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A shame no one remembered to mention that today was National Countdown Day - if I'd only joined this forum a couple of months earlier I certainly would have done. For those who don't recall, NCD was declared on this date in 2003 by Richard Digance. This year has the first NCD since then; and the ne...

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I was the only person to get ROPEWAYS a few duels ago, but nobody gave me any toffee. And I was the only one to get SPECIATES on Sunday, which I found slightly amazing. In a related incident, both Kirk and I got the same word in an amazing 15-rounder (that Kirk inevitably won on the conundrum) pret...

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I don't watch it, but I sort of know what's going on because the BBC deem that the Strictly Come Dancing results are an important enough story to feature in their breakfast news from 6.00am onwards every fucking Monday morning. Anyway, from my limited understanding, the public vote is only keeping J...

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So you were born on Prince Charles' 48th birthday. That makes two famous people sharing a birthday. It must feel good when flags get flown on your birthday. Hope you have a great day when it comes. :) I used to share a birthday with the Queen Mother, so got flags raised too. But now she's dead, so ...

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Did it actually overtake it before midnight? If so, Jim is clearly the second coming :shock: Yep, it happened sometime between 10.30 and midnight. Pretty awesome if you ask me. Excellent! Last I saw, this place was 8 or 9 messages behind with about three hours to go, which I thought was pretty much...

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Would it work with monkeys instead of people? What would they spell out? I suspect it would just be a string of random letters, wouldn't it? Haha, I like that! Maybe they would just get monkey spirits though, who hence wouldn't be able to spell anyway? Nah, the monkey spirits would have obtained my...

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Why do your friends even have to be touching the glass though? And why do you, for that matter? :roll: The serious answer is so the spirit can channel their energies through you and communicate. They may not be strong enough to move a glass on its own so uses your energy to help it do that. You got...

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The board index wrote:Total posts 17036

The Yahoo group is on 17174.

Edit: It strikes me that someone could post another 140-odd times tonight, but Jason Larsen's been quiet recently, so I reckon I should be OK.

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Fucking hell, I think I'm going to be right. This place should overtake the old place tomorrow, unless something really odd happens.

I CAN SEE THE FUTURE. TREMBLE BEFORE ME, MORTALS!

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I voted "not enough" (surprise surprise) but I'm not too bothered either way, really. I'd prefer it if there were generally less conundrums, mind, those all-conundrum Duels especially do my head in.

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I was completely rubbish at it, but I thought it was a fun challenge. I've no idea how people can play well that quickly, it takes me longer than five seconds to really register what letters are there, unless something really obvious jumps out. But yeah, the more variation of game in the Duel, the b...

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I had a DC equaller in round 3 with DOMINEER, round 6 with SAMFIE and then a DC beater in round 9 with OLEFINIC. A couple of nice DC equallers in round 12 I got were TRIOLET (already mentioned here) and LORILET. I had a really good game again today then didn't get the conundrum - why is it every ti...

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Is Apterous knackered at the moment? I can't log in to play, and the game browser's gone a bit weird with repeating results.

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Halloween? Football? Alcohol? Egg sandwiches? These are all excellent things and you people are WRONG IN THE HEAD.

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Anyone worried by the possibility of encountering poor taste might do well to avoid HIGNFY. And the Countdown stuff was all from Hislop and Merton. People do act differently in different situations. Who would ever have seen Jo Brand as a favourite Countdown celebrity? But that's not really my point...

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Cheers, Charlie and Debbi! I thought I might be able to outdo my old record of 168, but didn't think I could get anywhere near that (I've still only managed 194 on the 30-second version, so this is a bit of an anomaly really).

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I am pleased with this.

Luckily for me, lots of Prime's 3 large selections turned out to be really easy.

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She is 45, and that is a big surprise. No she isn't. I know this because I have the exact same date of birth as Carol and I'm not 45 either :( But I remember seeing you on the show earlier this year, Debbi, and there's no way you're a day over 29. http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7373/78496655fm4...

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jimbentley wrote:...it'll be on November 5th.

Charlie Reams wrote:...I make it around 27 October.

We're turning out to be amazingly close, amazingly. Amazing! I think you're going to be closer, though. Halloween looks the likely date.

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Christ. How fast is your connection supposed to be?

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Congratulations to that bastard Kirk Bevins on breaking my Numbers Attack record! Well played, mate. I'm especially annoyed as the 190 I got a couple of days back should've been a 200 - the one I missed (the 19th!) was easy and I was really kicking myself for being so substandard. Still, I've nicked...

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Charlie Reams wrote:I have to admit I was hoping Sue would win (despite her being a complete psychopath)

Come on man, you can't leave that hanging! Spill beans, plz.

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The mighty Middlesbrough, who were massacred 5-0 earlier today by a Chelsea side that didn't even look like it was trying. More mid-table mediocrity beckons, if we're lucky.

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To be honest all the stuff they took was boring and replaceable, and well covered by the insurance That's good to hear, at least. I've never been burgled, because my house looks like such a shithole that any potential burglars would consider that there couldn't possibly be anything valuable inside....

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Looking at yesterday's results, I don't think I'll be playing another blind duel. I suspect some people missed the point and wrote stuff down anyway. Also there is the Bolas loophole which sort of makes a mockery of the blind variant anyway. As I'm an impulsive idiot, I rarely read the rules before...

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There are two of them in Right Said Fred. There were three of them, the two bald blokes and another bloke with hair who was always pushed into the background. Although they may have ditched the hirsute fella in their later hit-free "career". Anyway, I for one welcome the news that Right S...

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Just played a Numbers Attack against Apterous Prime - he beat me 190-180 after a crucial conundrum, damn him for his impudence. Anyway, does that mean that if we'd both been a little bit better, we could've been 200-200 after twenty rounds, so 210 is actually the best possible score?

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It's down again now - all the bits and pieces of the site seem to be working (although the game browser has gone a bit funny), but it's not possible to play:

Login failed: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

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Aye, I got the two-volume Shorter Oxford, but then got the ODE2 in the post some time afterwards (but still before it came into force on the show). I can't remember if this was because it wasn't out yet, or because they'd run out of copies of the NODE to give to contestants.

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I'm currently getting this:

Apterous wrote:Could not establish database connection...

EDIT: Oh wait, it's come back again now.

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Excellent! I'll soon fill this thread up with examples of my rank incompetence. I was going to kick off with the game I just played - a thrashing from Apterous Caesar - but I realised at the end that he got 13/15 maximums and would've dropped only 2 points had I not beaten him in one round, so maybe...

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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...

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There were almost four back-to-back octochamps in Series 47-48 - Julia Wilkinson won 8, then Grace Page won 8, then David Nickeas won 7 but lost his eighth game to Danny Hamilton, who in turn won 8. Jon is correct, though, the last two were him followed by Tony Warren.

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Today he faces Zachary Stephenson, a musician from Cork (now living in London) who looks and indeed sounds a bit like David O'Donnell in a wig. Actually he sounds like David O'Donnell without a wig too, as he tends to sound the same no matter what he's wearing (gimp suit withstanding). He currently...

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Cheers! First win, and first time I've been anywhere near a win, too :lol: I knew I'd done pretty well but am slightly amazed at the margin of victory, as I also knew I'd missed a couple of gettable ones. I thought I'd be about 3rd or 4th, maybe 2nd, but not for a minute 1st. I didn't think SEAMINES...

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Yep, the whole site seems to be down now.

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My cousin's son is called Kai - not sure what relation he is though - anyone know? Second cousin? That might be completely wrong, mind. Anyway, according to the scintillating statistics.gov website, Kai was the 62nd most popular boy's name in England and Wales in 2007, and had been there or thereab...

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I know it's probably the start of a gradual decline into complete insanity when you start talking back to the bots, but I couldn't help myself. I hate Apterous Prime, the smug shit.

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I would like Richard Digance! I'm sorry Jason, you can't have him. the one surprise here is the introduction of Jeff Stelling Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports is probably my favourite TV show during the football season, even though Phil Thomson is usually on it, and that's because Jeff Stelling is tot...

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Presumably it's possible to adjourn and resume these ultra-long games, as with normal games? If so, I'd've thought that someone would have set up a several-thousand round game and played it over the course of a few days by now. Or is this sort of thing verboten?

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Not much compared to those above, but I had a pleasing max game going until the Evil Jim ruined it with a horrendous 4 large round. I lost concentration a bit after that but still it's a quite a nice game. Great. Show everyone the game where I was complete shit. Oh wait, I am shit. Carry on. Aptero...

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A slightly ruder bot that throws insults and threats at every opportunity. He could even respond to what you say with certin stock phrases that don't have to be relevant. "You what? Say that again and I'll twat you one/come round you house and kill you." And it would launch into a massive...

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I think our effort on the forum was a bit shit with this one (sorry Paul). Seconded, especially mine (I think the sort of logical reasoning necessary for something like this is a bit beyond me). It's clever, now I understand how it works, but I'd never have got to the right conclusion in a million ...

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Julian Fell wrote:In relation to recent events on the show: COZIER and COZIEST need to be removed from Jim's list, as do MEOW, MEOWS, MEOWED and MEOWING.

Already done, but I've not uploaded the new version yet.

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No. I haven't, ever, and it's highly unlikely that I ever will. I am a man. Men don't cry.

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I must be missing something, but I don't get this one at all. If the blue-eyed members of the tribe already know that there are 99 other blue-eyes and 100 brown-eyes, and the brown-eyed members already know that there are 99 other brown-eyes and 100 blue-eyes, then what difference would the archaeol...

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I love the Daily Duel, but blimey, today's was a bit brutal. And yet I still quite enjoyed it, in a funny way. The greatness of the Daily Duel is that it can be a different format every day - there's been loads of weird formats that I'd never have tried otherwise, and novelty is always good.

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Jason Larsen wrote:I am expecting a freshly-baked cake. The cake will be flavored white

Excellent news! White is my favourite flavour too. Happy Birthday, Jason!

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Oh yeah. I feel a bit daft now.

Cheers, Kirk!

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I'm stuck in two games against bots at the moment - when I resume, all I can choose is vowels, there's no "consonants" button, so the round can't start. Strange, as all was working fine an hour ago.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Those four letters were picked in round four, Kirk.

The recap wrote:Round 4: R Y S A I O A G A

So I see.

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I did this on Numbers Attack a few days ago, but was a bit embarrassed about posting it here, as pretty much all the games were piss-easy. The two that I only got 7 points on were very doable, but a big score looked on, so I played it safe so as not to wipe out on any rounds. Anyway, I'm posting it ...

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Very impressive, and a quick run through a solver shows that there's no easier method, although one alternative is: (10+8)x6 - 9 = 99. 99x9 - 25 = 866. I had: (25-9) x 6 = 96 96 x 9 = 864 864 + 10 - 8 = 866 Not within the time, though, I spent most of that pointlessly arsing around trying to make 3...

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I liked this:

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New version here. Now with 0.1% fewer mistakes! Could someone with the current dictionary double-check FERREL, though? Even though I'm 99.99999% certain that Julian will be right, it could still be lurking under the entry for FERRULE, the ODE does funny stuff like that sometimes. I have the new ODE...

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New version here. Now with 0.1% fewer mistakes!

Could someone with the current dictionary double-check FERREL, though? Even though I'm 99.99999% certain that Julian will be right, it could still be lurking under the entry for FERRULE, the ODE does funny stuff like that sometimes.

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You're not a fan of Noel's then?! :) What on earth gave you that idea ;) I think it's a terrible, terrible show, but have a grudging admiration for how Edmonds has managed to exploit the concept and understand what to do to make it successful. He can be either cloyingly sympathetic or mildly sarcas...

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(hopefully some of those who were impressed will post something encouraging below!) I certainly will. It is amazing. Seriously amazing. I knew Charlie was a very clever man, so expected it to be good, but it's so far beyond good that it's astonishing. No, that's not quite it. It's EVEN BETTER than ...

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I missed OBLIGED too which caused me to utter profanities at the television before self-harming (forcing myself to watch Deal or No Deal afterwards). :lol: :lol: :lol: I watched it too. What a load of old toss that show is. I thought I was going to puke when yesterday's contestant started to trot o...

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Hmm... Jim said he had fixed all the things mentioned previously on the thread before uploading the new version, but he hadn't removed FERREL(S) yet so that still needs doing. (Edit to say: BLEATINGS, NUDISMS and POLICINGS still need to be added as well) Summary of other mistakes found so far in Ji...

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