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For the second week in a row, we could have a clean sweep by a player, this time it's Maragaret Lawless. Can she do it and get the 5th win?

Join Thomas for the recap later.

Oddly I did the 1st nos same as Rory, missing the faster (3x4x50)-8-3

Lots of alts in R1 such as EQUATOR but no beater.

Whoop! Where's that picture of a 99 when you need it?

Alt 3rd numbers (75+7)x7+6-2

DC missed calling the ambulance in the ROUTINES+X round!

Tony Atkins wrote:DC missed calling the ambulance in the ROUTINES+X round!

EXTRUSION ?

Mark Kudlowski wrote:

Tony Atkins wrote:DC missed calling the ambulance in the ROUTINES+X round!

EXTRUSION ?

And we forgive Rachel for selecting U for a "final consonant"!

Jessica massively on form today. She got all three nines, but sadly no max having missed REGALISM. Total score 149

She solved the conundrum but offered DENT WOMEN before coming up with the right answer.

Me by the way - nowhere near

Mauro/Jessica

EDIT: ps Jessica noted that had the last consonant from round 10 been an upside down W (M) from VNEOTSME +x there would have been a fourth niner in MOVEMENTS

Even an "amateur" like me managed to get three nine-letter words! I wonder what the scores would have been like if they'd had one of the "high-fliers" in the studio?

Guy Barry wrote:Even an "amateur" like me managed to get three nine-letter words! I wonder what the scores would have been like if they'd had one of the "high-fliers" in the studio?

I must admit I missed BISECTION, was scrambling my head for the 9, but it wouldn't come (knew it wasn't EBONISTIC or BIONETICS ), but apart from that, maxed it, but that's only 143.

QUORATE in round 1, BORAGES in round 4, TONEMES in round 10, FOREMAST/FORMATES in round 13.

4th Numbers Alt.: (((25 x 3) + 7) x 10) - 8 = 812

James Robinson wrote:

Guy Barry wrote:Even an "amateur" like me managed to get three nine-letter words! I wonder what the scores would have been like if they'd had one of the "high-fliers" in the studio?

I must admit I missed BISECTION, was scrambling my head for the 9, but it wouldn't come (knew it wasn't EBONISTIC or BIONETICS )

Probably indicative of the different ways we go about solving things. I tend to think of words as the letters are being put up on the board, so I had SECTION for the first seven, and when the last two were added it was an obvious extension. Had the letters gone up in a different order I'd probably have missed it.

Fuck, fuck.

Wish I had that game on TV. Max game & new record.

Recap on its way.

Re: Round 12. What do you reckon is more likely of the following;
(a) the sound bite of him selecting a vowel was unclear and it was copy and pasted from somewhere else in the show but someone made a boo-boo with the editing
(b) it was an accident by Rachel, maybe she noticed that an E or a U gave a 9 and expected him to go vowel and went with that
(c) it was a deliberate and maliciously calculated display of feminism by Rachel cos she won't take orders from no goddamn man

Andy Platt wrote:(b) it was an accident by Rachel, maybe she noticed that an E or a U gave a 9 and expected him to go vowel and went with that

Well, she did do that while we were at the recording this week, and redid the round, if you recall. Although, it might've been a bit harder in this case as it was the last letter of the round, and time wouldn't have been there to stop them.

Can't remember. Think I was too drunk