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Bradley Horrocks

At one point Jeff either got ANDOSOL as a 6, or dream me found ANDOSOL in the selection but for whatever reason the selection was thrown over to the audience where Nick Hewer noticed Bra off his seat with his hand up when Nick asked if anyone could do better. After giving him a very elaborate intro...

Bradley Horrocks

Hi Terence, http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9519&p=140469&hilit=ask+graeme+consonant#p140469 is a good read if you want a rough guide, it is from 5 years ago but it's fair to assume not much has changed. No one here knows the exact distribution of the letters on the show...

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 5:53 pm
How good are you at countdown Elliott?

I'd say he's odds on to win a teapot.

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Loser of #5 is going to be gutted.
Certainly some epic contests from the word go!

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Congratulations on octochampdom Toby! 882 is a great score given a relative shortage of 9s, could've easy been 900 with 1 more. 8 centuries too (I'm jealous

)

I wasn't in the audience for your QF so I'm looking forward to it!

Bradley Horrocks

Agreed, Ell, J E and yourself for example

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2018-04-22 11:16:38 Your new teaser is ETIODOIP. You have 60 seconds to answer! 2018-04-22 11:16:45 Matty Artell says: diopoite 2018-04-22 11:16:54 Matty Artell says: i poo diet 2018-04-22 11:17:06 Sean Fletcher says: does it lead to a SORE PENIS 2018-04-22 11:17:39 Time's up and no one got it! The...

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I had a go at this, this morning. I've managed to get 20 of them, and figured out the first letters for the rest. Answers in tiny text 01. P... 02. YESSIRRED 03. FLAMBEAUX 04. G... 05. CHORISTER 06. RISTRETTO 07. LUBRICATE 08. APISHNESS 09. OVERDRINK 10. EUPHONIUM 11. ULTRACOLD 12. INVARIANT 13. D.....

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:09 pm Winners so far:
Board 1 - Bra (good fluke:P)
Board 2 - Stephen

Bully!

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In case anyone hasn’t seen my answers, I’ll make them tiny...

R1: BANDITO
R2: INTERVALS
R3: 939 (via 937.5

)
R4: OUTSHONE
R6: 532 (25-3*2)*4*(8-1)
R7: PERORATES
R8: ADOPTIVE
R9: 705 (100-6)*8-50+3
R10: HOSTAGE
R11: OXTAIL
R12: EXPIATE
R13: POSTBOX
R14: (50-8+7)*(6+6)

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:31 am Too difficult for you though wasn't it
God Bra, try harder!

Some things with or without apterous remain constant

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:24 am
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:22 am Anyone for:
R9 - Numbers - 100 75 50 25 5 5 @984
R12 - Letters - UEAWZQNHP
?
I'm impatient:
984 = (100*50-75-5)/5
WHENUA

Neat 4L trick, that wasn’t so difficult really. WHENUA hoping for us to get words like WHENUA, you may be waiting longer than Apto coming back up

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:09 am Paturons is the 8 you're thinking of I think.

Indeed.

Tom S wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:09 am I think the conundrum is something ending in -pam, like Lazorepam or something like that...

Ah yeah, still stuck on how to juggle the letters

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:02 am
Bradley Horrocks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:01 am
I can definitely get it up to 10... Hopefully someone can fill in the gaps!
Well then...

568 can be done by 9*9*7+3/3 (a cool 5 small solve

)

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Fred Whibley wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 10:57 am R11: OUTSPRANG (18)

Ah good spot! This wasn’t the extra 9 I’d seen, that was in fact PARENETIC in R1.

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 10:52 am
8 maxes I make that, not bad at all considering there is a fair bit of obscura hidden throughout!

I knew there had to be with you setting it

I can definitely get it up to 10, there might be something like veetees or teevees in R13. Hopefully someone can fill in the gaps!

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Here’s what I got in 30 seconds: R1: PICTARNE (8) R2: UNCOUTH (7) R3: 596 (10) R4: ATOMISED (8) R5: NAVICERTS (18) R6: 566 (7) R7: GROUCHY (7) R8: MATELOTS (8) R9: 985 (7) R10: BUFFOON (7) R11: poturans (0) - always forget how to spell that one. R12: QUEAN (5) R13: STEEVE (6) R14: 451 (10) R15: not ...

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Down for me at the moment.

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Opiumate R5

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Very well played both, it was just Zarte's superior numbers which made the difference in the end. Let's hope for a rematch, with a crucial too this time (if that's not being too picky

)

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And Graeme's 8th win makes a certain audience member very relieved indeed!

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Also had one where me and Bradley Horrocks had decided to take the public bus matters in to our own hands and hijack some buses to learn how to drive them. We waited for them to arrive at Oldham bus station and then hijacked them as the drivers. We then seemingly drove to the middle of nowhere and ...

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:05 pm Opposite me was what was made out to be Ian Birdman also in a hospital bed.

Haha to the story. But how did you make it out to be Ian Birdman? What does he look like?

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2 is BOATSWAIN. I feel like I know 1 but can't think of it!

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ANTIQUER in Roger's studio

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NOBLEITE to beat DC in R2

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Jojo Apollo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:27 pm Excellent contest chaps. Well done Bradley on making the final, good match play there. Well done John on making the final four.

Was the note passed at the end to do with the last numbers round?

It was, I was showing John what I thought was 924, but I was wrong about that too, haha.

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What a contest.

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Back for me, think it’s fine now.

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Tom S wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:34 pmdown @ mo

Yep, was just about to post the same

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Just what we want, unpredictability:)

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We’d have a runaway leader had anyone managed both to predict both QF2 and QF3!

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I don't wish to rain on Bradley's parade as he has been very enjoyable to watch and I was rooting for him, but PIENETA was incorrectly spelled. It should be PEINETA (from PEINE - Spanish for comb). It may, however, just be that Rachel put it up on the board incorrectly. Thanks Karen, that was it, i...

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Cheers Ray & Samir! If he had declared 814, it would have been a 14 point swing, would have won by 8. It was tense in the studio watching it! Quite right, if all the other rounds had gone the same. So it was quite fortunate for me! Maybe it made up for the awkwardness of some of the letters roun...

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TELLINA as a less significant beater in same round

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I'm guessing that Emma may have been the reserve contestant they needed to bring in after Bradley octoed and they needed an extra person for the session. Still, she quite narrowly escaped a single-digit score here. I should be able to remember if she was in the green room or not, with her pink hair...

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Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:26 pm Summary for Bradley Horrocks.........

I've been looking forward to this, cheers Martin

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:26 pm Congrats Bradley on fluking your way to 8 wins;-)
Seriously though, some very impressive spots in your run - you've certainly taken a fair few rounds of me - PIENETA was lovely!

PEINETA was a nice dazza, yes.

Bradley Horrocks

Thank you both! I did better than I expected and enjoyed the whole occasion (game 4 was a bit hairy though!). I had a whopping 1 day's rest between game 8 and QF. How that impacted me, we'll see.

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Jason declared PISSER in R1 but was asked to retake with a nicer word! Hence the bad cut where Nick told Jason his gamble paid off. Surely they could have just bleeped it, like with GOBSHITE a few weeks ago (and it was shown on the board), or have Channel 4 had their knuckles wrapped for it? The di...

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I must have been switched on that round, I had an obscure 8 in PEASECOD before seeing the 9.

Jason declared PISSER in R1 but was asked to retake with a nicer word! Hence the bad cut where Nick told Jason his gamble paid off.

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Saw RECITATOR out of time. Didn't know of the others.

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Any my dream of making the finals is over!! (in TV time anyway) Well played Bradley, I guess it will take something special to stop you making the finals from here. And well done and good luck to everyone in the finals. I'm sorry Phil to be the person who relegated you into 9th seed, had Graeme los...

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:43 pm FLOURLIKE in r2. I don't care that it's not valid, it should be.

I knew it wouldn't be in, but I said ‘stick with a 7’ as a tribute to your love of flour

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Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:38 pm Surprised Bradley could concentrate with all the hotties on the show today.

If hotties had come up, I should have done an Eoin
"This one's for all of you ladies, hotties"

Her boyfriend might have punched my lights out after though

Bradley Horrocks

All my beaters have been said :( I don't know who thought Bradley was good enough for the show, can't believe he didn't spot RAMPANTLY and as for only getting a 6 when there was QUINELLA and ALLUMINE.... :P Seriously though one of the best debuts I've seen, massive congrats :) Bradley's also the on...

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Summary for Graeme Staples......... Wins: 8 Points: 678 Current seed: 7 678 is quite low for an Octochamp. I wondered if this might be the lowest in the new 15r era but I see James Slater has the record, scoring 672 last series. Not surprising that it’s lower since an average of just over 80 would ...

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Another point worth considering is indeed that Graeme was going to buzz in with a different answer, maybe say IMMIGRANT at first, which is what my tired self thought of first. Then after the mishap and he'd had time to digest it fully he realised it was MIGRATING, though I'd like to think this isn'...

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If I remember rightly Richard Whitely established a very clear routine with it, said the same thing every day, bar the insertion of the word "crucial" as necessary. Something like "fingers on buzzers" followed by a pause of a couple of seconds and then "Please reveal today'...

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Interesting. Were Damian etc. aware of what happened? Was it obvious that they'd both tried to buzz already before the clock began or was this just something you found out afterwards? Well the floor manager went up to the contestants and was communicating to the production team for a good few minut...

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Yeah she did to be fair, she was visibly upset in the green room though. She might get invited back next series perhaps, who knows?

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I was in the studio for this one, the conundrum was actually very controversial. I think Nick said 'good luck to you both' or something on those lines after asking to roll the crucial conundrum. So the board flipped a good second or two before the clock began, and I think they both tried to buzz. Gr...

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Would have had the lovely 9 PELOBATID (cheers Bra for teaching me!) if a final vowel had been picked r1. Won the duel on 11 Nov. due to learning this word -- thanks a million! Haha I have Brad to thank for teaching me this one, thanks technically due to him :) If only it hadn’t come up in that game...

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DISDAIN for a less obscure beater in R4

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2017 7:26 am
Would have had the lovely 9 PELOBATID (cheers Bra for teaching me!) if a final vowel had been picked r1.

Yeah saw that, I was annoyed that he picked a final consonant!

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Ell! I nicked your new word for the 9

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:22 pm He could have continued and fudged from there too if he'd added the 50 for 425 and taken away the others for 407.

Yeah, don’t know why you’d give up so soon. As for James, maybe it was nerves.

Bradley Horrocks

Close game but failing to score on any numbers round is usually unforgivable. If someone can get all the numbers against him, then James will be stopped.

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GINESTRAS as an alternative nine in R13

Got to feel for Dan there. He could’ve declared 400 and would’ve got over the line.

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Anyone notice that Rachel wrote 5+7x10 instead of 5x7x10? That one slipped through the editing!

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I think we're slowly moving away from the possibility of nine octochamps. We've had a few octochamp contenders recently, but they've all fallen away. We've had a long gap now. Possibly, the potential ones have always found someone stronger in their run. It'll require some hard and fast octochamps n...

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