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Kieran Child

cheers guys.

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I managed to host something online!!!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/645026930baef6d2/

Countdown theme on piano.

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I do loads of stuff. Mostly minimalisty ambient pap, but none of it is hosted online because I don't know anywhere that hosts music. But still, here's a little something I threw together for a friend. It's a 4 minute piano solo epic romp based on the windows shut down theme. He's since set it as his...

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=106830

^ between me and supee. It's just bad bad bad. We both are better than that game, honest.

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^You may need to think about it a bit more to find why some of those aren't legal.
Apart from despised which is quite good and I hadn't thought of that.

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it isn't completely impossible without a computer, because I know of one person who solved it without a computer (well, without using a computer program designed to solve it) Was intended to be the hardest of the 4, but if the answer is on your friends blog, please would anyone who has read that blo...

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The final stretch of your rather unconventionally word-based quest. A set of 4 puzzles so hard Friedrich Mohs used to pretend they didn't exist. 1) taking the symbols for the back row of a chess board, we see the word RNBQKBNR. Rename the pieces so that the symbols create a valid word. (3 ways) 2) w...

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Hey guys. Sorry about that. I was unexpectedly away for quite a while and couldn't get on here. I am back now, and was amused to find two pleas for the answers in my inbox :D What follows is the intended answers. There may well be others. I never cared much for eliminating cooks. 1) Chance 2) Hand o...

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The penultimate battle. A set of devious questions 1) Before which word do "fat" and "thin" mean the same thing? 2) Before which phrase do "second" and "third" mean the same thing? 3) Which word has KST in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end? 4) In wh...

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To Callum and Howard
Happy Birthday!/Merry Christmas!/Happy New Year!/Sorry about your loss [delete as applicable]
From Kieran

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I can do the birthday thing. It's the first stage of a much more impressive little feat that is taught in full here: http://mentalgym.freehostia.com/calendar.html It is impressive though, and within a couple of days you'll be able to impress others with it :) Also check out the knights tour method, ...

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1) Which monosyllabic word can be a conundrum? 2) What's the shortest (legal) word that cannot be played in scrabble? 3) Which vegetable can be spellt out by playing the letters on a piano? 4) Which word has all the vowels in REVERSE alphabetical order? 5) What's the lowest number you can multiply b...

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"It's St George's day, the day when everyone in Britain gets together and says 'is it? I thought it was in October...'" I don't celebrate it ;) Only learnt it was on April 23rd after reading Phil's post. Actually, wasn't that the date when the Stratfordian Shakespeare was born and died? If...

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There are always helpful people on here who will come to the rescue and help, or advise, or even rewrite your posts for you. I have experienced it myself. So kind of them to correct ones work. It can seriously make a person nervous about posting in case we fall short of the mark that others have se...

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Line 1: correct and then incorrect spelling of "you". Line 2: capable and then incapable usage of quotation marks. Line 3: Unreasonable and then reasonable use of exlamation marks. I quite like this guy. I find him funny. Pity he's the sort of person who gets chucked off boards. I just hop...

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I don't find this thread that weird... I actually find it kinda funny if George searches himself in the future and finds that his countdown appearance already made him famous enough to be stalkable :) To be honest, the weirdest thing is, he's not really that attractive... Also, there's no such thing...

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Reasons to be a pescatarian but not a vegetarian: Fish is healthier than other meat. Fish requires less processing than other meat. Fish are not usually fed as many antibiotics as other livestock. That being said, I don't eat fish either. One curious statistic that many vegetarians don't recognise (...

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waaah it's stopped and now I only have 2 computerized ways of playing countdown

(oh and if Jack Hurst comes on here, apologies. I didn't just run away - you were going to win and I admit that XD)

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Nah it was someone who I knew for a brief time recently who said it, a few weeks ago. Only ever watched eggheads a couple of times. It's certainly a term I hope becomes popular though.

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^ That's curious. I got the word from Vegsoc, so it's in pretty wide usage now. I have no clue where it emerged or even that it was such a modern word.
A term I heard recently and quite liked was "fish and chip-ocrite"

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Guys guys. This is a board for countdown fanatics. We're a very small section of society as it is. The last thing we need is fighting between us. Let's stick together for the greater good

Feel free to persecute goatdowners.

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You missed "freeganism" too, that's quite cool. It's people who eat out of bins. Also, wayeee! I'm veggie :D Go us. If you eat fish you're not veggie, you're "pescatarian". The easy way to distinguish is say "All the veggies in the room, put your hands up" The pescatari...

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I'm sure Nickel was a beater at one point.

Also, Rachel looked like an ice lolly.

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To be honest, I don't think there's that much point into putting masses of effort into catching and stopping cheaters. Firstly, they'll be a minority. Secondly, they cannot be getting any fun out of it (I wouldn't have thought) so they'll be gone soon enough. Thirdly, if they really do enjoy doing i...

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Just realised that the lexplorer has been renamed "word check" and isn't available to leity anymore.
Is it going to stay this way?
Or be available on weekends like the daily duel?
There doesn't seem to be info about it on the donate page. Thanks if anyone knows

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^ I don't think this is especially the board for it, but Marxism can be developped into Minarchism, where social responsibility is taken for granted. In such a society each individual (theoretically) could do what they wanted. Murray Rothbard was the first main player to say that this supported indi...

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Mine's just stopped dead. The Des' patience bar has stopped working its way across, and other applications on this computer (including java ones) are working full speed.

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Not a particularly strange game, but I liked round 2 of this, as an oddity:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=43935

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Her first couple of shows she could NOT stand up in those shoes and flicked between looking like a zombie to looking like a hobo.

She's improving. Hopefully the letters will get there.

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About the necessity of the rules being layed out beforehand: You're on a gameshow. You pick a door. You don't know the rules of this gameshow. They could be flexible. Is it a fair assumption that the host doesn't want you to get the car? If it is, then any sane host would let you open that door if i...

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The Monty Hall problem is good, so long it's worded correctly. Unfortunately, the way it was worded on the show, in an abstract situation, the better option would be to stick. In order for the better option to be change, and all the analysis to be valid, the quizmaster has to declare, before any of ...

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For the second numbers round I had a more efficient solution:
100-2=98
6-1=5
98x5=490
490x10=4,900
4,900/7=700

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I didn't intend for such disagreements about what typing is or isn't... To give credit to both sides: 1) I think this set is kinda crappy compared to my last set, but I couldn't really think of anything decent ;) and 2) The typing style is standardized, which is why you will probably have bumps on t...

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oh zing. I bet you wish you'd have posted that straight away.

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Left hand:
qwertasdfgzxcvb
Right hand:
yuiophjklnm,.

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Glad to see such enthusiasm, even though I'm aware the sequel isn't as good as the original.
Oh, and I'm also more than happy to be called a froob. Froobs are the tastiest type of yoghurt around.

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No funny business. You know full well if your answer's pushing it ;) 1) If you count up from 1, what's the first number that doesn't use a new letter? 2) If you count up from 1, what's the last letter to be introduced? 3) What's the biggest amount you can spell on the top row of letters on a keyboar...

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Very well done Howard

And thank you for implying that my puzzles are more interesting than a caravan. I'm flattered.

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Darren Carter wrote:I don't know why it does but it infuriates me when a shop assistant tells me to enter my 'PIN Number'......

D DAY
HIV Virus
ATM Machine

They're everywhere

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^Oooooh, this is more adverts than grammar. Yes I like the "up to x times" as well :) Also, things that work "with" a healthy lifestyle. Note that holding a pineapple in your hand all the time, when combined with a healthy lifestyle, will help you lose weight. The old Dolmio adve...

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I hope Kate does become octochamp. She'll overtake Kirk as the sexiest one...

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Worst ever form of ignorant advertising I saw was for some car by Ford. It had the phrase "our lowest friction tyres ever, for a smoother ride" Of course, tyres need lots of friction else they can't move. The lower friction they are, the more it feels like your car is driving on ice... In ...

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:roll: Julian's remembered because of the 146 more than anything. If you want to map this to what I said, two years before Julian's 146, the highest 15 rounder was by Ian McMenzie... Had Ian McMenzie scored 100 points higher than someone, it would have still been cool today, but no. He went and got ...

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Julian still has the record?

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^ Not lack of compassion. Just lack of Romance. If I could win by 110, I'd try to get it so I won by 100. That would be so stylish. And not get the record? Nice one. But if you get the record, then in two years time someone will beat it and you'll be forgotten. If you get exactly the same score as ...

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^ Not lack of compassion. Just lack of Romance. If I could win by 110, I'd try to get it so I won by 100. That would be so stylish.

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Nooooo. The shyest person in the world has been knocked out

After he plucked up the nerve to enter and all.
*wants to hug him better*

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1 billion = 1,000,000,000

The new system. Because when something's new, it's automatically better.

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Oh. I actually only solved Q4 for the US version, and your answer seemed good for the UK version, so I gave it a mark. Don't complain

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So much pop and rock it drives you insane...
*Brings in 90s Bristol Sound*

Show - Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man

Nicely depressing

Oh and if any of you want to feel nauseated, try a bit of "deck of cards" by Max Bygraves.

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Oh me oh my, such fire in you countdowners. Howard has got a set of 8 correct answers :D For those of you who may be annoyed by that, I hear that the US system does not use the word "and" when writing it out, so two of the answers change. Feel free to find the alternative answers :) Also o...

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oh, and no fractions. No negative numbers. No fancy business.
No saying "X cubed" then later defining X as 1337.

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Nah, don't need to PM. But that thing you did where it turns white is a nice idea, so others don't accidentally see the solution, but can if they really want to, once it's been solved.

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1) Biggest number that doesn't have an "n"? 2) Smallest number that does have an "a"? 3) Biggest number with no letters repeated? 4) Smallest number with every letter repeated? 5) Only number with same value as its number of letters? 6) Only number that spells out its value in sc...

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I'M NEW!
Pity my lack of knowledge but be jealous of my youthful naivity.
Got a lot of time at home recently, so got into countdown a couple of weeks ago. I'm not too bad though for a newbie. I don't have 0% win rate on apterous, so that's a start. Hope you guys don't bite.

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