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SOLITUDE in round 1, SAGAMORE in round 8 and URINATED in round 11. I was also pretty pleased with SARCOID in round 7 before I came here.

Any one else think that the conundrum was too difficult for a heat game? I was nowhere near it so well done to Suzi for solving it.

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Countdown recap for Wednesday 30 May 2012. Welcome to part two of the Worsley Recap trilogy for this week. ;) Nick starts off by warning A-Level students that watching Countdown is not an excuse for failing your exams. C1: Champion Suzi Purcell (4 wins, 364 points.) C2: Challenger Elaine Rhodes. She...

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REGIMENTS in round 7.

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Countdown recap for Monday 28 May 2012. Welcome to the Worsley Recap, which is normally once a fortnight, but due to James being in Italy, this will be the first of three this week. I hope you can all cope with that. :D Today is the 170th anniversary of the opening of the first public laundrette in ...

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Jonathan Rawlinson wrote:TUNICAE in rd 6

Jonathan Rawlinson wrote:ADENINE in rd 13

Adam Gillard wrote:Quality game.

Exactly the three things that I came on here to say!

Thought the challenger was unlucky to lose that as both played a really solid game.

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I'd be happy to fill in for you, James, if that's alright with you.

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Got my third 14 max in five games, just missed OCTET this time.

LANCERS in round 6, EARWIG in round 9 and UNRAVEL, GLEANER and LEAGUER in round 12.

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Another 14 max for me today. This time I cocked up on the conundrum as I guessed CILIATION.

CAROUSER in round 8 and ECOTAGE in round 11.

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ROUSABLE for a beater in round 6, NEPETA in round 11 and TALONED in round 12.

Just realised that MAJORED cost me a max game.

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Countdown recap for Monday 14 May 2012. Another fortnight passed since the last one, the Worsley Recap returns, the first since recording the finals. Just 38 days to go before the first quarter final airs so in the meantime, it's a case of who makes the finals. Will either of today's contestants mak...

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TRIGONAL as an alt. to ROGATION in round 3.

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Cheers Kieran!

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Cheers Adam.

I assume LUMPINESS was used as a conundrum because plurals formed by adding the S aren't allowed, as stated in the contestants guide.

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Countdown recap for Monday 30 April 2012. Welcome to yet another Worsley Recap, the last before I head off to Manchester on Wednesday to film the finals. Before that though, there is still plenty to play for in the battle to secure a place in the top eight so let's get this show on the road. Instead...

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PIEROGI in round 8 (not sure if DC got it or not as I wasn't paying attention).

Unlucky Kerry, you played a couple of solid games.

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TRANSOMED in round 7

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Countdown recap for Monday 16 April 2012. Welcome to another edition of the Worsley Recap, which unlike two weeks ago, will be release on the same day as the show was broadcast. Nick starts the week by revealing that another pointless survey has been carried out to find out what the British eat on e...

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What about PIRACIES in round 3? It's valid on apterous but PIRACY is listed as a mass noun in the ODE 3.

SEROTINE in round 13, AGOUTIS in round 12 and the old favourite LEOTARD in round 11.

1st numbers: (100-2)x(3+1)-1 = 391
3rd numbers: (50-6)x(2+1) = 132

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John Garcia wrote: Exact same thing as yesterday which also had AMNIOTE in R1 and AMNIOTES in R4!!!

What is going on???

Maybe the letters shuffler needs to be axed.

TREFOIL in round 7.

1st numbers: ((100+5)x3+4)x2+2 = 640

Very good debut by Rob, he looks capable of winning a few more.

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2nd numbers: (75x50+6)/(5-(10/10)) = 939

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Countdown recap for Monday 2 April 2012. First of all, apologies for the delay as I didn't have time last night. Welcome to another Worsley recap and hopefully I'll make up for the lateness with the quality. We're about half way through the series and the race for places in the finals is still wide ...

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I quite liked the conundrum solve too, I thought it was WATERABLE............ :oops: :lol: Don't worry, you're not the only one. :oops: Apart from one or two wobbles at the end, I thought that was a very good debut performance by John. He came up with some good words and he certainly looks capable ...

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REACTED in round 2 and GABOONS in round 12.

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Show off way for the 3rd numbers: ((75-10)x50-100)/25 = 126

Alison is looking like a really decent player with some good spots. She could easily go on for a bit longer.

The member of the audience who solved the conundrum was apparently Jonathan Rawlinson, who will soon be appearing on the show.

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Quite a decent debut performance by Alison, although her numbers may need some improvement.

MIAULED in round 11.

1st numbers: (100-3)x9-10 = 863
3rd numbers: (25+9)x4+9+2 = 147

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RELLENO in round 4, ESCAPISM in round 6, UNDERSEA in round 9 and PTOMAINE in round 12.

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1st numbers: (75+1)x(6+6)-9-7 = 896

Despite a couple of slightly bad misses, I was pretty delighted with 136, my highest of the series so far.

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Fairly good game today, with a decent performance by the challenger. I played much better than the past couple of days and managed 123 points, despite missing GENDARMES.

DENTINAL in round 3 and SAUTOIR in round 8.

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Countdown recap for Monday 19 March 2012. So after a week's exile from our TV screens, Countdown returns today, much to the relief of many people. This is my first recap since I got the job full time so I hope you enjoy it. If not, you'll be relieved to know that you only have to put up with me once...

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CALUMET in round 4 and ACETONE in round 9.

2nd numbers: (5+2)x75+((6+3)x4) = 561

3rd numbers: 50x7-100-10-1 = 239

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Quite a good performance by the challenger I thought, even if she was a little inconsistent.

CHESTIER in round 1, TANGOES in round 4 and AUNTIE in round 8.

2nd numbers: (25+3)x7-6 = 190

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Don't think Michael was quite as good as yesterday but he still looks like a decent player.

TAPETUM in round 4 and LIPOMA in round 8 (although not the max).

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Countdown recap for Friday 2 March 2012. C1: Champion Peter Lee (6 wins, 600 points.) An apte-forumite from Dublin, he has scored 120 and 118, with two nines each in his last two games. You don't have to be a brilliant mathematician to work out that he is averaging exactly 100 points per game and he...

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Sounds good to me. I'll get this Tuesday's recap done as well and let Kieran do the rest of the missing Tuesday recaps.

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May I have a go at a recap every other Mondat then, please, unless Graeme wants to do Monday recaps full time?

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Liam has packed it in, so Tuesdays are now available again. I can sort out the backlog, but does anyone have the January 31 episode to hand :?: All I have is the wiki facts. I think I might still have this episode recorded, may I have a go please? I've had a look and it turns out that I no longer h...

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James Robinson wrote:Liam has packed it in, so Tuesdays are now available again.

I can sort out the backlog, but does anyone have the January 31 episode to hand

All I have is the wiki facts.

I think I might still have this episode recorded, may I have a go please?

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Congratulations Peter on becoming an octochamp, very well deserved. I would say that five of your opponents would be capable of going on to become octochamps themselves if they had avoided you so winning eight is an even more impressive achievement. Not only have you had some big scores but you've a...

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Excellent again Peter, you're on fire at the moment. You've had some really good challengers recently too, which makes the high scoring more impressive.

Anyone else hoping for a final N in round 8 for JALAPENOS? It reminded me of the time when Peter got it against me on apterous.

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Excellent performance Peter, probably the best of the series so far. Naturally I'm a little disappointed to see my high score record for the series go but glad I lost it to a quality player. Well played Kieran too, no disgrace in losing against Peter and you could easily have given many other champi...

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Good game, well played to both. Commiserations Niall as you're certainly a capable player and on another day, could easily have strung a few wins together. Well done Peter though for keeping your composure after letting a seemingly comfortable lead slip. The conundrum time was pretty impressive, I w...

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Well done again, Peter. I'm sure you'll be disappointed to miss the last two numbers games but still a strong performance.

REALIGNS in round 3

2nd numbers: (50-9)x5-2 = 203

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Great game to watch. Well done Peter on an impressive debut and unlucky Chris as you played so well throughout your four games and could easily have gone on to be an octochamp if you'd avoided the stronger players.

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Strong performance again by Chris and the challenger did well too.

ASOCIAL in round 4.

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Andy Platt wrote: Would be nice to see how many maxes they got, must have been about 11 to 10 or something.

I think it was 10-8 to Chris in terms of maximums, which is pretty good.

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Really good game, both played well. Congrats to Chris who played even better than yesterday and unlucky Matt as his performance today would have won many games comfortably. It was a shame about the numbers games as I'm sure Matt would normally solve those, maybe the studio pressure got to him. 2nd n...

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Solid debut by Chris, particularly the impressive six small solve.

FIASCO in round 2, SERAGLIO in round 6, RADIANCE in round 8 and GADOID in round 9.

1st numbers: 50x9+75+3 = 528

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Controversy! SEDATIONS should've been allowed, and the margin of defeat was 18 points. Could this cost Victoria a place in the finals? Sedation noun [mass noun] the action of administering a sedative drug to produce a state of calm or sleep Although it's valid on apterous, it does say it's a mass n...

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CAPONIERS in round 4, EGOISTS in round 7 and BOUTADE in round 12.

2nd numbers: 75x7-100-8-3 = 414
3rd numbers: (50-7)x(2+1) = 129

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Edit: Jack, if she goes far there's a good chance you could play her in finals. Looking forward to 30 points in the numbers? If she gets to the finals, she might want to work on her numbers a bit. I'd definitely fancy my chances of getting a few points off her on the numbers, might even ditch four ...

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3rd numbers: ((25x5x3)+7)x2+5 = 769

Victoria might not have been quite as good today as she was recently (maybe because of tiredness) but the lightning quick conundrum solve was pretty impressive.

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SIDESMAN in round 7 and TETRODE in round 13.

1st numbers: (75+9)x8+9+6 = 287
2nd numbers: (75/(4-1))x4x2 = 200
3rd numbers: (75-6)x(10-1)=7-1 = 627

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A little disappinted to see Jocelyn go but missing that last numbers round was pretty bad.

Victoria certainly showed glimpses of quality, especially with the nine which I also missed and a couple of other nice spots, although she missed some easier ones.

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EROSION in round 3.

2nd numbers alt: (75+1)x(4+4)+25+5 = 638

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Handbaker for the conundrum - classic!!! Was it just me, or was that the easiest conundrum ever? I'm crap at conundrums, but even I got that almost right away. HANDBRAKE jumped out at me very quickly but I was thrown because I thought it would be more scrambled if it was the answer. Took me a few s...

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Can someone tell me the name of the Challenger please?

Neil Hewitt.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Was that the first time Rachel was tasked with the conundrum solve since the PNECRISIS=PRICINESS one of 10th May?

I'm pretty sure she solved the conundrum MILLIONTH in an October episode after neither contestant could get it.

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NEBULAR in round 2.

3rd numbers alt: (50+3)x9+8=485

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Thomas Carey wrote: Round 1: B R E I A S R G E

C1: BERRIES (7)
C2: RAISE (5) (declared as six but the studio let it pass, wouldn't have scored anyway)
DC: GREASIER (8)
OT: GERBERAS (8)
Score: 7–0 (max 8)

I'm sure Susan declared BRAISE.

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Second numbers alternative (50+7)*(10+7) = 969 Same sort of idea, except I made it unneccesarily long: (50+8)x(10+7)-10-7=969 Susan was on standby on the day that my first show was recorded. She'd apparently been on standby a few times without getting on so I'm glad she's finally got her chance. Sh...

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