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Uh-oh Martin! Could this mean she went out of remission and came back in again? There is nothing to suggest her absence was due to ill health, and (as has been said many times in this thread) it is none of our business. Can I suggest this thread is now "locked" (if such thing is possible ...

So, Annie is now eligible for the Series 76 finals! Good on the Countdown crew! Recent article about Annie http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/14992938.Countdown_final_beckons_for_retired_teacher_Annie/ No further details really about her absence from the S75 finals (which is, of course, not really any...

Thought I'd set up the first one of the year! Interesting start for the current champion (Darren Godfrey) - in his 2 wins prior to today he has had just one max in 20 letters games, but a perfect 8 from 8 in his numbers games (including a couple of very good solves). Definitely someone to select &qu...

Edward Byrne wrote:I cant see why it would be a video game. many contestants on countdown were elderly then and what use would they have for such an item.

Probably more use than two of the same board game that seem to be there

Looks too skinny for a video - I would guess it is a computer game on something like a Spectrum or a Commodore 64, though an hour's trawl through google images hasn't come up with anything that matches

Hi Martin, just wondering: Are you any relation to Jack or Josh ? Or, for that matter, Bill , John , Rachel or Tony ? PS Congrats for winning the series. :) Thanks Stewart, No, I am no relation to any of these (unless in a tenuous Danny Dyer to William the Conqueror type of way that I am unaware of...

Thanks everyone :) All of the planets very much aligned for me in terms I was very fortunate to avoid some of the top Apterites that have either appeared in the last few series or are rumoured to appear over the next couple of series, and that all the players I faced in the finals (as I'm sure they ...

If anyone is wondering, there was no DC spot today as it was an anecdote from Carol Kirkwood talking about this incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMk8KKWAq7c We were all sat in the audience saying to each other "surely they're not going to broadcast this", and alas, they didn't.......

It's a real shame Annie couldn't make it but my view is that if you can't make the recording of your series final then it should just be tough bananas because it's not fair on contestants on the next series to accommodate you. It'd be better to invite her back for some kind of special. Maybe agains...

What happens to the 8th seed of the next series? Presumably there'll only be seven slots, unless the top 8 are all octochamps and beat her total. Very harsh on the person that finishes 8th then, especially if it is a series with more episodes due to less horses. Perhaps it could be an opportunity t...

People who still have their paper tax disc on display in their car, despite the need to do this ending long ago, and all paper tax discs have long expired anyway......!

Not a quiz, but Doug Roberts (the pirate guy from CD a few weeks ago) was on Watchdog after he complained that a supermarket gift set of 3 jars of jam was more than double the price of buying the three jars of jam individually.

People with personalised number plates. All of them are PEN15's.

Nice research mate - interesting stuff

A new era of TTTs today I believe.......

Has probably been confirmed elsewhere, but you (and the Wiki now) are correct - the QFs start 15/12/16, and no episode 9/12/16 (due to horsies).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456 [/quote] Same sort of thing happened when I worked for Aviva a few years ago - someone internally accidentally forwarded a work-related email to a secret "all employees" distribution list that existed (for emergencies I guess), and it went to ...

People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert

People who unnecessarily "reply to all" - scum. Pure scum.

Do we need recaps when we have the Apterous wiki? Seems a lot of work for little gain. Maybe instead more meat can go in the spoilers thread each day, so as well as people posting DC beaters and alt numbers as they do now, some irreverent commentary can be added afterwards? Spoilers threads tend to...

Do we need recaps when we have the Apterous wiki? Seems a lot of work for little gain. Maybe instead more meat can go in the spoilers thread each day, so as well as people posting DC beaters and alt numbers as they do now, some irreverent commentary can be added afterwards?

Loving the Joe Lycett dance to the end credits - Susie even tried to join in today (briefly!)

Thanks guys, Amazing experience (much better than my flunked attempt in 1997!) and although I probably should have been nudging a 900 total watching it back again, I'll definitely take 8 wins out of 8 every day of the week! :) You were great fun throughout, Martin. My mum says I should take some cr...

Thanks guys,

Amazing experience (much better than my flunked attempt in 1997!) and although I probably should have been nudging a 900 total watching it back again, I'll definitely take 8 wins out of 8 every day of the week!

Zubair Patel wrote:Anyone able to confirm there were multiple tie break conundrums in this game?

Nope - the conundrum shown was the only conundrum.

Maybe an "ask Greame" in there somewhere as can't be many who have won a show after blanking the first 3 letters games? It's not common, but it's happened a few times. 9 times in 9-rounders, 14 times in old 15-rounders, and up to the end of series 74, twice in new 15-rounders. Ned Pendlet...

Thanks guys. Awful start was pure nerves - I thought attending the FOCAL event in St Albans a few weeks before, being on the show before, and watching a couple games in the audience would do the trick, but it just goes to show you can't really tell what is going to happen when the cameras start roll...

I've changes the title anyway - apologies for breaking etiquette

Is saying who is coming up on future shows as non-Champions a spoiler? Apologies if it is

A stellar line-up amongst the next few episodes – today’s challenger is Aidan Linge, so it will be an all-Apterous clash against 6-time champion Stephen Fuller. In the challenger’s chair early next week (Monday I believe) is the son of series 40 runner-up Glynn Leaney, and the rumours are there is a...

But that is a side point - what I mainly want to say is that overall the whole day was superb and I would thoroughly recommend anyone considering going to a FOCAL event to give it a try – from the big-name legendary players there was no snobbery or arrogance at all when I played them and they were ...

Re Pointless, I thought it was a great laugh, but the only change I would have made would have probably been to ditch the first 2 rounds and instead ask the same 6 (or so) questions for everyone to answer individually (quickly) on a bit of paper and then pass it to the person sat next to them to mar...