Spoilers for Friday November 1st 2013 (S69 P83)

[Jordan F]

Alan Young got a win yesterday and representing apterous well. Can he end the week with a second?

Join Anthony for the recap later.

[Gavin Chipper]

75×4-25-3-100/50=270 for the last numbers that no-one got.

[Andy Platt]

Yeah, surprised Rachel missed that. I wonder if she might have been looking for trick solutions like ((75 - 4 - 3) x 100 - 50) / 25, but got a bit mixed up.

As a sexist aside, how fit was the girl that answered the conundrum?

[Jack Worsley]

Yeah, surprised Rachel missed that. I wonder if she might have been looking for trick solutions like ((75 - 4 - 3) x 100 - 50) / 25, but got a bit mixed up.

I did it that way and completely missed the easier method.

EUPLOID for a beater in round 8.

[Philip Wilson]

Or even (50+4)x(100+25/(75/3) for 270
Also for the 792 round, 88x9 would have used one less number for the Italian version - took longer than 30 secs though

[Dave Preece]

Yeah, surprised Rachel missed that. I wonder if she might have been looking for trick solutions like ((75 - 4 - 3) x 100 - 50) / 25, but got a bit mixed up.

As a sexist aside, how fit was the girl that answered the conundrum?

VERY, Andy, very!

[James Robinson]

Also for the 792 round, 88x9 would have used one less number for the Italian version - took longer than 30 secs though

I did that numbers game that way, but still used all 6 ((6 x 3) - 7) x (4 + 4) x 9, if anyone's interested.

I also noticed in the solver that ROANEST now seems to be a valid anagram for TREASON, etc..................

I also happened to have round 1 when I did my audition the 2nd time round, and MARIGOLD was the only word I missed which cost me a max in that

[Gavin Chipper]

Also for the 792 round, 88x9 would have used one less number for the Italian version - took longer than 30 secs though

Italian version?

[Philip Wilson]

Also for the 792 round, 88x9 would have used one less number for the Italian version - took longer than 30 secs though

Italian version?

I remember someone saying on here a few months ago that in the Italian version of Countdown that if there's a tie in a numbers round then the contestant who uses the least numbers wins. Sorry, can't remember who it was.

Also for the 792 round, 88x9 would have used one less number for the Italian version - took longer than 30 secs though

I did that numbers game that way, but still used all 6 ((6 x 3) - 7) x (4 + 4) x 9, if anyone's interested.

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