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Philip Wilson

Did I detect an element of pacification towards Derek from Nick after the game?
Would have been cool to hear what followed Nick's comment about dacoits on the London Underground

Philip Wilson

I don't know if I'd have seen this or not, but out of the corner of my eye I saw Susie laughing to the DC guest so I knew there was something funny there and then it jumped out at me. My reaction was one of sheer bewidlerment and Richard made comments about it before asking for my word so there was...

Philip Wilson

Did I see Nick go to Mike for first go at one of Dylan's numbers games? If so, I'm wondering if Nick noticed maybe Mike didn't write it down. Could have saved an embarrassing situation and wouldn't have affected the outcome of the game, so if so, well done Nick!

Philip Wilson

Well done Dylan. Round 10: Thought Dylan said WATERMAN and Susie corrected it to WATERMEN. Dylan given benefit of doubt as I'm sure he "wrote it down" as such although Susie didn't ask. Even so, massive performance by Dylan to beat the record b 9 points. Well done from both of us. Mauro/J...

Philip Wilson

Apologies if this has been asked before, but has a teatime teaser solution ever appeared in subsequent rounds in the same programme? If so did the contestants solve it [assuming there wasn't a 9 letter word in that round to win with]? Or perhaps if this happens, do they just record a new teatime te...

Philip Wilson

Apologies if this has been asked before, but has a teatime teaser solution ever appeared in subsequent rounds in the same programme? If so did the contestants solve it [assuming there wasn't a 9 letter word in that round to win with]? Or perhaps if this happens, do they just record a new teatime tea...

Philip Wilson

Eoin Monaghan wrote: shame that the luck of draw saw you knocked off sure octochampdom

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Phyl Styles: "The obvious thing to bear in mind is that Zarte didn't meet Dylan by chance, he met him because someone decided he would meet him" ??

Philip Wilson

In 30 years of Countdown, no player has been more than 21 points behind with three rounds left and gone on to win. Rory broke that record today - he won having been 26 behind going into R13. What an amazing finish! And Rory was Still 8 points behind with less than 5 seconds to go in the conundrum!!...

Philip Wilson

Not sure how Maragaret managed to win that as Niall was a good player. However there were several maxes that even Susie missed including a 9 - anyone get them? My favourite alt on the numbers today was (50-5+2)x7=329. My method was almost the same: (50-(6/2))x7. I didn't expect Niall to miss the qu...

Philip Wilson

Alt 2nd numbers: (100+6)x8 +9 - 75. After the disallowing of stowages, Rachel seemed to be 'very' helpful to Margaret with a numbers round that she didn't seem to have done properly at all. Maybe if the stowages round hadn't happened, the producer would have stopped all that outside help! As an 'out...

Philip Wilson

Tony Atkins wrote:Various alts on 380: ((8x6)-9-1)x10 or (6x75)-((8-1)x10) etc

((75+1) x10) / (8-6) jumped out at me

Philip Wilson

Maybe because it was shown at 3.30? Just a thought. Sky+HD seems to cope ok with changes like that, maybe Sky+ doesn't.

Philip Wilson

Countdown recap for Tuesday 9 July 2013. Round 2: T C E I S T Y E R C1: SITTER (6) C2: ICIEST X DC: CITES (5) RECITES (7) OT: SYRETTE (7) TERCETS (7) TESTIER (7) TIERCES (7) TRISECT (7) Score: 13–0 (max 14) More possible nerves from Tom as he sees an extra I so June goes further in front. There wer...

Philip Wilson

Alt 1st numbers: (100 + (5x3)) x (9-3)

Philip Wilson

Cool to see a contestant from the south-west in Tom

Philip Wilson

It wasn't only Dan who seemed really nervous to me, but June did also. For example, it was well into the game before she allowed Rachel to say what the first letter was before asking for her second, and she didn't acknowledge Rachel at all at the beginning like other contestants do. These things mus...

Philip Wilson

Hmm, so how many times does Nick mention a contestant's opponent's name from two shows previous?! That was weird!!!
Wonder why Susie thought we were eating biscuits! I was waiting for the connection with bogeys [bogies] and she never mentioned them again!!

Philip Wilson

I hope I'm putting this in the right place, it follows on from whether AA knows about the answers in advance. I watched an episode the other night, [I am about 3 weeks behind btw so this was from the first week of June, and one or two shows before the change to the final game]. Anyway, in the head t...

Philip Wilson

Paused the last numbers and took about 2 minutes to eventually come up with the same method as Giles for 951 to even get within 10! Then RR does it so easily with 9 x 105 and now reading the recap I've spotted the much more straightforward ((10+9) x2 x 25) - 6 + 1. Hindsight is wonderful :) Anyone n...

Philip Wilson

Would I have been allowed 'overcuts' in the round that had 'cutovers'? Would have been more appropriate for a Tailor :lol: [Sorry :D ] Afraid not, Philip. Just CUTOVERS and COUVERTS in that round. :) There was IDEOGRAM in round 10 though. 8-) That's shocking!! It should be a noun And a verb!! Oh we...

Philip Wilson

Would I have been allowed 'overcuts' in the round that had 'cutovers'? Would have been more appropriate for a Tailor

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Philip Wilson

What a game for the neutral! Usually best at the numbers I was even sitting here with Peter's 9 that Giles missed and my gasp was probably as loud as the audience's - together with the ooh's when Cecil delivered his final target! Love how Rachel encourages the tension too. Brilliant.

Philip Wilson

Countdown recap for Monday 10 June 2013. Glen takes his third conundrum spot in four games. While his other two were on 28-29 seconds, he polishes off this one in short order, but tomorrow, no doubt Nick, will pointedly mention that he scored eight lower than he did yesterday. After today we've got...

Philip Wilson

Another alt for 3rd numbers, avoiding the large:
(6-1) x (9-2) x 10

Philip Wilson

Also the clock was on minus a half second when it started. They say the mechanism is wearing out and needs replacing - several times during the following afternoon's recordings they had to reset the hand to the top by human hand. Makes sense. It was showing 59.5 seconds during the intros today [Tue...

Philip Wilson

James Robinson wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:Alt 2nd numbers game: 50 - 3 x 2 x 9 - 7
That equals -11.

Oops, I just left out the brackets: (50-3)x(2x9)-7.

Philip Wilson

Peter Mabey wrote: BTW it was a surprise that the INCORRECT display wasn't used for the conundrum.

Also the clock was on minus a half second when it started.
Alt 2nd numbers game: 50 - 3 x 2 x 9 - 7

Philip Wilson

James Robinson wrote: That sounds like Jeffrey Burgin from Series 61 to me.

That's him! Thanks James, and so quick! I'm sure I googled that name before and someone else appeared. So finally beaten by Innis then

Philip Wilson

Ok, well a few weeks ago while the closing credits were rolling I spotted the two contestants were chatting to each other, which seemed rather good and a change from sitting there which can appear a bit 'awkward'. Anyway that's just my view, but it reminded me of a contestant a few years ago who use...

Philip Wilson

Hi, so is it ok to ask a question about a certain contestant here? This has been bugging me for weeks now!!

Philip Wilson

What do we make of Rachel deliberately showboating these numbers games? Is it better to provide a more "obvious" solution? I'd actually like to see Rachel explain [briefly] why she does things sometimes. I mean when taking a small number away from the big number before multiplying. Eg 50-...

Philip Wilson

Tony Atkins wrote: Alt to ragfish of HOAGIES

I had fishrag, but then I might have just been trying to second guess Jo

Philip Wilson

And I did:
(25 + 2) x (9 + 3) - 5 - 5
But far too many 25's and targets in the 300's today

Philip Wilson

Jordan F wrote:
Alt. 3rd numbers: (100+9) x 3 + 50 + 1

I thought this is what Rachel was going to do when she made a mistake by using the 3 twice. She might have just forgot to 'say' add the 100 + 9 together first and didn't like to correct herself. Or perhaps not!

Philip Wilson

I'm totally with Janet about 'rewash' not being allowed! If Susie lived in Falmouth it would have been in long ago, with they pesky seagulls flying around ******** all over your car when you just washed it!

Philip Wilson

Countdown recap for Wednesday 22 May 2013. Round 3: 50, 25, 10, 4, 4, 5. Target: 920. C1: 925. Timed out by Nick. C2: 920. Mistake in working. RR: 920. (50 - 4) x 4 x 5 (10) Score: 13–13 (max 23) Unlucky there for mark who presumably was about to do (25 - 10 /5) x 4 x 10 ... or indeed (25 - 10 /5) ...

Philip Wilson

Thanx for that! Btw when I said about multiplying by 16 [thinking about having the 75 on both occasions the same target appeared] I should have said 10, for the chances of having the same large number [if one is chosen] in any 2 rounds [25,25 : 25,50 : 25,75 : 25,100 : 50,50 : 50,75 : 50,100 : 75,75...

Philip Wilson

893 appears twice on the same show, both times with 75 as the one chosen large number. I tried to work out the probability of that but got lost after 1 in 810,000 as there are 4 chances and maybe I should multiply by 16 as well? Help!!

Philip Wilson

Oh I forgot that - also I wouldn't have been able to spell reinvigorated

Philip Wilson

Noticed RR didn't say Round 6 was impossible like sometimes. Wonder if she got it later but it was cut for time, as it wasn't that difficult?

Liking this new thing of telling us the next DC guest!

Philip Wilson

Hi, Oops I posted something already so I didn't post here first :( Sorry. Well I've watched Countdown pretty much from the start off and on but in the last 10 years I hardly missed any. I applied once back in 1983 but didn't get on :( Really pleased to have found this site - I think the champ of cha...

Philip Wilson

Sorry I'm so behind here, almost 2 weeks, [blame snooker], but I should catch up soon with all the racing! I was going to say in Round 6 when Eileen erroneously started explaining her method with 9 '+' 5, she probably actually did 9 '-' 5 to give 4, then x 8 x 25 = 800 - 7 to reach 793 that she decl...

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