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Everybody point out how much they beat Charlie by in here. I know he'll particularly appreciate a detailed breakdown of which words/numbers you got that he missed, and how they affected the score against him.

I'm looking forward to it. I will stick a bet on him getting 11 maxes, with him missing a devilish numbers, an obscure 8, an obscurer 7 and LEOTARD.

I will, of course beat him on every round and get the conundrum before he has chance to get his finger on the buzzer!

Well, a girl can dream, can't she?

I'll predict a slightly more modest 9 maximums before a 2 second conundrum spot which should be good enough for a 50+ point victory. Good luck Charlie - no pressure!

GNOMONS equaller R1?

Most users ever online was 257 on Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:34 pm

I think Charlie's plug of the site worked

Joseph Bolas wrote:

Most users ever online was 257 on Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:34 pm

I think Charlie's plug of the site worked

6 new users in 3 minutes kinda agrees with you!

Beat the panel on game 1 with GNOMONS.

(A gnomon is the 'hand' of a sundial)

TREENAILS came up when I was first on, and Anne Widdecombe was in DC too.Strange coincidence.

Hi, I'm one the newbies, thanks to his plug, come on charlie!

Same here...I'm a newbie too. Although how I haven't stumbled across this site before I have no idea!!

R12 TETRAGON?

Nice one Mr. Reams!

Ben Wilson wrote:R12 TETRAGON?

You can have TETRAGONAL and TETRAGONALLY but it doesn't mention TETRAGON, sorry.

Well played Charlie - great debut

Ben Wilson wrote:Nice one Mr. Reams!

Very well done to you Charlie for an impressive first win.

Like Carol, I was expecting you to pick 4 large too .

Yeah, good stuff - I liked your expression when they revealed that you'd missed a 9

I am also entertained by the (relatively) huge increase in traffic

Well done Charlie. I knew you'd make it look easy!

Personally - I'm disappointed. I expected at least 125 for a debut score and a 70+ point winning margin. Rubbish.

Sincerely,

Mr I M Takinda Pees


Well played mate - hope it continues.

Nice one Charlie, 114 and 11/15 maxes is pretty impressive! I only managed to beat you with DIADEM and you were 8 points up going into the conundrum as I missed PLEURON and CHIMERA (I had CHIMER ). I saw REINFLATE but didnt risk it. Did anyone spot its anagram? Also GAROTTE as an equaller rd 12 and MEASLIER and ATELIERS are a few of the many 8s in round 8.

Again well played Charlie and good luck tomorrow!

Well done Charlie, great performance keep it up (retroactively that is).

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Nice one Charlie, 114 and 11/15 maxes is pretty impressive! I only managed to beat you with DIADEM and you were 8 points up going into the conundrum as I missed PLEURON and CHIMERA (I had CHIMER ). I saw REINFLATE but didnt risk it. Did anyone spot its anagram? Also GAROTTE as an equaller rd 12 and MEASLIER and ATELIERS are a few of the many 8s in round 8.

I didn't play against Charlie at home, but I saw CHIMERA and would've risked PLEURON. I didn't see REINFLATE, nor it's anagram (which I didn't even know there was one ). I did see MEASLIER though in round 8

Thanks everyone

I did see INTERLEAF, but not REINFLATE.

I got GNOMONS too. 114 on his first game! That's amazing! Charlie could go all the way I reckon! But I hope he doesn't beat me to the No.2 seed!

Joseph Bolas wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:R12 TETRAGON?

You can have TETRAGONAL and TETRAGONALLY but it doesn't mention TETRAGON, sorry.

I had the same word. Just to make it worse, it is in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (the two-volume one), but not in the ODE.

I still won, though.

Joseph Bolas wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:Nice one Mr. Reams!

Very well done to you Charlie for an impressive first win.

Like Carol, I was expecting you to pick 4 large too .

I think Carol twigged the reason in the final numbers game. I think it's fairly standard practice to go for one large if you're leading comfortably.

I got EARLIEST as an alternative to MATERIEL.

A great win, Charlie!

Well done Charlie.
Splendid!

Extremely impressive, you basically got everything apart from the nine which I suppose you saw and chickened out, which is probably the right decision as you were already leading at that time, no reason to go for a phoney. If you had offered it, that would have 124 which equals Jonathan Coles highest ever debut score. I'll be giving your wiki profile a good update whenever you lose, or at the end of 8 games if you win 8.

Yes, loved every minute of your debut. It was quality. I'm glad you spotted the likes of PLEURON. Seeing Father John's face after you kept beating him with (seemingly) obscure words was a picture!

Excellent stuff, very solid debut there. Lots of fun to play along from home. Definitely looking forward to the next 7 games (which isn't a spoiler, we are pretty much guaranteed quality play for at least the next 7).

Fingers crossed my 200th (and last, certainly fo the timebeing) review will come with the added pleasure of being Charlie's octochamp win.

oddly I saw INTERLEAF pretty quick then agonised over whether it was a word or an old conundrum mix from times gone by.

DC

Well played Charlie, great start.

I have to ask, whats with Carol calling him Father? That was really irritating, I hope that was her choice and not Damiens. I once burnt a witch but nobody gives me props for it.

Matthew Green wrote:I have to ask, whats with Carol calling him Father?

For she hath sinned!

Gavin Chipper wrote:

Joseph Bolas wrote:Like Carol, I was expecting you to pick 4 large too .

I think Carol twigged the reason in the final numbers game. I think it's fairly standard practice to go for one large if you're leading comfortably.

To be honest, I thought with the win in the bag, that you would try either 4 large or 6 small to see how you do on them.

Yeah, well done Charlie, great debut score.

Joseph Bolas wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:

Joseph Bolas wrote:Like Carol, I was expecting you to pick 4 large too .

I think Carol twigged the reason in the final numbers game. I think it's fairly standard practice to go for one large if you're leading comfortably.

To be honest, I thought with the win in the bag, that you would try either 4 large or 6 small to see how you do on them.

Yeah, but you want to maximise your score for optimal seeding placement.

Well done Charlie. A great debut performance.

I was pleased to beat you to the Conundrum, which was some consolation after TREENAIL and OPIATED had stuffed me!

Good luck for tomorrow.

Not sure I can add too much to what's already been said, but what a great debut, Charlie, and you managed to get a great plug for C4C in as well (complete with unedited URL!). I'm looking forward to tomorrow, I'm sure it will be similarly entertaining! Well done. Didn't realise you came from Crowland, by the way! Does that count as Peterborough these days; I certainly still think of it as Lincolnshire!

A fine debut, congratulations, and much more to come I'm sure. For some reason though, watching you made me feel nostalgic

Just noticed the swarm of 257 people who were online earlier today. Yesterday I spent a few befuddled moments wondering what caused the previous record of 28 sometime in May, but that's been well and truly massacred now.

Paul Howe wrote:A fine debut, congratulations, and much more to come I'm sure. For some reason though, watching you made me feel nostalgic

Just noticed the swarm of 257 people who were online earlier today. Yesterday I spent a few befuddled moments wondering what caused the previous record of 28 sometime in May, but that's been well and truly massacred now.

It gets better mate- I've just been notified of our fiftieth new member since today's plug. Here's hoping that's not the end of it!

Awesome stuff Charles

Great viewing, can't wait for tomorrow's episode (which I get to recap )

You're actually pretty hot too, there's a bit of Beckham about you, isn't there?

Ben Wilson wrote:

Paul Howe wrote:A fine debut, congratulations, and much more to come I'm sure. For some reason though, watching you made me feel nostalgic

Just noticed the swarm of 257 people who were online earlier today. Yesterday I spent a few befuddled moments wondering what caused the previous record of 28 sometime in May, but that's been well and truly massacred now.

It gets better mate- I've just been notified of our fiftieth new member since today's plug. Here's hoping that's not the end of it!

Just imagine if all those 50, on top of the regulars, wanted to go to the CO-events

Nice one Charlie! Not only a record for users online, but also for replies to a spoiler thread, surely?

Well done for a great display, and you came across v well ("he likes reading the dictionary, lifting weights and eating cheese", lol), though you didn't look too overjoyed at the end Maybe it was Ann Widdecombe cramping your style. You beat me with PLEURON, anyway.

And young Kai (nice to have you here, by the way) - GNOMONS is a fantastic spot, I was nowhere near that.

Martin Gardner wrote:the nine which I suppose you saw and chickened out

Did you Charlie? I was also wondering (after checking CountMax at the end) whether you were thinking about UNPITIED in the round where you offered PITIED? That would've beaten me as well...

Julian Fell wrote:Did you Charlie? I was also wondering (after checking CountMax at the end) whether you were thinking about UNPITIED in the round where you offered PITIED? That would've beaten me as well...

I didn't see REINFLATE, but I had UNPITIED and decided there was no value in going for it. I was still feeling a little cautious and really didn't want to have anything disallowed. I scored in every round so that was good enough for me.

Well done to Charlie for his performance and also for the plug for this site. Ben tells me he's approved over 50 new members in the last 24 hours - excellent stuff.

I haven't watched the show much since I was on in 2004 but changing circumstances mean I've caught several episodes of this series. Junaid is obviously very good and seems like a nice bloke, Kai is wonderful and intimidatingly good without the slightest hint of pretention and with the potential for some Reamsy action in the Finals too I think I might have to tune in a bit more regularly

Good luck to everyone taking part.

Stewart
(series 51 champion who set up the original c4countdown forum in 2004... ahh, those were the days)

Brilliant debut, Charlie, congratulations, and very exciting to see you on the show.

As Father John McCarthy beat me 89 to 92 I won't embarrass myself by saying how much you beat me by.

Matthew Green wrote: I have to ask, what's with Carol calling him Father?

Don't know about Carol, but perhaps I'm allowed to call him 'Father', since my father's name was John McCarthy. Maybe Carol and I are related?
These Catholic priests get about a bit, don't they?

Annoyed that I didn't spot REINFLATE in round 2, since I got INFLATE.

With a bit of poetic license, seeing as it's an adjective, an imaginary one at that, I spotted REAMIEST in round 8. Superlative REAM, maybe? Very apt.

If I remember rightly, John was asked whether they could (or should) call him Father John and he said yes. Have to say I didn't participate in this rather odd ritual.

I was also put off by the undeserved reverence that John received in yesterday's episode. I'm sure John's a nice enough guy, but I'm glad that Charlie socked it to him .

Didn't see this, I know before I went on the heats I'd decided I'd go for any 9s I was 50/50 about and play safe on anything shorter (the shorter ones were more likely to be confused with Scrabble anyway).

Anyways will try and catch today's episode.

Matthew Green wrote:Well played Charlie, great start.

I have to ask, whats with Carol calling him Father? That was really irritating, I hope that was her choice and not Damiens. I once burnt a witch but nobody gives me props for it.

Because 'Father' is his title, or do you want to repress us Irish Catholics all over again? I didn't like the habit of combining Father + forename, it's generally, Father or Father + surname.

Excellent debut, Charlie. I managed to watch it earlier today, but not had chance to comment. Annoyed not to beat you in round 2. Saw INFLATE, and extended it to INFLATER to equal you there, but should really have got that nine. Also used exactly the same method as you with the second numbers game, rather than the more obvious method that your opponent used. Overall, you beat me by a mile.

Going to watch your second programme shortly, followed by Friday's, in which I hope you'll be competing.