And hurry up about it, would you?Conor wrote:I'm interested.
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- Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Retirement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4159
Re: Retirement
- Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Word Puzzle
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2244
Re: Word Puzzle
Mr. Bolas has got the answer but if anyone else wants to have a crack at it they're more than welcome.
- Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Word Puzzle
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2244
Word Puzzle
Spot the common rule/pattern.
EBB
CAGE
DICED
LACKED
CARNAGE
COMEDIAN
COWARDICE
DISCIPLINE
ANTIBIOTICS
No clues.
EBB
CAGE
DICED
LACKED
CARNAGE
COMEDIAN
COWARDICE
DISCIPLINE
ANTIBIOTICS
No clues.
- Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Lincoln 2009
- Replies: 167
- Views: 17544
Re: Countdown in Lincoln 2009
Corby's put his name down! Yay! Would be good to meet you Jon, if you can make it I have? :? You said 'yeah, sounds good' or words to that effect in apterous chat and I took that as a provisional entry. If you do decide to come along I'd hold onto the place if I were you because I'm down to just on...
- Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COGST Plate unofficial 3rd place play-off: Sfyris vs Wallace
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1088
Re: COGST Plate unofficial 3rd place play-off: Sfyris vs Wallace
Yeah, go on then. Catch me whenever I'm on apterous.David O'Donnell wrote:I wonder if Ben and I should have done a play off too?
- Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoliers for Friday 31st October
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4510
Re: Spoliers for Friday 31st October
The 'merge topic' mod option is a wonderful thing.Howard Somerset wrote:Looks like at least three of us saw this, and posted in three different threads. But mine was first.
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5582
Re: Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
I have to admit when he was first on I thought it'd be a case of 'great man, no-so-great DC guest' but now I'm convinced his greatness knows no bounds.
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: People quitting games when they're losing
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2811
Re: People quitting games when they're losing
I don't know about anyone else, but I just find it easier to play against the computers. You can play them any time of day, they don't stall picking letters/declaring words and you can end rounds earlier and have quicker games :) And if you pick a piss easy opponent all the time you'll never lose. ...
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Championship of Champions XIII -- Official Draw
- Replies: 81
- Views: 9937
Re: Championship of Champions XIII -- Official Draw
Games 1 and 3 are the stand-out games in that draw, and the prospect of a Doddy/Briers quarter-final is immensely cool. My money's on Corby though.
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Super Cool Funny Jokes
- Replies: 144
- Views: 18677
Re: Super Cool Funny Jokes
Why did Richard Brittain cross the road? He absolutely positvely didn't: the photographs were faked. If you look closely at them you will see crosshairs evident but there are none on Richard's person in the photos implying that his image was super-imposed upon a pre-existing photo of a road crossin...
- Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: History repeats itself
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3334
Re: History repeats itself
I don't think Craig can walk into a future C of C event, it doesn't really work that way. Am not sure he would want to either to be honest. I think after this one, we'll not do any more C of C's anyway. I have a better idea lined up. Am I being presumptuous in thinking 'SC2'? :) Answer: yes. I'd be...
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: History repeats itself
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3334
Re: History repeats itself
To be fair he has snagged a place at the world scrabble championships, which will rightly require his full attention, but on the other wise of the coin, the worlds aren't until NEXT FRIGGING NOVEMBER. Three days out in ODE-land isn't going to hurt.
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 437358
Re: Feature requests
Or, alternatively, it could just derive your declaration from the workings-out in the panel? It would save irritation like this. And then when people put brackets in the wrong place and give a method that actually evaluates to something completely different, they'll wonder why they ended up declari...
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No God on the bus.
- Replies: 83
- Views: 9373
Re: No God on the bus.
As an agnostic I'm half-tempted to get a campaign started to put a sign saying 'who gives a shit either way?' on the buses.
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 27th October
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2214
Re: Spoilers for Monday 27th October
I see that NODE doesn't actually list FANNY as a verb except in the phrase 'fanny around' - I think that single words from expressions aren't usually allowed. However I can understand why Susie didn't show us the entry on the pencam. :lol: :D **[afterthought]I think they allow FANNIED though, too, ...
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:30 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 437358
Re: Feature requests
Maybe an option to type your numbers declaration after the time, with a patience bar thing. I tend to just click on the target right at the start in case I forget later. Then I try and work it out but if I fail I have to change the answer which reduces the amount of time I actually have to do the w...
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What would you put into Room 101?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6412
Re: What would you put into Room 101?
I have more than a few things I would like to put into Room 101- Shopping Centres being very near the top of the list- but right at the top would be Harry Enfield. The man is a talentless gurning twat with possibly the most punchable face in the whole of the UK.
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Nicole HUTCHINGS!!!! & How do you become a recapper?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2925
Re: Nicole HUTCHINGS!!!! & How do you become a recapper?
Hi, Giles! Welcome! I believe a child prodigy on Countdown beat your mom, but it's still nice to have you here! What? Stewart Holden? Nik Von Unspellable, who I think lost in the quarter-finals, can't remember who to. But yes, I was about to say, the name rang a bell- will have to let Mr. Holden kn...
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday, 24th October
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4005
Re: Spoilers for Friday, 24th October
Well done on Octochampdom Charlie, and commiserations to your washing machine after that close one.
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers -- Thursday 23rd October
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5530
Re: Spoilers -- Thursday 23rd October
R9 RAMEKINS- I thought this was what Charlie was fishing for, in fact.
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:37 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 168078
Re: Official Thread of Brag
In a speed game (10s) I'm pretty sure I've buzzed in (didn't get it though) on something like 11.6 seconds.
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:35 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: October's Daily Duel
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5460
Re: Daily Duel
Try logging out and in again, it might work.Julie T wrote:I think that Charlie's gone to off to the finals, but, if not, or if anyone else knows if it can be fixed:
I was declining a challenge, and accidentally declined the duel instead. Can it be retrieved?
TIA hopefully,
Julie
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Drink of water
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3980
Re: Drink of water
If you believe some, the 'arrogant sipping of water' is quite an epidemic amongst certain contestants...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: trying to return to the past
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1041
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COGST Plate final - Reams vs. Gardner
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2115
Re: COGST Plate final - Reams vs. Gardner
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=6652 We're still having a debate about TINKLER as we think it might actually be a dictionary error as it's been allowed before on Apterous... can anyone look at this? Not in ODE2r as far as I can tell, certainly not anywhere near the entry for TINKLE, that'...
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: C4C celebratory topic
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3120
Re: C4C celebratory topic
We're having vast quantities of new members registering as well (no doubt helped by the fact that it is half-term and the plug was at the end of the show so people can instantly jump onto the site)- 23 in the last hour alone. I reckon over the last seven days we've had something like 200 new members...
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: CoC XIII Discussion Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15043
Re: CoC XIII Discussion Thread
If this keeps up we won't need any speculation, we'll already know precisely who'll be going down.
...Anybody got a spare ticket to the recordings?
...Anybody got a spare ticket to the recordings?
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Which mailing list was best?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1817
Re: Which mailing list was best?
Indeed- research suggests zefcountdown was just an online persona, and a website last updated seven years ago, which introduced recaps to the world in much the same way an elephant with a paintbrush introduced us to portraiture. Countdownonline, however, was a mailing list where, if you didn't post ...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Which mailing list was best?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1817
Re: Which mailing list was best?
Please tell me that was never a real mailing list. If it was my bowels may well commit hara-kiri.
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: C4C celebratory topic
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3120
Re: C4C celebratory topic
Just to be geeky and statto-like, the actual target you should be aiming for is 16 812 posts- as this was the very post number in which Charlie announced the (re)birth of c4c- http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/c4coun ... sage/16812
Either way everyone seems astonishingly accurate!
Either way everyone seems astonishingly accurate!
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:15 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Cat Puzzle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1574
Re: Cat Puzzle
972, I think. You need to work through the list of cubes, multiply each one by 4, check its a square number and if so divide by 3 to get the answer. 9^3 = 729 is the first cube this works for (4*4^3 = 256 is a square too, but doesn't give an integer when dividing by 3). 1 also works but fails the s...
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:11 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Cat Puzzle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1574
Re: Cat Puzzle
972, I think. You need to work through the list of cubes, multiply each one by 4, check its a square number and if so divide by 3 to get the answer. 9^3 = 729 is the first cube this works for (4*4^3 = 256 is a square too, but doesn't give an integer when dividing by 3). 1 also works but fails the s...
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: CoC XIII Discussion Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15043
Re: CoC XIII Discussion Thread
Supreme Championship II, anyone?Paul Howe wrote:Haha, fair enough. Hey, you're not getting in touch with ME about the CofC are you? Because that would be a whole new way to piss Bolas off. Just saying.Damian E wrote:Actually, its FAR too soppy. Will get in touch asap re C of C.
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Are contestants seeded from the beginning of the series?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3248
Re: Are contestants seeded from the beginning of the series?
Maybe we just need a disclaimer, 'all views expressed in these posts are those of the sarky git who posted it and not those of c4c in general, and definitely not Damo's, Granada's or Channel 4's.'
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Are contestants seeded from the beginning of the series?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3248
Re: Are contestants seeded from the beginning of the series?
I've seen posts from Damian stating it both ways- that contestants aren't seeded in the heats by ability, but earlier he stated that certain contestants are given priority placement- often (at least in times gone by) at the start of a series (think Allan Saldanha, definitely Scott Mearns, Tom Hargre...
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Lincoln 2009
- Replies: 167
- Views: 17544
Re: Countdown in Lincoln 2009
Website is now up-to-date with all current entrants- still just the three spaces left so stick your name down quick if you're interested- everyone who emails from #43 onwards will go onto a waiting list and be given spaces as and if they become available.
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Foreign place names in the UK
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2501
Re: Foreign place names in the UK
There's a New York in Lincolnshire.
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:41 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: October's Daily Duel
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5460
Re: Daily Duel
Actually it's not max scoring only, it's 'only winners score', which means all you have to do to score the point is beat your opponent's declaration.
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1961
- Views: 1043829
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
As well as welcoming all new users, allow me to congratulate Mr. Bolas on (unsurprisingly) nabbing c4countdown's 15000th post since the move to the new forum!Joseph Bolas wrote:Welcome to the forum Martin Bishop, Caroline Foord, Andy Thomson and John Douglas (think thats all of them ).
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3927
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
Great stuff, I got SPREADERS but missed INCUBATES - disappointed Charlie missed the 2nd numbers though. What's the biggest winning margin anyway? That game when DOD left someone with about 15? I was particularly amused by the rounds when the challenger was clearly risking his 7 (or whatever) and th...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3927
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
(10+1)*5*5+8-1- that's also 282.
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3927
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
Charlie said on facebook that this'd be a corker... I think I can see why!
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3927
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 16th of October
I did R5 the same way as Charlito at first, then spotted the challenger's way and felt a right berk...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Which football team do you support?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 10082
Re: Which football team do you support?
I support the future League 1 20th-placers, Lincoln City.
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6049
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
A fine debut, congratulations, and much more to come I'm sure. For some reason though, watching you made me feel nostalgic :( Just noticed the swarm of 257 people who were online earlier today. Yesterday I spent a few befuddled moments wondering what caused the previous record of 28 sometime in May...
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:36 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Prime
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1789
Re: Apterous Prime
Au contraire, Prime is quite beatable, I've taken it to crucials on many occaions (and typically screwed them all up).
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6049
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
Nice one Mr. Reams!
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6049
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
R12 TETRAGON?
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6049
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
6 new users in 3 minutes kinda agrees with you!Joseph Bolas wrote:I think Charlie's plug of the site workedMost users ever online was 257 on Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:34 pm
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6049
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 October (Reams' debut)
GNOMONS equaller R1?
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:07 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: ratings
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4242
Re: ratings
It might be a good idea to make all conundrum attacks unrated. It's certainly true that the bots are underrated for 15 rounders. For example Apterous Rex is rated below Kirk, but I can't imagine it losing to Richard Pay. Still, forcing certain games to be unrated would be a pretty ad hoc fix. Shoul...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who has an ODE2r?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2347
Re: Who has an ODE2r?
They were half price in WH Smith a while ago, that's where I got mine, so it might be worth shopping around if you have a spare £15 and are in need of one.
- Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:57 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Connection problems
- Replies: 136
- Views: 15048
Re: Connection problems
I can't get in either, alas.
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Your ebay items for sale (if you have them)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 782
Your ebay items for sale (if you have them)
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/hulla_m ... omZQQ_mdoZ
Just in case anyone here was a fan of Andromeda or fancies some cheap retro video games.
(Yes, yes, I know, it is a cheap plug. )
Just in case anyone here was a fan of Andromeda or fancies some cheap retro video games.
(Yes, yes, I know, it is a cheap plug. )
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COGST QF- WILSON vs HOWE Now with shiny RECAP!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2237
Re: COGST QF- WILSON vs HOWE Happening Tonight!
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm baffled by the offerings in round 11. Round 11: S S P Q A I O P D C1: qipaos C2: papsids OT: DIPSOS (6) OPPIDA (6) Score: 71–78 (max 95) I thought these might've been Scrabble words, but I can't find them in the dictionary. Qipaos is bad no matter the diction...
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COGST QF- WILSON vs HOWE Now with shiny RECAP!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2237
Re: COGST QF- WILSON vs HOWE Now with shiny RECAP!
Indeed- well done Paul on nabbing your revenge. :p I'm really pissed off about missing round 10, and OXIDATE is one of the more baffling omissions from the ODE, but all in all, I was beaten by the better player on the day.
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: A few general queries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3086
Re: A few general queries
I have to say I thought Tom meant "finalist" in the sense of "player taking part in the series finals" i.e. quarter-finals onwards, but maybe I was wrong. Does cause confusion though, this overlap in meaning. Ah- I thought he specifically meant 'grand finals', otherwise the list...
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: ratings
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4242
Re: ratings
How are the ratings exactly worked out? However it works, the bots seem to get the shitty end of the stick. Prune has had a negative ranking for a while now and Waldorf has fallen pretty quickly down into the low 100s; OK, he's not a brilliant player, but this seems unrealistically low. Even Plum a...
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: A few general queries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3086
Re: A few general queries
He was, but he didn't reach the final (amazingly)- got knocked out in the semis. He later won the c of c though.David O'Donnell wrote:Tim Morrissey was very young too, right?
- Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: A few general queries
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3086
Re: A few general queries
An old friend who I met the other day seemed convinced I was the youngest finalist in the show's history but told him otherwise. I said at the time I was the 4th but 3rd at the time - anyone know an exact answer? Alan Saldahna and Wayne Summers before me? And Andrew Perry. Richard Saldanha was (iir...