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Craig Beevers

Can you have COMEDOS in ODE? I seem to remember COMEDONES being in as a plural of COMEDO.

Craig Beevers

Online games mean fractionally more than nothing Your solitary online loss was at the hands of Mr. Travers ... still smarting a little? I lost a goatdown game to someone else I think (lots of disallowed words like BORACITES which even I've heard of back in the days when I'd not yet done some practi...

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I really didn't want to post in this thread again but it's so bloody tempting. In my view the best contestant throughout a series in terms of consistency is Craig; the best performance is Paul Gallen in the CofC; and, I reckon young Travers has a genuine shot of being the current strongest player. ...

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But, if we're taking age in account, i still standy by Salldanha, but i know you're not taking age into account. You want to find the best ever, but without considering anything other than the statistics, which i don't really understand. TIger Woods is considered the best golfer ever, but he didn't...

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If you're going by what they were like when they were on the show I fail to see on what basis you could place Conor as high as 2nd. I don't think you could point to a patch of games and say he was particularly exceptional there. He won easily the most competitive series of recent times . Give a mat...

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If you're going by what they were like when they were on the show I fail to see on what basis you could place Conor as high as 2nd. I don't think you could point to a patch of games and say he was particularly exceptional there.

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I came across dumbshit on JumbleTime a while ago which I thought was quite nice.

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Must have been gutting to lose that.

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Why couldn't the conundrum have 'revealed' like that when Jeffrey was on...

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David O'Donnell wrote:Can't believe they missed that easy nine.

Ah good I did remember rightly then.

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I know from one of the computer simulations I just did, the only two words I knew the meaning of in the whole games were REPULSE and EX! All of the other ones were obscure. I know in one of the games it played MINDFUCK^ which I thought was hilarious, although I don't know exactly what it means it's...

Craig Beevers

1 + 50/25 = 3
100 + 1 = 101
101 * 3 = 303
303 + 75 = 378

Craig Beevers

You could make virtually any physical object take -ED in that sense.

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Am I the only one that thinks PATIOED sounds stupid then?

Oh and I do so love it when they stick horse racing on, who watches that shite without betting on it? Why don't they just leave it on in bookmakers and spare the rest of the population.

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Joseph Bolas wrote:I think everyone is likely to say "and a better one" at one point during a Countdown game.

Err nope.

Would be better actually if all the crud came out in one round, more likely to get 9s in the other rounds then.

Craig Beevers

25*4 = 100
100-10 = 90
90*7 = 630
630+9 = 639

Surprising miss.

Craig Beevers

Electronic list says no to TEASHOP(S).

PESETAS was there tho.

Craig Beevers

75 + 10 - 3 = 82
82*7 = 574
574-1 = 573

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I was in a holiday cottage in Castle Douglas (I think) watching it on TV. I remember thinking if I was in that building I'd be getting the hell out, meanwhile the people on the news kept giving the impression that the tower(s) wouldn't collapse.

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jasoncullen wrote:I'm with you Jason, Countdown should be on 6 days a week. Although, I would struggle to watch it on Saturdays if my beloved Bolton Wanderers FC are playing at home !

Yea would fall into some sort of coma I guess after watching Bolton.

Craig Beevers

I vaguely recall that if you sit in the challenger's chair you can see the number she's putting up that would be otherwise obscured by her on the monitor or your view from the champion's chair. So you could say you're getting a very slight advantage seeing each number earlier if you're sat in the ch...

Craig Beevers

Sorry I just don't have the time and energy for it.

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Personally I think it's up to people themselves whether they wanna skip past bits/go put the kettle on or not, so I don't really see the argument for having Susie's bit before round 10 as opposed to after it. Perhaps it's just some sort of equilibrium thing to try and have more people watch it and b...

Craig Beevers

This is just for i) 364 times? If you imagine the earth in 2 dimensions at 3 o'clock to the sun, then at 6 o'clock to the sun. At 3 o'clock the left side of the earth faces the sun, at 6 o'clock it's the top side. So you've effectively gained an extra 1/4 of a rotation there (as the moving around th...

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Yea I thought the timing was weird when I was filming, everytime after the last letters in part 2 (ie round 9) I'd get a clear sheet of paper and get poised for the numbers... then of course instead of the numbers it was the origin of words bit which kinda interrupted the game.

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Brutal conundrum that

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ECOTONE and CONNOTE in round 13

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TALLEST in round 6 I think it was. However there was also ALLOTTEES which I wasn't sure of the spelling or whether it was actually in in the first place.

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800, meh.

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Yea 880 not bad, 11 more would have ideal really.

Think there was NOONERS in one of the rounds, not sure of such words these days tho.

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Letters. Don't like conundrums because it's too easy for people to manipulate/cheat and I think it's a pretty lame way of giving someone a 10 point advantage.

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Yea, MODISTES. I did play a stand-in where I scored 128 and I played ridiculously safe against him (not 'risking' 3 words I was virtually certain of when declaring second because I would win the round without them), he scored 36 points and 30 were from the numbers games which were fairly straight fo...

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Would be cool if you did generate a usability list, based on how many the 'maximum' scores and how many maxima there are in the given selection.

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Also I don't see how you could attribute a vast difference in treatment down to racism in such a racially diverse group as the American public. Racism still exists in America, it's less than 50 years since the Civil Rights Act, you only have to go back a few years to Hurricane Katrina to see how st...

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That's all somewhat pointless really. There's no point comparing live rounds, 'crucial' conundrums and other high pressure situtations with my games where I won comfortably because they're completely different.

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Look at the vast difference in the treatment of Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong by the American public. Huh? Barry Bonds is an arse, that's why people don't like him. Also I don't see how you could attribute a vast difference in treatment down to racism in such a racially diverse group as the Ameri...

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I wasn't particularly surprised Chris missed it, but Conor has basically made himself into a top Countdown contestant by practising on words like NEUROGLIA and it's only 57th in the probability lists (the fact that it has 5 vowels doesn't change things particularly in this case). The difficulty of ...

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Of course, no such system will be perfect. I remember laughing at Craig being surprised that Conor and Chris missed NEUROGLIA because its a "high probability" word, when in fact its possibly never appeared on Countdown before, and you certainly wouldn't want to classify such a word as eas...

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Anyway really well done again David, you missed almost nothing today, until part 3 (when the game was over as a contest anyway). The way things are going, you look to be on course for an octochamp score around the 850 mark, which would give you a good chance of being no.1 seed come finals week... I...

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I got 994 going this way (this tends to be one of the first routes I try):

25*50 = 1250

2*(75+3) = 156 + 100 = 256

1250 - 256 = 994

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Yes ARTEFACT was there.

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Am I right in suspecting ALIMONY is (dubiously) only in as a mass noun?

ie no ALIMONIES in round whatever.

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I think a round-by-round 'live' recap on the forum while the show is being aired would be kinda neat. Even if it's just as a one-off.

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Missed the first part...

Would be cool if some pioneering sort would do a recap on the forum round by round while the show is being aired.

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NACELLES was there in the first round if I remembered the letters right. Well spotted. I had a pretty good start today until the numbers, where I only got 127. I missed the 2nd numbers, but got the 3rd by going: ((75 - 4) x (9 + 1)) - (8 - 6) I got MENTALITY too. I missed TIRAMISU, GAROTTES but got...

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NACELLES was there in the first round if I remembered the letters right.

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I'd be very surprised if a 4 from the top specialist didn't get 721 there, it's the obvious route to go when you know you can get 725 just by using the 4 large via 25*25 + 100.

Craig Beevers

No worries Soo, we can all learn together, and then post it in this thread. Despite repeatedly checking the "log me in automatically" box as well, I keep finding that not only does it not log me in automatically, but also seems to randomly log me out mid-session from time to time.... Ouch...

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Yep it did.

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Futurama and Red Dwarf... Nice. They would be two of mine if I was remotely interested in applying.

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Aye I remember MODDING getting disallowed, isn't allowed in Scrabble either where the dictionary covers a lot more words - pretty farcical really. Can't imagine how irritating it must have been to have had it disallowed, I was bad enough when I had KEGFUL disallowed in a Scrabble tournament earlier ...

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No they didn't say ADHESION or even ANODISE - presume ANODIZES is ok too.

Craig Beevers

I'm Craig Beevers, winner of series 57. I'm primarily a Scrabbler, where I'm ranked 44th in the World and have won various tournaments. My other interests are the internet, cricket and watching sport.

For those that aren't aware scaly piscine is a quote from the awesome TV sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf.

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