Spoilers for Tuesday 10th February 2009

[Ben Hunter]

Will today's contestant have the bollocks to beat the banker, or will they sob worthlessly into Noel Edmonds' stiff lap?

[Matt Morrison]

R2: I am presuming that MOUNTIES is not good?

[Matt Morrison]

R3: classic example of the problem with Rachel not putting words up (and I know that will be changing soon).
Susie said "you can spell HARKEN with an E in front" but surely she didn't mean EHARKEN?

[Gary Male]

Will today's contestant have the bollocks to beat the banker, or will they sob worthlessly into Noel Edmonds' stiff lap?

R4, Box 15 for £20,000

[Gary Male]

R2: I am presuming that MOUNTIES is not good?

Capitalised, so no good

[Richard Priest]

R2: I am presuming that MOUNTIES is not good?

No, I tried that in one of my games but it's capitalised.

OUTLINES round 2, HANKERER in round 3 though in all honesty I probably wouldn't have tried HANKERER if I'd been playing myself, I wasn't totally sure of it until I checked in the ODE2 just.

I found it quite amusing when Rachel found she'd run out of space a bit on the numbers board

[Matt Morrison]

R2: I am presuming that MOUNTIES is not good?

Capitalised, so no good

Yeah I noticed the stemmer didn't have it, then remembered it comes from their official name (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) so presumably retains the proper-nounage.

[Mark Kudlowski]

BESTIARY for round won by SOBRIETY - Susie couldn't find it !

[Ray Folwell]

Did Roy start to say "Vowel please Carol" ?

[Craig Beevers]

Still stunned by WINDSLAB being an actual word - one of those rare words that's okay in Countdown but not in Scrabble.

[Mark Kudlowski]

Numbers 2 alt: (25 + 10 + 3) x (8 + 9)

[Phil Reynolds]

Still stunned by WINDSLAB being an actual word - one of those rare words that's okay in Countdown but not in Scrabble.

I would have been tempted to try WINDABLE in that round (as in, "this watch is windable") but it seems it's no good.

I was surprised at both contestants declaring 6 when DENIALS was a fairly obvious 7, and also at Roy risking SABLED but not seeing DISABLE.

[Phil Reynolds]

ERUPTING to equal DC in round 11.

[Matt Morrison]

ERUPTING to equal DC in round 11.

Also REPUTING. Only just saw that as an anagram of yours though Phil, I went for PETERING myself like DC.

[Dinos Sfyris]

Will today's contestant have the bollocks to beat the banker, or will they sob worthlessly into Noel Edmonds' stiff lap?

R4, Box 15 for £20,000

Well done to todays challenger. I had a right mare in todays game. I didnt think positive or bring a lucky charm or anything!

On a more serious note SOBRIETY was a quality spot as was LOUVRED

[AnnieHall]

Rd - Driver
Rd. 2- Outlines
Rd 3. - Hacker
Rd. 4-Mousing
Rd 5. 1 away (255)
Rd. 6- Mineral
Rd. 7- Netted
Rd. 8- Boaster
Rd. 9-Swindle
Rd. 10- Nope!
Rd. 10- Reputing
Rd. 11- Cagiest
Rd. 12- Potter
Rd. 13- Nope!
Conundrum- Got it a second before!

[Martin Gardner]

I missed an enormous amount of stuff today. I couldn't get any of the numbers (remind me again who was it that said that Rachel wasn't good enough at the numbers). Think I had about 5 maxes in the whole game, although I did get the conundrum.

[DaveC]

4 maxes for me this time, lowest in quite some time. Never heard of LOUVRED, SMIDGEON with the "O" or WINDSLAB.

Novel version of R14

75/5 = 15
15- 8 = 7
(50 + 1 ) * 7 = 357

Hats off to Rachel today for sure.

DC

[Martin Bishop]

Never heard of SMIDGEON with the "O"

Funny that, because I'd never have thought of spelling it any other way.

Today also marked the first occasion where I used a trick learnt from the forum, namely DEPART+O=ADOPTER. Thanks c4c!

[Chris Corby]

R2: I am presuming that MOUNTIES is not good?

Capitalised, so no good

OK then, mounties

[Matt Morrison]

R2: I am presuming that MOUNTIES is not good?

Capitalised, so no good

OK then, mounties

I wish we had some kind of kudos button on posts on this forum, so I could just click and give you some props for a great post.
Sometimes all you want to do is just laugh and it seems bulky to have to leave a whole message to do so, but on the other hand it'd be criminal to ignore a quality post.

[Kirk Bevins]

I had a 9/15 max game today which is lower than I hope for. I saw LOUVRED but forgot whether it was in or not and so I didn't count it. I also missed CAGIEST which annoyed me, but WINDSLAB was a quality spot as was TETRAPOD (although I'm kicking myself about this as it's high prob and it's on a list of words I've missed recently and am trying to memorise how to spot).