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100sAFP last numbers round: 25 * (8 + 6) - 2 / 2 = 349

Subtitles are MIA again.

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AMPHORA to beat MOHAIR etc.

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Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:53 pm Nailbiting match.

You might even say… unnerving.

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69 was nice

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Stewart Gordon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 1:19 am One TRIANGLED is one.
Two TRIANGLED is three.
Three TRIANGLED is six.
Four TRIANGLED is ten.
...

Apparently not according to Lexico.

"Triangulated" I guess?

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Philip A wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:38 pm Serious question:

Is Countdown not going to have a Champion of Champions anymore?

Been an omnipresent question since about three CoCs ago tbh. No reason why they won't keep going with them still - I know the transition of presenters as well as COVID have used up a lot of resources recently.

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steeem^ = ESTEEM. I don't think that one is going on the falseagrams list.

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COULOIRS to beat COLOURS.

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ebonites^ is really BETONIES

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If Dave Root works in IT, I bet he has root access on all the machines. [/linuxhumour]

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:08 pmAs long as he didn't get any non-max "maxes" in the numbers (e.g. 2 away when 1 away was possible), but looking at the game, it seems that he got them all spot on.

I believe a non-max "max" is still a max, at least based on the calculation on Apterous though.

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13 maxes on the début game as well

Paging Graeme: Would that be a record?

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Seven minutes in heaven. (Allowing one minute for repeatedly pressing play.)

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dan hall could become an octochamp off this game. pretty mad that we've had two full 8-game runs in the first 17 episodes of the series :) And there's a rather good Apterite making his debut tomorrow (27th) - I won't be surprised if we have 3 octochamps within the first 26 episodes (which would be ...

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Series 70 champion Mark Murray (left):

Andy Kindler, one of Ray’s pressbox buds on Everybody Loves Raymond:

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:12 pm
Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:44 pm R10: So close to TELEPHONE.
Also MARAUDING in round 1.

PARTOUZES in R5!

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Not quite "administrative error" worthy IMO but I don't think Anne needs to ask for the not-written-down word first if the lengths are different.

GAMEFUL to beat AFLAME

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How are you supposed to respond to those posts from Wordle players that just have a series of coloured squares? Is there supposed to be a way to use those to guess the word or play along yourself?

edit: to clarify, I don't have Wordle myself

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Another one from the browser game-o-sphere tonight.

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FYI, I made that page originally and set it up as "over 200" and not "200 or more" because the page for scores under 30 also worked that way (30 was excluded). We could change it but IMO we should change them all.

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Well done Adrian! I'd say 90% chance that your total accidentally gets recorded as 767 - possible bump in your favour in the quarter-finals!

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MINIATORS as a double DC beater.

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BILATERAL was quite the challenge -- would have placed it in at least a quarter-final for sure.

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baby don't hurt me

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Objectively best way to do last numbers: 10 * 8 * 7 / 5 = 112.

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If you maxed this game playing along at home, I'm going to send you cake.

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Maybe Ahmed is just so good that he gets 18 points for the way he drinks his water.

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MEIOTIC in last letters round.

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Got today’s wikicap, all. Am both on holiday and locked down!

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:25 pm Did Yoga have just Yoga on his name plate? Yoga v Mandi Hale would be nine.

I’m reliably informed that Paul “YT” White was plated as such. Therefore this one gets us to 10, or 4 using only first names.

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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:50 am countdonw

Is it FROTTIFY, Richard?

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VAnon: The V was missing for a long time in Series 61 because Vladimir Putin took it and displayed it in his office as a knickknack.

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Decent potential for a rematch of this game in the quarter-finals.

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Pro tip: always go with AVULSION on Round 7.

Johnny Canuck · Spoilers for Monday 22 November 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 105) 22nd even!

22nd even!

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Currently have the high score on possibly the most heavily played pinball machine in Montréal.

Actually managed to fold my clothes before putting them away yesterday.

Johnny Canuck · Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 26 October 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 86)

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If you invite Laddiman, will he be Co:Bra Kai?

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No way. Matt Hamer still has to go on.

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How big is the biggest group of people such that everyone in it has played everyone else in an Apterous game at least once?

Have any groups of three or more people done the same thing on televised Countdown?

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Adam Latchford wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 1:26 pmHow many back to back octochamps have their ever been?

Unless it's been beaten since, it was three (Adam Rolston, Tony Manwani and Dave Ashton) in Series 79.

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Speaking as a dreaded Politically Correct Leftie™ myself, cutting MORONS and/or MORONISM from the broadcast was going too far IMO. I've never heard the words used as anything other than harmless trash-talk, not in their old clinical meanings of "person with an IQ below such-and-such".

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Is Jodine the first person to appear in a normal series on 3 separate occasions? (not counting people carrying forward from one series to the next). There certainly can't be many others, albeit her circumstances are somewhat different - I presume she was invited back for this episode specially, rat...

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Also a bit weird that it was a formerly winning returnee vs. a new person IMO.

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Visitors to Montréal (and Paris) will be familiar with QUARTIER as a max in the RACQUET round.

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How about (6 + 3) * 7 * 5?

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Tom S wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 9:50 pm
Tom S wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:00 pm North Macedonia for the win.
Having said that, surprised no one has mentioned that Switzerland'd flag is a big plus...

But the blue in the Scottish flag is behind the times.

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Mozambique, in a kind of dystopian way. Also Spain for going outside the box with its colour choices - pink lion anyone?

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I've been (badly) playing some Hyper Nasty Letters Attacks recently and knew that RATIONALS was inexplicably not in the dictionary, because I'd confidently declared it before only to have it disallowed (probably more than once knowing me). But I was playing a game just now and DC came out with IRRA...

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Down as of now.

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Someone’s conundrum guy must just have partied too hard the night before this session

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:05 pm Nick was absolutely terrible at first (remember his first "critical countdown conundrum"? lol)

Wasn't that Jeff?

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I'll miss this, you be sure of it!

3rd Numbers Alt.: (75 * 3 + 8 * 100 / 50) * 4

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Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 7:36 am Clothes pegs have two settings.

In one piece and busted?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 7:04 pm Gloria Hunniford is 81. Who are the oldest and youngest DC guests? It seems that at one point at least, Gabby Logan/Yorath was the youngest ever female guest.

Didn't Rachel bring Maven into the studio shortly after her birth?

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I suspect the seeding rules may have actually changed to count tie-break points in people’s totals - IIRC they “forgot” to subtract the 10 points last time that made a difference to the seedings too (Dave Costello in S74 maybe - not entirely sure).

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That gets a double before ORANGITES does? Groan.

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If you’re going for “sticky rice” with the conundrum scramble, why not use the S instead of the Z?

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Seeing a lot of double vowels lately. They must have replaced the shuffle engineer.

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Must have been a while since we got all three vowel counts in the letters and four different selections for the numbers. Almost reminds me of me picking.

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