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Looks like we will we have to guess Heather's challengers' surname as the director/cameraman failed to get a shot of his name card? :-( Yeah, the closest view I can try and get is when they do the close up in round 8, but it's definitely not how the Sky+ subtitles suggest, which was "Winnerer&...

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Malcolm James wrote:R6 CUSTOMER as well, but presumably not OUTSCREAM.

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'Fraid so. OUTSCREAM to be avoided in Countdown....
but acceptable in Scrabble by extending 'OU', or playing onto 'AM', or playing thru two floaters

Mauro

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Jordan F wrote:Can you have SOLARIZE with a Z as an 8 in the BEZOARS round?

oddity in this round:
SOLEBAR is allowed in Oxford but not in Scrabble (Collins) but it's anagram...
LABROSE is allowed in Scrabble but not in Oxford.

Mauro

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Adam Gillard wrote:Congratulations on octochampdom, Heather!

Ditto

Mauro

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Looks like we will we have to guess Heather's challengers' surname as the director/cameraman failed to get a shot of his name card?

Round 6: missed MAURO + CE

(MORCEAU) but saw CUSTOMER for 8 instead

Mauro

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Round 1: spotted CASSONE - a big Italian chest ! Found BARBIE in round 3... JAWLINE was great in round 4 - well spotted Heather. But to differentiate between my two (gaming) dictionaries... found in OED3 (but not allowable in Scrabble) SUNSPACE in round 1 (found after 30secs tho) and JALEO in round ...

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Rounds 1 & 2: MAIDENS in both selections - feel a TOPIC (round 3) coming on...

Round 4: Max unlucky with his THERMAT! Could he have been mistaking THERMIT? Found under the THERMITE entry.

Mauro

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Round 10: Liked the excellent number spot by Heather

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Round 8: the Scrabble nine is MATRONISE but it is *not* allowed in Oxford

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Round 8: the Scrabble nine is MATRONISE but it is *not* allowed in Oxford

Mauro

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Jordan F wrote:SMEARED was in round 3, and I'm fairly convinced there's more too.

RADOMES, BEDSORE, AEROBES are some sevens ... but can't find longer.

Mauro

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Round 1: Two words found in Oxford (but not in Collins/Scrabble) FOOTSURE and FORCEOUT. And you can put an S on the end of FORCEOUT for 9 !

Mauro

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John Brackstone wrote:I've only got an old dictionary - is medivacs valid?

Yes - listed under MEDEVAC (noun).

Mauro

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[quote="szodiac"]Will double check later wot I did wrong. Rhonda had 27 points after round 6 then magically had 32 by the numbers game. I thought Rhonda only got 5 to Heather's 6 in round 7 then not scored again til round11. I'm off to give my brain a 'systems restore'. Spotted where I wen...

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Will double check later wot I did wrong. Rhonda had 27 points after round 6 then magically had 32 by the numbers game. I thought Rhonda only got 5 to Heather's 6 in round 7 then not scored again til round11. I'm off to give my brain a 'systems restore'.

Mauro

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Liked the round 2 selection PRATESI+LO. Studied the 7 combo + 2 whilst practising with Jessica (not that it helped).

Round 3 DC beater LORICATE.

Mauro

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First three rounds have a sailing theme to them !
R1: FORESAILS (dc beater)
R2: HEADSAIL (dc beater)
R3: OVERSAIL (dc equaller)

Mauro

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R7 DC beater: SABBATH

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Huh? C4 announcer has just informed us Countdown will start at 2.40 pm from next Monday !?!?!?!

Mauro

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Jack Worsley wrote:BOUNTIES (round 2) and VALORISE (round 12). DC not on form today.

P'rhaps overshadowed by Jo Brand's longish explanations of non-words of which Susie's 'bests' had to be edited out ??

Mauro

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Round 3 DC beater - RAVAGE

(Also found the Oxford only VAJRA !)

Mauro

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R12 GLEAMS for a beater. I can only assume that Susie missed this due to Jo Brand's tiresome efforts. Finding silly words is fine once or twice a show, but doing it every round makes me want to shoot her. Glad I'm not the only one who finds Jo Brand's talents wasted on submitting stupid non-words. ...

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I got FARTED in round 1, found a PENIS in round two, got stuck with ANUSES in round 4, Now we had MALEPRAT in the first tea-time teaser. Hope things gets a bit better in the rest of the program :) Well having BURPED in round 7, was at my most PONGIEST in round 8... it all gave me DEMENTIA in round 9...

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Latest news: And I quote from Robert Richland from Facebook: " I have had to withdraw from taking part on "Countdown 30th". I have been short listed to appear on "Pointless" . . . the recording dates AND the transmission dates for both shows practically coincide, and the rul...

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Round two: I thought Star Trek! I thought Ferengi and lo and behold FERINGHIS. Definitely not Scrabble word

Round four: like with GREASE + R why not PRESAGE + R as well ? Definitely a Scrabble word

Mauro

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Second numbers game different (simpler) solution: (((9+9) x 8) + 1)

Mauro

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For those who don't facebook: Me and my lovely Pointless friend Abbie Thomas will be hobnobbing with Alexander and Richard on Monday's show. Tune in to see if we can scoop the jackpot! If it makes the edit there might be a maths battle of some sort... I saw you on Pointless. You started well and ho...

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C2: Challenger Jessica "Qwizical" Pratesi. A 16-year-old forumite and student from Leyton, London. She is the reigning UK Youth Scrabble champion, after she retained the title this summer after she won it last year. . Just for the record: Oliver Garner won the UK Youth Scrabble Championsh...

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Our original recording date would have been at Media City but later had confirmation it would be recorded back at the Granada Studios. It was Dudley, the warm-up man, who explained to the audience that during the break the set was moved to Media City but... (and I had notice this with the new Blue P...

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A little insight to what happened at the conundrum: Nick gave the go ahead and set the clock in motion ... but the man behind the controls didn't swing the selection down :shock: I sat there wondering why somebody did not do anything so a full ten seconds elapsed before the selection was actually tu...

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At the time I thought it was a tremendous game worthy of a classic episode which will definitely go down in the annuls of 'classic Countdown'. (Another 'not to miss one' is scheduled for this Friday's special!) I was more concerned how it was eventually broadcast, and true enough there was a lot mis...

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Quite a high scoring contest today by C1 :D Dad was saying how he knew she got the 9 the second the A came up. I was so close to 9's in the last 2 letters rounds i argued with the TV ;) Zyzzyva found some nice words again.. Most of which i am jealous of :P 2 of which were 9's in R2. WRITABLE in R8 w...

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I thought it was lots of fun watching two previous champs playing

I managed 642 in the second numbers by doing 6x((100+50)+(75/25)+4)

Jessica (waiting for her own account to get the ok

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Philippa MacFarlane reminded me of me.. I started getting a bit confused

Dad and I couldn't find any DC beaters today but lots of equalisers were found by Zyzzyva

My fave was GOBDAWS in R13

Jessica

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I told Dad that but he didn't believe me! I wonder if that means anything

Jessica

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Zyzzyva ( the Scrabbler's anagrammer ) found AVULSING in R1, PLEBEIAN in R6 and ARCHLUTE in R8. Dad of all people saw UNMOVED in R7.

Jessica

PS Dad wanted to know if the person in the challenger's chair is related to ex London Scrabble League member Jonathan De Souza?

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I also found ROOTSIER in round 13. Dad's reply was 'superb' followed by a quick pickup of the dictionary to find out what it means

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I got the first numbers game extremely quickly. Not entirely sure how I managed to do it that fast.

(75+8+4)x10+(7-6)

Jessica

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Round 9: S B M L E A I E D C1: bedside C2: BLAMED (6) DC: BALDIES (7) OT: ABSEILED (8) BELDAMES (8) LIMEADES (8) JMUW: BEALEISM - something that a certain Ian living in Walford may say. Score: 57–35 (max 68) is it just me or does the OED3 we have here at home list LIMEADE as being a mass noun? Or ha...

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Some photos from the event can be seen on my Facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 816&type=3

Jessica and I enjoyed the event thoroughly. Would easily go again.

Mauro

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"It's tick tock time" is becoming his constant catchphrase! Said at least twice per show now.

Mauro

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My daughter Jessica definitely heard Gerri mispronounce CASTIGATES at the time. I wasn't too aware at the time but later, following a post on Facebook by Chris Hawkins I rewatched it on 4OD to be sure... and there is no mistaking the S sound at the end! It was pretty clear and recognisable. Shame we...

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No Ryan, I just can't see any cat whatsoever. Today (26th Jan): "Don't forget to put the cat out". Yesterday (25th Jan): "have a catnap with Countdown". I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for. A stuffed animal... or something on the blue screen in the background? Spolie...

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Seeing is believing. Until I see it and know what it looks like... then I'll believe. 24th Jan prog told us to look in the bottom left - bin looking all prog and nothing

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Can anybody shed any light as to what the announcer/s is talking about when he/she/they refers to the "Countdown Cat" before the start of most of the programme these days?

thanks

Mauro

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An option maybe... to have a three game special for youngsters (think it's been done once already). A semi with the winners going onto a final. I suggest Jessica v sister Natasha in one semi. Shrinidhi paired with our other Scrabble wunderkind Jack Durand in the other. Should make for interestingTV ...

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Interesting tidbit of news :-) That probably another reason why they wouldn't have my daughter Jessica on instead of me (or both) from our audition last August. They said they'd contact her after her GCSE's in June/July when she'd finished. Incidentally Jessica turns 16 this 16th December! There was...

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I watch it all the time. In fact I can claim to have missed about 20 episodes over the years - live or taped. (Start time altered - tape running out etc.) Daughter Jessica comes home from school and thrashes not just me but contestants too. We've both been practicing very hard! If Countdown returns ...

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Actually, I tell a lie it wasn't the Quiz it was the 'connection'. From 9.00am Rob Birnie on Planet Rock plays eight songs all with a connection. All the listener has to do is spot the connection and the odd one out of the eight. Listeners are invited to text in, send emails or log on thru the websi...

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Planet Rock (digital radio) plays a rock related quiz at 11.30 am. A minutes worth of rock related questions where the highest scorer of the week wins a Planet Rock anorak to wear at Rock gigs (consequently gets free beer). Today's winner with six questions right was Ian Volante. I'd hazard a guess ...

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Hi I'm still here, hardly ever log onto the C4 Forum regularly so unable to follow online discussion. Oliver knows of my extra's page of the London Scrabble League website (thru Scrabble!) hosts the photo's of a minority of past contestants. Have also provided many others for uploading on the Wiki ...

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Hi I'm still here, hardly ever log onto the C4 Forum regularly so unable to follow online discussion. Oliver knows of my extra's page of the London Scrabble League website (thru Scrabble!) hosts the photo's of a minority of past contestants. Have also provided many others for uploading on the Wiki ...

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Just found this page - it's a goldmine! http://www.btinternet.com/~m.d.pratesi/mp/Countdownfamous.html Seems to be owned by Mauro Pratesi. The first reply to your thread (well, second, after Ryan's paedo) was Oli giving you that link - only just noticed he evidently deleted it afterwards!? Copyrigh...

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Does anybody know why the Countdown programme for Thursday 1 April 2010 has been pulled from the Countdown On Demand? see http://www.channel4.com/programmes/countdown/4od.

It was between Barry Watson and Rodney "Rod" Carbery.

Mauro

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It says on the Wiki that Ivan won the game, but you say the other way round. :? Quite right, appologies. Ivan sat on the left (champions chair) and Glenda (Champion) sat in the challangers chair. RW introduced Glenda first and she went down in my notes on the left. I did put arrows on the sheet to ...

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Countdown recap for Thursday 30 January 1992. C1: Challenger Ivan Sinclair Thomas. Ivan Sinclair Thomas was shortened to Ivan Thomas because Sinclair would not fit on the name plate!! C2: Champion Glenda Dickinson (1 win, 46 points.) from Horningblow, Burton-on-Trent From Strawberry Hill, Twickenham...

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 28 January 1992. C1: Champion Davina Latham (1 win, 65 points.) ended reign of Paul Perriman C2: Challenger Vince Henderson. 40, married with two children, from Cheltenham in Gloucester. School Teacher. Hobbies include crosswords, word games sport, gardening. A Herpetolog...

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Countdown recap for Monday 27 January 1992. C1: Challenger Davina Latham. 30, married has 3 youngsters. Originally from Cardiff now lives in Molesbury Park, Bedfordshire. Housefwife. Loves reading from Tolstoy to cornflake boxes! Passion for chocolate and has been to Wimbledon fortnight twice. C2: C...

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Thanks James and Dez, Yes, I can deal with the recapper now... and can generate a text version. To update the wiki version I still require authorisation though. Mauro Kudos to James Robinson, who has been quietly adapting some of these one Mauro had already posted before he got the recapper working,...

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Yep, I've looked at the recappper. It doesn't do what I want it to do and also did not recognise me as an official user. Therefore I can't use it. If my recaps can't be utilised then I'll stop wasting my time recapping the old episodes I come across. Mauro Mike, since Mauro apparently only reads you...

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