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Adam Dexter

Just a question, as I note the Predrinks event is right when most people would eat (6pm - 9pm). I see there is a chippy not far away going towards Lincoln - wondering about anyone who wants to placing an order for delivery at about half 5? Would it be OK to access the hall prior to 6pm? If this does...

Adam Dexter

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:58 pm For the last numbers I did (8×8-2)×6-25=347. Is that a reverse standard method?

Interesting. I could see that the Smalls were even and the target odd, so after trying to make an odd (either 6/2 or 8/8) I decided it would be ±a large.

Mine was (25+8) × 8 + 6 +2 + 75 = 347

Adam Dexter

Exact scenario happened with me vs dexter (twice) First time, i had made a mistake and then he had mostly forgotten, allowed plenty of time for him to regather his thoughts. Second time, both NWD me closer again, I told him to write his down whilst I said mine to the host. I was right this time so ...

Adam Dexter

That was a class weekend. Massive thanks to those who put in a lot of thought and effort to make it run as smoothly as it did. Great to see some faces that I haven't seen in a decade, as well as some newer ones that I've either only seen on the show or never seen before. You're all a great bunch of...

Adam Dexter

L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 7:52 pm btw, what is the best airport to fly to for this event, and would you recommend flying out of Cork or Dublin?

Birmingham airport is close.

Seems to be no flights from Cork. Dublin far cheaper than Shannon (those are the two options)

Adam Dexter

Really looking forward to this event

I presume people are Parkrunning at Brueton Park on the Saturday morning prior to the event?

Just nervous about making the event in time (with time for a shower at the Travelodge in between). Hopefully I can pick the pace up enough to allow a cushion.

Adam Dexter

Andres Sanchez wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:42 pm Think it's meant to be A5 bc that's where the king on a chess board starts on. Although I did just look at a setup and it may should've been called E1 instead

Nice try, but pretty sure it' Arthur Page = Half a Page

Adam Dexter

As someone who went from 3rd in the penultimate game to 8th and prizeless at Reading I heartily endorse the 3/4 playoff

Adam Dexter

Fiona T wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:19 pm Not really answering the question about what I'd do, but perhaps a case for a new convention that if you're declaring 2nd and it's NWD you say 7 Notarise nwd in one breath

And deservedly get no score as it's an 8

Adam Dexter

Philip A wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:01 pm (particularly younger than 35 years old)

Ouch just scraping into the "and the rest" section there

Adam Dexter

Looks like George has entered twice (ooer missus) for the main event

Adam Dexter

Just a note to say Advance train tickets are now available - I've just booked and saved £15 woohoo

Adam Dexter

Howie Myers wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:57 am r12: WOOLIEST

*WOOLLIEST only

Adam Dexter

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:46 pm it's gauge

I read that in the style of Shaun Ryder on that song Dare

Adam Dexter

Well there's a step at the back to get yourself on the thing - think you scoot along, then jump up when you've got enough velocity for balance. It might be possible to lift the front wheel during the scooting phase! Looking forward to seeing the next instalment of Extreme Sports with Mrs T (after y...

Adam Dexter

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:32 pm 2nd numbers - (50+9-5)×(10+8)+6=978

Also ((50x10/2) + 8) x 9 + 6

Adam Dexter

R1: URODELES
R7: SENECIO
R8: DUTIFUL

Really happy to get those against the best of the series. Well played both - great game to cap off the year

Adam Dexter

FUNDABLET - It was Flaunted not Flounced

Adam Dexter

Was quite excited when I saw the host was Michael Jackson, but was not quite who i thought it would be :D Great show - wonder how different the contestant base would be if there was that sort of money available in ours (I feel like it would become a primetime style casting of "personality"...

Adam Dexter

I think I have it:

IRK PLEASE

Adam Dexter

Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 10:09 pm MISENTER in R11

You could say that the name of the day in the thread was MISENTERed

Adam Dexter

Noel Mc wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:44 pm Purely self serving question here - myself and Eoin Jackson meeting in a semi-final. Have there been any all-Irish finals or is that potentially the latest stage all-Irish meeting?

Well S87 final was 75% Irish so might be the closest

Adam Dexter

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 2:56 pm Disappointed to see cagouls invalid in round 11.

Cagoules / kagouls

C with E as they rhyme is the way I remember it.

Adam Dexter

Colin was saying she was in the finals no matter what. I thought there would be around 60 heats left so don't think this is a given.

Is it a short series or was Colin mistaken?

Adam Dexter

Weird that Colin didn't mention asking Anne back

Adam Dexter

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:41 pm A bit outside the time but (100+7×(9-6))×8-4=964.

Similarly out of time, but happy with this:

(((8+7)*9)+6+100)*4

Adam Dexter

That a plant nursery was somewhere you took plants when you went on holiday so that they could be watered. This seemed perfectly rational to me, as knew that sometimes people would ask someone to come round and feed the cats/water the plants, and thought maybe if you didn't have anyone you'd trust e...

Adam Dexter

As Colin knew the seeds at the end of today's programme, it would be good to have a graphic with the 8 finalists' names and maybe a thumbnail pic, as would happen on sports programmes. I've said this in the past. Would be nice if this was done as soon as there is a top 8, then brought up each time ...

Adam Dexter

I got ROCAMBOLE! Not on Ascension. What's "ROCAMBOLE!"? Is that like ROCAMBOLE x ROCAMBOL x ROCAMBO x ROCAMB x ROCAM x ROCA x ROC x RO x R? Random thought - when you expand a factorial, do you include the x1 at the end? Is it relevant? Seems not, but feels incomplete without. Do you ask t...

Adam Dexter

Philip A wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:12 pm I got ROCAMBOLE! Not on Ascension.

What's "ROCAMBOLE!"?

Is that like ROCAMBOLE x ROCAMBOL x ROCAMBO x ROCAMB x ROCAM x ROCA x ROC x RO x R?

Random thought - when you expand a factorial, do you include the x1 at the end? Is it relevant? Seems not, but feels incomplete without.

Adam Dexter

That's pretty niche. I work at Waitrose so we sell Sriracha sauce and Crisps The way that's written, it seems like the selling of Sriracha sauce and crisps is dependent on you working there - fair play, I know it's somewhat of a mutual business, but didn't realise each employee was quite so importa...

Adam Dexter

Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:12 pm Some comeback from Sarah Bibby, especially with that 6-small solve in the final numbers (I had her solution after 20 seconds). Good contest.

Did her way first, then saw the elegant (6+5)*((10*5)+3) using the "11's trick"

Adam Dexter

Am I allowed to vote?

Adam Dexter

Andres Sanchez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 4:24 pm What's the time zone so I can adjust to when I should wake up or catch some Countdown in the morning for me?

All the same in UK and Ireland

It's 5 hours behind you so will be 6am start

Adam Dexter

Gutted for Adam. Wonder what stopped him going for legations ? Must have come across it on apterous many times. Probably one of those is it or isn't it a mass noun things, especially with GELATIONS also being there and invalid I have 3 excuses: 1) I saw it late (28s) 2) Thought it might be a mass n...

Adam Dexter

(As an aside, I'm puzzled at why IC isn't valid. I get the impression that Roman numerals derive from a way of marking tally sticks, whereby 17 would be IIIIVIIIIXIIIIVII, shortened to XVI. Furthermore, apparently 'subtractive' notation is actually ordinal in origin (IX meaning "the I just bef...

Adam Dexter

Yeh - I think if you somehow managed 154 without scoring every round that would be somewhat amazing

Adam Dexter

Kirk was on Eggheads today. Not sure if a repeat, but the value was a lot higher than Lauren/Aidan's show last week so I presume it was.

Adam Dexter

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:58 am Did they get it right?

Yes

I liked that the other two could be ruled out. One being impossible (not ending in 5 or 0) and the other simply not having the time to amass the points.

Adam Dexter

Sexier solution to the 999:

(25+(100/50))*((7*6)-5) = 37*27 = 999 (37 rule ftw)

Adam Dexter

Tom Stevenson was referenced in a question on The Chase. Not strictly "on other quizzes", more "as other quizzes".

Adam Dexter

I did ((5x3x8) + 2 )x 7 for my 854 for the TAFP solution

Adam Dexter

Nice to see Callum found time for BGT the day after GoatLeeds

Adam Dexter

Also 9x8 - 8 for 64 is a whoopsie... 8x8 anybody?

Adam Dexter

Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 6:14 pm Nice to see some new teasers! I don't think EDGELORD existed the last time around.

Nice alternative to RELODGED, which always feels dodgy (even though it's in), and obviously EDGELORD takes the plural S.

Adam Dexter

Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:53 pm
Alts:
BALUSTER, an upright support

Presumably related to Balustrade

Adam Dexter

Word with 5 vowels in a row? Isn't queueing the stand go-to?

Adam Dexter

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:40 pm Standard method was 25×75/(4-1)+9+1=635. 25×25+10 basically.

Unfortunately, the 7 seems to have turned into a 1 in your working.

Think you mean:

25 x 75/(7-4) +9+1

Adam Dexter

Wonder who the oldest contestant is? I suppose it's hard to say as not all ages are revealed

Adam Dexter

Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 5:22 pm Looking at the first of today's daily challenges (the one with 8 conundrums), by clicking through to people's games on the leaderboard everyone seems to have been given a different conundrum in round 4. Why is this?

Mine seems rather apt: TPISDYAIR

Adam Dexter

Scored myself against both today.

Every time I went with a weird word Cillian did too... thankfully, all in.

I missed the R9 numbers (100 9 4 10 5 3 -> 652) but did do a LNAFP for 653.

Milliseconds behind on con.

Final scores 134 - 154 with Cillian and 151 - 62 with Chris

Adam Dexter

Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:19 pm
Adam Dexter wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 8:53 pm Why would Chris and I swap? Mine is lower than his
You would swap because yours is lower than his

Sorry I've been a dumbass. Lower is not better. Oops

Adam Dexter

Why would Chris and I swap? Mine is lower than his

Adam Dexter

Doddington Hall for me please - will be nice to do a relatively flat one after the Wyre Forest attempt earlier this month! I have the car and space for 5 (3 plus David & I). First come, first serve. Only issue is I would like to leave my keys with someone (my running stuff doesn't have zippy poc...

Adam Dexter

Without opening a can of worms, where do you draw the line about what is broadcastable and what is not?

Should it be anything with the "derogatory" tag? Pretty sure I've seen giaours declared and that seems to have one.

Adam Dexter

Dan Byrom wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 10:06 pm
Funny you should say this. In preparation for the game, Adam had suggested to me to avoid 5 large because Elliott is good at it.

Dan is that rare breed that can beat Elliott but doesn't know the difference between letters and numbers rounds

Adam Dexter

When you ignore the 937.5 trickery, it's not too hard.

(100+75+50+1)x4+25

Adam Dexter

Anyone seen this guy? May interest you after the talk of 80 year olds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg0jp02k4do

Also... yes he may have beaten my time, but it's probably an easy course and he's been running since before I was born

Adam Dexter

dan spinks wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:56 pm just turn up at the studio in the middle of a recording. that worked for getting you on Zoomdown

Need a haha react for this

Adam Dexter

Have put my application in

have put more details than previously so hopefully get a call

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