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Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote: There was an alt 9 to TONSORIAL and a 8 beater in the SNAKIER+US round.

I got TORSIONAL. Definitely the standard method 9.

Gavin Chipper

Someone will win this game. Who?

Anyway, Did DC get a beater in round 5? WIRETAP was there for 7. Also there was a 51×19 standard method in round 6.

I've left the episode number because they don't seem to have gone up in order in the other threads.

Gavin Chipper

Is it the standard method?

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20:34 at 13 is pretty good. Is he one of the best in his year at school?

One of the reasons I ask that is that I often wonder how good my performances would be if I was as good as I am now when I was at school (in various years).

Gavin Chipper

I cared too. But I don't post every time I care about a post. That's the old problem - the poster never knows how much silent interest there is in their post.

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I'll be up for this at COLIN next year if there's one nearby! Matt & Gevin's times are seriously impressive though, won't be anywhere near those. Well done. Matt and Lauren did one last year so presumably there is one nearby. But when I spoke to you about parkruns at this year's COLIN you were ...

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Google isn't very good with this place. What's the full postal address? If you search for Westdale Lane Baptist Church, it's basically in the same location- 368 Westdale Lane, Mapperley, NG3 6ES. Thanks. Also- you've been there before. That was years ago though! I don't remember where every place i...

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Google isn't very good with this place. What's the full postal address?

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Rules like that are ridiculous. If you design your tournament in such a way as it can be exploited to get a significant advantage then that's your problem.

I agree. You can't make it beneficial for someone to throw a match and expect people not to do this.

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I think OUTWAIT was a beater in one of the rounds. Is it in?
Yup, no worries about that one.

Yeah, I knew really!

Gavin Chipper

I think OUTWAIT was a beater in one of the rounds. Is it in?

Gavin Chipper

Judy needs 160 points in her last two games to avoid being the lowest scoring octochamp ever. If she wins, that is, so maybe it's not that bad that she runs into Liam in her final game... (I don't think this is reflects her ability. If she improved her numbers she could well be a very formidable op...

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Where do you all stand on this?

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I'm probably going to come. And to Milton Keynes. Brace yourself for a double payment.

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I'm glad you asked. Countdown uses this free online dictionary to adjudicate words (it's certainly free in the UK anyway). Obviously there might be some doubt about whether certain mass noun plurals etc. are valid, but for headwords and your basic inflections, this is where you go. The reason I'm po...

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CALOTYPE in R1 ? (NOT CHECKED as Lexplorer not working just now :( ) I'm pretty sure that's fine, nice one. UNTHREAD round 13? never sure on those UN- words You should all know by now how to check a word and you don't need Lexplorer! Look here and here for your answers. I'm pretty sure Jack was jus...

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If stuff is getting cut off despite windows being small it almost sounds like it is operating zoomed in. You don't have some accessibility setting on do you? Try going to Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display and check you're set to 100% rather than something bigger. I can't find any...

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So it wasn't just an early April Fools joke then?

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On my laptop that I got recently, it runs some applications very small. This appears to include Java, and I can't play Apterous properly on it. It's not just that it's small - some of the stuff gets cut off as well. It's a 13.3 inch screen, but Java is still small relative to the size of the screen...

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Graeme Cole wrote:Recently I discovered this: http://what3words.com/

Cool. I got to level 16 on my first go. I went onto YouTube and most of the amateurs on there couldn't get beyond level 12.

No, it's not a new word game.

Wait - what?

Gavin Chipper

What days are these? It's every Tuesday until mid October, with the exception of next Tuesday (July 14). Aren't you recording on a Tuesday, Tom?? I am indeed! I have three games that day and they said my first is at 2:45, which makes sense based on what Mark said. I don't know the normal times thou...

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C1 and C2 both declare the same target in a numbers round, both not written down. C2, who declares second, transcribes his method to Rachel, who accepts it. C1 says "I've done it the same way". As there is no way of proving this, C2 (playing devil's advocate) says that C1 may have cocked ...

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I think you're a bit hard on Phil here. Also I think you have double standards on their numbers abilities. "You get the impression tat [sic] Judy wold [sic] prefer it if there were no numbers rounds." compared with "Phil misses another easy numbers game. Not a huge surprise." Als...

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Finally Rachel took the option to complete the contestants method. Some of the alts involve making 175 and subtracting 3x3 (the standard method). I still think it would have been more satisfying for her to say that she could have done 3×3 instead of 3×4 because it's correcting her method and more e...

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Steven M. McCann wrote:Getting outplayed, so pretends he needs the trainer!

Was he playing in just his socks until then?

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NEOWORDS was a good spot by Susie even though it wasn't in. There are loads of words like that, which are so new to the language that they're not in the dictionary yet. There should be a word for that but I can't think what it would be. I think it was poor judgement coming from the weight of expect...

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Rachel outscored everybody on every round she played, which wasn't entirely surprising tbf. Including Susie, although I think a lot of her stuff comes from Damian anyway when she's in DC. Yeah, although there was only one letters round and I guess she was a little unlucky in that she went for somet...

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Jon Corby wrote:Rachel outscored everybody on every round she played, which wasn't entirely surprising tbf.

Including Susie, although I think a lot of her stuff comes from Damian anyway when she's in DC.

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I've just got round to watching this. How do maxes work with the football bit? And did they disallow WASPIE because Jen Steadman/Sarah Millican got the definition wrong?

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TBH Lee your opening post makes it sound like you're not enjoying the process much. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it! But some ways of practising for Countdown are more enjoyable than others. I think most Apterites would find studying the dictionary a bit boring. Not you because you're hardco...

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Who's going to win etc.

Round 9 (outside the time): (25-3)×6×7+5+4=933.

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Dear MM A couple of days ago I got in a slight kerfuffle trying to edit a comment on a Facebook status, which I messed up so badly I ended up deleting the comment and reposting it. It seemed to work, but ever since, whenever I go on Facebook in Firefox, my cursor changes to the "busy" cur...

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On my laptop that I got recently, it runs some applications very small. This appears to include Java, and I can't play Apterous properly on it. It's not just that it's small - some of the stuff gets cut off as well. It's a 13.3 inch screen, but Java is still small relative to the size of the screen....

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Two really good players in a close, high quality game. The phrase "it's a shame these two met each other in the heats" is normally only used on here to apply to apterous players, but it's just as true today. I think four wins was a solid number of wins for a solid player like Pat so I thi...

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Tony Atkins wrote:I wonder if Judy has any of the missing game records in her diaries?

I missed what was said in her introduction. All I heard was something about beating both contestants. What was said?

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Thomas Carey wrote:2x2x4x6x6+75 as an alt for the last numbers

Nice.

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I wonder if the two contestants have ever got a nine between them before like in the DERAIL/RAILING round.

Also surely OUTLIER is primarily a statistical thing.

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Steven M. McCann wrote:OUTPASS? in round1 (as in what the Japanese women are going to do to England tonight!)

No! Look it up in the free online dictionary that's used for Countdown! And that goes for all of you motherf***ers out there as well!

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Do you actually know the answer to this yourself?
Of course.

It wasn't that obvious.

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Do you actually know the answer to this yourself?

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Tony Atkins wrote:Alt of PROLATE among many in R4 and MISROUTE in R5 and standard method alt in 2nd Nos (6-6-1)x25+100+3

Should that be 6+6-1?

Edit - beaten to it.

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Bit of a weird fruit machine you've found yourself.

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I really enjoyed this event - it was very well run, and as well as seeing a lot of familiar faces, I met some great new people as well including Eddy Byrne and Dave Noble. Eddy's running a CO-event in Dublin later this year, and having met him, I'm pretty sure it will be pretty good. He also looks a...

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7 maxes for Mark Nyman. Looking at the two he missed, it could have been a max game!

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OUTLINES, TRAPEZIUM, and 831 would have got me the win, which annoys me a little. I had OUTLINES the day before, had writtten down TRAP, and was so busy looking for 832 that I completely overlooked the easy 831. Unlucky Rhys! Shame you overlooked the easy 831 and the easy 832! ;) Sad to see Reece g...

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I've noticed it's got pictures in now.

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Another JAILBAKER moment there with SPONDERED

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Outside the time but (25×100-75-4)/3=807. Standard method.

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szodiac wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Well done again Rhys, Abby totally fell apart in the last 2/7ths of the show. Shame, I was really rooting for her
Me too. Abby looked alot like Laura Bertram who plays Trance Gemini in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.

Mauro

Well I'm rooting for Rhys to become an octochamp. Even if he is a Tory.

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:Well done again Rhys, Abby totally fell apart in the last 2/7ths of the show. Shame, I was really rooting for her

So the last 4.29 rounds?

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:I think that if my political ambitions don't work out I could always be a JAILBAKER...

Let's hope.

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:(9+2+1)x75+9 = 909if you don't want to use the 100.

You're going to come unstuck sooner or later if you limit yourself in such a fashion.

Peter Mabey wrote:Is PALUDINE (to beat QUAILED) OK? -it's good in Scrabble

No. Also, favourite the link to that dictionary!

Gavin Chipper

Anyway I'm definitely going to be around on Friday and Saturday nights so if anyone wants to hang out, let me know!

Gavin Chipper

JimBentley wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:What are non-printing characters?
Here's some examples:

Hope that helps!

So some of the characters aren't actually substituted but are removed? Non-printing characters indeed!

Gavin Chipper

What are non-printing characters?

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SHOUTIER is one of three beaters in R4, DASTOOR beater in R5, MUSHIER and MISHEAR as equallers in R8, but there is an 8 there (I didn't get it). SHOUTIER isn't listed. It finds SHOUTY if you search for it but that has been discredited as a method (O'Neill, 2015). By contrast GOUTIER was there as a ...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Thanks for the positive vibes, once again.

Oh yeah, congratulations on winning again!

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Mark James wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Just in case anyone is wondering, I obviously can't do it.
I don't even know what you're supposed to do.

Jim said it's straightforward substitution so I swapped doing the puzzle with having a pizza instead. Took less than 45 minutes to eat.

Gavin Chipper

spocked wasn't even in the selection in the round where they made it up. Might as well have had kirked. More relevant to Countdown as well.

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OUTCRIES for 8 in round 10.

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