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Gavin Chipper

Indeed. Happy birthday Charlie (31)!

Jason, you forgot to number your post.

Jon, are you sure you counted correctly?

Gavin Chipper

Standard method for the last numbers was (50-1)×(9-2)+10=353.

Edit - Beaten to it by the king of the standard method.

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NOTATOR in round 10.

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"View active topics" is back! Thanks to Charlie for sorting it out.

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UI is User Interface and UX is User Experience, which does have a major impact on your forum experience, being the thing itself. Well when I was talking about things that make very little difference, I was talking about things like "Marking all posts read is done via AJAX. That's beautiful.&qu...

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Matt Morrison wrote:I don't think UI/UX makes "very little difference". I also don't believe anything to do with view active topics is basic functionality, I've never ever clicked it. Ever.

What is UI/UX and what difference does it make to one's forum experience?

Gavin Chipper

I'm surprised no-one spotted the standard method of 25×9-10/5=223.

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Matt Morrison wrote:If you were proposing that I don't care, then yes.

So why do you get excited about all these "extra features" that make very little difference but don't care about basic functionality?

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Matt Morrison wrote:Adam is correct. There is no favicon setup in the HTML code, and there is no default one here.

And am I correct about "View Active Topics"?

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1)Most maxes/ most points scored by a non series finalist? 2)Least maxes/ least points score by a series finalist. (Not including finals games)? 3) did the answer to 1) do better than any series champs did in their heats? Not an exact answer to your question 3, but David Franks failed to make the q...

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CARESSING in round 12.

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Demasted in the maddest round. Not even demast there........., sorry. :( Interestingly, it says OEDEMA can be pluralised, but the definition here doesn't seem to suggest it, unless I'm missing something............: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/oedema When you say it can be ...

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LABOUR was the standard method alternative to ARBOUR.

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Another pointless teatime teaser...

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When the answers to the teatime teasers are too obscure (e.g. PELTRIES), I think it defeats the whole point of them in that they're meant to be gettable from the clue by a "casual viewer". It's OK once in a while but it seems to happen rather a lot. Discuss.

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The highest such disparity is that of Samir Pilica , who maxed 68.75% of his letters rounds and 46.875% of his numbers rounds. I know your database won't cover any of this series, but I believe Andy Noden has an even bigger disparity (76.25% on letters, 53.13% on numbers). That's using the stricter...

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Yes Neb. That would make the most sense, but only on the list that includes winning and losing games. The reason I (belatedly) asked about just the winning games was because I was wondering about the minimum level people have had to reach to scrape a certain number of wins.

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Thanks Graeme. Nice work as always. Also, sorry to be a pain, but would it be possible to do that including just winning games as well, so not including their final, losing game?

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Throwing away a massive lead against an inferior opponent on Countdown can't have helped.

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What's the lowest total score and number of maxes for a one-time winner, two-time winner and so on?

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Did anyone else notice Susie saying SNAPPIER is an anagram of PANNIERS? Yes. Me too. Also the other annoying thing which happens occasionally: Champ: 8, REASONED Nick: Good. What about in the corner? DC: We got some 7s, blah blah, but there was an 8 there: REASONED Nick: Wow. And Champ's sitting th...

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Bradley Cates wrote:Did anyone else notice Susie saying SNAPPIER is an anagram of PANNIERS?

Yes.

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Sad news. RIP.

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Adam Dexter wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:People who share a birthday with Jeff Gordon.
And why would that be? Was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother not trustworthy?

Edit: Used correct tense

It has to be the same year as well.

But probably not anyway.

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Quite pleased with my 137 today. Must be my best playing at home.

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Could have had MANEUVERS for 9 without the American spelling rule.

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Out of curiosity, hat do the standers do in the dead of night? Put the light on? Stand in the dark? Obviously put the light on. That's the most stupid question I've ever heard. Why would I walk into a dark room at 8pm and turn the light on but not do the same if it was 3am? And it's nothing to do w...

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It could have been a properly thought out system. It just turned out not to be. Even if it were, it wouldn't automatically follow that it always means what you think it ought to. For example, CLEAROUT redirects to clear-out, thereby showing you the error of your ways rather than condoning the use o...

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SALMONS? Surely SALMONS is allowed in the restaurant rule? No. The food rule just means SALMON can be pluralised. The plural is still SALMON. Exactly. I mean, someone might ask for two "salmons" in a restaurant, but people say lots of things that aren't in the ODO. The ODO has the plural ...

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I thought you were supposed to play the same game as each other, but other people did it differently. I played Elfeshire and we had two separate games against Prune. When he was acting as Prune' picking agent against me, he picked randomly for vowel or consonant for the 8th and 9th letters rather th...

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James Robinson wrote:But, well done to Tracey, who deserved octochampdom, and I was glad to give her a well-deserved big hug straight afterwards.

What could she have possibly done to deserve that?

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Well done Tracey, but is 6 a record?

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Who said it?

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Nice phone cover. I might get one for my phone, but I'll have to check it's big enough first.

By the way, Jono might be giving it all this in this thread, but let's not forget that he was wandering around with shit in his hair the other day and needed me to save him.

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SALMONS? Fair enough. I don't think it would be completely insane to allow it, but if not, then we could still come up with other rules that are still objective. We could use the search box for comparatives, superlatives and plurals of mass nouns, and have everything else covered by basic rules tha...

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I never said it was perfect. I have concluded that what we have now is the best option that's been suggested so far. Until your originally concrete, now very vague, suggestion resolidifies, that will remain the case. It's not very vague. It would mean we would disallow words that redirect to entrie...

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No, it wasn't allowed. She offered it, but it's obvious (to me) that contestant declarations are subject to more scrutiny than DC offerings. I can't see SALMONS being allowed. Well, maybe it wasn't allowed as such but someone watching the show might later offer the word on the basis that Susie sugg...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Dear Oxford Dictionaries,

Sorry about Gevin. There's plenty of us he doesn't speak for, honest.

Love, Z

Cool. E-mail it.

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OUP only need to do three things to ODO for it to be perfect for Countdown: - List EVERY derivative, even if it's "obvious" or "logical" - For Mass Nouns, introduce a [countable] label for stuff (like food and drinks that can be ordered in portions, actions, fabrics, plants) whi...

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But, yes, we do need more from OUP. And what happened seems strange. Damian said they were clarifying stuff with them, but in the end nothing changed. I'm not sure what went wrong, but something did. I might send them another e-mail. Last time I did that, shortly afterwards they changed from the pa...

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For a start, there might be some people who are interested in the mechanics behind the idea you are suggesting. I naively thought you might be one of those people. But never mind. What we know is that there is information somewhere which tells us what search terms redirect to what page. What we don...

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The reason I didn't have this debate with you before is that a lot of words are wasted on what is quite a simple problem. I like to argue with you so I entertained myself a little with talk of who said what and why, but it's completely irrelevant, and as I suspected, has given credence to your logi...

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On the "View Active Topics" thing, I Googled it (on the advice of Jono actually), and from what I understand, it should be relatively easy to fix. According to here , for example: There was a bug in 3.0.5 that meant all the forums were used for active topics even if the option was on no. I...

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Based on discussions in this thread, and discussions more generally, I think it's time to reopen this thread. I'm going to send another e-mail if I get round to it, and maybe some of you could do the same!

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Of course you're being ridiculous. I haven't suggested any alternative, because YOUR approach is the alternative to the status quo. And it is not an improvement. Just to restate, the status quo is to apply the rules of Countdown (as they have more or less stood for 10+ years) to the headwords found...

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Can we get back all the people that Corby bullied off the forum as a result of it?

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Of course you're being ridiculous. I haven't suggested any alternative, because YOUR approach is the alternative to the status quo. And it is not an improvement. Just to restate, the status quo is to apply the rules of Countdown (as they have more or less stood for 10+ years) to the headwords found...

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This all convincingly undermines Gevin's Search Box Word Validation method, consequently necessitating the presence of an expert adjudicator like Susie. Oh, so you think that because Graeme has posted you can come along and hide behind him rather than just whine to me by text like you normally do w...

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BOMBSIGHT???!!! Well done to Tracey for getting that, considering it's a made-up word. I wouldn't expect a word like that outside a CoC game really.

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Many thanks, Ben, and Ben's mum and everyone else involved. Once again, you've pulled off the best co-event ever. Also once again, Ben, you suggested that you were unsure whether you were going to do a Hangover event next year. In my view it's very much part of COLIN weekend now, and a very enjoyab...

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A few alts about so far (eg OCTUPLE+T), but just one 7 beater available for R8 (DEFEAT+COM). Not sure if the 7 beater would be valid - it's listed as a derivative of FACET, but has a note to say it can only be used 'in combination', so it's really more like -FACETED. Is there anything in the rules ...

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A few alts about so far (eg OCTUPLE+T), but just one 7 beater available for R8 (DEFEAT+COM). Not sure if the 7 beater would be valid - it's listed as a derivative of FACET, but has a note to say it can only be used 'in combination', so it's really more like -FACETED. Is there anything in the rules ...

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People whose favourite colour isn't yellow.
People who go for a shit and don't check if there's paper and get caught out.
People who do the above but think it isn't their fault.

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James Robinson wrote:Neil:
Number of maxes - 9

Or 8 if you count proper maxes.

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PARLOUS as a beater in round 8.

Tracey could have taken away the 2 for 875!

Rachel could have mentioned that Tracey could have taken away the 2 for 875 instead of going a whole new way.

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Jon Corby wrote:Amazing game, Neil was looking unbeatable (was he maxing the letters up until then?) until the last four rounds. Well done Tracey for hanging on in there and not giving up!

He didn't get VICOMTES.

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Stewart Gordon wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Yeah, it's not an anagram if it's the same.
Even if the two is and the two ss have been swapped over?

They're fungible!

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FAO Gevin, RE your new list of invitees: assuming you are definitely going on TV form alone, why would you pick Barnard over George? There's no doubting that Barnard has the ability to win COC based on his Apterous performance these days, but in TV-related terms (which, as we agree, should be the o...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Apterous thinks you can pluralise VICOMTE.

Susie seems not to suggest that?

Dictionary seems to agree. It's pronounced the same but not spelt the same.

And great game by both players as everyone else has said.

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Weird how getting one away on both the 4-larges involved almost identical methods.

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