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DOGMATISE.

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TOXOID was there as an equaller a few rounds ago.

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I'm going to assume the numbers are independent of each other, but I'll say always guess higher if it's negative and always guess lower if it's positive. And if it's zero, then it doesn't matter.

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David O'Donnell wrote:

I don't like it when people over-use the emoticons and I probably shouldn't celebrate beating a 16 year old kid but sod it!

'Kid'

Tomorrow...

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Actually, I missed quite a few things today. HEARKEN (fair enough, never heard of it), CONVICTS, SEMOLINA (!!!) and ARTEFACT. I don't think I had the first numbers IIRC, so you'd probably have beaten me.

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I agree with you Jim. For the original problem many people think it's 1/2. One way of illustrating that it's better to switch is this: If there were 1,000,000 doors and the host opened all but 2, the one you selected and another one, then it's clearly better to switch. Same principle, on a smaller s...

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Is the door that swings open the door Monty was intending to open?
Assuming you don't know, I'm going to say it evens up the odds. (1/2 each)

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Nice one Joseph.

Very nice David, 117 is an impressive score.

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Yeah, it was a tricky conundrum, it took me about 15 seconds. I thought WHOREMEN at first.

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URACIL.

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HENNAED.

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RUTILANT for 8. I thought that was what you were going to risk David.

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Thanks for your kind words, but I played well. I lost 3 games (my worst to date) all on crucial conundrums that were solved in 1 second. That can not be helped in my opinion. I was just unlucky. I'll be back for sure! As for the numbers prize, I was doing so well with choosing 6 small and getting t...

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Jono, Joe's words were TODAY, NEURILE^ and ORDAIN.

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Corby wrote: I got 19 too. What does this mean?

It means you got 19.

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Sorry, I don't have my sheets. (They'd be useless anyway, I don't write down the selection or my opponent's offering.)

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I think I mentioned this to you, but there's the rather nice SATRAPIES in round 6.

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And Red Bull is supposed to give you energy...

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39 for me.

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I also agree that it was awesome. Thanks to Ben and his mum for running it very well again. I'm pleased (and surprised) to win, but that was second to just having fun and meeting everyone there.

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Also, TRANSIRED.

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11, not too bad.

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Another good performance. A shame you didn't get the century, but 97 is still pretty good. I thought SLIDIEST was a strange risk, but you beat me with VAPID (I had PIT in that round). Also, I think HANEPOOT was in one of the rounds. Edit: Nevermind, it's been mentioned.

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juj wrote: Blimey Conor, how old are you again?! *bows down"

16. But it's not a very difficult problem once you've simplified it to that, it's just some arrangements maths.

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As far as the scoring goes, I didn't score against you. I'd have got you with SPECIATE, STEADIED and LAAGERED, but I'd have used a C in the round when you had ARMIGER (I'm not sure why I've been seeing phantom letters recently, it must be the senility) and you'd have got me with ORISONS and the last...

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Footnote 2: I agree with you David, re your comments about Dave Reed (see forum for Wednesday's game), that it's better not to be first up on a recording day, and to have a game or two before your own which you can use as warm-up, getting used to the studio conditions, easing nerves etc. The recent...

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Yeah, I thought ARMIGER was very good, I'd never even heard of it. The last numbers was also very good, I was nowhere near it. The first round is the only real blip, but otherwise very solid.

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I thought you were wanking.

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I assume you saw TITRATE.

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Hmm, LAAGERED. They see it, they miss it, then they see it again...

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Good luck Dave!

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^ That's a good one.

PASTORIED too.

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DETANGLE.

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URIDINE.

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LAAGERED.

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Typical. I see 3/3 of the beaters, and I post the one they say!

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LEATHERN...

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I'd looking forward to today, I can't see Mr. Janowsky losing to the current champion, so unless the challenger is pretty good...

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I think I've got it, but it's sort-of cheating as a smaller scenario has appeared on an Oxford admissions test paper.

Edit: Wait, there isn't a fixed number of hats of each colour. That rather changes it (and now I can't see how it can be done).

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Maybe it's a star if you've posted in it already?

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Yes. And I started thinking about permutations and the odds of it happening, when I realized I've wondered the same thing. Making me think it's happened before. What are the actual odds of that happening? How would you work that out exactly? I'll set the problem. Given the letters have been selecte...

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Yes. And I started thinking about permutations and the odds of it happening, when I realized I've wondered the same thing. Making me think it's happened before.

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Sorry, I have no idea what his specialist subject was on. I'm quite forgetful.

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Series 49 runner up is on Mastermind. Good luck to him.

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There's people much better than me at the graphics, I'd most likely fuck it up. I'm not really qualified either, unless you count a U in GCSE DT Graphics.

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Thanks for that.

Also, I think it might be a good idea to have the colour scheme and layout as close to the original mailing list as possible, just for ease of conversion.

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Lol Joseph. It gets funnier (possibly). I got banned because I created a 2nd user which I used to challenge my other user to games in order to increase my win score. The person who banned me, also had created 2 users. One of them was herself and the other was for her DOG. There was also a sub-forum...

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Yeah, but adding on numbers before multiplying has never been a strong point for most contestants.

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OLEASTERS...

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Yeah, it's pretty much impossible Damian would miss both.

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ABROGATE.

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Did they say ADHESION?

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Lol Joseph.

But I think a link on the old c4countdown to this site would be good.

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I thought this might be a good idea - to confine all the spoilers for a show to one thread. It doesn't mean anybody reading unwanted spoilers plus it's neater.

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Pancakes.

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Hello. I'm Conor Travers and I won series 54 of Countdown a few years ago. My hobbies include the Internet and darts. I never thought'd I'd see the day... Although it's a shame that Stitcher's made his last post.

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