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Martin Gardner

I thought I'd get out my Countdown board game and do some sample rounds - obviously there's no point doing the numbers as there's essentially no difference, apart from you can declare more than 10 away if you want to. I've sorted the game out so the letters are a bit more 'French' - i.e. only one Y ...

Martin Gardner

Can the group inform us of any games that are going on and what dates, I'd quite like to watch, as would many others.

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Martin Gardner

Actually MORTICES not MORTICED, but the rest is fine, cheers.

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Martin Gardner

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_chiffres_et_des_lettres seems to answer a lot of questions, so it's the PLI which I own and the Robert which I don't. Two of the most famous dictionaries in France. Basically all words are valid apart from conjuguated verbs. Participles are allowed so JOUE JOUEE JOU...

Martin Gardner

I've only seen it a couple of times to be honest, the standard seems to be pretty good as it's basically got the same status as Scrabble there, there are tournaments and clubs and whatnot, where as here there are two clubs I know of in the whole country. I don't know exactly what the dictionary is l...

Martin Gardner

Looking at the Countdownwiki, a lot of people have given the details of their games to the Countdown Corral and thus they have ended up on the wiki, all of mine are on there for example. I'd really like people, especially if they appeared before Series 51, to volunteer the round details of games the...

Martin Gardner

The interesting one is the idea of making the minimum age 18, I can't see any advantage to that, to be honest. I know they have that in France as well, the minimum age is 16. There aren't many contestants under that age anyway. Oh and Jason... that's just what this forum is like. You have to assume ...

Martin Gardner

On my 21st birthday I had my Countdown audition :D, then 1 year later I finally got a recording date and fucked up my debut game big time :lol:. Here is the audition I had on my birthday: R01: A E C I L M N T U R02: B D E I L V O R Y R03: Y T R U C O M R A R04: 50, 6, 9, 3, 7, 2, Target: 961 R05: D...

Martin Gardner

Erm no FLUTTERING wasn't the right answer, indeed that's 10 letters and uses almost none of the letters from the scramble.

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Martin Gardner

Having more wins than his wife. Erm I didn't get any beaters today just DETRITAL (adj) which is an equaller. To be honest I didn't think he was the strongest contestant and reminded me a bit of Mikey Lear in the last series who seemed to win every game with 85 or less. So I wasn't surprised he lost....

Martin Gardner

A bit more on this. When I was talking about definitions, it's true that they help some people, and alright I'll come out and say I like to know the definitions if they're somewhat usable - quite a lot of Countdown words tend to turn up later in life, and you can add the definition to the word. I do...

Martin Gardner

Corby wrote:
Any thoughts on TREASONS anyone?

Just offer SENATORS. It's a bit like offering MANTICORE when CREMATION is there.

Martin Gardner

dinos_the_chemist wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:Did DC mention SOLENOID in round 8?
No they only got OLOGIES. After saying "ALONGSIDE is nearly there" I missed SIDELONG doh!

Actually I got SIDELONG as well, was that a DC-beater?

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Martin Gardner

PAYOUT is in my NODE, which beats POUTY

Martin Gardner

The game seems to have been played, as there is a final score on the Countdownwiki. Ben won 90-89, by just one point!

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Martin Gardner

The Real Richard Brittain wrote: I have insulted O'Neill and apologised to Corby, both in private.

Very efficient of you.

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Martin Gardner

The Real Richard Brittain wrote:Corby, go and wank over pictures of your mother like you normally do. I am here to actually play in a game of Countdown; you are not welcome in this thread.

I have those same pictures as well.

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Martin Gardner

Me and Christine tried our first few games of Goatdown yesterday. We tried a little variation. The game we play is 15 rounds with 3 numbers games and no conundrum, as there is nobody to write one! For the numbers, the player chooses 5 numbers then chooses the last one voluntarily - the only conditio...

Martin Gardner

I might start checking the Countdownwiki because most of the Series 50 ones are fudged anyway. So I'd rather contribute in that way.

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Martin Gardner

Pretty sure INQUEST was not a DC beater though, they had PIQUETS and PUNIEST.

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Martin Gardner

I tried to organise a COLEE (Leeds) a couple of years ago but again I think only about three people signed up, so I cancelled it before it started.

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Martin Gardner

Interesting that during one of my Countdown games with my girlfriend I chose 4 from the top and the target was - 100. Obviously we didn't even start the clock and we both did 100=100. I'd be interested to see of anyone has a more amusing solution. Anyway 100 is possible because I've seen it before o...

Martin Gardner

Jason Larsen wrote:What numbers are considered unobscured?

If you can see them, they're not obscured!

Martin

Martin Gardner

It's generally quite white British dominated as well. I don't think there's even been a black Series winner, although I think there's been an Asian one. Again when I go to Scrabble tournaments (local ones not ABSP ones) I don't think there are any black or Asian players that do them. N.B. please don...

Martin Gardner

Which is why I left that site lol. In fairness that was a bit strong, but still I don't really know any good Scrabble players who learn the meanings of words. I'm not trying to pass it off as fact because it's not, but it's my observation that players who have to know the meaning of a word to rememb...

Martin Gardner

Title sort of speaks for itself - Susie Dent is great and I wouldn't watch the show if she weren't on it. I remember once when MORDENT came up and Richard Whiteley's comment was "people write in and say we like Countdown but we want MORE DENT" which sounds about right to be. It's not diffi...

Martin Gardner

MIAOWED is good it came up in one of my games as a Darren (I missed it)

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Martin Gardner

Sort of reminds me of my heads-up Texas hold'em games with my girlfriend when we start with %20 000 but fictional obviously.

I just wonder about this game... it's not all planted nines is it, because that's been done before.

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Martin Gardner

I thought your speech at the end was hilarious. Kirk the party man!

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Martin Gardner

I might have gone for SIDEBAR instead of BRAISED, I saw PACILY and PACIFY earlier in the game as well. I suppose they are both ok.

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Martin Gardner

I remember when we started MSN countdown in 2002 or something, everyone used to get a game even if it was just a friendly. This was before Soo created the ratings system. And yeah we used to stay up to whatever time we felt like. I was a bit disappointed last time I logged on that I didn't get a gam...

Martin Gardner

I think BIGNESS is alright for a DC-equaller but I didn't get any DC-beaters.

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Martin Gardner

To be honest I found it even more rude to keep posting about Des' speaking habits, which I have no problem with. I think everyone has certain phrases that they repeat don't they? There's no need to have a daily post about it.

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Martin Gardner

Actually Weakest Link is the quiz I'd most like to do apart from Countdown. Any chance Kirk you could tell us what the audition's like and where it's held, so maybe I could have a go myself.

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Martin Gardner

I agree that it gets a bit silly if a word changes from invalid to valid or visa versa during a series. I thought CARMINES was an odd one as they didn't even say that you couldn't add an S, and they've used it in the plural before. I remember when Grace Page was on (best female contestant of the las...

Martin Gardner

To be honest having not played Countdown online for a few years now, the hardest thing is visualising the letters and numbers. It also helps on the real show that you can hear the clock music - that way you always know how much time you have left.

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Martin Gardner

Fair enough I have no problem with that. I didn't think of it in fact. As for last night's game, I believe the final score was 61-37 as Jon beat me with GRAPIER in round 1, the first numbers and MISCAST in round 6 where I offered MASTIC and didn't realise that it wasn't a mass noun (it's both a subs...

Martin Gardner

I *was* wondering why Paul Howe is in there since he's the only one that isn't a Series champion. Obviously he's a brilliant player, but Tom Hargreaves who was a Series runner up and me and Corby who were semi-finalists were made to qualify (I lost by the way by about 20 points). Perhaps it should w...

Martin Gardner

I've created an address just for online Countdown, which is mgcountdown@hotmail.fr (I was logged onto the French MSN site at the time I registered) I don't really mind putting it on here as it's only for Countdown anyway. What time is the online Countdown tonight?

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Martin Gardner

Actually I hate telling people I've been on Countdown because people ask me the same frigging questions all the time. They usually ask what's Carol like, how many games I won and what did I won (what?! you don't win money?!). There's only one person at uni that knows and he didn't really care, which...

Martin Gardner

I'm just wondering what people think about the standard of the contestants now versus the standard of the contestants throughout the history of Countdown. It's something I think about relatively often. A few things of note: Early Series only had about 40 episodes which is why there weren't as many O...

Martin Gardner

I really get pissed off with people who argue about what's in the dictionary and what isn't. It's printed on paper for Christ's sake words don't magically appear and disappear overnight. I for years have simply thought of words in the context of anagrams as simply a string of mathematical symbols - ...

Martin Gardner

Hi

If anyone's read Crucial by Mark Tournoff, would they like to write a review for the Countdownwiki, as I haven't yet got round to having a look at it. If you are interested, go to http://www.countdownwiki.com/Crucial_-_ ... 0%99s_Tale.

Martin Gardner

I have channel 4 on demand so whenever there's an Octochamp or a finalist I can take a picture using print screen. I also managed to get a few from YouTube (cf James Martin, DCeDL, etc...)

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Martin Gardner

I already have a 3 hour exam in April, I don't want it to be 3 hrs 45 minutes !

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Martin Gardner

I'll certainly have a go yes

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Martin Gardner

I sometimes have problems with contestants' accents as well, I know Richard did from time to time and probably t'other Des as well. It's not a big deal.

Martin Gardner

Can't stand him myself, not my taste. I've been watching this week with the sound off.

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Martin Gardner

I can see if you picked 9 Scrabble tiles that NEUROGLIA would be very probable, but in Countdown we don't often get 5 vowels. I do think Scrabble players tend to overvalue learning 9-letter words anyway, went they do get played they're often just an 8 with an S on the end anyway. So for Countdown NE...

Martin Gardner

I'm a big baseball fan which is the most (stupidly) statistic obsessed sport in the world. There's this big debate about who's the best player ever, ever since Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run. What it comes down to is there's no single way to do it that's better than any other. Statistics tend to...

Martin Gardner

I know sometimes given the difficulty of the audition it sometimes surprises people that some contestants are so bad. And the problem with comparing Octochamps scores likes 890, 875, 871 and stuff is that I think a lot of Octochamps just beat up on 8 weak players, and the victory is never in doubt i...

Martin Gardner

I'm wondering what's going to happen to the Countdown Corral in terms of recaps, I suppose they're now going on here? I also know that if the original forum ever gets deleted (not impossible, although maybe in about 5 years time or something) what would happen? Well I suppose the Countdownwiki is a ...

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