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Kirk Bevins

If a target of 101 was unattainable and there was a 100 in the selection the 100 could count as a single number "solution". Whether such a numbers game exists is unclear, I just spent a few minutes trying to make one and was unsuccessful. Well if we have a 100 in the selection and 101 to ...

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Damian E wrote:
Why don't we have a small compeitition?

Pick a random number from 100 (or 101) to 999, and see who's comes out first, starting from tomorrow's show. I'll donate a good Countdown prize to the winner.

I'll take a guess at 774.

Haha.

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Martin Gardner wrote:Can someone tell me the score as I can't see it, and I will put it on the wiki.

104-64 to Ben. Can you somehow link it - I don't know how.

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Wow - relentless.

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In round 6 you have words that aren't in the selection. Did you mean the last letter was an M rather than a U (I didn't think there should be 5 vowels!) Well spotted. I normally glance through at the end to check for the warnings but I must've skipped over this one. Maybe some colour coding needed....

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Yes I was going to say Kirk - was this Rich's first / almost first ever game on Apterous? Bit cruel if that's the case - though looking at previous messages, I guess he did volunteer to play on Apterous. Should have taken Charlie's advice, Rich :) Still, good stuff Kirk, kids bugging you about Coun...

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How do we link games from the countdown wiki COGST page to these reviews? I see there are only two links from games played.

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In round 6 you have words that aren't in the selection. Did you mean the last letter was an M rather than a U (I didn't think there should be 5 vowels!)

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Yeah, was good to read again. Btw, interesting to see 15 as one of the numbers in round 10

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I notice my name is not in capitalised like everyone elses, good to see I'm not as important. Oh, and it turns out kids from my school typed Bevins maths into google and up came Countdown stuff, including embarrassing quotes on the countdownwiki. All week I've had kids singing the Countdown theme t...

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This is a very odd score, I can only think that Richard with his total inexperience on Apterous made a meal of it, he usually scores a lot better than that. I think he'll reply and explain more but I think he did have 548 but mistyped and did have UNFIRED in one round but didn't type it in quick en...

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Not a bug as such, more an inadvertent omission by the looks of it. I just had a game of Goatdown with Matt, and in one round he'd picked 2 vowels and 6 consonants - but wasn't forced to pick a vowel as the final letter. That's been discussed before. It's OK. I chose 6 vowels against Ben Pugh in Go...

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jimbentley wrote:Oh yeah. I feel a bit daft now.

Cheers, Kirk!

Don't feel daft - it wasn't obvious.

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jimbentley wrote:I'm stuck in two games against bots at the moment - when I resume, all I can choose is vowels, there's no "consonants" button, so the round can't start. Strange, as all was working fine an hour ago.

Try extending the window and the consonant box should appear.

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1909

Enjoy.

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I was happy today, 117/118 scored with 14/15 maxes. I missed LOVELORN to stop me from getting that elusive max.

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Jono's quickest at the conundrum? I don't think so.

http://www.apterous.org/statsummary.php

Also, yet again I bottled the perfect game - last letters round. I was almost home and dry with a numbers and conundrum to go.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1880

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Jason Larsen wrote:No. LEFT.

There is no L or E or F or T in round 4. I've never seen a contestant imagine four letters in a round before!

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Dave, Ian Fearon is one of those special contestants on Countdown. That's why I made two posts about him. And that's brilliant about the difference between online and real-life communication! If you want, I can send you a link that explains why I have so much trouble communicating with some of you....

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Charlie Reams wrote:and thanks Kirk for making that possible.

And thanks to you for your awesome recap writer - once you've done it a couple of times, it's so easy to use and you don't need to type all OT words out. It's awesome.

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Group stage game played on the evening of Friday 19th September 2008. C1: Challenger Julian Fell. C2: Challenger Steven Briers. DC: Kirk Bevins and Mr Solver. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: L Y R A E I J X F R02: M D D D U I A A O R03: R O E G G S U E A R04: P E E E S R N N ...

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I notice my name is not in capitalised like everyone elses, good to see I'm not as important. Oh, and it turns out kids from my school typed Bevins maths into google and up came Countdown stuff, including embarrassing quotes on the countdownwiki. All week I've had kids singing the Countdown theme t...

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I notice my name is not in capitalised like everyone elses, good to see I'm not as important. Oh, and it turns out kids from my school typed Bevins maths into google and up came Countdown stuff, including embarrassing quotes on the countdownwiki. All week I've had kids singing the Countdown theme tu...

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Never mind Kirk, you'll get there, obsession does eventually pay off. ONEIRIC suddenly seems to be popping up everywhere, I hadn't heard of it last week. I'm getting there slowly. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1747 Another 14 max game. I bottled it in the very last letters round when I ...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:spotting WOODSMEN impressed me, despite declaring the wrong length.
Many other women have spotted that my manswood is the wrong length

Awww - but what about the girth?

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You're on Kirk.Apterous is fine by me, I haven't played on it yet but I guess there's got to be a first time! I admire your adventurous spirit, but you really don't want your first time to be a tournament game - the numbers and conundrum take a little getting used to. I would definitely recommend l...

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I'm playing Karen on Friday evening at 8pm (as I'm at school on weekdays during the day). I've pencilled in Saturday for 4pm when I'll give you a game. On apterous or msn? I'm happy for apterous. Wow - I meant Julie. I'm always tired at the moment, and I couldn't be bothered finding the link to the...

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Very impressive, and a quick run through a solver shows that there's no easier method, although one alternative is: (10+8)x6 - 9 = 99. 99x9 - 25 = 866. I had: (25-9) x 6 = 96 96 x 9 = 864 864 + 10 - 8 = 866 Not within the time, though, I spent most of that pointlessly arsing around trying to make 3...

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Julie T - when are you available for gaming? Mr Priest is on a vacation for a few days so that just leaves you in our group whom I could play against. I'm generally busy throughout the week Hi, Kirk, Sorry. I've just had a reminder email from Martin. I didn't realise COGST had started! :o Evenings ...

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Jon Corby wrote:
Mind you, the whole "snails on face" thing is actually a cover story for when her husband came home just after I'd been round, and asked what the viscose translucent streaks all over her face were

Haha, brilliant.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:SONOGRAM

Nice one. I got a 14/15 today. The only round I didn't max was that one where I had MAROONS and missed SONOGRAM, the solitary eight. Grrr so close.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Excellent I'll make sure to have a box of tissues

A BOX?! Bloody hell.

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Not really a message of brag but I nearly got a 100% game again - thought I was gonna get it. I had round 5's numbers game just clicked 50x and did a Karen --- I needed to do like 9+5-4 so that was game over for that (403x2). Maxed all the letters and I said I'd be annoyed if I got a max for my firs...

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Charlie Reams wrote:A lot of things have changed since July! They now live here: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/ratings

Wow - Mr Corby 12th and me 10th? We should have swapped by now.

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Played Jono at 5 second Countdown a minute ago and I typed in my word, COPIERS and declared it and then it says "declare your word" and nothing moves on. Also, chat doesn't work a lot of the time so I have to close my browser completely before logging back in for it to work. Not sure why. ...

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Jason Larsen wrote:She must be one very sweet, older lady, Howard!

Why must she?

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Julie T wrote: but I'd prefer a more human referee for a tournament.

Really? A human referee may miss words when checking in a dictionary - a computer won't.

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Julie T - when are you available for gaming? Mr Priest is on a vacation for a few days so that just leaves you in our group whom I could play against. I'm generally busy throughout the week Hi, Kirk, Sorry. I've just had a reminder email from Martin. I didn't realise COGST had started! :o Evenings ...

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Ben Pugh wrote: They start this May. I'm not good as you think, it just seems I've played better than I normally do in my games against you.

I don't believe that for one minute. GUAIAC says it all.

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Howard Somerset wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:I have the new ODE2r ...
Quick question. Is the new ODE2r different from the ODE2r? If it is, then I can see a lot of people, including me, becoming very confused.

I never saw you as a pedant, Howard. I try and be helpful and at least twice on this thread I've had comments against the help.

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Ben Pugh wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Ben Pugh wrote:Second highest score, though still 10 behind Kirk's record.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1325
Ben, when are you going to apply to go on the show?
After my A-Levels.

When are they? I'll make sure anyone I know going on the show stays clear!

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New version here. Now with 0.1% fewer mistakes! Could someone with the current dictionary double-check FERREL, though? Even though I'm 99.99999% certain that Julian will be right, it could still be lurking under the entry for FERRULE, the ODE does funny stuff like that sometimes. I have the new ODE...

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dungarees and underages in round 13 UNDERAGES isn't in (OVERAGES is though). UNGREASED and DUNGAREES is the double 9 - surprised DC missed it. INCITER as an equaller round 1 (although I prefer Charlie's ONEIRIC). I laughed on round 12 because all I could find was ANUSES and then Des said "it's...

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Not really a bug as such but when there are more than one conundrum to be solved, the "max" column shouldn't go up by 10 every time, e.g. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1259 If we had say 20 conundrums going unsolved, you could have a max of like over 300 which just shouldn't ha...

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Dan Peake wrote:
I'm sure if you're IQ is greater than 70

Hmmmm....

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Ben Pugh wrote:I was playing Paul Howe earlier on Apterous and had GIRLIEST disallowed (not that it affected the outcome), is it really not in the OED?

It's not in the ODE2r, surprising in my opinion. Girly (or girlie) is specified thought but with no derivatives.

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It's about balancing things out. It's raised a few eyebrows on this forum, but not 1 viewer has queried it, but i think had we allowed, we'd have had a mob weilding burning tyres outside the door. I'm not surprised viewers haven't mobbed you with letters as most people would think the word is bizar...

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CAPONIER as an equaller. POETISES in round 1 as a beater. APOCRINE or PROCAINE as equallers in round 2. REGALIST/GLARIEST as equallers in round 4. DOESKIN as a nice equaller in round 6. GASOHOL as a nice equaller in round 7. CELESTAS/ALECOSTS as DC beaters in round 9. Mind you, despite all that, I ...

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Julian Fell wrote:
Kirk's confusing things quite a bit!

Sorry - maybe I shouldn't add to this thread then as I evidently haven't got the latest version of Countmax. Where do I get it?

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Julie T - when are you available for gaming? Mr Priest is on a vacation for a few days so that just leaves you in our group whom I could play against. I'm generally busy throughout the week

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PeterMabey wrote:CORDOVAN

Have you been on the show, Peter because that's awesome.

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What I really really really do not understand is how Susie disallowed FUNNEST. FUN is a single syllable adjective. She even said later the same show that any single syllable adjective can have ER or EST put on them and they don't have to specified (when the challenger got LITHER). How can she be so ...

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I've just got the highest score so far on apterous - I didn't play great - round 2 in particular was a particular embarrassment - and the score could have been even higher (a la Julian on the show) with a tough conundrum that I failed to spot but my dad did. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game...

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Julian Fell wrote: Edit to say - 3 women taking part in a Countdown online competition? Must be a record surely?

Word has spread about the growing number of fit young men taking part.

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I got the first numbers game a similar way to Charlie (25+5)/10 and had HIDALGO as a beater in rd 11 but aside from that I had some shocking misses GOVERNS, RARENESS, COOLANT etc I got 804 just out of time using the 67x12 method as 804 was a target on my show and the only way to go was 67x12. I had...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:A possible (and quick) solution to this might be to sort the buttons in descending order of length
IAWTP.

I am William Tunsted-Pedoe? Nice one!

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It's fine today, it just says no game details.

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Not really a bug as such but on the 4th high scoring game down, I clicked on it to read the recap and it said only generous types can read it. I've donated - does that not make me generous?

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Equaller in round 1 with NOCTUID. I missed UNTANGLE and so then trailed to Debbi by 1 point throughout the entire show pretty much until she missed MOATING/ANTILOG. Oh, I also missed PERVASION because I'm rubbish - I had AVERSION. Quality game today, well played Debbi.

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Jason Larsen wrote:It's because I'm just curious to know the process of a Countdown taping from beginning to end, Joseph.

Buy the fabulous book called "Spreading the Word" which would satisfy those needs, Jason.

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