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Adam Dexter

Alt for R3:

(100+75+7) x (10-6) - 1

I didn't see the simpler way that RR did it.

I found the challenger entertainingly ballsy, but was sad when champ had an 8 and he risked a 7... needlessly reckless

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:53 pm
Don't think even a max game today would have given him the record but nether-the-less a fantastic performance

Just because if you're never told you'll never know, it's nevertheless

Felt for the challenger today - he could have done well against a regular person.

Adam Dexter

Another 2nd numbers alt:

(9 - (10-4)) = 3
3 x 75 = 225
225+6 = 231
231 x 4 = 924

(Admittedly out of time)

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Fiona T wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:57 pm
dogeship in R2
soutane in the aketons x round - very unlucky there Luke

missed the 9 tho

Also in Aketons* round, I had the saddest amount of cakes, which is of course NOCAKES

Adam Dexter

Just wanted to say the season 4 update for Fall Guys is fantastic. OMG what a treat was it to have it download today. Love this game - we play it together and even our 5 year old has a go :) Gunna be a while before I can get my head round some of the new obstacles. The best we have done is 2nd by a...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:43 pm
Duckdown max from ABCJKMPQZ?

I'll get the ball rolling with SENSELESSNESSES (I'm sure someone will come along with something better).

Adam Dexter

WOW. The challenger surely must be under a pseudonym on Apto? I got absolutely spanked.

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R14 alt in a spiritual LNAFP kind of way:

(6x7x9) + 100 = 478

I count it as LNAFP if you're only using it in a plus or minus.

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I've said it before, but he's definitely far worse than Nick ever was at this sort of thing. Similarly, after R12 declaration "DERAILS", Colin said something about this has derailed Andrei's chances. There were 29 points between with a possible 38 left - a tad premature. There comes a time when wit...

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With Ruth Cappleman and Chloe Lavan playing today (08/03/2021), it got me wondering when the last time there was an all female Apto-registered game on Countdown (if there even has been one?). I guess it's maybe not that easy to quantify given the use of pseudonyms and registrations being possibly ta...

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Eagle-eyed viewers may have spotted that in the last letters round, on the last letter Rachel drew the letter M turned upside-down making it appear as a funny-shaped W. When Colin Murray started the clock, the letter was immediately replaced with a W turned the right-way up. Glad you have mentioned...

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Any else think Rachel was a bit lenient on the first numbers?

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Soppy alert, but spending the first few months of newborn's life is time I will always be thankful for. With our first, it was 2 weeks off running around looking after both mother and baby (off?), then back to work. She slept from about 8pm so I only saw her for about 10 hours a week + weekends doin...

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According to https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_7447 , it was 166 - pretty darn high!

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:06 am
this bar of Imperial Leather was absolutely embedded with wiry old man pubes.

Yes, but was this before and/or after your use?

Adam Dexter

I wouldn't've thought there was much of an issue with them. It's just substitution of unnecessary letters with apostrophes. Y'all'd've had qualms with a triple.

Came across this which is quite amusing http://www.apostrophecatastrophes.com/2 ... rophe.html

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I am waiting for someone to buzz in on the last bonus one in an unwinnable position - hasn't happened yet.

Would be extraordinarily bad sportsmanship given the meagre winnings there are anyway!

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I think lamp is more commonly used these days than bulb. I and everyone I know locally would call it a lightbulb or a bulb - not a lamp. I wonder whether it's dialectal (West Mids/Worcestershire here). A lamp in my mind would conjure up a heat lamp rather than a lightbulb. The little flat ones are ...

Adam Dexter

Alt for R6 numbers:

75-50 = 25
100/25 = 4
25+6+4 = 35
35 x 7 = 245

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Hi it seems to be down now. I can get onto the site but not onto the game -

"You have been disconnected from apterous. Please check your Internet connection. Internal server error"

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Excellent game.

Loved Levi singing as well - what a breath of fresh air he has been this week.

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R5: SCANDIUM

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R5: Subedari

Also happy to say I got the con in about 12 secs. Shame I can't do that in a game!

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Alt R14 Alt: (((25-9)x10)+6)x4 = 664

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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?

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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?

Adam Dexter

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

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

Adam Dexter

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

Adam Dexter

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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