Spoilers for Tuesday 14th May 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 80)

[Toby McDonald]

GEOTIC in R4
RURALITES in R5

Great game today. Sad to see Sandra go. I really thought she would win 8 but Arran seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve. He may be stopped by a certain someone later this week though

[Owen Carroll]

GEOTIC in R4
RURALITES in R5

Great game today. Sad to see Sandra go. I really thought she would win 8 but Arran seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve. He may be stopped by a certain someone later this week though

Yeah a certain bot could go on to do great things here!

[Neil A Collins]

seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve

Took a while to get going, but choices/spots/solves like those do make me wonder if he's a lurker under a pseudonym on apterous

[Gavin Chipper]

seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve

Took a while to get going, but choices/spots/solves like those do make me wonder if he's a lurker under a pseudonym on apterous

I thought the same. After going something like 15-0 down, he woke up and started playing really well. But he could be up against someone potentially extremely good in the near future.

[Neil A Collins]

he could be up against someone potentially extremely good in the near future.

Potentially Bet Elliott wished he'd been involved in this game. Even matching the contestants as opposed to finding difficult maxes in R2 + R13 would have given a total of 153 - Zarte's record would have been short-lived.

And I really need to remember that EGOTICx > GEOTIC

[Chris Wylie]

I said to my hubby that he must be an Apterite with spots like that!

[Philip Wilson]

I said to my hubby that he must be an Apterite with spots like that!

Did he have spots? I didn't notice any
Arran's slow start may have caused Sandra to stick with her 7 in the 'retrials' round, thus helping Arran. The conundrum was pretty exciting. Would Sandra solve it having been given an extra few seconds due to Arran's attempt?

[Gavin Chipper]

I always think it's a mistake not to write the conundrum down if you don't get it after a certain amount of time.

[Stewart Gordon]

So the whole phrase "on one's Tod Sloan" became rhyming slang for "alone". That's interesting. Usually the rhyme is formed from a phrase that has meaning in itself. But what pre-existing meaning would "on one's Tod Sloan" have had?

According to both Wiktionary and what I recall being taught, the formation is actually Tod Sloan -> own.