Spoilers for Monday October 31th 2011

[Jordan F]

A new week on Countdown.

David Butcher is half way there, can he make it five today? If he does not, another David, Dave Taylor, is automatically in the finals.

In Dictionary Corner is some guy I don't know, but he has a hyphen, so I'm impressed, Mark Durden-Smith.

Join Rhys for the recap later.

[Jordan F]

Two spoiler threads, one show.

I'm going to leave this up here just for the hilarity of that fact.

(Side note, I don't think this was intentional, just a matter of timing)

[James Robinson]

I'll just move mine across then....

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, Hallowe'en is with us, unless you were one of the lucky souls who went to Co:Lon on Saturday, when you might have got the fright of your life when you saw who the finalists were at the end of it all But well done to Matt on winning it and thanks again to everyone who turned up on that magical day.

Right, back to the TV screen, and David Butcher is still the champ with 4 wins under his belt so far, but will be the 6th octochamp of the series by the end of the week

Back in DC for his 2nd stint of the series is TV presenter, Mark Durden-Smith.

Join Rhys later for the recap.

[James Robinson]

JAEGERS in round 2.

[Andy Platt]

Nice call J with jaegers.

Round 3 = insource for 8, missed by DC. Round 5 numbers solve = (100/5)*(10+9)-(6+1), missed by Rachel... Edit: she just did it same way but I got it after about 29s.

Edit 2: epidural in round 13.

[James Robinson]

HEINOUS in round 7.

[James Robinson]

GRADATE in round 12.

[James Robinson]

EPIDURAL in round 13.

[Tony Atkins]

Alt for first numbers (done in time) (10-6) x (100-9+1) +5 = 373. Alt for second numbers (in 35s) (100 +3 +3) x (7+1) - 50 = 798. Did rubbish at the words though...