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Alt for r14 nums:

((((8+7) x 9) + 4) x 7 )- 4

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https://ibb.co/LnfB03f

Don't know how to show it in browser - it was an ordeal just getting this to work. Little help?

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Got it - just need to set as text rather than number

0565 your other one?

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Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:04 pm
I get 5 solutions to Crazy (probably your 4 plus the one before 1000), any of [0-4][5-9]65

Thanks

Yes mine too end in 65. Glad it's not just me. Anyone got Excel skills to keep the leading zeroes?

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Ahh silly me started with 1000 as the first combo as Excel kept removing my leading zeroes... Yes 0086 works and Reel A is the first reel.

As for the Crazy one?

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I finally got round to doing the Combination Lock puzzles on the back of Co:Leeds 2016 programme. I have no solutions for "Hard" and 4 solutions for the "Crazy". Would appreciate if you could have a look and see if you concur: (Both puzzles concern a 4 reel padlock with digits 0-9, the object being ...

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Only because I played Drookits* which isn't valid so looked it up:

‘We rescued her and the wheelchair, and even though she was droukit she was still in full can belto voice.’

https://www.lexico.com/definition/drookit

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Fiona T wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:05 am
I know the national anthem gets slower every time I hear it.

Maybe it is tied to the monarch's heartbeat and so will speed up when Charles comes along?

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Also, how come Macaroni as in the penguin isn't in Lexico at all? Seems to be an omission... reckon that could be pluralised if it was in, restaurant rule or otherwise

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The plural is specified in the dictionary as macaronies. Thanks :) I take it no restaurant rule trickery either? No, it doesn't change the plural as Graeme has already told you! :lol: I do find it slightly annoying that they're often not explicit about this sort of thing though and just leave it ha...

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Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 06, 2020 7:59 pm
The plural is specified in the dictionary as macaronies.

Thanks

I take it no restaurant rule trickery either?

Adam Dexter

I had MACARONIS* in one round but doesn't seem to be valid.

Definition 1 has the mass noun tag but definition 2 does not: "2 An 18th-century British dandy who imitated continental fashions."

Am I misunderstanding or should that be a 9?

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Dunno if they came back to Rachel but I had the last numbers (seemed fairly simple):

((25+50+9+1) x 8) + 7

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Jason William Larsen wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:29 pm
Adam Dexter!

You called?

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I was so happy with my raw 142 before I saw the max was so high.

Alt for one of the numbers - 75 100 1 5 6 1 → 723

100+75+6 * (5-1) - 1 = 723

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:48 am

Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:10 am
I mean, there's also this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54081131
Countdown is an organised team sport.

I can agree it's organised and would like to think it is a sport (so I can fulfill exercise quotas), but team?

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I got the 931 and the 478 within 30s (just).

Would still have been whipped but would have been nice anyway.

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Correct me if I'm wrong Sam, but I think you said TELECON rather than TELECOM as the subtitles suggested?

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I think he meant thrapes as that is a local dialect word for driving a car particularly hard.

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What is the longest run of teapots there have been? There have been 5 in a row (and counting) at present.

Getting rather expensive in the porcelain dept!

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Booked my hotel today for Friday and Saturday night. 2 nights for £6.99 - gotta love having vouchers from Travelodge! Not bad be hard to beat that offer, Is it the Travel lodge in St Annes on Sea Yep it's the one about 10 mins walk from the venue. Should have been about £85 but I had vouchers from ...

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Booked my hotel today for Friday and Saturday night. 2 nights for £6.99 - gotta love having vouchers from Travelodge!

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:58 am
Awesome. Do you have wins/points for them?

Here you go: http://wiki.apterous.org/ZoomDown

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Tis a thing of beauty so it is. Still - mine works so will leave as is. Anyone wanna shove me a load of data?

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Adam Dexter wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 09, 2020 8:05 am
Major issue is that Stephen R has worked out there are 336 combinations of CV ensuring the vowel selection is legal - might be a bit time heavy doing it manually!

Just an update to say I have worked out how to get all the combinations - I have everything ready, just need a shitload of data.

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Bit of an aside, but did some Excellery last night and came up with this horrendous formula: =IF(OR(LEFT(A1,1)="A",LEFT(A1,1)="E",LEFT(A1,1)="I",LEFT(A1,1)="O",LEFT(A1,1)="U"),"V","C")&IF(OR(MID(A1, 2, 1)="A", MID(A1, 2, 1)="E", MID(A1, 2, 1)="I", MID(A1, 2, 1)="O", MID(A1, 2, 1)="U"), "V", "C")&IF(...

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All very interesting thanks everyone. Now a question related to personal stats. We have the Superstats on Apterous. I almost always pick CCCVVVCVC however my opponents obviously have a wide range of picks. Is there any way it could be seen what letter selections have the best max % for a player? I'm...

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Who would be the current UCWC? Is anyone keeping track?

A bit like https://www.ufwc.co.uk/ where the winner of the first match is champion until defeated (a la boxing)

Issue I can see is people who retire unbeaten - not entirely sure how this is dealt with in boxing?

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ANGRIEST stems with 19 I think. I'd be surprised if that can be beaten. For which words stem with any vowel: http://wiki.apterous.org/Fruitful_8s http://wiki.apterous.org/Fruitful_7s http://wiki.apterous.org/Fruitful_6s Ahh very nice - I thought something like this would likely have already been co...

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Not sure if been covered elsewhere, but here goes. Which word has the most stems, so should rarely be declared? Are you able to show the most for each length of word? Maybe this could be further split to determine words that if any extra vowel was added would yield a longer word - thus meaning your ...

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I also like how both players did the massively complicated showboaty way of getting to 125 in the first numbers instead of just doing 100+25. Not showboaty, just good practice. Only a numpty makes 125 by 100 + 25. You're left with useless larges if you do so. Use 75 + 50, and you can make a 4 if ne...

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I had OUTRAKES in R11 - I wonder when this became valid as clearly wasn't when broadcast. Is there any way to check words historically?

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Just watching the latest QI episode and they're all wearing ruffs? How long was stuff like that in fashion for? Was it longer than a century? I used to sing in church choir and we wore ruffs so still ongoing. I suppose that may not count as fashion though as I wouldn't have worn one down the street.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:10 am
Not everyone knows their blood type
I just asked my missus (in her mid fifties , as am I) what her blood type was and she didn't know.

I guess unless you have had a surgical procedure , why would you ?

I know mine as I'm a donor

O- which means they're always after me...

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So you got it straight away anyway without being told? You probably have good knowledge of 80s music. Have you seen the Domino's Pizza advert? What do you mean it didn't work though? Sorry I wasn't really clear. I haven't seen said advert in the flesh so to speak. What I meant was you saying "the s...

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Anyway I found out today that the song that's playing is Can't Get Through to You by Nemi . But that's not the important bit. The song you couldn't quite work out what it was is Tell it to My Heart by Taylor Dayne . You are very welcome. As soon as I heard the first clip I thought it was the song o...

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In

Might be the three of us coming up for the weekend (although Lucy will be 8 months pregnant, so we shall see...)

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:15 pm
Don't think anyone got 437 the proper way - (25+3-2)×(10+7)-5=437.

FWIW, I did

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Scrolling back a bit on that page, I saw the comment from Peter Arps (11 May 2012) - I can't tell if it's serious, a troll, a letter to the Daily Telegraph that got misrouted, or what. Peter Arps = Mr. P Arps :D You think that's bad...., look who the editor of the Huddersfield Examiner is.... :oops...

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Solved 625 this way (would never have managed this or even thought of it 7 years ago, so that's progress).

((8-3)*(9+1)*100)/8

Just thought... the target ends 25, how many do I need to make it end in a 00? 4 or 8... there we go

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:48 pm
Scrolling back a bit on that page, I saw the comment from Peter Arps (11 May 2012) - I can't tell if it's serious, a troll, a letter to the Daily Telegraph that got misrouted, or what.

Peter Arps = Mr. P Arps

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri May 01, 2020 2:07 pm

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri May 01, 2020 2:05 pm
Typewriters
Analogue watches.

I use an analogue watch. I prefer it to digital as "about 6pm" is easier to see than looking at 17:58 and working it out. I also have a 1 handed watch which is nice for weekends when time doesn't have to be so precise.

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When is Co:Brin 2020? I think originally it was at the end of March but other things got in the way. Is it being rescheduled?

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:18 pm
(75+5*4)*10-8+7 alt in R3.

Nice. I did ((75-7)*(10+4))-(8-5) for the stylish +1000 solve

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Hi, Hoping you can help with this one. I have an excel sheet with 11 suppliers as columns and the rows are weeks. I would like to create a video to show the change in usage of supplier over the last 40 or so weeks I have collected data for but as a pie chart rather than a bar chart. Is this easily d...

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Was that Norm Ahmad solving the conundrum? May have got muddled so apologies if so.

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:07 pm
Now I'm confused and/or blocked. Hard to tell which.

Haha glad I confused you. It was more a comment at the 100+ views but no responses :p

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Thanks for the help everyone

I've managed to get some RF headphones and an adaptor for total cost £45.50

Now I can hear every snap, crackle and pop on the vinyl.

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Hi, I'm looking to connect a pair of wireless headphones to an amp (connected to a turntable). This is because the turntable/speaker set up is right underneath our bedroom and her ladyship does not appreciate the dulcet tones of Dire Straits and Leonard Cohen :lol: I haven't yet got the headphones. ...

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Is there a prize for doing well based on your seeding? I could claim to have been playing the long game if so.

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Erm... another conundrum, as many times as necessary, then cut out all but 1 wrong and the solved one usually That's not what I meant. I wonder if Paul could've won in that scenario because someone definitely would've had to break the tie since they are not allowed for the last 27.5 years. I don't ...

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Ryan Lam wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 08, 2019 3:10 pm
... If not, someone would've had to solve the Conundrum to break the tie. (I wonder what would've happened in that scenario.)

Erm... another conundrum, as many times as necessary, then cut out all but 1 wrong and the solved one usually

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I'm 14st10lb and 5'10".

Didn't realise people were so light... feel like a chubber now

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Did it woohoo.

How do I upload a pic?

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Thanks! Looks like my multiple if formula won't work as it's max 64.

This is what I'm looking at btw

https://exceljet.net/puzzle/formula-cha ... ys-of-week

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Hi

Looking to build a massive Multiple IF formula on Excel.

How many combos of days of the week are there, allowing for days to be either there or not?

E.g.

Week could be MTW, MTFS, SMWFS, SMTWTFS or anywhere between

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:28 pm
Poor Vicki... I whitewashed her.

1st Numbers Alt.: (75 - 1) * (1 + 3 + 3) - 50

SONORITY to match TOURNOIS.

I did (50+1+1)*3*3

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WANDEROO in R5

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R1 the 'th' in anthelion is pronounced as in anthill. It is a contraction of anti-helion, opposite or against the sun. Similarly ant-helminthic, which helps eliminate worms. Lovely. Anyone else read that as th in anthelion is pronounced as in an-thill, and wonder what on earth an anthill was and wh...

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