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- Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 11th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 115)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3258
Re: Spoilers for Friday 11th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 115)
VASELINE is *not* valid and therefore will be removed from the Apterous dictionary (note that it lags behind Countdown). Where a headword is capitalised, it must have an un-capitalised sub-entry in bold to be valid So why does Susie go through the example sentences for mass nouns to see if any of t...
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1281
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
Just on that final numbers, I parked the 3 and 4, and quickly saw
5 x 50 +75 -100
Then I saw
5 x (75 - 50) +100
And finally
5 x 75 -100 -50
The actual solution escaped me entirely.
5 x 50 +75 -100
Then I saw
5 x (75 - 50) +100
And finally
5 x 75 -100 -50
The actual solution escaped me entirely.
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1281
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 9th June 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 113)
It's a shame there doesn't seem to be a Welsh language version of Countdown. In this, Y would be classed as a vowel. I guess W would be classed as a consonant but subject to the same debate as we have about Y. Welsh is pretty much a phonetic language. W is one of the seven vowels. There are 22 cons...
- Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Next Champion of Champions series
- Replies: 197
- Views: 30220
Re: Next Champion of Champions series
CoC isn't the be all and end all, with regular series being just the preliminaries. If you always have all the runners-up it's a bit like having the last 16 of the FA Cup, giving the eight winners a prize, and then reinstating all the losers and doing the draw again. CoC has always had the series ch...
- Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Next Champion of Champions series
- Replies: 197
- Views: 30220
Re: Next Champion of Champions series
Including Corrina Attwood is a really good idea. Series champions are there as of right, but everyone else has lost at least once - except her.
- Thu May 20, 2021 4:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 490884
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who DON'T read out phone numbers as (xxxx) pause (xxx) pause (xxx). 01223 Cambridge 01224 Aberdeen 01225 Bath 01226 Barnsley 01227 Canterbury 01228 Carlisle A selection of area codes. I'd find it a bit odd if anyone in one of these places paused after 0122. Or maybe you shouldn't trust anyon...
- Sun May 16, 2021 7:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743157
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Before they discovered oil and gas in the North Sea, domestic gas supplies were made from coal. Coal gas, or town gas, had a distinctive smell, instantly recognisable. When they switched over to North Sea gas they put an additive in so that the smell would be the same.
- Fri May 14, 2021 11:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 13th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 94)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1014
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 13th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 94)
Good to hear. Yet more evidence that I need to get my hearing tested.
- Thu May 13, 2021 11:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 13th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 94)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1014
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 13th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 94)
Would someone with better sound quality on their TV and better hearing than me give some assurance that she didn't say PERCEDING. She was pretty hesitant about it, that's what it sounded like to me, and she pronounced it with the wrong emphasis on the syllables - similar to PERCEIVING, whereas it's ...
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743157
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Because a musket was so big you couldn't carry it around, it was a battlefield weapon.
Under current seating arrangements, how does a Dictionary Corner guest know to say "But Susie has a longer word"?
Under current seating arrangements, how does a Dictionary Corner guest know to say "But Susie has a longer word"?
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 92699
Re: Joke Items
It's not just money that makes this one different. There was massive opposition to the formation of the Premier League and the Champions League at the time, but now these are the good guys. The crucial difference is the absence of promotion and relegation. All of the big six are clearly among the st...
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774248
Re: Ask Graeme?
The question of who is better has definitely been addressed before. I'll have a look later if someone doesn't beat me to it. I remember one a long time ago that showed that Rachel was better overall, but Carol declined as she got older, and when she was the same age as Rachel they were about the sa...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774248
Re: Ask Graeme?
For Graeme or someone else with too much time on their hands. How many numbers games have Carol and Rachel each presided over? Seeing as there are twice as many now as there were for most of Carol's time it could be close.
And probably for Graeme alone. Which of them is better (at numbers)??
And probably for Graeme alone. Which of them is better (at numbers)??
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 4:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3953
Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
I'd have been amazed if UNFRIEND wasn't in. Turns out it was one of Oxford's words of the year as far back as 2009. Can I have BEWARED? Generally speaking, you know to go to Lexico don't you? I know the free version isn't identical to the one they use, but it gives you most of the information. Of c...
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3953
Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
You can certainly have past infinitives. To have eaten. Past imperatives may be a bit more dodgy. Even so. I didn't see the signs. Keep your dog on a lead. I should have kept my dog on a lead. Beware of the dog. I should have . . . what?
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3953
Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
Why not? It's a verb.
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3953
Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
I'd have been amazed if UNFRIEND wasn't in. Turns out it was one of Oxford's words of the year as far back as 2009.
Can I have BEWARED?
Can I have BEWARED?
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 29th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3736
Re: Spoilers for Monday 29 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)
If they slip him another freebie 18 points in the first round for the fourth game running that will help a little.
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4293
Re: Spoilers for Monday 22 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
It occurs to me that every day countless newspapers publish the solution to the previous day's cryptic crossword. I've never come across one that actually explains the answers.
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:51 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4293
Re: Spoilers for Monday 22 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
I'd be willing to bet that most viewers didn't understand the teaser. You cannot possibly know that. You can only extrapolate from yourself and the very limited selection of people you know. I would see it as dumbing down with a vengeance to explain that Miss Fylde was a beauty queen from Lancashir...
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4293
Re: Spoilers for Monday 22 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
Population 80,000. Just because it's not in the south-east of England doesn't make it obscure. Would you expect an explanation of, say, Barking (population 60,000)?
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 15th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 51)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1191
Re: Spoilers for Monday 15th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 51)
It used to irritate me a little that Nick was obviously so hopeless at Countdown, but Colin seems to go farther and farther in the opposite direction. It was bad enough the other day when he had all four of the presenters say they had got a conundrum that the two contestants had missed, but it seeme...
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 4th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 44)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1448
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 4th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 44)
A couple of weeks ago we had something like "4+8=12. Oh, (pause) er, no, that's another one. 75*8=600 . . ." Would Colin have allowed that? I somehow doubt it. At the time I sort of thought that starting "4+8" and correcting yourself is OK, but once you've said "=12" yo...
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816295
Re: Politics in General
That would be my perfect dinner party.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:02 pm For me its Nicholas II of Russia, Pope John Paul II or Tina Fey
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 11th February 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 29)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1036
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 11th February 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 29)
Why would you risk MORALES when your opponent has declared a five. Potential gain one point. Potential (and actual) loss 11 points.
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 3rd February 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 23)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2129
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 3rd February 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 23)
I thought she said SAP.
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:53 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 22723
Re: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
Comment from a viewer in the Sunday Times yesterday. "Colin Murray . . . just can't stop talking and letting us know how clever he is." I find myself wishing he'd stop trying to build up a crescendo of tension and excitement in a run-of-the-mill heat game, particularly when the contestants...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 22723
Re: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
You need a presenter who knows the basic rules - whose turn it is, who declares first, who gives their word first - ensures the game is run scrupulously fairly and in such a way that the typical viewer doesn't even realise there are any rules. What you don't need is a celebrity guest. It's pretty od...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 25th January 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 16)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1673
Re: Spoilers for Monday 25 January 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 16)
If there was anyone who believed that Rachel gets fed answers by computer, I think her solution to this one would suggest otherwise.
869 = ((50 + 8) × 2 + 8) × 7 + 1
Once you get to 58 there's a rather simpler method staring you in the face.
869 = ((50 + 8) × 2 + 8) × 7 + 1
Once you get to 58 there's a rather simpler method staring you in the face.
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Genius things
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14074
Re: Genius things
I just thought Jono meant doorbells generally. Either way it's weak in the context of this topic. And are LED bulbs really such a game-changer? Significant reduction in global carbon emissions and cheaper and longer-lasting than what they replace. Something actually useful that won a Nobel prize. A...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Letters Distribution Q
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3356
Re: Letters Distribution Q
If you add up how many times each consonant has appeared this year, I imagine you will find that J, Q, X, Z have appeared about the same number of times each, and all the others will be close to a whole number multiple of the average of those numbers. QED. More difficult for the vowels if you don't ...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11745
Re: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds
Is that list of odds for real/ If you wanted to guarantee a pay-out of £1000 on who will win the Premier League, and decided to place a bet on all 20 teams it would cost you a little over £1100. Maybe £700 split between Liverpool and Manchester City, and about 20p each on Fulham and West Brom. If yo...
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 161054
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
That is slightly less logical than saying if we can develop a testing system from nothing it stands to reason we can have a world-beating track and trace system.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:20 pm If we can develop a testing system from nothing it stands to reason we can roll the vaccine out at double speed.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743157
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
There is a 'thing' called six degrees of Kevin Bacon whereby you can determine that every actor is no more than six people away from Kevin Bacon from the films they have made. I was wondering if there is an optimum number of degrees for one person to be known to anyone on the planet I believe a gro...
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Nick Hewer taking break from Countdown
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3544
Re: Nick Hewer taking break from Countdown
Those with long memories may recall that Channel 4 has announced a “black takeover day” which will showcase black talent to “kickstart a fresh push for greater on- and off-screen representation”. Is this perhaps a missed opportunity? Aren't appointments like this precisely the problem they are suppo...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 19th October 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 138)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1839
Re: Spoilers for Monday 19th October 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 138)
Somewhat surreal ending.
C2 Two large, please.
Rachel You're 16 behind. Do you want to gamble?
C2 OK, one large, please.
C2 then gets seven points for one away, plus the conundrum, and wins.
C2 Two large, please.
Rachel You're 16 behind. Do you want to gamble?
C2 OK, one large, please.
C2 then gets seven points for one away, plus the conundrum, and wins.
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Xmas Specials
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3764
Re: Xmas Specials
Now I understand why Andy Burnham is so keen to keep Greater Manchester out of Tier 3.
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 161054
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
I don't understand what a circuit-breaker is supposed to do. If you don't completely fix the problem while the circuit is broken, you don't really achieve anything. If every single person in this country were to be completely isolated for long enough coronavirus would be eradicated, along with every...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:43 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 161054
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
You'll find that earlier in this thread (or possibly the other one) I did think Cummings should go. Link, please. And do you still think he should have gone? You'll also find many Conservatives called for Cummings to go And the next time they support the Government on something controversial I'll b...
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 161054
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
I'm not convinced Dominic Cummings did anything illegal. The reason the story ran and ran was the incomprehensible decision not to sack him, which completely undermined the efforts to combat the virus. If you believed that there was a left-wing bias in the media, all the more reason to sack him and ...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 161054
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
You're assuming either that you have full immunity once you've had it, or that the 1% death rate is because 99% of people will never be at risk of death and 1% are goners. If it was as common as a cold, you could get it every month, and there was a 1% chance of death every time you got it . . .
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 174980
Re: You Are The Ref
Suppose the setter hadn't realised TRANSAXLE has an anagram, and used the scramble RAXELNAST. If someone buzzed with RELAXANTS, would you give them the points? Yes I would 100% give them the points and I would apologise for setting a shite conundrum. And when the opponent says he saw RELAXANTS but ...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 161054
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Forgive me if I'm missing the point here, because I haven't studied all of this, but when coronavirus was growing at a high exponential rate back in the spring, wasn't the estimate that there could be 500,000 deaths unless we were locked down? So if lockdown has saved over 450,000 deaths from corona...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 7:36 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 598
- Views: 389257
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
I'm not disputing the attraction or the benefits of parkrun. I just have my doubts about their conclusion that the benefits far outweigh the risks, and I really doubt that people will stick to the guidance. You're not going to get much social interaction if everyone sticks rigidly to social distanci...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:29 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 598
- Views: 389257
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
There's a parkrun almost literally on my doorstep. They use a route that's similar to, but not as nice as, one I regularly do at about 8:15 every Saturday. I've never really felt it would be an improvement to go at a less convenient time, hang about for ten minutes at the start and do a less attract...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67256
Re: Track and Field Athletics
Honourable mention for Jonathan Edwards, whose world triple jump record has stood for 25 years. He also held the previous record, which stood for about 25 minutes.
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
- Replies: 55
- Views: 38877
Re: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
When I saw the name it took a second or two. Cancer survivor, raised a lot of money, husband was killed in the Abbeystead explosion and she went downhill very quickly after that? Correct! Certainly well-known at the time, but it was forty years ago. And not as famous as Kay Kelly? (Who probably no-o...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Would Countdown improve if......
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2816
Re: Would Countdown improve if......
Remember this guy? Won €69,832 by winning 116 consecutive games on the Spanish version, which given the random effect of those rules is nothing short of astonishing.
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 174980
Re: You Are The Ref
Or MAUVES when there is no S in the selection? Or declares SPECIE when he has SPECIES written down (two completely different meanings, and SPECIE is a mass noun)? Personally, for MAUVE I'd allow MAUVE(S), and disallow MAUVES, and probably disallow MAUVES? as well. Just as an aside, in the whole hist...
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 174980
Re: You Are The Ref
It would just be a case of pointing to the appropriate position in a continuous stream of letters. Player needs to draw the last letters game. He writes down MAUVES. His opponent declares five, so he declares five as well. Opponent says MAUVE, player says "Same" and shows him the piece of...
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 26th 2013
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12536
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 26th 20
While I'm more than flattered to figure in such illustrious company, I have no recollection of where this came from.David O'Donnell wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:24 pm1. Apterous has spoiled Countdown (Craig Beevers and David Williams have explained this to me)
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 174980
Re: You Are The Ref
I think the one thing you mustn't do is hesitate. When you're asked for a word, you give it. I once had UNCLAD and UNCOOL written down, both 99.9% certain, saw UNTOLD too late to write it down but that was the one I gave. The thing I've never been totally happy with is people who have RELACQUER and ...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Inventions corner
- Replies: 51
- Views: 16418
Re: Inventions corner
Would a vacuum even work? Presumably you lose the cooling effect of convection, and conduction and radiation remain the same. But the lower pressure will cause evaporation. I would have thought putting it in the freezer would be more effective.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Inventions corner
- Replies: 51
- Views: 16418
Re: Inventions corner
Having used public transport with a compulsory mask on a suitable way of eating and drinking with a mask on needs to be invented. I would have said someone should invent something to prevent people eating and drinking on public transport, but it looks as if Chinese scientists have already done so. ...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Inventions corner
- Replies: 51
- Views: 16418
Re: Inventions corner
I would have said someone should invent something to prevent people eating and drinking on public transport, but it looks as if Chinese scientists have already done so.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:40 am Having used public transport with a compulsory mask on a suitable way of eating and drinking with a mask on needs to be invented.
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday February 11th 2013
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8422
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday February 11th 2013
Amazed? Really? So they should have bleeped it out as if it was highly offensive? Or pulled the whole programme? Presumably when everyone else thought people who stopped buying Corona beer were idiots, you were amazed that anyone was still buying it at all.
- Mon May 25, 2020 7:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is picking the letters an advantage?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12334
Re: Is picking the letters an advantage?
The actual game situation in my case was 62-55 with the final letters round, selection MIFGOSEMV, and he said "six". I had FOGIES (dodgy 6) and some 5, I can't remember what it was now. Saying FOGIES kept it 68-61, and after the final numbers that was 68-68. So if I'd said 5 I'd have lost...
- Sat May 23, 2020 11:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is picking the letters an advantage?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12334
Re: Is picking the letters an advantage?
Declaring second is an advantage. It can be an advantage even if it gives you a lower expected score. You're 21 points behind. Last letters game. You're looking at a safe seven or a dodgy eight. He goes eight, you go seven, and vice versa. He goes six, you go seven. In the long run it costs you poin...
- Wed May 20, 2020 11:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday January 23rd 2013
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8384
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday January 23rd 2
It'd be the best thing ever if OUP had a massive review of their count and mass noun labelling so she could just say "Yep, mass noun, so you can't pluralise it" rather than being put on the spot so often. http://wiki.apterous.org/Contestant_Guidelines#Pluralisable_mass_noun_categories May...
- Tue May 19, 2020 8:02 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Higher or Lower
- Replies: 127
- Views: 43073
Re: Higher or Lower
I knew I should have read at least some of this before I started again.David Williams wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:38 pm Surely the whole essence of the original problem was that the numbers were selected randomly from a boundless selection. If there is some sort of probability distribution it's a different matter altogether.