Spoilers For Monday April 4th 2016

Discuss anything that happened in recent games. This is the place to post any words you got that beat Dictionary Corner, or numbers games that evaded Rachel.

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Spoilers For Monday April 4th 2016

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So, it's yet another curtailed week of Countdown this week, as thanks to the Grand National, we're restricted to 3 episodes... :(

Our new champion is John Parke, who managed to conquer 5-time champion Sean Cooke on Friday, but we might still see him for the finals in June, with him currently the #4 seed....

Tim Vine is in DC today and tomorrow, before Alistair McGowan returns on Wednesday.

Join Sean for the recap later. ;) :) :D
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Hmm went for DUPIONS but there is a valid anagram of that and another 7 in R1.

Alt 1st numbers ((50+5)x2+1)x8
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(10+9)×50 for the standard method for 950.
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BRAWNIER as an alternative in the AIRBORNE round.
That's four ball's ups Steve's committed and we still have five rounds left.
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Bizarre numbers solve by Rachel at the end. If you're going to do 27×7 then it's 100-75+10/5 or 100-75+10-8. If you're going to start with 100+75, you might as well then add 14. 7×10/5 or 10+5-8+7.
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What kind of drugs is Tim on during his anecdotes? Judging from today's darts-related one they do seem to permit him to do maths quickly.
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I didn't understand the Darts thing at all!!
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Gavin Chipper wrote:Bizarre numbers solve by Rachel at the end. If you're going to do 27×7 then it's 100-75+10/5 or 100-75+10-8. If you're going to start with 100+75, you might as well then add 14. 7×10/5 or 10+5-8+7.
I think she just wanted to do something a bit silly after all the somewhat annoying misses in the numbers games today. She held back well from mentioning 19x50 in the previous one after all!
What I thought was strange was how both contestants stuck with 2 large when they were not very successful at it! Personally I find that the hardest choice, but then yeah I know it wasn't me playing.
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