Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
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Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Another new champion in Ben Clark. Can he get another?
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Today's challenger should be Scrabble player Neil Green.
Another reappearing contestant from 2003 who failed to stop Stuart Earl in his octochamp run.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Very strong start for C2, calling octochamp now
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Nice tactic by Ben for picking 3L, but it was quick tricky to spot the exact solution as it wasn't the standard method...
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Alt second numbers (9x25-(8-1))x4-10
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
I too stupidly missed the OMNIBUS and went for jumboes, when JUMBIES would have been fine.
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C2 needs to pick up on his numbers otherwise he could be throwing away a potential 40 points a game
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3x75+(5x8) was my way to 265.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
I think there is an 8 in the ROMPERS+UY round?
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Good game. Neil definitely looks like he has a lot of quality on the letters but his numbers let him down. If he can improve there, he'll certainly be a very dangerous opponent.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
PROSUMER was available in round 12 I think
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Great game - unlucky on the VIRGATE/VITRAGE - VITRAGE is ok in scrabble - though JUMBOES isn't. Just checked the ABSP site and he seems to be a top level scrabble player. Wouldn't be surprised to see him go far - that is, until an Apterite comes his way and really starts to put pressure on the letters rounds, and picks more difficult numbers rounds. Then we could see more unlucky CSW12 words coming in.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Yeah, he did nothing to dispel the scrabbler/numbers games stereotype.Andy Platt wrote:C2 needs to pick up on his numbers otherwise he could be throwing away a potential 40 points a game
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
Actually, Anthony Endsor will be filling in, since I'm a bit busy, and since there's no show tomorrow, I thought it would be only fair.Jordan F wrote:Join James, for real this time, for the recap later.
TINAMOUS in round 2, EOLITHS in round 5 and OMNIBUS in round 8.
2nd Numbers Alt.: (((25 x 9) - 8 + 1) x 4) - 10 = 862
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
No it doesn't.James Robinson wrote:(((25 x 4) - 8 + 1) x 9) - 10 = 862
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
It does now.Jon Corby wrote:No it doesn't.James Robinson wrote:(((25 x 9) - 8 + 1) x 4) - 10 = 862
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
He's actually a lot higher rated than Mark Murray, but Mark's a bit better on the numbers.Paul Erdunast wrote:Great game - unlucky on the VIRGATE/VITRAGE - VITRAGE is ok in scrabble - though JUMBOES isn't. Just checked the ABSP site and he seems to be a top level scrabble player. Wouldn't be surprised to see him go far - that is, until an Apterite comes his way and really starts to put pressure on the letters rounds, and picks more difficult numbers rounds. Then we could see more unlucky CSW12 words coming in.
Personally this has been an exciting series. I stayed at Neil's house during the weekend of the National Scrabble Championships in Cardiff last September. Didn't know he was planning to enter - though Rachel Riley made an appearance at the tournament - so it must have helped..
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday April 24th 2014 (S70 P73)
And selecting wrong words. You really have to do your homework on the Oxford dictionary.Gavin Chipper wrote:Yeah, he did nothing to dispel the scrabbler/numbers games stereotype.Andy Platt wrote:C2 needs to pick up on his numbers otherwise he could be throwing away a potential 40 points a game