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Steve seems to be wanting to become an octochamp the hardest way possible based on his last 2 shows.

Luck on 2 numbers games on Monday saw him through and yesterday, he looked dead and buried until Colin bombed in the last 3 rounds.

He has a nice neat 500 points from his first 6 shows, so his average is currently worse than Jeffrey's at the moment. (If worse sounds too strong, just replace it in your head with "lower".)

He'll stay #5 seed whatever happens today, although if he breaks every point scoring record going, he could be the #1 seed!

I think the words "wishful" and "thinking" spring to mind.

Not just TAMENESS, Susie and Penny...GAMENESS too.

GAMENESS for round 4

SERGEANT for round 8

Love Damian's sense of humour. What a lot of Bullocks -

FORESAIL for a DC beater

I was quite surprised in round 9 where the contestants had STRANGE and Susie didn't add insult to injury and said you could stick an E on the front for ESTRANGE for 8.

NEGATORS was there for 8 in R9 as well

and no-one got REAGENTS - if its a word - which, of course, it is

John Bosley wrote:and no-one got REAGENTS - if its a word - which, of course, it is

Ah - Mr Bosley, you're back. But where were you during all our hard work on National Poetry Day? Hmmm?

Allan Harmer wrote:NEGATORS was there for 8 in R9 as well

And RESONATE

Niall Seymour wrote:

Allan Harmer wrote:NEGATORS was there for 8 in R9 as well

And RESONATE

And yet another one - GRANTEES.

Is there anyone who didn't get an 8 in round 9

James Robinson wrote:Is there anyone who didn't get an 8 in round 9

Yep - Steve and his opponent.

SEGMENTS as an equaller in round 1.

Kirk Bevins wrote:I was quite surprised in round 9 where the contestants had STRANGE and Susie didn't add insult to injury and said you could stick an E on the front for ESTRANGE for 8.

One a scale of 1 to 100, exactly how surprised, i'm intrigued.....

Sue Sanders wrote:

John Bosley wrote:and no-one got REAGENTS - if its a word - which, of course, it is

Ah - Mr Bosley, you're back. But where were you during all our hard work on National Poetry Day? Hmmm?

I was a bit busy on NPD things like running a Pigs Might Fly (http://www.pigmightflyfestival.co.uk ) workshop in the library and going to our Albert Poets pub reading where the very good Jacob Polley was on show - as well as Mike di Placido, David Borrott and Robert Powell. Then crawling into my cave .....

I heard Monday's raucous screamer at it again with Rachel's solutions for the first two numbers rounds, albeit a little quieter than on Monday. But for the final numbers round she seemed to have been silenced. Had Dudley sat on her?

We gave her a Toblerone to eat.
Sideways.