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Gavin Chipper

The whole show is fixed. It was the +£10,000 in box 23 again? I've got a very exciting idea for a new gameshow, based on Deal Or No Deal but with elements of The Crystal Maze. You'd still have 22 contestants (or however many it is) but instead of standing around with boxes and trotting out sob stor...

Gavin Chipper

He's taken it down and issued an apology.

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:Well I was winning until he turned up the gas for the last 3 rounds. Nice finish!

You must have missed the standard method in the last numbers then. 576+2 rather than 567+11 was the standard method.

Gavin Chipper

I'm guessing that the conclusion will be "no". You can come back and tell us what it said.

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I got it after the time but the 932 was doable - (75+10)×(9+7-5)-3=932

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Can we please have updated links based on: "tracked down and attacked" (almost sounded literal!) someone for a negative review on goodreads.com (Corby) serious suggestions of arrest? (Jono) "he's just told you he was trying to get publicity" (Gevin) Thanks guys. In Richard's pos...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Sometimes I think the world is trolling me. How the fuck could he be arrested for writing that? What law has he broken? Who's to say if his blog is fact or fiction? Is it illegal to imagine a fake kidnapping?

He's not been arrested has he? Or have people suggested it?

Gavin Chipper

I think the journalists writing about this are totally missing the point, whether this story has any truth or not. He's just told you that he was trying to get publicity by being a dickhead, and you're giving it to him.

Gavin Chipper

Excellent game throughout. Not sure what the Gevin scoring record is but 128 can't be far off. Pity about those two missed maxes at the end. I don't know if it was a max game up to then but it's always more frustrating if the misses come in the end rounds.

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What's the record for consecutive 8s? I think we're up to 6 now. Also he must be in with a shot of the Gevin scoring record.

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It's quite good trolling if that's what it is. It would mean that the fake kidnap was fake all along, making it a fake fake kidnap, and the real way of making himself famous and getting publicity for his book was the blog post itself.

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But anyway I would tend to agree that the actual recap post shouldn't have attacks in. It should be more neutral. Plus I wouldn't agree with the particular comment anyway. "Attacks" FFS? That's a bit hysterical. I like recaps with a bit of personality, character and opinion in them. Andy'...

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Could have stuck the S on MILEAGE.
I went for that but ODE3 says mass noun.

It is but it's found in the search bar. Some mass nouns are pluralisable and that's as good a reason as any for saying that this is. Especially since lots of them aren't found.

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But anyway I would tend to agree that the actual recap post shouldn't have attacks in. It should be more neutral. Plus I wouldn't agree with the particular comment anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Could have stuck the S on MILEAGE.

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He looks more like Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

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That question about the cost. Surely it's the total cost. I don't care about the breakdown. I get exactly what you are saying but you're truly an excellent man if you can see things that way. I think people still typically judge each separate element rather than the overall event. We're small-pictu...

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I think people read too much into people's behaviour sometimes.

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Mark Deeks wrote:Link doesn't work without the http://, so:

https://www.justgiving.com/kirk-bevins/

I think it was that he put an underscore instead of a hyphen.

www.justgiving.com/kirk-bevins

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That question about the cost. Surely it's the total cost. I don't care about the breakdown.

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One thing that worried me about going on was people saying stuff like "OMG you can break the record easily" and "you could get a max mocktorun!" To be honest, I switched off as soon as you missed your first max and assumed you'd probably walked out of the studio in shame. I'm su...

Gavin Chipper

The problem with this dictionary is that it doesn't really reflect usage. They leave out "boring" words like LAGGY, and bring in words like OMNISHAMBLES that no-one uses because it makes good press. WHATEVS and WHATEV presumably came in because they're the sort of words that newspapers wou...

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Dan's had a few awkward numbers games already in his run.
In the second numbers, seeing Rachel laughing gave a clue that it was actually easy if you spotted the trick.
I hadn't until then.

They're all easy if you spot the trick! (This one wasn't particularly simple relatively speaking.)

Gavin Chipper

With CoC I, ignoring Mark Nyman, it could be done by how far they got, followed by highest score in the heats. So: 2. Joyce Cansfield - Champion, 65 3. Andrew Guy - Champion, 61 4. Ash Haji - Champion, 58 5. Brian Hudson - Champion, 55 6. Russell Byers - Finalist, 59 7. Christine Hunt - Finalist, 56...

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Dan's had a few awkward numbers games already in his run.

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Great game Dan. The early flattish rounds made it tense for a while, and the champion played quite solidly, so it made for an entertaining game.

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Steven M. McCann wrote:Apparently Tony Jacklin is hearing impaired, which would explain him not seeming to know Vicky had already said SMEARING, when he said it.
Hopefully Nick won't bring up the 1972 Open!

How much of a cunt does Corby look now?

Gavin Chipper

Missed out on the max game, by missing one of the 7's in round 11, but ah well. :) What about the other 7? What other 7........... :?: :? You said you didn't get the max because you missed one of the 7s. So there must have been at least two. And if you only missed one of the 7s, then you must have ...

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James Robinson wrote:Missed out on the max game, by missing one of the 7's in round 11, but ah well.

What about the other 7?

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Ben Wilson wrote:j

You've done it again.

Gavin Chipper

From this, it makes sense to say 0! is the product of nothing, which is defined to be 1. If someone asked me what the product of nothing is, my first instinct would be 0, so that doesn't really make sense to me... Especially since Gevin had already offered a much neater and more well-delivered expl...

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If this hasn't already been asked, which 9-letter combination (so any order) has come out the most? Might as well have a top 10 or 20 with the maxes alongside! The most common selection is some permutation of RELATIONS, which has appeared 18 times. Here are some other common selections: 18 occurren...

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If this hasn't already been asked, which 9-letter combination (so any order) has come out the most? Might as well have a top 10 or 20 with the maxes alongside!

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Very unlucky for Sharif, as the third half turned the tables a bit. Yeah, I think he was 21 ahead and seemingly playing quite well. Declaring UNPAID as 7 might have flustered him a bit, especially as when Susie questioned him on it - "Did you say six?" - he just confidently said "No,...

Gavin Chipper

Anyone pre-30BC who didn't apply for the 30BC shouldn't be considered for the CoC IMHO. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the 30BC is effectively seen as a CoC for people who appeared between series 60 and 66. I agree with this. However, if I wanted to play devil's advocate I might say: what if ...

Gavin Chipper

I agree that contestants should have at least one or two seats for family/friends.

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:After the time but (100×(10+5)-6)/6-1=248
Well done! Alt for 2nd nos - (100-8)x10+8+2-3

I learnt to do that after we had a couple like it in the 30th birthday thing. If multiplying by 5/2 doesn't work, try 10/4, 15/6 etc. It looks good, but it's not too hard to do. (And it was out of time.)

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Rubbish conundrum.

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After the time but (100×(10+5)-6)/6-1=248

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Graeme Cole wrote:
Adam Gillard wrote:Paul looks familiar but I can't put my finger on it - anyone else recognise him?
I think he might be Adam Dexter in disguise.

I thought the same.

Gavin Chipper

I think it's quite a interesting suggestion. I don't think the problem is that the contestants are getting what they prefer (Graeme) - it's that quite a high proportion of 1-large rounds especially are complete non-events, and that's just as bad for the show (surely worse in fact) as hard games. And...

Gavin Chipper

There was already a massively blates switch behind the easel earlier in the show when he wrote "FILM" on it (left hand disappeared behind it holding the enveloper and paper) :roll: I'm just watching this now on 4OD. I presume you're talking about the bit at about 12:06. But I don't see wh...

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Steven M. McCann wrote:RADIUMS in the DISARM round.
Seconds after I checked nobody had put up PUNISHED, Peter did in the meantime!

I'm disallowing RADIUMS.

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I'm going to have a go at working out the Series 2 seedings methodology. I reckon there could be a Fields Medal in it. Here and here are the two most relevant links. The wiki version doesn't give as much relevant information, including that the scores only include winning and drawing games and that...

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It's an obvious flaw of the seeding system that a player with more points from less games (and therefore a clearly superior player) gets seeded lower. Maybe that's one of the reasons why the finals rarely play out in line with the seedings. Wins over points came in as a result of series 37 I think ...

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James Robinson wrote:Now that I've seen it, can I just point out that Michelle spelt her name with one L, so it's Michele.

As in Michele Alboreto.

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People need to see this.

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Unlucky Paul. You can still go on to win the series and also the 60th birthday special, which would put you ahead of Jack overall.

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Susie is talking about the strict rules for new words getting into the dictionary. These rules don't apply when a word makes good press of course.

Also if people can't communicate which weekend they mean, then they probably couldn't learn a new word. People can even use the date.

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Would they even necessarily use a named font that someone else invented? It's just big letters. Anyone can make big letters.

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Jon Corby wrote:My 10 year-old daughter did (75+50/25)*5+100-9 for that numbers game.

I thought Jono was your 10-year-old daughter. That's why you bring him to COLIN on the train with you every year. And he didn't get the numbers that way or any other.

Gavin Chipper

I hope Paul gets a good lunch and plays more keenly in the next show. A bit late for that as this was the first show of the afternoon session. Natalie was certainly a tricky opponent and on another day, she could have won. I think this just proves the importance of tactical picking. Natalie was, as...

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It would be interesting to see what Susie makes of a word like SHALLOWER, surely part of standard vocabulary for practically all English speakers but falling through the cracks in the ODE and therefore not allowable on Countdown. Unsurprisingly, the ODO redirects to SHALLOW, indicating that it is i...

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Paul Worsley wrote:R10 I wrote down

STEAMED and

M E D U S A E to ensure I had spelt it correctly.

It was a longer word on my paper!
I guess the trick is to count the letters left over and subtract from 9.

And that's the standard method right there.

Gavin Chipper

I'll watch this soon and post the correct answers. Thank you for waiting.

Gavin Chipper

my top 8 - jen steadman jen steadman jen steadman jen steadman jen steadman jen steadman jen steadman andy platt Bit weird. If you have an issue with the way in which I have represented my "Countdown Best ever contestants" ranking, please feel free to contact my HR lady; humanresourceslad...

Gavin Chipper

So are you gay or straight?

Actually that was quite an interesting post. But doesn't emotionally pansexual mean goats, horses and photocopiers are not excluded?

On the objection people have with bisexuals, they might as well say the same thing to someone that likes blondes and brunettes.

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Also CANEDEST if you're playing apterous, although I doubt it would be allowed on the show. They should allow it since they've done nothing with the rules to stop it despite the opportunity to do so. They can't disallow a word because they don't like the look of it (even though it's happened on sev...

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George Pryn wrote:my top 8 -

jen steadman
jen steadman
jen steadman
jen steadman
jen steadman
jen steadman
jen steadman
andy platt

Bit weird.

Gavin Chipper

Another good game, well played, Paul. (In my opinion, GARPIKES is unquestionably fine, regardless of its etymology. No one dictionary can hope to address, let alone resolve, all lexicographical ambiguities. However, the online dictionary seems a more comprehensive resource than the single-volume pr...

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