Spoilers for Thursday 28th May

[Andy Wilson]

I know he's no Jimmy Gough, but... go on the James!

[tomrowell]

Sorry James, but I got to support a fellow Bradfordian today

[Ben Wilson]

Familiar name (Not the same guy though, obviously.)

Also did the c4c continuity announcer utterly cock up and get the vowel/consonant amount wrong before the show?

[Andy Wilson]

First blood to the Donegal man...

[Matt Morrison]

haha... why has "Celtic Vs Rangers" been removed from the thread title?

[Andy Wilson]

Had to check lexplorer for this one as it looked too good a selection not to have a 9... and i wasn't disappointed... TELECASTS

[Andy Wilson]

haha... why has "Celtic Vs Rangers" been removed from the thread title?

Wasn't me!

Pretty good start from James.

[Matt Morrison]

slightly more obvious route for 1st numbers:

100 + 6 + 6 = 112, x4 = 448
9 - 8 = 1
448 - 1 = 447

[Peter Mabey]

Less obvious way for first numbers: (9x100-6)/(8-6)

[Andy Wilson]

Anyone else find that tetley ad pretty funny?

[Matt Morrison]

Anyone else find that tetley ad pretty funny?

what, the Redbush tea one? It's been around for ages, and no. You need to get out more

[Andy Wilson]

True.

Bit of pride restored for countdown watching Celtic supporters!

Well done again James.

[Dinos Sfyris]

TIBIAS as a beater in round 6 and WASABI as a worsener in round 12. I missed ABSTAIN though Also in round 13 could you have DOGDAY?

[Kirk Bevins]

ABATIS for a beater in round 6.
RENDZINA for a lovely equaller in round 8 as well as DAIMYO for an equaller in round 13.

[Matt Morrison]

Bit of pride restored for countdown watching Celtic supporters!

Yup, sad we have to look to a game of Countdown instead of the SPL, but there we go, a minor victory.
I'm still confused as to why it got taken out of the thread title, twas hardly a spoiler as AFAIK James didn't reveal he was a Celtic fan until today's episode.
Presumably one of the forum moderators on a power trip.

[Neil Zussman]

Apparently the third numbers game has 295 solutions. The most intuitive, allegedly, is (25+10)*3. I wonder if there are any numbers games that have x solutions, where x is also the target...

[Charlie Reams]

Apparently the third numbers game has 295 solutions. The most intuitive, allegedly, is (25+10)*3. I wonder if there are any numbers games that have x solutions, where x is also the target...

The way WTP counts solutions is fairly arbitrary, so it's not all that profound, but I would guess on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that there probably is.

[Andy Thomson]

Nice ski slope from Rachel today.

[Phil Reynolds]

Apparently the third numbers game has 295 solutions. The most intuitive, allegedly, is (25+10)*3.

I'd have thought it was 9x10 + 5x3. But only because that's how I did it.

[Andrew Hulme]

Familiar name (Not the same guy though, obviously.)

Also did the c4c continuity announcer utterly cock up and get the vowel/consonant amount wrong before the show?

Yeah I remember Michael Calder. Beat some absolute legend in the last show of his octorun.

[Philip Jarvis]

Apparently the third numbers game has 295 solutions. The most intuitive, allegedly, is (25+10)*3.

I'd have thought it was 9x10 + 5x3. But only because that's how I did it.

Or (6 x 25) - (9 x 5) - again, only because I did it that way.

ABATIS for a beater in round 6.

I also was proud to get ABATIS in that round. Interestingly, it appeared again as a contestant beater in the round where DC declared ABSTAIN.

[Matthew Green]

http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_2797

Thats got to be:

Best opening word in a countdown match?
Best 9er in a final?
Best 9er ever?!

This new Michael Calder is a shame to the name