Spoilers for Thursday 26th Match

[Ben Hunter]

JSP continues her octochamp run.

[Mike Brailsford]

OUTFIRES for 8 ?

[John Brackstone]

superfit

[Charlie Reams]

Here's a website which will save you the embarrassment of submitting non-words:

http://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php?w ... =0&p=0&s=0
http://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php?w ... =0&p=0&s=0

[John Brackstone]

you misunderstood me - I was describing Rachel not offering a Dc-beater !!!!!!!

[Mark Kudlowski]

2nd numbers alt: (75 + 2 + 1 ) x 9

[Martin Gardner]

Why do I have an urge for pink schapps. No serious that's a lovely outfit, I think with her blond hair and pale complexion light pastel colours and white suit her well, such as the floral dress yesterday and the peach "Dorris Day" dress today. Oh and it was a good game too!

[Phil Reynolds]

Why do I have an urge for pink schapps. No serious that's a lovely outfit, I think with her blond hair and pale complexion light pastel colours and white suit her well, such as the floral dress yesterday and the peach "Dorris Day" dress today. Oh and it was a good game too!

This is what happens when I roll my head on the keyboard:

9p0-[-0o7y6y67op[[pytu67rty87fyy8p; fddt[;;'p

[Eoin Monaghan]

Why do I have an urge for pink schapps. No serious that's a lovely outfit, I think with her blond hair and pale complexion light pastel colours and white suit her well, such as the floral dress yesterday and the peach "Dorris Day" dress today. Oh and it was a good game too!

This is what happens when I roll my head on the keyboard:

9p0-[-0o7y6y67op[[pytu67rty87fyy8p; fddt[;;'p[/quo
you can type proper english??

[Richard Priest]

This was the first of Cate's games that I saw live in the studio, and when I saw her 2nd game the other day it reminded me of this one in that she stepped up a gear in part 3.

Gerald was a nice guy, he sat just in front of me in the audience for the next show and we were comparing words and solutions.

[Kirk Bevins]

superfit

If SUPERFIT describes Rachel, who does the 9 in round 12 refer to? CUNTHEADS.

[Kirk Bevins]

Yay! I got a max game today (I'm getting quite good at this in recent times - if only I'd waited a few more years to apply). I had a DC beater in GARPIKES in round 2 (obtained as I missed GARPIKE in my own run).

I 'beat' the poor challenger 131-16. Would have been quite fun had this been in the studio.

[Paul Howe]

Yay! I got a max game today (I'm getting quite good at this in recent times - if only I'd waited a few more years to apply). I had a DC beater in GARPIKES in round 2 (obtained as I missed GARPIKE in my own run).

I 'beat' the poor challenger 131-16. Would have been quite fun had this been in the studio.

You're a merciless beast Kirk, I'd hate to win that emphatically (would love the 131, but would like my opponent to grab a decent haul too).

Indeed, when I was beating Keith Maynard 50-0 my feelings alternated between embarrassment at the scoreline and a looming sense of dread that I'd somehow still manage to bottle it.

[Richard Priest]

Indeed, when I was beating Keith Maynard 50-0 my feelings alternated between embarrassment at the scoreline and a looming sense of dread that I'd somehow still manage to bottle it.

I know what you mean, I felt a bit like that when I was 34-0 up on Richard Wilson. I was glad when he finally got some points on the next round but when he beat me with a well-risked 7 in the next I too started to fear a comeback.

[Kirk Bevins]

Indeed, when I was beating Keith Maynard 50-0 my feelings alternated between embarrassment at the scoreline and a looming sense of dread that I'd somehow still manage to bottle it.

I know what you mean, I felt a bit like that when I was 34-0 up on Richard Wilson. I was glad when he finally got some points on the next round but when he beat me with a well-risked 7 in the next I too started to fear a comeback.

Wow. Maybe I don't have compassion or something but if I can win by 110 points I'll try to do just that.

[Kieran Child]

^ Not lack of compassion. Just lack of Romance. If I could win by 110, I'd try to get it so I won by 100. That would be so stylish.

[Kirk Bevins]

^ Not lack of compassion. Just lack of Romance. If I could win by 110, I'd try to get it so I won by 100. That would be so stylish.

And not get the record? Nice one.

[Ben Wilson]

Susie was a bit short with her guess of 1200 shows in today's intro.

[Kieran Child]

^ Not lack of compassion. Just lack of Romance. If I could win by 110, I'd try to get it so I won by 100. That would be so stylish.

And not get the record? Nice one.

But if you get the record, then in two years time someone will beat it and you'll be forgotten.
If you get exactly the same score as your opponent, but with another 1 in front of it, then it doesn't matter what anyone does. In two years time it will still look stylish.

[Philip Jarvis]

Alternative numbers:

R1 - (4 -1) x 50 = 150 - 8 = 142 x 4 = 568

R2 - (9 -2) x (100 + 1) = 707 - 5 = 702

[Charlie Reams]

But if you get the record, then in two years time someone will beat it and you'll be forgotten.

Yeah, like that Julian... oh, what's his name again?

[Kieran Child]

Julian still has the record?

[Phil Reynolds]

Julian still has the record?

No. Someone beat it, and now he's forgotten. Humour, see?

[Kieran Child]

Julian's remembered because of the 146 more than anything.
If you want to map this to what I said, two years before Julian's 146, the highest 15 rounder was by Ian McMenzie...

Had Ian McMenzie scored 100 points higher than someone, it would have still been cool today, but no. He went and got a record, then it got broken, now he's not really more notable than other countdown contestants.

[Paul Howe]

Julian's remembered because of the 146 more than anything.
.

Nope, Julian's remembered because he consistently came up with dazzling words (and not just your usual high probability stuff) at a time when getting that stupendously good was a lot harder than it is now, and he had a certain aura about him that noone else, impressive though they may have been, has ever come close to replicating.

[Ben Wilson]

Julian's remembered because of the 146 more than anything.
.

Nope, Julian's remembered because he consistently came up with dazzling words (and not just your usual high probability stuff) at a time when getting that stupendously good was a lot harder than it is now, and he had a certain aura about him that noone else, impressive though they may have been, has ever come close to replicating.

He's also remembered for being able to define almost every word he declared, which I don't think any of the superstars since (Conor, Kirkie, even Craig) have been able to do.

[Kirk Bevins]

He's also remembered for being able to define almost every word he declared, which I don't think any of the superstars since (Conor, Kirkie, even Craig) have been able to do.

Oi - I wasn't asked to define them all and ones I were asked to define I could sometimes get them, e.g. NAIANT involved a horizontal fish and TOWAI was a tree. Give me some credit mate!

[Charlie Reams]

NAIANT involved a horizontal fish and TOWAI was a tree.

As I said, you really should write dictionaries. Albeit short ones.

[Mike Brown]

Susie was a bit short with her guess of 1200 shows in today's intro.

Indeed she was! And by my reckoning, she is due to make her 2,000th appearance at the first quarter-final.