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Jon O'Neill

Dead babies

Jon O'Neill

I voted letters... I just find it more interesting. For example, if I miss a numbers game I never bother to check the solution cos it's massively unlikely that I'll learn something new. But I'm always keen to know what I missed, even if I do end up kicking myself lots.

Jon O'Neill

Thanks mate.

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Cheers for posting Dan, I enjoyed playing along.

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Errr, doesn't anyone know she cheats?

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Absolutely brilliant.

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I'm going to join the David Mitchell brigade, because it seems like what all the cool people are doing. Also, I would like Phil Mitchell.

Jon O'Neill

3 letters maxes between them in the final.. It's like I've always said: women belong in Dictionary Corner.

Jon O'Neill

If this is like the par score on UKGameshows, then one criticism is that it punishes disallowed words harshly. I don't think it does. If a player has an eight disallowed and their opponent gets a seven, then the program puts their offering down as a six (offering nonwords should be punished, but no...

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Actually, I think I might've misunderstood what your program is actually doing. My new initial response is: well done!

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I have always maintained that the most accurate idea of how good a player is (after actually looking at every round and judging by brains) is maxima scored, where Paul Howe will be much higher I would've thought.

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If he turns out to be shit, my dreams will be shattered.

Only kidding. Anyway, as for "a safe 9", there's that story where Chris Cummins's opponent said "I'll stick with a 5" and he said "I'll stick with a 9". Bahahaha!

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Paul Howe wrote:I'll try a layman's explanation anyway. A continuous probability distribution is represented by a graph of a function that is always positive, and the area underneath the graph is 1.....

Sure.

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Oh really? I didn't know that. Anyway, this time, just to avoid any chance that there might be someone who doesn't get selected for the poll, we should do every player. Start with Series 1. Go!

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Do a series of polls of every player ever, in knockout format.

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With the possible exception of Allan saldanha. Based only on the Saldanha games I've seen on The Countdown Page, I would say Paul Howe on the form he showed was a much stronger player; Saldanha did miss plenty but was also very capable of streaks of brilliance. Of course, Saldanha also gets a load ...

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No, you're right, a little bit of a fuckup. Probably didn't happen like that in the studio though.

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PROTEASE is a nice 8.

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994 (two away)

((75+50)/25*100-3)*2

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I'm going for the Dagenham bird. Sorry Dave-o.

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At their respective peaks, the best are Gallen and Beevers. The most impressive ever are Julian for his word defining and Hansford for being weird.

These are indisputable truths.

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If by charitable you mean religious charity, a religion-based charity or the RSPB, then I still don't give a shit. Otherwise, I retract my abuse.

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It is the link, yes. I believe MG wrote some stuff on 4 from the top but Jerry's page is the definitive one.

Alternatively, you can pay £5 for Stuart Earl's e-book, which unceremoniously copies this and other pages from around the internet.

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I stretched the rules a bit on this, but I think it depends how lenient Carol feels, which probably depends on how drunk she is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQo6PwS358

He seems to get away with it. Imagine if she had stopped him before the best numbers game ever?

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Fuck it, back to the mailing list. It's impossible to log out over there.

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I don't have the order the letters came out in, so these are my best guesses. Jono vs. Joe Bolas Round 2, Game 1. Hosted by Conor Travers ROUND ONE - A E I O D H K T Y Jono: IODATE (6) Joe: TODAY (5) DC: KAYOED, OKAYED (6) 6-0 ROUND TWO - A E E I O D S S V Jono: DEVISES (7) Joe: ADVISES (7) DC: ADIO...

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I think it means we are mathematical soulmates. I'll bring the graph paper, you bring the lube.

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I can tell you.

It was cancelled. The medium got sick. She can talk to the dead but she can't cure the common cold. Sucks to be her.

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I'm gonna dissect my games later so I might put up a couple if they are worthwhile.

Sorted!

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I got 19, but I know my times tables.

Jon O'Neill

Can only echo the things been said already. Such a friendly atmosphere, it makes me want to hug everyone. Looking forward to Bristol and COLIN '09 where hopefully I can get to talk some more to the people I missed out on talking to this time (Christine, Howard are the ones that spring to mind) and b...

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Conor's plan to hold a magnet under the table causing Stewart's robotic hands to lock to it whereupon he would steal the Scrabble Grand Master's glasses, put them on, arrogantly sip a glass of water and eat a pringle before declaring nine took a turn for the worst when it interfered with Dave's pace...

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Yeah, that method is basically the first thing that gets tried in this case. Next is 180*4 and I probably spent the next 10 seconds looking at that, and the rest just looking for ridiculous things like going up and dividing by 25 because the selection is pretty horrible. That's the best thing about...

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Best thread on the forum so far.

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Yeah, that method is basically the first thing that gets tried in this case. Next is 180*4 and I probably spent the next 10 seconds looking at that, and the rest just looking for ridiculous things like going up and dividing by 25 because the selection is pretty horrible. That's the best thing about ...

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My first suggestion (excluding the suggestion to have this thread) is that I think that there are too many subforums, and that this could be cut down. Back on the Yahoo group, there wasn't even one "forum", but just a single thread. Obviously that was lacking, but I think maybe it's gone ...

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What do you guys reckon? :mrgreen: I reckon a suggestion thread is a good idea. That's the only suggestion I liked though. Re-introducing spoiler space? Retarded, when we have the facility to get around such a crude technique. I think maybe the recap and spoiler threads could be merged with the day...

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Nice one, you freak.

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As soon as I saw that list I immediately thought of something. There was a topic I started one day where an 'M' had been turned upside down and was used as a 'W' because I asked, if that was an 'M' would've it have made a longer word. Well remembered. It was definitely an upside-down M, because the...

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Maybe they got someone new to shuffle them. When I think about how subjective to the shuffler the distribution is, that makes a lot of sense. When I saw the lady do it there was no particular method, no algorithm, just the unwritten rules in her head.

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Isn't Richard Brittain a former Brainteaser winner? Yep, and he hates Jews. Ahem, what happened to our informal agreement to refrain from discussing RB's political views in the forum? No, no, you are mistaken.. that was the mailing list. In fact, I'm petitioning for an entire RB section for discuss...

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Conor wrote:Pancakes.

You HAVE to go to My Old Dutch Pancake House in Holborn for breakfast or brunch sometime. Seriously mate, you will never look back.

Get one of their milkshakes as well. It's the definition of orgasmic.

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StusyBaby wrote:Isn't Richard Brittain a former Brainteaser winner?

Yep, and he hates Jews.

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Sounds shit to me.

Only joking.. Come on down!

Jon O'Neill

My name's Jon O'Neill and I like four from the top.

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Basically the only things missing that I would like to see (not because they're missing from the mailing list days, but because I'm a bit greedy) are Quick Responses, where instead of loading a new page to respond you can just type it in.. I think it's a vBulletin thing but maybe there is a mod or s...

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