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How stalky. I bet you love the tv show skins too dont you?

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I wanted an S or a Z as the last letter in the first round for VALORISED/VALORIZED.

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Shane is my favourite contestant form this series. I hope he wins 8 games.

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I've been playing HyperGoatdown loads recently in the hope of getting QUINCUNX, please tell me there is a magical prize for getting that word.

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Me and Innis both got Sporulated in a hyper game and it wasn't allowed. I can't link to the game, because it broke halfway through, and then there was no option to resume later. When i looked at Sporulated on lexplorer it said it was not valid, yet in one game it had been declared by dictionary corn...

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I still don't know what a pair of slippers are for.

Hopefully theres an easter egg for declaring a 10 letter word in a game with 9 letters.

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Anything with rounds of 30 seconds will last forever and ever and ever and ever.

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Yep, im in

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I had Sluttier disallowed in a game earlier. I'm wondering weather its not a word or weather it was just missed out of the dictionary file

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I liked that show. I went to see a lecture by Marcus De Sautoy last week in which he said the same stuff about the fourth dimension as he did on the show. He was quite entertaining, and even tho i only have a GCSE in maths, he still made the lecture accessible enough for me and others at my level of...

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Whats the record for the lowest score by current champion? It might be under threat in tomorrows episode if the challenger is any good.

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Anyone driven there from Londonish area before? Google maps directions reckons 2 hours for the journey, in which case it'd be doable in a day. Is 2 hours realistic? Lifts possible along route (M1 from Luton northwards). I'll be skirting past Leicester, Jack, so presumably not too much of a detour t...

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I dont suppose anyoen who likes giving lifts to strangers is driving through leicester on the way there and/or back?

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In hindsight, I should have intervened with this but I was busy playing a match. After a while it became clear that Martin was telling the truth, but Kirk wanted to not believe. And that guy Jimmy Gough was in the background saying stuff like "Kirk's a star, who are you?". Quite a horribl...

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http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=41193

In the first numbers round we got better than a maximum.

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I just looked at a list of primes, and no three digit prime number begins with 20, so my argument is flawed. Might fix it later.

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Im trying to prove a lower bounds for the optimal solution, i know i have no chance in hell of getting a decent value myself, so i thought it do this instead. I dont know if an optimal solution can be found by using logic derived form finding a lower bounds. Firstly, consider the digits 4, 6 and 8. ...

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David O'Donnell wrote:Just for the sake of the stats - I was 30 in my octo-run.

WTF, you looked about 7.

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According to those stats, Craig Beevers didnt solve one conundrum, yet he only dropped 78 points. Im assuming that the column for his conundrums is wrong.

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I e-mailed off an application yonks ago, never got s response. Once you saw my photo you probably thought it was a joke. Im so hideous. :) You look fairly happy, but the dribbling probably didn't help. What about the Jaundice? Edit: I'd also like to ask Damian if there is any limit as to how long y...

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I e-mailed off an application yonks ago, never got s response.

Once you saw my photo you probably thought it was a joke. Im so hideous.

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Ben Wilson wrote:In any event the Monday after CoNot is a bank holiday so I doubt anyone will have exams then.

You'd think, but knowing the dreadful organistation skills of the exam boards i wouldnt be suprised.

If i can get myself soem transport i will try and go fo sho.

*Heads to google maps and national rail*

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The baseball cap is when you get a maximum and there is no other words with the same amount of letters, I think. If only there were some kind of name for that. Perhaps you could suggest one, Darren. HA I've worked out all of them bar the slippers. I have seven pairs of slipper, so far i've not seen...

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Jimmy Gough wrote:I want to go but it's likely I'll have exams then. We'll see.

I think that Saturday is the first day of a half term, so you shouldn't have any exams for about 8 days. Thats how it works out for me anyway.

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I'd like it if there was a setting in Lexplorer that gave you the option of only viewing words of a certain length in all the boxes when running a search. It probably wouldnt be a great amount of use to most people, but it would be good if you have a fetish for compiling words and listing them in le...

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I'd like to go, I'd probably go just to harass everyone else and then get kicked out. Saying that, the 23rd of may is right in the middle of My As exams

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What other countdown contestants have been in lots of quiz shows? I can seem to remember michael madonald-cooper (or whatever his name was) being introduced as a multiple quiz show contestant, but my knowledge of contestants isnt good enough to think of any others.

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What a shame that he missed the conumdrum, still would have been the second highest of all time if my sources are right. There were at least 17 extra points that he could have picked up throughout the show, still an outstanding performance. It was also nice to see him mentioning apterous, i wonder i...

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CBA to look through this topic to see fi its been suggested before, but i'd like to see some variation of the game based on choosing common prefixes and suffixes as part of your selection. Heres one example of how it could work. As well as having consonants and vowels, players would be able to choos...

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I could understand there being discussion if she had to solve the crucial conumdrum HOOPBHOME, because this would be something the production staff had delibeately included. Countdown has run for over 25 years, there must have been in the region of 30,000 letters rounds played, so its inevitable tha...

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Was there a tea-time teaser last week that was identical to todays first one?
I seem to have certain memories of seeing the exact same one recently. Please tell me it wasn't in a dream, i dont want to admit to havign dreams about countdown!

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I also seem to remember him getting a conumdrum where the soloution was GERANIUMS. This strikes me as quite odd, because its an anagram of MEASURING, and i thought conumdrums only ever had one soloution, if he said measuring would he have been wrong?

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Craig just said to me that he tried getting out his laptop in the middle of a round once. He assured me its a true story, but its so unbelievable i don't know what to think.

Does anybody have any general clips of Jeffrey, i want to watch them for comedy purposes.

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I'm having troubles getting on.

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I know im too late to sign up, but is it ok if i show up just incase you have any spaces that need filling up?

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If we had coins thats values were only powers of two, the most efficient way to get any value of money would always give an assortment of coins in which none were repeated.

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the sum of cubes 1-n will always be its product squared I hate to be picky, but did you mean: The sum of cubes 1 to n will always be the same as the sum of (1 to n)^2 I just did a chapter on this sort of stuff in further pure 1. The sum of the cubes of the first n natural numbers is (n^2(n+1)^2)/4 ...

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One of a few bits of maths I really hate, can't really get my head round and don't fully believe as I feel like you're being tricked. 3 is prime. Add 2. 5 is prime. Add 2. 7 is prime. Therefore all odd numbers are primes. Did you know that any interger greater then three can be expressed as the sum...

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To everyone: am always open to suggestions for guests - but remember I am the booker and not the decision-maker. x Ross Kemp! Louis Theroux would be a personality with interesting anicdotes going into the ads. I dont know if he would be as lethal as Jo Brand with a pen and notepad though. I'm still...

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[Going off at a tangent] It really annoys me how the general thing done when intorducing the number women (whether Coral or Rachel) is to make out that they are some sort of ultra high iq maths genius, when in truth they are just quite efficient with mental arithmatic. This just makes people think ...

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I'm gutted. I thought it was all Susie's own work and that she was a clever girl who swallowed dictionaries. So do the upstairs crew type the letter combinations into a computer or are they a team of lexi's? I would say that gaining the knowledge that suzie is fed words is the countdown equivalent ...

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Seriously. As far as I'm concerned, it's the online equivalent of you lowering your hand to your groin, bending over double and making a wanking gesture at someone, if we were having this conversation in a pub. Lewd, horrible, offensive. It's a fucking emoticon you cabbage. It's the equivalent of g...

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In the spirit of making no sense... WATERMELONS! Now, seriously, where can one get hold of this Calendar? Is it exclusive to Countdown contestants only (did it arrive in their goody bag), or can the general public buy it too? You can get them from any good calendar shop. Although they might be a bi...

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If you cant log in, just look at the "todays games" section, and if there been none played in ages, yuo probably cant login because the games gone down.

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In the "online players" box, players who are currently engaged in a game should appear in a lighter font, so it is easier to indenify which people you can challenge and which people you can't.

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All the posts here have been very helpful, thanks. This is a bit off topic, but since i joined these forums, i've only been able to connect to apterous about thrice, is this because the website goes down a lot, or because theres something with my web connection going wrong? (I've tried on firefox an...

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Sent one application, response came back after about a week It took me ages to get a response. :( I sent off an e-mail application about 6 months ago, and I never got a response. I'd also like to ask how long the wait is between auditions and actually going onto the show. Edit: Thanks for all the a...

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To answer your question, you get an effectively unlimited supply of loose A5 sheets. Do they have a fancy countdown heading on them? If you're at the point where these factors are likely to affect you then you're either amazingly good or amazingly autistic; in either case, you'll fit right in here....

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Firstly, i'd like to apologize if a similar topic has been created, I tried a couple of searches, but didnt find anything. I'm 16, and i've been watching countdown since i was about 7. I've never been brilliant at it, but I can mostly manage to keep up with best players when watching at home. Of cou...

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I would like to know from any previous contestants about the paper you get to use for doing your working out. Are you given a choice of different notepads? Is there a limit as to how much paper you can use? And if there is a limit, how much? And if you do get given a specific type of notepad to use,...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Yawn.

Jeffrey Hansford is the best ever.

Settled.

Seconded.

In terms of ability and entertainment provided, he is certainly my favourite.

Dont you realise you weigh 15 stone?

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Well hello there, I've just joined a few of days after reading through a couple of chunks of the countdown wiki. It seems amusing that I have joined exactly one year after this thread was created, so i assume its also a year since this forum began. And today was also that day that Charlie plugged th...

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