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JackHurst

Went out the other night, ventured to the touch machine in SPOONS, whilst I was pretty Drunk. Forced some old college pals to watch me on words soup, and I got to a no words remaining, including spotting KORUNA.

Dint win Fack all tho mate.

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I'll be in.
You should use standard ratings, as goatdown ratings can be highly inaccurate, because it gets played much less.

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David O'Donnell wrote:You little shits are all too smart.

Someone start posting some fails now or at the least some mediocre results.

I went out last night and was bragging to loads of babes about my results, but I still didn't get laid. I did however wake up and vomit.

Is that fail enough?

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Michael Wallace wrote:
JackHurst wrote:I did well enough to get into Cambridge! God knows how that happened.
I was about to like this post, but then realised I should check which college first...

Pembroke. Feel free to air your disdain if you find yourself in need of a dislike button.

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Kai Laddiman wrote:Woo! Got an A in C3 and FP1, only 2 more modules needed for an A level

How'd you do Jack?

Well done! Brilliant considering your youth. What are you going to do along side C4?

I did well enough to get into Cambridge! God knows how that happened.

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
JackHurst wrote:OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG Its results day tomorrow Im all excited and nervous, who is else getting results?!?!?!

OMFG
OMFG
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Me! What subjects?

MAFFS and SIYENCE. I assume you must be waiting for your degree results or something by now?

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OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG Its results day tomorrow Im all excited and nervous, who is else getting results?!?!?!

OMFG
OMFG
OMFG

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LIMONENES should be in I think, as dictionary.com says "a liquid terpene, C 40 H 16 , occurring in two optically different forms" which implies there are two LIMONENES. In the OED, its listed as a mass noun, and there is nothing in the entry to suggest there are different types. So going ...

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Can we have a Leaderboard for longest none mover in pro ranks. I imagine Kirks current run at top would be first by miles. I've been #5 for 9 weeks!

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 14 August 2001. C1: Champion Craig Richardson (1 win, 57 points.) C2: Challenger Edwin Mead. DC: Tania Styles and Sally Magnusson. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: R L H U A S T R E R02: S W I N O A V F T R03: X D C R E I E T S R04: 50, 1, 9, 3, 2, ...

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Countdown recap for Monday 13 August 2001. C1: Champion Brenda Dunn (1 win, 50 points.) C2: Challenger Craig Richardson. DC: Richard Samson and Tom O'Connor CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: T E P A Y E D O T R02: M G A I E Y R S C R03: D U W A D E T I F R04: 50, 75, 10, 9, 9, ...

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These three are mine:
Mon 13-Aug-01 Brenda Dunn 41 - 57 Craig Richardson
Tue 14-Aug-01 Craig Richardson 33 - 31 Edwin Mead
Wed 15-Aug-01 Craig Richardson 53 - 40 Bill Brakes
Might do a few more if I get on with it fine.

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I'm liking the ability to change dictionary more easily in lexplorer
Opening up the stemmer box on this page takes a while.

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So I had this idea that we could start making recaps that you can print off and play along with. Here is a template: TEMPLATE Here are examples of how you fill in the template: Play against Andrew Hulme on his "Debut". Play against Michael Harris in the same game as above. Let me know what...

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I liked Ken this week, hopefully he will be in Dictionary corner again some time.
Well done for win #7 Tom. Am sure you will get the 8th just as easily as you have got the rest.

Managed to get a max game from today's episode, lucky to spot ESTERIFY as I'd seen it on apterous recently.

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Just came back to this thread to like Kirks post. I think others should do as I have.

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No sure which is more likely to get given the go ahead out of CofC 14, or your weird formula countdown fantasy. I for one would prefer to see the latter. Why :?: Because watching formula one racers pit their wits against in each other in a battle of lexicon and arithmetic would be much more enterta...

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No sure which is more likely to get given the go ahead out of CofC 14, or your weird formula countdown fantasy. I for one would prefer to see the latter.

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Yeah, I just checked, its in Joshes Version of the current edition, but not in my version of the previous edition. Must have been added when they updated.

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GUILLEMET This came up in a game today and neither Dinos nor I had come across it before. I've looked in the great book and can't find it anywhere. Any clues? According to Wikipedia it means those brackets that are rather like arrows. It's right above GUILLEMOT, no idea how you missed it. Maybe you...

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:So Tom should have lost today!

What if he ends up winning the series!

You've got to remember that if Tom had had sautee disallowed that the subsequent rounds would have panned put differently, so he probably would have still won anyway

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Controversy! I wonder if the "losing" challenger will be allowed back on the show at a later date.

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sautee^? I thought this at the time too as I played it not so long ago but then I quickly forgot about it. This affects the outcome of the game :o So Did tom Declare SAUTE or SAUTEE ? Also, what was the end score, and what did the other player declare in the same round as Tom had SAUTEE/SAUTE?

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Ryan Taylor wrote:
What became of Michael "Scrooge" Davidson?

Dunno, but I hope it wasn't nice, I thought he was a bit of an arse.

I think I'd always leave it for my opponent to get a max game unless there was still a chance of me winning, or if it was a person I really disliked.

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On the numbers interface, the multiplication sign on the commitment bar is now some weird diamond thing. Also, I just noticed that the division symbol has similarly been replaced by ~

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WTF?! No Kevin. He must have done a Beevers. I don't like him any more.

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I'm assuming record holder and egghead Kevin Ashman will be on tonight's episode, as its the final heat, and I've not seen him yet.

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The probability of me winning this so called "copyright war" is 1.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...

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Hope Dinos doesn't post a recap of our game, i'll be horrified by how many maxes i got.

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Is kevin ashman going to be on?

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OK Howard, cheers. The episode they have on at the moment is a good one anyway.

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What the fuck?! They've put the wrong episode on.

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This Episode is on again today apparently.

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As somebody who doesnt take the duels seriously, I could easily see why someone who takes it seriously would get very pissed off by todays duel as its basically more of a contest of who can touch type the best more than anything else, and I dont think thats what the duel should be about.

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I thought that it was pretty good considering that it was the first ever show. It did appear quite different to the our countdown, as it seemed like they were openly using solvers for the rounds, and it looked as though the contestants were either actors or had had quite a bit of screen training bef...

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Can the words using box be tweaked so that we can make it only add consonants or vowels to the selection we put into Lexplorer. To be honest, I don't see many users making use of this, but I would, and I know how much you love doing stuff for me, Charlie. :P Oh yeah, and can u plz change my shitty a...

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This isn't actually a bug report, more of a question aimed at Charlie, but I couldnt find anywhere better to post it.

If you are playing a classic game and a conundrum has more than one possible solution, could you get points for either, or do you have to get the conundrum they used on the show?

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I'm not much of a hard core Duellist, but I think I completely see where Matt's Coming from, I think the two types matt has mentioned could be removed or maybe made less severe.

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Great day, thanks for organising it Jeff. Well done to Richard for Championness

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I think everyone should have to give me £1 for every time they call me Josh.

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Barrack is soon going to upgrade the pentagon to the DECAGON.

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Sorry to be a smug bastard, but I'm pretty happy with my top maxes column at the moment:

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:I've booked my train ticket now. I'll be on the same train as Jack, Kirky et al arriving 10.23. See you there xx

I'm not going on a train, but the train station is on my route there.

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Could this page somehow display up to further than third place for formats where max games are plenty.

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Can we have a page on statland that is most time played per day/month/week, and it lists the most time a player have played in a 24 hour/7 day/4 week period. The interesting thing about this is that it could feature the same player on the leaderboard multiple times.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:I've just booked my tickets. I get into Leicester at 1023. Anyone getting there around that time and want to share a taxi? My train home leaves 835pm so I get to have a couple of beverages and some Hexy time afterwards.

You Should Walk, you lazy git.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:I would like to play Jack if you can swing it

Yay, this sounds good.

Jeff Clayton wrote:Yes mate we can sort that, provided of course Jack's happy aswell?

Any particular reason??

He just wants an easy win, I think.

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Dmitry Goretsky wrote: HARD???!!! THAT'S VERY-VERY SIMPLE AND YOU'RE VERY-VERY STUPID!!!

Just shut up and go away.

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I know bugger all about game shows, but am happy to moderate if you like.

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I dont have the foggiest on how to write a recap, But I'll read the guide at some point and then help with some of the remaining outstanding recaps. Ill be able to get started next week.

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Just to add to the discussion of a possible format where you pick the difficulty, another way of looking at difficulty could be the flatness of the selections. This would eliminate the fact that you would know the length of the max, so you would still have to do a bit of thinking. This idea would st...

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Yep Jeff, I should still be able to make it.

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So how many conundrums do you all think the winner will get?

I will guess somewhere between 9000-10000.
Really no idea how accurate this will be.

Edit: divide that estimation by something between 2 and 3.

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Whoever wins this marathon thing should get a life as the prize.

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I was with you Corby. Midnight is at the end of the night for me. Thanks for checking. Really? I see how it makes sense in a "I've been awake all day and midnight is at the end of the day" kinda thing but if you have 23:59 on a Thursday and 00:01 on a Friday, then the 00:00 in between has...

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There are only two of each small number in the pack. Don't know if you knew that, but I think it might require a rejig of the calculations.

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gaberfuckingdeeeen

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Also, is there any chance that you could make it so that prune buzzes pretty much immediately after you make an incorrect guess, so you dont have to wait round for 20 odd seconds or whatever after you have got a conundrum wrong against him.

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