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Joseph Bolas

Nick Wainwright wrote:I have Mark Tournoff's book to thank for the conundrum spot as I first saw DAVENPORT in a word list in one of the appendices regarding surnames that are also valid words in Countdown.

What type of word lists are in the book?

Joseph Bolas

I think you're right about spreading the bad letters around, Charlie. Concentrating them makes the good ones harder to access, particularly seeing as most words won't contain any bad letters at all (presumably? Is this a false assumption?). There are 8 letters that appear only once on Countdown: J,...

Joseph Bolas

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:Again, why would someone bump this thread?
Why would someone bump this post?

You do know Jason, right?

Joseph Bolas

Julie T wrote:Great stuff, Katherine!
One of my sons is keen to see a recording, so I got on the waiting list, which is apparently 2 years long!
They say that cancellations are possible, though.

Two years is a long time, but it's gotta be worth the wait indeed

Keep us updated on that

Joseph Bolas

I once spent a week learning the katakana script, it doesn't have too many symbols to remember and it was good fun. Now I can only remember the meaning of about three symbols so it was probably a waste of time. As for the relatedness of Japanese to Chinese, Japanese is pretty much considered a lang...

Joseph Bolas

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:I can't find the link!

Where is it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... 6_01_2009/

Is there any way to listen to it via Windows Media Player, instead of having to install Real Player.

Joseph Bolas

Just a notification that the 5th Countdown Scattergories game will be posted Sunday night around 23:59

Joseph Bolas

On February 15th 2007, I actually WENT to a recording of the show and met Jeremy, James and Richard! Series 9 programme 4, the Robin Reliant Shuttle. Utterly brilliant fun! Very nice indeed Katherine :). That shuttle was brilliant, especially when it didn't separate and it crashed and blew up the R...

Joseph Bolas

I think EJACULATE has to be the best word available.

Joseph Bolas

Joseph, they sound really interesting (I've not heard of them before). I could see myself getting very addicted. As it is I've refused to allow myself anywhere near games consoles* or most computer games since my Lemmings addiction many years ago... I just know I'd never get anything else done! *Un...

Joseph Bolas

I remember playing something called Tap-A-Jam and one of the music tracks included was The Flight of the Bumblebee, I think. Assuming its the same thing, that's a famous piece by Rimsky-Korsakov and isn't as hard to play as it sounds. I think it is the same, yeah. When I play Burnout Dominator (can...

Joseph Bolas

I don't know if anyone caught the race in Vietnam back in December, but that had to be one of their best races ever. The challenge was, that they had to travel 1000 miles from Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon), at the bottom of Vietnam to Hạ Long city, near Hanoi (Hà Nội) at the top in eight days, on motorb...

Joseph Bolas

To all new people who have joined up recently, welcome to the forum

Joseph Bolas

Not really a hobby, but I like playing puzzle-based games like Kula World and Kurushi.

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:Try and see which one I omitted (RB-Lingo ommitted).
I think its FRAENULUM.
For once, you're right.

I would've got that quicker, but I was doing an AVG scan at the same time.

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:Try and see which one I omitted (RB-Lingo ommitted).

I think its FRAENULUM.

Joseph Bolas

2,255 words there I count, that is fucking awesome. You what? You counted them? Me too. I made it 2,254 mate. Can you recount for me? Well, I copied the list into a Notepad document and because I use a monospace font in Notepad (Larabiefont size 11) it puts 11 words (including commas and spaces) on...

Joseph Bolas

Interesting to see the quoted table (nice one joseph) answers the max-number-of-repeats-in-9-letters qu, and also that my dad, who apparently was thinking about this at 2am when couldn't sleep, foudn one of the only five words which contains 5 repeated letters (and that they are all S-repeat words)...

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote: So Kai's not short for Kaibert or anything?
Or Kai-mera
Kai-lee

Kai-ser Chief

Joseph Bolas

My program is now working to "grow" a good set of dice. The best so far has a little over 10 thousand nines available (compared to around 2 thousand for the set given, although it doesn't have the weird blank sides.) If anyone can be arsed to work through Clare's idea and send me some sug...

Joseph Bolas

Grrr, why do they have to promote Countdown in with all the other shite?! It totally stands out as superior! :mrgreen: Shite :shock: Come Dine With Me is brilliant :D Shite's a good Scottish word, isn't it, or did Susie never mention that? ;) No, they're not really, but just by comparison. :) I wou...

Joseph Bolas

Charlie Reams wrote:Also Chinese. Language, rather than takeaway.

Going on languages I tried learning Japanese, but I have a bit of a short attention span, so gave up

Joseph Bolas

Oh, so I didn't miss too many then :lol: 2,255 words there I count, that is fucking awesome. I don't know how long it took you to do that, but I appreciate you working that out for me Charlie. Thank you :) EDIT: I daren't to think how many words you could get if you worked out the best letter combin...

Joseph Bolas

Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:
Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:What's the scores so far?
Actually what was the final score?

It was 105 v 85. The recap is up.

Joseph Bolas

Countdown recap for Friday 16 January 2009. C1: Challenger Nick Wainwright. C2: Challenger Steve Baines. DC: Susie Dent and Andrew Sachs. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: T P T G E A E I L R02: U O D N V A E S B R03: F G R N O I A O U R04: B E S L O I I N R R05: 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 10...

Joseph Bolas

It's Nick Wainwright v Steve Baines today, so the best of luck to both.

Joseph Bolas

How many words contain at least one A? At least two As? Three As? etc until the answer is 0. Continue to do this for every letter of the alphabet. You then have a table of scores, where each letter has up to nine* scores. The successive scores for each letter can be labelled A1, A2, B1, B2, etc. Yo...

Joseph Bolas

Kirk Bevins wrote:Wow, it's taken you that long to figure it out? I'm sure it's been explained here before and the old forum and on all the youtube videos.

Oh, and 150x6 is 900, not 950.

There's this video on YouTube, which explains how you use the 50 and 75 as a 2 and 3.

Joseph Bolas

I think I am the only person in here who does Origami.

Joseph Bolas

If A=1 and B=2 and so on what is the name which would score the most points. e.g Eoin would score 43 points because E=5, O=15, I=9 and N=14 points Joseph would score 73, but the longest name would most likely have the highest score (eg CHRISTOPHER etc). EDIT: If you went by the Scrabble scoring, Jo...

Joseph Bolas

So, Laurent, you have e-mailed the Countdown team before you started posting here! By the way, what happened to Greg Scott? I only learnt about this site after Charlie was on air! Shows the power of TV I guess. Who's Greg Scott? Greg Scott was a Warm-Up Artist on Countdown for 13 years (going by Wi...

Joseph Bolas

Has anyone come across any online maths games, that focus on 2-digit multiplications?

Edit: missed the S off Maths

Joseph Bolas

Lesley Jeavons wrote:Grrr, why do they have to promote Countdown in with all the other shite?! It totally stands out as superior!

Shite

Come Dine With Me is brilliant

Joseph Bolas

I thought ENRAPTURE was a tough conundrum so very well done to Kai, Paul and Nick for getting that.

Joseph Bolas

"need to go and sellotape some letters onto dice!" Me too. But why the blanks? It's just what's on the dice. They were from a game I must've had, but I only have the dice, so I wouldn't know the name of the game, sorry. Also the letters are numbered too (point value) as follows: A: 1, B: ...

Joseph Bolas

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE SPELLAR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DINOS SYFRIS

Joseph Bolas

I was thinking that possibly the best way to solve the problem, would be to come up first with a set of 54-letters and check how many different nines can be made with them, before putting them on dice. For example, If you have the following letter frequencies: A: 3, B: 2, C: 2, D: 3, E: 3, F: 2, G: ...

Joseph Bolas

I have got a set of 9 dice with the following letters on them: Die 1: A E I M T ? Die 2: A E I M T ? Die 3: A E I O R S Die 4: A E I O U Y Die 5: A E I O U Y Die 6: A J K N O T Die 7: B C F H P W Die 8: D G L N R S Die 9: E Q T V X Z NB : The question marks are blanks The idea is to see how many 9's...

Joseph Bolas

You could average the proportion of the (theoretical) max for each game, or maybe average as proportion of the top score, but it's probably becoming more trouble than it's worth :P Not sure if this is what you mean, but in each game, the maximum you could score is 100 points (10 words x 10 points m...

Joseph Bolas

1st - Ian Volante: 327 2nd - Stewart Scott: 321 3rd - Kai Laddiman: 318 4th - Michael Wallace: 317 I was busy being amused by being 4th and then remembered that it may have had something to do with entering all 4 games (although a simple mean isn't particularly representative either, since the max ...

Joseph Bolas

Wow, quite a turnaround from III! From memory (I've not looked at the scores yet) I went for a lot of the most obvious words, just to see. Any chance of some overall stats now I've had a decent result? :) Here's are the overall scores from the past 4 games: 1st - Ian Volante: 327 (4) 2nd - Stewart ...

Joseph Bolas

Well done Kai and commiserations to Richard.

Joseph Bolas

On a related theme, what is the longest English word in which all the letters are in alphabetical order? I know there are lots of 6s (BIOPSY is the one I always remember for some reason), but are there any that are longer? And no, I don't know the answer. BEEFILY and BILLOWY. Also if you were to fo...

Joseph Bolas

Clare Sudbery wrote:maybe you can just tell me if they have equal nums of all letters on countdown, yay or nay?

There is a thread that Jim Bentley did, which mentioned the Letter Frequency for series 57.

Joseph Bolas

Matt Morrison wrote:ahh, not too bad. i'm fairly pleased with that one, much better than my last run out. Well done Ian.

p.s. Joseph - I'm not Swedish

Sorry about that Matt

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EDIT: All surnames are spelt correctly

Joseph Bolas

The competition has now closed :) The winner of the fourth Countdown Scattergories game is Ian Volante :) The overall scoreboard came out as follows: 1st - Ian Volante: 86 2nd - Callum Laddiman: 82 3rd - Matt Morrison: 81 4th - Kirk Bevins: 79 5th - Michael Wallace: 77 5th - Oliver Garner: 77 5th - ...

Joseph Bolas

Going by past presenters, my order would be:

1. Richard Whiteley
2. Des O'Connor
3. Des Lynam

Joseph Bolas

Dan Vanniasingham wrote:Apterous games feat. Joseph Bolas and Apterous Waldorf approx = Joseph Bolas posts.

That's not funny., besides the numbers aren't even close.

Joseph Bolas

Dan Vanniasingham wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=20149
I really hope you weren't cheating in that one as well...

No, I didn't cheat in this game.

Joseph Bolas

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=20149

Joseph Bolas

I have found a 15-letter word

27-7-21-53-8-92-50-99-34-16

Joseph Bolas

Hi fellow Countdowners, Thanks Charlie for getting me set up on the forum! I am due to record my first game at 8.15pm today Monday, so I should probably get some sleep. Excited about the new hosts and new set and more than a little apprehensive about the game, wouldn't mind bagging myself a teapot,...

Joseph Bolas

Always one to do as I am bid (well usually), may I introduce myself. My name is Valerie Bradley and was an avid Countdown listener for many years - until Des O'Connor came on the scene. After that I only watched occasionally because I felt that the game was losing its impetus. The only redeeming fe...

Joseph Bolas

Any guesses Charlie on how long it will take to get to 30,000 games

Joseph Bolas

IMO, If a thread has been locked, then you would assume that the topic was not worth discussing in the first place, so there would be no point to have it. If it was a divisive and bloody fight that was locked before people were going to (cyber-) murder each other then it would certainly be worth a ...

Joseph Bolas

I really hope you do this too.

Joseph Bolas

Charlie Reams wrote:Congratulations to apterous, which had its 20,000th game today!

Impressive stuff indeed.

Very well done to Tom Chafer-Cook

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:Kinda obvious really. (12th March)

I agree with Kai that it will be in March, but I think it will be earlier than the 12th.

My guess would be the 3rd (50 days from today).

Joseph Bolas

It shouldn't have done as it was back up and running last night from 11:00 pm onwards, which was plenty of time to play the duel before the day was out. Unless you have a job/kids to get up for and go to bed before 11pm. Well, there was plenty of time earlier on in the day to play it. I see it does...

Joseph Bolas

Well done to David and commiserations to James. That was a brilliant game to watch.

Very nice spot too David, at the end there, with CORTISONE.

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