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R14 alt: ((7*10)+5)*9 + (8-2)

I will always remember KENDOIST from its falseagram DONKIEST

Steve Hyde

125 points without spotting a 9 - only Elliott Mellor has ever scored more

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One of the tea-time teasers was BEENBALD, and Colin made a point of spelling the BEEN part. Lucky I looked up at the screen just before it went off, because I thought I was trying to solve BEENBOLD! Enobbled (when the King knights you, but instead of using the traditional sword on the shoulder, tak...

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R11 alt: CLEOPATRA (a type of butterfly, which may or may not come at ya)

DC and Fran managed to max the letters rounds between them, solid stuff all round

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UNSNARLED in the round where one of the contestants got SNARLED, bad miss from DC

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:02 pm I'm not sure it would be a great idea to start naming people.

What do you mean? I can't see a single possible issue with establishing the Kountdown Kangaroo Kourt, or 'KKK' for short

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Do you have a quick way to produce a list of teapot owners, who won their first game by <10 points, and solved one of the numbers rounds in the same way as their opponent after declaring second?

https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/171 ... 8EnYw&s=19

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Virginia Bottomley - I'm an evil Tory bigot

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In Round 2, there were 25 sevens, but no eights or longer: DILUTER, DIOPTRE, DROPLET, ETOURDI, EUPLOID LEPROID, OUTLIED, OUTLIER, OUTRIDE, PELTOID PERIDOT, PETROIL, PILOTED, PLOITED, PLOUTED PLOUTER, POITREL, POLITER, POULTED, POULTER POUTIER, PROTEID, PROTIDE, PTEROID, TRIPLED Disclaimer, I didn’t...

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Bad day at the office for DC today with a lot of beaters. 4 and 13 at least you'd expect Susie to spot on a good day
R1. MONERGIST
R4. DOMINEER
R11. TRIDUA
R12. MADWORT
R13. REPELLANT as stated above

Steve Hyde

Apropos of nothing, what is the smallest number vowels ever picked by an Octochamp across their entire octorun? Has anyone managed a perfect 120?

Steve Hyde

R10. EGGCORN as a lovely alt

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I always think it's a bit strange when both contestants get the same x away from the target with different methods when spot on is quite doable. One for the coincidences thread. Methodical thinking is a lot harder in a studio environment compared to anagrams. I also think the former requires more t...

Steve Hyde

In Round 2, there were 25 sevens, but no eights or longer: DILUTER, DIOPTRE, DROPLET, ETOURDI, EUPLOID LEPROID, OUTLIED, OUTLIER, OUTRIDE, PELTOID PERIDOT, PETROIL, PILOTED, PLOITED, PLOUTED PLOUTER, POITREL, POLITER, POULTED, POULTER POUTIER, PROTEID, PROTIDE, PTEROID, TRIPLED Disclaimer, I didn’t...

Steve Hyde

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:49 pm ADMIRALS in round 10 as a beater.

ARMLOADS and DIORAMAS also. Unusual for DC to be beaten by so many relatively common words

Steve Hyde

R3: (4*2*100)-75-1 seemed like a much simpler way of getting 724 than Rick Edwards' method

R14 alt: 9*100 + (9+7)*2

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The app now has a subscription feature which gives unlimited access to Jokerdown, Decadown and Mini rules, as well as a new 30 round "Triathlon" format. There's also the word check screen (which has a new "add 2 letters" section, and a couple of stats screens with graphs. I plan...

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Howie Myers wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:12 am r11 alt: PURPLES maybe.....

PURPLE is fine to have an S put on the end in its verb form. If in doubt you can always make SUPPLER from the same letters

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Howie Myers wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:42 pm r2: UNSHOVED
r4: FOOTIES or TOONIES
r5: FEMINISE
(I have reservations about whether they are acceptable......)

All except UNSHOVED are valid. Footies and toonies are pyjamas with closed feet and Canadian two-dollar coins respectively

Steve Hyde

You wait ages for an Octochamp and then two come along at once! Nice to see an unheralded non-Apterite join the ranks too

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George is good enough to win 8 but chaotic enough to lose at any point. My favourite kind of contestant to watch

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:03 pm Is there some additional information or context I'm missing here?

His website (https://www.avitv.co.uk/) doesn't exactly scream "not an attention-seeking weapon"

Steve Hyde

FATALIST in R1, and as stated above DC missed ANODISERS

My 'standard' method for R3 was (75-(2*4))*(50/(6-1))

Steve Hyde

MALIRONED in R2 is the most "could plausibly already be a 9" letters selection I've seen in ages

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but might forever be plagued by the "can he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Salford?" question Point taken, but, ehhh, the guy's sublime. He could do it any night anywhere. (Matron.) Lionel Messi always had the "could he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Stoke?" question hangi...

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Interesting stuff. I assume Ahmed would be top 5 if S84+ were included, and Ronan would be on the list somewhere. Rob Foster is a fascinating case, clearly right up there with the goatiest GOATs but might forever be plagued by the "can he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Salford?" question

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TTT - VADEHIS --> The glue leaves the fourth letter of the alphabet feeling strained. --> ADHESIVE Never mind that it sounded to me like Colin said "strange" instead of "strained", but ADHESIVE has an H in it! Is that not the normal pronunciation? Edit - Basically everyone prono...

Steve Hyde

R9 alt:
(5-1)*25 = 100
-10 = 90
*10 = 900
+8 = 908

Courtesy of my 11-year-old daughter, I was stuck on 910

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What Tom said, really enjoyed it. Thanks all and hopefully see you in Blackpool

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Who was the last Welsh octochamp?

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Some infuriating final letter picks today. Picking a vowel as the 9th letter would have resulted in a minimum 8/likely 9 in R10 (talapoins, sealpoint, tailspin, optional, pulsation), likely 8 in R1 (banners, anserine, binaries, baronies, urbanise), significantly more likely 9 then a consonant did in...

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:45 pm TOLERATE in R4

TETRAZOLE to go one better. Surprised DC missed the 8 though

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Peter Mabey wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:48 pm Is SEDULITY ok instead pf 'Yuletides' ? - Collins has it but as American.

SEDULITY is valid, albeit one E shorter than YULETIDES

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 9:31 pm ONLINESS in R5

"The fact or condition of being alone", rather than "female internet user" as I initially suspected

Steve Hyde

COERCION in R12. I celebrated that one like a victory

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The look of joy on Dave's face as he won the GOODLIER round was lovely to behold. Really good contest

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I quite enjoyed the questions but it was a very odd format. Lucy Worsley has Thunderbird puppet energy

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I applied for that, never heard back. Looks interesting

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M:Orarions, Marigot, Oleasters, Prodelta, Rosacean, Sosatie, Carbonite, Maligners, Neatrup, Aerotows, Stifling, Subalpine, Ordinars Interestingly, to me at least, the medalled CARBONITE has been submitted by a contestant before - way back in 1987, before it was part of the dictionary used for adjud...

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Tom S wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:33 pm A really impressive set of stats from Ronan here- especially in the numbers department. Not sure if anyone has had such a high percentage?

Elliott Mellor maxed 31/32 numbers games and scored 7 points for one away on the other

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I would be astonished if it isn't a Ronan-Cillian final, it's probably the biggest dropoff in class after the top two seeds since series 85

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This is great. Will revolutionise the board game once it's available as a permanent feature

Steve Hyde

Is Graham the first returnee to have had the same guest as last time? Junaid Mubeen had Barry Cryer as DC guest in two different series. Zarte also had Jon Culshaw twice - in the prelims of his first series, and the latter stages of his COC victory. Kirk Bevins had Dr Phil Hammond as a guest in his...

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samir pilica wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:02 pm Gutted for Adam. Wonder what stopped him going for legations ? Must have come across it on apterous many times.

Probably one of those is it or isn't it a mass noun things, especially with GELATIONS also being there and invalid

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 6:18 pm As another minor record, I think 286 is the highest anybody's ever scored in two consecutive games. May have to set Graeme on that one.

By my reckoning only Zarte Siempre (150+137) and Luke Boynton (147+141) have ever scored more in two non-consecutive games

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Ronan has now outscored current no.4 seed Dave Cappleman, who appeared in 7 episodes to Ronan's 5

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Ryan Lam wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 2:00 pm Who knows, he may go all the way to become another 1000-club member...

Level with Luke Johnson-Davies' total after 4 episodes, so if the maxes are kind there's every chance. Great stuff so far

Steve Hyde

Phil H wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 7:37 pm Will Jonathan finally get his century today?

The odds are, let's be honest, stacked against him, but a score of 35+ would put him above Pouvanen Pillay in the seedings and in with a very good chance of a deserved place in the finals

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Philip A wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 1:24 pm First teaser: GLOBE-TROT is hyphenated.

They had PERMA-TAN as a TTT when I was on. I'd love to see what would happen the same word came up in a letters round later in the same episode

Steve Hyde

Fun fact, you could have scored a very respectable 91 points in today episode - and beaten the incumbent champ - while declaring ARSE in four of the letters rounds

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Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 7:36 am Fun daily challenge today!

I sadly dropped a point by declaring SHARTED in the Death Star round. I regret nothing

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 10:08 pm REBEGAT in R2
LANGUET in R13

I don't think begat REBEGAT is valid but languet (noun: tongue-shaped) is fantastic. REBEGET would be okay

Steve Hyde

SANDHOG in R12. Sindhu Vee does a fun standup bit about how her name keeps autocorrecting to that

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From the Ask Graeme thread: Found a couple recorded as 30s ( http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4419 and this wonderfully ironic entry http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_761 ) Also a couple of 29.75s ( http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5293 and http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5326 ) and a 29.9 after an ...

Steve Hyde

R7 alt: APESHIT
R3: (100 - 5*5 + 3)*10 - 1 - surprised Rachel missed it

Absolutely phenomenal effort for both players to find different ways of missing the target by 300 in R14, that can't have happened too many times before

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DULCIMER as an alternative in the Cloudier/Mouldier round

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A quick Facebook stalk confirms Combes

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Anyone know who Mandy Perry is? She said she appeared previously and I guess that was under a different surname. Excellent question. Looking at all the Mandys on the wiki, she's definitely not Wilson, Walker or Spencer based on the photos, and doesn't look old enough to be Brazier/Buck/Williams. Th...

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Chris Wylie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 7:59 am Why wasn’t gleamiest allowed?

Because it isn't in the dictionary. Not just the recent bug this time, it actually isn't there. People don't use it enough

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Delighted with ORIFICES in R13

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