Spoilers for Thursday 12th October 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 72)

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Spoilers for Thursday 12th October 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 72)

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ARRANT to beat TRAIN in R12
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Was OUTEARN removed in the last update? If not, its disallowal could have decided the game -- had it been allowed, the score after the conundrum would have been 49-49 and Lawrie would still have had a shot on the tie-break.
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OUTEARN is one of a subset of words that when typed without a hyphen take you to the US version without a hyphen.
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RUPTION was a beater in one of the rounds.
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Didn't see today's show, but a very low scoring game altogether. Personally I think Owen Taaffe was quite unlucky to lose as it was really disallowed words which cost him a win, if it wasn't for that then I would imagine he would still be playing presently as the standard hasn't been very high if I'm perfectly honest, and also that he was quite a solid player, too.
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ORNATURE in the OUTEARN round.
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Johnny Canuck wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:07 pm Was OUTEARN removed in the last update? If not, its disallowal could have decided the game -- had it been allowed, the score after the conundrum would have been 49-49 and Lawrie would still have had a shot on the tie-break.
Yeah he was very unlucky there, a more thorough look would have shown it to be in - it's a similar scenario to Kirk's HEDARIM - it's in but quite hidden so just a quick check might not yield anything.
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Certainly unlucky. A search for SEEDINGS in this forum reveals 207 matches.
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Tom S wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:54 pm Didn't see today's show, but a very low scoring game altogether. Personally I think Owen Taaffe was quite unlucky to lose as it was really disallowed words which cost him a win, if it wasn't for that then I would imagine he would still be playing presently as the standard hasn't been very high if I'm perfectly honest, and also that he was quite a solid player, too.
Maybe unlucky to lose this game but in the general scheme of things, I think his days were numbered.
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I didn't really see him as an octochamp for sure, but I think that he still gave it a good shot, particularly game one:)
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David Williams wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 11:22 pm Certainly unlucky. A search for SEEDINGS in this forum reveals 207 matches.
Seedings must be the most used word to ever be disallowed on Countdown.
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