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Daniel O'Dowd

ESOTERIC in the CORSETED round

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Kieran Child wrote:there is mate in one in my third puzzle with Qb8#, but that doesn't meet the stip.

That's as maybe, but as David points out, a puzzle should never have more than one solution, or it is cooked.

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I know there are a few of us here partial to battles of the 64 squares, so it made sense to have a thread for such discussion, or perhaps to arrange games? I've played Phil Makepeace, who has an ELO rating and is strong enough to play in the British Championship :shock: But my grade of 129 is far fr...

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Thanks Ian and Sue for the welcome. I'm not sure Sue, if I wear better shirts than Ian but I undoubtedly wear worse trousers! For an avatar I've dug out a photograph of me at a chess tournament in Swansea. If you are very keen sighted that's grandmaster John Nunn above my hair in the middle. The Co...

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If anyone's up in Scotland this month, it might be worth showing off to some comedians. Define "up" in Scotland. Some of us are here. So what? You're still up in Scotland. You simply have the advantage (arguably) of not having to travel to get there. Had Martin said, "If anyone's goi...

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Well I've gone and set up an ISC account. I'm rubbish, and will probably remain so for a very long time, but if anyone else uses it and fancies a game, I'm Coatimundi on there. I'm worse, I'll play you when i figure out how to. It's a bit fiddly, but this is a rough guide:- Type "f coatimundi&...

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(Eric Cantona, Julius Caesar Germanicus, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Empress Queen Victoria, Bob Dylan, Patti LaBelle, Dermot O'Leary, Ruslana, and many more.

I think I win xD)

Oh wait, I didn't read it properly lmao.

Tim Bridges, apparently, a British racing driver.

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If I knew when it was I could be specific as to whether I could enter.

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Keeping EIT isn't much better than keeping D. Vowel heaviness is the main reason. You want to generally keep 1 more consonant than vowel. ERT would be a far stronger than EIT, EIRT would be stronger still because you're closer to a bonus and reduce the random element which is enough to compensate f...

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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...

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It got me in the end! Of the choices; Pepsi goes best for me with savoury things, Coke with sweeter foods. Of course, bottled tastes far different from individual cans, but that's too much of a distinction to need to elaborate on really. Pepsi Max, I tried it when I was 9, I hated it, and I still d...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:Fantastic is the new fabulous.
Excellent.

So excellent it makes me want to tent my non 104 yr old fingers with delight.

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I'm going to have to withdraw. I've been put on a shift at work.

-Makes the Sideshow Bob rakes noise, several times.-

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Shurely midnight tonight would be 11/7/09 12:00 am? 12 midnight not 12am :) 12 midnight IS 12am. Not it's not! AM stands for ante meridien, and midnight is neither ante nor post. The same goes for midday. Convention of recent times has been to use 12am/pm, but that doesn't make it right. Gah this w...

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Ian Volante wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:Shurely midnight tonight would be 11/7/09 12:00 am?
12 midnight not 12am

12 midnight IS 12am.

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The first few of these were very interesting, telling prospective contestants what it's really like to be on Countdown, but they do get a bit samey. Offhand, the only one I remember at all was Stewart Holden's, with a lot of detail about his preparation and his opinion of Richard Whiteley. I'd be f...

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Agh, I just lost out playing along! Saw ENCORED, MASTODON, then DEPLANE in r9 but I was going for dharmas* in the ASHAMED rd, and horribly, DHARMA is valid only in the singular so I lost on conundrum, 94-96.

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I recall someone cracking the 'random' number generator algorithm in the early days of DOND, can't remember the details though. Yeah, basically they used to use Microsoft Excel's not-so-random random function and there was a pattern in the first 80 or so shows, but it wasn't exploited to its fulles...

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=85431

With two rounds to go I looked certain to better my 11 max record. But no!

All annoying misses, although still I feel some nice finds in the game.
The quest continues..

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Somehow, I picked up nine 6s in one game yesterday. No idea how, though. Couldn't see how the nine rounds in which I got 6s differed from those in which I didn't get a 6. The J and the Qs are a mystery too. Was it a Junior Numbers Attack, Howard? I thought I knew what a 6 meant (solving a 6 small g...

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Ian Dent wrote:"Apterous League Tests" for me.

Sadly, as it was such a damp squib in the end.

I'm touched you enjoyed it so much. I got nowhere near enough interest to enlarge it.

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No zero for me please =)

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I've already come 3rd in a duel and I do not want to see this erased because of a minimal variance in duels :lol: over thirty or so the quality in a player will see them rise above those who have had any higher maxes or relatively easier games. If there were a tie for points at the top, surely you c...

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Good post. I think your unlimited idea has very little mileage; it is simply a concrete variant of the selection, which is already partially possible in there are two of all small numbers, and in touch the potential for a cloned large. Touchdown's current operation is hit and miss. Having two of the...

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It must be lighting and something else; everybody looked ridiculously shiny today, especially Rachel. Though this didn't really affect her hotness. :P I'm guessing this is something that will have been ironed out as the shows recorded, and should change again to more normal proceedings once it was n...

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Am I right in remembering it's Innis on the show today? If so, that will be a great battle!

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Jon Corby wrote:Do you still play the 3rd match if someone's 2-0 up?

Andrew told me that you can if you want, but it won't be counted towards results.

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I think I'm going to enjoy touchdown...but the conundrums are going to be even tenser than usual!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=79086

Not by any means pantwettingly fantastic, but still...SCALP!

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First results! Very very close games all three, and the third in particular is of merit for its extremely interesting max words. O'Dowd 2-1 Meier: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=79032 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=79052 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=79063 ETA: Ques...

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Oil My Greasy Zebra.

WTFBBQ

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To quote Philip J. Fry, 'I'm good at videogames, and bad at everything else'. So in that spirit, I've rustled up a quick quiz on that subject. Simply identify which famous game series each series of initials/numbers refers to. Some are easier than others. 1. CS, TV, CJ, TC, VV 2. C, S, Z, T, V 3. G...

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(!4) What function is this? Looks pretty helpful. I think he means .4 recurring[uhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_decimal#Notationrl][/url] in which case 4!+4+(4/.4recurring)=37 I most certainly do not! :P Decimals aren't at all needed. Subfactorial is related to binomial expression, like 5C3...

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Howard Somerset wrote:As I see it, the missing ones are now:
37, 39, and 51 onwards.

4*(!4)+(4/4)=37

44-(!4)+4=39

44+(!4)-Sqr4=51

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You missed 18:

4!-Sq4-Sq4-Sq4=18

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4x4x4/4=16

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4!−(44/4)=13

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4+((4!+4)/4)=11

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Sorry; what is the significance of 'integer' brackets [] as opposed to ()?

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I've taken a few days away from Apterous and the forum so I'll be doing a new table tomorrow

I just got back from beating my gf at badminton (despite me only playing three times in nine months, and her going weekly

), so apologies for any suspense

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=73145

Huge lead, cut back, big lead again, pwned on relatively sedate numbers. Odd and enthralling!

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Probably this will stand for a long time personally. I just picked that straight away, and it came out as instantly.

Makes all the shitty games and long sloggy nights worthwhile.

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Division A: CHAMPION 1 Andrew Hulme (P12, W10, D1 Tiebreak 1, L1) 21.5 Points Scored 1278 RUNNER-UP 2 Neil Zussman (P11, W9, D1 Tiebreak 0, L1) 19.0 Points Scored 1088 3 Oliver Garner (P10, W7, D0, L3) 14.0 Points Scored 898 4 Aaron Higgs (P12, W5, D0, L7) 10.0 Points Scored 1001 5 Ian Volante (P10,...

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Bung me in the U1200. Nice to see chess-related Apterousness =)

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Long post warning. I ramble lol. I don't see how one can use percentage or margin of victory as a determinant for a bonus, unless you say in division n , all those scoring over x maxes in a game get a bonus, and because margin is again semidependent on max and ease of words. But it becomes obsolete ...

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News update: I am relegated

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=71590

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But if I do that I have to stop time, since it was only temporary in some universes. That means I have to never get any better! And I can't break the laws of physics just for you! Try Kirk, he might come up with some mindbending equation that solves both these problems

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Just a quick update: the last games I've received have seen Aaron impressively complete his twelve, with a total score of 10 points, Neil has temporarily taken the lead, but Andrew has a game in hand. I am in deep relegationy sheep. =/ Any more Div B games?

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Two types of ouch for the price of one here!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=71076

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=71096

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Oops lol I thought the Oed2r was bigger than the Shorter :lol

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Erm not really to my want of a full website, though if the majority would prefer this then I can certainly look into it

Atm I'm doing mostly daily updates, of course it's fair to say if we get huge interest this will be a bit underloaded by sheer volume of games. People, have your say!

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Presumably for the full thing you'd want to get a proper website set up which can compute tables and fixtures and the likes when results are entered. <bitter> Something I would have helped with if I hadn't been left out. Grr. </bitter> Mind you there's probably some tournament organising sites out ...

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Since I don't know the code, I can't do that lol. I think you're assuming I did that by means other than literally typing it in, which is incorrect. (I used the "code" button in the edit box to get fixed-width fonts, also known as "lying about what the data actually is so that the we...

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Hehe I meant for if Charlie could add this as a preset format on apterous

I've tended with Barry to play L1L2L1N2C, reverse, to about 26 rounds, inserting numbers at the end or something.

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That is actually very useful knowledge Ian; I remember once there was some word that was in both the shorter and longer OEDs, but which Kirk? wisely declined on show, or someone at least. It's odd that the OED2r isn't simply a larger subset of words than the SODE. If anyone can explain the logic beh...

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I really enjoy marathons, but I can't seem to find any standard preset for it. Could one be constructed so that I don't end up with the games uncodified in one single place on stat page instead of constructing my own games? :) Anyone else who would enjoy marathons or other of these variants should d...

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Full tables as of 17.05, 4 June: Division A: 1 Andrew Hulme (P10, W8, D1 Tiebreak 1, L1) 17.5 Points Scored 1070 2 Neil Zussman (P9, W7, D1 Tiebreak 0, L1) 15.0 Points Scored 904 3 Oliver Garner (P9, W6, D0, L3) 12.0 Points Scored 809 4 Aaron Higgs (P10, W4, D0, L6) 8.0 Points Scored 823 5 Ian Volan...

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Since I don't know the code, I can't do that lol. But that is pretty much what I have on my comp with formulae and points scored etc. Division A Remaining Fixtures: Goat+Standard: Andrew Hulme-Tom Rowell Oliver Garner-Ian Volante Ian Volante-Tom Rowell Neil Zussman-Daniel O'Dowd Tom Rowell-Aaron Hig...

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You've split the games with Oliver, and drew one game with Andrew and won the other. You both only have one loss and one draw, your spread before tonight's games was about 10% behind Andrew. You have equal chance!

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