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This series must be approaching the record for greatest number of people who have been provisionally ranked #1 seed, though I suspect Series 21 is still tops (see the factoid on the page).

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I'll be really surprised (and disappointed) if mike doesn't make the 800 club After today, I honestly don't think he's that likely to anymore -- he'd need his highest score so far (115) to qualify. Still doable by all means if he gets a niner, though, and he's also probably going to yet again make ...

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Oh yeah. And. PEGMATOID in the first round.

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Without revealing his real last name, does anyone know if this challenger is "Alex H" from Apterous?

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Were any of the CoC shows billed as being the 7000th episode? Officially that won't be until the second week of Series 80 proper, but the celebrations of "thousandth" episodes have tended to be slightly before the actual ones.

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Pleased to get a max game here, though dampened somewhat by the max score being so low.

4th Numbers Alt.: (25 * 4 - 1 - 7) * 6

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David Williams wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:10 pm

Tom S wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:20 pm
No joy for Unstarted in R1....
Those of us who followed it with DISAGREER in R2 would have got off to a pretty poor start.

Though they would be in pretty respectable company

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Mike is an Apterite, though he seems to have only played a double-digit number of games. Respect to both him and Tealin for assembling the highest joint score of the series so far.

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LATERISED!

EDIT: Was also hoping for SEACOAST in the FACETS round but it's CSW only. Cripes.

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Robin's range of heat scores must be one of the largest of any octochamp, though I suspect Glen Webb is still tops.

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PURPOSER to beat RAPPERS/POURERS.

Four octochamps in 33 games... mad skillz from Robin and all the others.

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:53 pm
Has any Octochamp ever got 0 conundrums? He's 0/6 so far.

Ryan Taylor got only 1/8. I think there may have been octos with 0/8 success rates in the 9 round era (Lindsay Denyer comes to mind).

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I hope Robin's scores keep linearly increasing and he gets like 150 in his last game.

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Um... Janet, I doubt "pronounciation" is Received Pronunciation.

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That conundrum answer was somewhat topical, as it's Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). For a couple more hours, anyway.

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MATRONAGE to beat GARMENTO.

Nice job completing the octochampdom hat-trick, Dave!

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All of the targets since Tuesday have been repeats of a sequence from last week. Tony got parts of both repetitions.

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Thanks for confirming, Philip!

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After the letter D was put up in Round 8 (PLAUDIT round), am I right in thinking that Sam asked for "another" consonant and Rachel mistakenly picked an A from the vowel box? Or did I just mishear him saying "a vowel"? Quite a close game, especially for so late in a run -- respect to both contestants...

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"Can I have a concert, please, Rachel?" in the first letters round after the first break. Even the subtitles recorded him saying that!

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It's LARGEBAPS all over again.

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I predict Wynn and Chafer-Cook will get through to the first and second semi-finals, prevailing by a lot of points each time. Then Stewart Holden and Craig Beevers will crash the party and battle it out in the final.

Also, are there two Moles?

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Including his original stint in 1999, Tony has had four different DC guests in five games. Freaky, huh?

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Another repeated CECIL sequence is on the march. R3 yesterday matched R14 of this episode from November 2017, and all targets since have been the same.

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Hat Fuzz.

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At least 6 times a day, sometimes 7-10 if I'm in a work environment that features free coffee. IBS is a bastard.

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Took me an embarrassingly long time to remember what NEUROMAS + T was...

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DLEEROTHF uses the same name but is probably too hard for a heat game

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Philip Wilson wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:55 pm
Strange unpronounceable conundrum scramble!

I thought this at first too but, being a fan of Van Halen and other classics, I think it might have been intended to spell out "D. Lee Roth".

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Why does the wiki show "* *" for MARLIER - that was said so should have no "*"? Because MARLIER isn't a word. And never has been. A double asterisk is a signal that there is an administrative error afoot. If MARLIER is indeed not specified in Premium, this will be at least the second time she's don...

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I can't have been the only one who mentally asked "Is it GANDISEEG?" on the second Teatime Teaser...

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Tony Atkins wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:29 pm
Why does the wiki show "* *" for MARLIER - that was said so should have no "*"?

Because MARLIER isn't a word. And never has been. A double asterisk is a signal that there is an administrative error afoot.

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Yep, subtitles popped in just then. PAVES indeed. Thanks.

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I can't make out what word Leonora said in Round 11 (PANTIES round). Is it PAINS? PAVES? It sounds like it contains a D sound. There are magically no subtitles available for this episode either.

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PREDIKANT in the last letters round. Thank you, Sherpa Shilty.

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1st Numbers Alt.: (100 - 75) * 8 - 1 - 1

2nd Numbers Alt.: (50 + 25 + 3 + 5) * 6 - 5

RESONATE+F is AFTERNOSE.

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CECIL's repetition has left the building. For now, anyway.

1st Numbers Alt.: (75 + 25 + 10) * 8 + 2

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No it doesn't make sense, but there are plenty of one-syllable adjectives that don't make sense to stick -ER/-EST onto in this dictionary. Also, however you're generating random numbers needs to be changed, because they aren't random. These are the same numbers from Sam Prouse's game: http://wiki.a...

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Great... looks like CECIL has a virus again! Good spot, Ray.

4th Numbers Alt.: 6 / 3 * 5 * 75 + 25 - 1

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2nd Numbers Alt.: 5 * 75 + 9 + 2 - 50 / 10

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There's a "database"? I figured you guys just fiddled with Lexplorer to get 'em.

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Five large? That's a new one on me. I guess this graph by Graeme is going to need a new line!

1st Numbers Alt.: (25 + 75 + 5 - 4) * 7 - 50

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I suspect that Bob could have been weakened by this being the fifth and last game of the recording session, too.

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This first Teaser has an alternate answer which permits the following (simpler, IMO) clue:
CLAMPONIT - "His car wasn't parked illegally; in fact, it obeyed the traffic laws."

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Very strong game by Bob today -- he took me to a crucial and I think he may have octochamp potential. Alex was also an above-average challenger IMO.

No beaters today (edit: except for PARENGOS in the PERSONA round!), but APORIAS as a nice alt to PARIAHS.

2nd Numbers Alt.: 50 * 9 - 25 - 75 - 2 * 10

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Ryan Lam wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:56 pm
You got to admit Bryan's declaration of SAMIEST in R5 was excellent...tbh this was my first time ever hearing this word!

That spot was decent, though IMO it was marred somewhat by the fact that SEAMIEST is also valid and would have beaten it.

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American (I believe) former Apterite Dave Mattingly -- or someone who shares his name -- won tonight's episode of Jeopardy!, unseating the current 6-time champion.

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TOILSOME as the solution to the LOOMIEST^ falsie.

Prime enthusiasts' 1st numbers alt.: 2 * 3 * 5 * 7

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Is the transmission scheduled to start on 7 January? Doesn't say. Just says January 2019 I wouldn't put it past it being delayed until 14 January, due to a certain World Darts Championship that Channel 4 show.... :roll: :roll: :roll: Is it confirmed that C4 still has that in 2019? I thought Series ...

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Did John say GILTED? That's no good -- at least not anymore :p

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Fixtures 4, 5, and 12 looking like a group of death here -- I pity all those who fell into it.

No Moose, eh?

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DISTRAIN to beat ORDAINS/RATIONS.

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Is the transmission scheduled to start on 7 January?

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 14, 2018 4:48 pm

Jennifer Steadman wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:49 am
Nah, there are no winners or runners-up from the last 6 series on this forum.
Yeah there are

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PLUSHIE to beat SLEIGH.

4th Numbers Alt.: 100 + 75 - 10 - 10 - 9 (was somewhat surprised neither of them got spot-on here, but then again, I wasn't under the studio lights).

As a former aquarium owner, was quite surprised in the ABATE round to find that BETTA is apparently no good.

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Did DC suggest VIZIR(S) in Round 2? That spelling isn't in ODO (although it is valid in Scrabble).

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The Shiting.

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4th Numbers Alt.: (25 + 50 - 8 + 7) * (9 - 5)

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:41 pm
I had a feeling something like this would eventually happen with jodine. Remember suzi perry?

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This admittedly wasn't an easy game -- max was only 117. FAZENDA in the FONDLE round seems to have been the only beater today, but there were a few nice alternatives including ADOPTEE and ERUVIM.

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