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Paul Howe

I can't vote for them though as my constituency is held by the speaker of the house, conservative John Bercow, and per tradition the other major parties have chosen not to contest it. It will still be an interesting race though as UKIP are running and apparently have a small hope of actually winnin...

Paul Howe

Says here I'm a libdem: Liberal Democrats: 61% Green Party: 54% Labour Party: 45% Conservative Party: 40% I can't vote for them though as my constituency is held by the speaker of the house, conservative John Bercow, and per tradition the other major parties have chosen not to contest it. It will st...

Paul Howe

It's pretty mind blowing that you'd seriously think I'd rate the Europa League over the Champions League simply because we're in it. Obviously it was a statement completely loaded with competitive banter. Well, in my experience you lot tend to believe some very strange things. :mrgreen: Obviously t...

Paul Howe

European Johnstone's Paint Trophy What you trying to say here Howe? :evil: Nothing, nothing, its a perfectly respectable trophy. But if, say, some of the premiership teams that got knocked out of the FA cup got given a second go in the JPT, it would be quite amusing if their fans started creaming t...

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We've got the bum draw for the Europa League but it's still on. United got the easy ass Champions League draw. I genuinely believe Benfica and Valencia are a harder path to a final than an off-form Bayern and a Lyon side who haven't looked that great other than a tight job well done against Real. O...

Paul Howe

Charlie Reams wrote:
Hugh Binnie wrote:
Liam Tiernan wrote:Just caught the end of todays DOND on more4 (or maybe it was a repeat) . Christ, that guy had some guts. Turned down 14k to go for a 50p/50k choice.
Gutsy perhaps, but dealing on £14k when your average return is £25k is silly.
Hmm, really?

Also, this...

Paul Howe

Ha, I should learn to actually read the preview. You definitely had me worried, was even tighter than the scorelines suggest.

Paul Howe

Game 1: Howe 109 - 77 Priest

Game 2: Howe 100 - 87 Priest

Game 3: Howe 95 - 112 Priest

Game 4: Priest 94 - 114 Howe

Thanks for some very enjoyable games Rich.

Paul Howe

After about 25 rounds, the timer started slowing down giving me more and more each round. Is this planned or is it a bug? Mine seemed to be going much faster than the supposed 45 seconds after a few rounds! This is really cool, I like how the leaderboard is preserved over multiple days. The scoring...

Paul Howe

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Here's a Countdown Conundrum quiz I just made. Enjoy!

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Dinos1/countdown

Awesome! (You've got the wrong letters in the scramble for no 10 though...)

Paul Howe

Howe 77 - 70 Makepeace
Makepeace 69 - 115 Howe

Cheers for the games Phil, a couple of very unfortunate phoneys there that could've turned the match in a completely different direction.

Paul Howe

Kirk Bevins wrote:Paul Howe near the bottom! Haha he's well shit.

Oi

. I'm still well clear of the 100+/1 no-hopers like Junaid, Doddy, Dale, Andrew, Mark, etc. so shut yer mouth

Paul Howe

Why not go the whole hog then and let the computer choose the last few letters for you. It could pick a word you havent seen before or one you miss a lot as the max. You could have a letters attack with the same fixed letters, set things so that every round contains x vowels or has a darrenic winner...

Paul Howe

That sounds shit. Choose the last 2 letters might be good.

Paul Howe

I can make 20th Mar, but not 24th Apr. Any time from May onwards should also be fine.

Paul Howe

Well in Dinos! Have to admit I thought you would die on the assault course, awesome effort. Only having four rounds is really disappointing though, can't help but think you'd have won if they kept the 3d puzzle round. http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu203/SpiritmanProductions/sfyralgia.gif Can we...

Paul Howe

Game 3 was vs Rich. Unfortunately I've lost my record of this one. Highlights for me were GLISSADE and BORGATA, lowlights getting reenact disallowed and mucking up a doable numbers game. So, onto game 4 vs Jack Hurst. I'd seen Jack put in some top quality performances on apterous and he also came up...

Paul Howe

ps apologies if I get any of my opponents' words wrong, I didn't write them down and I'm going by my rather egotistical memory. Feel free to correct and I'll edit the recaps.

Paul Howe

Game 2, vs Jim Bentley. I dimly remember losing to Jim in my first ever real life game, so it was clearly time for revenge. Countdown recap for Monday 1 February 2010. C1: Challenger Jim Bentley. C2: Challenger Paul Howe. DC: Susie Dent and . RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: Y O ...

Paul Howe

Here's game 1. I didn't know anything about Lee (and I'd like to take a moment to apologise for repeatedly calling him Nick), but had just seen him make some fine spots only to get pipped on a crucial by Jim, so I was wary of his ability. 1: Challenger Paul Howe. C2: Challenger Lee Fisher. DC: Susie...

Paul Howe

A numbers solver in Javascript... what do you think I am, a masochist? Merely a magician. On to game 6, versus David, still unbeaten on 4 wins. If David lost noone would finish on 6, so I knew a high scoring win would still leave me a shot at the championship. C1: Challenger David O'Donnell. C2: Ch...

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Paul Howe wrote:Round 4: 75, 25, 3, 8, 5, 1. Target: 691.

C1: 690. (7)
C2: -
Score: 14–14 (max 29)
Er, 75*8 + 3*(25+5) + 1 = 691?

Yeah, Doddy got this from DC, I couldn't be bothered typing in the numbers solutions and thought it would get auto-solved by the recap writer.

Paul Howe

Here's my game 5, aka the one where I bottled it. C1: Challenger Martin May. C2: Challenger Paul Howe. DC: Susie Dent and . RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: T R D Z A E E G I R02: L S R E O E B A O R03: M T D P O A E P D R04: 75, 25, 3, 8, 5, 1. Target: 691. R05: F M D I E A H V ...

Paul Howe

Cheers everyone (except Martin May :x ) for an excellent day, great to see lots of new faces too. Somehow Kirk managed to win despite bottling it at the first possible opportunity, well done mate on breaking your duck, and congrats to the many COLIN first timers (Martin, Jack, Matt B, David R, Doddy...

Paul Howe

See you all tomorrow

Paul Howe

Stuart Arnot: two thumbs up for the expanded layout, Charlie Charlie Reams: cheers Charlie Reams: can't believe some people don't have a screen big enough to display it Charlie Reams: in this day and age Stuart Arnot: yeah, that's crazy No it isn't! (Replying in here because I can't see the chat box...

Paul Howe

Bash room. It's good. If two people are in there, and they both get it, maybe the next word should be offered immediately?

Also, themes. e.g. 15 minutes of words that exceed a certain obscurity rating, 5 minute speed (10 secs / word ) and so on.

Paul Howe

Yeah, I don't really know how good he was, but I often heard stories of him never quite managing to win anything (like CO events He still hasn't :P (for a couple of weeks, at least). Go back and look at some of the games from the dawn of apterous and you'll see he was pretty useful. I did consider ...

Paul Howe

What happens if you compare the top players who used Apterous to improve their skills before going on against those that didn't? Kirk Bevins, Chris Davies, Innis Carson and Andrew Hulme are arguably the best four in the former category. Then compare them against Julian Fell, Paul Gallen, Conor Trav...

Paul Howe

GAINLESS = GLASSINE
BEESTING = BEIGNETS
SLUTTIER = SURTITLE
PLOCKIEST = STOCKPILE
BONKIEST = STEINBOK
BORKIEST = RIETBOKS

And many more. I use them quite a lot.

Oh, and my favourite, PAULNESS = SPANSULE

Paul Howe

I quite like this idea, or some variation on it. Getting all the maxes in a round is pretty hard though, I'd wager that for most players the optimal strategy is to bet 0 each round (except perhaps for rounds with a highly darrenic looking 9 or 8 + unusable letter) I also think Craig's suggestion: Pe...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZc2ylAw ... re=related

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SUSHIS maybe?

Paul Howe

Gavin Chipper wrote:Cos Paul Howe seems to have dropped off the list, and it's probably not due to a drop in his standards.

Just use this list bruv.

Paul Howe

A moment ago I was a crucial conundrum away from losing to Shaun Hegarty after being 34 points ahead.

Are large comebacks announced on the home page sidebar? If not I think they should be!

Paul Howe

Congratulations Dinos and Emma! Best wishes for a happy and prosperous future.

Paul Howe

HALLOUMIS is probably OK by the food portions in a restaurant rule.

Paul Howe

It really is time for Rafa to go, and surely it'd be sensible to do it soon, in plenty of time before next season. Really? I think he's a good manager and, based on his record at Liverpool and Valencia, deserves a chance to turn things around. Also Rooney is having a decent season and Valencia is s...

Paul Howe

Congratulations Chris, a very worthy winner indeed. All the finalists this year were superb and made it a very special occasion to watch. Here's hoping for more of the same next series!

Paul Howe

Wow. Legendary, legendary game. Congratulations to both of you for producing some of the best drama I've ever witnessed.

Paul Howe

Darren Carter wrote:Hostile? This forum is mild compared to most.

This.

I have yet to miss anyone who has stormed off in a huff.

Paul Howe

Darts is a fairly new sport (first world championship in 1978?). The levels of professionalism and dedication taken for granted in more established sports have only recently emerged in darts. Instances of Tayloresque domination are surely more common in the formative stages of any sport. In most spo...

Paul Howe

An interesting problem is to see if it's possible to come up with a pure skill (i.e. everyone has the same resources, no luck is involved) word game that still has deep strategy. There's duplicate scrabble, but as Charlie says it's not especially interesting strategically. How about something like:...

Paul Howe

I don't like Scrabble that much, which is a shame as a game combining elements of word finding and strategy should be super interesting to me. The issues for me are: 1)Individual games are too prone to luck, as covered above. Obviously the better player will emerge over a long series of games, but f...

Paul Howe

Ha, I noticed that too. Sometimes the clock drags quite noticably (maybe a multithreading issue?) and as a result you get some extra time at the end of the round. This is only an occasional issue for me, but judging from yesterday's duel results it's actually a fairly pervasive problem. Bit annoying...

Paul Howe

This is something I was thinking of whilst browsing the 'most maxes' page, how some variants seem to be nightmarishly tough whilst others are cakewalks. So, assuming we're playing with the standard dictionary and 30 seconds per round against the same opponent (Prune, for example), here's my take on...

Paul Howe

(Although actually I made no spelling or grammar mistakes there. Still see the funny side, though.) I meant that there are far more important things to focus on getting right. Like not making us look like a bunch of gay porn aficionados :) . EDIT: Sermon? Huh? Much of the thread does have a "u...

Paul Howe

penisland.net looks to be a pen supplier. penisland.com, which Alex has linked to, is a gay porn stash. Kind of puts his sermon about checking spelling and grammar into perspective.

Paul Howe

Since I couldn't attend this year it's a bit ungentlemanly of me to comment, but I'd expect more than 4 games after giving up my Saturday to play Countdown / travel costs etc. I'm guessing the qualifying rounds were the reason for this, and I'm not exactly sure what form these took, but I think a st...

Paul Howe

13 for me.

To be fair the test has correctly diagnosed me as unhip.

Paul Howe

I think 950 is gettable with a following wind, but 1000 is freakishly unlikely, you'd need a combination of very generous selections and someone playing like Paul Gallen in his CofC for it to be a realistic possibility.

Paul Howe

Not to mention Armand Jammot and Inspector Gadget.

Paul Howe

Simon (or mods), please edit your post to remove the spoiler for today's duel.

Paul Howe

Kirk Bevins wrote:And you're not allowed to vote for yourself

I'm almost tempted to vote for myself just to prove that someone else voted for me.

Paul Howe

A VFSMB to whoever correctly identifies the single hyper conundrum that ends in X. PORTMANTEAUX? Indeed. Should've posted when I knew you weren't lurking around here Paul. Try the 4 that end in I, which are more challenging I think. Right, I've been thinking about this non-stop for the last two mon...

Paul Howe

Congratulations!

Really loving David's BUMBAZED though, that was top drawer.

Paul Howe

So you think we should swear less so we can still perform what's basically a shit piece of magic? I don't really buy your argument, but I think I'd prefer not to have my lizard brain activated by the mere utterance of a magic word. It also seems strange having a go at comedians for swearing and deva...

Paul Howe

Awesome stuff, congratulations! 98mins sounds pretty rapid to me.

Paul Howe

There must be at least two cards the same suit, so you pick one of them and put the other in an agreed spot relative to the others. You now have three other random cards to use to determine the number, plus the fact that you can also have agreed that the face-down card can be higher/lower/further f...

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Does anyone still have Kirk's trainspotting letter?.......

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