Spoilers for Tuesday April 23rd 2013 (Series 68 Prelim 31)

[Jordan F]

Jill Hayward is up to two wins, can she be only the fifth person this series to get a third?

Join Jack for the recap later.

[Andy Platt]

Hmmmm!

DC offered GEISHAS the other day but missed it here.

Edit: And it's there again in round 2. This time they spot it! Lol.

[szodiac]

Hmmmm!

DC offered GEISHAS the other day but missed it here.

Edit: And it's there again in round 2. This time they spot it! Lol.

Even odder: husband John also missed it in round 11... also against Jill Hayward

Mauro

[Tony Atkins]

It must be the order of the letters, as I saw GEISHAS in R1 but missed it in R2 (I got GHERAOS but missed the 8).

[Andy Platt]

Erm, CATERANS, ARSENATE, and one of mine there, SERENATA, all in round 5, surprising misses by DC!

Edit: Yeah Mauro, I remember it from the other day too cos I recapped that game. Interesting stuff

Second edit: Surprised that oxtails was disallowed but if it says mass noun I'm happy to see it not slip through the subjectivity net. ISOLATES in that round.

Third edit: OUTDANCE anagrammatical alternative to UNCOATED

[szodiac]

OXTAILS is allowed in Lexplorer and TAXIES not allowed in same program.

Susie has just reversed those adjudications ?!? Doh

[Andy Platt]

Ha, thought I was missing a 9 for some reason in the SBRLAUIPE round but turns out that 7 is indeed the max. UPRAISE available, amongst others.

[Tony Atkins]

Watching online,David Cameron suddenly appeared on the screen at the start of Susie's bit - I thought
he was going to tell her off!

[Andy Platt]

Anyone else miss the conundrum?
I couldn't get PRELAPSES^ out of my head which obviously couldn't be a conundrum answer even if it was a valid word.

Pretty good performance from Jill there though. Even from the comfort of my living room she'd have given me a closer game than any of my on-screen opponents did.
I feel it's going to take someone pretty good to stop her from becoming an octochamp now that she has apparently lost all of her nerves. The only other issue to deal with is what must have been the early morning recording slot for tomorrow's game. But looks like she deserves to make finals from what we're seeing.

[James Robinson]

Anyone else miss the conundrum?
I couldn't get PRELAPSES^ out of my head which obviously couldn't be a conundrum answer even if it was a valid word.

I got after seeing LESS and worked out that PAPER could be made out of the rest, although I don't recall seeing it before. Slightly odd.

3rd Numbers Alt.: ((50 + 3) x (9 - 1)) + (10 / 5) = 426

[Graeme Cole]

I spotted the TAXIS-TAXIES discrepancy years ago. *smug*

[Tony Atkins]

Just got the same selection as R2 on apterous - and I still didn't get ARGOSIES.