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Ben Wilson

Julian wrote:Lol. By the way how did Zef's true identity come to light?

Long and ultimately very boring story, I'll email you the details tomorrow (daren't post it publicly- our Zef has a thing for threatening all and sundry with lawsuits).

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I think we can now safely say 'congratulations Doddy!'

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(10+10+4)*6*6+25=889

In time, too

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That leaves; 3. COOTHILL 5. GOLFDATE 13. AREXPUSH 14. LEAPBATH 18. REYBRINK 20. GAFFTOES 23. NAPPSHOW 31. WALKTOTI 32. AMATHKOW 36. SATINMAY 39. MANYCURE 40. NINETART 42. NEERILEY 43. MAREUNIT 46. HERTRILL * I'm just drawing forumites attention to my new quiz phenomenon " Can I quote you on th...

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How poor is my memory I'd forgotten all about this thread. :? Ah well, here goes... The game shall be known as 'Countdown Unlimited'. You only select seven letters instead of nine, but the catch is that you can use each letter as many times as you wish. Before you ask, if a duplicate letter gets dra...

Ben Wilson

Tsk - you young men with your lists. If you want the complete ODE, without definitions, as a text / word document, just ask. If you want every 9-letter word in the ODE, without definitions, just ask. If you want an Indian head massage, don't ask. Don't suppose you've got a complete list of 10-12 le...

Ben Wilson

Here is another teatime teaser alphabet for the pleasure of the forum :? . There are a whopping 46 eight letter anagrams with no clues unfortunately (it would take me forever!) with 2 anagrams for each letter of the alphabet - except for letters X,Y and Z. Please restrict yourselves to doing no mor...

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I agree that Conor should have let someone know how long he'd be away / when he'd be back. Given that Conor lives at home, is it just possible that his mum has confiscated his PC so he has no way of getting in touch?!! That would be so embarrassing, wouldn't it?! I've also contacted him via text me...

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1. OROBCUNTFLAME 2. TRUFFLESONGES 3. ININEQUAESTOR 4. THINKDEERLADY 5. AHORRIBBLEPIG 6. OTOASINGLETON 7. NICOTINECYSTS 8. WOWHERBILLETS 9. HISPLANNEDROW 10. ULITCHARACTER 11. OPARTICLESYET 12. AORIENTEDITOR 13. RESTSUSPICION 14. IKOUNTGAMBLER 15. HOOPERCHARGER 16. GREATERMANNER 17. BROADENKRUGER 18...

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It would be a great disppointment that the very last game of the tournament would be usurped like this, but Conor has been AWOL for ages, despite my emails and text messages- and the first game of the final was played way back on March 22nd. Horrendous- and thus, I'm setting a deadline of June 22nd ...

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Well, after much thought, I came up with nothing. Then in the space of 3 seconds, inspiration struck, and I have my idea. :D I'm keeping it to myself for now until I've spoken with someone about it/refined it a little, but needless to say it's definitely more difficult than the standard game (though...

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What's REALLY annoying though is when people CAPITALISE words in their SENTENCES so as to try and put across a POINT that no one CARES ABOUT in the first place, not pointing any FINGERS here though... ;) Edit- just to clarify, I wasn't talking about Jim. Anyone who remembers some of the darker times...

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2. ONOMATOPOEIA

3. BREATHTAKING
23. EXTRAVAGANCE

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Sorted.

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The doors open at 10am, the exhibitions start at 10:30, with the actual first round of the tournament starting at 12:10pm.

Full details are on the website- http://colin.nebagram.co.uk/conot/

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Jason Larsen wrote:...the theme from "Neighbours" being composed with scat...

Ew.

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Ginger Jono wrote:Yeah. I'm just pushing it back to a time when Paul and Conor have finished playing their final and can participate in this one, as well. No rush!

Live draw at CONOT then :-/

(This is not a knock on Paul & Conor, btw. Well, it's not a knock on Paul anyway).

Ben Wilson

Consider show pony Dinos tamed :( My five are INOCULATION THUNDERBIRD ENJAMBEMENT HAIRSTYLIST and SPOKESWOMAN which I've added to DaDo and Joseph's efforts (although for the record I got all but 3 :)) 1. UANOINTLOCI INOCULATION 2. NURDEDBIRTH THUNDERBIRD 3. MMNNEEEJBAT ENJAMBEMENT 4. ENTIREWHACK 5....

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Can you buy a decent bungee run for a couple of quid these days? I'm thinking of an Its A Knockout-style, Stick-your-word-up-on-the-opposite-wall, pie-in-the-face-for-the-loser sort of game. Unfortunately, given how prohibitively expensive projector hire is, that's a no. :( So far my only idea's be...

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Happy birthday Joseph

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Re: the CoC, I recall Damo in the past saying he was going to wait until January 09 so it'd be at the start of series 60. Then again, I could be talking crap.

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Oops I'm in big trouble :oops: . I guess I should of cleared it with the site admins before posting them. Many apologies from me to Ben and Charlie and I will move all my edited post quiz questions to the "Off-Topic" section of the forum promptly and then delete them if you wish. Again, I...

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It may be a COLIN tradition, but it's going ahead at CONOT too- the post-Goatdown pre-tournament exhibition game. For those of you unfamiliar with COLIN, 2006 saw Jono take on Stewart Holden in the first ever Countdown blindfold match, whilst 2008 featured a team Hypercountdown match with Stewart, C...

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I think you might get banned by Soo Reams for spamming the forum, Jason. As long as the posts are edited back/deleted promptly once the quiz has been completed, then I won't have to go around deleting the posts myself. ...Assuming I can be arsed to find them/JaCu provides links to them. Or I'll jus...

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I do have this feeling that as soon as I have got all the word lists I want to study for these CO-Events with, that a new dictionary will come out and alot of the words I have won't be allowed and there will be alot of new words too to add :lol:. To be fair Joseph, you're taking it a hell of a lot ...

Ben Wilson

I am currently producing word lists focusing on certain prefixes, suffixes and hooks etc (using the ODE of course) as a study aid for when I go to these CO-events. How often though is the ODE revised/updated on Countdown and is an update/revisal of the ODE around the corner, that anyone may know of...

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32. XENOLITH 33. FIREPLUG 36. FISHTAIL 39. OPAQUELY 40. WAYFARER 45. UNBEATEN Which leaves 2. POUCHIER 8. TINCRATE 11. SOAPTONE 12. IDOSEVEN 13. FITWAGER 18. WARMLAKE 19. DUEPRICE 22. IREEDJAM 28. MHJOINED 30. CASEPARI 35. OILRADAR 37. IBLOTKEY 39. QUAYPOLE 46. HANGDOLE 48. OILYVECT 50. PURELADI 52...

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So that leaves: 2. POUCHIER 6. EELIDUTY 8. TINCRATE 11. SOAPTONE 12. IDOSEVEN 13. FITWAGER 14. YETCHALK 16. AREUGIMP 17. CHORDERA 18. WARMLAKE 19. DUEPRICE 20. GONEMAXY 21. DEBTHEAD 22. IREEDJAM 28. MHJOINED 30. CASEPARI 32. TOXINHEL 33. GULPRIFE 35. OILRADAR 36. SHITFILA 37. IBLOTKEY 39. QUAYPOLE ...

Ben Wilson

Because I'm new to all this, can someone pls explain to me the different potential formats that could be played in Nottingham :oops: . I hope I can make it as it should be a laugh if its anything like what happened in Leeds recently :lol: Just the one format to be used in the competition itself- th...

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Excellent stuff, you can count me in for this after missing out on COLIN, but the location is far too accessible for my liking :evil: Also, if you're going to use the COBRIS format, would it be possible to preshuffle the letters for each game according to a selection generated by Countgen, so that ...

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When I replied to my invitation for CoC I think I told Mr Eadie there was a drink in it for him if I avoided Mr Wills in Round 1 - with inevitable consequences. I think the only seeding was that all the series champions were kept apart. David W You're right- I'd forgotten about that one seeding the...

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Well in. Quite interesting. Could've been done with a computer in about five minutes but how woudl you fill your time then? ;) I tend to overcomplicate things :oops: so if there is an easier way to do things, then I wont spot it :lol: What I did was I downloaded a copy of the dictionary and then co...

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One division, same as always, though there will be a prize exlcusive to those in the bottom half of the ratings spread.

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They haven't, at least XI and XII weren't. Chris Wills vs David Williams in round 1 of XI and Stewart Holden vs Paul Gallen in the original line-up of XII kinda hint toward a random draw.

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Whats the situation with COLEI? I thought that might've replaced COBRIS. As I recall There were some issues finding a venue with CoLei- could be mistaken though. Kudos to Ben for taking it on himself to organize a second tournament! Are you moving to Nottingham then Ben...? I'd definitely like to a...

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R13 FEROCITY.

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Afternoon all. :) I'm happy to announce the first ever Countdown in Nottingham tournament will be taking place on Saturday 26th July. Following the unfortunate news that there will be no CoBris this year, and CoLiver and CoLei have had to be postponed, I thought it was a bit of a shame there'd be no...

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I'm not normally critical like this but with 3 nines available 61 is a hell of a low winning score, perhaps a record? Congrats to the winner nonetheless though.

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Happy birthday George, also happy birthday to Tom Hargreaves today.

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What's (only slightly) more interesting is that there were (at the time) members of the Scrabble fraternity in every c of c except one. 9 points to whoever can guess which one. No, that's less interesting. But a guess - the one you were in? Correct you are, regarding the answer to my trivia questio...

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What's (only slightly) more interesting is that there were (at the time) members of the Scrabble fraternity in every c of c except one. 9 points to whoever can guess which one.

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I am currently watching a match between interscrab (2340) and Cygnus (1805) and whenever interscrab plays a word, Cygnus immediately plays their next word without losing any time on their clock (in fact their times goes UP). This is probably a silly question but is Cygnus a computer player, because...

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I've been thinking about this for a while, as for this year's COLIN, I know for certain one player didn't turn up because of a dislike of being beaten all the time by higher-ability players, and I can see this becoming something of a trend. The question is, do I create two divisions a la Scrabble to...

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Am I alone in thinking Philippa looks a little bit like Princess Anne?

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It's a he, but I guess maybe if he had a sex change that would account for why he/she has been able to get on twice? There has to be one Countdowner who has had a sex change, surely :lol: There has, but I can't remember off the top of my head who it was. (cue Damian with a 'Christina Wills' joke)

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Haha! Yeah, that about sums up some Facebook users. If you printed the pictures off and put them together, you'd have a flickbook of their life, pretty much. Not that you'd want to waste the ink... ¬.¬ Some people do tend to put 100's of photos on Facebook, but I am one of these people who doesn't ...

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Ginger Jono wrote:They're invariably unfunny. I'ev never read a funny response, and their responses are invariably trying to be funny.

Annoying them is fun. So try their patience.

http://www.nebagram.co.uk/isc/ischell.bmp

More where that came from.

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Oh dear lord. I barely got this up and running half an hour ago and already I have a disliking for these 'helpers'. Do they have sticks jammed where the sun don't shine, or something? Is it a requirement of their job? :shock: Basically yes- though to be fair they have to answer the exact same quest...

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Hey Allyssa, If you are on Facebook, there is a Countdown application you can add and play Countdown non stop :D. Sadly, me and Facebook have a somewhat turbulent past. Meaning: me mashing the keyboard in sheer frustration. It took me a good year to figure out MySpace, it seems I'll be the same wit...

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Jason Larsen wrote:My last name is Norwegian.

I thought it was Larsen.

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Joseph Bolas wrote:Is there any reccommendations as to who to watch in a scrabble match?

Try cross-referencing this list- http://www.absp.org.uk/publications/isc.html -with this one- http://www.absp.org.uk/ratings/080507r.html -and go for the names closest to the top (of the ratings list, obviously).

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Jason Larsen wrote:Very interesting!

God, that child's parents must have hated him/her.

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We're only waiting on Conor now, but he seems to have vanished into thin air... he hasn't even visited the site since April 17th.

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Highest from one move for me is 176 for DEdUCING, on ISC. My highest ever one-game score is 595, set recently at the Peterborough tournament (I actually poked my head briefly above 600, but came down again after countback). 'Twas in that game I managed to amass 501 points in 8 moves- a record I'm st...

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I imagine everyone's thought about this at some point. I hope so, anyway. Put together your own superband from musicians alive and dead, who would you have? I'm tempted just to say 'Queen' and have done with it, but going on a rule of only one person from each existing band... Lead singer: Freddie M...

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Bornald, is that you?

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I will speak to Wayne for you at the end of the tourney we're at riight now, Joseph.

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Has there ever been any UK celebrity chefs in DC before? Yes- Ken Hom, whose performance was so utterly f**king dire he's never been invited back since. Hugh fearnley-Whittingstall was good though. It should be the other way round :P. I don't know how Ken could've been so dire and HFW be good. Has ...

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Joseph Bolas wrote:Has there ever been any UK celebrity chefs in DC before?

Yes- Ken Hom, whose performance was so utterly f**king dire he's never been invited back since.

Hugh fearnley-Whittingstall was good though.

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Hence why I'm more inclined to use the word 'follow' these days, though I do make a point of getting in any groups that go to Sincil Bank for any league/cup games.

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