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SWOTTIER is a beater

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Round 1: M Y A I S N T E T
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Peter makes a mistake. He used the Y twice. Why? I don't know why he used the Y twice, but he did

This allowed Ann to regain her SANITY and 6 points.

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Only word I can see here with two Ys here is YEASTY

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OUTDRIVES

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3rd numbers alt : (75-5)x(8+1) = 630

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Yes, as less than half the money taken is paid to prizewinners, you should only expect to win half as much as you paid in

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Was hoping for CHROMEING^ in R4. but no luck - and CHROMING is Scrabble-only

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1st numbers alt: (50-3)x(8+1)x(7-5)

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VOGUISH to beat VOGUES

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Ian Volante wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:.. and in the 80's natural shrinkage leaves no alternative.
I'm now worried that my willy's going to wither away

A further age problem is that an enlarged prostate reduces the flow from a jet to a trickle.

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.. and in the 80's natural shrinkage leaves no alternative.

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Alternatively: (10x10-4)x7

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I did (100+5x10-9)x2 = 282
And in R5 had VESICLE

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Round 11: H O A E G L P H N C1: phlange C2: PLANE (5) DC: HALOGEN (7) Score: 57–42 (max 91) Graeme takes a risk but it doesn’t come off. Are there any words in the English language that can start with either an F or a PH? I can’t think of any so this may have been a low percentage risk for Graeme. ...

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POOLSIDE is a beater

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Alt. 3rd numbers (50/5)x(8+3)x7+3

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Alt. 2nd numbers:25x3x3x(4-1)+8

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As Rachel occasionally reminds us, arithmetic is totally irrelevant to university level mathematics. Although my degree is in mathematics, my numbers skill (such as it is) derives from tackling Mensa-type puzzles, so can immediately spot factors of 3-digit numbers, and am also familiar with 13 &...

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Having had a message last year that the version of Java I had was insecure, I removed it. Subsequently whenever I try to install the latest version, it gets as far as the 'installing' frame but no green dots appear in the 'progress' panel, and after a little while I get the message that installation...

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Simpler 1st numbers alt.:7 x (4 + 2) x 9 = 378

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I did (9+5+2)x(6+7)x4 for first numbers

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Susie misremembered - it's muriatic acid, not muric. In fact, a muriate is an obsolete term for a chloride, for the same historic reason that hydrogen ought really to be called oxygen.

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Alt 4th numbers: (10+9)x(9+7+2+1)

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OVERRAN as a beater of SNORER etc.

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R2 beater: PANTILED

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The brackets in Jonathan's solution have gone astray - you need (100-(6+5-1))x9 for 810.

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My 8 was DIMETERS

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Alt to BALLOTIN: OBLATION

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UPFRONT beats PATRON (In an earlierround, I was hoping for UNDERFILL^, but it's not there

)

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Engineer (now retired)

hardware (aircraft 1945-66)
software (telecoms 1966-90)

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Was there IMPRECATE as a beater - forget which round

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APOLOGY as a beater

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Didn't see the 9, but beat DC with VESTRIES

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R2 beater: PERORATE (almost spelt out

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In R9, all that's needed is to insert the operators without having to rearrange the numbers (or insert brackets): 9x6x2x5+7-6

Has this been seen before?

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R1: DOTTEREL

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He said MANORS

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Alt 1st numbers: (10-4)x(8+5)x(9+2)

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VESICLE, I think?

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DC could have put in the other S into UNIONS for UNISONS

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HONEYED as beater in R5?

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MARGOSAS to beat ORGASMS

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Although ODE3r doesn't have WOMANS, the verb is in Collins (and Chambers), so it's OK for Scrabble.

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4th numbers alt, using tiles in order

(25+7+2)x4x5

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NEBULAR and DEADEST - I forget which rounds

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Karen Pearson wrote: I hate to be really thick but I don't get the crushed candy cyanide reference -

Anagram of candy + i.e.(that is)

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Alt last numbers: (25+6)X(100/50+2)

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MALISON to beat SALMON

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BETOKEN as beater

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TTT: THEIRACT - "Their act could easily be described as this."

I made this CHATTIER, which seems to fit the clue. too

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first numbers ((25x(3+2)-9)x7

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ATHELING beats HEALING etc

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Yes, I'm sure that BLEATINGS is occasionally used to refer to feeble complaints.

BTW it was a surprise that the INCORRECT display wasn't used for the conundrum.

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It seems that sometimes Rachel deliberately avoids showing where a contestant went wrong (not to embarrass them?) by choosing an entirely different method. For example, when Chris was 30 short in R6 by doing 9-6=3,(25+4)x5x3, the corrected alternative would have been 7-4=3,(25+6)x5x3. The easy way i...

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Although we had the usual definition of 'country', 'west' wasn't clarified. As the Prime Meridian passes just to the west of London, if a capital's longitude is West it should be described as west of London, if not, not. (There are parts of the western Pacific east of the International Date Line, bu...

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First numbers alt: (25+7)x9+7

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Slightly easier (50-6-3+1)x9 =378

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Yes. I thought Marvin was going to be the highest-scoring one.

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POUNDALS to beat UPLOADS

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We know that (notwithstanding Nick's remarks) several games are recorded in a day.

Eileen didn't seem to be her usual self yesterday - would that have been at the end of a long day for her?
Is there any evidence on how other multiple winners have fared at the end of a whole day recording?

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FLUORITE beats FLORUIT

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