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Gavin Chipper

I still haven't booked Saturday yet and noticed the "sale" price. I'm going to hold out a bit longer.

Gavin Chipper

And also the answer at some point in the future. I know we can look it up or wait for the recap, but it seems weird to leave it hanging forever. We need Spoiler Spoilers, for spoilers that would spoil the Spoilers. I was thinking that too. And I imagine one day we'll find the need for yet another l...

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I'm fairly easy about travel times on the Friday, although I don't want to get there insanely late or anything, and obviously the cheaper the better. I seem to remember that Corby did an excellent job of organising us last year.

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Anyone get the scientific 9 in round 1? I got ENTHRONE, but don't remember what the other letter was? Ok answering my own question, turns out the other letter was an I. So ENTHRONE + I = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ p.s. just as a general point, I love the "did you get the 9 in round X ..." type que...

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Tony Atkins wrote:Nice solve by Rachel in last numbers - mind you 710 was easy (75-4)x(3+7).

I think she made it look harder than it was. Once you see 79*9, you can just do (75+4)*(7+5-3) rather than (75+4)*(50/5-7)*3. (I didn't get it though.)

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Matt Morrison wrote:Graeme is ok by me. Thomas, no.

What about Deeks?

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Tony Atkins wrote:Two 9s available in R1!

Since I know you'll never tell us I've looked them up. They were MICROPYLE and POLMERIC. We're allowed spoilers here!

Gavin Chipper

Not disagreeing with you, but ODO getting this right isn't a plus in its corner as much as a minus in the ODE's... it's just a really shit bit of dictionary compiling on behalf of the ODE. I'd be surprised if there weren't errors of this magnitude in the ODO. It's all relative so anything that goes...

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Susie disallowed the Apterous-valid INDORSE. Can someone with the relevant dictionary clarify who's correct? Not that I don't trust her!

Edit - the online dictionary says US and Law, which would make it fine. But that might not be the same.

Gavin Chipper

I don't think this has come up (and I can't be bothered to check), but one problem with the change to the online dictionary is in checking older games. Obviously recaps are done there and then, but sometimes people might want to go back and check something. Will there be any sort of archive of previ...

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There's various tests statisticians might apply to the data, but like scientific tests in general, they'd really only be testing for whether it fails. You'd never say "yeah, it is random", but you might say "there's no particular reason to suggest it isn't random, so it could be"...

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This thread has just been spoiled.

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(like LEARNT which you've just used) Seems a bit weird to point out the little joke someone made and then make the same joke if you understood that it was a little joke. I understand that this is getting a bit complicated for some people. Let's go through this step by step. Susie said "Dreamt ...

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No he didn't. I'm currently going Gevin 1- Matt 0. You missed Brian's score. If you DID detect his joke then I'm at a loss as to what Brian suggested you were nit-picking. Currently Gevin 1 - Matt 1 - Brian 0 by my score. Maybe I wasn't nitpicking? Did it come across that I was because of the sente...

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You mean she should have said something like "one of the few"? That's probably what she MEANT. I think there's quite a few that take a T anyway (like LEARNT which you've just used) Yeah, sorry, just a little humour at Susie's expense. Cheap. I get my phrases mangled on stage sometimes, bu...

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Susie said "Dreamt is one of the only past tenses to take a T". A curious way of phrasing it. I wonder where she learnt that. You mean she should have said something like "one of the few"? That's probably what she MEANT. I think there's quite a few that take a T anyway (like LEA...

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COOTIES/TACKIES in round 10. Beaters? Try and watch the show, or look at the Wiki. Can't be too hard for you. :) But, if you can't be bothered, it's equallers, as opposed to beaters, mainly as by the time I watch it, all the beaters are already mentioned on here........ I actually knew, but I've no...

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James Robinson wrote:COOTIES/TACKIES in round 10.

Beaters?

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Graeme Cole wrote:I'm definitely sure I didn't read the question properly.

True, but since the new and old 15s have been mixed, it seems logical to include 9-rounders as well for completeness.

Gavin Chipper

This may sound harsh but I always think it's strange when people always go for stuff like 3 large when they're not very good at it. Or even if it's just the pressure of the studio, accept that and pick something easier. They have been quite hard 3Large ones as I only got 1 away on that one - though...

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Tony Atkins wrote:Has anyone ever done 6-3=3 before?

Nice and fitting conundrum there (nicely solved too - I thought it was "proodness").

I remember someone doing something ×1 and then being one out. This was years ago though. May Graeme can find it.

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Nice miss in round 14 too.

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Andy Platt wrote:Nice miss in round 6.

And not even within 10.

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Round 4: B Y L E I O G S H C1: BOGIES (6) C2: BOGIES (6) DC: BOLSHIE (7) OBLIGES (7) Score: 27–12 (max 29) Fancy a round of golf? Well it's all BOGIES in this round. Six a piece. Rachel put BOGIES up, but do we know it wasn't BOGEYS in one or both cases? I don't think they were asked to spell it out.

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Martin Sinclair wrote:It's impossible to get 100% max percentage if you lose, though. And no, I'm not, Jon.

For some reason I thought you were talking about numbers rounds.

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Martin Sinclair wrote:How, Gavin?

People who lost their first game but had easy numbers.

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If they can play any number of games there will be loads of people on 100%.

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:WORNER as a beater in round whatever. It's not on Apterous but it's an adjective isn't it?
Depends if you think it is one syllable or two...

WORN is one syllable unless you're an alien.

Gavin Chipper

This may sound harsh but I always think it's strange when people always go for stuff like 3 large when they're not very good at it. Or even if it's just the pressure of the studio, accept that and pick something easier. They have been quite hard 3Large ones as I only got 1 away on that one - though...

Gavin Chipper

WORNER as a beater in round whatever. It's not on Apterous but it's an adjective isn't it?

Gavin Chipper

This may sound harsh but I always think it's strange when people always go for stuff like 3 large when they're not very good at it. Or even if it's just the pressure of the studio, accept that and pick something easier.

Gavin Chipper

I can see now why people blog about absolute shit that nobody else is really interested in, it's actually quite fun just to write stuff down for yourself. Does anyone know how I can get in touch with Clare Sudbery to apologise? Is that why you fell out? What a cunt. I won't be talking to you on the...

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Dave Preece wrote:Susie's job is hard, give her a break FFS!

Is it though?

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Jon Corby wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Have you PM'd him yet?
Yes.

And I've PMed back. None of this "PM'd" rubbish for me

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If the machine is purely trying to fuck you then surely it will never give you any of the bonus things if it can give you 0-3 or whatever. And of course it would never spin a red. So surely that's not actually what it's trying to do. It has to be generous enough to keep people's interest in the game...

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I like how Susie kept everyone in suspense with ROUNDISH by saying "yes" after she found the entry and then pausing for a bit. (She just as often says "yes, I didn't think it would be in" ). She is probably pausing while Damian talks through her ear piece telling her that their ...

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Ian Volante wrote:I have, and the question isn't there! I can't watch video links here.

Scotland has blocked YouTube? Or there is just no internet apart from Edinburgh city centre?

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I like how Susie kept everyone in suspense with ROUNDISH by saying "yes" after she found the entry and then pausing for a bit. (She just as often says "yes, I didn't think it would be in" ).

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Graeme Cole wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:What about declarations under 100?
There haven't been any besides the two I mentioned.

Oh yeah. For some reason I didn't read that bit.

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Alistair's GAUZES not allowed on Apterous but the ODO thing likes it (not that that's in use yet).

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Multiplying all the small numbers together gives 480 in the 480 round.

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Are the written lyrics true to their performance, or is part of the game that you have paraphrased them so as to prevent Googlery? I'm relying on my memory somewhat, but I'm fairly sure they're accurate. I mean, the "headed" might've been "heading" or something like that, but no...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:I'd say if the number is below 7 you should go higher, and vica versa. But it all depends really.

Definitely. Also if you wait around until somebody before you loses a load of money and then pounce. I can't believe you haven't thought of any of this???!!!

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Dave Preece wrote:I'e never understood why mode is used, it can be very inaccurate compared to the mean?

It has its uses.

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Humans famously can't pick random numbers, so what you said Callum could also apply to a human list of numbers that we know not to be random enough! Numberphile on Youtube recently had a video about a true random number generator being made from some dangerous radioactive chemical...??? Why did thi...

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Johnny Canuck wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:Was THAT really necessary?
Was THAT really necessary?
I'd continue the chain, but the maximum allowed font size only goes so high.

I didn't know THAT.

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What about declarations under 100?

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Dave Preece wrote:Airdates
Air dates
Air-dates

Who cares, really?

I agree. So why did you start this thread?

Gavin Chipper

I saw this article and thought of this thread. End the culture of coaching? Can that happen? How about ending the partitioning of children at age 11 into "intelligent" and "not intelligent"? That's a shit idea, right?

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James Robinson wrote:SATRAP in round 2, GENTLE/GLUTEN in round 4 and HERITOR in round 11.

Presumably when you put this but don't say that they're beaters, you mean they're equallers? You should say!

Gavin Chipper

With something like CECIL (as opposed to tossing a coin) you have to worry about things like whether each number is independent of what has gone before. If you tossed a coin 100 times and got 50 heads followed by 50 tails, you might decide that the coin is fair, although of course you'd probably be ...

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Andy Platt wrote:Found an insane 9 in the DEMISTED/DEMISTER round courtesy of lexplorer, anyone see it?

No. Tell us what it is. This is the spoilers thread.

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Thanks Graeme! But seriously don't spend too much time in this thread, if you get what I mean.

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Dave Preece wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:What a fucking idiot!
Was that really necessary?
Was THAT really necessary?

Was THAT really necessary?

Gavin Chipper

Top 20 is too big a list to name definitively. Like all of these kinds of favorite movie, music or whatever kind of lists, they change all the time the more you think about it. The one movie that crops up perennially though which is the one I say is my favorite movie of all time is Die Hard. Is it ...

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Is this a numbers expert picked at random?

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Top 20 is too big a list to name definitively. Like all of these kinds of favorite movie, music or whatever kind of lists, they change all the time the more you think about it. The one movie that crops up perennially though which is the one I say is my favorite movie of all time is Die Hard. Is it ...

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The history that this scoring system carries in the context of the Edinburgh Countdown Club outweighs the frankly small gains in how deserved most people's positions are. You make it sound like this is a great tradition passed down from generation to generation, as opposed to something someone came...

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Innis - ever the diplomat.

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I've just paid for both days. What's the Corby line on Travelodge deals this year? It's looks to me as though Friday is £22.99 and Saturday £42 at the moment. The Friday looks reasonable (I paid £24 for each last time). Edit - I've now booked for the Friday at £22.99, but I'm leaving Saturday for n...

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