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Charlie Reams

David and Conor - any progress on your recaps? If you've gone off the idea then please let me know and I'll reassign them.

Charlie Reams

Yep, quick service and already up on the wiki too! Good work, I'll PM you the Corral details later today.

Charlie Reams

For both contestants to get LOITERS and miss LOITERERS is pretty amazing. Add to that PISTOLS but not PISTOLES, POINT but not POINTE and "degaused" but not DEGAUSS and you have a very weird episode indeed. Still not quite sure how they made it to such high scores.

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i think we should be keeping accurate records or whats the point That's like saying "Books often contain errors so what's the point of reading?" Words and solutions do occasionally get missed (much less these days), but it's always possible to recover them if we have a record of the selec...

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As I believe Mr Coulthurst has pointed out before, the maximum should be 116, since there's no way a contestant could actually have scored 126. Should David's score for % calculations actually be 87 then? Humm, I never really resolved this. In a sense it would be more accurate to say he scored 77/1...

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Mate, just got to say how much I love this forum. Despite the love I have for it, I would never be arsed to set it up and maintain it, not to mention all the other Countdown gubbins online that I enjoy on pretty much a daily basis. So, cheers. You are an utter legend. If I ever meet you I will buy ...

Charlie Reams

As I believe Mr Coulthurst has pointed out before, the maximum should be 116, since there's no way a contestant could actually have scored 126.

Charlie Reams

Matt Coates wrote:unlike tony im not a miserable cunt

Debatable.

Charlie Reams

I think we originally followed The Countdown Page's lead in giving everyone the name under which they appeared on the show, apart from those annoying people who changed their name between appearances due to the patriarchal tyranny of marriage.

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Damian E wrote:David is an Octo with 880 points - so guaranteed a place in the QF's - which we record in a few weeks time - that's all i meant.

Not sure what i've given away?

You've disclosed that there are no more than 7 other people with scores of over 880 in this series! Hardly worth watching now.

Charlie Reams

Damian E wrote:Some might say not hard enough David

We'll be seeing you in a few weeks time sir.

Spoiler!!!!!!

Charlie Reams

I think the whole place could be tidied up easily, just by banning Martin Gardner (will he ever post anything original?) Joseph Bolas (irritating in the extreme), and Jason Larsen (is English your first language?). :lol: You might find the Friends and Foes feature useful - just click the name of th...

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I will merge such pointless threads when I see them, but I don't have the time or inclination to micromanage our members. Please think carefully before starting new threads.

Charlie Reams

I pondered this recently and Ben raised it again today, so here's a chance to have your say. This democracy thing is so much easier than leadership!

Personally I doubt I'd bother to read the puzzles if they were in a different sub-forum, but that's just me. Your votes and thoughts please.

Charlie Reams

Corby wrote:
David O'Donnell wrote:As a bald old coot who enjoys wanging his welly (don't we all?)
Surprised you didn't also mention that his ambition is to take his wife up the Grand Canyon

Definitely one of the funniest introductions ever. That plus Phil Hammond: comedy gold.

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jimbentley wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:I'm sure Jono meant ABNEGATOR, but I'll take all the credit if it's right.
No, he definitely meant ABENGATOR. It's a Malaysian crocodile with a pointed snout and purplish blotchy markings.

Is it related to the BATORANGE, the favourite fruit of the Caped Crusader?

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Craig Beevers wrote:I came across dumbshit on JumbleTime a while ago which I thought was quite nice.

Haha. I like APESHIT too.

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Ginger Jono wrote:I think that how cool you look when you get a good word outweighs how stupid you look when you make shit up.

I had ten words disallowed on the show

And no good words to show for it.

Charlie Reams

Another way of spicing it up would be to have not just money boxes but other things as well, including negatives. You might have as the last two boxes the £250,000 and having your legs sawn off. If the banker offered you a punch in the face, you'd probably take it. And with this game it would be ha...

Charlie Reams

I'm sure Jono meant ABNEGATOR, but I'll take all the credit if it's right.

Charlie Reams

Gevin-Gavin wrote:am I missing the point?

The point is that the level is designed to allow him to do these crazy things, it wasn't just chance. I guess you have to have played the game to appreciate it.

Charlie Reams

Michael Wallace wrote:
Charliewarlie wrote:I don't get it.
I was going to say the same thing, but figured someone else would comment saying so first. Wouldn't've bet on it being you, though.

Normally I don't like to advertise my ignorance, but in the case of Des O'Connor songs...

Charlie Reams

I don't get it.

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James Brown (sister of Eva Braun.)

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I'd like to play but alas my Finals loom. If you need a wildcard sometime in June then, err, you know where to find me.

Charlie Reams

I don't know if you can on ISC (been ages since I played), but what slightly annoys me about the Facebook Scrabble application is that you are not allowed to play swear words etc. If you have the rack CEFKRSU, then there should be nothing wrong with playing the word FUCKERS, because it exists in th...

Charlie Reams

Question 1: What's the earliest round at which a game has ever been decided?

Question 2: What's the earliest round at which a game has ever been decided given the selections that actually came out?

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Of course, this is nonsense. It doesn't matter at what point in the game you have a word disallowed, but humans are human, and therefore prone to this kind of woolly thinking from time to time. Occasionally it's true. Gary Male's wild stab at GREENOUTS was his only chance of winning the game, so in...

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Joseph Bolas wrote: But my question is why did she keep going on, saying that she was sure that she didn't have the £20,000, but instantaneously decided not to swap?. If you thought you only had the £10, you would swap, surely?

It's like the Monty Hall problem but rubbish.

Charlie Reams

Therefore my tendance is to take the money and be sure of it, rather than taking a 40% chance that the next offer will be bigger. Humans tend to be risk-averse :) Gev's point was merely that the optimal strategy is simply to accept any offer above the mean and reject anything else. Whether that's o...

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I'd imagine over 100 games of DOND you could use tactics Yeah, you'd just look at the average of the boxes remaining versus the bankers offer. Easy. But as others have said, you just get one go, so it's down to how much you're prepared to risk. Maybe the median would be more useful than the mean? O...

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At least one paid-up and respectably rated ABSP member cheats filthily on ISC. I just consider it like playing against a bot. A lot of the time novice players will overrule the computer opponent and end up playing something worse, so if anything it's probably easier than that.

Charlie Reams

This belongs in off-topic so I'm moving it. There's probably some way I can change the time zone for everyone but right now it takes me about 10 minutes to load a page so I'll try later.

Charlie Reams

Good work Matt, 7 more where that came from I hope. A very creditable score given the dog-awful selections (and I didn't get the conundrum either.)

Charlie Reams

In economics it's usually considered that the utility of money is about logarithmic, so £250K isn't worth much more than £100K unless you're heavily in debt already. It would be interesting to see how the behaviour of contestants measures up to that, but I can't be arsed to look through enough past ...

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Countdown recap for Friday 4th April 2008. C1: Champion Nigel Davies (3 wins.) C2: Challenger Matthew Coates. DC: Susie Dent and Lynda Baron. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: P R P I A O Q N B R02: T L A E N N A D E R03: W H R O I O S G A R04: K S E E H L U E X R05: 50, 6, 10,...

Charlie Reams

Will it be a regular feature? Maybe we should set up a dedicated sub-forum.

Charlie Reams

Wow, this is the sort of thread that makes me glad we have an Off-topic forum. I've never eaten one but I'd be well impressed if you tried it. It does seem a waste not to.

Charlie Reams

I'll let you liaise with Martin to divide up the work, but in the meantime I'll promote you to admin. I'm sure Martin can explain the general idea.

Charlie Reams

EDITABLE as a DC beater in Round 2 (I think.)

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I thought you were an admin already. But yes, I'll promote you if you want to take on the job. Other volunteers still welcome.

Charlie Reams

David O'Donnell wrote:This is awesome, Charlie (et al?). You might be a snidey Oxbridge twat but you are also a God which is **almost** compensation.

Sorry, I can't understand your strange regional brogue. Are you from Scotland?

Charlie Reams

After literally minutes of arduous design and test work, I'm proud to unveil the new highly aesthetic Countdown Wiki look - come check it yo: http://www.countdownwiki.com Hopefully you can now find most of the stuff you might want with just a few clicks from the front page. I'm open to suggestions f...

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Corby wrote:Charlie, is it possible to automate it so that whenever Jennifer posts, one appears shortly after from my ID saying "get over your jealousy of Carol, you bitter, bitter woman" ?

Technically no, but I will be mentally inserting that remark at all appropriate junctures from now on.

Charlie Reams

I haven't done one for bloody ages so I'll try to remember to do it - you've earned a rest, Dave.

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Obligatory Countdownwiki link - when will you kids learn?

:Edit:That made me sound like a jerk. I was trying to be humorous. Must try harder.

Charlie Reams

Yep, 4 large is a very beautiful sub-discipline of Countdown and I have massive respect for its aficionados (except Jono, who I can't respect due to his working class background.) I'll try and sharpen up my 4 large skills before Cobris.

Charlie Reams

No one mentioned GOPURAS as a beater yet, so I thought I would. Can't remember what round, I assumed you nerds would have posted it within 2 seconds of the letters going up.

Charlie Reams

Funny that, cos I got CONFETTI pretty much straight away, yet CLERICAL eluded me for some reason. Curious how the mind works. TOILETED was also a fine spot. Git beat me with that one too. SUPEREGO was a quality offering from the corner for sure. Hmm, I got CLERICAL, TOILETED and SUPEREGO so maybe t...

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You're right, I screwed up. Still, Richard Priest does have the honour of being the only player with two entries in that Top 10, although I think the 25 will drop out once Series 49 is complete. Erm Series 58 you mean? Martin Nope, Series 49 is the most recent series for which we don't have complet...

Charlie Reams

You're right, I screwed up. Still, Richard Priest does have the honour of being the only player with two entries in that Top 10, although I think the 25 will drop out once Series 49 is complete.

Charlie Reams

20 is the lowest score since Steve Graston's trashing of Robin Barnett, which was a rather odd game in itself.

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Howard has lovingly prepared a table of the current seeds for this series, which you can view at http://www.countdownwiki.com/Series_58 . We'll be doing our best to keep it up to date. Currently three fine fellows of this parish (DO'D, MM-C and Jason Cullen) are in the top 8.

Charlie Reams

dinos_the_chemist wrote:If anyone has any other corn stories I'm all ears (you know, as in ears of corn)

I have some but they're way too corny.

Charlie Reams

can anybody please tell me if: 1. my game/s will be recapped and Your game(s) will be recapped, as are all games back to at least 26 June 2003. Check http://www.thecountdowncorral.com/cd/series.asp?series=58 2. does anybody know where i can download countdown episodes, as i am wanting to put the ep...

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DaveC wrote:R09: T I O T N I F C E
C1: CONFETTI (8)
C2: FICTION
DC: CONFETTI (8), FICTION
OT: CONFIT, FINITE, FINITO, INCITE, INFECT, NOETIC, NOTICE, TIENTO
Score: 54-25 (max 69)

For me this is his best spot of the run so far, and among the best of the series - real quality stuff.

Charlie Reams

Just had a purge on recaps which have been posted here but not added to the index. I think we're now up to 100% coverage (assuming there was nothing from 11 - 14 March) which makes me disproportionately happy. Well done to everyone who posted recaps, they are still hugely appreciated. If anyone (par...

Charlie Reams

Okay okay I did it. For the record these things are a lot easier for me to sort out if the threads have sensible titles, particularly including the date.

Charlie Reams

If he doesn't make it to eight I'll...be amazed (was going to say "I'll eat my hat" but then I realised I don't own any hats, rendering the promise hollow). Given your usual talent for prediction, I'm surprised you have any hats left to eat. I believe you promised to make a hat cake at so...

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I like how Richard has taken to leaning over towards Des and enunciating every word in a ridiculously exaggerated fashion (presumably to avoid any more mishearing comedy.) This was particularly amusing with the phony nine.

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