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JAEGERS as a beater in R10

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Monday's challenger Donna Hurd and Debra Jo Rupp

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I did (50+8)×(5+5) -75 and (5+1)×75 +50+5 in the 30 seconds

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Surprised nobody has asked this yet, but on the show which contestant has submitted the most words that were both added as part of the great influx of 2015 and subsequently recently removed? Can anyone beat four in https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_8024 - RITUALITY, HENWARE, MIAGITE and OSETROVA? E...

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Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:17 am Surprised nobody has asked this yet, but on the show which contestant has submitted the most words that were both added as part of the great influx of 2015 and subsequently recently removed?

Can anyone beat four in https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_8024 - RITUALITY, HENWARE, MIAGITE and OSETROVA?

Steve Hyde

Only 24 players have won teapots on 2 occasions (teapots weren't awarded prior to series 40 or that number would have been higher) 5 of the 24 played in CoCXVI, making it the most teapot-heavy Champion of Champions ever. I think I'm the only person to have won a teapot on the same date of two diffe...

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CALICOS as an alt in R2

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What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method? It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. Yo...

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it's in the tails of the distribution things get interesting. with the old dic: ~1 in 52.6 games you could score more than 145. with the new dic that's down to just 1 in 12.2 ! This is the really interesting bit for me - a player capable of hitting 154+ is now much, much less likely to encounter a ...

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I don't have Oxford Dictionaries Premium but I just had a quick check and if I'm right only two of the 9s in Ell's octorun (NODALIZES and POSTERIAD) will no longer be valid, so he would likely still have comfortably beaten 1000 with this dictionary. NEOTERISM is gone; along with various other maxes...

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Nobody's ever going to get near Cillian/Tom/Elliott's points records without all the extra words are they? This whole era of Countdown will be looked back on like the few years of swimming where LZRs weren't banned

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Channel 4 trying to avoid giving Elon Musk free advertising

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What were the nicknames he had for all eight? Arthur "A5" Page Mark "To Win" Finnerty (and beyond) Toby "2 Small" Byfield I don't think he had one for Jessica or Mark G? Michael "The Ice Man" Calder Jack "The Cat" Harvey No nickname for Isabel eithe...

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So many missed opportunities to name check the previous Michael Calder when talking about "names engraved on the trophy"
POSAUNE and AENEOUS as alts in the NGAPEES round

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Carol Vorderman appeared as a guest on HIGNFY on Friday, with former contestant Little Alex Horne as host. Is this the first time a former contestant has hosted a TV show with a former/current Countdown team member as a participant? (excluding Catsdown) Carol has also been on Beat the Chasers oppos...

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Colin must have seen a few of the obvious 8s and decided to applaud regardless of what the challenger actually said. Ended up looking a bit of a numpty

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Equally fun fact: this Richard Williams is not the subject of the biopic King Richard, that was about tennis or some such nonsense. My disappointment knows no bounds

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Amazed that HANDIES doesn't have an Australian (vulgar slang) entry in the dictionary yet, though I doubt Susie would have mentioned it in any case

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 11:59 am116?!

Yep, that was in the grand final too. 117 in his octorun. Scoring in every round will do that for you

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JackHurst wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 10:19 am - Lowest score is 110. Has any series champ done better than that?

Luke Johnson-Davies 112, Tom Stevenson 116, Zarte 111

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Looking out for that sweet AERUGOS hat-trick on Monday

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He'll be disappointed with that, seemed like an eminently gettable con. Also would have been the highest ever score without a 9

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ISOPOD as a DC beater in R11 and PRESCIENT as another alternative 9 in R12

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There was reference to the fact that yesterday's game featured two players born in the 21st century. My quarter-final game was the 1st finals game to feature two players born after the millennium. I'd also wager that it is the game with the smallest age difference between two players (5 days), but ...

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Who is the best ever contestant on TV Countdown that isn't involved/is completely oblivious of the professional scene ? By professional, I mean Apterous, CO-events, ZoomDowns etc .. Scott Mearns, Harvey Freeman, Allan Saldanha. I think the question was about contestants of the post-Apto era, though...

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Who is the best ever contestant on TV Countdown that isn't involved/is completely oblivious of the professional scene ? By professional, I mean Apterous, CO-events, ZoomDowns etc .. Mark Goodliffe from the current series maybe? His background with cryptic crosswords arguably makes him more of a &qu...

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Enjoyed the celebrity specials this week, much more friendly standard of questions than the muggle version

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Has any player ever scored more than Alex Robertson (115/92% of max) while winning only one match?

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Presume something happened to cause Jessica to have to go back another day for her 8th game. Might have believed they just changed guest in the afternoon if Colin's beard hadn't appeared :-) One of the scheduled contestants didn't turn up, and they had already used their standby for that block of f...

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Upcoming champion of champions should be the best ever - Ronan Higginson vs Tom Stevenson in the final ? Bit of a way to go yet. I think it’s better to have champion of champions every 4 instead of 3 as it means potentially up to 8 series winners vs 6. Last one had 7 and it was one of the best and ...

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 10:26 pm ANTIPOSES in R12

I would have proudly declared PISSANT, longer words be damned

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 12:48 pm I wondered that but also wondered about record numbers of octochamps.

We're closing in on the record 9 from series 81 - definitely a possibility that Charlotte could retire undefeated as the new Corrina Attwood

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I wonder if Colin is going to piss on her chips if she Octos with a low score on Friday by telling her she's almost got no chance of making the finals? He made some cryptic comment at the end of the show so it might have been in reference to that. I think she's set to be the youngest octochamp sinc...

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PROGERIA in R4

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Great job making this! Cheers - and thanks for sharing your algorithms/distributions etc! Not sure if the name will stand the test of time though... Yeah I am having second thoughts on that one! Blame Steve ;) You can't blame me, I'm not even sure it was my favourite of the two names I suggested! N...

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There are three possible letters picks (3V6C, 4V5C, 5V4C)

There are 5 possible numbers picks (6S, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L)

I'm not sure how any sensible combination of these plus one conundrum adds up to 14 rounds

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Howie Myers wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:10 am r5: DRAFTIER (US spelling of draughtier?)

Yeah, US spelling so not valid. I had that as well

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:29 am This might be more apt for the Apterous thread but how about a Countdown Game with 14 rounds 5 of every permittable vowel and consonant combinations ( for each player to choose) numbers rounds with every combination ( from 6 small to 4 large) and a conundrum as usual at the end

So... 21 rounds?

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And the more common BODEGA

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The only word that the challenger scored points with was ORGASM, what an absolute legend

Steve Hyde

Here's one I think I will get outvoted against on. The Grand Final for EOY FOCAL finals should be a 15r game. Keep the 7 heat games as 9rs, but make the GF 15r :) Throughout the year, most events use 9r as the format, but there is some variation - we have some Goatdown, some 14r events, and some 15...

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What would people think of doing away with tie-break conundrums and allowing draws to happen? There isn't the same need to declare a winner that the TV show has, and I feel like achieving level scores over 9 rounds should count for slightly more than a defeat and slightly less than a win. Also avoid...

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:00 pm LAIRDIES in R4

Beaten by RIVALISED

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Not sure how I feel about BEYONDS being allowed. Dictionary specifies "the beyond" as the noun form which doesn't feel like it should take an S

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I'm making a play for the non-Apterite belt!

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Second George should be George Baker I think

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MISSUS in round 4 for a surprisingly common beater

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:00 pm It's moot unless any of the contestants answered the alternate choices

It's annoying for those of us playing along in the app

Steve Hyde

For the record I don't really think EFF is commonly used enough to be a valid answer, regardless of how many times I used it during last night's episode. I was trying to avoid spoilers. OUR and WHY definitely are though

Steve Hyde

Is it just me or were there 3 or 4 questions where you could make a decent argument for more than one answer being correct tonight? 5% question in particular can eff right off

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Dan Byron and Fiona Titcombe advertising craft apprenticeships on Twitter
https://twitter.com/heritage_crafts/sta ... XSrEw&s=19

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DIATOMS too

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I'm a big fan of the badges. I'd like to see a few that are either achievable by any player at any time, or more "consolation prize" type things for people who aren't having such a good day. e.g. one for losing multiple crucial conundrums, or perhaps a "too hot for TV" badge for ...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:52 am happy to lend a shower if anyone fancies joining me!

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It's probably disingenuous for someone who wasn't at an event to give feedback on it, but: the Fox and Hounds was always integral to my Co:Lin experience. The way that 35 or so people who would never otherwise go to the pub together, would go to the pub together, get embroiled in the world's longes...

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It's definitely in ODO, informal term for hamstrings or hamstring injuries

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DRAINCOCK (noun): A valve for draining the water from a boiler. No verb form, surprisingly

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SEALPOINT must be ANTIPOLES since Viraj played the singular in the last series final. Boardwalk is BROADWALK, which doesn't even make an interesting conundrum scramble, ditto BLOCKWOOD and BROADHEAD

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BONGRACE (noun): A projecting brim or shade attached to the front of a bonnet or headdress, protecting the wearer's face from the sun. Also figurative and in extended use

Well, that's a disappointing definition if I ever heard one

Steve Hyde

Up to a point, it really doesn't which words plus arbitrary collections of letters masquerading as words we use, so long as there is a definitive list of them. I'd strongly suggest the position for all events in the short term should be "just use the Apterous dictionary", whether it be vi...

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