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Ben Wilson wrote:The forum has a 'real name' policy

Fine, I'll delete everything and pack up.

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ROUGHDONG (conundrum) sounds like it was left over from Catsdown! Indeed, I was expecting to hear some of that infernal scramble-related audience laughter after it was revealed. If there was any, it was thankfully edited out. Cracking début (well, second début) by Martin, especially considering tha...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:Does anyone have 0%?

Yes. Very yes.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Anyone see the DORMOUSE hiding in R12 or any of the obscure 8s in R13?

No 8s to be had there according to Lexplorer -- sure you had the selection copied right?

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When Susie reviewed Annie's offering of PLUMINESS in round 13, she seemed to imply that it could be a variant of the word Annie pronounced, PLUMMINESS (presumably having this variant meaning in addition to its usual formation from PLUME). Odd that she wouldn't mention the more common pronunciation/m...

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Two nines in the past two days. No others.

"The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -- don't remember who said this, but it's a smart person

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How come horse racing equals cancelling Countdown (rather than moving it to a different time slot), anyway? It (Countdown) apparently costs very little to make. I think someone in Apterous chat should organise impromptu episodes of it instead.

Alternate final numbers: (100 - 7) * 10 + 4 + 5

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- Whenever I hear the word "monorail" (admittedly not that often) I have to say "But I hear those things are awfully loud!" in a musical theatre stylee; Many people here in North America have a similar trait; with myself and several people I know, any mention of "monorail&q...

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I hold pencils in an odd way, with my thumb on one side of the pencil, bent backwards, and the support of all four other fingers necessary on the other side if my writing is to be good. It started in childhood, where it was no big deal, but became quite painful during junior high school after essay ...

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The contestants (referred to very formally as Monsieur Harment and Monsieur Lichtenberg) formed they longest word they could from a selection of seven letters. Yep, seven. They got 45 seconds, but the letters were picked while the clock was running. The first ever round wasn't the most spectacular ...

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Aaaand no matter what proxy server I use and where the locations of the proxy servers are claimed to be... still " Failure. IP is not allowed to get the info.Included territories are: [gg, ie, je, gb, im].Excluded territories are: []. ". JR, if you've got the info for the past two shows, I...

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Thanks! If that was sincere, that is.

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Wiki recaps for both yesterday and today are incoming this evening. My proxy server was down until now. No one else needs to bother writing them.

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I actually found this and tried to log on, but nobody answered me...

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Have recored today's show and will be able to get today's recap on the wiki but not for another couple of hours -- in a busy meeting.

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Why do prison administrators in the US sterilise the needles that they use to put people to death by lethal injection?

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Thanks for writing yesterday's recap, JR! I've duly made today's.

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Some pretty high-quality spots from Cammy today, but he needs to be more sure of them! MINERALS is not a word that you need to say "I'll try it" on.

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Assuming that 100 is not a possible target but it is the nearest a contestant can get to the actual target, would they be able to use it on its own then? I don't think this can ever happen, because regardless of how few small numbers there are -- even only two of them --, it will always be possible...

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Assuming that 100 is not a possible target but it is the nearest a contestant can get to the actual target, would they be able to use it on its own then? I don't think this can ever happen, because regardless of how few small numbers there are -- even only two of them --, it will always be possible...

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At the end of today's show, it was mentioned that Stephen is the son of a former male contestant who lost his first game. Assuming they share a surname, this must be either Paul Bloom (who lost to Conrad Teixeira) or Julian Bloom from Series 18 in 1989. Can anyone shed any light on which one it migh...

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Having achieved the highest score of the series and averaging just shy of a century, the possibility of an octorun for our current champion Stephen presently looks to be in full Bloom. But how will he fare against this week's third challenger? Tune in with me on the wiki (finally!) or JR on the foru...

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Very sorry to have been a "no call, no show" in Recapland today. Note to self: Never drastically and recklessly configure your computer's registry keys again, especially less than an hour before 3:10pm. Thanks to JR for this unscheduled mission. Shame I missed this one. Seriously though, t...

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Thanks Ray!

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Yep. Looks like watching today's show is going to be a complete wash for me. Someone else will need to step in.

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Disaster -- I walked for close to half an hour to get onto a Wi-Fi network and successfully opened my streaming site, only to receive a "SITE BLOCKED" notification AFTER I was already on it. I'm going to need some backup support for wikicapping the first few rounds. I'll let you know when ...

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Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, is just a celestial body with acne.

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FAO anyone who is contacting others to obtain recap data: Make sure that after you get it from them, you kidnap them and only let them go if they agree to join Apterous too. SUORETPA EHT NIOJ!

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In the 9-round era, at least four contestants' octoruns had no nines available. They were Darryl Francis, Mark Nyman, Lindsay Denyer and James Sinclair. Sharon Bridge had no nines in her first seven games, but we don't have details for her eighth game . Obviously late to the party here, but some de...

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Thank-ya thank-ya.

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Computer crashed on Round 5 -- I got the first seven letters of the selection (XNLEAOD) and can infer that both contestants got sixes, but otherwise I've got no information. Did anyone note that round down? Sorry.

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Apterous may be down for maintenance at the moment, but I'll attempt to tide you all over with a blast from the past. Below, seemingly for the first time since 2008, I've provided a conundrum alphabet -- a set of 26 conundrum scrambles, each of which has a solution that begins with a different lette...

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I noticed Lauren's name -- complete with her surname initial -- lurking in the selection in the UNRAILED round too.

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I'm not repluralising -S plurals to -SES in my initial wikicaps (unless the -SES forms are listed in Lexplorer), regardless of the restaurant rule. If cases like this come up, you can add them if you want but you'll have to edit the wikicaps yourself.

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REFUTALS isn't in Lexplorer but is in ODO -- this will need to be fixed.

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Today's show will be especially notable to all Apterites, as in his seventh appearance, Stephen Fuller has been pitted against fellow site member Aidan Linge. It is also #6400 in the wiki's catalogue, and 6400 is a perfect square -- 80 * 80. Whose win-loss record will be perfect after today's show -...

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Recapping is going to be out of the question for me today, guys. Sorry. Need to get a school presentation done in a rush. Could JR or Ray step in, please and thank you?

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It might be a variant of a non-capitalised word (RUMANITES maybe?), since it's been valid on Apterous ever since it was added and I think DC on Countdown specifically mentioned either it or its singular at some point previously.

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ACEDIAS to beat cadges Sorry... two Es, one A. CEASED was the only other max in that round, though I toyed with DECAGES^ for a large portion of the time. Only one 1-away solution to the last numbers game, in either direction -- this is why I've listed it as Rachel's solution on the wiki even though...

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I was curious the other day: Since contestants often start making words from the letters that are in place "so far", even before Rachel is finished selecting 9 letters, are words more frequently formed from the letters that are earlier (farther left) in the selection than those that are la...

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Stephen mentioned that he was "sticking" with an 8 in the PAINLESS round. I wonder if he had PALMINESS noted. If so, "vul" to him.

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If Philippa had gone for a final vowel in Round 2, a nine that is particularly notable at the moment (among regular viewers, anyway) would have been available.

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Acme Standard Method 2000 solution for last numbers: (3 * 9 - 4) * 25 - 2 * 5.

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There was an Anthony Williams on 15 to 1 today -- does anybody know if he's the same one who was on Countdown in Series 74, immediately after Paul's run?

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Wasn't paying enough attention in Round 4. Did Padraig ask for a vowel and get an X?

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Is it just me or have there been a few more consecutive repeated letters than usual recently?

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Whoof. It's not normal for me to lose to a non-Apterite. Andrew was on an absolute tear today, and I wish him all the best tomorrow.

MUNDANEST is much more of a word than UNMASTED. I'm suing the ODO compilers.

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OK, today I really am going to get the wikicap done, and it's going to be done right on the first edit. Heck, if I'm really lucky I may even type the right series number in the title of this thread. Having seen off the challenges of Norm, Stephen and Chris, Andrew Fenton will today be striving for h...

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Thanks a bunch!

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Hey guys,

Sorry, stream froze and I missed R10, R11 and the order of the letters in R12 (out of order they were BDEEGINTU). Might someone please be able to supply them? Sorry again and thanks. I'll compile the rest of the wikicap on my own page first.

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Following Paul Erdunast's triumph in the finals, we are back to our regular orders of business this week with the start of the Series 75 prelims, and the first one -- yesterday -- was just exciting AF. AF, of course, are the initials of our new champion Andrew Fenton. How far will he go? This questi...

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Thomas Carey wrote:Someone (Steve Balog?) suggested a variant where your score is your points multiplied by your BAC.

"Well... it's 4.145 points apiece! Looks like we've got a draw. We'll have to do a tie-break conund-rum-shot!"

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A Whiteley-esque pun, in honour of Paul's great performance and worthy capture of the Memorial Trophy: I wonder if Michael Calder is going to call Paul up now and start insisting that "MY-OGLOBIN is still better than UR-OKINASE". Congrats, now and always, to both contestants -- this has be...

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Ooh! I got a good one. Mandy Buck from Series 46 has never been seen at a CO-event since. So...

Where is Mandy Buck, anyway?

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I see the OED has bowed to the stupidity of the general public by including a non-literal definition of literally.... 1.1 ( informal ) Used for emphasis while not being literally true Nice circular definition there. I'd say defining a word by using the word itself is a bad idea. Especially so if a ...

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With apologies to any untrustable people mentioned in this post, these finals thus far have been literally heart-stopping. Almighty performance by Paul today (14 maxes in a finals game yes, including ORTHIAN, before you ask !!!), and many, many commiserations to Conrad on being in contention against...

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Someone has probably built a database that can answer this question: After this week, Dr. Phil will have made 111 appearances in Dictionary Corner. Will he be the DC guest with the second-highest number of appearances (behind Gyles Brandreth)?

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I... I am speechless. This was what a member of the forum once referred to as "liquid Countdown". An almighty Apto-battle on the big screen. Congratulations to Ann and very unlucky to Tim on being 1.25 seconds away from advancing. Anyone get the beaters in R4 and R5? Is this a trick questi...

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Trivia: what record, which stands to this day, did Ian McMenzie set in this episode ? Ian used every letter but one (Z) in his declarations, is that the record? Ah, that must be it, good catch. (As an addendum, I also notice that in his numbers game declarations [if the declarations of the targets ...

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Trivia: what record, which stands to this day, did Ian McMenzie set in this episode ? I can't see anything notable done in that episode specifically by Ian, but I thought it was odd that there were four identical starting numbers that appeared in each of the three numbers games. Why is the trivia j...

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