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Craig Beevers

I'm right-handed but often use my left hand with keys to lock/unlock stuff. I can throw 20-30 yards flat with my left arm, so not too bad - that compares to a very strong throw with my right arm though so isn't very good relatively speaking.

Craig Beevers

Gotta love Liverpool fans, next they'll be telling us Steven Gerrard really was innocent. Anyone with an accent like that should just be sentenced without trial really.

Craig Beevers

I think I'd have to go for Liverpool, as long as Torres stays fit and Benitez doesn't get stupid with squad rotation. Err yea. So basically you've gone for a team that would need two precision meteorite strikes to stand a realistic chance and then included two provisos, one involving another long s...

Craig Beevers

Definite shithole. Looks half-decent at night, horrific during the day. I remember walking around the area when I was filming for Countdown. Total nightmare trying to find a half-decent shop, just a never-ending array of oversized crappy corner shops. One of the supermarket chains in the centre of t...

Craig Beevers

ING is a strong leave (+7.14), but you have to bear in mind the board. Often a 7 letter -ING bonus won't fit anywhere on the board which would negate a lot of the usefulness, alternatively if the board is wide open it would be worth a little more. Just out of interest - I assume you would advise ag...

Craig Beevers

ING is a strong leave (+7.14), but you have to bear in mind the board. Often a 7 letter -ING bonus won't fit anywhere on the board which would negate a lot of the usefulness, alternatively if the board is wide open it would be worth a little more.

Craig Beevers

That's the thing with Quackle, it quantifies how good those leaves are so you are in a better position to know whether it's worth sacrificing x points to keep something.

Craig Beevers

Well I was 2nd (1st if you ignore Nigel, who's the world champ from NZ), dropped 5 points lately. Also dropped from 11th globally to wherever I am now. The odd thing was I'd lost my last 6 games when I'd moved up to 196 ABSP (British) rating and 2033 international rating in the first place. Must be ...

Craig Beevers

Just out of interest, and to save me googling it, (as someone who likes to send other people off to do the donkey work for her) what would be considered to be a respectable score in Scrabble? Depends on the opponent. A better measure is move average as that's generally independent of your opponent....

Craig Beevers

Just out of interest, and to save me googling it, (as someone who likes to send other people off to do the donkey work for her) what would be considered to be a respectable score in Scrabble? Depends on the opponent. A better measure is move average as that's generally independent of your opponent....

Craig Beevers

If you really want to get a feel for Scrabble I'd highly recommend Quackle http://people.csail.mit.edu/jasonkb/quackle/ You have to be fairly masochistic to want to play it - Quackle will essentially play like a world champion+ so will regularly annihilate most people. But seeing how it evaluates mo...

Craig Beevers

Horse racing by a distance. It only survives because of gambling. Total shite and virtually no skill differential.

Craig Beevers

And in the first program the guy who knew more about SInatra than the Entertainment expert was apparently penalised for his presumption: Brandreth didn't say he was wrong, just that they hadn't been able to confirm it. That is really no way to run a railway! But proving something is wrong is pretty...

Craig Beevers

A Hungarian figure skater.

Craig Beevers

Yea some of the questions are clearly shite. I'm thinking in particular of the odd one out questions which nearly always require some background knowledge and you can always argue different methods of picking the odd one out.

Craig Beevers

James Robinson wrote:How is that a spoiler! It was on yesterday!

A lot of people will watch it on iplayer, or at least would have.

Craig Beevers

You would get a rough feel pretty quickly just by playing and seeing the evaluations from generate choices.

Craig Beevers

Cate basically had 7 very easy ones and a mildly tricky one (NAVIGABLE - false ING but with those letters there's not many plausible combinations), so I'm voted for her. Kirk's probably had the toughest run there, followed by Charlie. Although it does depend on how they were scrambled.

Craig Beevers

Would be very tempting to change the W. ADEIRT gives bonuses from lots of possible draws, and by going second you give yourself more tiles to play through, boasting your chance of an 8. But you'd have to be quite confident to resist WAITED for 28. Fishing like that may always go wrong, and it gives...

Craig Beevers

I like the fact that, superficially, we state we are agreeing with each other yet cling on to our initial points. I really don't think, however considered, your answer really addresses what Jack asked at the start of this thread. I don't care whether we're agreeing with each other, but I did give a...

Craig Beevers

Nice, haven't been keeping track of Countdown lately.

I think we'll see a lot of 900s in the future. So chances are the record won't last long, but who knows.

Craig Beevers

Michael Wallace wrote:Edit: (and not just to try and attract the ladiez)

That reminds me, I must play LAYDEEZ in Scrabble one of these days, even if it's for like <20 points using a blank.

Craig Beevers

Next thread: 'which should be the next format added'? :) A scoring method rather than a format, but please include the Scrabble idea that someone suggested (tougher letters give more points). It might have to be tinkered with but I'd be interested to see if it has much initial support. Hmm I think ...

Craig Beevers

Nah it's a gameshow for gullible halfwits. It taps into the religious/superstitious/spiritual sort of person that can't find enough faith healing/psychic bullshit on TV. It then mixes in some trash reality show/'celebrity' gossip magazine elements. Anyone with even the vaguest glimmer of intelligenc...

Craig Beevers

Seem to remember seeing PITHOI looking at a linked Apterous game in the last couple of days.

Craig Beevers

The shortlist for the TV Quick Awards (Best Gameshow) were announced today. No Countdown. Gutted. Will put my party frock back into storage... All Star Family Fortunes ITV1 Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night C4 Deal Or No Deal C4 Total Wipeout BBC1 But thanks to everyone who did vote for us. Love you all xx ...

Craig Beevers

Err yea my vocab is rubbish, or was when I went on Countdown. I've picked up a lot of word meanings now, some because I struggled with recalling the word properly so the extra information helps get it right but mostly as Zyzzyva has brief definitions for CSW (8 letter words and under) and you inevit...

Craig Beevers

Mine's on my own website.

http://craigbeevers.me.uk/

Just click on Countdown etc. Don't mind if it's copied across to that experiences page.

Craig Beevers

It's in dozens of dictionaries, gets plenty of hits on Google and even I've heard of it. I notice you've answered neither of Charlie's questions... It's in neither Collins nor ODE - could you perhaps name a dozen or so of these dozens of dictionaries that it's apparently in? Dozens of the more popu...

Craig Beevers

Summate I think should be in. Came up on Apterous the other day. What would it mean that "sum" doesn't? Have you ever used it in a sentence? It's in dozens of dictionaries, gets plenty of hits on Google and even I've heard of it. Or are you just angling for Thesaurus Project so you can ta...

Craig Beevers

I'm guessing the crew were a bit sleepy by the time this was filmed.

Anyway fairly unremarkable one-sided game otherwise.

Craig Beevers

Thought he said DOZIEST there? Which wasn't in the selection

Craig Beevers

Summate I think should be in. Came up on Apterous the other day.

Craig Beevers

Err SUMMATE surely?

My god ODE is shite.

Craig Beevers

Yea ZEMINDAR for round 2 is a nice one, well other than it being a tax collector in India.

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One particularly ridiculous omission is SHITTER. It isn't in CSW either. I'd have expected it to be allowed as a 1-syllable adjective in ODE.

Craig Beevers

Virtually every game I watch has 9s in it (conundrum not included). Just got back from my walk out and straight off OUTSIDERS comes out. The Countdown Gods hate me. You'll have to give me some kind of context Craig - were 9s much harder to come by in your days? I only had three 9s come up in my 11 ...

Craig Beevers

Virtually every game I watch has 9s in it (conundrum not included). Just got back from my walk out and straight off OUTSIDERS comes out. The Countdown Gods hate me.

Craig Beevers

Well you get a mix I think. Although I do wish they would introduce a sniper element to pick off people who fanny about pointlessly when they've clearly got the right answer and thinking about it longer isn't going to help.

Craig Beevers

Needs a starting point otherwise it's just becomes a massive trial and error guessing game.

Things like actually giving the common theme, using more awkward letters to reduce the number of potential combinations could make it work.

Craig Beevers

This show really fascinates me. The build up to the end game is quite slow but once there it's amazing. Yesterday there were three women sharing £22k or so, who all wanted the largest slice. At least 2 of the 3 declared that they were "happy to leave with nothing". While they may have bee...

Craig Beevers

My rating currently stands at 923; however, at the end of a game I just played, I was told that I'd gained 600 ratings points taking my total to 2033. Was unsure which thread to post this in, as I don't know if it's a bug or just something I didn't understand. That'll be because you played a differ...

Craig Beevers

Quite liking the duel results (touchundrum attack) from yesterday...

Craig Beevers

Variant page isn't working. Also the little goatblind image never seems to load.

Craig Beevers

Was surprised how well I did in the duel, although a lot of them had Q/J type letters so that helps a lot. Just makes it into a regular goatundrum really. Bots need some serious balancing though, I nearly got beaten by Prune in a letters attack but they were still absolutely useless in the conundrum...

Craig Beevers

When I was doing a conundrum attack with CSW a couple of times a 10 letter scramble came up (the answer was still 9 letters). The conundrums also have multiple answers, although I'm not bothered about that.

Craig Beevers

All the finalists were great to talk to and great people. Cate Henderson kind of lost it in the free bar after the final though and she went on a rant about how she hated mobile phones and people who use them. Then she got even angrier and said she can't stand computers and then accused me of cheat...

Craig Beevers

Michael Wallace wrote:
Darren Carter wrote:I pressed my virtual buzzer and declared GRAINVORE - close but no cigar.
I was thinking OVERGRAIN myself, which sounded almost plausible to me.

OVERGRAIN would be allowed if you were playing Scrabble. Utterly useless on Countdown though.

Craig Beevers

I think I got it in the audience but I've forgotten what the scramble/answer was so can't be sure. The answer was GRANIVORE, but if you need the scramble as well someone else will have to provide that. Oh yea. Didn't think it was too tricky at the time (the -ING was always going to be a bluff for a...

Craig Beevers

Congrats to both players! Well done on getting to the final Jimmy, you were a great contestant, and a nice guy too. The same goes for Kirk as well- a century was a fitting way to end, and some of the words in the final were awesome spots. Nounal for example sticks clearly in my mind. It's a shame y...

Craig Beevers

Here's my load of photos from the afternoon of filming (covers the final & 2 semis)

http://craigbeevers.me.uk/countdownphotos.html

Click on the thumbnails etc. for the full size photos (which are 3888x2592, you'll probably need to click again on the photo to zoom in).

Craig Beevers

Yea sure.

Craig Beevers

Glad PROPANOLS is okay, didn't hold out much hope for that one.

Craig Beevers

I've uploaded better quality, full size versions of my photographs in readiness for tomorrow. Same place as before: http://craigbeevers.me.uk/countdownphotos.html I've tried to balance the colours better so everyone looks less orange... obviously people have different monitors but hopefully it looks...

Craig Beevers

This is what I typed out all that time ago when I was preparing: 150 = 50/25 * 75 multiplier of 2 75/25 * 50 multiplier of 3 200 = 50/25 * 100 multiplier of 2 100/25 * 50 multiplier of 4 250 = 100 + 75 + 50 + 25 75/25 * 50 + 100 multiplier of 3 50/25 * 75 + 100 multiplier of 2 275 = 50/25 * 100 + 75...

Craig Beevers

The team on first on Tuesday didn't even make it through round 1...

The first question they got was which of these is a red admiral. The bloke was positive it was the picture of a small tortoiseshell and they smugly hit the centre button. They then managed to go downhill from there.

Craig Beevers

My god the team on first today are epic.

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=75762

Bots + conundrum attack = painful

Craig Beevers

Yea the series are way better than the films. Films are too random, haven't bothered watching any of them again whereas I've seen all the normal episodes lots of times.

Craig Beevers

Oh hang on - do people appear on more than one show? Sometimes, if a team goes all the way they probably take up about 1 and 1/2 shows. They could do shit also and just happen to be on the last 10 minutes of one show and the first 10 of another. So basically what I'm saying is they don't just have ...

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