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Joseph Bolas

Here is the sixth instalment of the Countdown Scattergories game. Below are 10 word rounds and for each round you are to find a word of a specific length. The idea is to come up with a word, that you think will be the least mentioned by the other players. For each round, there are now only 7 possibl...

Joseph Bolas

Duel was indeed brilliant, but yeah, like with many great game shows, it probably won't come back. Grand Slam was also awesome and that too should definitely come back. I think there has also been a few gaming programmes where there have been 1-on-1 challenges. I'm a bit surprised, as I hated both ...

Joseph Bolas

I bet if you played and lost, then spent years practising and became some kind of Countdown super-champ, they may consider having you back on again. The thought of letting contestants back on a second time sickens me, no matter how many years they have been waiting. Unless of course they waited 10 ...

Joseph Bolas

Also there are 164 targets using 4 numbers, 83 targets using 5 numbers and 5 targets using all 6 numbers :) We're waiting... ;) Okay then, here they are. Again apologies for the layout: 4 numbers: 2 x 6 x 9 x 9 = 972, 3 x 5 x 6 x 8 = 720, 3 x 3 x 7 x 8 = 504, 2 x 5 x 5 x 7 = 350, 2 x 2 x 6 x 9 = 21...

Joseph Bolas

I don't know if this will help, but you might want a list of all the 3-numbered targets, from 101-999, that can be achieved just by multiplying any three small numbers from 2-9: 8 x 9 x 9 = 648, 4 x 8 x 8 = 256, 4 x 5 x 8 = 160 8 x 8 x 9 = 576, 4 x 7 x 9 = 252, 5 x 5 x 6 = 150 7 x 9 x 9 = 567, 6 x 6...

Joseph Bolas

EEJIT is a word that has come up a few times before, that means an idiot.

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:I could hold off the 6th game until February and then I could a game once per month
No

Well I guess I could do this one tonight, as it will finish ont he last day of January and then spread them out a bit more starting in February

Joseph Bolas

Rosemary Roberts wrote:I didn't mean that, I don't mind either way. But it might get a bit unwieldy after five years or so.

I don't think this game would last for 5 years

or CCLX weeks

I could hold off the 6th game until February and then I could a game once per month

Joseph Bolas

Gawd, last-first-last! I'm not quite getting this yet. I could work out the overall stats if you want :D Just a note to all that Countdown Scattergories VI will be posted at around midnight tonight :) Joseph, if you plan to run a game per week for the foreseeable future you might prefer to change t...

Joseph Bolas

Blockbusters was 1-on-2 but kind of works. Oh I loved Blockbusters. I remember when I was a teen there was a young student on called Andy. I had to record it as he was gorgeous! :) Liza Tarbuck did it a few years back and it was still good. They should bring it back. And Catchphrase was good gentle...

Joseph Bolas

Clare Sudbery wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:I don't suppose it's possible to PM for the answers, because I'm not smart enough to solve any of these and I am curious to see what the answers are.
I'll pm you. Obviously answers to be kept to yourself!

Thank you for the PM Clare

I will keep these to myself

Joseph Bolas

Just a note to all that Countdown Scattergories VI will be posted at around midnight tonight :) So far in this competiton, there have been a total of 398 words (12 words repeated twice), which are: ABIDED, ABLOOM, ABODED, ABSEILS, ACONITES, ADAPTERS, ADEPTLY, ADIPATES, AEGIS, AILMENT, AIRDATES, ALBE...

Joseph Bolas

Oh, and Beat the Star with Vernon Kay for one of ITV's current shows. Duel with Nick Hancock was pretty good but that probably won't come back. And it was a rolling format so may not count. Who could forget Grand Slam? Apart from most people in this thread. ;) It's a good job there's no Countdown c...

Joseph Bolas

I don't suppose it's possible to PM for the answers, because I'm not smart enough to solve any of these

and I am curious to see what the answers are.

Joseph Bolas

Epic win!!!!! Wont reveal my strategem yet. Will see if it prevails next time. Although it looks like my decision to go for TRANNIE due to the lol factor sealed the win! Also I bet Joseph that Kirk would pick TELAMON but I picked it anyway! I know him that well! You were right indeed Dinos about Ki...

Joseph Bolas

Catchphrase! Aha, I knew there'd be obvious ones. I'd completely forgotten about the existence of Concentration, though. It was a brilliant gameshow and should come back on :D. Also focusing on the old game shows 4 Square was one as well :D, also there was Winner Takes All too :D and although there...

Joseph Bolas

Thanks for the competition, Joseph. When looking at the results I thought you'd forgotten my entry; I always start by reading from the bottom as it's usually a lot quicker. Definitely not used to the dizzy heights above the half-way mark. If you're going to continue this I'll try to enter an even n...

Joseph Bolas

Also, whilst we had it in the UK, Concentration was a 1-on-1 game show.

Joseph Bolas

The competition has now closed :) The winners of the fifth Countdown Scattergories game are Stewart Scott and Dinos Syfris :D The overall scoreboard came out as follows: 1st - Stewart Scott: 83 1st - Dinos Syfris: 83 3rd - Callum Laddiman: 82 4th - Kai Laddiman: 81 4th - Kirk Bevins: 81 6th - Rosema...

Joseph Bolas

This competition is now closed

The answers and scores will be up shortly

The best of luck to all who entered

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:Everyone else says this is easy, yet I have done just 3. Any chance of any hints, especially for me?

If it makes you feel any better Kai, I think I only know 1

Joseph Bolas

I was sure I clicked on PM

My apologies to all

Thank you to Gary for editing my original post

Joseph Bolas

I don't see anything repeated. What am I missing? ARIDISOL. :x To quote you Kai :P: AEROSOL lol ALFISOL lol ANDISOL lol ANDOSOL lol ARIDISOL lol CORTISOL lol CREOSOL lol CRESOL lol CYTOSOL lol ENTISOL lol ENTRESOL lol EUSOL lol GIRASOL lol HISTOSOL lol LITHOSOL lol MOLLISOL lol OXISOL lol PALAEOSOL...

Joseph Bolas

Now if Kai had picked a consonant at the end of round 7, instead of a vowel, then INTEGRAND would've come up, which would've been the first 9 of the CoC :D Not that would have got it, though. (And I doubt Rich would have got it either.) Maybe not :lol: I guess you picked a vowel then hoping for TRA...

Joseph Bolas

Another close match there, well played both. Well done to Charlie and commiserations to Junaid.

You gotta love those crucial conundrums

I thought it was GRAILLESS at first, before spotting SALESGIRL.

Joseph Bolas

2nd Numbers Alt:

((75 + 5) x (8 / (5 - 3)) + 1

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:I'm surprised no-one has mention the slightly obvious MESSES yet.

Susie didn't mention it when Junaid and Charlie risked MESSERS so didn't know it was in (that's my excuse

).

I liked the bit at the beginning where they showed how the letters/numbers board actually rotates.

Joseph Bolas

Hi Every one. I have recently joined after discovering the site existed from Charlie who recently reappeared in the Champion of Champions Series I used to record the programme and play in the mornings so if I was interrupted I could pause, but now I have discovered its availability on Channel 4 Cat...

Joseph Bolas

Welcome to the forum, Andrew, Steven and Scotty

Joseph Bolas

Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:What Pokemon should a girl never leave the house without?
Nobody? Ok I'll spill. A bra

Good one

Just looking on Wikipedia, there is now a total of 493 pokemon. Try doing a joke for each pokemon

Joseph Bolas

Round 7: G N I E T R A D O C1: ORDINATE (8) C2: RATIONED (8) DC: GRADIENT (8) DERATION (8) OT: DERATING (8) TREADING (8) DRAGONET (8) ORGANDIE (8) Score: 39–45 (max 52) Round 8: N E S I B R R O I C1: BRINIER (7) C2: BRINIER (7) DC: IRONISE (7) OT: IONISER (7) IRONIES (7) NOISIER (7) IRONERS (7) Sco...

Joseph Bolas

Could you check this for me please Charile:

ADLNOU, ABEGOW, AHIMOQ, BCDLTZ, CDGSTY, EIRSTV, EFIPUX, FHJLNR, KMNPRS

How did you create the program you use to find out the best way to label 9 dice with a given set of 54 letters?

Joseph Bolas

David Mitchell
Robert Webb
Eric Cartman

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:How about this (although I have porbably made a mistake somewhere ):
There.

I did mean the (now redesigned) lattice

Joseph Bolas

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:During the X Factor, Rhydian Roberts sang Somewhere which I believe is from the the 1961 musical "West Side Story".
It's from the 1957 musical West Side Story, the film of which was released in 1961.

My mistake

Joseph Bolas

How about this (although I have probably made a mistake somewhere

):

Joseph Bolas

Jon Corby wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:Looking on the CDB site too, 228 seems to be the highest combined total.

Well done to both players for a truly amazing game.
Matt Shore lost to Mark Tournoff 124-117 didn't he in the last CoC?

That's right that yeah. I was looking in the wrong place

Joseph Bolas

That's pretty good. Thank you :) There's got be at least one lattice for a 4-letter word and even a 3-letter word, but haven't found one yet. Srsly? Took me about 5 seconds to come up with DOG -> DONG/DOGS -> DONGS. And mine even has a synonym for penis. I always start with a 9-letter word and see ...

Joseph Bolas

What a fantastic game.Both players were on top form.I can,t remember seeing anyone lose with a score of 110 before. Would oarsman have been ok for round six? Well done to both contestants. You are right Jeff. According to the CDB the highest losing score was 107 by Terry Rattle in series 48, not su...

Joseph Bolas

Charlie Reams wrote:That's pretty good.

Thank you

There's got be at least one lattice for a 4-letter word and even a 3-letter word, but haven't found one yet.

Joseph Bolas

Looking on the CDB site too, 228 seems to be the highest combined total.

Well done to both players for a truly amazing game.

Joseph Bolas

After CORRAL came up in yesterday's game, it reminded me of a game that was originally devised by Charlie on the Countdown Corral site :D The idea is that you have to take a set of Countdown letters, going from the Series 57 letter distribution: A: 13, B: 2, C: 3, D: 6, E: 13, F: 2, G: 3, H: 3, I: 1...

Joseph Bolas

In addition to playing videogames I am a keen collector and possess a... reasonable... collection spanning about 30 years (Combat is still remarkably playable even today). Currently Fallout 3 is occupying most of my time. At least it would be if my Xbox didn't kill itself last week. When you have a...

Joseph Bolas

I don't know if this counts because at least one of the words (AMOSITE) has alternative anagrams (ATOMIES and ATOMISE):

Joseph Bolas

Chris Corby wrote:Nice recap Jospeh

Only just read this

.

Thank you Chris

Joseph Bolas

In addition to playing videogames I am a keen collector and possess a... reasonable... collection spanning about 30 years (Combat is still remarkably playable even today). Currently Fallout 3 is occupying most of my time. At least it would be if my Xbox didn't kill itself last week. When you have a...

Joseph Bolas

...some of her outfits were really awful and would have looked much better on someone younger. Some of Carol's outfits would have looked better in a skip - fussy patterns and rubbishy extra layers. Rachel's outfits would look better on anybody, including Carol (all right, excluding me). Going by th...

Joseph Bolas

This was one of the programmes I attended, and they reshot the sequence in which "STD" came up, and Rachel said: "I don't want to touch that." That was a funny joke that, so I am glad they kept that in. Well done to Steven and commiserations to Debbie. That 9 at the beginning wa...

Joseph Bolas

During the X Factor, Rhydian Roberts sang Somewhere which I believe is from the the 1961 musical "West Side Story".

Joseph Bolas

Welcome to the forum Chris, Jack, Daniel, Tommy and Tony.

Joseph Bolas

As with Clare, the duel too crashed for me, but this was when I tried to start round 5. I didn't copy any of the console though (to show the problem) as I didn't know what to copy.

Joseph Bolas

Okay, so the best I can come up with is this: SYNERG, ILRSUW, HLNRTV, ACIOUZ, ABFNPS, DIKMST, AEHLOX, CDEGPT, EIJMOQ. I thought it was kind of cute that the first 7 letters spell SYNERGI. You can make 14,893 nines from this set. And no, I'm not going to post them. That is very impressive indeed. Us...

Joseph Bolas

Does anyone else get any of the following messages when they try to log into Apterous: Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset Login Failed: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error Login Failed: java.io.IOException: Could not log in EDIT: It's working ...

Joseph Bolas

Charlie Reams wrote:Please post this in the Games and Puzzles forum in future.

Will do

. Thank you for moving this over to the correct forum

Joseph Bolas

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAOMI LADDIMAN

Joseph Bolas

Here is the fifth instalment of the Countdown Scattergories game. Below are 10 word rounds and for each round you are to find a word of a specific length. The idea is to come up with a word, that you think will be the least mentioned by the other players. For each round, there are now only 7 possibl...

Joseph Bolas

Sign me up too please.

Joseph Bolas

When I got the call to go, my legs nearly collapsed under me, I was so shocked! I just about managed to stagger through to the kitchen and blurt out the details.... then I ran round the living room whooping and screaming like an insane ninny. James May was sooooooooooooo........................ :sh...

Joseph Bolas

Anyone got a favourite blooper or out-take from the programme? From one PG-certificate word to one that is definitely 15-rated, I give you: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h_V-ZmbX8 One of the best bloopers included the swear word GOBSHITE and then you go back to Carol and she has put DOGSHITE up o...

Joseph Bolas

Katherine Birkett wrote:Another of my childhood heroes gone.......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7836112.stm

That's sad that

.

I remember watching Hart Beat when I was younger, it was a brilliant show.

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