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It's the first game of series 60, and Number 1 seed and king of the castle Zoe Bowman defends her position at the zenith of the leaderboard today against the second of potentially eight dirty rascals.

what on earth did Rachel just say when GOD came out in R1 letters? It was truly mumbletastic.

Matt Morrison wrote:what on earth did Rachel just say when GOD came out in R1 letters? It was truly mumbletastic.

The look on Rachel's face when that woman said "he's with us" (or did Rachel say that, I wasn't paying attention).

Round 2 = PIKIEST ?

Ben Hunter wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:what on earth did Rachel just say when GOD came out in R1 letters? It was truly mumbletastic.

The look on Rachel's face when that woman said "he's with us" (or did Rachel say that, I wasn't paying attention).

Not sure... Zoe and Rachel both seemed to mumble something simultaneously, I didn't catch either... looked like Rachel wasn't sure whether to make a joke or just ignore GOD's existence...

MENSURAL as an anagram of NUMERALS. Crikey I wish it was still CoC

I love that guy's technique of just sitting there looking absolutely disgusted.

Mike Brailsford wrote:Round 2 = PIKIEST ?

Not there I'm afraid.

I'm enjoying Andrew's flat refusal to write down anything in any round, haha.

8x25 = 200
200 + 9 = 209
209x4 = 836
10/5 = 2
836 - 2 = 834

MARINATES for Round 7 ?

2nd Numbers: 100 + 75 + 4 = 179; (50/25) + 3 = 5; 179 x 5 =895

Last letters game: FRIARIES

Last numbers game: (((4 x 2) + 4 ) x 50) + (8 x 8).

I don't think MARINATES was there, weren't there two Ts?
Great numbers solution though.

Mark Kudlowski wrote:MARINATES for Round 7 ?

Fraid you've got the wrong letters. It was AEIRTMTSA

REUNIONS as a DC beater in round 12.

(8*4)=32
32+50=82
82*8=656
4*2+8
656+8=664

Could be in for a double conundrum!

very poor not to get those numbers, I thought pretty easy:

4 x 2 = 8, + 4 = 12
12 x 50 = 600
8 x 8 = 64

600 + 64 = 664

Matt Morrison wrote:very poor not to get those numbers, I thought pretty easy:

4 x 2 = 8, + 4 = 12
12 x 50 = 600
8 x 8 = 64

600 + 64 = 664

This solution and mine are quite counter-intuitive - I was happy to get them and I'm the greatest numbers player of all time - so I don't agree with you.

Ditto to Matt - two 8s were just begging me to get the 64 out of the way.

I did...

50 - 8 = 42
42 x 8 x 2 = 672
672 - 4 - 4 = 664

Could do 42 x 8 then take off 4 if you wanted to use one less number

Last numbers alt- (50+4+2)*(8+4)-8

Jon O'Neill wrote:This solution and mine are quite counter-intuitive - I was happy to get them and I'm the greatest numbers player of all time - so I don't agree with you.

I'm not going to bite as I am fairly sure you are joking

Matt Morrison wrote:

Jon O'Neill wrote:This solution and mine are quite counter-intuitive - I was happy to get them and I'm the greatest numbers player of all time - so I don't agree with you.

I'm not going to bite as I am fairly sure you are joking

Yeah, I was

I am though.

Seemingly lots of ways to get 664 - here's another:

50 + 4 = 54
8 + 4 = 12
54 x 12 = 648
8 x 2 = 16
648 + 16 = 664


Jeff

I'm a bit disappointed with Rachel today. I got the first and last numbers games correct in the time and would have expected her to get at least one of them before the clock finished. She did well to find a solution to the tricky second numbers, though.

Jon O'Neill wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:very poor not to get those numbers, I thought pretty easy:

4 x 2 = 8, + 4 = 12
12 x 50 = 600
8 x 8 = 64

600 + 64 = 664

This solution and mine are quite counter-intuitive - I was happy to get them and I'm the greatest numbers player of all time - so I don't agree with you.

I got the same as Matt, and within 15 secs. Don't see how it's counter-intuitive. My first approach was to look for 13x50, but there was no easy way to get 13. So I thought about 12x50 instead, and then of course saw instantly the two 8s for 8x8 = 64. All I had to do then was look for a way of getting 12 out of 4,4,2 which as Matt says is just (4x2) + 4.

Maybe counter-intuitive is a very personal thing, i.e. sauce for goose etc?

I saw REUNIONS in the 2nd to last letters round, too. One of those where it leapt out at me without me even writing the letters out in a circle, but that doesn't happen to me often. Just luck I think.

Dinos Sfyris wrote: Fraid you've got the wrong letters. It was AEIRTMTSA

AMARETTI + S = ???????

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METATARSI (making the possibly false assumption from the posts so far that it wasn't mentioned on the show)

No?

Emily Toogood wrote:No?

Not here, no. Here.

Jon O'Neill wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:

Jon O'Neill wrote:This solution and mine are quite counter-intuitive - I was happy to get them and I'm the greatest numbers player of all time - so I don't agree with you.

I'm not going to bite as I am fairly sure you are joking

Yeah, I was

I am though.

Oh dear, I didn't see this. Fell for it again! Doh.

Clare Sudbery wrote:Oh dear, I didn't see this. Fell for it again! Doh.

Rule of thumb... assume that every single post on here is a joke unless you have insurmountable proof otherwise.

Re God - it was Rachael said "He's with us".

Loved and got "jounced" a very round word.

Jeez I didn't even notch up a century today. Did dire on today's numbers. On the last one I saw 600 (a multiple of 100) + 64 (8x8) and was sat pretty thinking (100+8)x8=664 then desperately tried to find 83x8 but was left with a bucket of fail! Saw Matt's method after time, closely followed by Jono's. Thought John Inverdale's bit on most dangerous animals was quite interesting. Any takers for what might be number 1? Also Paul well done on METATARSI. Epic spot

Letters 1 – GOADED

Letters 2 – PASTIE

Letters 3 – SMALLER

Letters 4 – CLONED

Numbers 1 – 835

Tea Time Teaser 1 – got HOARDING

Letters 5 – MATIER

Letters 6 – BELATED

Letters 7 – WEAPON

Letters 8 – TIRADES

Numbers 2 – A slow brain didn’t get in gear!

Tea Time Teaser 2 – got RECEIVER

Letters 9 – FOOTIE

Letters 10 – SUNNIER

Letters 11 – FAIRIES

Numbers 3 – got up to 640!

Conundrum – Nope!

Man, I hate watching it on 4od as you always beat me to the beaters. I got METATARSI which I was pleased with (after having AM(A/O)RETTI/O + S written by my dartboard for weeks to aid memory) and REUNIONS. I also got 664 and 834 so I'm far too late. One beater I did get that hasn't been mentioned: NOUMENA in round 8.

Ben Hunter wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:what on earth did Rachel just say when GOD came out in R1 letters? It was truly mumbletastic.

The look on Rachel's face when that woman said "he's with us" (or did Rachel say that, I wasn't paying attention).

Definitely Rachel who said "He's with us"

Craig Beevers wrote:8x25 = 200
200 + 9 = 209
209x4 = 836
10/5 = 2
836 - 2 = 834

Sorry Craig, but there was no 25 in it. It was a 50

My version:
4 x 50 = 200
200 + 8 = 208
208 x 4 = 832
832 + 2 = 835

Could excuse Rachel not getting one of them, but 2 + 1 out of time. Shame on her.
I failed maths O levels 3 times with a "D" (way back when we had A, C & E as passes) and still managed to get this one in about 10 seconds.

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Jeez I didn't even notch up a century today. Did dire on today's numbers. On the last one I saw 600 (a multiple of 100) + 64 (8x8) and was sat pretty thinking (100+8)x8=664 then desperately tried to find 83x8 but was left with a bucket of fail! Saw Matt's method after time, closely followed by Jono's. Thought John Inverdale's bit on most dangerous animals was quite interesting. Any takers for what might be number 1? Also Paul well done on METATARSI. Epic spot

My money's on number 1 being "Man" or "Humans" though "Woman" would be most apt!!!

Laurent wrote:

Sorry Craig, but there was no 25 in it. It was a 50

My version:
4 x 50 = 200
200 + 8 = 208
208 x 4 = 832
832 + 2 = 835

Sorry Laurent, there was no 50 in it. It was a 25

Laurent wrote:

Craig Beevers wrote:8x25 = 200
200 + 9 = 209
209x4 = 836
10/5 = 2
836 - 2 = 834

Sorry Craig, but there was no 25 in it. It was a 50

My version:
4 x 50 = 200
200 + 8 = 208
208 x 4 = 832
832 + 2 = 835

Could excuse Rachel not getting one of them, but 2 + 1 out of time. Shame on her.
I failed maths O levels 3 times with a "D" (way back when we had A, C & E as passes) and still managed to get this one in about 10 seconds.

Apologies Craig, ignore the above. Don't know what I was on. Perhaps the coke zero was too cold!!! 832 + 2 = 834, which was not even the sum set, that was the one in R3. Yours was R1. I hang my head in shame.

Also, Rachel got 2 out of time not 1 as I said. I usually jump through the ads, saves 10 minutes and not really relevant to me here in Switzerland, so I missed her solution beginning R2.
So I got that wrong as well.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Laurent wrote:

Sorry Craig, but there was no 25 in it. It was a 50

My version:
4 x 50 = 200
200 + 8 = 208
208 x 4 = 832
832 + 2 = 835

Sorry Laurent, there was no 50 in it. It was a 25

Yes, I got them muddled up. Thanks for putting me on the right path.

Yeah, pretty shocked by the numbers today from Rachel - with the first one it seems fairly natural to to 25 x 4 x 8 and then it doesn't take too long to check splitting the multiplication up until you get the one that works (25 x 8 + 9). The last numbers miss made my jaw drop a bit, but I suppose everyone has off days.

edit: oh oh, and Susie finally mentioned something that "you see in chat rooms on the Internet" that I've actually encountered. Now all she needs to do is start talking about lolcats and the lolrus, and then maybe modding will get in

I was surprised to see PASTIE allowed in Round 2.
The singular of Pasties is PASTY, and none of my dictionaries mention PASTIE, though having checked online I see that it is included as a variant in the OED.

Michael Wallace wrote:Yeah, pretty shocked by the numbers today from Rachel - with the first one it seems fairly natural to to 25 x 4 x 8 and then it doesn't take too long to check splitting the multiplication up until you get the one that works (25 x 8 + 9). The last numbers miss made my jaw drop a bit, but I suppose everyone has off days.

Same here. I failed with the second one but got the first right on 30s and third one in about 10s. Fortunately Rachel is just too scrumptious for me to stay mad at

Laurent wrote:

Ben Hunter wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:what on earth did Rachel just say when GOD came out in R1 letters? It was truly mumbletastic.

The look on Rachel's face when that woman said "he's with us" (or did Rachel say that, I wasn't paying attention).

Definitely Rachel who said "He's with us"

That was bizarre. From the way she was looking across the studio, it seemed to me that it was some private joke between Rachel and Jeff.