Spoilers for Tuesday 15 July 2008

[Peter Mabey]

First try was wrong

[Joseph Bolas]

Another UP- hook word as an equaller: UPBEATS

[Michael Wallace]

2nd numbers worked out rather more neatly as 50 x (10+9) - (8*7) (in my opinion )

[Charlie Reams]

Re: Susie's origins of words, as Julian probably knows, mooting (in the sense of mock legal debates) still happens in Cambridge. But then most things in Cambridge are unchanged since the 16th century.

[Peter Mabey]

First numbers
(50+2)x(75-25+7)/3=988

[Joseph Bolas]

STIFADO in the last word round.

[Michael Wallace]

was FOOTPAD there in round 13? my fiance saw it but too late for me to check if the letters were actually there

[Michael Wallace]

also, TOXICPEEN is a much better scramble

[Charlie Reams]

was FOOTPAD there in round 13? my fiance saw it but too late for me to check if the letters were actually there

Yeah, FOOTPADS was actually there for a 2-letter DC beater. It doesn't mean anything like you might think though, unless you think it's a historical term for an unmounted highwayman.

[Michael Wallace]

was FOOTPAD there in round 13? my fiance saw it but too late for me to check if the letters were actually there

Yeah, FOOTPADS was actually there for a 2-letter DC beater. It doesn't mean anything like you might think though, unless you think it's a historical term for an unmounted highwayman.

Yeah - he did know that (all I've got to do is train him to be good at the word spotting part of Countdown, his vocabulary is fine for it, well, word spotting and maths, but one step at a time...)

[Kirk Bevins]

And I'd noticed CUSTOMER was SCROTUM + E but I never knew it was RECTUMS + O. How delightful!

[Joseph Bolas]

also, TOXICPEEN is a much better scramble

I started noticing this during Neil's week, but was too afraid to mention it (for obvious reasons, of which I hope have now blown over) but I am right in saying that none of the conundrums in this series are going to be ending in -ING.

P.S. Also apologies for posting STIFADO as a DC beater, as I thought it was the maximum you could've had (I didn't know about FOOTPADS)

[Kirk Bevins]

also, TOXICPEEN is a much better scramble

I started noticing this during Neil's week, but was too afraid to mention it (for obvious reasons, of which I hope have now blown over) but I am right in saying that none of the conundrums in this series are going to be ending in -ING.

P.S. Also apologies for posting STIFADO as a DC beater, as I thought it was the maximum you could've had (I didn't know about FOOTPADS)

Don't apologise - it was a DC beater all the same and if people reading didn't know it then they can learn from it.

[Joseph Bolas]

Don't apologise - it was a DC beater all the same and if people reading didn't know it then they can learn from it.

I suppose you are right, because its not like STIFADO is an everyday word, unless you live in Greece Plus, I suppose, also looking at it in a Scrabble sense, its a 7-letter word, so its a good bingo word too.

[Howard Somerset]

I went for a completely different method for third numbers game:
(50 x 3 - 6 - 4 - 3) x 4

[Kirk Bevins]

I went for a completely different method for third numbers game:
(50 x 3 - 6 - 4 - 3) x 4

I'm glad someone's different, Howard as that's how I did it too!

[Jon Corby]

I went for a completely different method for third numbers game:
(50 x 3 - 6 - 4 - 3) x 4

I'm glad someone's different, Howard as that's how I did it too!

And me

Was a little deflated when the contestant got it too, and a much easier way.

[Julian Fell]

Re: Susie's origins of words, as Julian probably knows, mooting (in the sense of mock legal debates) still happens in Cambridge. But then most things in Cambridge are unchanged since the 16th century.

very true Charlie.

I did mooting... I was rubbish at it