ECLAMPSIA vs. ERGONOMIC

[Michael Wallace]

Obviously I got neither, but I'm rubbish, but I still reckon the crucial one was a lot harder. Opinions needed!

[Ben Wilson]

Eclampsia, largely because I actually got Ergonomic (at about the half-way mark according to my notes) but would never have seen Eclampsia.

[Charlie Reams]

I'd seen ERGONOMIC, with that exact scramble, somewhere before, and I still didn't get it. Dunno whether I would've got ECLAMPSIA in the 30 seconds but certainly didn't have it when Kirk got it. So in conclusion, I have no useful input whatsoever.

[Jimmy Gough]

I'd say ECLAMPSIA but ERGONOMIC is also very tricky - I was just thinking RECOOMING for 30 seconds

[Craig Beevers]

I reckon ERGONOMIC is easier to spot because it's a more common word structure.

[Philip Jarvis]

I managed to get ERGONOMIC but I'd never even heard of ECLAMPSIA.

I'm with Neil Z on this one - "I wouldn't have got it even if I had 30 minutes!"

[Neil Zussman]

I didn't get either, but I'd've at least felt I had a chance to get Ergonomic- even though it may have taken me a bit longer than 30 seconds. I wouldn't have got Eclampsia unless you gave me enough time to manually go through all 181440 combinations of the letters. And perhaps not even then.
Having said that, as I said to Kirk on apterous a few weeks before the finals- I prefer the harder conundrums, since it makes it less of a speed-buzzer-pressing lottery. Of course, when you're playing against Kirk, that doesn't apply...

[Charlie Reams]

Moving to public forum...

[JackHurst]

If you have both words in your vocabulary I'd probably go for ECLAMPSIA, but because i think more people are likely to have ERGONOMIC in their vocab, i'd have to say its easier than ECLAMPSIA

[Darren Carter]

Ergonomic is the easier word out of the two in my opinion as I haven't even heard of Eclampsia. Having said that, Ergonomic is still quite a hard conundrum to solve as the ING sticks out like a sore thumb.

[David Roe]

Haven't a clue what this is on about. It looks suspiciously like a spoiler to me. Were there two conundrums on Friday?

[Edit - I've now checked the date on the first post!]

[Kirk Bevins]

Ergonomic is the easier word out of the two in my opinion as I haven't even heard of Eclampsia. Having said that, Ergonomic is still quite a hard conundrum to solve as the ING sticks out like a sore thumb.

I never got ERGONOMIC sat in the audience. I was lucky.

[Michael Wallace]

Ergonomic is the easier word out of the two in my opinion as I haven't even heard of Eclampsia. Having said that, Ergonomic is still quite a hard conundrum to solve as the ING sticks out like a sore thumb.

Although I'd imagine most players at the finals will realise that any ING in a conundrum is going to be a decoy (although obviously the relevance of that depends on how one interprets my original question).

[James Robinson]

As soon as I saw that ECLAMPSIA was the answer to first one, I thought, "Only someone like Kirk was going to get that!" And of course, he did.

I managed to get ERGONOMIC with about 2 seconds left, after ruling out just about every word that would end in -ING or -ER.

[Neil Zussman]

Ergonomic is the easier word out of the two in my opinion as I haven't even heard of Eclampsia. Having said that, Ergonomic is still quite a hard conundrum to solve as the ING sticks out like a sore thumb.

I never got ERGONOMIC sat in the audience. I was lucky.

I didn't get it either, so if that had been our conundrum there is a chance that Eclampsia would've been used anyway, since the scores were still tied. So you'd still have won. So I wouldn't say you were lucky in that respect.

[JimBentley]

I've gone for ERGONOMIC as harder by a bit, but I'm not really sure why. Pretty sure I was nowhere near either at the time, though.

[Charlie Reams]

I didn't get it either, so if that had been our conundrum there is a chance that Eclampsia would've been used anyway, since the scores were still tied. So you'd still have won. So I wouldn't say you were lucky in that respect.

I think they have a different conundrum lined up in the event of a tie-breaker, rather than shuffling everything else forward. Apparently BASSIDRUM (the conundrum from Junaid's game with Tony Warren) would've been the tie-breaker in our series final. Also ROVINGERA would've been pretty weird to have in the semi-final.

[Tom]

ECLAMPSIA I reckon by a long way. Never heard of it before then and don't know what it means.

ERGONOMIC I got in about 3 seconds - heard of the word before and probably got at the time because at University I remember doing an essay on ergonomics and the job I work in sometimes requires me to use that word.

[Kirk Bevins]

I didn't get it either, so if that had been our conundrum there is a chance that Eclampsia would've been used anyway, since the scores were still tied. So you'd still have won. So I wouldn't say you were lucky in that respect.

I think they have a different conundrum lined up in the event of a tie-breaker, rather than shuffling everything else forward. Apparently BASSIDRUM (the conundrum from Junaid's game with Tony Warren) would've been the tie-breaker in our series final. Also ROVINGERA would've been pretty weird to have in the semi-final.

But then the GANDISEEG pun would be spoiled. Would he have got another conundrum beginning with E in - ERGONOMIC fit that bill.

[Neil Zussman]

I didn't get it either, so if that had been our conundrum there is a chance that Eclampsia would've been used anyway, since the scores were still tied. So you'd still have won. So I wouldn't say you were lucky in that respect.

I think they have a different conundrum lined up in the event of a tie-breaker, rather than shuffling everything else forward. Apparently BASSIDRUM (the conundrum from Junaid's game with Tony Warren) would've been the tie-breaker in our series final. Also ROVINGERA would've been pretty weird to have in the semi-final.

Yes, I never imagined they would move the final conundrum to the semis, but I like to imagine (though I may be way off) that Damian had a list of at list 3 or 4 words to pick from for the semis, and it just happened to start 'Eclampsia, Ergonomic...' It could equally likely have started off with those two words in reverse.

[Kai Laddiman]

I knew that COOMERING^ = ERGONOMIC, but I don't know whether I would've remembered.

[Peter Mabey]

I reckon ERGONOMIC is easier to spot because it's a more common word structure.

Same here - also, I would have doubted ECLAMPSIA, having only heard of PRE-ECLAMPSIA.