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TURNSOLE.

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Just a quick one to tell you that I have an audition in Paris for DCeDL later this month. Ooh. La. Vache. Jeff Bonne chance! I watched the show last week to revise for my AS oral exam, saw PLEURANTE but as I think it's only worth nine points, rather than eighteen, it failed to distract me from bein...

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] Questions 1. Don't know 2. J 3. Manilla 4. La Paz 5. Hardness 6. Don't know 7. Brian McFadden married Kerry Katona 8. King Charles? 9. Magellan 10. Don't know 11. In the hand (I broke it when I ran into a wall a few years ago) 12. Wyoming 13. Sammy Lee 14. Don't know 15. Knight 16. Lake Baikal 17...

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FRAMBOISE and TAWNINESS.

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ORGASMING

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SARCENET was missed by DC I think.

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I've played on something like that in an airport where you had to answer some general knowledge questions and then you played a letters/numbers round for points. I managed to play one letters and one numbers game before I got a couple of random questions on 70s pop music wrong and lost my money.

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David O'Donnell wrote:I think the point that Damian, Charlie and Ben are trying to make is that stating there is a correlation between high scores and skill (I am an exception) is so obvious it's not even worth stating.

I wasn't trying to make the point, I was trying to show how bleeding obvious it is.

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Gevin-Gavin wrote:The point is that there is a positive correlation between high scores and skill.

Revolutionary.

You know, I think I've seen the same thing in football and rugby and cricket and basketball and golf and...

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Any news on the final?

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4 x (75 + 100/50) - 25

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Michael Wallace wrote:Wasn't SLOUCHES there in round 9?

Also LOUCHEST.

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Another easy conundrum was the recent scramble of MICROWAVE which kept M-ICRO at the start, I read it as MICROWAVE and spent 10 seconds trying to work out what it could be.

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Bet he regrets going for 6 small.

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David O'Donnell wrote:I bet Paul Howe would get the TTT in a split second since he came up with this word against Ben Pugh in their semi-final game.

You can bet that I got it in a split second!

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6 vowels and valid in the OED: AUDITORIA EQUIPOISE IONOPAUSE QUILEGIA EQUIVOQUE AUDACIOUS MEIOFAUNA AUDIOBOOK BOOBOISIE AUBRIETIA DIOECIOUS OLEACEOUS LEUKAEMIA OLIGAEMIA RELIQUIAE ARAUCARIE BEAUTEOUS IDEOLOGUE AUTOROUTE OCEANARIA AUDIOTAPE 1 vowel, valid in the OED: SCHMALTZY TWELFTHLY FLYSPECKS CHR...

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6 vowels is the most in a nine letter word, of which there are quite a few, such as LEUKAEMIA, AUDITORIA, IDEOLOGUE, AUDACIOUS and best of all BOOBOISIE.

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Joseph Bolas wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:can you have a POSTURER?
Although not the maximum, this word is allowed .

PRAETORS + any vowel = 9.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:I think it was mentioned on Countdown once before that STRENGTHS is the only one-vowel 9-letter word.

There are loads, SPRIGHTLY, LYNCHPINS, SKYLIGHTS etc.

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Match 4.

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Final should be starting soon.

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Thank you very much, good luck to you in your finals and to everyone else in their exams.

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Craig Beevers wrote:Online games mean fractionally more than nothing.

Because...?

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Does she have to do it every round?

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No, what's the point? It's hardly like any of the current sub-forums are suffering under the weight of puzzles.

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Jason Larsen wrote:By the way, Jon, you're right about Conor Travers. He grew up to be a very silly, but still nice guy.

What?

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MALEATE.

DC bizarrely had MALATE but not the 7.

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I'd like to play.

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It wasn't that hard. The first thing you look for with that set of letters is a word ending in '-TION', which BATTALION almost ends in.

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FESSED.

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CANTORIAL

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He has to win 7 before he overtakes Barry Smith.

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Joseph Bolas wrote:is JaCu going getting a cyber ass-kicking, time will tell .

You've already done that by posting the spoilers thread before him.

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Wasn't very impressed with the Conundrum scramble, with M-CRO at the start.

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MUSCATEL

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ENSNARE.

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Paul Zenon's tricks.

The worst is the lists read out by Rick Wakeman/Richard Digance, when I watch Countdown I don't want to hear my spam e-mails being read out loud.

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BOUNTIES

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jasoncullen wrote:KLOOFED

They had POLKAED in that round anyway.

Still, nice to know someone on the forum is clued-up on the subject of South African topography.

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LITOPTERN.

As seen not by me, but by Mr. C. Ountmax.

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Not a GOOD dress.

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IRONCLAD.

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mikebuk wrote:OUTPLACES as an anagram of COPULATES ?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pVkFdU32JPw

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I got stuck on WANKED in that last letters game.

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LEUKAEMIA, KETONURIA, DEODORANT, PATRIARCH, NURSEMAID.

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INTRANSIGENT.

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V is VACILLATE.

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Ok guys you know the drill. Apologies if its either; been seen on tv, repeated before in this forum or has more than one solution :oops: 1. MAZETOILS 2. DORKYHEEL 3. TREATMIXE 4. HOMEEWALL 5. TEACHMECK 6. GARRYPOUT 7. LONGYOATH 8. UREACHTIM 9. BITTERYUM 10. WIDEYFIRM 11. DURINJUNE 12. PHONEDORM 13....

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I've not spent a long time looking at them but WHITEWASH, ZYGOMATIC, PLOUGHMAN, YOUNGSTER and SOLILOQUY jumped out at me. I don't know what the X one is, it's not in the OED whatever it is.

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I can play tonight, my email address is benjpugh@hotmail.com but this is the last day I can play as I have a German exchange student coming tomorrow, so if Mark can't play tonight then DoD will have to replace me.

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jasoncullen wrote:FILANDER (8)

It's actually PHILANDER.

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They should have some pretty unkown 17 yr old girl, wired up to Jon O'Neill getting the answers I hope I'm not the only one who's now imagining Conor in a wig... Doesnt Conor have long hair anyway? And does anyone else think 'lickle liam' out of shameless is starting to look like Conor? No, not at ...

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Basically I can only play tomorrow. I presume Mark is still having problems with his Internet connection?

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QUANGLE, as in Quangle Wangle Quee and his hat, a gut-wrenching omission from the OED.

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TAPROOMS.

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Charlie Reams wrote:I think it's Saturday lunchtime, but that's Unofficial.

It is? I'm in Poland from Friday to Monday, so I can't play then. I'll step aside and let someone else (one of the other wildcards) play Mark if that's the only time he can play.

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Z is ZEUGMATIC.

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Martin Smith wrote:I don't know how well I did on this one, as I came up with five potentially-scoring words which I wasn't sure of and weren't mentioned. As well as SOLOES and AVIATED, I had DANCIER, MUSICS (almost certainly a mass noun) and OUTRAN. Are those okay?

No, no, yes.

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LEVATORS.
RELATORS.
REALTORS.

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