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Another new city, another new host, and another exciting co-event event to add to the mix. For the first time, letters, numbers and conundurhams are coming to the historic cathedral city of Durham. ———————————— Date and times [/u] Saturday, 13th July 2024 Doors open: 10:00 First half Introduction a...

Thanks a lot for the comments and feedback regarding the conundrums and my hosting. I agree with Jack's view on FLOWERAGE being too easy as a con for the finalists. In typical Adam fashion, this was meant to be one for the openers, but I stuck it in the wrong file. Epic fail #2. Saying that, if it s...

One other thing - if there's a grand final at the end of a tournament and no screen with the scores, it's important to announce the scores at the end of each round. My bad. I was a complete scatterbrain and overcome with nerves during the final. My board was intended to be used a score display but ...

Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:18 am
I for one am interested in joining this breakaway faction going to the Indian restaurant.

Not a problem. Come join us

Count me in for food please! Unfortunately the venue have set a capacity which we've met (actually we went over and have had to reject a couple). However Beachy has made alternate meal plans so worth messaging him. Ofc anyone else is welcome to join us for the karaoke (up until 10pm) Ok no worries ...

I gather there's a discussion on the Apterous wiki about whether I'm a troll (https://wiki.apterous.org/Talk:Jane_Guestin). I'm not, I'm genuinely Jane's daughter! I have a VHS with this episode on, and have extracted an image showing the correct spelling of my mum's name - but I can't figure out h...

JackHurst wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 2:43 pm I can't find any records of individual games for this event. Does anybody have them? Would like to get them added to the event rankings.

Same. Would be good for the wiki page that like 6 people will have looked at.

FWIW, that's not enough C's. I had two shows in my octorun where 5 C's were drawn and another that had 4. Yeah, I saw your post about that last year on another thread. I think it's simply a case of the quantities of certain letters being changed every so often by the guys who shuffle them. 3 seems ...

The consistency in the letter packs was because I sat down and sorted through every one of them in the weeks beforehand and gave them equal distribution (yes, I'm sad). I kid you not, one of the packs had 4 Ks in before doing this. I'm all for fairness and everyone playing with the same quantities ...

Please please don't set conundrums with one of the players names in. Lots of people know at least some of the scrambles with their name, and it gives a huge potential advantage to that player. Twice in tournaments I've faced crucial conundrums where the scramble started with my opponent's 6 letter ...

Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 12:41 pm Fun Event

Any chance of a run down of all the results for both events?

Goat:Brum — https://greem.co.uk/cgi-bin/colive/tour ... atbrum2023

Co:Brum — https://greem.co.uk/co/brum2023

Thanks to Adam and MSR for putting on this event! Several things about this event were awesome: - Adam did a cracking Job hosting his first event(s) - The venue was excellent. Hope there's another Co:Brum there next year - 8 game format. Probably not everybody's taste, but it's good to have a few o...

Matt Rutherford wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:14 pm but it does mean the added risk of having to put up with my shit puns should I end up on your table

In that case, fingers crossed we’ll need two Prunes so I can rig the draw and have you with them. xo

Thank you to everyone for making the weekend great. I enjoyed my COLIN debut very much, and was honoured to preside over the grand final for the Hangover — it made up for my embarrassing performance of coming last. Looking forward to next year's. :)

Seems like as good a place as any to post this. I recently bought a set from a charity shop. Is there any official letters distribution to check they are all there in the correct quantities? Same for numbers (I assume 2 of each plus 4L covers that). Generally accepted thingy is A 15 E 21 I 13 O 13 ...

I've somehow miraculously managed to book a room for myself and Maus at the Novotel for £122 via Booking.com . It's non-refundable, however you can add cancellation insurance for a fairly reasonable (I think) £8.42 . At the time of writing this, it says there are 6 rooms available at that price. Tho...

If a lack of physical tiles is a problem atm, I'm sure most of us attending have a version of the board game and could bring along a set of tiles? Hi friends :) First post on here, but have been familiar with the site for years, so thought I'd chip in for once. This is exactly what I'm going to be ...