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Andy McGurn wrote:COUNT in round 3

There's no U or T.

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Did anyone else try GIRLIER^ in the UGLIER round?

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Now we're picking up speed. However, Andy "stuck" with the 8, asking whether FRUITIONS is in, but it's not.

Adam, I think you'll find.

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I hope I wasn't the first to notice this anomaly, but does anyone else wonder why Series 65 is so long and why it started so early? Going by number of episodes, Series 65 is much longer than 64, even if its summer break is excluded. Also, the last grand final was on 3 June, the earliest it's been in...

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It may not be a 9, but Barry Grossman's opening word here takes the cake.

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RACKETEER/CARETAKER: I remember a few years ago someone making the very same mistake; I suspect the same initial letters were used, but can't be sure. He was an ace crossword solver (D... McN... I think) and one would have expected him to win. But it was a crucial conundrum and he jumped in almost ...

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Alternate on last numbers game: (50 x 2 + 6 - 9 / 9) x 7 = 735

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They really need to bring back those conundrums ending in -ING.

Unrelated: Today is the 10th anniversary of the 15 round format.

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Clive Brooker wrote:Three Ws has occurred just once, in Episode 4944.

One of them was an upside-down M.

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3123

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BOODLES in the BLOUSED round? BOODLE is in, but for some reason the plural doesn't appear to be.

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Thomas Carey wrote:Oh, and here's the wikicap.

Added, thanks.

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Will post today's recap to wiki if that's OK.

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http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4992 The max for the second round of this game is 3. Given the letter distribution that is currently in use, is it possible to make a letters round with a max of 2 (or lower, if possible)? My best attempt is IIIOQZJVS (I could only find 2s in it), but that still prob...

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My first was DEPARTING sometime in Series 63.

Graeme Cole wrote:Edit: and my first on apterous was REDACTION.

IDONTCARE would be an awesome conundrum - AFAIK it's never been used though.

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INFESTOR in the RODENTS round? Lexplorer says no.

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James Robinson wrote:This episode was missed. John beat David by 61 points to 53, after unscrambling RECITETAX on 48!? seconds to become EXTRICATE, after David failed with EXTRICATOR.

I think the 4 is crossed out -- David buzzed in on 4 seconds, got it wrong, and then John got it on 8 seconds.

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James Robinson wrote:Janet won 67-57, after getting the conundrum, followed by the resulting tie-break conundrum, ARMADILLO, in 1 second.

Apparently, the scramble was RMADILLOA.

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Round 4: T S L A I E N D A C1: DETAILS (7) C2: STAINED (7) DC: LANDTIES (8) OT: DEINSTAL (8) Score: 27–13 (max 29) Ooops, there's me (and probably a few other people) thinking that SALINATED was fine for 9. Oh well, DC get one of the 2 9's , as the contestants with one of the many 7's available. 8'...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Where's QF1 in CofC III?

It's missing (and marked as "Missed") in the scans. (Although it does mention that Harvey Freeman solved the conundrum in less than 1 second.)

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I've finally gotten around to editing all my recaps from Series 28 and 33. All "boxed" words have been changed from DC to OT. (I would have appreciated if somebody could have pointed out what I was doing wrong earlier, but it's alright now.) On a side note, the dictionary that I was using ...

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Is TERRAPINS also a valid answer for the conundrum?

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Why are players from the same CoCs placed together? The whole point of a Supreme Championship is to have matches between people who have never played before.

You know, even I'm not so sure SC2 is a good idea right now. But you never know...

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I was kind of hoping that Series 65 was starting early so that a COC could be added in (either at the beginning or end), but we would probably know by now if that was the case. Just my luck I had to find out about Countdown right AFTER the last COC, eh? :x :evil: :twisted: Is anyone else in this sit...

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http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_1504 It's now fairly well known that in the old days, CECIL could generate 100 as a target. In the episode linked to above, 100 also showed up as one of the large numbers, resulting in the (literally) easiest numbers game ever. To avoid the obvious 100 = 100 solution...

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I'm pretty sure they said that since everyone is now so good, a 15-episode CoC is too long. I can see them doing a shorter one though. Maybe have a week-long one (like CoC X) featuring just the winners from Series 60 through 65?

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I'd love there to be a CoC but it wouldn't be a good idea really. Congratulations for winning and everything but enough of this! So you do want there to be a CoC, then? How is that decided? Do you just toss for sides or do you toss for the choice? I thought I read somewhere that the challenger's ch...

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I think false endings are always hard, especially -ING ones. There's always such a strong intuition that it'll be a verb ending in -ING. I recall that one time in Series 54, there was a conundrum containing ING in the scramble. No-one anywhere got it. It ended up being SOMETHING. :roll: On that note...

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Simply put, what do you consider to be the hardest conundrums of the series, the year, all time, etc.? IMO the hardest one in Series 64 so far is MEGALITRE, although you never know what could be coming up in the finals.

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Could he win 4 games, get a total over 366 points and choose to enter the finals unbeaten? This has happened a bunch of times before (in the 9-round era), although he would have to get an average of over 101 points tomorrow and Wednesday.

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I've already done CoC IV. I think I forgot to submit the recaps to the CDB though.

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Martin Bishop wrote:Or they could put them all up against each other for a week and a half at the end of the series.

CoC XIV?

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Mike Brown wrote:Round 5: D E X O X E W T M

Two Xs in one round?!

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I assume it's going to be on a Friday, so most likely either 17 or 24 June.

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http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_1504

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I've considered this before, too. According to wiki, PONDERING has been used five times, and used the exact same scramble for three of them. Two of those (same scramble, too) were in the same series (Series 53), only about a month apart :!: Also, I was going over the recaps for Series 32, and one of...

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But it's good to encourage the standard to increase. I watched the Mastermind COC and, while I couldn't compete, it was just as awe-inspiring to watch the top guys battle it out. I understood the main point of this thread to be that the standard was too high, and that most people don't only want to...

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Series 47 had 8 octochamps. No-one complained then. Yes, but they didn't have 900+ points or solve the conundrums in 0.5 seconds like a lot of Octochamps today. I think it would be even less likely to happen because instead of a 3-week CoC, there would be 6 months of top players. As I mentioned, it...

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Hope this is taken on board lol Is there anything that's actually seriously wrong about these ideas :?: Personally, I think yearly champion (instead of COC) is not a bad idea either, as long as some other type of tournament is added or improved as well. If the problem with recent COCs (and, for tha...

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First numbers game: Deja vu?

http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4127

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Mike Brown wrote:And so it was that Tim Morrissey became the first C of C winner not to have an N in his name.

Pop quiz: Who was the first one not to have an R in their name?

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Countdown recap for Monday 9 January 1989. C1: Champion Nita Marr (9 wins, 569 points.) C2: Champion Nic Brown (12 wins, 720 points.) DC: Catherine Clarke and Tim Rice. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: D S O C E T A S T R02: N L I O B B I P E R03: G M U C A D I N C R04: 75, 5,...

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Countdown recap for Friday 6 January 1989. C1: Champion Tony Vick (7 wins, 480 points.) C2: Champion Steve Williams (10 wins, 572 points.) DC: Catherine Clarke and Tim Rice. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: T G N F A A L E G R02: F R S I E O N P W R03: S M S I N E S I T R04: 7...

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Countdown recap for Thursday 5 January 1989. C1: Champion Hilary Hopper (7 wins, 1 draw, 510 points, champion and #4 seed of Series 13.) C2: Champion Steve Williams (9 wins, 516 points, semi-finalist and #1 seed of Series 16.) DC: Catherine Clarke and Tim Rice. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words o...

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Countdown recap for Wednesday 4 January 1989. C1: Champion Allan Saldanha (10 wins, 652 points, runner-up and #1 seed of Series 15.) C2: Champion Nita Marr (8 wins, 516 points, semi-finalist and #1 seed of Series 13.) DC: Catherine Clarke and Tim Rice. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutio...

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 3 January 1989. C1: Champion Stephen Deakin (5 wins, 490 points, quarter-finalist and #2 seed of Series 14.) C2: Champion Nic Brown (11 wins, 674 points, champion and #1 seed of Series 14.) DC: Catherine Clarke and Tim Rice. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutio...

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Countdown recap for Monday 2 January 1989. C1: Champion Dick Green (11 wins, 688 points, champion and #2 seed of Series 15.) C2: Champion Tony Vick (6 wins, 429* points, champion and #7 seed of Series 16.) DC: Catherine Clarke and Tim Rice. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions*. *Note: ...

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That'll be next on my agenda after finishing COC IV today.

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Are the words in boxes/squares on the right side of the recap OT words? I've been interpreting them as DC words all along.

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Since COC4 came out today, I'm going to book it, and then after that maybe I'll finally get around to those Series 30 episodes I talked about earlier.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:

Don't know if anyone noticed, but the S is upside down.

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Countdown recap for Monday 11 September 1995. C1: Champion Maggie Desogus (1 win, 49 points.) C2: Challenger Chris Colsmann. DC: Ruth Killick and Martin Jarvis. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: D S T O O I N S N R02: R V W E A S P O T R03: T F C E I E L T U R04: 50, 6, 9, 10, ...

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Mike has just put up Series 24, and looking over the notes, it seems CECIL's easiest possible target in the COC8 final wasn't just a one-shot deal :!: Apologies for not booking this episode in advance, but I've looked for an example of this for a while now (there haven't been any since COC8 AFAIK). ...

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Since Series 24 was put up today, I'm going to do a one-shot recap for Monday 6 July, an episode that is notable for two reasons.

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I went through the old scans and noticed that some of the episodes in Series 30 are audio only and don't have the conundrum scrambles. I'd like to book the last three weeks of Series 30 (11-29 September 1995), mainly as an excuse to test out my new conundrum convention on the wiki. It may seem a bit...

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I'd prefer to see the alphabetisation - enclosed in brackets, to indicate that it wasn't the real scramble, so I could have a go at it before scrolling down to the solution. 8-) Agreed, sometimes I play along on the wiki too, which is one of the reasons why the scramble in the "Selection"...

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Jacob Sutton wrote:C2: Challenger Ray Johnston.

According to the wiki, it's Ray Johnstone. Just noticed because he had the highest score of the series.

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Yeah, but "LUMBERING" isn't an anagram of "?????????".

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On the wiki the scramble is BEGILMNRU. Is that just made up? Edit - It looks as though Johnny Canuck put in the scramble! He did, if the scramble is unknown, he puts in the word in alphabetical order, and shrinks them to identify it as not being the actual scramble. It's a little convention I made ...

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Mike Brown wrote:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Should we get used to the infamous Nine Question Marks of Doom?

Good work on finding this max game, I wonder if there's any more lost in the mists of time.

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 10 December 1996. C1: Champion Gareth Williams (12 wins, 691 points.) C2: Champion Tony Vick (9 wins, 678 points.) DC: Susie Dent and Jenny Hanley. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: G E U M C I N J D R02: L G Q O A W B E P R03: F O T R E A D T O R04:...

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