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Gavin Chipper

Somebody else has voted for me :S I struggle to understand why Glen hasn't had more votes yet, I would have made him a very comfortable 3rd favourite. I think someone said something similar about a player in another series when we had this thread. He has hardly any votes because everyone sees him a...

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Turns out that Sudokus are the biggest waste of human life ever invented. Don't waste your time.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Alt 3rd numbers ((3x6)+5-4)x25-3

(4×6-5)×25-3 for the straightforward method.

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Dave Preece wrote:I'm assuming the bottom few are very good conundrum/average numbers round contestants???

Conundrums don't make a difference. But yeah, more likely to be people who are shit at numbers.

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Defo taking a risk by actually not booking anything yet................... That's the risk you take when a CO-event is on FA Cup 4th round weekend............... :roll: :roll: :roll: What's that got to do with the price of ... Travelodge? Easy, by the time, the 3rd round is done 3 weeks before COLI...

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James Robinson wrote:Defo taking a risk by actually not booking anything yet...................

That's the risk you take when a CO-event is on FA Cup 4th round weekend...............

What's that got to do with the price of ... Travelodge?

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Corby's going nowhere near.

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And there's a theory that selections on the show are set a bit nicer and less randomly than online. I'd be interested to investigate that. I would be reasonably surprised if they were different enough that it's perceptible. Isn't that what got investigated and turned out to be just 3 points a game,...

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Andy Platt wrote:METATES in round 5 or whenever it was. Gevin will be happy to know this is a beater.

I'm ecstatic.

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I always write the letters down and because there's more time pressure on Apterous, the letters don't always come out as well. That and I try to fit more rounds per page. I think that makes a difference for me.

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Unlucky there, James. On a related note, with the pretentiously long questions that they have on Mastermind (often with single-word answers), does John Humphrys ever fuck up a question and waste loads of a contestant's time? It must also be quite easy to accidentally blurt out the answer when someon...

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Read down from here. sean d reckoned playing against the TV is worth about 3 points a game over Apterous, based on the stats compiled there.

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Graeme, could you please post a table off all old 15 octochamps' estimated totals in the new 15 using the following formula: (average points scored per numbers round - average points scored per letters round) x 8, + original total, then rounded to the nearest whole number? How much the new format c...

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Interestingly, ODO likes both PONGEES and NAIVEST.

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I suppose you can always go for VAINEST instead.

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I think its easier watching on television. You have longer to find the words as the letters go up really slowly and then Nick has to decide to start the time. I think I do better watching on television as well and that's probably partly it.

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Also the last day of the heats or the first day of the quarter finals (at the start).

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Still feeling glad that I went early. How long til people end up in the Best Western?

Never!

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Which contestant who played all of their games in the old format would have the biggest difference between their total score then, and their total score converted into new money (ie their numbers score multiplied by 4/3 and their letters score multiplied by 10/11)? What's your score in new money? (...

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Who will take it? I think my answer to this question depends on if Jen can defeat Callum (for those who don't know, Callum has improved his game leaps and bounds since taping, and he was already pretty good before). If she can, I think it'll be her's for the taking, otherwise I think it'll be Dylan...

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Jon Corby wrote:The Saturday is now at £64.20

Sit tight.

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(75×50+2)/(7-3)=938 for the 3rd numbers.

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Stop teasing us!

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To continue from my other post, I can quite imagine that some people might find the idea of playing a game for hours at a time that is just a case of finding certain arbitrary combinations of letters out of random scrambles (the fact that they can also be used as words being irrelevant) to be somewh...

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It depends on how the game works, but if it's done on a computer, it could come up with a list of possible definitions (four or something) and you have to select the right one. Also, it could be that you lose all your points for the whole game if you get one wrong (or at least enough to make it a de...

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This game , recently made famous, illustrates one of the problems with counting the number of maxes, at least whilst the data remains less than 100% perfect. The recap denies Tim Morrissey the max on round 5, but I don't believe SPREITEN was valid at the time. A system which awarded Tim 6/7 for tha...

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I would try to answer some of these, but I've run out of day and this post is too long as it is. So, um, yeah. I'll just leave it for Gevin to pick holes in. *wanders off just leaving this post sitting here* You've got me all wrong! It was a very interesting read. Obviously it was from the point of...

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This sort of thing has come up loads in the past. I suppose the thing for some people is that Countdown isn't thought of as a super-competitive game like chess or even Scrabble where there are world championships. Countdown is a fun teatime game where until relatively recently, you would rarely get ...

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Dave Preece wrote:They've split before and manage to get back together, maybe they will sort it out, hopefully?

Yeah, if you want.

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Yeah it's a smaller file with less information but if you have to learn about it, the chances are it's not shit. Also I don't think the sound is better on vinyl in any objective sense - I think some people just like the sound it produces.

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Andy Wilson wrote:Those Lord of the Rings movies weren't bad either in fairness.

They were.

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At the moment, number of maxes seems to be considered a good way to judge things, but it ignores anything less than the max, so if the max is 8, then 5, 6, and 7 are all the same (worthless). So a way round this would be to if y points for the xth best word. So if there's 3 words that have 8 letters...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:Surely pure and simple points scored / available points x 100 is the best and only way to 'rank' players?
I think you should multiply by 7.12349867123409781293 actually.

Well that's at least two methods already then.

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I was thinking about this thread again for some reason. But something else I've just thought about is this: 100+3=103 and 100+2+1=3 Going by what I've said, these two are different. But if you do the 2+1 first and then do 100+3, surely there is no difference in identity between the 3s. So in a sense...

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I don't think Facebook is less suited for it, to be honest. You know how some people are idiots who shouldn't be heard from and who actively (or intentionally yet persistently) make discussions worse? Via Facebook, you can control that. Stuff is better archived on a forum and it's more neutral in t...

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It's made me realise that no-one wants to discuss anything on here any more. I don't know if it's just this forum or in general, whether it's because people like to do their discussions in the far-less-suitable medium of Facebook, but we don't have good non-Countdown discussions/debates any more.

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I've just done some research on something which I'm sure many will have briefly thought about doing (apologies if it already has and I'm an idiot). It's the calculation for what your score would've been if your opponent maxed every single round throughout. So, the way to do this is by taking all th...

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Dave Preece wrote:Colin who???

COLIN

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Tony Atkins wrote:Off topic I know, but it was odd to see a friend's marriage break up splashed across the Sun newspaper today.
Hope Rachel is happy.....

Are you friends with Jamie Gilbert?

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Dave Preece wrote:Come again?

Never mind. Are you coming to COLIN by the way?

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Dave Preece wrote:Can I be on the panel???

I'm going to wait for a year when you're the only other one arguing.

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If you'd read the thread and weren't such a cunt you'd realise that I stated the above is true if your goal is to win Oscars . If your goal is to win a series of Countdown, then you are indeed better at winning a series of Countdown if you pick a series of Countdown with no good players. Your goal ...

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If you'd read the thread and weren't such a cunt you'd realise that I stated the above is true if your goal is to win Oscars . If your goal is to win a series of Countdown, then you are indeed better at winning a series of Countdown if you pick a series of Countdown with no good players. Your goal ...

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Sit tight. It will come to us.

And remember, the objective of COLIN might be to get cheap accommodation but failing to do so doesn't make you worse at Countdown.

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Well actually, if winning Oscars is the objective of making films, you might argue that releasing your film in a year where there aren't any other good films is part of what makes it good. So in that case I'd say Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are actually shit . (I'm only kidding. About Pulp Fiction. ...

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I'm going to have to start watching more films.

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Well actually, if winning Oscars is the objective of making films, you might argue that releasing your film in a year where there aren't any other good films is part of what makes it good. So in that case I'd say Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are actually shit . (I'm only kidding. About Pulp Fiction. ...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:I recently saw Avatar and it's terrible. Same goes for Inception. These are widely regarded as great films, but apparently not on c4c, so well done us.

Inception was utter shit! Yes!

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Ian Volante wrote:You give the people that pick the Oscar winners way too much credit.

This.

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

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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!

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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.

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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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