Spoilers for Thursday May 29th 2014 (S70 P91)

[Jordan F]

Samir Pilica got his sixth win, and also clinched a spot in the finals yesterday. He can move up to a clear number 3 seed today with a win, and he'll probably get there anyway. Can he be only the third person this year to get a 7th win?

Join James for the recap later.

[Andy Platt]

((9 + 4) x 25 + 1) x (4 - 1) = 978 to beat Rachel in R6

[Andy Platt]

Think Samir was lucky to come up against a slightly weaker opponent today, not his best performance, but still fully deserving of a place in finals all things considered.

[Fred Mumford]

Until early April, it looked like quite a weak series, but we now have at least 5 very good players in the finals.

Samir's words and numbers performances are very similar to Neil Green's, and if Countdown didn't have numbers rounds you could make a good case for saying that Mark Murray would only be 3rd favourite for the series.

However, I think Samir's and Neil's only hope of actually beating Mark in the finals will be in a game of piss easy numbers rounds.

[James Robinson]

Think Samir was lucky to come up against a slightly weaker opponent today, not his best performance, but still fully deserving of a place in finals all things considered.

I actually had given Steve a few pointers on Twitter in the days before this record. Shame I had no idea he'd be up against Samir

POLITIES in round 10, MAGENTAS/MAGNETOS in round 11, SORDINO in round 12 and EXACTOR in round 13.

3rd Numbers Alt.: (2 x 3 x 75) - (4 x 9) = 414
4th Numbers Alt.: ((9 + 7 + 3) x 100) / 4 = 475

[Johnny Canuck]

Alt. 1st numbers: (50 + 75) * 2 + 10 + 9
Alt. 3rd numbers: (25 + 75) * 4 + 9 + 3 + 2
Alt. 4th numbers: (100 - 9 + 4) * (2 + 3)

[James Robinson]

Alt. 4th numbers: (100 - 9 + 4) * (2 + 3)

Not really an alternative as that's what Steve did

[Tony Atkins]

Starting to annoy me slightly that Samir always picks 2L and then seems to be not that good at that selection, but luckily sometimes, it seems, better than his opponent.

I seemed that Samir didn't sleep so well overnight.... I know the feeling.

[Philip Wilson]

Another alt. 3rd numbers: ((25 + 75 + 3) * 4) + 2
It was a 'first game of the day' wasn't it?