Discuss anything that happened in recent games. This is the place to post any words you got that beat Dictionary Corner, or numbers games that evaded Rachel.
If anyone thinks that being a highly skilled Apterite almost guarantees you octochampdom, take a look at yesterday's game. Our Graeme was lucky to pass Graham Moonie-Dalton yesterday, and he will have to up his game today to make sure that that was just a blip and nothing permanent.
Tom Barnes wrote:Well done again Graeme, seriously concerned for my record there
It was higher score v zero, but that's not an official record.
I was quite please to equal Graeme in 12 rounds and nearly risked MATELESS, but didn't. Can anyone explain why TEAMLESS is not in ODE3, but MEATLESS and MATELESS are?
Good performance from Graeme after yesterday's scorcher, but oh dear, what a car crash for the challenger. I can only assume nerves got to him - lots of silly mistakes, missing obvious words and numbers. Not one of the most comfortable games to watch - even the last numbers I thought "phew", then he screwed it up. Oh dear indeed. Probably enough to make Graeme uncomfortable too.
The letters rounds, fine. A lot of contestants faced with a top notch contestant like Graeme lose several rounds by one letter that they wouldn't to most other players; as a result their score on the day doesn't look too clever. But this guy screwed up 30 fairly straightforward points on numbers games. Graeme even abandoned 6 small for the first one which gave him a very fair chance.
The more I see heats like this the more I believe they need a rethink. Most of the people now in their 50s+ who both want to do the show and are genuinely good enough have probably already been on. If C4 insist, as they probably do, that the contestants are drawn from as wide a spectrum as possible in terms of age, gender, location and so on then sooner or later surely the rules have to change to let past contestants re-apply.
Tony Atkins wrote:Can anyone explain why TEAMLESS is not in ODE3, but MEATLESS and MATELESS are?
Presumably because it's less commonly used in written English, at least according to the Oxford corpus.
I sometimes have my doubts about how the Oxford corpus decides these things. Even if it is all computerised, the weighting given to different sources must be a human decision. Or is it a panel of the great and the good, cigar in one hand, glass of port in the other, taking a break from discussing the finer points of ancient Greece (or whatever Really Clever People do)?