Spoliers for Thursday 30 October

[Mark Kudlowski]

1st numbers game alt:

(100 x 5) + ((7 + 4) x 3 x 3) = 599

[John Douglas]

R6 MOVIES for 6 also.

[Dan Vanniasingham]

I smugly sipped some Ribena having spotted MOVIES in round 6 (hope all the letters were there for it now, seems they were - cheers John)

[John Douglas]

Cheers! In R9, is PLEONIC a word?? (7)
(Apparently a PLEON is the abdomen of a crustacean!)

[John Douglas]

R12 - TRIOLET for 7, equaller.

[Kirk Bevins]

Cheers! In R9, is PLEONIC a word?? (7)
(Apparently a PLEON is the abdomen of a crustacean!)

No, PLEONIC nor PLEON is in ODE2r. I had a DC equaller in round 3 with DOMINEER, round 6 with SAMFIE and then a DC beater in round 9 with OLEFINIC. A couple of nice DC equallers in round 12 I got were TRIOLET (already mentioned here) and LORILET.

I had a really good game again today then didn't get the conundrum - why is it every time you're on for a high percentage game the conundrum is really hard?

[John Douglas]

No, PLEONIC nor PLEON is in ODE2r.

Thanks!

[jeff wharton]

Can,t believe the !dog woman! lost on that final easy numbers game.She had never been behind untill
the penultimate round.
Alternate way to get it 75 divided by 25=3 100-7x3=289-6+2=281

[David Gunn]

Can,t believe the !dog woman! lost on that final easy numbers game.She had never been behind untill
the penultimate round.
Alternate way to get it 75 divided by 25=3 100-7x3=289-6+2=281

With that solution you would score the same as Lynne Owens did in that round!

[Kirk Bevins]

Can,t believe the !dog woman! lost on that final easy numbers game.She had never been behind untill
the penultimate round.
Alternate way to get it 75 divided by 25=3 100-7x3=289-6+2=281

With that solution you would score the same as Lynne Owens did in that round!

Ah yes, good spot!

[JimBentley]

I had a DC equaller in round 3 with DOMINEER, round 6 with SAMFIE and then a DC beater in round 9 with OLEFINIC. A couple of nice DC equallers in round 12 I got were TRIOLET (already mentioned here) and LORILET.

I had a really good game again today then didn't get the conundrum - why is it every time you're on for a high percentage game the conundrum is really hard?

Yeah, I thought I was doing OK today (although I missed KEROSINE and OLEFINIC - OLEFINIC is a brilliant spot, Kirk!) but afterwards I found out I'd also missed SANCOCHE in round 11 and TORTELLI in round 12, so it wasn't all that good, really. Mind you, I thought the conundrum was quite easy

[Martin Gardner]

I just thought I'd mention that Christine - who's lived all her life in France until now - got her first nine letter word in English today with SEPARATES. She has got the conundrum about 4 times mind you, including BLACKBIRD in the previous series.

[Kirk Bevins]

Yeah, I thought I was doing OK today (although I missed KEROSINE and OLEFINIC - OLEFINIC is a brilliant spot, Kirk!) but afterwards I found out I'd also missed SANCOCHE in round 11 and TORTELLI in round 12, so it wasn't all that good, really. Mind you, I thought the conundrum was quite easy

Yeah, I had KEROSINE (in fact I was armchair fishing for it) but missed SANCOCHE and TORTELLI. Shocking!

[jeff wharton]

Can,t believe the !dog woman! lost on that final easy numbers game.She had never been behind untill
the penultimate round.
Alternate way to get it 75 divided by 25=3 100-7x3=289-6+2=281

With that solution you would score the same as Lynne Owens did in that round!

Oops! I did it the easy way then I tried to be clever and find a trickier way to do it.
Must remember to double check next time.