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Ashton confirmed entry yet?

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What actually is the purpose of those padding spaces we're always supposed to add in certain fields of the Countdown Wiki recaps, such as the space preceding the first numbers round number? (Yes, I know this is off-Off-Topic, but meh.)

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Slow news day I suppose!

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Grand Slam? Anyone?

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ELEGIAST to beat LEGATES.

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Why not Zoidberg? ...Um, I mean (7+6-5)*100-5. Why not (7+6-5)*100-5?

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Edward Woodward, not Wood, amirite?

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That game had Veronica's name written all over it.

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Square-ulous way to 361: (25-3-3)*(75/5+4)

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Um. 2019?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:34 pm I wonder if she would have gone for six small in the last round if she'd still been on zero.

And if so, I wonder if the target would have happened to be 200.

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Did Susie totally ad-lib that definition (and pronunciation) of TIMEOUS? I thought it was a synonym of timid.

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4th Numbers Alt.: 100 * 8 - 75 + 2 + 4 + 8. Amirite?

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:54 amNot sure vegans celebrate the 14th March in the traditional way

Isn't it fairly simple to make a vegan pie?

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GALLERIAS to beat LAIRAGES

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I wonder if MRBOYMALE was a reference to International Men's Day.

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It's like they've mixed Countdown with the WWE.

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If you're going to use raw scores, let the second player buzz in on the conundrum after the first player is right too.

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REGGIANOS in R1.
4th numbers alt.: (50 * 9 - 6) * (10 - 8) - 5

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:52 pm Got the conundrum because I saw GANDISEEG.

Who didn't?

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:47 pm
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:52 pm Is the word list available anywhere online other than Lexplorer? All my other ducks are in a row as far as the recap is concerned.
I have now given you the maxes on the wiki.

Thanks! Sincerely hoping this will be the only weeknight you'll need to do this.

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Is the word list available anywhere online other than Lexplorer? All my other ducks are in a row as far as the recap is concerned.

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And it's even more likely if we include people whose heat runs are only partially in Series 81..... :!: :!: :!: It would defeat the purpose if the top nine seeds aren't all octochamps though. It says on the wiki that Luke Johnson-Davies will appear in December. Has he not got enough time for 8 then...

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Tom S wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:20 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:32 pm That's seven octochamps before October is out...
Certainly looking plausible...

And it's even more likely if we include people whose heat runs are only partially in Series 81.....

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Countdown Team wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:06 pmOf course the format has been finalised.

I'll bite: What's the format?

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Shall I put these in the C series (starting at Episode C9) on the wiki, or in the S series with the "civilian" specials? Gotta be the uber-geek who asks.

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:49 pm SHITLOAD in R12.

I’ll bet they spotted this and it was cut.
Nick: “Anything else?”
DC: “...Not a lot.”

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Tom S wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:13 am Last week's champ Paul Nixon and S76 champ Stephen Read are a bit alike in both appearance and demeanour.

And octototal.

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WEEDICIDE... “joint” decision... I see what ya did there

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JimBentley wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:03 pm"I wasn’t particularly close to my dad before he died…which was lucky, because he trod on a land mine".

"Trod" contributed way more to my laughter over this joke than it should have.

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David Williams wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:44 pm Did she actually say "Eight eights are ninety-one"? Was I dreaming?

Agreed, pretty amusing. All I can speculate is that she must have remembered that 9 9s are 81 and "spoonerised" that.

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Also a blank declaration (by Chris in R13) and a numbers mistake (R14). Quite a comedy of errors, this one!

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Guess that probably wasn’t “N G” from Apterous then.

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FLAMBEAU to beat FUMBLED.

Quite a simple conundrum today -- just stick the A in the front of the scramble and you've got it. Admittedly, the word itself wasn't the easiest though.

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Brett Davids wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:27 pmSusie's definition of HENTAI was suitably censored for a daytime audience!

Someone needs to put a clip of her declaration that “HENTAI is brilliant” on social media.

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:34 pm FALGATES in R8. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/falgate

Apto says no dice -- it must need to be added.

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There's time for one last frantic Countdown-a-palooza before the grand finale.

Won't be able to make the recap until tomorrow night so someone else can fill in.

Good luck to Dinos and Brendan, as well as to Nick on not embarrassing himself with his pronunciation of the former's surname this time.

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Cathy Summerside wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 2:12 pm PAINTIEST? R14

That used to be valid, but I'm afraid it's been removed (PAINTY must not be specified) -- have tried it multiple times before on Apto!

MICROXEA in the COMRADE/EXORDIA round, though I still prefer the full-sized xeas.

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Will there be a pub crawl?

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Ashton Hancock wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2019 5:26 pm Please answer Elliott

Elliott.

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Who would have thought we'd ever get to use BATMOBILE^ = BOMBILATE?

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Well, this one will go down in the upcoming official compendium of Countdown history, "1061 and All That". Eternal congratulations, Square!

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Forget Game of Thrones. This week's real entertainment is Game of Teapots!

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Crikey blimey!

I'm going to let someone else do the recap today -- I am not worthy!

Phenomenal job by Elliott, and major commiserations to both his opponent and Zarte!

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Gonna be unlaptopped for a few hours yet - anyone else who wants to can make the recap earlier. Awesome job Mellorine I’m sure.

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PLOSIVE and DATIONS! I'd say Sandra has the potential to win 8, and judging from the episode table, if she does she dodges a bullet.

(EDIT: For anyone not in the know, Elliott Mellor is scheduled to begin his run on 16 May.)

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CITRONISE and CORNEITIS in R4 ARABINE in R8 Could just put the H in TERMITE for THERMITE in R10 Wow it's amazing how you can just add on one letter to another word for loads of words. Adding H to TERMITE, Adding A to IDIOT and RANCHER. Adding R to VIOLATE, X to GULLIBLE, E to MAROODI... the list is...

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That's the second easiest scramble of INCLEMENT they've ever used.

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In my opinion, ERECTABLE is a rather more obscure word than CELEBRATE -- I wonder if the answer board originally had CELEBRATE as the intended answer, with the alternate solution edited in.

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Minor 2nd numbers variant: could use (8+3)*(9-7) to make the 22.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 1:37 pm (75+50+2)×(8-3/3)=889 in the third numbers.

Get it together, Rach!

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Won't be able to do the recap early today due to an appointment, so it's up for grabs if anyone else does. Good luck to our own Charlie (well, one of them!) today.

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Considering going to Captain Marvel -- is it worth it?

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That was a very strong performance from Maggie - much better than yesterday's. She could easily be an octochamp playing like that. There was a Julia Wilkinson who was an octochamp across series 47 and 48. I can't remember what she looked like though. She was from Southampton too! Have her pencilled...

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Had a dream recently that a society/club was trying to encourage me to sign up whilst telling me they had "a diverse range of virgins". One of their main selling points was that Paul Erdunast was a member. You just made me snort with laughter and get a bunch of strangers on the bus to giv...

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Not strictly speaking a spot of a Countdown word, but you know you're pretty invested in Apterous when you see a story like this in The Onion and your first thought is trying to determine if the catchy, neologistic product name has a 9-letter word available from it. EDIT: And then I read the article...

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Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:35 pm
Owen Carroll wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:25 am What's glhf?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glhf

What's lmgtfy?

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Recap will have to wait until tonight unless someone else wants to do it first (they're welcome to) -- going to lunch with company today.

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The "error" was that DC suggested TOMGIRL, which turned out to be premium-only and not added to Lex yet. Going to remove now.

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First octochamp sorted. Two new contestants. Can we get another run like last series? Let's find out If Adam plays like he did today, despite the nervy start, then I would say that a double octochamp run would not be out of question. Unholiest was a cracking 9 and Carriage was a good spot too. Also...

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