c4countdown

Gavin Chipper

Basically, no-one wants to play more than six games I do. Irritates me how long people give for lunch breaks. Less wandering around, more Countdown. Or make the whole event shorter. The pub's for chilling, the Countdown tournament is for playing Countdown. I'm up for making events shorter. I don't ...

Gavin Chipper

Yes, good thread. As a player and someone who has never hosted, from my point of view I think it's a mistake for an organiser to think "OK, we've got the venue for x hours, so how many games can we cram into this period?" Basically, no-one wants to play more than six games, unless they make the fina...

Gavin Chipper

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:40 am
Could I give the three people I'm expecting to be the winner?

This isn't Only Connect.

Gavin Chipper

I don't think people were invited as such. I think they had to put their names forward. This ended up largely being people from the online Countdown community and the Scrabble community because they were the easiest groups to reach in the short amount of time available. I think it would have been n...

Gavin Chipper

I got MICHELNIS in one of the rounds.

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:42 am
Problem I have is I can't wake up get washed and dressed and then eat a breakfast.
I have always needed a couple of hours between waking up and eating.
Although weirdly enough I have no problem with eating a meal just prior to sleeping

I can eat at any time.

Gavin Chipper

I have to leave for work around 4 and I don't get a break at work until around ten. I quite often eat a curry or soup as my brain thinks it's lunchtime . Other people I work with can't get their heads around that and think it weird that I don't eat a breakfast. Is it really that odd? I don't think ...

Gavin Chipper

100×10×(9-7+1)/8=375 for an alternative in round 9.

Gavin Chipper

Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:46 pm
It's two new contestants. Will one of them octo again? Probably not

6 rounds in and I think this guy could.

Gavin Chipper

I watched The Thing the other day. Thought it was quite good. A bit silly really, but entertaining enough.

Gavin Chipper

Quite weak by Tony's standard but he got through.

But, as Tony Atkins would say, it was the first/last game of the day or the recording immediately before/after lunch/morning tea so it's to be expected really.

Gavin Chipper

Bournemouth saw just me doing the parkrun. The results out of 469 runners: 6. Gevin Chapwell - 18:30 (50 points) That's actually my second fastest parkrun time (my PB being 18:22 at King's Lynn last year). The overall points: 1. Gevin Chapwell - 360 2. Giles Hutchings - 106.7 3. Oliver Garner - 80 ...

Gavin Chipper

I need specific. Where people are sending me ranges I'm taking the middle value. (If anyone who gave a range reads this, I will allow them to pick a number within their range to be more specific, but otherwise, middle value) People have actually done that? What kind of lunatic would send you a rang...

Gavin Chipper

I need specific. Where people are sending me ranges I'm taking the middle value. (If anyone who gave a range reads this, I will allow them to pick a number within their range to be more specific, but otherwise, middle value) People have actually done that? What kind of lunatic would send you a rang...

Gavin Chipper

Toby McDonald wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:59 pm
Apterous says PELAGES is allowed, but if Susie and Oxford Dictionaries say it's a mass noun, should it be removed?

Maybe, but one of the example sentences talks about the "first pelage", so can't we have the second and third pelages as well?

Gavin Chipper

It's a real shame Scott Mearns was never invited back for the 30BC. Maybe he was and rejected his invitation. Julian fell did I don't think people were invited as such. I think they had to put their names forward. This ended up largely being people from the online Countdown community and the Scrabb...

Gavin Chipper

Slightly controversial, because Paul Erdunast originally finished in second place, but was promoted to first after the winner was found to have a fork in his possession. Particularly controversial as forks weren't explicitly listed on the banned list.

Gavin Chipper

Bournemouth saw just me doing the parkrun. The results out of 469 runners: 6. Gevin Chapwell - 18:30 (50 points) That's actually my second fastest parkrun time (my PB being 18:22 at King's Lynn last year). The overall points: 1. Gevin Chapwell - 360 2. Giles Hutchings - 106.7 3. Oliver Garner - 80 4...

Gavin Chipper

Apparently Jonathan Rawlinson did the London Marathon as well and absolutely smashed it in 2:58:36. So we have: 1. Tim Down - 2:57:19 2. Jonathan Rawlinson - 2:58:36 3. Gevin Chapwell - 3:09:16 4. Matt Bayfield - 3:09:22 5. Giles Hutchings - 4:19:15 I've done one marathon, 3:53:53. So I'm top of th...

Gavin Chipper

I agree that it makes sense to do 1000 points if you want to stick to integers.

Gavin Chipper

Why is it unfortunate, out of interest? I think you're trolling a bit there. I think any other forumer could have got away with what Owen said! Just thought Owen's comment was a bit rude (nothing against him personally) and wondered why he personally thought having Adam's octototal was so unfortuna...

Gavin Chipper

Tom S wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 23, 2018 5:42 pm

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:56 pm
Finally an octochamp! But unfortunately he's got the lowest octochamp score of the new 15 round format.
Why is it unfortunate, out of interest?

I think you're trolling a bit there. I think any other forumer could have got away with what Owen said!

Gavin Chipper

yeah, a lot. Don't mind subtitles (much prefer them over a bad dub), to the point where I often subtitle stuff in languages I can understand in case I miss a word or something to save me scrolling back a few seconds or whatever every time How many languages can you understand?! I often watch stuff ...

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper: Elliott Mellor: I am using the incoherency solver and it often gives more than one solution. My original question was whether the solution set is complete. If incoherency gives only one answer then my question is not a meaningful question in the first place. Mathematics is never cons...

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper: Elliot Mellor: I am using the incoherency solver and it often gives more than one solution. My original question was whether the solution set is complete. If incoherency gives only one answer then my question is not a meaningful question in the first place. Mathematics is never consi...

Gavin Chipper

(25x7+7)x5+8+8=926 for the second numbers.

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper: Thanks for the pointer to the "can of worms". I do not wish to re-open this "can of worms" but the equivalence problem is not exactly "rocket science"; any competent mathematician should be able to solve the problem. Maybe they could, but then another mathematician could solve the pr...

Gavin Chipper

What Elliott Mellor says is a reasonable outcome from a good solver. However, it is not meaningful to equal "all possible solutions" to "the closest solution" as Owen Carroll has stated. Suppose that there are just four solutions (avoiding trivial equivalent solutions due to commutative properties,...

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 21, 2018 2:04 pm
What about this TOWAGES contoversy? Has the ODO been updated recently to make it invalid or is it
another of Ms Dent's whims?

It's listed as a mass noun in the free version. What's the reason for allowing it? (It's on Apterous, just for the record.)

Gavin Chipper

Don't know but it could easily be 10+. Normally 2 or 3 shits.

Gavin Chipper

The other thing with Chris's system is that the score you get for coming last is arbitrary and a bit like Graeme's idea of awarding points for turning up.

Gavin Chipper

What if... It wouldn't remove the perhaps disproportionate advantage you get from finishing mid-table at a large event compared to winning a smaller one Then why even invent such a weird system? There are systems that sort that problem out with adding weird arbitrary numbers on the end as an aftert...

Gavin Chipper

What if... It wouldn't remove the perhaps disproportionate advantage you get from finishing mid-table at a large event compared to winning a smaller one Then why even invent such a weird system? There are systems that sort that problem out with adding weird arbitrary numbers on the end as an aftert...

Gavin Chipper

Kofi Annan.

Gavin Chipper

You and your faces.

Gavin Chipper

Did something change in Pro Ranks by the way Gevin? Checked last year's and Heather had a pro rank of 545th. This year there are 8 people unranked entirely (lowest ranked player is 183rd). I'm not sure how it works exactly. It was claimed that you had to be completely inactive to fall off - so even...

Gavin Chipper

No-one pays attention to the stickies, it's all about the most recent posting. Which bit are you looking at though? In the events section it's not even listed at all other than in the announcements bit. Whereas if you go to active topics it had been knocked down by hundreds of threads, not just the...

Gavin Chipper

Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:27 pm
Pleased to hear this!

And also bumping it because Gevin knocked the thread down by wittering about jogging.

But it's in the stickied announcements section at the top!

Gavin Chipper

I'm doing the Bournemouth parkrun on their 5th birthday. Join me!

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:01 pm
There are no engineering works planned for Saturday and I can avoid any strike problems on South Western Railway
(not that trains to Bournemouth would not be running) by using Cross Country so I can be there!

Standard method.

Gavin Chipper

Aretha Franklin. I wonder if she died of a urinary tract infection.

Gavin Chipper

Ray Wilding wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:02 pm
From the ticket I made: https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.ph ... 173#p57637

So Charlie added SWOONIER even though it seems it shouldn't be in.

Gavin Chipper

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:57 pm
Speaking of Susie. Has anyone else ever felt that she's kind of underrated?

No.

I think a lot of people think she's great anyway, and she became the sole lexicographer presumably because of this.

Gavin Chipper

Very happy.

Gavin Chipper

Personally I believe as well that organisers where possible should be incentivised to work harder to promote their event, knowing that some people will base their decisions on where they can take points from. Additionally, I believe that larger events tend to (although there are some exceptions) ha...

Gavin Chipper

Reading with interest to see how this develops.

Gavin Chipper

Before .co.mk I did the Linford Wood parkrun (it was just me this time), which is the other Milton Keynes parkrun, since I've already done the actual Milton Keynes parkrun twice. And I finished first, which is the first time I've done that as a tourist! The results out of 219 runners: 1. Gevin Chapw...

Gavin Chipper

How many syllables in BANNED? Or BAND? (Actually a special Countdown rule that words like PAINED are considered to have two syllables is not a bad idea.) I don't think you can define the number of syllables in a word based on whether you want it to have a comparative and superlative form! Something...

Gavin Chipper

Seriously? I always thought "standard method" was just a little joke. And this method works in 60% of cases, so 40% of the time it leaves you at least 25 away from the target? It started as Tony's 3-large thing, but it became generally used as a joke. But I think "working" means getting it spot on,...

Gavin Chipper

(100+8)*6+75/25 for the actually quite easy way to get that last numbers.

Gavin Chipper

Tom S wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:30 pm
Can I edit the title? Was a little inconsiderate in checking. TOADIED as a R4 beater.

Edit the title in your opening post. Should work.

Gavin Chipper

Tom S wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:21 pm
Good luck to Steve today- a good player and hope he can go on to win a few.

You mentioned him the other day. Where do you know him from? Is he on Apterous?

Gavin Chipper

So if it doesn't make sense, does that mean that -er and -est is decided on a whim by Susie? It seems so. It's also invalid on Apterous, which surprises me, since you'd expect Apterous to more rigidly follow the rules. Well, it's Sam who spotted it, I can't take credit for that. This is an amazing ...

Gavin Chipper

On the other hand, IMO Matthew's win on Friday can be attributed to just pure luck with his risky words since he genuinely did not know whether it was in or not...but seriously, someone please end the Octochamp drought, we should have had two by now and we have none! :( I don't think so at all. He ...

Gavin Chipper

I would like to know the percentage of 6 foot 7 plus people living in the UK. I suspect that answer will explain the lack of participation. But never give up as it has taken decades for America to accept soccer as a viable sport and I suspect come 2026 they may come close to winning the darn thing....

Gavin Chipper

Another player that looks good briefly and then falls away. I wonder what today's winner will go on to achieve.

Gavin Chipper

Something else that I think might put people off. My perception (and presumably some other people's) is that professional basketball isn't just people playing basketball better than random people playing basketball - it's effectively a completely different game. The point is that in football (or wha...

Gavin Chipper

Also how easy is it to get what's going on if you have no prior knowledge of the sport? Football is really easy.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:23 am
Responses hitherto have focused on watching basketball. But what about playing it? It's not very high scoring if you're not good.

But it's all connected. Enjoying watching a sport is likely to lead to wanting to play it.

Gavin Chipper

What are the two words?

Search found 8329 matches