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Pencils from other languages shouldn't be bronze pencils. Perhaps make new items named after pencil in that language.

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Kai Laddiman wrote: ...you haven't got one on apterous.

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Me and Josh just trialled a game on apterous, it had an interesting outcome, but the scoring system clearly needs changing. Here's the games we played , I'll write down the bonus points and gambles in this post C1: Josh Hurst C2: Jack Hurst Rd.1: Both players gamble 1 point on Bouncer, Both players ...

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I assume you can go negative in a round, if not only do you not have all the maxes, but you get beat. Nope, because if you know you haven't got a max, you can bet zero, so you would remain on the same score, as you would in a normal game if you got beat in a round. If I have two eights and a dodgy ...

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Charlie Reams wrote:This is a nice idea. I suggest starting a new thread to thrash out the details.

Done.
Could anybody who has comment about suggested variant please put them in the new thread and not in this one.

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I've got a suggestion for a new variant, but the rules need a thorough going over before its going to come anywhere near to fruition. It has no name, so plz suggest any if you can, for the sake of somplicity I'll refer to the variant as IDEA throughout this ost. See this post for the orignal proposa...

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RD.2: GARBELTEO C1: BLOATER, AEROGEL, BLEATER, BORGATE, GLOATER, LEGATOR, GAMBLED 1. C2: GAOLER, GAMBLED 0. MAXES: AEROGEL, BEAGLER, BLEATER, BLOATER, BORGATE, GLOATER, LEGATOR, ROTABLE, RETAGLO SCORE: C1 27-18 C2 Not sure where you got this list from but ROTABLE isn't in (RETABLE is) and RETAGLO i...

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I guess he could prove it if he felt so inclined, by playing some witnessed live games, or - as similarly-rated apterous players have done - going on the show itself. That's surely the aim after all, isn't it? That doesn't work, I cheated before I went to CoLei, and still cheat all the time now, bu...

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I have a variant suggestion/request. The rough idea is a variant with similar rounds to standard, but a different scoring systems. The scoring system would be the same as usual, but with a way of getting supplementary points too. Letters The nine letters are picked as usual, and each player tries to...

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Surely Scary rather than Impressive that I knew that off the top of my head. On another topic, is there a place that the latest dictionary file that apterous uses is kept? The one I use for my own ends seems out of date. I asked Jim Bentley nicely, and he had some sort of up to date version of the ...

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LOATHERS+I=HORSETAIL

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Just trudged through the current list of entrants and came up with the following stats (I might have made a couple of miscounts) : 30 contestants, 21 of which have been on the show, 14 of which have made it to series finals, 10 of which were octochamps, and 3 of which won their series. j j j j j j

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There was one show a good few years ago where I noticed just two vowels in one of the rounds, I got really excited about it and started shouting at Grandma and Grandad.

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During this game I was thinking that a better player would have got a max game, but then the ludicrous conundrum came up.

Edit: Wrong topic.

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On each users section add a box like this one, which shows pencils earned in the last 30 days.

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Charlie Reams wrote: http://apterous.org/statland.php?sectio ... layers_15r

Nice. Any chance of modifying it to give average score on the same page, a bit like how this one shows metamax picks and darrenicity picks together.

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Ben Wilson wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:...so I'd say it would take another superstar newcomer like Chris, Andrew or Innis to take this title.
If only any of them were inclined to enter these tourneys, lol.

I have various Rubiks' cube varia tions that I could entice Chris with if you want.

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Would there be any use in me bringing Josh's countdown board game with me?

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A statland section similar to this one, which lists the top x players in order of average score/average maxes in a particular format (especially in standard 15 rounder) would be very interesting to view.

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On apterous you can have POTHEENS but not POTEENS which is inconsistent as POTHEEN is listed as an alternative spelling of POTHEEN. My point is that you should either be allowed to pluralise both of them or neither of them. Which this should be, I am not too sure of because its listed as some sort o...

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KATHODE is listed as an archaic spelling of CATHODE, so I think KATHODE and KATHODES should be added. (It might not be in the new edition tho, so it would be nice if someone could check again)

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Jon Corby wrote: KARTINGS is stupid as well. This is the "common sense" Damian talks about. (Unless karting means something other than driving a kart.)

No, it does just mean driving karts about. I also think its a ridiculous word, but thought I'd post it and let other ppl bicker over it.

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Just browsing through the K section in my old edition of the OED, and thought I'd check up a few words I came across (no innuendos here please, I'm not Kirk). I found three that I think should be added, but as my dictionary is old, it would be worthwhile if someone else could check their up to date ...

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Nope.

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Well done Chris, you did very well to win what has probably been on of the best series of countdown ever. Commiserations to Andrew, but also congratulations on getting to the final.

Chris' 117 score is the second highest grand final score in the 15 round era. (I've not checked CofC final score yet)

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Am I the only one who find its really hard to distinguish between maxes and none maxes in the new game reports:

Sorry If I have been a tit, and the new site is meant to be like that, or if Matt's suggestion of downloading the font thing would solve my problem.

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I too thought Innis was exceptionally graceful. I also think I didn't really appreciate at the time what an incredible turn around Chris achieved, especially considering all the nerves. Well done both for making my favourite episode evarrr. Also, in the studio, when Chris buzzed, there were some rea...

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On the subject of leaving games halfway through, is there anyone else on here who can confess to frequently quitting games against bots? I end up doing it quite frequently, most of the time its because I cba to carry on playing. I don't see it as morally wrong, but what do others think? Do you only...

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On the subject of leaving games halfway through, is there anyone else on here who can confess to frequently quitting games against bots?

I end up doing it quite frequently, most of the time its because I cba to carry on playing. I don't see it as morally wrong, but what do others think?

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What I also find interesting are the words that despite being made entirely/mostly of nice letters, seem to be lacking in stems. IDOCRASE and GODETIAS are good examples, both only having one stem. Anyone got other words which fall under my description? Edit: I guess they are also a useful thing to k...

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If possible add a module on to lexplorer entitled "pencil", explaining if the word in question had has its pencil taken, and what type of pencil (i.e normal or bronze atm), and which person(s) own the pencil.

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List players who have not played a game in the last 30 days as inactive, maybe even make their names a different colour of font on the site. Then when users are looking at the relevant stats pages, let filter out inactive players if they wish. The main use of this would be look at the ratings list w...

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Jeffrey Burgin wrote: I can confirm it was these students who constituted my aforementioned 'hotties'.

Damn, I thought you meant me.

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Who stopped who from putting LIKMARING on telly now?

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Im glad its back, but also glad that it was down, as it gave me no excuse to not get on with more important things. I'll try and cut down on how much I play for the time being (probably unsuccessfully).

Well done for getting it back up.

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Douglas Wilson wrote:Sorry to take this thread off on a tangent but who would you rather: Jackie or Jan?

That is an inappropriate comment for this forum, especially considering that one or both of these women could read it.

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I've realised that giving negative comments on DC guests might be a bad idea for forumites who intend to go on the show in the future. If you do it a lot of the time, it could be a real possibility that you end up being in the studio with a DC guest you have slagged off, and feeling really awkward t...

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O'Donnell didn't score in round 1 (unless this is flat scoring you're talking about). Well spotted. I did think about which to use, and TBH I'd forgotten what I'd decided. Something's just occurred to me. S53 - 32, S60 - 8. Shuffling. It could also be to do with the numbers of vowels the contestant...

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Did he look of Oriental origin by any chance? You'd be surprised how many young oriental males look like me (roughly about 50%).

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Max goatdown 9. Was pretty happy with the gamble I took on the conundrum, as I was considering a couple of things it could be. What is the reason for this format being relatively unplayed?

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When Matthew makes a reasonably humerous comment, I get confused thinking he is Jason just form looking at the avatar.

(Not that Jason isn't humerous when he puts his mind to it)

The below poster may use negative numbers to rate my avatar if they see necessary.

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On the subject of the best 8 letter stems, does anybody have a clue about which selection of 8 letters with no valid anagrams stems the most 9s? AEIOLRST, which makes a nine with 11 letters, looks promising. I think it probably is, and they are all worth noting. Are there and selections like this w...

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After talking to people about PRONUCLEI for about a week now, I was absolutely gutted when I missed the chance to pick it out in this game, but overjoyed when I made amends for it in this game. Pencil.

Edit: Here are all the exclamation marks that I forgot to include on the original post !!!!!

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Will the next Colei also be around the October time of year?

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I brag to have been in the same game as Innis Carson to witness this excellent performance!

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If we want to have seedings, they can be based on apterous ratings or simply knowledge of the player's skill level (they are never going to be perfect anyway). I think the tournament Idea Charlie suggested does away with the needs for seedings, as it sorts out the best and worst players round by ro...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:First ever letters attack max game

Edit: It isn't listed as "letters attack" but "custom". Please say this will be listed as a max letters attack game, otherwise I'll cry.

Well done, I'll give you a prize if I get the chance.

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APPOSITE in one of the earlier rounds as a DC beater.
Both today's contestants were nice, shame one of them had to lose.

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I came across XENOPHYTE whilst browsing the 2 pages of x words in my dictionary, so I looked it up on apterous, and was puzzled to find that it has been a conundrum just once; here . Any reason why its been used just the once up to now? (I couldn't find anywhere to post this, so thought I'd put it h...

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I like the new obscurity ratings. However, it gives ORDINATE and QUIXOTIC the same obscurity rating (34%), which leads me to think that maybe omelette games shoulnd't be used in calculating the obscurity of words. (if thats how quixotic got such a common rating)

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D Eadie wrote: Edit -Howard pointed out to me that it had gone missing. We conducted a thorough search and found it later that evening, dressed in a toga, attempting to disguise itself as a number 5.

I saw two V tiles passionately making a W in the corner of the studio.

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In other news, my pants won't know what's hit them, such is the excitedness of me. :D I'll only be there for the semis- what time do festivities start and who can I share a taxi from Piccadilly station with? I thought there was a funny smell when I was sitting next to you, but I didn't want to say ...

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Is there a break between the two recording sessions normally? And is there a place to get food?

CHEEEERS.

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I have 87 tickets for both slots on wednesday.

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But anyway, I think there may be people who know exactly who goes by what name, but I'm not one of these, although I have suspicions about some of them. I've heard people suggesting that Damian may be Scott Phillips, which could be the case. But someone said that Jeremy Bentham was Damian, so I dun...

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This game is Brag and Frustration. I was really chuffed with how I played, especially against a former great of the show. I think if I did actually get the seconds numbers, I would have been too nervous to spot some of the words that I did get after it. Tom was unlucky with PASSINGS.

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What was the story with the guy in the audience who got the conundrum at the end? OK, I wasn't expecting him to get up and do a lap of honour or anything, but christ, he looked as though someone had just told him his dog had died. If you had acne that bad and someone pointed a TV camera at your fac...

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Bender from futurama please.

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This game was very good. LYONNAISE was a great spot by DC.

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well, in a game i was watching earlier, there was no letter response givin in the commentary unless my eyes were playing tricks. If you buzz with the enter button you can give a no letter response, But I don't know why anyone would do that.

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