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Paul Howe

Right, me and Ben are aiming for 10 tonight, but it might be later is there's extra time in the football.

Paul Howe

Worry not mate, its being sorted, just waiting to hear back from Ben.

Paul Howe

Junaid Mubeen wrote:
Edit: I realise this post may have caused some confusion. Just to clarify, I meant Paul Howe and not Paul. My apologies.

I just cannot wait until another Junaid turns up on here. There's already been two with the same forename AND surname, so its only a matter of time.

Paul Howe

Clare Sudbery wrote: So there are clearly MORE rational numbers than there are integers.

I'm afraid this isn't the case. The rationals can in fact be put into a 1-1 correspondence with the integers, it's quite a cute little problem to work out how its done.

Paul Howe

RAREBITS should be in. ODE2r does say it's a mass noun. It also says that it can be made using different ingredients, so maybe there's an argument for it being countable. Does anyone remember Susie ever ruling on it? More importantly it's a portion of food, and there's a Countdown rule saying these...

Paul Howe

I can't pretend to understand any of this high-falutin' flim-flam but my gut feeling is that, over the last few years Carol became increasingly deficient in working out answers that even The Missus and I could get whereas Rachel has got over her initial nerves and is now pretty masterful at getting...

Paul Howe

I'm slightly confused - Sainsbury's thought Pollock/Pollack sounded a bit stupid, so they replace it with... something else that sounds stupid. A fish called Colin? Why didn't they take this opportunity to call it something cool like... I don't know, Delishofish. I'd buy that. Are you sure the new ...

Paul Howe

Great performance from Shane to be fair. Now, I'm off to power spray my garden fence, shouldn't take long.

Paul Howe

Aaarggh, so close

Paul Howe

Just tried a hypernundrum attack against prune. Big delays (>5s) between me pressing play next round and the conundrum appearing, it just hung for over a minute after I tried to answer the second conundrum so I gave up. 24 players were online, and 10+ games in progress. I've experienced similar prob...

Paul Howe

However ruthless he claims to be, I think Sugar often keeps contestants in longer than he should because he realises they make the show more entertaining. This is the only logic he could have used to keep the idiotic Sophocles in for so long last year. IAWTP. He booted Raef, the only man in the kno...

Paul Howe

Will the pink shirted man who apparently won yesterday win again today?

MONOLATER in rd 3

Paul Howe

I'm gonna try to make a complete list of C4Cers who will be at the finals. It's at least the following: Kirk & Neil (obviously) Damian, Kate, Lara, Danielle (obviously) Team Kirk (me & Sid) JulieT & Ben Hunter Phil Nick Mike Brown Junaid Rich Priest Possibles: Paul, Dinos and Raccoon I ...

Paul Howe

Please, please, please, please, please, please don't be crap.

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Paul Howe

There's no way I'm putting my current address on here, but this is where I lived in Edinburgh. I tried looking up to our third floor flat but there appears to be some sort of parallel universe up there. Anyway, AFAIK some hot lesbians live there now.

Paul Howe

I know noone actually plays this, but new goat attack record

Paul Howe

I quite like option 3, then you could really mix things up with the variants without alienating people.

Paul Howe

I am the only person to declare ESQUILAX 8-) Ha, I remember that, was awesome. Paul Howe's disallowed words list for goatdown. Wow. So we know now his secret to success really is guesswork. Makes me look like a retard, doesn't it? :mrgreen: Most of them are just guesses for when AP has conjured up ...

Paul Howe

Stuart Arnot wrote:How about a list, alongside the nines and disallowed words, of the words that only you have successfully declared. I know, for example, that I am the only player to have declared MUNITIONS or DIALOGIC, but are there any more?

I like this idea too, might be an expensive query to run though.

Paul Howe

Haha, hope noone saw that.

Paul Howe

Just to let you know that the backlog of GOTW's will hopefully be sorted out by the middle of this week. Apologies for the delay, I have been extremely busy this week.

Paul Howe

If you'd never heard the phrase before, you'd have a hard time figuring out what it meant by considering the words "under" and "way" separately. It's pretty nonsensical as two separate words unless you're familiar with the idiom, but take it as one word and it's just another peg ...

Paul Howe

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Oh, was that wit? It wasn't supposed to be.

Kirk, I've learned that when you're not naturally funny (although I do find you extremely entertaining, tbf) most of your best jokes will end up being completely unintentional. Just sit back and pretend you meant it.

Paul Howe

This is brilliant. I can sort of comprehend how it could be done (on a round by round basis) but christ, I couldn't even come close to being able to think fast enough to actually do it. Game of the week! Thanks Jim, I still have to do last weeks GOTW first though. It's coming soon folks, I promise....

Paul Howe

Wainwright v Howe

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=42498

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=42510

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=42523

Well played Nick, and thanks for some entertaining matches.

Paul Howe

Simon Myers wrote: Well done Paul, great game to get a max in too. Could this mean a graduation to Goatblitz, perhaps?

Yes, I think so, its definitely a purer form of the game, but I doubt I'll be playing as often now I've been released from my obsession.

Paul Howe

Woohoo, I can finally retire from speedgoat http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=42490 Slightly bizarre time to get it as if you look at the games prior to this you can see I was just half-arsing it waiting for my COMA game to start, then I realised half way throughI was on a perfect game and got s...

Paul Howe

Julie T wrote:Anyone driven there from Londonish area before?
Google maps directions reckons 2 hours for the journey, in which case it'd be doable in a day.
Is 2 hours realistic?

That's about right, it takes me slightly under 2 hours coming from Hemel Hempstead.

Paul Howe

Mine was 7L3N3C. Bit of a mixed bag, I missed 2 9s and ICEBOATS (which I'd never heard of at the time) and managed to get a word disallowed (poolman) despite specific instructions you could offer a backup word if you thought your longest offering was risky. Got all 3 numbers and conundrums, and even...

Paul Howe

There are quite a few good ones this week, with no absolute standouts, so I may do another extended version if I have time. Great game! I often wonder why POOTER isn't in ODE2r. It's that thing you use to suck up insects for inspection, without them going in your mouth, isn't it? My guess is that it...

Paul Howe

Charlie Reams wrote: Finally got round to doing this, took all of 5 minutes:
http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?se ... diff_hyper

Nice, its surprisingly well balanced, apart from 8 small.

Paul Howe

:roll: Julian's remembered because of the 146 more than anything. . Nope, Julian's remembered because he consistently came up with dazzling words (and not just your usual high probability stuff) at a time when getting that stupendously good was a lot harder than it is now, and he had a certain aura...

Paul Howe

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=40060 My nervous system is all broken after this COMA Plate game. Excellent, and proof that the recap doesn't have to be a sea of bolded words to make a great game. ULULATE is top notch. I'm going to make an effort to put more games like this in the poll, b...

Paul Howe

Yay! I got a max game today (I'm getting quite good at this in recent times - if only I'd waited a few more years to apply). I had a DC beater in GARPIKES in round 2 (obtained as I missed GARPIKE in my own run). I 'beat' the poor challenger 131-16. Would have been quite fun had this been in the stu...

Paul Howe

Hooray!

Paul Howe

I like his writing, and his newspaper columns usually contain at least one snortworthy line, but Screenwipe and his HIGNFY appearances have always left me a bit cold. I'll give Newswipe a try though.

Paul Howe

Martin Gardner wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:Could you two stop flirting on the spoilers thread please?
Hmm, so you're a cock and Charlie is a sloth... or an otter? Help me out here.

And you seem to be a prick?

Paul Howe

The start of a love affair...

My first ever goatdown!

Paul Howe

Hmm......

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=42

If you don't get the "No Round Details Available" message then you're pretty much a hopeless noob in my eyes

Paul Howe

Charlie Reams wrote:
Paul Howe wrote:
Could you enlighten me about the number you have to call to get tickets? Either here or via PM.
You need to contact Nick Charlwood on 0161 952 0408 or Nicholas.Charlwood@ITV.com.

Nice one, thanks.

Paul Howe

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:I think tickets for the Wednesday are sold out
As of five minutes ago when I spoke to Nick in the Countdown office, this was not the case. I'm now so excited I could... oh, I just did.

Could you enlighten me about the number you have to call to get tickets? Either here or via PM.

Paul Howe

Competitive this week

I was tempted to declare Hulme v Briers the winner by default and save myself some work, but I respect democracy too much (even when you lot pick the wrong game half the time)

Paul Howe

For no 1, how about a googolplex?

Edit: Have just read you're not accepting that. Philistine.

Paul Howe

Things have calmed down after the insane glut of brilliant games last week, but there's still plenty of quality on show here. Kai Laddiman vs Apterous Rex - Some excellent hypernundrumming from Kai against the Rexosaurus. Also, notice how Rex gets all his solutions in a very narrow time window. HIGH...

Paul Howe

I haven't put any effort into this, but can tell its a cool puzzle and look forward to the solution (which I hope you know, as it will otherwise be difficult to verify!) I like the 477 idea, and agree that it's possible (and the best) if you allow a decimal point to be included. I may even suggest t...

Paul Howe

Excellent, I'm in. Hope its as good as last year. after round 2 there will a lengthy lunch break in which there will be opportunity to play the most anticipated new sport of the year, the CoNot ball game. :) For the uninitiated, this involves nine separate people picking letters and trying to make a...

Paul Howe

I think I broke it by being on the virge of a massive speedgoat score

It was working a few minutes ago, but painfully slowly. Can't get on at all now.

Paul Howe

One question: Do these ten points for the extra conundrum count towards Stephen's points total? Extra conundrums don't usually count but I thought that's when you were like 10 behind then won by 10 (so you scored 20 points and 10 of those didn't count). I'm almost certain that only your score after...

Paul Howe

I just bottled Z

Paul Howe

Well in Chris, and excellent choice of specialist topic. I enjoyed it as the questions were pitched at a level where I knew the majority of answers without it being a total doddle, there didn't seem to be a great variation between a level 1 an a level 5 though. And is it my imagination or has there ...

Paul Howe

Round 9: C P S I A I C O T C1: COPITAS (7) C2: TOPICS (6) OT: PASTICCIO (18) Score: 63–13 (max 77) Wow, awesome nine. Worth pointing out that the rather lovely SPICCATO was there, which I was feeling extremely smug about until I saw this recap. Congratulations again Kirk on your fabulous achievemen...

Paul Howe

Charlie Reams wrote:Is it today or tomorrow with the really fit contestant?

Yesterday. I miss you Kirky

Today's "champion" is rather lovely though.

And I'm not too sure who the DC guest is, but I think he's done really well this week.

That is all.

Paul Howe

My prediction is 924 points :o Paul couldn't have been much more spot-on. One point out. With precognitive powers such as these, I can only conclude that he is a witch. Burn him! Am I alone in thinking this prediction was more impressive than the achivement itself? 8-) I've always thought of witch ...

Paul Howe

I actually wanted to vote three times, because IMO there are three games which would win any other week. So if anyone only wants to vote once, please also vote for Paul's Hypernundrum game too, to balance things out. I'm a bit baffled that noone has voted for the hypergoatundrum attack, as I actual...

Paul Howe

Yes, get in Kirk you utter legend!

I was really into that, pacing about the room, and did a little jig when I knew there was a 7 in rd 13 and another jig when you pulled off that tricky final numbers.

Just superb mate, and thoroughly deserved.

Paul Howe

Needs 41 points in the final part, 40 to equal. Should be OK if he scores in every round and gets 10 for the last numbers, could still be robbed by some nasty letters though.

Paul Howe

Paul Howe

I should know after repeatedly losing to a six-year-old He's 10 :| (Unless you're talking about someone completely different ;) ) Ah, well its nice to know I'm getting killed by someone who's only 15 years my junior and not 19. I can take it though, I'm used to losing to little people. In other new...

Paul Howe

1: 2, 2, 3 and 3 are the factors of 36. I don't get this. The factors of 36 are surely 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 36. Can you explain please? Sorry to be dense. He means the prime factors. Every positive integer (except for 1) can be expressed as a unique product of prime numbers, and for 36 its ...

Paul Howe

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Kirk up words make bad he does,
But we still love him so
We go to town!

Worst haiku ever.

Well played Kirk, OLEFINIC was lovely, shame about the conudrum eh

At least the 924 is still within reach, I'm all psyched up for tomorrow now to see if you manage it.

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