Last numbers alt: (9x5+3)x(5+7)=576
previously (6x10+9)x8=552 and (75-50/25)x3=219
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- Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 17th August 2017
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2912
- Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 9 August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 27)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5598
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 9 August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 27)
AGARIC to beat CHAIR
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 24 July 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7083
Re: Spoilers for Monday 24 July 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 15)
PORKIES instead of SPOKIER
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 29th June 2017 (Series 76, SF2)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6415
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 29th June 2017 (Series 76, SF2)
I was hoping to beat RELATER with AXLE-TREE, but it's only in (with the hyphen) as an obsolete version of AXLE.
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: (I Think I'm Going To) Snap General Election Poll
- Replies: 81
- Views: 76586
Re: (I Think I'm Going To) Snap General Election Poll
I guess that the Clegg wanted the Liberal Democrats to get into government to try to introduce a fair voting system, and was forced to drop the manifesto commitment on fees, being prevented from opposing the Tory policy as a condition of joining with them. Of course, the Conservatives could see that...
- Fri May 26, 2017 1:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday, 26 May 2017
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11266
Re: Spoilers for Friday, 26 May 2017
Last numbers: (75-7)x50x9/(10x10) = 306
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 24 March 2017
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3198
Spoilers for Friday 24 March 2017
After all that chat about football, surprised that nobody got OFFSIDES in RI
- Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 21 March 2017
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1908
Spoilers for Tuesday 21 March 2017
R1 TUTORIALS
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 5:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 17 March 2017
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2613
Re: Spoilers for Friday 17 March 2017
DOWERING to beat WEEDING
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 9:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 16 March 2017
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1734
Spoilers for Thursday 16 March 2017
R1: FELLOES
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 March 2017
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3221
Spoilers for Wednesday 15 March 2017
OPPIDAN to beat PARDON
- Tue Mar 14, 2017 2:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 13 March 2017
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4906
Re: Spoilers for Monday 13 March 2017
Yes, my scribbled H looked like one
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 13 March 2017
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4906
Spoilers for Monday 13 March 2017
PARTIAL in R1
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 9 March 2017
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2567
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 9 March 2017
Was so well-known as a front hook in Scrabble that I didn't think of checking
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 9 March 2017
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2567
Spoilers for Thursday 9 March 2017
BOVATES in R12
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday 8th March 2017
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2046
Spoilers For Wednesday 8th March 2017
WITHAL in R13
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 419641
Re: People you shouldn't trust
... and EinsteinEuan Slatter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:52 pm Frank Feilding, Fabian Gieffer, Richard O'Donnell, Max O'Leary.
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 7:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 6 March 2017
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1470
Spoilers for Monday 6 March 2017
GYRATION as beater in IRONY/ANGRILY round
- Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 23 February 2017
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2353
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 23 February 2017
JALOPIES beats OPALINE
- Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 23 February 2017
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2353
Spoilers for Thursday 23 February 2017
COTTAGED to beat DECAGON etc.
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 24th January 2017
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2463
Spoilers for Tuesday 24 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 11)
WORRIED + T = WORRITED
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 9)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10067
Re: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 9)
I've checked what Scrabble allows, and there's only GAMBITEDGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:04 pmI wondered about that and also wondered whether GAMBITTED or GAMBITED was more realistic.Peter Mabey wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2017 2:59 pm I was hoping for GAMBITTED in the last letters round, but the verb isn't in the OED, though Chambers does have it.
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 23 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 10)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1775
Re: Spoilers for Monday 23 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 10)
OIKIST as a beater in R13
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 2:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 9)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10067
Re: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 9)
I was hoping for GAMBITTED in the last letters round, but the verb isn't in the OED, though Chambers does have it.
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 2:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 9)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10067
Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 9)
OPERON to beat PORNO
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 7)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1506
- Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 2017 upgrade!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 76730
Re: 2017 upgrade!
Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:45 pm guys, all you need to do is refresh. if normal refresh doesn't work then hard refresh (CTRL-F5) - it's just the CSS is cache
Yes, I needed to do that, too (being on Chrome)
- Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3687
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
BILIOUS to beat BROILS
- Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1961
- Views: 1058512
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
Never heard of Pasha or watched Strictly, so needed Google to tell me what that was all about
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:06 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge and Only Connect 2016/17
- Replies: 81
- Views: 77743
Re: University Challenge and Only Connect 2016/17
Quarks rhymes with marks, as they were named for "three quarks for muster Marks" in Joyce's Finnegans wake (which I think alludes to the hoarse cry of a bird)
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 6th January
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2279
Re: Spoilers for Friday 6th January
Chrome went down for a few minutes, so didn't see other thread started
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 6th January
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2279
Spoilers for Friday 6th January
Alt: (75+3(7-1))(10-1)=837 - found in time
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:11 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Done gone done made a quiz
- Replies: 26
- Views: 21906
Re: Done gone done made a quiz
Looks like the sort of thing I didn't pay much attention to by the time I turned 40 (i.e. fifty years ago).Euan Slatter wrote:I don't get the first round..... is it Songs and name the artists or something?...........
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 3:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 20th December 2016 (4th Quarter Final)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4866
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 20th December 2016 (4th Quarter Final)
Saw that 133=7x19 straightaway, as I remember factors of three digit numbers
- Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who would be the biggest deaths?
- Replies: 236
- Views: 51831
Re: Who would be the biggest deaths?
I reckon either/both of the Queen and Prince Philip are going to croak next year. I'm hoping that Prince Philip outlives the Queen. People have always said that Prince Philip is on his last legs, but he just goes on and on, so I'd like to see this happen. Of course, by official rules, as the spouse...
- Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 8 December 2016 (Series 75, Prelim 99)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1455
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 8 December 2016 (Series 75, Prelim 99)
There was INDEXER in the last words round
- Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4640
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
Sorry - saw Tuesday on this thread, so jumped in assuming today - and then posted without checking to get in quickly
- Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4640
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
(7x(3+3)+50)x9=838
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 2:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 1st November 2016
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3326
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 1st November 2016
ROADWAYS in last round
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 10:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for 31st October (Series 75, Prelim Whatever)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2120
Re: Spoilers for 31st October (Series 75, Prelim Whatever)
TWITES to beat TWITS
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 1:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 28th October 2016
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1271
Re: Spoilers for Friday 28th October 2016
Alt for 270: (25+5)x9
Alt to SONATINA: NATATION (mass noun, so can't add the S)
Alt to SONATINA: NATATION (mass noun, so can't add the S)
- Wed Oct 19, 2016 6:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 19th October 2016
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1392
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 19th October 2016
R7 PINACOIDS
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1641
- Views: 1710403
Re: Politics in General
The exit fans are still up to their old tricks of relying on half-truths to justify their narrow-minded proposals, claiming that 52% gives them a mandate to do whatever they like. The fact is that the actual votes were 37.6% leave, 34.6% stay, 27.8% didn't/couldn't decide, so it is by no means true ...
- Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 15th August 2016 (Series 75, Prelim 29)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1658
Re: Monday 15th August 2016 (Series 75, Prelim 30)
In R4, why wasn't Annie's "durian" acceptable? I can't see anything wrong with the letters, so did she fail to say it was a 6?
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:02 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 287246
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 26 August 2016
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1079
Re: Spoilers for Friday 26 August 2016
INDURATES in R1
Simpler alt 3rd numbers: (8+5)x(10+6)=208
Simpler alt 3rd numbers: (8+5)x(10+6)=208
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 430
- Views: 254818
Re: What films have you watched lately?
As now there's no bus route that goes near the only remaining cinema here, the only ones I might have seen would have been on TV, as I never rent videos. I remember having watched Spirited Away *which I liked), and part of Wall-E, and having seen adverts for a few of the others, but nearly all were ...
- Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Mandela Effect
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8090
Re: The Mandela Effect
13/22 - my memory does seem to be going, but I'd never heard of those bears.
- Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: EU Referendum
- Replies: 182
- Views: 50230
Re: EU Referendum
If you live in one of those places least affected by immigration, all you'll know about it will be the lies you read in the Mail and Telegraph
- Tue Aug 16, 2016 2:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday August 16th 2016
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2581
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday August 16th 2016
GHOSTIEST occurred to me, but it's only good for Scrabble ;(
Re: Aliens
Another possibility is that if an advanced civilisation wants to survive more than a few hundred years it may decide to conserve its resources, and so will avoid radiating a significant amount of energy into space, so SETI's efforts might be in vain. On the other hand, they could well take steps to ...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 419641
Re: People you shouldn't trust
In our maths exam, each question was worth a number of marks for a correct answer, and the individual totals were scaled to make the best 100. On one occasion, after this had been done, it was found that I'd not been credited for an answer, so rather than change everybody's by rescaling, the master ...
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 3:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: 20th-26th July shows - SPOILERS
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4096
Re: 20th-26th July shows - SPOILERS
July 21st Fourth numbers alt.: (25-6)x(10+6)x3
- Tue Jul 12, 2016 2:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday July 12th 2016
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3770
Spoilers For Tuesday July 12th 2016
POLEWARD to beat LEOPARD etc.
- Wed Jun 22, 2016 7:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday June 22nd 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5521
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday June 22nd 2016
ATHANOR alt to ORTHIAN
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 10th June 2016
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4071
Re: Spoilers for Friday 10th June 2016
2nd numbers alt: (7+5)x9x4 = 432
Re: TENNIS
SuperfluouslyCallum P wrote: ... he's making tennis a bit boring ...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd June 2016
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3632
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd June 2016
Alt 1st numbers: (50-2)x(3+1+1)
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st June 2016 (series 74, prelim 80)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1345
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st June 2016 (series 74, prelim 80)
And AUDIONSJames Robinson wrote:INDUNAS too.samir pilica wrote:R10 ADNOUNS
- Tue May 31, 2016 3:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 31 May 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 79)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1762
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 31 May 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 79)
Can someone, preferably Ray W, please check the validities of these two words, both of which are listed by Lex as maxes? PLOITTER PAROKETS For now, I'm assuming they're out. PLOTTIER is in the Scrabble dictionary, but excluded because PLOTTY has two syllables. PAROKET a variant of PAROQUET is in so...