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Most likely a dictionary error. Gilter doesn't make sense does it?

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Thanks for these.

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:55 pm The conundrum setters fail once again, if only Bob had offered RELUCTING...

Once again? Please do submit the other errors and we'll update our database accordingly.

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:28 pm Looks like DC mistakenly allowed devouts while missing OVULATED/OVULATES in R5.
DRAGSTER in R7.

Devouts being allowed was a poor oversight on our part, but DC did declare OVULATED though?

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Steve Hawdon wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:09 pm
Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:28 pm GOATIER in R5.
Not in the dictionary. Goaty is but you cant add ier or iest

This.

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I don't often post on this forum but here goes.. Thanks Tom S but I am happy with how I did overall on the show and wishing all the COC contestants all the very best! You're a decent sport, Robin. It's never satisfying to have to leave people out, there's only 16 places after all, but thank you for...

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Lots of conjecture over the draw for the C of C. Conspiracy, fixing, agendas etc, when in truth, the only thing that was pre-ordained prior to the draw was keeping people apart from the same series they played in. Granted, there are some series winners who play each other in the first round, but so ...

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Some might say there might be a hidden agenda, given that 5 v 6 QF would have eliminated 3 Series champions before the semifinals..., although I’m sure it was just the unfortunate way that the draw happened, although I hope there was an independent adjudicator watching it. Yes James, Sepp Blatter w...

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How come the moose ain't gonna be there? Either he could not make the dates, was not invited (which seems highly unlikely) or did not want to participate. He didn't want to take part - largely because he was pestered online by people from the 'community'. Edit to add, it was nothing sinister, just ...

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James Robinson wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:18 pm Shocking that FOUR Series champions are against each other in the first round, and that the format has also been altered too...

How has the format altered?

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C of C FIXTURES MONDAY OCTOBER 1ST 1. JONATHAN WYNN V PHIL DAVIES 2. ANNE DIBBEN V JOHN COWEN 3. MATTHEW TASSIER V DOUGIE MACKAY 4. THOMAS CAREY V STEPHEN READ 5. PAUL ERDUNAST V ZARTE SIEMPRE TUESDAY OCTOBER 2ND 6. TOM CHAFER-COOK V MARTIN HURST 7. BRADLEY HORROCKS V ANDREW MACLEOD 8. PHILIP ASTON ...

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 6:52 am
Owen Carroll wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:56 pm
Yeah I had a feeling moose mightn't show up for the coc! Dunno why cause I thought he enjoyed it. Anyone else think he was a slightly sore loser?
No.

A sore loser? Hmmm.
Don't think so. Keep on with your conspiracy theories though.

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Should be brilliant. Loads of Countdown Family players coming back, the very best, and deservedly so.
We can't wait for it.

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All being well, CofC will be filmed in October '18, with the plan being that it airs in Jan '19.
16 players, 3 weeks on-screen.

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Hey guys, something that's bothering me, I spotted the conundrum in the s77 final but pronounced it wrong. Is there any evidence that proves they would have accepted it if I was there? If you said MISS ILERY, (pronounced like Clinton's wife, MISS HILARY), then you'd be fine, as the vowels fit despi...

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Bizarre teatime teaser - I don't really see the connection between rhythm and vowelless. :lol: Yeah, in the cold light of day it looks stupid but when you know the explanation it's always obvious. I know of at least two other people who missed it and that's not including Nick who clearly had no ide...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:29 pm Bizarre teatime teaser - I don't really see the connection between rhythm and vowelless.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:54 pm
Countdown Team wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:20 pm
Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:19 pm Unbelievable that Rachel missed 100+75+50-9-6 in the first numbers.
It's called being human, maybe you should try it
Also proves that you don't reedit to rectify human error.
It also gives a lot of viewers pleasure to beat her for once.

Yeah great - that's what it's all about.

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:19 pm Unbelievable that Rachel missed 100+75+50-9-6 in the first numbers.

It's called being human, maybe you should try it

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Ryan Lam wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 2:57 pm As for the rigging part, to some extent yes...

To no extent actually, other than whatever is in your bizarre imagination.

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Brett Davids wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 3:49 pm Anchoveta? Someone really didn’t want Zarte breaking any records...

Dylan T solved just 4 conundrums from Heat 1 through to the final - he also got some toughies. All is fair.

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:10 pm The correct action would have been to check his paper I think, and see if it corresponds.

Have a bit of faith. We edited out many seconds of indecision prior to the DQ.

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The conundrum round is filmed with both contestants positioned in clear view of the camera, so it's relatively easy to see who's hand pressed first in these instances. We look back on the hard-drive and see that Graeme pressed first. Not ideal, but fair.

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I was told that on occasions when both contestants have missed a fairly obvious method, or have started right but made a glaring error, that she goes for a "more difficult" route so the contestants aren't kicking themselves even more, although I can recall her saying "you're going to...

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All depends what the producer and that decide to do. If that is true it's a disappointing state of play. I would argue that the programme and its legacy trumps the whims of any current production set-up, or at least it should. It makes little sense to put blame on Apterous for the trend of C4 hosti...

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I was watching this old episode of Countdown from 1988 and I noticed footage of the goody bag, which seemed to start this year as there is no mention of a goody bag in an episode I saw from 1987. see link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOJQsGdzhX0&t=190s At 10:14 in this clip you can see ...

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Steven M. McCann wrote:The last letters selection seems to be producing more and more "nines", coincidence or deliberate?

Or just preposterous?

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All we specify is no logos, ie Adidas Nike etc......for obvious advertising reasons.

Aside from that, we have no input into what contestants wear and don't wish to have.

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In short, I write idiotic things on Friday afternoons, and rambling things early Saturday mornings. Apologies for both, especially for any offense to the Countdown team, for whom I have great admiration and gratitude for this last year. Oh no offence taken at all. Just trying to set the record stra...

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Great game by both, Dan's recovery keeping it tense to the very end. Fantastic spot by Dylan on the conundrum to take it. Was a great competition to watch/be part of, with the new words and the suspiciously kind letters arrangements leading to some very interesting scores. Haha - couldn't let this ...

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Update: I asked Countdown about these and they said they would be disallowed (though each word would be judged on a case by case basis). While all ISE can be IZE, it doesn't work the other way round. There is no blanket rule that covers this. Not all -ISE can be -IZE, and vice versa. We've never st...

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Matty Artell wrote:Or - here's a crazy thought - this is just what the random draw spat out

Conspiracy theorist killjoy.

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In the interests of fairness, it's only right that we make these comments. There was no editing of the conundrum, and at the time, as live, we checked back on the hard-drive (formally known as the tape), and made sure that the 'reveal' of the conundrum was fully exposed before the winner buzzed in. ...

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Ah - the Graeme opening bit that 'until somebody realised' is slightly misleading. Some shows were filmed with white and red tiles and a few were screened. Then, over the days these shows were screened, C4 were bombarded with calls about the difficulty viewing red letters on a white background, so t...

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I suppose the main questions are: How many and which episodes were filmed using the red and white tiles? How many and which of these were actually shown? What did they do about the binned episodes and the contestants that took part in them? Were they invited back? Did they play new games or just to...

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Shows featuring red and white tiles were definitely made and definitely binned, for reasons already stated elsewhere.

As to the extent of the rest of the claims, what exactly are they?

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Final is Wed 23 of December.
C of C starts on Jan 4th.
That's from our internal sources.

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www.oxforddictionaries.com - The live internet version on the day, so whatever is in, is in.

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 23RD 1. TOM CAPPLEMAN V GLENN WEBB 2. HEATHER STYLES V GILES HUTCHINGS 3. ANDY PLATT V DAVID BARNARD 4. DYLAN TAYLOR V TRACEY MILLS 5. GEORGE FORD V JEN STEADMAN TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24TH 6. CALLUM TODD V SAMIR PILICA 7. DAN MCCOLM V PAUL JAMES 8. ANTOINETTE RYAN V MARK MURRAY 9. Winner ...

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We're finally ready to go with the CofC.

Nov 23 - 25. 16 players.

About to contact those involved and once all participants are confirmed, we'll post the draw.

Apologies for the delay.

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Presumably the CoC will only include contestants from series 67-72, and people from S73 will have to wait for the next one. This would be the same as what happened with the 30th Birthday Championship - it followed S67 but didn't feature any contestants from that series. Exactly this. There isn't en...

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Hoping to get finality on the C of C within the next week or so. Filming would be Nov 4, 23 and 24 - with the shows being aired from the start of Jan 2016. Have drawn up the list of 16 invitees, plus one reserve to cover for any illness / unforeseen absence, and once everything is ratified, we will ...

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Harry Peters, no contest.

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9 in a series wouldn't make any difference, it would still be the top 8 qualifying for the finals.

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Definitely won't be May June 2015. Hoping to get it sorted for the start of Jan 2016 (transmission), which would mean filming in from Oct 2015. Will post any definite news once everything is cleared up.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Another pointless teatime teaser...

Delighted you're enjoying them so much.

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There WILL be another C of C. Logistics yet to be worked out as we're not that far ahead, but likely on-screen in Jan 2015 for 3 weeks, so just 16 players and definitely excluding 30th birthday participants, for no other reason other than to give different people a chance to play again. Filming woul...

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UTOPIA was always capitalised in the ODE, but it is indeed allowable now. Is that the first ODO-only spot (albeit by DC)? This is certainly worrying and could cost the game. I wonder about other capitalised words like Xeroxed, Kleenex and Izvesta? Is it me or is QWERTY listed as all capitals in the...

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Not sure what happened there with the DIORITE screenshot. It didn't look like that when inserted in post-production. We'll get our technical bods to investigate.

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Tony Atkins wrote:What's the point of a new dictionary if it doesn't have new words like laggiest in?

43,000 search results on Google, which isn't many at all given the size of the online gaming community, and it's not in Chambers, Collins, Cambridge, Merriam-Webster or MacMillan dictionaries either.

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Unfortunately, the only documents here relating to Series 1 and 2 show the transmission dates and contestants names only. For some reason, whoever was around at that time thought it wasn't necessary to keep a note of the scores, which seems a bit lax. Nothing is around for the masters, although ther...

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We might be able to help with scores of games in some cases, but definitely not the actual selections.

If you post what it is you're looking for, then we'll have a look.

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C4 look like they dealt with the query really well to me. Hardly a kick in the teeth.

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Sad news this morning on the passing of former Countdown champion Peter Lee.
Peter was one of our most popular contestants and a thoroughly lovely man.
I'm sure many of you will have come across him during your times with the show and will join us in offering condolences to his family.
Thanks.

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Oxford has checked its databases including that of the OED and there are no examples of the comparative of 'fain'. The vast majority of adjectives in ODE will follow the Countdown rule, but there are some exceptions where an adjective will be single syllable but where adding -er or -est would be ver...

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Just enjoy it and don't put too much pressure on yourself. In the past, some people have queried every possible word in the dictionary prior to their recordings, 'just in case' it cropped up in a selection. It won't and it doesn't. Don't try and cover every eventually, it's not necessary. Play the g...

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The other strange bit is some saying Rachel's numbers solution was 'needlessly complex'. No such thing. You get the answer how you get the answer. It wasn't me that said that but I do agree, however if I had said so on here it would have been as a standard spoiler comment, as in providing my own so...

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I thought her standard was incredibly poor and I'm basing that on the guy who was at my audition. He had tried numerous times to get on and couldn't so it baffles me that she could. I don't begrudge her an appearance, I say the more the merrier and if people are eager to go on they should be allowe...

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Good lord. What an unpleasant thread.

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Pretty sure a C of C will happen again at some point, but it's a headache that can wait for now. Haven't looked into the logistics of who takes part and from when etc, that's a nightmare yet to come, but gut-feeling and immediate instinct at the moment is that it should comprise of non-30th Birthday...

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