Spoilers for Tuesday 28th October 2025 - Series 92, Heat 87

[Philip A]

Tough Round 1 but I spotted WEIGHS for 6 on the bell.

[Philip A]

Dubious record I’m trying to work out.

Today, Ryan scored 84 in all non-numbers games (that is, 10 letters + conundrum for a total of 11 anagramming games). This included his 9-letter word of CREMATION and his conundrum solve.

In contrast, he scored 0 in all four numbers rounds, which is unfortunate. Since the spring of 2013, we’ve had four numbers games per match.

Is 84 the highest total without scoring a single point in any of the four numbers games?

Either way, I think this does show that anagrams and arithmetic are two different card tricks. So to is discrete problem-solving mathematics and puzzles.

[Tom S]

Dubious record I’m trying to work out.

Today, Ryan scored 84 in all non-numbers games (that is, 10 letters + conundrum for a total of 11 anagramming games). This included his 9-letter word of CREMATION and his conundrum solve.

In contrast, he scored 0 in all four numbers rounds, which is unfortunate. Since the spring of 2013, we’ve had four numbers games per match.

Is 84 the highest total without scoring a single point in any of the four numbers games?

Either way, I think this does show that anagrams and arithmetic are two different card tricks. So to is discrete problem-solving mathematics and puzzles.

He scored points in the first numbers round.

[Philip A]

Dubious record I’m trying to work out.

Today, Ryan scored 84 in all non-numbers games (that is, 10 letters + conundrum for a total of 11 anagramming games). This included his 9-letter word of CREMATION and his conundrum solve.

In contrast, he scored 0 in all four numbers rounds, which is unfortunate. Since the spring of 2013, we’ve had four numbers games per match.

Is 84 the highest total without scoring a single point in any of the four numbers games?

Either way, I think this does show that anagrams and arithmetic are two different card tricks. So to is discrete problem-solving mathematics and puzzles.

He scored points in the first numbers round.

Oops, my mistake. So it’s actually 77-7. TBH I did feel for him, he was clearly having a mind block in those numbers games and came up with some good words otherwise. He could easily have scored 107, 117 or even 127.

[Howie Myers]

r9 alt: ((9-3)*50) + ((4-1)*5) =315
r10 alt: TOXICS
r14 alt: 9*(75+1+10/10) = 693