Village Hall, Boundary Lane, South Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 9NQ Travelodge Lincoln Thorpe on the Hill Hotel, A46 Newark / Lincoln Road, Thorpe On The Hill, Lincolnshire, LN6 9AJ The South Hykeham Village Hall is right near th...

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(Why are you so postcode averse in your addresses?)

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I can't help but think that the Edinburgh club have been hoist by their own petard. 5 wins and 1 draw for Melanie Beaumont, but their own rules dictate that wins are worthless.

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Matt Morrison wrote:
James S Roper wrote:I'm a vaguely-underachieving student.
-1 for the hyphen

-+1 for the hyphen

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I was a bit confused by the shortage of wins all round. But since there are wins, draws and losses, could these also be incorporated into the table? It's not really complete otherwise.

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Philip Wilson wrote:Also for the 792 round, 88x9 would have used one less number for the Italian version - took longer than 30 secs though

Italian version?

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What's the latest in the game that the first E has appeared? Today (massive spoiler), I think the first E appeared as the last letter of the third letters round, so the 27th letter. Are there any that beat that?

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75×4-25-3-100/50=270 for the last numbers that no-one got.

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The GROANIEST/ORANGIEST round is the classic one where if you want to play tricks on your opponent, you can sit back and relax in order to make them think you have a nine (knowing that eight is the max) to force them to declare an invalid word.

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I've just paid for both days. What's the Corby line on Travelodge deals this year? It's looks to me as though Friday is £22.99 and Saturday £42 at the moment. The Friday looks reasonable (I paid £24 for each last time). Edit - I've now booked for the Friday at £22.99, but I'm leaving Saturday for now.

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I just did it and got the same as Bob, which turns out to be correct, so that's good.

But really - hiding puzzles in recap threads!

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:And Richard Brittain's polls?
No, that would be 'Polls of Assorted RBs'.

I meant that RB = Richard Brittain. You are Rhys Benjamin, never to be shortened to RB.

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How long before we hear Susie say "Seven is as good as it gets with these letters."? I'm sure she's said that or something equivalent in the past, even if it was just to mean that they couldn't find anything longer. I think you know what I meant. And I'm pretty sure she's never said anyth...

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Didn't someone link to that a few days ago?

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And Richard Brittain's polls?

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David Williams wrote:How long before we hear Susie say "Seven is as good as it gets with these letters."?

I'm sure she's said that or something equivalent in the past, even if it was just to mean that they couldn't find anything longer.

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sean d wrote:What's the highest ever 15 round score without a 9?

Of course, there are two records for this, since there's no way that the two 15-round formats are remotely comparable for things like this.

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The new score screens and CECIL were required because the old ones weren't compatible with the new computers at MediaCity. I think it's more that they weren't immediately compatible, and they didn't have enough time to sort them out. They probably could have gone back to the old screens after the f...

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If a good player loses before becoming an octochamp because they meet another good player on the way, they're just as likely to come across this good player in their first or second game as their seventh or eighth, so it might not help them anyway. Unless you're going to fundamentally change the sys...

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