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Matthew Tassier

Speed Demon:
Hugh Binnie 52 - 84 Matthew Tassier

Thought I was heading for a predictable defeat until Hugh had a plausible 9 disallowed and I then spotted 2 decent 6 smalls sandwiching 3 musical maxes to turn it around.

Matthew Tassier

I wasn't forced to abstain in the GOTW voting for my game vs Rex. Are we supposed to be allowed to vote on our own games now? Yes. That was semi-deliberate. On the one hand I think it's perfectly reasonable to vote on your own game, especially if it's one where it was really the other person's perf...

Matthew Tassier

Apterous Caesar 52 - 79 Matthew Tassier

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It was tried, people didn't like it IIRC. Ah fair play. Wish I knew that before I did that image! That must have been right back in the day though, old school apterous like before I joined? Cos the numbers thing has been revolutionised at least once since I joined and I never remember it. It only l...

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Semi-final:

Matthew Tassier 187 - 180 Innis Carson

Great game, 170-170 after 17 and a nerve-wracking difficult final 6 large. Luckily neither of us managing a solution meant I held on for a narrow victory.

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Junior: Innis Carson 2-0 Matthew Tassier

Matthew Tassier 88 - 115 Innis Carson
Innis Carson 109 - 71 Matthew Tassier

A double figure deficit within the first 3 rounds against Innis meant game over in both games when they had hardly begun. PISTEUR and SOLFEGE were both impressive and new to me.

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Flight A : Matthew Tassier 2-1 Jeff Burgin Jeff Burgin 95 - 70 Matthew Tassier Matthew Tassier 104 - 56 Jeff Burgin Jeff Burgin 65 - 88 Matthew Tassier Inconsistent from both of us. Thought it was going to be decided on a crucial when I realised I'd missed an easy last numbers solution, but fortunat...

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Main tournament: Matthew 2 - 1 Peter

Matthew Tassier 79 - 93 Peter Lee
Peter Lee 80 - 94 Matthew Tassier
Matthew Tassier 71 - 68 Peter Lee

Close fought all the way down to the final crucial conundrum with me being relieved that Peter's neat WIFECHEAT on 28.8 seconds wasn't quite right.

Matthew Tassier

Oliver, what should we do in the knockout stage in the case of draws? It seems a shame to decide a numbers tournament on a hypernundrum (particularly since I am probably the worst at unscrambling them of all the quarter finalists :) ), so maybe it could go to a replay? Or are you happy with the hype...

Matthew Tassier

Speed event:

Matthew Tassier 86 - 48 Tom Chafer-Cook

After a rather poor performance in my other speed15 this was more satisfying. Thanks for the game, Tom.

Matthew Tassier

Countdown recap for Friday 7 April 2000. C1: Champion John Hastings (1 win, 49 points.) C2: Challenger Sue Kennedy from Hertfordshire. DC: Catherine Clarke and Alastair Stewart. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: N S G E A D Y O N R02: P H S V I A E Q N R03: R C F A E M D I L R0...

Matthew Tassier

Countdown recap for Thursday 6 April 2000. C1: Champion Margaret Shuttleworth (2 wins, 78 points.) C2: Challenger John Hastings from Workington. DC: Catherine Clarke and Alastair Stewart. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: V E A S B R I D E R02: N F T U I S L E X R03: D O T A H ...

Matthew Tassier

Countdown recap for Wednesday 5 April 2000. C1: Champion Margaret Shuttleworth (1 win, 36 points.) C2: Challenger David Anderson from Monmouth. DC: Catherine Clarke and Alastair Stewart. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: H J I T O E D Y A R02: W R C G I E A R I R03: N F O S U W...

Matthew Tassier

Speed Demon:

Peter Lee 69 - 47 Matthew Tassier

Well played Peter

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Matthew Tassier 178 - 117 Adam Gillard

The tactic of surprising a player who didn't even realise that they were in the tournament payed off for me again.

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Ben Wilson 170 - 197 Matthew Tassier

Quality game with us both on for a max game for the first 11 rounds and 200-190 still a possibility until the last 3 rounds.

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Matthew Tassier 179 - 80 Chris Davies Think I rather surprised Chris by telling him he'd qualified for this, so I took advantage quickly before he really understood what was happening. Haha, love it! Really, you're just far better than me at Hyper numbers. Well played :) Thanks Chris, though the fi...

Matthew Tassier

I'd like to take part in all 3 please.

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Matthew Tassier 179 - 80 Chris Davies

Think I rather surprised Chris by telling him he'd qualified for this, so I took advantage quickly before he really understood what was happening.

Matthew Tassier

How about under a variant page, a stat of lowest score to go with highest score? Presumably lowest score in most variants would be 0 more or less? That's true, but if the bots were excluded would there be many human players scoring 0? Bizarrely some otherwise sane players would deliberately score 0...

Matthew Tassier

The new voting page is great. However it seems to be letting me vote on my own game rather than forcing me to abstain. So, on balance, 4/5 for your new page and 5/5 for my game. That was semi-deliberate. On the one hand I think it's perfectly reasonable to vote on your own game, especially if it's ...

Matthew Tassier

The new voting page is great. However it seems to be letting me vote on my own game rather than forcing me to abstain.

So, on balance, 4/5 for your new page and 5/5 for my game.

Matthew Tassier

Countdown recap for Tuesday 4 April 2000. C1: Champion Haydn Thompson (1 win, 51 points.) C2: Challenger Margaret Shuttleworth from Blackpool. DC: Catherine Clarke and Alastair Stewart. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: R S A D E T S O A R02: N E L P I K A H X R03: V E R I T L ...

Matthew Tassier

Dan Abrey wrote:I mean a list of best numbers game solvers sorted by percentage solved. Is that already there? Can't find it for looking!

Facts and Figures > Statland > Top Players > Top Numbers Players

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Tue 4-Apr-00 Haydn Thompson 27 - 36 Margaret Shuttleworth [This and the next 3 are reserved by Matthew Tassier, I'm not sure if he's still working on them.] Wed 5-Apr-00 Margaret Shuttleworth 42 - 34 David Anderson Thu 6-Apr-00 Margaret Shuttleworth 43 - 49 John Hastings Fri 7-Apr-00 John Hastings ...

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Yes please, I shall send through details of my idea later.

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Countdown recap for Monday 3 April 2000. C1: Champion Rachel Plumridge (3 wins, 173 points.) C2: Challenger Haydn Thompson from Stockport. DC: Catherine Clarke and Alastair Stewart. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: R P E I U Y N G S R02: T D G A C E B O H R03: R I C T N E A S ...

Matthew Tassier

I'll do the first week of April : Mon 3-Apr-00 Rachel Plumridge 47 - 51 Haydn Thompson Tue 4-Apr-00 Haydn Thompson 27 - 36 Margaret Shuttleworth Wed 5-Apr-00 Margaret Shuttleworth 42 - 34 David Anderson Thu 6-Apr-00 Margaret Shuttleworth 43 - 49 John Hastings Fri 7-Apr-00 John Hastings 50 - 29 Sue K...

Matthew Tassier

The number of bonus points for a teaser are wrongly reported when time's up if more than 1 person solved the teaser: 2010-09-12 12:04:51 Your new teaser is IDERMSEE. You have 60 seconds to answer! 2010-09-12 12:05:40 Matthew Tassier got it first. You have 11.7 seconds left. 2010-09-12 12:05:51 Time'...

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In unlimited, seeing as the conundrums are the same as normal games, shouldn't you be awarded pieces of talc, gypsum etc when you buzz in and get them right? Not sure if this applies to any other variant as I can't be arsed to check them all, but its probably just unlimited This made me wonder why ...

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Charlie Reams wrote:Ouch, what a way to lose. And a very good debut, Matthew.

Cheers.
The recapper didn't allow for 11 letter guesses on the conundrum (!!!). I added in the extra letter on this recap but I gather it is all stored somewhere else also, so that will only have the first 10 letters unless it be changed.

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 3 April 2001. C1: Champion John Rainsden (3 wins, 156 points.) C2: Challenger John Place. DC: Damian Eadie and Lionel Blair. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: L D R S O A E T G R02: N B J M I E F A R R03: V H I E O S D E T R04: 50, 10, 7, 6, 1, 8. Ta...

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Let me try ...

Tue 3-Apr-01 John Rainsden 45 - 37 John Place

Just the 1 for me to work out what I'm doing.

Matthew Tassier

Now that prune copies numbers choices, it's fun to play hyper numbers, but is there any chance of altering rexs pick to 6 large, because afterall, he's meant to puck the hardest, and IMO that's what most people would find hardest. Very impressed by your 6 large skills Jack. I think most people woul...

Matthew Tassier

What does bold mean in the duel standings ? I thought it may mean that they've completed every duel that month but all the emboldened ones at the moment are ones on 4/5. It means you have completed the same number of duels as the number of complete days in the month. Unfortunately the duel standing...

Matthew Tassier

In pursuit of this holy artifact business, I was going to play Prune in every possible variant to make sure. I made it through the variants on the "standard" and "goat" tabs and gave up. I started with one holy prune and still only have one, so make of that whatever you want. Al...

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I had obviously seen ULULATE and LUNULAE and I was hoping Rich either didn't know them or hadn't spotted them as two Us are rare. Sadly, my gamble didn't pay off. Probabilities for this are likely to be hard to calculate as the words will obviously vary. Had I had access to lexplorer in my memory a...

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Gomboc

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Personally I love the variety in the duels and think the mix works pretty well at the moment. The daft 3-4 round 90 second ones are quite a different challenge that give everyone a chance of coming top for a change, although I wouldn't miss them much. However I enjoy the challenge of the speed hyper...

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Mandelbrot Set was a good suggestion.
Otherwise, fractals in general?
Or a Spirograph?
Tete-a-tete sofa perhaps?

Feel free to add your own accents or other decorative accoutrements.

Matthew Tassier

Mobius Strip?

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Mike Brown wrote:
Round 11: B Z G O I O P S A

C1: POGOS (5)
C2: POGOS (5)
DC: BIOGAS (6) GOOPS (5)
OT: BAZOOS (6)
Score: 57–64 (max 84)

I gave myself 6 points for BOOAIS, so I think it should go in the OThers bit

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Open:

Matthew Tassier 75 - 60 Miriam Nussbaum
Matthew Tassier 77 - 61 Miriam Nussbaum

2 rather patchy games, in both of which I got an early advantage and just about held on.

Matthew Tassier

Can we have a 'forfeit remaining rounds' button for when you're playing Prune (or, indeed, any other useless bot) and the record attempt is fubared? Especially with the new 'only 3 games against bots at a time' rule. Or maybe a 'Play round again' button if you haven't scored as many points as you w...

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When playing a blind letters game, I think it would be good if the words you type in didn't appear in the notes box. You can't very easily carry on the round "blind" if you've got most of the letters staring at you from the words you've previously spotted.

Matthew Tassier

Please add Streetcountdown variant so that those of us not in your precious club can play.

Obviously I am not party to the rules but I hear talk of 18 letters, 12 normal numbers with targets up to 1000000 (no, that is not binary) and conundrums of any length over 12.

Matthew Tassier

Ryan Taylor wrote: His taste in music is excellent: Oasis, Blue, the Smiths, the Kinks and the Beatles.

Think I've spotted the deliberate error/odd one out. At least I hope so for Ben's sake. Blur, surely?

Matthew Tassier

Mmm, I could do with finding this out... sort of ruins the riddle when I don't know the fucking answer myself. Only in Africa could a team that qualifies automatically play qualifiers. 37. They were all trying to win the world cup. Additionally 8 of them were trying to win the African Cup of Nations.

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Ok, to get rid of the issue of whether England is a country or not, let me re-phrase the question: How many teams have participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa? I'll be very impressed if anyone gets it and can explain why. 37 as far as I know. Why?? I think they were all trying to wi...

Matthew Tassier

Ok, to get rid of the issue of whether England is a country or not, let me re-phrase the question: How many teams have participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa? I'll be very impressed if anyone gets it and can explain why. 37 as far as I know. Why?? I think they were all trying to wi...

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The Open:
Matthew Tassier 87 - 86 Stuart Arnot
Stuart Arnot 66 - 69 Matthew Tassier

Two extremely close games both ending with me just hoping that the 30 seconds would go by without Stuart spotting the conundrum. Somehow they did for a very fortunate 2-0.

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Norm was a bit disappointed not to spot this pencil

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Due to an unfortunately timed ratings spike just the Open for me please Andrew.

Matthew Tassier

I think it should really say "75 and 50 turn into 3 and 2 under certain circumstances " I'm not a 4 large specialist (6 small please!) but I don't think your sum can be turned into the solution. I think it refers more to the following circumstance: 100, 75, 50, 25, 8, 3 turns into 100, 3, ...

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Winners Only scoring = whoever gets the longest word or closest numbers solution gets 1 point for the round, if both players match they both get 1 point. If you'd like more football-like scores, perhaps if both players match in a round then neither should get a point. Moaning about dull 0-0 draws i...

Matthew Tassier

Perhaps max games could be mentioned in the happenings? Standard 15 and 9 rounders at least.

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Ok, so in terms of "dbx" being a valid word, it's not representing a company or a product, but basically a technology. Presumably we're supposed to announce it "duh-buhks" or something too. A la Phonejacker! It does say trademark next to it in the dictionary so I guess it is a p...

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http://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php?word=dbx and also here http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=208206 Do I win a golden bug? Strangely, dbx is a valid "word". As a non-capitalised trademark it avoids being excluded under the proper noun rule. Any more information Matt? I don't lik...

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Marc Meakin wrote:http://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php?word=dbx and also here http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=208206
Do I win a golden bug?

Strangely, dbx is a valid "word". As a non-capitalised trademark it avoids being excluded under the proper noun rule.

Matthew Tassier

Inspired by Matt Bayfield's achievement in the Thread of Brag, could we have a "Top Multi-linguist" Statland page? Perhaps this would be just a sum of each player's highest standard 15 score in each of the available languages.

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