Tuesday 20 January 2009 (CoC Heat 7)

[Dinos Sfyris]

Countdown recap for Tuesday 20 January 2009.

C1: Champion Peter Davies (7 wins, 795 points, series 58 semi-finalist and No#7 seed.)
C2: Champion Charlie Reams (10 wins, 1085 points, series 59 runner-up and No#1 seed.)
DC: Susie Dent and Alastair Stewart.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.

R01: P P N E I A P T U
R02: B D T M E A A A H
R03: N L F M O I A A G
R04: M T R K E O I A N
R05: 100, 7, 8, 9, 3, 6. Target: 469.
TTT: LUNGFISH - "Washing it all away on the meadow"
R06: S T L T O E E A U
R07: S S V O A U O S R
R08: L S T N E E A O D
R09: S L Y S I E O X O
R10: 50, 9, 2, 1, 7, 8. Target: 419.
TTT: WINEBLOG - "Getting rid of someone playing tennis perhaps"
R11: R R W A E I H R D
R12: R S B G U I E D N
R13: N Z C T O E E A R
R14: 25, 9, 1, 4, 1, 2. Target: 959.
R15: C U T E N I F T I (conundrum)

Welcome to the penultimate heat game of the Champion of Champions XIII 3 week extravaganza. Today's game sees Peter Davies face master of our c4c universe Charlie Reams. Peter saw off Michael Macdonald-Cooper in an intense series 58 QF before losing to fellow forumite Rich Priest in the semis. He made some great spots including FOREPAW, EXORDIA and POIGNANT and to top it all off, after solving only 1 conundrum out of 7 in his heats, managed to solve GLYCERINE after one second in his final game.

We all know who Charlie is, but for those newbies on the forum or if per chance you've been living in a cave on Mars for the past few months he's a computer science whizz from Cambridge who narrowly lost to Junaid Mubeen in the Series 59 final. He also had the honour of picking Carol's last numbers and solving the last conundrum of the DesO and Carol era. He also enjoys eating cheese.

Charlie is definitely the overdog in this one as I shall indicate with my flawless stream of logic:
Charlie beat Kai, Kai beat Rich, Rich beat Peter, ergo Charlie>>>Peter, but anything could happen. PARQUETRY!

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Enjoy the show.

Round 1: P P N E I A P T U

C1: PAINT (5)
C2: PETUNIA (7)
OT: AUNTIE (6) PEANUT (6) PINETA (6) PITPAN (6) PUPATE (6) PUPPET (nicely uses all 3 Ps) Not panpipe (its PAN PIPES and 2 words)
Score: 0–7 (max 7)

Round 2: B D T M E A A A H

C1: ABATED (6)
C2: BATHED (6)
DC: nothing else
OT: ATHAME (6) HAMATE (6) BAHADA (6) BEMATA (6)
Score: 6–13 (max 13)

Round 3: N L F M O I A A G

C1: LOAFING (7)
C2: FLAMINGO (8) Meh (await Friday's game introduction)
DC: MAGNOLIA (8) Alistair informs anyone who didnt notice (ie Me and Rich Priest) that FLAMINGO is FLAMING + O
OT: fagmalion (a play by George Bernard Shaw about a gay gentlemen who wagers he can make a proper lady out the young Eliza Doolittle)
Score: 6–21 (max 21)

Round 4: M T R K E O I A N

C1: RAIMENT (7)
C2: AMNIOTE (7)
OT: KERATIN (7) MANKIER (7) RAMEKIN (7) (MK) MERANTI (7) MINARET (7) MONIKER (7) (Raccoon Boy?) MORAINE (7) ROMAINE (7)
Score: 13–28 (max 28)

Round 5: 100, 7, 8, 9, 3, 6. Target: 469.

C1: -
C2: 471. (8-3)x100-6x7+9 = oh dear... 2 under instead of 2 over
RR: 468. (100+9+6)x4+8 (7)
OT: 469. (100+6x9)x3+7 (10) There were 5 different solutions to this in the spoilers thread of which this is apparently the most intuitive. Also worthy of note is (8x6-7)x9+100 as it adds a big one on at the end which is always sexy. Both of these solutions are by forum newbies Penny and Rufus, well done guys.
Score: 13–28 (max 38)

Teatime teaser: LUNGFISH -> FLUSHING

Round 6: S T L T O E E A U

C1: OUTLETS (7)
C2: OUTLETS (7)
OT: ELUATES (7) OLEATES (7) OUTLAST (7) (Me) TELEOST (7) (KB)
Score: 20–35 (max 45)

Round 7: S S V O A U O S R

C1: SOARS (5)
C2: SOURS (5)
DC: SAVOURS (7)
OT: and SAVOUR is the only 6
Score: 25–40 (max 52)

Round 8: L S T N E E A O D

C1: DENOTES (7)
C2: DESOLATE (8)
OT: Selection looks juicy but DESOLATE is the only 8. 14 other 7s including LATEENS (KB)
Score: 25–48 (max 60)

Round 9: S L Y S I E O X O

C1: siloes (its SILOS)
C2: LOOSES (6)
DC: SEXILY (6) XYLOSE (6) (so close Peter!)
OT: OXISOLS (7)
Score: 25–54 (max 67)

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Round 10: 50, 9, 2, 1, 7, 8. Target: 419.

C1: 419. (50+2)x8+9+1-7 (10)
C2: 419. 50x8+9+7+2+1 (10)
Score: 35–64 (max 77)

Teatime teaser: WINEBLOG -> ELBOWING

Round 11: R R W A E I H R D

C1: HARRIED (7)
C2: HARRIED (7)
DC: RAWHIDE (7)
OT: HARDIER (7) HARRIER (7) WHIRRED (7) no hardwire (its hyphenated)
Score: 42–71 (max 84)

Round 12: R S B G U I E D N

C1: BRUISED (7)
C2: BUDGIES (7)
DC: GUIDERS (7) SIDEBURN (8) (Jeff)
OT: BURNSIDE (8)
Score: 49–78 (max 92)

Round 13: N Z C T O E E A R

C1: TRANCE (6)
C2: ENACTOR (7)
DC: CAROTENE (8)
OT: ACETONE (7) COZENER (7) CRENATE (7)
Score: 49–85 (max 100)

Round 14: 25, 9, 1, 4, 1, 2. Target: 959.

C1: 963. ((25+2)x4-1)x9 (7)
C2: 951. not asked
RR: -
OT: 960. (25-1)x4x(9+1) (MM) (7)
also (25+1)x(9x4+1)-2 (MM) (7)
Score: 56–85 (max 107)

Round 15: C U T E N I F T I

C1 buzzes on 26 seconds to say FETTUCINI which is correct.
Score: 66–85 (max 117)

Amazing conundrum spot by Peter (although its validity is under investigation by the c4c PO-LICE) brings his total to just 3 conundra out of 9! I was sat next to him and his wife in the audience for the subsequent 3 games and just have to echo the sentiments of Charlie and others about what a nice guy he is.
Well done to Charlie who goes on to play Junaid in a grudge match of their series 59 final. Tomorrow brings us the last CoC heat game, when we'll find out who claims the 8th and final spot in the CoC quarter finals.

Recap brought to you by MC Sfyris and the Brownies

Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=-15

[Howard Somerset]

Nice recap Dinos.

Interesting to see that the max was once again in the range 112-119*. However, Charlie managed to beat the C2 jinx, which had seen all previous C2 players in COC13 lose their games.

* though strictly, this game had a max less than 112, as round 15 didn't have a solution.

[Kirk Bevins]

Countdown recap for Tuesday 20 January 2009.

C1: Champion Peter Davies (7 wins, 795 points, series 58 semi-finalist and No#7 seed.)
C2: Champion Charlie Reams (10 wins, 1085 points, series 59 runner-up and No#1 seed.)

Not sure how the points thing works but this appears that Charlie is averaging 108.5 points a game and Peter is averaging a mighty 113.6 points a game. Surely this is not right?

[Charlie Reams]

You forgot to include the losses in the denominator.

BTW, good work Dinos, I appreciate the extra effort in the intros.

[Kirk Bevins]

You forgot to include the losses in the denominator.

BTW, good work Dinos, I appreciate the extra effort in the intros.

Ah yes, of course. And yeah, I enjoyed reading that blurb too, a nice review. Thankyou.

[Allan Harmer]

Great recap Dinos - Very informative and entertaining.

Well done mate!

Al

[Dinos Sfyris]

Cheers guys. I only get to do one CoC recap so thought I'd make this one a bit spesh.

Oh and I forgot to include Susie's OoW: for anyone who's interested she talked about the knork, a piece of cutlery comprising the sharpness of a knife and prongs of a fork, which has become popular in our TV dinner culture. After which I think they edited out a joke by Jeff

"We dont use knorks in our house. We have something called fingers." or something like that.

[Jon Corby]

I was sniggering all the way through the knorks bit. Knorks. Heh heh heh.

[Les Butterworth]

Oh and I forgot to include Susie's OoW: for anyone who's interested she talked about the knork, a piece of cutlery comprising the sharpness of a knife and prongs of a fork, which has become popular in our TV dinner culture. After which I think they edited out a joke by Jeff

Ther is also a similar piece of cutlery very popular in the 60's calles a splade which combines a spoon fork and a bit of an excuse for a blade usefull for cake and currys as a right hand fork user it suits well anyone heard of these.

[Phil Reynolds]

I was sniggering all the way through the knorks bit.

So was Alastair Stewart.

[Lucy Gowers]

I was sniggering all the way through the knorks bit. Knorks. Heh heh heh.

A nice Australian lady did warn her:

Maria Zijlstra: Do you know the other meaning of 'norks'?


Susie Dent: Oh dear. No, I dread to think...is it rude?


Maria Zijlstra: Breasts.


Susie Dent: Oh really, okay. Is that definitely Australian English?


Maria Zijlstra: Maybe it is an Australianism, then. 'She's got great norks...ha, ha, ha.'


Susie Dent: Well that's fantastic. Well I didn't mention that in the book. I should have done. If there's ever a reprint I'll put it in.


Maria Zijlstra: I don't think it has a k, though.


Susie Dent: Oh, okay, good. So I won't have people sniggering in the bookshops.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/s ... 392738.htm

The podcast of this show is well worth a subscription for anyone interested in language.

[Peter Mabey]

Ther is also a similar piece of cutlery very popular in the 60's calles a splade which combines a spoon fork and a bit of an excuse for a blade usefull for cake and currys as a right hand fork user it suits well anyone heard of these.

I have several of these things - definitely useful for curries & other ready-meals; I've always called them sporks.