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Well the climax of Series 62 will be recorded today and tomorrow and a select group of lucky people are in Manchester watching it unfold.

The rest of us will have to make do with the latest prelim edition of Series 62 which features 3 time winner Nicki who may or may not be back recording today. She'll definitely need to win today and tomorrow to stand any chance and the long awaited second octochamp party of the series could be next Monday.

TOURACO Rd 2

UNAVOWED was there for 8.

FOSSAE for 6 in round 7.

Marc Meakin wrote:

This is way more annoying than leaving whatever was there intact. Probably. I wouldn't know cos I didn't get to see it obviously, but I'm annoyed now gard damnit.

RORTIEST for 8 in round 8 for a beater.

Matt Morrison wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:

This is way more annoying than leaving whatever was there intact. Probably. I wouldn't know cos I didn't get to see it obviously, but I'm annoyed now gard damnit.

Wanted to delete the post but couldn't.
To put you out of your misery, I put down MOLERAT but it is only a CSW word.

Marc Meakin wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:

This is way more annoying than leaving whatever was there intact. Probably. I wouldn't know cos I didn't get to see it obviously, but I'm annoyed now gard damnit.

Wanted to delete the post but couldn't.
To put you out of your misery, I put down MOLERAT but it is only a CSW word.

Thanks Marc! Be a love and leave it next time I'm sure I've seen you doing plenty of "would have been XXXXXX there but it's CSW only" posts before, so dunno why this one got culled.

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Fantastic contest today.
Well done Nikki for acheiving your half octochampdom.

Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

Ray Folwell wrote:Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

The contestants virtually did this. They said, essentially, 25x6x4+10 for their 2 away. They wanted to do 25x6x4+8 which is 25x6x4+2x4, which is (25x6+2)x4, which is what Rachel did. Job done.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Ray Folwell wrote:Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

The contestants virtually did this. They said, essentially, 25x6x4+10 for their 2 away. They wanted to do 25x6x4+8 which is 25x6x4+2x4, which is (25x6+2)x4, which is what Rachel did. Job done.

Sometimes I get frustrated when Rachel's method is very very similar to the contestants and just involves splitmultiplicationising it, yet she presents it in a totally different-looking way.
I think usually the contestants don't see the link at all and it's a shame Rachel doesn't get another 10 seconds just to explain how they could have developed their method just slightly to get it right.

Marc Meakin wrote:Well done Nikki for acheiving your half octochampdom.

Can Huddersfield win tonight?

Ray Folwell wrote:Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

I did it quite differently: (25+6X6)X10-2

Peter Mabey wrote:

Ray Folwell wrote:Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

I did it quite differently: (25+6X6)X10-2

Mabey I did it like that too. In fact I definitely did.

I did (6*5-6)*25+10-2.

Well done Nicki!

Nice one Nikki! Great steal on the conundrum woohoo!!

Matt Morrison wrote:Sometimes I get frustrated when Rachel's method is very very similar to the contestants and just involves splitmultiplicationising it, yet she presents it in a totally different-looking way.
I think usually the contestants don't see the link at all and it's a shame Rachel doesn't get another 10 seconds just to explain how they could have developed their method just slightly to get it right.

Agreed. I can appreciate that Rachel's got a few things to think about at the same time, while not forgetting her own solution. I can also see it could look like trying to make contestants look foolish, but Susie often does something similar ("You'll kick yourself") without upsetting anyone. It would be good to illustrate the tricks of the trade for viewers at home in this way.