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David Barnard

Great game, and who thinks Chris Wills is insanely cool? Long live Chris

David Barnard

Another cracking game, there, Chris could go far in this if he carries on that form

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Alternate 2nd nmbers (75-9)*(4-1)+(10-7)

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David Barnard wrote:DROMOI as an alternative 6

on rd 6

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DROMOI as an alternative 6

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ISOHYET in round 3 as a DC beater

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The night before this game, the contestants who were staying after that recording day, and the contestants who'd come for the next recording day (and I, who was basically there to get in the way and play bad pool) were at the Black Dog, which is a kind of bar-type thing somewhere in Manchester with...

David Barnard

Presumably this is on hold / cancelled due to the 30th Birthday Championship? This isn't on hold, the 30th birthday championship is the champions thing, I did this under the pretence that there wouldn't be a champion of champions event but there is now. This idea is closed although I may do a tourn...

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Surely one of Conor's phenomenal games will win it, that 116 max mocktorun was tremendously good and also the nice letter attack was great.

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Adam Gillard wrote:
David Barnard wrote:I use anahack programmed to ODE words for obscure scrambles
I F***ING KNEW IT!

Haha, implementing them is another matter

David Barnard

Also I don't know how to say this in a more polite way, but I think the majority of players here are not all that interested in what scrabble words are valid or invalid Agreed. No problems, I'll dumb myself down. Apologies to all. Sometimes it can be a learning tool knowing (in this instance) LAMIT...

David Barnard

So my journey is at an end of a rather memorable and at times a volatile series (but everything worked itself out so I wont go into it). It was so much fun sitting in the hot seat and would like to thank the countdown team for making something like this possible. I always thought I'd much rather los...

David Barnard

Well done to Heather for todays win, I must admit seeing her spot the words she did I was getting rather nervous about playing her. The semi-final was a good match though and something to look forward to watching so don't miss it

David Barnard

I went for exordia because I was completely sure that was in, I knew I had a high score chance so as soon as I heard Chris declare 7, I obviously went for the 7. My game is very up and down (as a lot of you know) and Chris was unlucky to meet me on my good day, I knew what he could do though and pic...

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Ditto on what Grant said, countdown is so different to any other gameshow because the contestants mingle an socialise after recording, I couldn't believe how after the quarter finals were recorded we all went out clubbing after and just enjoyed each others company, a truly great experience and I wis...

David Barnard

I can tell you there was some cracking match ups in this all the matches it's a must watch

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Very good post Steve, with work it's possible to do anything when you have AS, I know I was given the same mathematical skills as you through it, I guess it has it's perks but you can also train yourself to be good in social situations like I did.

David Barnard

Thanks for the comments. On my first numbers game I was trying a 937.5 trick and I meant to go (75*50)+6)*25)/100)+2. I am happy to join the club of octochamps though and did far better than I expected to

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Adam Gillard wrote:Did David just declare 5872?

Nah I said '587 too'

David Barnard

I doubt alot of people with aspergers would find this thread comfortable, as for me, I've opened up on apterous once vaguely but right now I'm keeping this close to my chest so to speak.

David Barnard

Well done David, but I thought Stella was delightful - what a shame she came up against someone in such cracking form. Stella was a lovely lady, incidentally I talked to her on the phone this evening and she was still in good spirits, the problem is she heard in the green room that she was against ...

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Just gone down again, just as Andrew was getting idolised by one of his adoring fans lol

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Down for me too

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Yep, I was actually getting somewhere with my conundrum practise

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I'll be broadcasting on 20th november, enjoy!!

David Barnard

Should be 4 large every time, same for everyone then, or am I just deluded? Andy would certainly agree with this idea

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I'll be there

Can't wait to watch a bit of talent fortunately from the audience rather than playing against it. I'm up for joining whoever is going out after filming is done for the day.

David Barnard

Although Nick comes across quite awkward on CD, I am quite a fan. On Have I Got News For You he is quite sharp and funny. Off camera, I found him to be utterly charming and he seemed genuinely interested in me (he is quite interested in autism actually, as he has friends with autistic children)...I...

David Barnard

Down at 1:30 am, at least I can go to bed now and hope it's up when I get up. P.S, was right in the middle of a spoilage numbers attack personal best so would have been nice to finish

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I got to 621 in 30 seconds doing 23*27 but that's all

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118 I think, I got 2 niners but blobbed the last numbers game the 2 9's are POLITESSE in round 2 and LITREAGES in round 8

David Barnard

Crapterous is definitely......well, not crap, very useful and thanks Peter and Graeme for putting some useful stuff on here when apterous has been down. I'll definitely use it as much as I can when apterous goes down

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David Barnard wrote:105

missed 2 numbers games, I'm sure they're possible somehow

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A real pity Apterous is unavailable. For those who would like to try something else, I started to write a book with the help of Charlie's website and practised. found it a great help, it contain pages with the scrambled word and the correct ones on the same page. Great practice to cover up the answ...

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A real pity Apterous is unavailable. For those who would like to try something else, I started to write a book with the help of Charlie's website and practised. found it a great help, it contain pages with the scrambled word and the correct ones on the same page. Great practice to cover up the answ...

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Mark Deeks wrote:Jessica, everyone else who loses does so without whining. You may not see the need to apologise for who you are, but perhaps understand how being who you are impresses upon others. Oh and Countdown owes you nothing so treat it accordingly - that is to say, with respect.

Here here

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Gonna try n answer all your questions in one here.. Bear with me! I am actually an apterite (Eoin's doing he wanted to play me, now somebody tell him to come to the WYSC) And Oli.. I will be attacking u with stinky socks on the way up to Bradford! I actually did originally mention u in the original...

David Barnard

I agree with people that say that there needs to be more mental maths in schools, but the problem is the structure of the lessons, it is all made to be boring and are told how to solve a maths problem and you are not told how it comes in handy in later life. For example for estimating distances you ...

David Barnard

I randomly selected the numbers so some may be impossible, I'm sure all the spoilage ones are possible as I rarely see an impossible one

David Barnard

Ok here are a few puzzles which are a bit tougher than standard numbers, There is 13 puzzles so 10 minutes is the target time to do all these (accounting for extra time given with hyper and writing down), tot up your scores and share them if you want. HYPER 4,8,10,9,4,10,3,2 (2088) 200,2,3,6,4,8,9,4...

David Barnard

I was the same as Martin, 418 on round 13 and 872 on round 17, I got all the other ones though, I'll put some different puzzles on here in an hour or so for you all to attempt

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Any idea when apterous is going to be back up again?

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Clicking on http://www.apterous.org/ gives this message: apterous will be back shortly. Sorry for the delay, the new setup is having some teething problems. apterous is going to be unavailable for a few days. We've had a serious hardware failure that we're wrestling to fix. Obviously subscriptions ...

David Barnard

Seeing this thread made me think how I like salt, for me if I have some chips with anything I have to put salt on the chips or it is so fucking bland it's unbelievable. I however leave salt out of anything the chips are with, like a burger, I'll tend to get supermarket burgers and put in chilli and ...

David Barnard

Ok, I'll get back to it, I'll run a few tournaments to start off and see how it goes, by the way, it is still on, it will just have to wait a bit.

David Barnard

I was thinking of running it knockout style, I'll try and get in touch with some of the big names that have won series as well they need time to get used to apterous but at the moment I'm trying to get names, I see Chris Wills is on facebook so might try and get him involved in the mix, I can try an...

David Barnard

Since talk has already started of this then I dont want to put this off, so it is still on, and it's my first tournament I have organised so may as well start with a bang, I've had experience of organising tournaments at my golf club so I'm not new to it by any means. Kirk Bevins also replied to my ...

David Barnard

Yep, down for me too, I can get to the start screen but can't get onto the game

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Cheers for the suggestions Conor, the only problem with asking contestants who are not on apterous is that it would be near impossible to get in contact with them all and valuable time will be wasted, however I will extend it to 32 players from the past 16 series. So there could well be room for pla...

David Barnard

Ok so we already have 4 entrants to the supreme championships, provisional rankings are as follows 1.Ed McCullagh (11 wins 1230 points) 2.Chris Davies (11 wins 1219 points) 3.Graeme Cole (11 wins 1117 points) 4.Jack Worsley (11 wins 1064 points) So there is 12 more places available for those who wan...

David Barnard

Love the idea of this. I'd maybe give it an extra week to wait for responses though as a week is maybe quite short notice. Agree with Gev about Aptomailing (or Facebookmail for those you have on there), and make a ticket or something on Apterous so people know about it. Also, more details about set...

David Barnard

As countdown wont be having a c of c and some interest from other people in regards to a supreme chamionship on apterous I have as promised seeded the last 16 winners of the series, these have priority for obvious reason. 1. Jack Hurst (11 wins 1276 points) 2. Kirk Bevins (11 wins 1245 points) 3. Cr...

David Barnard

Ok after some people agreeing with my idea of a supreme championship on apterous, my idea would be to find out the top 16 players from the past 16 series (or as far back as is required to make 16 players) that are on apterous and invite them to play in an apterous supreme championship, I'll run it. ...

David Barnard

Down for me I'm afraid

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looks like Grant is going to octo this, that's 3 now, which is rather worrying, this isn't a spoiler though, this is just what I suspect he'll do

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Some of the players are probably too good now, the general public like to play along from what I've heard

David Barnard

I had a great time and apologies to anyone if I seemed abit awkward talking to you on a one on one conversation, I can find it difficult to make conversation around new people but I should be different next time, see you all at the next meet :D You didn't seem awkward at all to me, for what it's wo...

David Barnard

Thanks Adam for the hard work it took to make these puzzles, some really tough ones in there so much of my 5 hour journey back home was spent thinking over them so it flew by. Thanks David! I had fun setting them, and tried to include some trickier ones in there. This was my first foray into crossw...

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