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Joseph Bolas

If we are unable to beat the targets, will the winner be Jono or the highest score that was achieved, after the challenge was started?

Joseph Bolas

Dan Vanniasingham wrote:I should've learned not to attempt remotely helpful posts after given Eoin an aneurism, but I just can't help myself. I live to give...

You were right though Dan

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Ben had to resubmit a word for round 4 as he came up with RESOAK firstly

, so Rule 5 was invoked

Joseph Bolas

Michael Wallace wrote:So in round 4 I had SOAKER and scored 9, whereas Ben had SOAKER and scored 4.5? Or have I misread?

That is right. Ben offered RESOAK first for Round 4 and then offered SOAKER.

Joseph Bolas

In your FACE Rosemary Roberts. YES! I am the greatest. I don't know about being the greatest, but you were the latest entry :P Odd the words which were and weren't chosen.... do you think there's really a skill to it? I don't think there skill to this game. Maybe that's why I had fewer participants...

Joseph Bolas

It's time to close this competition and annouce the winner :) The winner of the second Countdown Scattergories is Callum Laddiman :) The overall scoreboard came out as follows: 1st - Callum Laddiman: 92 2nd - Innis Carson: 91 2nd - Jon O'Neill: 91 2nd - Mrs. Laddiman: 91 5th - Ben Hunter: 88.5 6th -...

Joseph Bolas

Jimmy wrote:An hour late....hopefully that won't matter

Have you sent me an email? because my inbox has no new messages.

Edit: Okay now I have got it.

Joseph Bolas

Jono's Letters Attack records (154 speed, 159 normal) have stood since the middle of September. Going by the records score list, there is a Letters Attack under "Standard" and "Speed", but is it not possible to also include a Goatdown Letters Attack score, a Hypercountdown Lette...

Joseph Bolas

Jono's Letters Attack records (154 speed, 159 normal) have stood since the middle of September. Going by the records score list, there is a Letters Attack under "Standard" and "Speed", but is it not possible to also include a Goatdown Letters Attack a Hypercountdown Letters Atta...

Joseph Bolas

I think this is the closest I have got to a max game

Joseph Bolas

I got close to equalling Jono's score. I blame Round 14 for it

Joseph Bolas

HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY FRANK RODOLF

Joseph Bolas

How about a De-stemmer? You type in a word (for example MOUSETRAP) and it shows you the stems you can use to make it (APTEROUS+M). How about an extension on the Stemmer, where you enter your letters (say for example BOLAS :P) and you can pick the word length (in this case it would be 6, 7, 8 or 9),...

Joseph Bolas

I don't really see the need to learn the meanings to be honest. I'm sure there's been a few times when the contestants have wowed Des with some amazing spots and he has asked them what the word means, but most of the time the contestants don't know the meaning of the word (it was how "The Conor...

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:YES!!!

Nice spot there with JALAPENOS. Well done Kai.

Joseph Bolas

How about items for when you come up with a 9-letter word and also a 12-letter word (excluding the Unlimited format).

Joseph Bolas

Also Crazy Taxi 3 won't actually play on a 360. Ignore what Racoon Boy says about Uno though, it's quick and harmless fun online, especially if you have an xbox webcam. Slightly less fun when people start flashing their balls at you though. Damn, I thought Crazy Taxi 3 would've been playable. Oh we...

Joseph Bolas

Is anybody else getting a blank table for the duel results? I've had this problem for the last two days (displaying results for 24th and 25th). Round summary table appears ok, as does the month's standings. Yeah. You can view the Round Summary for the duel, but you can't view the individual games y...

Joseph Bolas

Here is the second installment 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 8 possi...

Joseph Bolas

Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:thanks joseph

Happy to help

Joseph Bolas

Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:who came first and last in aptobash?

All the results of the Aptobash can be found here

Joseph Bolas

By logging in while leaving the username and password fields blank, I seem to have been logged in as a blank user with no name. User #1997 in fact. Is this a bug? Was that you?. I saw someone sign in but there was no name next to them just [600?]. Also I assume you typed something as a colon appear...

Joseph Bolas

For mine I can up with: HO PLEAS JOBS, but then I ain't a ho

Joseph Bolas

Mirror's Edge is definitely a good game, albeit short and the combat is hideous- fortunately, it only plays a small part of the game, and there are usually clever ways of avoiding it. Sonic Unleashed... well, it's certainly better than the abortion that was the first Sonic game on the 360, but it's...

Joseph Bolas

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Joseph Bolas

Portal: Still Alive Okay, you get to live another year. :D There's someone on YouTube called Zach aka funny1allways and he does a playthough of Portal and it's just so funny. Another game that looks good is Mirror's Edge and I would also probably get Sonic Unleashed as it's different to the Wii ver...

Joseph Bolas

ABOLISHES, ABSOLUTES, BASELOADS, BESTOWALS, BONSELLAS, BRESAOLAS, KILOBASES, MESOBLAST, OBSTACLES, SALTBOXES and SOCIABLES :D Is there a link to those words? Took me a while to figure it out too. It's all the 9s you can make from BOLASES. I know, I am sad :lol: For 8's you could have ABSOLVES, BONS...

Joseph Bolas

Don't do that, I appreciate the recommendations :) Fair enough, top ten xbla games coming up- Banjo-Kazooie Castlevania:SOTN Carcassonne Marble Blast Ultra Pac-Man CE SWoS Sonic 2 Space Giraffe Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Remix Super Puzzle Fighter 2 HD :) I saw Marble Blast Ultra on YouTube and I...

Joseph Bolas

Jason Larsen wrote:Thank you, Kirk!

I didn't realize you would have to pass an audition. I guess it's not enough to just impress all the staff and try to give them a lot of good things in return.

Yeah. In fact I even posted my audition (from 2003) in here back in March

Joseph Bolas

I like the redesign of the website. Nicely done Charlie and Jono

Joseph Bolas

As for my top ten games... Fallout 3 Oblivion Rock Band 2 Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts Crackdown Orange Box Bioshock PGR4 GTA4 (overrated IMO, nowhere near as good as san andreas) Call of Duty 5 Out of that list, I would probably only buy GTA4 :D. Given you have the universally dreadful Fuzion Fr...

Joseph Bolas

Ben Wilson wrote:As for my top ten games...

Fallout 3
Oblivion
Rock Band 2
Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts
Crackdown
Orange Box
Bioshock
PGR4
GTA4 (overrated IMO, nowhere near as good as san andreas)
Call of Duty 5

Out of that list, I would probably only buy GTA4

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Joseph Bolas

In all seriousness though, yes I do own a 360, have done since launch and not regretted it. Xbox Live Arcade is vastly superior to Playstation Network and WiiWare/Virtual Console in terms of the quantity and quality of downloadable games, and now they're started adding Xbox Community games too (JB,...

Joseph Bolas

Matthew Green wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:Merry Christmas to everyone on the forum (except weirdos, nerds and geeks)!
But this is a Countdown forum, surely we're all nerds and geeks?

I myself, would probably be more weird than nerdy or geeky

, not sure about others though

Joseph Bolas

After starting a topic on the Wii, I am staring a topic on the XBOX 360, as I plan to own one after Christmas and am I wondering if there is anyone here who owns an XBOX 360?

Joseph Bolas

Very happy to get BALDRIC yesterday, after spending what felt like an eternity between going for that or sticking a K on the end. I'm glad I stuck. If only my conundruming was better. I am with you on this :). I have only come across the word a few times before, so I was pleased to find it was the ...

Joseph Bolas

Well worthy of note, good stuff. As a CSW-to-ODE convert, you'd probably benefit from spending some time studying -SOL words (ARIDISOL, VERTISOL, etc) on which, unusually, the ODE is considerably more permissive than CSW. I knew PODSOL and GIRASOL from scrabble, but that's about it. :) Cheers. Inca...

Joseph Bolas

stupatrick wrote:Stuart Patrick here, loving the apterous programme so glad i managed to find it.

Welcome to the forum Stuart

Joseph Bolas

This was my game against the eventual winner Paul in the Aptobash tournament last night where it came down to a crucial conundrum

Joseph Bolas

ABOLISHES, ABSOLUTES, BASELOADS, BESTOWALS, BONSELLAS, BRESAOLAS, KILOBASES, MESOBLAST, OBSTACLES, SALTBOXES and SOCIABLES

Joseph Bolas

John Bosley wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:Mr. Bosley, you must not be that young!
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...but why do you ask or are you really being just a tad humorous?

Jason normally askes people their ages, if, for example, they haven't mentioned it in their introduction post in the Welcome thread

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Joseph Bolas

I came 5th in the end, which is way better that I thought I would do

. Thank you to my opponents and well done to Charlie for organising an awesome game

Joseph Bolas

I don't know about anyone else but that was good fun indeed. Well done to Charlie for setting it up

Joseph Bolas

Kai Laddiman wrote:I am miles clear at the top going into the last game.

After having to play Kirk again, I am out of the running, but I have done alot better than I originally expected

Joseph Bolas

After 6 rounds, Kirk has finally ended Joseph Bolas's winning streak and taken the top spot. Both of them, and Jono, lead the pack with 5 wins. Paul has the top spread (+171) but has only 4 wins. I was expecting this from Kirk, but it was a tough game to be honest as Kirk wasn't able to wow me with...

Joseph Bolas

I know its only been 4 matches so far, but I am seriously enjoying this. I am glad I decided to take part in this event

Joseph Bolas

Well I enjoyed the games I played, not sure if it has much staying power though, a few maxes were already repeated after 3 games. I've noticed that REASSESSES has come up quite a few times. It's a good format, but the words you learn here won't really appear in normal games, so we should have Unlim...

Joseph Bolas

Merry Christmas to all the team at Countdown

Joseph Bolas

Like its been pointed out in another thread, when playing Unlimted, you can only see the vowel box before maximising the screen. Would it be possible to change the boxes from "request vowel" and " request consonant" to just "vowel" and "consonant" (maybe capit...

Joseph Bolas

It's a different ball game of memory. If you have ASNI in a selection, then ASSASSINS may be one of the best words to go for. I'm sure someone can produce a list of high probability 4 letters (e.g. AESR) and the longest word that can be made from these such as ARSES or ARREARS. I just had a round t...

Joseph Bolas

Oliver Garner wrote:Definitely not playing unlimited again http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16032

It gets harder when you play Waldorf

I am a bit pissed off about round 4

, I should've got the max

(it probably only applies to me in this forum too anyway )

Joseph Bolas

Do people still get the weird metal-look interface sometimes? I think I fixed this about a week ago but it's hard to tell because I never experienced it myself. If you mean that thing I posted a while back, where if you refresh the page after signing in, you get a different layout, then yes that st...

Joseph Bolas

Yes ma'am! Sorry Jason, but I'm not quite sure what planet you're on with this! In one of your above posts, Mrs Kai, you said I forgot to say "Thank you" :!: Now this was for Corby I believe, but from the looks of it Jason thought you meant him (as you said this after his post), so he rep...

Joseph Bolas

There was a table that was on the Countdown Corral site, that focused on words/anagrams that were never the maximum, because when you picked a 3rd vowel, any of them, would make an allowable 8 letter word. ARSINGS, BATTERS, BLASTER, CANTERS, DEPARTS, GINNERS, PINTERS, RANDITS, RESTERS, RIDNESS, SPOR...

Joseph Bolas

Ian Volante wrote:This one I do rather like, although it put me off the solution:

For me, one of the best conundrums I've had was BOLASBREW

Joseph Bolas

Jay S wrote:Love the new set, never really did take to those purple stripes. Can't wait for January 12th

It's a long time to wait though

Joseph Bolas

Ian Volante wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:I swear to FSM that today's pair of conundrums were a coincidence...
Yes, I was amused at their coincidence!

I knew what the first one began with, but I didn't get it

, but I did get the second one

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Joseph Bolas

Lee Simmonds wrote:Thanks Joseph That was an interesting game. Clearly alot of us had the same idea to not think too much about finding the more obscure words.

To be honest, I don't know if 10 words was too many per round. I might go down to 8 words per round next time, to make it a bit harder

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Joseph Bolas

Please note that despite my efforts with Photoshop, the set does look a bit dark due to the poor quality of my camera; the actual set is just as well-lit as the old one in real life and on television. I saw these on Facebook and I thought the set looked a bit dark. I quite like the picture you took...

Joseph Bolas

Woah

I hadn't seen the improvement on the numbers game, until I did the duel and to be honest the redesign distracted me so I declared nothing on the numbers

Joseph Bolas

You could also have a trophy for gaming milestones (eg one for every say 500 games you play).

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