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Couple of solid beaters today, GALIOT and PARTOOK being those I got.

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"8 points in it, 52 to 40"? Did I hear right?

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Ding ding! We have (another) winner! Will post the explanation in the mid-2030s!

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April is a lovely month.

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People who precede a quotation with “quote unquote”, with nothing in between.

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:14 pm MARTINGALE in r4

Nice 10

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Now the whole world knows!

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:58 pm The word 'disease' is dis - ease. Because you're not at ease when you have a disease.

Along similar lines, "painstaking" is "pains + taking", as in taking great efforts -- spent way too long thinking it involved wooden posts.

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Just had a sudden idea for a potential future series.

FaceTime Teasers.

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Let's not forget her basic inability to ask questions in a coherent manner on The Weakest Link. E.g. if the question was "What is Countdown - a gameshow or a type of shoe?" she would say "What is Countdown, a gameshow or a shoe?" like all three things were part of a list and it ...

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Finals and CoC games should be entertaining. "Who is no longer one from the top?"

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:51 am People who overuse the supetlative super as in " its super windy", " I'm super tired etc".
Isnt " very" dramatic enough anymore?

It’s dramatic af.

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Jonathan Willis wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:18 pm Greetings from coronavirus ridden Quebec, Canada. I have loved the show for many years.

Welcome from a fellow Canuck! I'd suggest you try Apterous if you'd ever be interested in playing against the best.

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It's down. In size, that is. The game window is restricted to a tiny box in the top left for some reason.

EDIT: fixed - thanks Charlie

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Not sure if it's actually a new word but RUNATHON is weird. It implies a long event like a 26-mile running race... but with running instead?

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I wonder what Gary Male is doing now -- maybe you should message him?

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Well, I'll be danged! When I attempted this puzzle I started my string with 411317197379..., thinking having all of the {1,3,7,9} primes in a single chain would save me one digit that couldn't be made up elsewhere. Which I now see is BS. Congratulations Gevin, it seems like edit #5 takes it for now,...

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(...and maybe not even just my own... I think I recall a puzzle similar to this on here before.) What is the smallest, positive, natural number that contains every prime below 100 in it as a substring? If a prime is two digits, it must appear as a single block, with no digits in between. In a day or...

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I guess when the lockdown began, Teatime Teaser production wasn't considered an essential service!

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Try now:
http://c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1760

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I think we've already got a catalogue of these going here but good spots!

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:52 am ==

Found a fellow programmer. Hello world.

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Nine. Simple BEDMAS: do the bracket to get 6/2*3, then multiplication and division left to right. This is objectively the only answer.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 10:18 am
Peter Thomas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:13 pm Well I don't know how far in advance the conundrums are chosen, but BRIGANDRY was a toughie, especially against two new contestants!
I thought ARCHETYPE the other day was pretty tricky as well!

Agreed with both. Although I suppose they had to use CREEPYHAT on that day because Halloween (eve).

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On top of the normal and S sequences, the Christmas special from 1997, with Richard and Carol, falls into neither category, having the unique "CS" prefix instead. It seems like all of the normally-numbered specials were either anniversaries or milestone episodes. And if they were to have b...

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I say go with the S prefix. These episodes aren't part of a series and break continuity. Never understood why there were specials that didn't use it.

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I've chatted in person with Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax) and Aron Eisenberg (Quark's nephew Nog -- RIP) from Star Trek: Deep Space 9.

Also, I memorised the longest direction sequence in Super Paper Mario. A combination of 21 Lefts, Rights and Middles IIRC.

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The lowest-scoring person each week would be forced to dig through mountains of celluloid in the Channel 4 vaults until all our wiki recaps were done.

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RUTTOK is a Countdown-only word. I remember a discussion a while back where someone Googled it and the second result was a Countdown Wiki recap that contained it.

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So VIRULENCE and AVIRULENT were no-gos, but VIRULENT made it on. Odd. According to the chat page, the conundrum was redone because Sian gave a controversial answer (STATISTICS for STATISTIC). And then she was ruled wrong and Sian was asked to let David attempt the new conundrum alone. Can anyone els...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:48 pm What is the longest DC guest run? Phil Hammond just did eight.

Kenneth Williams’ gig in Series 1 and 2 comes to mind but that might not be it.

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CHILLIES (or CHILIES on this side of the pond). As in the plural peppers. That E is irrationally maddening.

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Rather than start a new thread, I'll post here. On the front page of the wiki, one of the links at the top is to All series and it links to this terrible page , rather than this much nicer one . But I think you need special powers to make changes to the front page, which I don't have, so does anyon...

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Is Saldanha really making an appearance? Wonder what he’s up to now in any case.

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Rather than start a new thread, I'll post here. On the front page of the wiki, one of the links at the top is to All series and it links to this terrible page , rather than this much nicer one . But I think you need special powers to make changes to the front page, which I don't have, so does anyon...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:35 pm If they're gonna remove words they should remove some of those nonsense two letter words that no one uses in real life and that you only ever encounter in a game of scrabble.

Ch agree.

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Sorry for asking this again, but it has piqued my interest: was this game originally supposed to be decided on AHNICELAD?

Because in any case, this game was totally The Big one.

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May be fast to answer by searching YouTube clips (CBA), but if the word “octochamp” wasn’t coined until 1999, what did the producers and staff call them before then? Did they just say “eight time retiring champion” or somesuch every time? Seems to me they would be a pretty important concept to talk ...

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Just wanted to allay any fears about the Conundrum situation. The confusion was caused because as soon as a contestant buzzes, we shout the name of that contestant to Nick H via his earpiece, so he knows who to pounce upon for the answer. In this instance, after Nick Deller buzzed, we yelled "...

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It's only in recent years that Civil Service guidance has changed, but it's a relic of mechanical typesetting, or something like that if I remember right. Still a good number of colleagues use them, I delight in finding and replacing them :) Ah my first job was Civil Service, and I hadn't really ha...

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The 14-round format.

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Martin Peters wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:58 am In all seriousness it never happened and won’t be happening any time soon. Sorry, this was one of my daft pranks I played and I regret it. Those days are done.

Careful, this disclaimer may be a prank too. When is it really?

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Ah, the merry month of join.

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I wonder who's viewed the wiki page for today's episode 110,000 times.

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Why don’t you broadcast Series 1?

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Is SHOUTIER good (presumably it's premium only if so)?

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Don't we want stuff to be avirulent?

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I wonder what that missing first teaser was...

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REDPOINTS for more points in R1

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MONAZITE to defeat ZOMBIE. I guess the Walking Dead people should have a supply of monazite.

I think that conundrum may have been re-utilised by mistake...

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Maybe the other contestant was whoever runs the server for the wiki.

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Didn't know you were really supposed to wish your opponent good luck so many times!

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Gee, I hope everyone guesses the location correctly.

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Not even CO-VID?

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Must have been a while since the first 9 of the week was in the penultimate letters round on the Friday.

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:52 pm 'Do you wanna build a snowman' has the same number of syllables as 'teenage mutant ninja turtles'.

Edit: and 'harder better faster stronger'.

Enjoy your evening.

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Tom S wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:50 pm Having said that, the letters were awful today.

Agreed - two Ys? Pretty yucky.

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Getting Susie and (slightly age-progressed) Rachel vibes, respectively, from Sara Sidle and Catherine Willows from the original CSI.

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At Countdown, or morally and ethically?

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Ashton confirmed entry yet?

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