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Hurray it's Robin McKay day! And the "strange" Wigan United has only been mentioned once so far...

OBELISK as an alt in R1 but there is a beater.

My alt 1st numbers was (9x8+5+1)x10+75, just to be awkward.

Sorry guys, gotta designate today's recap as a partial. The Shockwave Flash plugin was crashing during EVERY SINGLE round. I got everything except the order of the letters in the selection in the UNFAIR round and McKay's method for 626. Really hope someone might be able to fill in the missing data.

Congrats Robin -- cracking debut score, and second highest of the series so far. You beat me by a big margin, and would have blown me out of the water even if I hadn't spent 75% of the show repeatedly refreshing my video feed.

Well didn't he do well! A studio max - the SPOONS round had beaters too, I believe.

As 25 squared is my favourite method: alt 4th numbers ((7x5)-10)x25+1.

Robin did ((25x4)-10)x7-5+1

Thanks Tony! Alternate for that round: ((7 - 4) * 10 - 5) * 25 + 1.

Superb ton debut, Robin. Very well played, sir.

Tony Atkins wrote: SPOONS round had beaters too, I believe.

As 25 squared is my favourite method: alt 4th numbers ((7x5)-10)x25+1.

Yep, and I got one of those beaters, unbelievably! Wonder who will post it first? Oh and that's a clue
Thanks Tony - I spent 28 seconds looking for the second 25 and gave up!
My 192 was (7x9+1)x3, and then I saw another way during Robin's method, something along the lines of 18x10+12.

I did have a little giggle to myself when you said "should be entertaining" in our chat yesterday Johnny.

Thank you all for the incredibly kind comments.

Rob McKay wrote:I did have a little giggle to myself when you said "should be entertaining" in our chat yesterday Johnny.

Haha, entertaining it was indeed! Only realised after the show that you equalled the highest début score ever. Permanent congratulations.

I'm glad they kept the "Wigan are better than Man Utd" part in, haha.

Johnny Canuck wrote:

Rob McKay wrote:I did have a little giggle to myself when you said "should be entertaining" in our chat yesterday Johnny.

Haha, entertaining it was indeed! Only realised after the show that you equalled the highest début score ever. Permanent congratulations.

I actually thought it took me longer to get telephone, lol, but Tony was a really nice guy and everyone on the crew was fabulous.

Tony Atkins wrote:Hurray it's Robin McKay day! And the "strange" Wigan United has only been mentioned once so far...

Strange, haha.

The letters in the UNFAIR round were RXFWUAIAN

"And the corner's nine?"

Well there are two anagrams of INCREASED they could have got!

Great debut welcome to the teapot club

All small alt for first numbers: (10+9)x(8+1)x5
3rd simply: (9-1)x2x3x4

Tracey Anne Mills wrote:Great debut welcome to the teapot club

Thanks Tracey and can I just say thanks to you and Mark for helping me find my feet in Manchester and also it was a delight to meet you both again.

Philip Wilson wrote:

Tony Atkins wrote: SPOONS round had beaters too, I believe.

As 25 squared is my favourite method: alt 4th numbers ((7x5)-10)x25+1.

Yep, and I got one of those beaters, unbelievably! Wonder who will post it first? Oh and that's a clue

We don't need two Tonys! SOONEST is the word you got. Guys, this is a spoilers thread. It's exactly what it's for! What you do is - post the words and numbers solutions you get.

Rob McKay wrote:

Tracey Anne Mills wrote:Great debut welcome to the teapot club

Thanks Tracey and can I just say thanks to you and Mark for helping me find my feet in Manchester and also it was a delight to meet you both again.

It was great fun seeing you, hopefully at a Co:Event

STEPSON in round 5 and OPERATIST in round 8. I was pretty pleased with those until I missed INCREASED.

Top job Rob. Hope to see you at a co-event again soon!

Another administrative error potentially gains a huge impact as a result of this game. Tony goes onto the seed table two points ahead of David Edgar from earlier this series. However, during one of his prelims, David had the word OUTRANG wrongly disallowed, and if it were to have been allowed he would be ahead of Tony. Wouldn't normally be a huge deal but in this particular instance they may very well end up being the #8 and #9 seeds.

Tracey Anne Mills wrote:

Rob McKay wrote:

Tracey Anne Mills wrote:Great debut welcome to the teapot club

Thanks Tracey and can I just say thanks to you and Mark for helping me find my feet in Manchester and also it was a delight to meet you both again.

It was great fun seeing you, hopefully at a Co:Event

You too Trace, I am going to try and pencil in Co:Hud

Thomas Carey wrote:Top job Rob. Hope to see you at a co-event again soon!

Thanks Thomas/Tom - which do you prefer to be called, btw? Always meant to ask. Yup I am going to defo try and get up for Co:Hud this year. Been too long since my last Co:Event.

Tim Down wrote:STEPSON in round 5 and OPERATIST in round 8. I was pretty pleased with those until I missed INCREASED.

I felt a bit cheated with OPERATIST as it was a new word. Nah I'm only joking.

Rob McKay wrote:

Thomas Carey wrote:Top job Rob. Hope to see you at a co-event again soon!

Thanks Thomas/Tom - which do you prefer to be called, btw? Always meant to ask. Yup I am going to defo try and get up for Co:Hud this year. Been too long since my last Co:Event.

I really don't mind tbh, it's annoying not knowing which one to use. Most people use Tom though. Do you have a preference of Robin/Rob? I think your forum account is the first time I've seen you use Rob

I don't mind either Tom. One thing that does get under my skin is when people call me Robert, lol. Its Robin haha.

Gavin Chipper wrote:

Philip Wilson wrote:

Tony Atkins wrote: SPOONS round had beaters too, I believe.

As 25 squared is my favourite method: alt 4th numbers ((7x5)-10)x25+1.

Yep, and I got one of those beaters, unbelievably! Wonder who will post it first? Oh and that's a clue

We don't need two Tonys! SOONEST is the word you got. Guys, this is a spoilers thread. It's exactly what it's for! What you do is - post the words and numbers solutions you get.

Noted

Great debut, Robert

Thomas Carey wrote: I really don't mind tbh, it's annoying not knowing which one to use. Most people use Tom though. Do you have a preference of Robin/Rob? I think your forum account is the first time I've seen you use Rob

I think there's a moral here. Don't have a name that has a standard abbreviation. Also definitely never have a name with more than three syllables because it's automatically going to be too long for people not to abbreviate.