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Jason Larsen wrote:I see two votes for Callum so far!

Was that an unintelligent question?

Why did you pick those two?

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Matt Morrison wrote:You're waiting too right Gev? Just the two of you?

I'm waiting. I'm going to check Saturday again some time in January.

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Jon Corby wrote:Fri £50 now ffs

Well you could have nailed that deal ages ago. Saturday was the only one that was really a problem. You've only got yourself to blame over Friday. (And stop checking.)

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Brilliant final, and brilliant series overall. I'd definitely say this was the best series in terms of good players that we've had. To have three 945+ octochamps and one player beating all three of them to win the series is pretty good.

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Mark Deeks wrote:What's wrong with lagers?

Try drinking one.

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Have it in Vermont. It's a compromise between America and Canada and I have a friend who lives there so I can stay. Or you could hold it in May 2013 in New York as I was there then. You would need a time machine though.

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Andy McGurn wrote:I spotted MONOPEDS in round 13. Is it valid?

Not on Lexplorer.

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POSTBAG as a beater in round 1 I think.

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Nick talks such shit.

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HELIOSTAT? In the time as well!

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Had one of the top 8 been unable to play in the Series 65 finals, that would've happened (Phyl Styles would've played instead of Matt Croy, having lost to some no-hoper called Jack Worsley who we never heard of again in the final prelim of the series). Dunno if it's happened properly but it wouldn'...

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Has a player ever missed out on a finals place as a result of winning the final preliminary game of a series? (eg. player finishes series x with several wins, but loses the first game of series y and misses the series y finals, when losing the last game in series x would have got them into the seri...

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Of course though "30 year history" is slightly bullshit (goes for Dylan too) because it would be impossible to have a higher score from the 9-round era, and even a lot harder before the change to 4 numberses. Although clearly there is no female contestant who would have beaten her with the...

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You watching, Corby?

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James Robinson wrote:
Peter Fenton wrote:Well done to both players - a fantastic game and one that would have been well worthy of the final.
You wait til the final between X and X this time next week............

SPOILERS!

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To be honest Callum, I think you came one series too early. If you were filming now I think you'd have a good chance of winning any series. I think because of the gap between his heats and the quarter finals and the Apterous practice, that has been shown not to be the case. Callum has improved to t...

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The thing is - I see myself as OK at eating food. If I go to a Pizza Hut buffet or go our for a curry where they have some offer meaning that you effectively have to order more than most people would eat, I do a better job than most of my friends. But I don't eat industrial amounts of food. I've nev...

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Matt Morrison wrote:If you don't want to do quantity Gev you either have to do "spicy" or "disgusting", do either of those appeal more?

Yeah. Carrots and pineapple are pretty disgusting. We could do that.

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Can a decision be made nearer the time?

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Mark Deeks wrote:I dunno, I forgot. But you were up for it at one point and then backed down because you weren't feeling the competitive element.

It was probably the feeling uncomfortable for ages afterwards that I was against.

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Mark Deeks wrote:Fine by me. I bet Gevin won't play though. Pre-emptive booing. Booooooooo!

How did this come up in the first place? Did I say I was really good at eating or did someone else put me forward on the basis of having two puddings in the pub or having more than one thing in Little Chef?

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that adds up to £100!! Back to £28.99 and £64.20 today. Do you suppose that they monitor the number of people searching for specific locations/dates, and adjust the prices accordingly? If I stop showing interest for a week, will the price fall? This is getting very quantum mechanical. Is there a wa...

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I've enjoyed doing the Monday recap over the last two years, but I've decided to stop doing regular recaps at the end of this series. Time for someone else to have a go. So if anyone wants to take on the Monday recap slot, it's available from the start of 2014. As long as you don't think you can ev...

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Good call.

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What does the pancreas say?

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Somebody else has voted for me :S I struggle to understand why Glen hasn't had more votes yet, I would have made him a very comfortable 3rd favourite. I think someone said something similar about a player in another series when we had this thread. He has hardly any votes because everyone sees him a...

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Turns out that Sudokus are the biggest waste of human life ever invented. Don't waste your time.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Alt 3rd numbers ((3x6)+5-4)x25-3

(4×6-5)×25-3 for the straightforward method.

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Dave Preece wrote:I'm assuming the bottom few are very good conundrum/average numbers round contestants???

Conundrums don't make a difference. But yeah, more likely to be people who are shit at numbers.

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Defo taking a risk by actually not booking anything yet................... That's the risk you take when a CO-event is on FA Cup 4th round weekend............... :roll: :roll: :roll: What's that got to do with the price of ... Travelodge? Easy, by the time, the 3rd round is done 3 weeks before COLI...

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James Robinson wrote:Defo taking a risk by actually not booking anything yet...................

That's the risk you take when a CO-event is on FA Cup 4th round weekend...............

What's that got to do with the price of ... Travelodge?

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Corby's going nowhere near.

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And there's a theory that selections on the show are set a bit nicer and less randomly than online. I'd be interested to investigate that. I would be reasonably surprised if they were different enough that it's perceptible. Isn't that what got investigated and turned out to be just 3 points a game,...

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Andy Platt wrote:METATES in round 5 or whenever it was. Gevin will be happy to know this is a beater.

I'm ecstatic.

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I always write the letters down and because there's more time pressure on Apterous, the letters don't always come out as well. That and I try to fit more rounds per page. I think that makes a difference for me.

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Unlucky there, James. On a related note, with the pretentiously long questions that they have on Mastermind (often with single-word answers), does John Humphrys ever fuck up a question and waste loads of a contestant's time? It must also be quite easy to accidentally blurt out the answer when someon...

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Read down from here. sean d reckoned playing against the TV is worth about 3 points a game over Apterous, based on the stats compiled there.

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Graeme, could you please post a table off all old 15 octochamps' estimated totals in the new 15 using the following formula: (average points scored per numbers round - average points scored per letters round) x 8, + original total, then rounded to the nearest whole number? How much the new format c...

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Interestingly, ODO likes both PONGEES and NAIVEST.

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I suppose you can always go for VAINEST instead.

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I think its easier watching on television. You have longer to find the words as the letters go up really slowly and then Nick has to decide to start the time. I think I do better watching on television as well and that's probably partly it.

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Also the last day of the heats or the first day of the quarter finals (at the start).

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Still feeling glad that I went early. How long til people end up in the Best Western?

Never!

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Which contestant who played all of their games in the old format would have the biggest difference between their total score then, and their total score converted into new money (ie their numbers score multiplied by 4/3 and their letters score multiplied by 10/11)? What's your score in new money? (...

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Who will take it? I think my answer to this question depends on if Jen can defeat Callum (for those who don't know, Callum has improved his game leaps and bounds since taping, and he was already pretty good before). If she can, I think it'll be her's for the taking, otherwise I think it'll be Dylan...

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Jon Corby wrote:The Saturday is now at £64.20

Sit tight.

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(75×50+2)/(7-3)=938 for the 3rd numbers.

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Stop teasing us!

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To continue from my other post, I can quite imagine that some people might find the idea of playing a game for hours at a time that is just a case of finding certain arbitrary combinations of letters out of random scrambles (the fact that they can also be used as words being irrelevant) to be somewh...

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It depends on how the game works, but if it's done on a computer, it could come up with a list of possible definitions (four or something) and you have to select the right one. Also, it could be that you lose all your points for the whole game if you get one wrong (or at least enough to make it a de...

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This game , recently made famous, illustrates one of the problems with counting the number of maxes, at least whilst the data remains less than 100% perfect. The recap denies Tim Morrissey the max on round 5, but I don't believe SPREITEN was valid at the time. A system which awarded Tim 6/7 for tha...

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I would try to answer some of these, but I've run out of day and this post is too long as it is. So, um, yeah. I'll just leave it for Gevin to pick holes in. *wanders off just leaving this post sitting here* You've got me all wrong! It was a very interesting read. Obviously it was from the point of...

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This sort of thing has come up loads in the past. I suppose the thing for some people is that Countdown isn't thought of as a super-competitive game like chess or even Scrabble where there are world championships. Countdown is a fun teatime game where until relatively recently, you would rarely get ...

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Dave Preece wrote:They've split before and manage to get back together, maybe they will sort it out, hopefully?

Yeah, if you want.

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Yeah it's a smaller file with less information but if you have to learn about it, the chances are it's not shit. Also I don't think the sound is better on vinyl in any objective sense - I think some people just like the sound it produces.

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Andy Wilson wrote:Those Lord of the Rings movies weren't bad either in fairness.

They were.

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At the moment, number of maxes seems to be considered a good way to judge things, but it ignores anything less than the max, so if the max is 8, then 5, 6, and 7 are all the same (worthless). So a way round this would be to if y points for the xth best word. So if there's 3 words that have 8 letters...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:Surely pure and simple points scored / available points x 100 is the best and only way to 'rank' players?
I think you should multiply by 7.12349867123409781293 actually.

Well that's at least two methods already then.

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I was thinking about this thread again for some reason. But something else I've just thought about is this: 100+3=103 and 100+2+1=3 Going by what I've said, these two are different. But if you do the 2+1 first and then do 100+3, surely there is no difference in identity between the 3s. So in a sense...

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I don't think Facebook is less suited for it, to be honest. You know how some people are idiots who shouldn't be heard from and who actively (or intentionally yet persistently) make discussions worse? Via Facebook, you can control that. Stuff is better archived on a forum and it's more neutral in t...

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