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Philip A

Will Countdown ever be cancelled or is it just too popular ? Small team who work extremely hard; dead easy to reset what is in essence a card game; sustainable and economical; format works and makes regular viewers come back for more; never resorts to repeats because they make 240 shows per year (m...

Philip A

Bradley Cates on Only Connect tomorrow.

Philip A

Here are some clips from the last ever episode, broadcast in June: https://youtu.be/uRurfiiMJyk?si=MmCDsohl-JALI0Yn

Philip A

Playing all 9 tiles or making any 9 letter word? I would have said making a 9 letter word But I'm open to feedback. I'm still thinking that the 9 letter rack is maybe a step too far and may alienate scrabblers. The obvious compromise would be eight tiles, then? In all seriousness, a Scrabble varian...

Philip A

Wonder which version of the dictionary it uses... It doesn’t actually say, but having checked the answers section, I don’t see any words from the historical OED which were previously imported. For the record, I did spot an answer which wasn’t listed but it is in ODP (and the Google dictionary too) ...

Philip A

Volume 2 is out now at all good book shops and online.

Philip A

Phyl Styles wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:45 pm Wondering about 'pickerel'?

Nice, that is indeed in Oxford Dictionaries Premium.

Philip A

New episodes from 29th September (6 shows I think?). There’ll be more in 2025 as well.

Philip A

REHOBOAM in R12.

Philip A

GAMEPAD in R8

Philip A

Worth noting: Teatime Teasers can still come from the OED and not ODP due to the time at which they were prepared; but letters games are now without OED material.

Philip A

Bravo, Alex!

CEREMONY in Round 5

Surprised ‘ahistoric’ is no longer in (just ‘ahistorical’).

Philip A

The squiggly pattern on the papaya McLaren F1 cars spells ‘Arrow’. Took me years to notice.

Philip A

R2 is proof that everyday words can still be found out of the maximum of 5 vowels; well found by the champion.

Philip A

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 10:33 am Bump!

Tom Chafer-Cook has this website, which checks words and and tell you maxes from the selection without any sort of login (the previous one was no longer functional). A game changer! Thanks to Fiona for mentioning it and to Tom for making it!

Excellent, and up-to-date too.

Philip A

We’re back. 75 shows of Series 90 left. This is the last week of shows in which words from the historical dictionary (OED) were imported into the living dictionary (OD Premium) at the time of recording. From 16th September, historical words such as ‘mislodge’ and ‘paulins’ will no longer be allowab...

Philip A

Series 77 contestant Alex Smith on Password (Episode 2) on ITV X. (Hilarious btw) Would be a great daily daytime show with a "winner stays on" format and different celebrities each week. Maybe. Apparently Lingo will allow winners to stay on for up to three shows from Series 4 (recorded bu...

Philip A

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:09 am
Philip A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:27 pm Series 77 contestant Alex Smith on Password (Episode 2) on ITV X. (Hilarious btw)
I assume the money he got through scamming people has finally dried up and he needed some more.

Had no idea of this!

Philip A

We’re back. 75 shows of Series 90 left. This is the last week of shows in which words from the historical dictionary (OED) were imported into the living dictionary (OD Premium) at the time of recording. From 16th September, historical words such as ‘mislodge’ and ‘paulins’ will no longer be allowabl...

Philip A

Series 77 contestant Alex Smith on Password (Episode 2) on ITV X. (Hilarious btw)

Philip A

dan spinks wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 6:57 pm This would be as good a place as any to say that Apterite and Series 72 octochamp Steve Redfern's daughter just won gold in the pool

Fantastic, congratulations to her.

Philip A

This is the most bizarre scheduling I’ve ever seen on any gameshow in my life.

Monday: New episode
Tuesday: New episode
Wednesday: New episode
Thursday: Repeat
Friday: Repeat

Basically a jumbled up Series 3.

What a mess.

Philip A

With Lingo finally resuming Series 3 after an 18-month break(!), 3rd September @ 3 pm will feature Countdown, Scrabble, Crossword and all-round gameshow contestant, David Webb! This episode was recorded 2 years ago.

Philip A

BURSARIES for 9

MAILLOT in Round 12

Philip A

Paralympics start tomorrow. After this episode, Countdown will return on Monday 9th September.

Philip A

I emailed (the very kind) Countdown Team regarding PUTREFY and in their response they have apologised for the error in the cut. Rob apparently did spell it correctly so was rightfully awarded the 7 points.

Philip A

At last, new episodes this September. This is the second half of Series 3 which comprises of the remaining 25 episodes. Series 4 will have returning champions staying for up to 3 shows.

Philip A

R2 alts: CRUSADES, SIDECARS

Philip A

Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 8:37 pm Tom Stevenson (Series 86 Champion) will be on Pointless on 21st August 2024 @ 5:15 pm on BBC One/iPlayer. He’ll have up to 3 chances (used to be 2 but now it’s 3) to make the final, so could potentially be on 22nd and 23rd as well if eliminated.

This is today!

Philip A

Anyone else notice that Rachel put PUTRIFY up on the board, and Colin at least pronounced it that way? It's PUTREFY. Not to mention PRETTIFY. To be fair, PUTREFY is indeed pronounced “pju-tri-fy”; the phonetic spelling is ˈpjuːtrɪfʌɪ. No-one mispronounced it during the recording. However it was mis...

Philip A

From 29th August to 6th September 2024, Countdown will be off air due to Channel 4 (and More4) showing the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. Countdown will resume on 9th September.

Philip A

Last Friday's edition was criticised by fans for it being a old episode shelved for over 2 years, as it had no visible audience and featured Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon in place of then-pregnant Rachel Riley. So it looked as if it was a repeat, but is wasn't.

Philip A

R1: ASCONOID
R2 alt: JAVELIN
R3 alt: (75-10-4)*7+2/2=428

GEOTHERM came up again in R8, but has since been removed from the dictionary.

R13: TRILOGUE

Philip A

Agree, I’m calling Octochamp but you never know with these matchups. Missing gettable nines, though.

FTR, SLANGUAGE (slang words) is also a word.

Philip A

Heads up: this is now on iPlayer, repeated on BBC Four at Monday nights alongside Going For A Song.

Philip A

Patrice Laffont, whose TV career included hosting original French Countdown, Des Chiffres Et Des Lettres, from 1972 to 1989 and creating French gameshow Fort Boyard (which also had a UK version). He was 84.

Philip A

I wondered about magicks in round 12. According to Apterous you can have MAGICK or MAGICS but not magicks. The reason why magicks is invalid is reasonable, but difficult to explain. The reason for this is because MAGICK is a noun. MAGICK, however, is an archaic spelling of MAGIC which is an uncount...

Philip A

Tom Stevenson (Series 86 Champion) will be on Pointless on 21st August 2024 @ 5:15 pm on BBC One/iPlayer. He’ll have up to 3 chances (used to be 2 but now it’s 3) to make the final, so could potentially be on 22nd and 23rd as well if eliminated.

Philip A

Just a thought Why are there so many letters cards? I have a Countdown Letters Cards game at home, which I think was released about 10 years ago by Rocket Games. It has 116 cards in all: 51 vowels and 65 consonants (J, K, Q, X and Z appear once only, like the show). So that means if 5 vowels are pic...

Philip A

I'd assumed that anything in ODP would also be in OED but seems this isn't the case. Some of the recent additions are ODP only. So it seems there isn't one master source for anything that could ever have been and is considered a word! Yeah I think I may have noticed that a few years ago. Because OD...

Philip A

John Anderson (Gladiators referee) dies aged 92.

Philip A

RITENUTOS in R2 (plural can also be ritenuti)

Philip A

Fiona T wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:10 pm Hey I'm still in the top 2 Fiona octochamps!

We need a Fiona playoff special

Make it happen! A Fiona-fest!

Philip A

The everyday maximum in Round 2 was FATIGUE.

Philip A

Apparently on Dancing On Ice, all celebrities are physically and psychologically assessed before they are deemed eligible to participate. Strictly doesn’t.

Philip A

Strictly Come Dancing should now be shelved.

Philip A

After watching every episode of the last three months, I am convinced Rachel Reily is fed the answers through an earpiece. She can't be this good, conjuring all kinds of obscure solutions. What a shame. Few things to account here: don’t forget Rachel has a time advantage over the contestants who ar...

Philip A

Simon Haigh wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2024 7:15 am REBADGE in R11?

Very good, it’s in Oxford Dictionaries Premium.

Philip A

My mistake, put Series 89 not 90.

Philip A

At least they’ve brought back the audience in full.

Philip A

Another great performance from Fiona.

R10: ARIDITY

Philip A

Yes, a very good game.

I find it helps to break the target figure down like so:

896 / 8 = 112

112 / 4 = 28

28 = 4 * 7

Therefore,

4 * 4 * 7 * 8 = 896

That’s four of the six cards drawn.

I use the bus stop method.

Philip A

What should co events do about this? I've updated a thread here for that discussion As for what happens on the TV show, is it that important? Surely the producers will just do whatever is best for the TV show, they don't really owe anything to "Apterites" do they? I think it's important t...

Philip A

I agree that 1,000 points is less attainable now. Worth noting, though, that in 2002 Julian Fell scored a then-record 146 points out of 158 under 11 letters/3 numbers and New ODE rules, despite missing the conundrum; he made 4 nine-letter words in the first 10 letters games with a letters game, a nu...

Philip A

Gnocchi is disgusting.

Philip A

As of 12th July 2024, letter X has not been drawn from the CONSONANT pile on Countdown since 18th June 2024. Is this just coincidence or is this because the undrawn letters cards are not shuffled before the next episode of Countdown starts?

Philip A

VAR should be used for more contentious decisions like corners/goalkicks Ball going out of play for throw ins etc Bookings for simulation Even if it means more stoppages And slow the game down even more than it already has been? It's just turning subjective decisions in to even slower subjective de...

Philip A

His first game show appearance was The Weakest Link in 2001. He has since appeared on 10 more, including Countdown in 2004 and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2019, and is the founder of the Online Quiz League. Now, Jon Stitcher is back for a second shot at octochampdom.

Philip A

R4: SIMULACRA

An easier way for 479 was (50-1-1)*10-6/6.

Philip A

ASTHENIA in R8

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