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Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 5:12 pm
by Toby McDonald
GEOTIC in R4
RURALITES in R5
Great game today. Sad to see Sandra go. I really thought she would win 8 but Arran seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve. He may be stopped by a certain someone later this week though
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 5:25 pm
by Owen Carroll
Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 5:12 pm
GEOTIC in R4
RURALITES in R5
Great game today. Sad to see Sandra go. I really thought she would win 8 but Arran seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve. He may be stopped by a certain someone later this week though
Yeah a certain bot could go on to do great things here!
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 8:32 pm
by Neil A Collins
Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 5:12 pm
seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve
Took a while to get going, but choices/spots/solves like those do make me wonder if he's a lurker under a pseudonym on apterous
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 9:42 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Neil A Collins wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 8:32 pm
Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 5:12 pm
seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve
Took a while to get going, but choices/spots/solves like those do make me wonder if he's a lurker under a pseudonym on apterous
I thought the same. After going something like 15-0 down, he woke up and started playing really well. But he could be up against someone potentially extremely good in the near future.
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 6:58 am
by Neil A Collins
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 9:42 pm
he could be up against someone potentially extremely good in the near future.
Potentially
Bet Elliott wished he'd been involved in this game. Even matching the contestants as opposed to finding difficult maxes in R2 + R13 would have given a total of 153 - Zarte's record would have been short-lived.
And I really need to remember that EGOTICx > GEOTIC
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 9:24 am
by Chris Wylie
I said to my hubby that he must be an Apterite with spots like that!
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 12:53 pm
by Philip Wilson
Chris Wylie wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 9:24 am
I said to my hubby that he must be an Apterite with spots like that!
Did he have spots? I didn't notice any
Arran's slow start may have caused Sandra to stick with her 7 in the 'retrials' round, thus helping Arran. The conundrum was pretty exciting. Would Sandra solve it having been given an extra few seconds due to Arran's attempt?
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 1:12 pm
by Gavin Chipper
I always think it's a mistake not to write the conundrum down if you don't get it after a certain amount of time.
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:41 pm
by Stewart Gordon
So the whole phrase "on one's Tod Sloan" became rhyming slang for "alone". That's interesting. Usually the rhyme is formed from a phrase that has meaning in itself. But what pre-existing meaning would "on one's Tod Sloan" have had?
According to both Wiktionary and what I recall being taught, the formation is actually Tod Sloan -> own.