Spoilers for Wednesday July 23rd 2014 (S71 P16)

[Jordan F]

Jason Turner got the highest score of the series so far yesterday en route to win number 2. Can he get a 3rd today?

Join Andy for the recap later.

[szodiac]

Opponent today should be Tricia Pay (so I've been told from the Scrabble group). IIRC she should be related to a former contestant Richard Pay, an octochamp from series 51.

Also you may wish to tune into Des Chiffres Des Lettres afterwards (I watch it on www.filmon.com/tv/france-3) to see how Jeff Clayton gets on.

Mauro

[Mark Kudlowski]

In the SPOILAGE round, there was another 8-letter word, but in obsolete (?) OED.
(Source: Wiktionary)

AEGILOPS (plural aegilopses)
1.An ulcer or fistula in the inner angle of the eye.  
2.(obsolete) The wild-oat or other grass found as a corn-weed.

References[edit]
Oxford English Dictionary, 1884-1928, and First Supplement, 1933

I only knew of that word because it's the longest one with all its letters in alphabetical order.
(Susie might have known of it.)

[Fred Mumford]

My favourite episode for a very very long time - dramatic, funny, and a very high standard of play.

The only thing wrong with it was that there had to be a loser.

[Tony Atkins]

In the SPOILAGE round, there was another 8-letter word, but in obsolete (?) OED.
(Source: Wiktionary)

AEGILOPS (plural aegilopses)
1.An ulcer or fistula in the inner angle of the eye.  
2.(obsolete) The wild-oat or other grass found as a corn-weed.

References[edit]
Oxford English Dictionary, 1884-1928, and First Supplement, 1933

I only knew of that word because it's the longest one with all its letters in alphabetical order.
(Susie might have known of it.)

Apterites know it of course as one of the variants on there (as also spoilage is).

[Tony Atkins]

Well done to Tricia - she seemed familiar from some other intellectual show presumably.

A cheeky beater of 6 available in the MOTTO+FEUP reound, otherwise the players got all between them.

EDIT: though TOUPET seemed to be in ODE 2 but not in ODE 3, ODO says it's a French word - so no 6 then.

[Tony Atkins]

Opponent today should be Tricia Pay (so I've been told from the Scrabble group). IIRC she should be related to a former contestant Richard Pay, an octochamp from series 51.

Also you may wish to tune into Des Chiffres Des Lettres afterwards (I watch it on http://www.filmon.com/tv/france-3) to see how Jeff Clayton gets on.

Mauro

Thanks - I was pleased to get one round he didn't get.

[szodiac]

Also you may wish to tune into Des Chiffres Des Lettres afterwards (I watch it on http://www.filmon.com/tv/france-3) to see how Jeff Clayton gets on.

Mauro

Thanks - I was pleased to get one round he didn't get.

Happy to oblige. Normally they do best of three matches so expect to see him tomorrow. If only France 3 could delay starting by about 5 minutes and C4 to start earlier at 2.30 pm there'd be no clash. I do collect stills from all DCDL rounds from every episode.

Mauro

[szodiac]

Opponent today should be Tricia Pay (so I've been told from the Scrabble group). IIRC she should be related to a former contestant Richard Pay, an octochamp from series 51.

Just to confirm there is NO connection with Richard from series 51 but *has* appeared on Countdown before on Series 29 where her only game was with all conquering Chris Rogers.

Mauro

[Philip Wilson]

My favourite episode for a very very long time - dramatic, funny, and a very high standard of play.

The only thing wrong with it was that there had to be a loser.

Absolutely Fred!

[Callum Todd]

Looks like this isn't Tricia's first appearance on the show: http://wiki.apterous.org/Tricia_Pay

Great performance from her today. Sad to see Jason go.

[Jack Worsley]

Brilliantly exciting game and great standard by both players! After Jason's previous performances, I thought he was on for octochampdom so very well played Tricia, think that may have been a twelve max. I think she'll go a long way, unless there's anyone else of any note lined up.

SENHORA in round 8.