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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 10:21 pm Good find but I can't see the gross listed.

It only shows up if you get xkcd prime++

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It's confirmed to be 169.

https://xkcd.com/3092/

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Peter Thomas wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 3:42 pm Very nearly a nine letter Q-word in the selections today. Has this ever happened? What are the lowest probability words to come up?

Long after the fact but I just remembered this has been discussed before, and the least likely possible nine may be WAKIZASHI

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Peter Thomas wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 3:42 pm Very nearly a nine letter Q-word in the selections today. Has this ever happened? What are the lowest probability words to come up?

The Dinos Sfyris-Kai Laddiman special had QUODLIBET available

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Philip A wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 3:57 pm The word ‘cabaret’ originally meant a business serving liquor.

In French, alongside its familiar meaning, it also means a cafeteria food tray

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:05 pm Can you find the only max? Bonus point if you can work out its connection to this year's COREA event!

Cool filename

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I quite liked 1000 Heartbeats, specifically due to its minigames of smartness. I knew it was going to be a goner after at most 2 seasons though

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 3:46 pm No gunkiest in round 13 for some reason. GUNKY is in though.

Two-syllable adjective rule

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I think if the American Martin Gardner had been allowed on Countdown, he would have outperformed your Martin Gardner

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 2:23 pm Arctic (bears) from the Greek Arktos
Antarctic (No bears)

Antarctic is anti-Arctic. Opposite the bears on the globe. But I do prefer your suggestion, which would be Anarctic

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If you say 1980s, hang on a minute and keep the duct tape over your mouth, we just have to go through your cabinet of old tapes…

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Barbra Streisand is on her way out this year. I call it.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:25 am I've no idea what any of that means.

Thanks?

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I only realized today that the memetic phrase "hawk tuah" was an onomatopoeia - I thought it was a reference to the skateboarder Tony Hawk going on tour (albeit still somehow containing an innuendo)

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Schrödinger's Crosswords

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I prefer the 9-round format over the 15-round format and would support it being brought back, because 15-rounders make the outcomes of matches, octochamp runs and finals too predictable in the Apterous era. It used to be that you had upsets on crucials, or a challenger could get a single 9-letter wo...

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A malevolent look is baleful, not baneful

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RoboRiley’s predecessor was COBOL Vorderman.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:09 pm O J Simpson

bye felicia

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Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:32 am Someone tried to declare it once as PALATES (pronounced pilates and meant pilates) to absolutely get away with murder

It's totally understandable that someone would go for it

This declaration pleased my mate-lots

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I think it has to go by what is on their name plate doesn't it? As a general rule that seems sensible, but we don't always know that and people change names between appearances too. Do we know whether Jeff ever appeared as Jeffrey? Can't think why the wiki redirect would have been added otherwise! ...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:30 pm Mwahahaha.

The number of "ha"s is so arbitrary, it makes zero sense.

Not as bad as the Scrabble word AARRGHH. I want the Scrabble dictionary committee to show me one legitimate use of that spelling

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:12 pm I don't think we talk about the shape of the country Chile enough. Just a big, long, thin country. It's amazing.

Like a big, long, red-hot pepper

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ACQHIRE and its derivatives. This is objective.

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From the end of Series 59, I humbly offer:

lamebrain dietician casserole

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BROMELAIN^ (the natural meat tenderiser that makes pineapples taste sour and numbing, because it causes them to literally tenderise your flesh) was what I risked in the BOILERMAN^ round. I'm 100.0% convinced I've seen it on apto

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ANOMALIST - false positive or new?

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Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:44 am Is lava wet?

If it touches you, you will generally get wetter wherever you are touched. (that's what she said)

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Semi-finalist seeds have deviated from 1,2,3,4 only twice in the past ten series, with those being 1,2,3,5 and 1,2,5,6.

Series 88 was the most by-the-book finals stage ever. I don’t have any statistical proof but I’m telling it’s true. Big margins in each game.

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Copyright on media franchises that are made by big corporations should be way way waaaaay shorter. Maybe 30 or 40 years. We all have that game or movie that came out in our childhood that we loved but never got expanded on and can now never be followed up on again in our lifetimes. (Media made by in...

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I thought Microsoft had misspelt Tilting in the name of the font Perpetua Titling MT, or I was like "what the hell is a tit-ling"

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Was it really them who got HARUSPEX? Fr.

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If you haven't got commitments - partner/kids/elderly parents that need you, and you can get work in the UK (did I remember rightly you're in IT? Must be opportunities via some of the consultancies?) then bite the bullet and go for it! You've no idea what life will throw at you before you hit retir...

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JackHurst wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:15 pm Out of curiosity have you ever been to the UK? Maybe you should time a vacation in the UK with a visit to a co event as a first step.

Yes, this is definitely on the table in the next 2-3 years. Andres and Jason have motivated me

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I'll be gutted for you, the day you finally get on the show and you're buzzing, you've moved your entire life here and this is finally your moment, and then you find out rob fosters decided to go on as you enter the green room No worries, if that happens, it's on to Pointless, or maybe doing the Tu...

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In my job I have become sadly familiar with immigration rules. It is my understanding you will need a BRP and ILR to immigrate to the UK in that way. Obviously I don't know your personal circumstances so I would not be able to comment on the likelihood of success or failure of applications. However...

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"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."

Didn't hear it recently but was surprised to have not discovered it until 25+

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:48 pm It was just multiplication by 9. There was no split.

Does the (100-7) prior to the multiplication not count as a split?

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Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:20 pm
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:38 pm Honestly I can’t help feeling like I’m a bad person if I do a stint in the UK with this as even an ulterior motive
You do you mate - it's your life, nobody else's.

It's helpful to hear that, thanks

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Split multiplications by 9 are in no way a "kick yourself" situation. Until you're on Apto.

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Honestly I can’t help feeling like I’m a bad person if I do a stint in the UK with this as even an ulterior motive

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Round 6: D A L E L E H F M [...] C2: fallen [...] Oh dear, Gary mistakes the M for an N, and Liam takes the lead for the first time today. [...] Round 12: V M O D A E C O M [...] C2: deacon [...] N-ybody feel a sense of deja vu here :?: :?: Gary was given an N tile to keep as a memento. I think the...

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I know it has but overlap between targets and starting numbers makes my teeth itch. The 20 --> 20 solutions in Unlimited Jr. are even worse.

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These seem like incredibly extreme and immoral steps to be forced to go through just to appear on a tv show I can't tell if this is sarcasm? Either way, I think you need a reality check (sorry it's a harsh one!) TV production is a business. Having overseas contestants is more risky and more expensi...

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Out of interest,do Jeopardy producers have the similar residence requirement? They’ve definitely done international tourneys with Brits in before. US and Canada residents are definitely both allowed, and there is no citizenship check from any country. I might consider emailing them to check. Paying...

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Dammit Jim! 100 is a large, not a target.

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Am I still a sociopath and a trash person if I do this after retiring? Assuming the show holds up until then. Note that even if I lost early I wouldn’t mind. I’d keep living in and enjoying the UK for a while. I like your generally laid-back culture.

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Yeah that legal residency document is mainly what I'm looking for more information on. But thanks Fiona for providing a link, it's a step in the right direction. "Live and work in the UK" - for how long though. These seem like incredibly extreme and immoral steps to be forced to go through...

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Exactly. What I'm asking is, does it really have to come to that or not? If I know the minimum buffer time, I'd be able to determine. If quitting were what I'd need to do then forget it. I'd be a pretty trash human being if I did that. I'd wait until either they relaxed the restriction, or until ret...

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Yes, anyone who monitors C4 applications, I've been the one who's been waspishly asking this for years. I wouldn't need to ask if we had our own but Countdown is too smart for our continent. Mainly I want to see if I'd really have to give up my job over it, or just take extra scrutiny from my bosses...

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If you wanted to travel around the world to include, Japan, Australia and USA what would be the minimum flying you would have to take, assuming you didn't want to use the boats or ships. Geography is not my strong suit I assume you could just go NYC-Tokyo-Sydney-NYC? Boeing 777s should have enough ...

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Montréal is well south of Paris, and about level with Bordeaux. Toronto is level with Nice and Monaco. New York is level with Madrid and Naples. Chibougamau, which is basically the last northern outpost in Québec with good paved roads before you get into the endless boreal forest, is still south of ...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:40 pmI will refer to people by their chosen name

I dont accept dead names

Not sure you can have that one both ways

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If the maximum number of terms a US president can serve is two, how can there be people who both maintain Trump won in 2020 and support another term for him in 2024? Is the conservative movement shifting to admitting he lost?

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What’s a catacomb? Like, a singular, individual catacomb. Is it one room? Is it one wall of skulls?

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novate

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FUNDABLE was an alt 8 to FLOUNCED (r13). Also I thought the conundrum was on the easier side. Surprised no one in the studio got it. What were the letters in round 13? It's surely impossible to be able to get both FUNDABLE and FLOUNCED. I thought the conundrum might be nightcore , but it's not in. ...

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Does the sun have a surface, where there is a transition from low to high density quicker than usual, or is it a smooth gradient from empty space all the way to its core?

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I am getting ready to decide if I am to move forward with my Zoom-based Countdown event being broadcast from Las Vegas next February. As mentioned previously, this had been planned for Saturday 24 February; however, I noticed that a UK co-event has since been planned for that same day and was wonder...

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Confirmed that this was the intended answer - score one for lexical creativity!

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