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Graeme Cole

Also of interest is the article linked to by that one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/nov/04/student-slang-too-strong-for-countdown Well, I say "of interest", but that article is really just a procession of factual errors. The biggest howler is in the last paragraph: "He ...

Graeme Cole

Presumably lowest score in most variants would be 0 more or less? That's true, but if the bots were excluded would there be many human players scoring 0? Bizarrely some otherwise sane players would deliberately score 0 just to get their name on the page, so I'm afraid it would be pointless. What, s...

Graeme Cole

So Mark's last play in Game 5 - was that a complete punt since he knew he'd lose otherwise? Edit: On closer inspection I realise he had two stabs at it - anyone know what he thought he was going for? I think invalid words aren't automatically disallowed; the opponent has to challenge them. Furtherm...

Graeme Cole

I think what David is suggesting is a list of precedents so that at least a given word won't change status from episode to episode. Sounds like a good idea to me, and now it's been suggested here we can pretty much guarantee it won't happen. I can see one problem with such a list of precedents bein...

Graeme Cole

One day I'm going to stop coming up with new item ideas. Today is not that day. :-) How about a "jammy dodger" for winning a game by being behind on a crucial conundrum and getting it with <=1.0s left? I suppose it shouldn't be awarded if your opponent has already buzzed, otherwise there's...

Graeme Cole

A last second spot from Jane brings her to within 4 points of Claire. Susie didn't mention it but MOLER^ is invalid from Claire. I think her word was MOLAR. Susie did mention that there wasn't an A, but it happened quite quickly. Maybe in the studio, but not on the broadcast. I've just looked at it...

Graeme Cole

Ryan Taylor wrote: A last second spot from Jane brings her to within 4 points of Claire. Susie didn't mention it but MOLER^ is invalid from Claire.

I think her word was MOLAR. Susie did mention that there wasn't an A, but it happened quite quickly.

Graeme Cole

Why, what's so funny about Mike Drew?

Graeme Cole

I assumed Jonathan had just pronounced VESTIGE incorrectly. I did notice that in round 4, he offered TUMBLE (unless I heard it wrong), but nobody picked up on the fact that there was no L in the selection. Not that it mattered since Jack had a 7, but I thought it was odd. Many congratulations on you...

Graeme Cole

I've just noticed the S in the conundrum is upside down.

Looking back on it on 4oD though, it mysteriously righted itself by the time they revealed the answer.

Graeme Cole

I'm having real trouble with the chat - sometimes I just can't get a cursor to appear in it (and typing doesn't yield a result). I'm running on a Mac - is that likely to make a difference? I'm using Linux, but I get the same thing when there's another Java window open, e.g. the game window. I find ...

Graeme Cole

Somehow blame raid to become worthy of praise (9)
Baptist's type? (4)
Oiled river up north clumsily taken (9)

Graeme Cole

FALSIE. Susie mentioned only the other day that FALSIES were pads for putting in bras, but apparently you can't have only one of them. What if you've got one breast smaller than the other? And yes, RATIONALS really ought to be in the dictionary. The argument against inclusion could be that the noun ...

Graeme Cole

In round 2, I was convinced I had "batshit" as in "batshit insane". Surprised it isn't in. Unlucky. I believe this will be valid from next series, along with SHITSTORM Shame we won't get to see it for want of vowels, but I await the day when the conundrum is "RIMSHOTTS"...

Graeme Cole

James Robinson wrote:
Graeme Cole wrote:In round 2, I was convinced I had "batshit" as in "batshit insane". Surprised it isn't in.
Yeah, especially considering that HORSESHIT is in

As if by magic...

Graeme Cole

In round 2, I was convinced I had "batshit" as in "batshit insane". Surprised it isn't in.

Graeme Cole

Mildly amusing oddity from this evening:

2010-10-02 20:38:20 Your new teaser is MEETPDXE. You have 60 seconds to answer!
...
2010-10-02 20:39:21 Graeme Cole got it too, you have -0.1 seconds left.

Yep. I'm a time traveller. I can do it with conundrums too.

Graeme Cole

Mount Conundrum game. Round 18, nearly answered VISCOUSLY but realised it was VICIOUSLY. Then round 19...

Graeme Cole

Also in round 7, PARKIE.

Graeme Cole

I knew I wasn't the best at conundrums, but it appears my incorrect answers are so wide of the mark they get used as scrambles which defeat both players.

Well done on another century, Eoin.

Graeme Cole

Also, how on earth do you distinguish between having fun, and learning? Learning is a subconscious action most of the time on apterous, to stop apterous being useful for Countdown you'd have to make it into a spot the difference puzzle or a competition to draw willies and hairy satchels or somethin...

Graeme Cole

If only every contestant knew about apterous before they applied, the general standard would certainly improve To what end, Graeme? Like most fans of Countdown , I liked watching because I could play along at home, feeling pleased whenever I matched or beat a contestant, or kicking myself whenever ...

Graeme Cole

I think the point Damian is making is that it's no longer a level playing field. Regular 40/50 point victory margins don't make for good TV. That's a good point about whether it makes entertaining television, but I was using "level playing field" to refer to equality of opportunity rather...

Graeme Cole

If it has to happen then so be it, but don't be surprised to see future series of the show made up of over-30s only. I don't know how seriously that's being considered, or if I speak for everyone here, but I sincerely hope it doesn't come to that or anything like it. For me it would be one of the w...

Graeme Cole

Adam Gillard wrote:25 100 9 9 6 6 -> 912

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

Somehow I missed this one as well. Started with 9*100 + 9, then wondered how to get a three out of two sixes, then tried to overcomplicate things further.

Still, I beat Daniel... I had 910.

Graeme Cole

What about number of maxes, then total conundrum time? It deals with the case Ryan describes, but still makes reasonably sure of breaking the tie when many people get the same number of points and maxes (or max the whole duel, like yesterday).

Graeme Cole

For what it's worth, I have a verrrrrrry dim and distant memory of Richard Whiteley explaining how two players' seed numbers had been decided. I think they were level on games won, aggregate score, highest score, neatest haircut and so on, so it went down to fastest conundrum time. Am I imagining th...

Graeme Cole

My first question is, how would people feel about using total conundrum time as a tie-breaker? I'd be mildly annoyed at this, but only because I'm not terribly good at conundrums. :-) Objectively, I think it's a very good idea. How would you deal with the case where two players got the same number ...

Graeme Cole

Yet another new item suggestion...

How about a tnetennba for declaring a max word that appears unscrambled in the selection?

If it's a nine you get a "nice tnetennba".

Graeme Cole

At work recently someone (probably me) wondered aloud what was the longest word that's also a valid hexadecimal number (i.e. uses only the letters A-F). I thought it was DEFACED, then a coworker came up with Fabaceae . I thought that might be a word worth remembering, but it turns out that it's inva...

Graeme Cole

tomrowell wrote:It would be cool if you got an item for beating your opponent by exactly double their score

On the subject of new items for notable scores, I note the Poultry section lacks a duck. Or a goose-egg, which would mean the same thing.

Graeme Cole

Apparently my memory for conundrum answers doesn't quite extend as far as 16 minutes...

Mount Conundrum game

My next game

I recognised the jumble immediately then spent 30 seconds failing to remember what it unscrambled to.

Graeme Cole

After completing a game, the in-game chat window doesn't give you the "you gained/lost N rating points, taking you to X" message like it used to. Is this deliberate, or symptomatic of a bug?

Graeme Cole

Jon O'Neill wrote:I got ORPHAN near the start as well I think.

I think the selection was lacking an R for that.

Well done on another century, Tom.

Graeme Cole

Hello everyone. Having two posts, it's too late for me to post in this thread now, so I won't.

Graeme Cole

FANBASE. Also, you can have UPTIME but not DOWNTIME.

Graeme Cole

Round 6, DEMISED.

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