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Charlie Reams

I dunno, I'm sure JB himself would've seen the funny side, even though it's not a very good joke. It's in better taste than "GOTCHA!" anyway.

Charlie Reams

They obviously rigged the letters so he couldn't beat the octototal of our Great White Hope, Julian Fell. I'm just waiting for the drug scandal to break.

Charlie Reams

Corby doesn't count as untrophied because his Countdown career isn't over yet. I guess you could say the same thing about a future Supreme Championship but that's much more speculative, and wouldn't measure much anyway.

Charlie Reams

It would be pretty weird if there were a clip art picture of your step-dad.

Charlie Reams

Ben Pugh wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:You certainly have a talent for stating the obvious, Martin. Also the main difference between Craig Beevers and Barry Bonds is that only one of them is a cheating bastard.
And one is the victim of racism.

Are you sure about that?

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That still rewards plodders over flair players. It has to be said that there is still some imbalance in the scores available. Had John Delaney gone on to be an octochamp with a perfect score, he could've made an incredible 1100. Had Neil Green done the same, he would've made just 964. (These are the...

Charlie Reams

You certainly have a talent for stating the obvious, Martin. Also the main difference between Craig Beevers and Barry Bonds is that only one of them is a cheating bastard.

Charlie Reams

Yes, maxima counting is much more stable in that respect, and the flat vs hard rounds problem is not that significant over 88 rounds anyway. Jono and I started doing stats on this at some point but we got bored, because boys are like that. Once the wiki project is complete, we'll be able to summon a...

Charlie Reams

Are you planning to do recaps for your own games, Julian? At least then Jono might get over his crush.

Charlie Reams

Another of the Countdown faithful has made their last appearance - Jeremy Beadle has passed away at the untimely age of 59. I was never a big fan but I certainly preferred his unassuming if unamusing antics to... well, let's not make it negative shall we? R.I.P. Jeremy.

Charlie Reams

Maybe you were thinking of NOSEMA?

Charlie Reams

I suspect Julian will get that one.

Charlie Reams

Curiously that exact bug occurred to me today while I was thinking about 4 large. I will fix it shortly. The good news is that the recaps are now editable, so you can correct it.

Charlie Reams

Do you really live in Hnampshire?

Charlie Reams

Hey they were two thirds right.

EDIT: Dinos spoilt my joke

Charlie Reams

Looks like this page might need an update...

Charlie Reams

You never replied to my email about the wiki, in which I gave a pretty length explanation of why it's worthwhile. But it's not meant as a replacement for the daily recaps and I have no intention of killing off the Corral - where did that come from?!

Charlie Reams

I have a backup of all the email recaps and will probably rehome them on the Corral at some point to remove the dependency on Yahoo, although obviously I'll maintain a link to the original. The project to transcribe them to the Wiki is well under way (40% done last time I checked), which will be a m...

Charlie Reams

Awesome. I love to see records get broken, and especially by such a great bloke as DO'D. I hope she joins the forum.

Charlie Reams

How many people would buy the book if they knew the same information is available for free?

Charlie Reams

Also the above post was written by the greatest untrophied player in the history of Countdown.

Charlie Reams

Good recap, congratulations! I've added it to the index for you. If you become a regular recapper then I'll send you instructions on doing that yourself.

Charlie Reams

Cambridge Maths last I heard, but the admission papers are similar. It's a year or two yet though, I think.

Charlie Reams

Good question. I changed the setting "Membership Type" to "Closed (only invited members can join)" so that new users didn't sign up to mailing list without reading the notice about this place. Apparently Yahoo, due to being a piece of shit, interprets this to mean you have to log...

Charlie Reams

Gary Male's mum used to be a member. We could have a "bring your parent" day at Colin 2009. That would be awesome.

Charlie Reams

Oh, the recap's up already. Cancel that.

Charlie Reams

Can someone break the suspense and reassure me that DO'D won again?

Charlie Reams

People have still been reporting cookie issues, and I've now experienced them myself. I think (hope!) that this is now fixed once and for all, as I've changed some stuff. But do let me know if it's still not fixed.

Charlie Reams

I think it's more that you were the first player to take word knowledge to ridiculous new heights, and that you knew what most of them meant. That set the pace for the current batch of experts.

Charlie Reams

The results table, and some other stuff, is now in the Wiki article.

Charlie Reams

Pretty much, yeah.

Charlie Reams

As requested, I've updated the letters distribution for CountGen2 to the new letters distribution. Also the maximum estimator no longer slows the program to a crawl. Source code is, as ever, available to anyone who wants it.

Charlie Reams

1729 = 9³ + 10³ = 12³ + 1³. It's the smallest number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways, which is the subject of a story about Ramanujan which has been retold so many times that most mathematicians want to scream and smash things when they hear it. Here it is, as told by another grea...

Charlie Reams

You mean you want a serious caption? How unsporting! It's a photo from Colin 2008, which was yesterday.

Charlie Reams

There's a spoilers forum, so no need for spoiler space.

Charlie Reams

Thanks to everyone who's posted or spoken to me with suggestions. I'll look into technical things, and discuss the remainder with the other mods. To address the main issue of the moment, I'm receiving totally mixed opinions about more/fewer/the same number of forums, so for now I'll leave it at 5 an...

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Countdown recap for Thursday 24th January 2008. Written by Stuart Earl, reposted here with permission. C1: Champion Marjorie Hillman (3 wins.) C2: Challenger David O'Donnell, buyer of Stuart's ebook. DC: Alison Heard and Trudy Godwin. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: S P C I E...

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Stewart agrees to allow SALIVAS in return for Dave's "services". Jeff drools at the thought.

Charlie Reams

Bloody brilliant.

Charlie Reams

Humm, you can try clearing them, but that's unlikely to be the issue. More likely Internet Explorer has decided that you are too stupid to know which cookies you want to keep, and deletes the "Log me back in" cookie each time you close the browser. If you keep experiencing problems, I'd fo...

Charlie Reams

I'm still considering merging Recaps with Spoilers. Maybe we can have a poll.

Charlie Reams

Originally c4countdown.co.uk was just a nasty frame wrapper around the ugly URL. This inept system was, I barely need say, organised by one J. Stitcher.

The new setup uses DNS as God intended, so it should work.

Charlie Reams

Countdown recap for Tuesday 11th March 2003: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_3436 First semi-final of the ladies championship. C1: Challenger Hilary Hopper, Series 13 champion. C2: Challenger Liz Barber, Series 20 champion. DC: Alison Heard and Rick Wakeman. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words...

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Countdown recap for Monday 10th March 2003: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_3435 C1: Champion Keith Johnson (3 wins, 246 points.) C2: Challenger Andrew Tatham. DC: Alison Heard and Rick Wakeman. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: L D S E O A R P O R02: N S R A L I O E C R03...

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Countdown recap for Friday 7th March 2003: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_3434 C1: Champion Keith Johnson (2 wins, 155 points.) C2: Challenger Eileen Draycott. DC: Alison Heard and Barry Norman. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: K B R L O I U M E R02: S L S I E N D U E R0...

Charlie Reams

I've reconfigured it. The full URL (c4countdown.co.uk) is now the one to use and cookies should behave correctly. No other URLs will work, so if you're reading this, you probably figured that out already

Charlie Reams

Yes, perfectly legitimate question Mary. I think the answer is that Wednesday's recap has not yet been posted (Adam usually posts it at the weekend) and Thursday's has not yet been posted here, but Stuart may do that later today.

Charlie Reams

I'll update the page at some stage, Jim, and may update CountGen if anyone's bothered.

Charlie Reams

I agree that it's not that hard but in fairness, an equivalent problem recently proved too difficult for K. Bevins BSc Maths (Hons).

Charlie Reams

Yes, I agree with Soo that a lexicographer should be very reserved and not have too much personality.

Well, I said the opposite of that, but I appreciate the thought.

Charlie Reams

Susie is the best in so many ways. I love how gently she tells contestants that their words are misspelt/capitalised/not in the selection (or all three) and how she is still excited to declare a 9.

Charlie Reams

Cheers

Charlie Reams

I guess ADEHINOST and AEILMORTS both look promising and yield several of 8s. Conor probably has better examples.

Charlie Reams

No probs. Anyone else who wants a name change, let me know.

Charlie Reams

I'm going to assume that 1) they can declare in any order 2) they can hear each other's declarations. Otherwise the problem does appear to be insoluble (or rather there's no better strategy than guessing.) The naive strategy has an average of 5 people saved, and a minimum of 0. (I'm not sure if we'r...

Charlie Reams

I'll be attending my first one since Cobris 2006. Hooray!

Charlie Reams

You ask a friendly neighbourhood mod like me.

Charlie Reams

I don't know what the little star means. The large star on some of the forums means it may contain spoilers. I reused one of the images as the icon for the recap forum, which may have been a mistake. Urp. Haven't really figured this all out yet.

Charlie Reams

I've seen this puzzle before and it's a good'un.

Charlie Reams

The animated scrolling ones have new posts since you last visited. I agree that this could be clearer, but I have no facilities for editing animated GIFs. If anyone else can help then please let me know.

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