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Gavin Chipper

If the series 82 final ends up being Luke v Sam, will it be the first CD episode ever with both contestants having double-barrelled surnames? Tom Chafer-Cook is the only double-barrelled champion, and he played Bradley Horrocks, so yes. Can confirm. I think T-Cap misread the question but got the ri...

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:01 am
How much would Richard Osman want to be presenter
Then offer him the job.

Have more people of colour as players and guests.
This show is too white.

I would consider people on their own merits. But while we're here, why not a black presenter?

Gavin Chipper

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:30 pm
Is it not done like that so Rachel is next to the CECIL button, then moves to screen left to work it out?

I don't know but the button could be on the other side easily enough.

Gavin Chipper

I would do away with the weird tradition of putting up the numbers right to left. I (and I'm sure others) like to have the numbers on my paper in the same order as the screen, but it's a bit awkward writing backwards.

Gavin Chipper

Tom S wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:24 pm
Think the combined scores of Leo's opponents may be the highest for an octochamp in the modern 15R era. Averaged around 71-ish each...

A total of 574 makes for an average of 71.75. The other one I immediately thought of was Mark Murray. His opponents totalled 566, which gives an average of 70.75.

Gavin Chipper

I just found out that Rob Foster has never won COLIN.

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Paul Anderson wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:59 pm
what's with the coloured text? Illegible really

Highlight it. It's to stop accidental spoilers for people trying it themselves!

Gavin Chipper

Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:26 am
gevin where's your 19

Check mine now.

Gavin Chipper

but yeah good point by gev at the end, reworking my answer hang on edit: actually i don't think he does i worked out that you essentially need one digit for each of the primes that start with 1 3 7 9, and 2 digits for the ones that don't - so 2x11+10=32 digits, and if i were to pull some shit like ...

Gavin Chipper

Interesting puzzle. I have: 231129413434715359616737838979 My thinking was that the best you could possibly do is start with a 2 and have as few "dead ends" as possible. All the even numbers (other than the initial 2) will involve a dead end as well as the 5. Starting with a 2, you get 23 free of ch...

Gavin Chipper

I would show words on the board for more than two seconds so that people who are looking away from the screen briefly - maybe looking at their paper - don't miss it or have to rely on Susie's 200mph spelling of the word. Maybe they could mention it going on the board as well.

Gavin Chipper

I mean I've said basically this before, but my wallpaper coincidentally just happens to have a load of high-probability Apterous words written all over it. It's impossible to unsee.

Gavin Chipper

In the opening splash screen of Sonic 2 - which I spent my youth playing - the character of Tails is given the full name of Miles Prower. It has just dawned on me that this is not a typo of Power, but a pun. I didn't know that either. Weirdly, in the Game Gear version, there was no reference to his...

Gavin Chipper

Martyn might be better than Leo overall, but I think the likes of Luke and Sam are in another league to Martyn.

Gavin Chipper

I noticed Rachel's favouritism for females come out again saying that Isabella would have won 9 times out of 10. She played OK but 9 out of 10?

Gavin Chipper

Tiers 2 and 3 are basically lockdown. Almost all of England will remain in effective lockdown. Once you reach not being able to meet people inside, anything else on top of that is relatively minor.

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, I spent a full day writing a painfully detailed report onto 5 different facebook pages simultaneously... If I'm bored one day and arsed to put the effort in, I'll edit it for here. In the meantime if anyone else wants to copy paste one of the fb versions, be my guest. We agreed that I would p...

Gavin Chipper

Effectively Leo will knock Martyn out twice!

Gavin Chipper

His Dark Materials. Also Blackadder II is being repeated on BBC 1. I think all series might be on the iPlayer actually.

Gavin Chipper

Great game. Very rude conundrum scramble though - SLEAZYNOB!

Gavin Chipper

Nice.

Gavin Chipper

This might seem a small thing, but I think it's much more user-friendly if people put what their sum equals in a numbers game spoiler. For example: Round 3: 100 x 5 + 6 x 7 = 542 Not: Round 3: 100 x 5 + 6 x 7 (You would obviously also mention if 542 wasn't the actual target. E.g. "I couldn't get 543...

Gavin Chipper

Don't forget that URLs without the www don't work properly on this forum (you keep getting logged out), so this link is even better!

Gavin Chipper

Pretty awful human being Priti Patel has been found to be bullying, but Boris Johnson just tries to make it go away.

Gavin Chipper

I would have said CAKEBREAD looked more realistic than BREADCAKE so a bit unlucky there.

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:42 pm
You can get proper hypoallergenic proper cats.

What do they make them from?

Gavin Chipper

Straight in there with the Mulvey. Nice.

Also Zarte Mark I presumably.

Gavin Chipper

Someone has to be.

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Allergies?

Gavin Chipper

I'm over 10,000 now, so I'm coming for you Robbo!

Gavin Chipper

(and technically Palestinians are Semites, too!) And that's why "anti-Semitism" isn't really a useful term. Well, it is useful for some people because they use the word instead of "racism" and can therefore sneak in extra meaning to it (including criticism of Israel etc.). The point is that saying ...

Gavin Chipper

But minus points to Rhys for not adding the = 812. It might sometimes be obvious but generally it makes it much easier to quickly see which round someone is referring to without having to work through someone's method yourself. Was the "Round 3" not obvious enough? No. People don't necessarily reme...

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, you don't need the extra brackets. It was a fairly standard 4-large solve so I was surprised Rachel didn't get it. I got it after the time and was kicking myself but I don't practise 4-large. But minus points to Rhys for not adding the = 812. It might sometimes be obvious but generally it make...

Gavin Chipper

Keir Starmer has just said that Corbyn won't be returning as a Labour MP . But anyway, to summarise the issue, from that article: Sir Keir Starmer said those who think the issue had been "exaggerated" should "be nowhere near the Labour Party". But later, Mr Corbyn released a statement, saying the sc...

Gavin Chipper

Anyway, Jeremy Corbyn is back in the Labour Party but there are people who still don't want him to get the party whip back. As I understand it, Corbyn was suspended for the comments he made in the video embedded on this page where he talked about exaggeration. But if you listen to what he said about...

Gavin Chipper

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:20 pm
They normally let people go back one step these days so why was Kevin's R3 disallowed...?

I thought about that but the giving up seemed to come from him. But that might just have been because he didn't know he could get away with it. So a grey area.

Gavin Chipper

On a more serious note, I'm not sure what there is to love about Johnson unless you buy his "loveable buffoon" persona, but surely that wore thin years ago. He has no integrity as a politician whatsoever. He's out of his depth and basically has no principles, doing merely what he thinks is needed to...

Gavin Chipper

Apparently Boris has spoken out against devolution. I have written about this at University, but also that I wouldn't want to be the politician who speaks out against it. I love Boris. Apparently so. But: A Downing Street source: "The PM has always supported devolution, but Tony Blair failed to for...

Gavin Chipper

A couple of top notch replies there.

Gavin Chipper

If you read the explanation in the second link I gave or watch this video , they're quite clear that the answer is 9. However, I think to talk about it simply in terms of BEDMAS/BODMAS/BIDMAS/TISWAS is to miss the point about where the confusion or potential ambiguity lies. And the website and video...

Gavin Chipper

Sad news indeed. At the risk of sounding flippant, according to his profile he was (or would be right now) 79 years old and that was the age he wanted to achieve.

Gavin Chipper

I saw this come up on Facebook a day or so ago from The Mirror, so I thought I'd post it here. It's nothing original - I've seen similar before. It's also here.

What is 6 ÷ 2(1+2) ?

I'll be back to discuss.

Gavin Chipper

Fiona T wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 14, 2020 3:42 pm
Linky here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBQH0XXMyEg

Nice.

Gavin Chipper

Could it be a browser thing? I use the Brave browser and it doesn't even make me watch adverts.

Gavin Chipper

I can imagine a very occasional viewer of Countdown tuning in today and thinking "Ooh, this Andy Bruno was on when I last watched. He must have won every day for 38 years." And then at the end - "Wow - I picked the one occasion out of 38 years when he actually lost to watch the programme!"

Gavin Chipper

Ian Volante wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:03 am
70,025 bells.

Were you reminded of this by the counting to infinity thread? Cos I was.

Gavin Chipper

I just had a look online, and obviously asking for the difference between the width and height works well.

Gavin Chipper

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:36 pm
Gevin is correct.

You could make that your signature.

Gavin Chipper

Conor?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:23 pm
Divide the length of the longer side by the length of the shorter side. Do that number to the power of a million.

If it's 1, it's a square. If not, it's not.

You only need to do this to the power of 17 I think. That gets you over 2.5 (so 4 to the nearest square) for all the non-square options.

Gavin Chipper

The way I interpreted this is that Squarebot used the lines on the paper to draw the rectangle, so each side must have an integer length. Also each side is 16 units long to the nearest square so from 13 to 20. As the area is 289 to the nearest square, it must be nearer 289 than it is to 256 (16^2) o...

Gavin Chipper

Don't think it says anywhere that the lengths have to be whole numbers. The simple solutions seem best here. I think it's implied by the fact that it's on squared paper so must be a rectangle of some sort. If it's not whole numbers, the squared paper becomes useless anyway. The squares on the paper...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:18 am
Don't think it says anywhere that the lengths have to be whole numbers.

The simple solutions seem best here.

I think it's implied by the fact that it's on squared paper so must be a rectangle of some sort. If it's not whole numbers, the squared paper becomes useless anyway.

Gavin Chipper

He’s in the process of ripping his episodes to his computer, but this appears to be taking a while. He sent me the video of Ep15 today. What worries me is the fact the contestants were the “wrong” way round compared to TCDP and (before today) the wiki. Episode 312’s credits are on YouTube which was...

Gavin Chipper

I thought I might have posted about this before but I couldn't find it - why do we have two lots of two-minute silences for the end of the First World War? We have Armistice Day and Remembrance Day (today - 11th November) and Remembrance Sunday (always the second Sunday in November which is also the...

Gavin Chipper

What is the square of the area?

Gavin Chipper

Add the sum of the length of the sides together. Add 1. Multiply this by 100 and add 50. What do you get? If 3600, it's a square. If not, it's a rectangle. Is that even right? Doesn't 18 and 16 give the same answer as 17/17? Disregard this. See my first answer. This was a joke answer as you can tel...

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:42 pm
Add the sum of the length of the sides together. Add 1. Multiply this by 100 and add 50. What do you get?

If 3600, it's a square. If not, it's a rectangle.

Is that even right? Doesn't 18 and 16 give the same answer as 17/17?

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:26 pm
Is Reel A the first reel?

Yes, but surprisingly Reel B is the last reel.

Gavin Chipper

Divide the length of the longer side by the length of the shorter side. Do that number to the power of a million.

If it's 1, it's a square. If not, it's not.

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