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Thomas Carey

Johnny Canuck wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:But treating scores individually could cause problems, because it might then turn out that 49 on average converts to 79!
Why on Earth would 49 convert to 8.94618 × 10¹¹⁶?

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I'll see myself out.

Heh. This is why I always put a space between numbers and exclamation marks like peak Tracey Mills

Thomas Carey

[quote="James Laverty"not the greatest scramble for the conundrum..../quote I propose that this conundrum, and others like it, should be called a "comundrun". LOVESTICK, SPICIFEED... the list of comundruns goes on. There's this , this or the classic RMADILLOA. Don't forget TINCL...

Thomas Carey

Johnny Canuck wrote:
James Laverty wrote:not the greatest scramble for the conundrum....
I propose that this conundrum, and others like it, should be called a "comundrun". LOVESTICK, SPICIFEED... the list of comundruns goes on.

There's this, this or the classic RMADILLOA.

Thomas Carey

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 82#p140469

Thomas Carey

Johnny Canuck wrote: Except possibly by a spot of Apterites in the audience. I propose making that the official collective noun.

Too late.

Thomas Carey

Ouch.

One more named person I'm trying to rope in after he said he'd go, back in October. His sister, who I'm legitimately surprised you didn't quote, could potentially follow (I really doubt it, but it could be a 'random' occurrence)...

Thomas Carey

Great game. I did think that maybe Callum was a bit below par in a couple of rounds but Jen was very good throughout so a worthy winner regardless. Perhaps it was the sarcastic comment Jen made at the beginning about there not being enough "young geeky males" on Countdown. True, there has...

Thomas Carey

If you're a decent fourlargeist (now valid, probably), like Andy obviously is, then (25*50+6)*75/100 is a reasonably easy spot. Incredibly unlucky, Andy, you were so close to taking out a giant and giving us a s68 final rematch. Terrific performance from both there, wp lads.

Thomas Carey

http://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=2122

Thomas Carey

What about something like 100*75+6-6/25? 7500 is your intermediate, but...

Thomas Carey

Fair enough, don't count it then

Thomas Carey

UK (4), Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Italy, Spain (not mainland though), Switzerland for all of about 15 seconds if that counts. Think that's it. You're probably going to think I'm a rich kid - my family's income is about 5-10K a year. There's a surprising am...

Thomas Carey

UK (4), Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Italy, Spain (not mainland though), Switzerland for all of about 15 seconds if that counts. Think that's it. You're probably going to think I'm a rich kid - my family's income is about 5-10K a year. There's a surprising amo...

Thomas Carey

Thomas Cappleman. (Yes, I know he's Tom.) I'll work out probabilities and stuff when I get home

Thomas Carey

James Robinson wrote: Highest Score: 126 vs. Dylan Taylor (Grand Final)
Lowest Score: 70 vs. Ritch Greenwood (1st Game)

Class.

Thomas Carey

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 82#p140469 is probably our best shot at a decent consonant distribution.
That's 1 JKQXYZ, 2 BFHVW, 3 C, 4 GMP, 5 L and 6+ DNRST.

As for vowels, it doesn't matter as there's going to be at least 5 of each, so Rob's numbers are fine.

Thomas Carey

http://wiki.apterous.org/Ariane_Sherine . There's quite a lot of results from ages ago if you search her on this forum.

http://wiki.apterous.org/Chris_Philpot Also, says on Chris' thing that they had a rematch and that she actually gave Chris her teapot.

Thomas Carey

That doesn't give me what I'm after at all. I want a definitive list for ALL numbers games. They've done a sample using random games. And even then they've just listed how many were solvable, how many were one away. I want EVERYTHING. Hey, I never said there would be anything of value there, I thin...

Thomas Carey

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote:Like 10 minutes including typing the thing. I did what Fred did but just explained it better, hopefully you can follow it
I don't believe you could do all that including typing in 10 minutes!

Yeah probably like 20 who care

Thomas Carey

Like 10 minutes including typing the thing. I did what Fred did but just explained it better, hopefully you can follow it

Thomas Carey

Right. I'm probably gonna make about a hundred arithmetic errors and someone will answer as I type this as it's been up for over an hour but let's have a crack. As you say, there's 899 targets so just multiply the amount of selections by 899 to get your answer. I'd go about it by splitting the selec...

Thomas Carey

Hah, I should point out, I wasn't accusing Thomas of anything. I was more offering a general route to avoid your bitching :P You were obviously doubting Thomas. Wahey! Ok, to clear it up, I had COOEEING written down but wasn't sure and only had six otherwise, then spotted SOIGNEE right at the end a...

Thomas Carey

having been in the audience for the previous shows, I can tell you that Thomas Carey had a massive smile on his face when he saw Matthew Tassier knock out John Hardie in the last quarter-final Partially because I like Matthew more, partially because I really didn't want to play John. You know you'r...

Thomas Carey

Pisses me off that they have to mention he's a countdown champ every few paragraphs, but otherwise I'm glad.

Thomas Carey

James Robinson wrote: 9's Achieved: 2/5

Pretty sure it's 2/6. I missed BROADACRE, INNERVATE, RHODONITE and some stupid new addition I'd never heard of that Lee spotted.

Thomas Carey

Actually, you know what, let's set a challenge. 40 paid up entries for COLIN XII and 24 for the hangover by December 31st means I'll buy another dozen mugs- all of which (save one that I'll keep for my morning tea) will be given out at COLIN or the Hangover. Bunp. I'll pay tomorrow or something whi...

Thomas Carey

Johnny Canuck wrote:I can think of a much better scramble for that conundrum, but if the production team actually dared to use it on daytime TV, they'd be up ____ _____ without a paddle.

That was how I saw it! Offered it to about 6 people in the studio but nobody wanted the mug

Thomas Carey

Someone said to me today "By the way, don't buy any gloves." What? Yes, that means I've got gloves for Christmas. I suppose it's my fault for going on about these gloves to anyone who will listen. But will they have done the required research? And what if it snows before Christmas? I was ...

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And Lee Nixon, shame he didn't win tbh

Thomas Carey

Countdown recap for Friday 13 November 2015. Hello and welcome to my first recap since puberty. I haven’t got a proper recap job, don’t worry, I’m just covering for Anthony. Nick starts off by talking about The Lady in The Van (presumably Channel 4 don’t get paid for endorsements like this, although...

Thomas Carey

James Robinson wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:Kudos to Tass, who definitely deserved more than 77 points today. JAMBEAUX was my third favourite letters spot of all time.
What are the top 2??

This better be one of them.

Thomas Carey

Following on from the 'excellent' response James got from his request for a deputy recapper this week, a post which unfortunately I only saw myself tonight, I am now asking if anybody would like to do next Friday's recap (13th November). I will be in Dublin, so if nobody responds, it will be Monday...

Thomas Carey

"Kind-of embarrassed that this guy's name appears on the Richard Whiteley trophy along with mine, to be honest." "To be honest, the more I research this case, the more outraged and amazed I become." Just two of his insightful posts on a discussion of Callum's Glory Roll when the...

Thomas Carey

Johnny Canuck wrote:Is the selection in round 3 here the only selection from which it has ever been possible to make a 9 by moving just one letter?

Dunno, but why are you asking it in the vagina pasta thread?

Thomas Carey

Related: what's the most used conundrum? What's the most used conundrum scramble? How many unique conundrums (solutions) have there been ( in how many episodes)? Tyvm as always

Thomas Carey

I'm not Graeme, but it isn't. This was. Presumably these are the only two but I may well be wrong. [x3]

Thomas Carey

SISSINESS/SASSINESS for 5S. These can actually be conundrums. EQUIVOQUE wins Q I think. You can test it by putting something e.g. RRR into Lexplorer's Words Using and keep adding a letter until nothing appears with 9 letters (or change the length to 9). For instance, there's tons with 3 Rs so you tr...

Thomas Carey

Ben Wilson wrote: I've ordered twelve of these which will be given out to the top 6 at COLIN XII, the top 3 at the hangover, the top two overachievers at COLIN and the top overachiever at the hangover.

What if some of those are the same people?

Thomas Carey

The round 4 selection was actually T S H U A Y T U A so THUYAS was the darren. (Also if John loses tomorrow with 12 or less then he won't overtake Matty, unlikely as that may be)

Thomas Carey

I've just seen Kris's blog account of his filming experience. Tomorrow's episode sounds interesting... I've heard about that too. An explosion might occur..... :roll: :roll: If I seek this out, will I encounter spoilers for the rounds? Not for the rounds, but definitely spoilers. [CONTAINS SPOILERS...

Thomas Carey

Hasn't been updated yet for this series, but I'm 11 at the moment thanks to Brendan Duke. With Judy Bursford and her 2 floating around the finals, things could get interesting at the end of this series...

Also the CoC will likely shorten a lot of paths.

Thomas Carey

C1 clearly pressed the wrong key by mistake...

Thomas Carey

Anyone else get the feeling that they intentionally kept Le Tiss away from Thomas?! I do as well and I said all along that he would be on first game after his octorun, so he wouldn't have to face a reigning champion. Wouldn't a more likely explanation be that they deliberately started Matt Le Tissi...

Thomas Carey

Yep, especially as James Rowan appears on Thursday. I'm surprised they put him in Le Tiss' eight potential opponents, thought they'd play lots of easy ones until he's definitely gone, but that just further proves that the team don't manipulate the running order.

Thomas Carey

Well done Tom by the way. Did you know you needed the conundrum to be number one? Yep, knew the score I had to get. Thought I had an easy run until that shocking nine miss, so that put even more pressure on the conundrum as I knew I was nine points off Jonathan (and also the all-conundrums thing is...

Thomas Carey

James Laverty wrote:Which contestant has appeared with the most Dictionary Corner guests?

And what's the most games anyone's done with the same guest?

Thomas Carey

Was this the first-ever double century game where neither player got a 9? Good shout, and I wanted it to be. Unfortunately not. Or as Adam would say, unfortz. It is, however, the first heat game which meets those criteria, but as there's only been six double-century heat games that isn't a great ac...

Thomas Carey

GABOONS in round 8 Really? Another miss? Not happy with this game, missed a lot of gettable stuff - DIPOLAR was a chicken (I did AS chem ffs) and R1 would have been perfect for 7s that I'd just learned then - GIMLETS, LOGIEST, EGOTISM and ESTOILE which was practically spelt out. Had tons of 6s, wan...

Thomas Carey

best anagram right there Mauro (thanks all)

Thomas Carey

Heh, thanks everyone. Especially Graeme for that gif. Fun story: after the game, Tracey told me that had I not chickened ADIPATES that would have been a max ( the first ever debut max at that) so I was quite pissed off. It was only about 15 minutes later when Matty checked the rounds that he told me...

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Matty seemed quite pleased about the bloke in the audience getting the conundrum. FWIF, It was very nearly Thomas Carey, who the crew were set to film answering it, only for someone to point out that he was recording the following day, so they gave the opportunity to another guy instead. Well done ...

Thomas Carey

Graeme. The argument went on for about 3 minutes in the studio, including Gyles yelling 'BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!'

Thomas Carey

I was there. There weren't any edited out.

Thomas Carey

Questions.

Is the order relevant?

Could you only just add the new ones now, or could each new one have been added at a different time and you're just posting them all now?

Will we get more additions to the list at some point?

Why did you change your profile picture?

Thomas Carey

Fwiw this was the first game I ever saw live. I echo what Robbo said, good stuff.

Thomas Carey

Situation: It's crucial time and C1 is like 5 points ahead. The scramble is BOOWHURDS . C1 instantly sees BRUSH and WOOD and knows it'll be a combination of the two, but can't decide which. (I should probably have used SPACELOAD as the example.) C1 thinks that they can't risk buzzing in with either ...

Thomas Carey

NOT A POINTS CLAIM Dammit Rhys, I was still waiting for Adam's decade, and had an alarm set for that very purpose....

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08193?

Thomas Carey

Jen, George, Eileen and Glen is my guess. If no more than three from the same series, then replace Glen with Samir.

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