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David Barnard

From just now, had us all in stitches 2013-12-14 15:41:04 Sophie Krol says: im proper confused here right 2013-12-14 15:41:07 David Barnard says: looks like Bob is the next one to get the third degree 2013-12-14 15:41:09 Sophie Krol says: is de your middle name 2013-12-14 15:41:14 Graham Harrison sa...

David Barnard

ok so yesterday I didn't get 1 game as my computer was having problems with getting me into the game, this has just happened to me again right now. What basically happens is when my laptop is at it's worst I can occasionally get into the game then it freezes up then boots me, when I try to refresh i...

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2 days and I have got officially nowhere, although I might use this as a joke on some avid puzzler and watch them squirm

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I know a LOT of words I don't know the meaning to, same as when I played scrabble but I find I have limited brain space to know what all the words mean so I'm more of a word list guy, some people scour dictionaries to learn, I scour word lists and use anagram sheets, it's far easier that way althoug...

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At the end of the day we are here to win and as mad as it sounds if I see GONOLEKS and LOONIES I'm not going to say 'oh I know what a loony is but I know gonoleks is in but I'll turn that down as I don't know what it means'. That would be silly especially against one of the top top players as they'l...

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Cheers for putting this on, I'll have a bash at it later and say the results if I solved it or not and how long it took me to solve it or give up, certainly looks fiendish

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Is milton keynes the all nighter? I definitely recall at cobliv that there was going to be another all nighter just Ann/Amie wasn't organising it and it wasn't in london

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APENISEGO - ESPIONAGE
HUCFLANGE - CHANGEFUL

BUMMERSIN
ALTIPENIS
HISFLANGE

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LEDMUTINI - UNLIMITED
WOOMBALLS - LAMBSWOOL

CONGOCICO
EPORAOMRB
PENISTALY

David Barnard

I am a firm believer in the power of teasers to learn words, I have a book of scrambled up words from the top 1000 common maxes and other various word lists on apto, the ultimate goal is to work through every page in the book without error and I go through it every day. Also stemming is good but don...

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So let's take the rule here of most peoples perception of randomness and out of the 900 possible targets that 899 of them occurred once out of 899 and the number that was left was say 637, under your law it would mean to keep the law going 637 would HAVE to occur next, that isn't random as the numbe...

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But any idea when it will be back?

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I'm joking

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For another few days I imagine

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Fine for me Ziggy, can't wait to have it back so I can while away the hours that I would have spent doing nothing before, bliss

David Barnard

The fact apterous keeps going down is bugging me lol, everyday, seriously though I hope it comes back soon as we all do

David Barnard

Woo hoo, sounds good, Can't wait to see Sinha-man again, his witty jokes are awesome, although I refrained from telling him he was my favourite chaser in london as I didn't want to appear a total douche lol

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I actually messed up a 937.5 on tv which is even more gutting

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Yep awful show, such a big thing is made of the twisters, granted, they're part of the show but they're not gods

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Down again

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Dave Preece wrote:I do remember you getting a few disallowed, it didn't stop me being very impressed with your run though...

Thanks

I was no record breaker (and still wouldn't be now) I just went on for fun

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Not sur eif this has been asked before as I haven't trawled through the numerous questions but do I hold the dubious honour of being the octochamp with the most disallowed words?

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This could be huge, can't wait to see

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Yep was down for me this morning, Charlie said on his google page that it was back up so not sure if it is just my computer or whether it's down for everyone else

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Generally I thought the letters distribution at cobliv was quite fair, although there wasn't any 9's available I think I only saw 1 or 2 horror rounds and if I'm not mistaken people were shuffling and discarding the bad letters all across all the sets, the letters sets were certainly better than las...

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Jason, that depends if the new disk has kept all the unfinished games which I would likely say not, although I'm glad as I had a mocktorun which I was about 9 rounds in on and had roughly 40 points so I'll be happy if that goes

David Barnard

Nothing to do with the site being down which is why I'm not writing comments in that thread, and I'm talking about you giving a bad name to kevin on a forum he probably doesn't look at which is akin to talking behind his back, as I say bad idea, not trying to argue, just some advice

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Putting someones name on a forum that can be viewed by anyone is a very bad idea, just saying David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Barnard David Bar...

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Putting someones name on a forum that can be viewed by anyone is a very bad idea, just saying

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Yep ADSORBENT was mine too, surprised he missed it tbf but anything can happen in the studios

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Yep but still a very impressive debut, 14 maxes I think

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Yep, lexplorered the rounds so far, Dylan on 9 maxes after 9

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Matt Morrison wrote:I hope so! I love kittens! I have been trying to show you a kitten hidden inside your dog on Facebook, Jason! It will blow your mind when you see it!

A kitten inside a dog? Are we advocating cross breeding now?

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It's the day after tomorrow and no it's not the sign of impending apocalypse unlike apterous a few days ago

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Johnny 114 and Jason, it will be back as soon as possible

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5 days to go, super exciting, I can't wait

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Would be a good idea but pro ranks on apterous is usually a pretty good indicator of ranking

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At least my rating is safe lol

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Nah, if there is a sweet 4L trick like 937.5 she should just go into the thousands shamelessly

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Can't even get onto the front page to view some tickets or use lexplorer

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Dictionary corner don't use solvers so are always going to have good and bad days just like us, although for some reason DC were right on form for the 30th birthday championship

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All I do is see how much I have to alter the end result to get to the answer when doing tricks, if the target is 313 then I'm 15 away from 298 or 11 away from 302 and work from there, part of the numbers game is to make it as simple as possible, so really I'm not working with thousands, just numbers...

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James Roper wrote:I should be able to make it - put me down as an 'almost definite'

James, if you're on facebook you can join the event page which has the link and the updates are far quicker on any changes of plan and any other information you'd need to know, it's far quicker than the forum

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Am i the only one whose getting sick of seeing apterites gobble up so many opponents, surely the countdown producers should be putting apterites up against each other in the heats rather than keeping them separate, otherwise its just completely predictable as you know the likes of Andy Platt are go...

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I think this thread is closed now, 85/90 maxes in that tournament from Conor, just staggeringly brilliant

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only 14 maxes? Just terrible

........................... only joking

What an insane game, I am lost for words so will stop right there

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Andy Platt wrote:How much of Jack's emotion at the end did the cameras show? Cos that was nice

They showed a little bit of it, although he was quite obviously crying when the credits were rolling

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What I marvel at is the consistency in which Jack scores 110 plus, very well played Jack I wish I could be that good

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If he would have hansforded the conundrum he would have been technically unbeatable provided he buzzed instantaneously

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I think that was a max game, 2 in a row, Conor is just ridiculously good

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I'm starting to get concerned about James and if all of this excitement is getting too much for him lol

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This thread exudes awesomeness left right and centre, excellent work

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Could be a very tasty encounter, Conor is obviously a great player which I'm sure we've all seen on apterous but Mark's competitive instinct should kick in and I see it being a close one

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Having met you Jack, I've seen what you're like in person and I don't think you are in the least bit cocky and I actually enjoyed meeting you, yes it was maybe out of order on a few things you did but as Mark said we all make mistakes and I'm not holding that against you. Exuberant yes, cocky, no.

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Unlucky there Jack, I'm sure if Wayne had been the one delaring first you'd have stuck with the 7 but just unlucky to be the one delaring first. Also I've said it before and am saying it again, with apterous and the freedom to practise as much as you want and programmes for learning stuff the standa...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:2013-01-23 17:33:44 Rhys Benjamin entered the room!
2013-01-23 17:33:50 David B Barnard says: Maybe it's just his face but I think he's a twat

Bad timing maybe but certainly not aimed at you if you read the chat logs

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John played very well but Kirk overshadowed him completely, one gripe is that seeing there was only one max game in the 15 rounder history before this game, todays game should have at least got a mention but it wasn't I heard Nick did mention it at the time but that must've been cut. That's a shame...

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John played very well but Kirk overshadowed him completely, one gripe is that seeing there was only one max game in the 15 rounder history before this game, todays game should have at least got a mention but it wasn't

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Jon Corby wrote:
Andy Platt wrote:Cheers, classic 4L
I mean, I can see what you've done, but it takes me more than 30 seconds just to get my head around which order you have to do it all in, and whether it actually works.

That's the 302 trick isn't it? 302-28 as (7*100/25)=28

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FLORUITED impressed me the most from Conor, although I was sitting next to Andy in the audience and he got it too

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