Spoilers for Thursday 20th August 2020

[Tom S]

Good see-saw of a game today. Bet Jonny will be kicking himself for missing 260 and the last numbers, as they'd have seen him over the line.

[Ian Fitzpatrick]

Did Nick say he had beaten a 5 times winner to get there?

[Tom S]

Did Nick say he had beaten a 5 times winner to get there?

Yup.

[Sam Cappleman-Lynes]

Did Nick say he had beaten a 5 times winner to get there?

Yup.

Presumably by the transitive property of "beating at Countdown".

[Howie Myers]

r12 alt - RUPTIONS

[Stewart Gordon]

Interesting chat at the beginning about the direction of time. It's weird that we use the terms "forward" and "back" both ways round.

Earlier times at the front:

• school exercises telling you to put letters "in front of" a word to form another word
• bringing a scheduled action or event forward, or pushing it back
• holding back on doing something
• sense of "before" as "in front of"

Later times at the front:

• looking back at the past
• backdating
• back issues
• probably every description of time travel I've come across
• looking forward to something

I'm sure there are others....

[Jon O'Neill]

It's a bit like the way the TV guide on Sky/Virgin/probably all others starts with the lowest-numbered channels at the top.

[James Robinson]

Jonny might be someone who has a weirdly unique record....

His only win was against someone from Barnsley, and his only defeat was against someone from Barnsley....