Spoilers for Thursday 7th November 2024 (Series 90, Heat 87)

[Philip A]

5 Octochamps so far, all non-Apterites. Great to see a strong field of home players as we enter the post-OED/ODP crossover era.

R1: PRECINCT and CONCERTI
R4: MOULVIS (Muslim doctors of law)

[Gavin Chipper]

The lack of Apterites is interesting. I remember a previous series where it was rumoured that at least one Apterite had been pushed back into a later series. I was speaking to someone recently and it seems it might have happened to him...

[Fiona T]

There's been a few, most notably Jon Stitcher who's been an apterite since the dawn of apterous!

More surprising is that we have two previous finalists in the finals!

[Gavin Chipper]

They might have decided to lock the series down once it had reached a certain point without any of the 900+ brigade.

[John Garcia]

R9: DISPARATE as an alt 9 to ASPIRATED
R12: MODEMING (didn't spot) was available for an unusual 8

[Toby McDonald]

ENTROPIC also in R1