Spoilers for Thursday 5th November 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 151)

[Tony Atkins]

Always nice to see a former S64 player doing well the second time round.

Rebecca would have been my fifth opponent if I had lasted that long.

Beaters today CONCHIES in R2 and MODERATE in R4.

And ARSENIC is not a compound!

[Tony Atkins]

Alt 2nd numbers (6+10/5)x50+(7x2)=414

[Peter Thomas]

Well I don't know how far in advance the conundrums are chosen, but BRIGANDRY was a toughie, especially against two new contestants!

[Tom S]

Well I don't know how far in advance the conundrums are chosen, but BRIGANDRY was a toughie, especially against two new contestants!

You know it's tricky when they have to go to Susie for a definition!

[Ian Fitzpatrick]

At my school assemblies there was always a row of FAINTERS sitting on chairs in the corridor as we left the hall.

[Gavin Chipper]

Well I don't know how far in advance the conundrums are chosen, but BRIGANDRY was a toughie, especially against two new contestants!

I thought ARCHETYPE the other day was pretty tricky as well!

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Well I don't know how far in advance the conundrums are chosen, but BRIGANDRY was a toughie, especially against two new contestants!

It is better that there is an element of randomness to the Con difficulty (except for in the finals when they are harder by design).
It is possible to over-egg the pudding, and micromanaging everything to the nth degree is not the best route to go down.

[Johnny Canuck]

Well I don't know how far in advance the conundrums are chosen, but BRIGANDRY was a toughie, especially against two new contestants!

I thought ARCHETYPE the other day was pretty tricky as well!

Agreed with both. Although I suppose they had to use CREEPYHAT on that day because Halloween (eve).

[Rhys Benjamin]

ARCHETYPE had been used as a conundrum twice before and on both occasions it had been spotted.