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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Tough conundrum, I liked Andy buzzing in "just to press the buzzer"!
Hehe that's what I did when I was first on.

........and it wasn't original then either.

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Surely therefore TROIKAS is there for a 7?

You guys are pants.

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I was more worried that in yesterday's missive, he claimed Troy had a husband.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Haha - today's conundrum: THATSTOOP.

I think Damo's scramble was better.

I completely agree.

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craig wrote: I've got some more if you want to show off again.

I think you caught me on a non self-harming day.

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Ah Craig - top geezer. Good to meet you the other day. Pyrophobe my arse, its not in

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The Chris v Kirk play-off is a brilliant idea - i think i might ask them.

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Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:An Octochamp already, now who could that possibly be?

Dunno but the person you replied to was referring to 2007.
Have you got crystal ballls?

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This has always been the case, since year dot, we ask both to write it down then carry on.

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26......?

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David O'Donnell wrote: Lol, you lazy bastard.

Excellent.

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For today's teasers, the scramble for teaser two was deliberately part of the clue of teaser one. Was this a one-off, or is this going to be a regular occurrance?

No - just a one-off, its impossible to do this for every clue, there aren't enough hours in the day.

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Phil Makepeace wrote:Giving the answer to the 1st TTT, didn't Jeff cite the scramble for the 2nd TTT?

Yes indeed, that was deliberate. The clues were written that way.

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Tuesday 9pm.

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I've played Chris loads of times and the improvement is highly noticeable. That said, it's wrong of me to make assumptions that someone is cheating. If someone gave me a £1000 to place on a wager, i would gamble on the probability of being something untoward, but i actually hope i'm proved wrong, an...

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Just to draw out Chris's remarkable dedication and practice, I re-ran his statistics with a slightly larger weight on new results. As you can see , the line is a little less stable but the recent trend is clearer; very rapid improvement on letters, no change on numbers, and a truly incredible incre...

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But you have to vote for them before you get to vote for them. Okay, its called a nomination, but you know what i mean. You can't nominate unless you analyse the games to see who deserves to make the final 8. I love bitching about Apterous, it's great therapy. :mrgreen: That's an inevitable consequ...

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Anything and everything seems to be getting nominated for GOTW. Makes voting very tedious indeed. Bring back hanging. Only 8 games go through to the vote. But you have to vote for them before you get to vote for them. Okay, its called a nomination, but you know what i mean. You can't nominate unles...

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Anything and everything seems to be getting nominated for GOTW.
Makes voting very tedious indeed.
Bring back hanging.

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One thing I would consider is to retire any conundrum which went unsolved, say, the first 10 times it was used. Obviously there would still be some bastards left that only the top players would nail, but it might ameliorate the situation somewhat. I'd be interested in feedback from the player base ...

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A good example to be found here :arrow: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=162849 Although I would have added SLEEPSUIT to that list albeit an excellent scramble for the final. Sleepsuit is an everyday word for anyone with young kids. Bear in mind that this was a series semifinal between two...

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I think some of the latest conundrum additions are way too hard. Certainly harder than anything we'd put out on the show, unless it was a big final with 2 top players taking part and even then most people wouldn't get near them. Here's an example of what i've come across recently.......... Ohmically...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
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Gavin Chipper wrote:Why have three people voted for "only if Damo sanctions it"?

Good question. A better question is why are you bothered?
Good question. A better question is why are you bothered?

I forgot it was half-term.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Why have three people voted for "only if Damo sanctions it"?

Good question. A better question is why are you bothered?

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Except it's impossible to reasonable reach A) or B) without guesswork or having read stuff posted elsewhere. So that just leaves you who've diverted the topic to engage in pointless sniping, as happened to yesterday's thread. I don't see what I can add about that game that others haven't said alrea...

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Wondered whether Chris has seen SLEEPSUIT and held on it for a few seconds or just buzzed straight away when he saw it. I was uncertain of it, one I'd rationalise about for a moment before buzzing in with. Dunno if that's just because my mind is still mangled from Malaysia though where I would have...

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Charlie Reams wrote:I said this at the time but I'll repeat it now for a wider audience

That's debatable. Everyone's been scared away.

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I said this at the time but I'll repeat it now for a wider audience: one of the all-time classics in terms of drama. Massive congratulations to both players for making it happen. Definitely THE best game in my time with the show, which covers over 3000 editions. Gutted for Innis, but delighted for ...

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It's happened dozens of times down the years, but once every 5 studio days sounds about right.

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Steve Durney wrote:
James Robinson wrote:How cheap
Isn't it easier just to use the actual question mark key on your keyboard?
This, always has been this, and always will be this.

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James Robinson wrote:In this series, I have attended 23 shows.

And how many times has the 'not written it down for both' scenario cropped up?

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I did wonder why it never seemed to happen that neither contestant had written their word down. :? I'm sure Damian will know more but certainly when I've been in the studio I've never seen *both* contestants saying "not written down" so it can't happen that often anyway. Hahaha. You make ...

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Yeah we were all in the audience pant wettingly excited. For the last game Chris and Innis sat together so I'm sure they could see how well each was playing and perhaps putting pressure on each other. (Turns out I'm not going to see it 'live' now as I have to be at an agency at 2:30pm ...nooo) Chil...

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I'm starting to think the James Robinson Defence League is beginning to overdo things a little.

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I would always have said "A myriad of changes..."; is that not correct? No, Adam, it's not. "Myriad" has two alternative uses: as an adjective meaning innumerable or many, and as a noun meaning some undefined large number. So "there are myriad changes" and "there ...

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There have been debates before when people have suggested an even numbers of each round and then other people have said that there isn't such an advantage choosing the numbers, and perhaps the advantage could be with choosing the letters. But wherever the advantage lies, or if it exactly cancels ou...

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Oh sure, goes without saying.
It's all Reams' fault.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
D Eadie wrote:gets to the stage where someone can win Countdown purely because they have the time to sit at home all day playing online, playing Conundrum attacks.
Welcome to Series 61.

I don't get you.

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Those who practice hard should be rewarded, well that's fair enough in relation to letters and numbers, but not for conundrums. I've played people on apterous who have been pretty inferior to me in terms of gameplay, but then Rd 15 comes along and within 1.5 seconds they've unscrambled something pre...

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Am I wrong in saying that VITALISES couldn't be a conundrum? Am not closing any more doors re conundrums except for the plural rule. We need to keep all options open because once all possible conundrums are available to play on Apterous, we have the chance that a player might win a final because of...

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Charlie Reams wrote: For example, VITALISES can't be a conundrum even though it isn't a plural. The rule is some slightly ad hoc thing about words which you can add an S to in a regular way, or something.

Where did you get this info from?

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Intonation, inflection and often intention all get lost in the mix when posting on a website as opposed to speaking face to face. Chill out guys.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
D Eadie wrote: Oh good lord here we go again. I give up.
Don't

It was meant metaphorically. Susie loved Rory McGrath and was happy to have a fellow wordsmith alongside her to share in one of her passions.

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Alec Rivers wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:What else could it possibly be?
A harmless tease.

Releases asthma ?

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Charlie Reams wrote:Group hug?

Only if you treat yourself to a shower first.

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I personally have no problems about people sniping at me all the time, it's just one of those things. You'll get used to it, i've had to ;) I just pity the Huddersfield Town bit. Our production accountant is a season ticket holder there. He's still gutted about Taylor-Fletcher coming to the Seaside...

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That's the last straw, I'm leaving the forum. Say 'bye' to David Williams for me. Thank god he's gone. What a jerk. And Southampton FC? Laughable. I mean, he was lucky to get to the semi-finals in Series 54, probably one of the wors..............................Jon................oh yes, Merry Xmas...

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Jon Corby wrote:
D Eadie wrote:People need to be nice about each other.
Agreed. Merry Christmas one and all.

Fuck off you smackhead.

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......The questions we really want answering: Does Rory annoy Susie?........ Yes, at times, (and me and wife) when he interrupts her explaining about origins of words with his own very clever knowledge - which reflects sadly on his personality. I like him and his sense of humour and his knowledgeab...

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JC - i've never claimed James does reviews / recaps that are always full of criticism, i don't read enough of them to know how often this happens, but sometimes there are barbs. You read along nicely, then suddenly go 'ouch - that was a bit needless'. Whether or not this is deliberate isn't the poin...

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Charlie Reams wrote:This forum would be kinda dull if people weren't posting their opinions. (IMO.)

Opinions, or veiled digs deliberately designed to piss people off

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Didn't see your post there Damian, but it's all just opinion innit, yeah. It sure is. I've read so much b/s on here though during the last few months that it's getting to the point whereby you start to wish people weren't entitled to opinions. It's easy to sit there and post a message, but often if...

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No bullshit, biased opinions, nastiness or padding. What a refreshing change. ;) Can you ease up a bit on the James-bashing guys? Not James bashing, i'm merely agreeing that it's nice to read something without any barbs in it, which it is. Doesn't matter to me who posts the recaps or reviews, whate...

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Davy Affleck wrote:No bullshit, biased opinions, nastiness or padding.

What a refreshing change.

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Lesley Hines wrote: My only criticism is getting the contestants to check each other's work.

I agree, that's just so unreasonable.

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I apologise to Damian if he feels that this thread is too negative. Likewise. My last post seemed like a good idea at the time. No need to apologise at all gents. Like i said before, if its a widespread issue then it's perhaps something we can deal with, but individual preferences just have everyon...

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Not sure the high score page is updating as normal. It still shows Scott Phillips with 84 pts as the record for Hypertouch 9, even though Innis beat this two days ago, and since then Scott has reclaimed his crown. The tosser.

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Editing out unsolved conundrums. This has happened twice to my knowledge, and presumably on many other occasions. As a principle I think that as far as possible we should watch the game that was actually played. Err, you do. If the game is a draw we have to do tiebreak conundrums, but our airtime i...

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The greatest example of this I can think of was my match against Darren, when I spotted CENTENARY after the clock had finished and then (pretty impressively) in the few seconds when Jeff was saying, "And Darren, what have you got?" he spotted it as well, leading to a retake as neither of ...

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I thought i'd post this to say goodbye to Phil from this board, a smashing bloke and hopefully a future contestant on the show.

Merry Xmas Phil - i'm sure you're in this somewhere !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwludVZ4jo

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