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Anyone notice the different coloured E tile in the HURRY round....?

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Can't help but think the challenger through the game away today after having a steady lead. After losing his >10 point lead he just seemed to collapse. John does appear to be noticeably weaker than at the start, though this could just be down to nerves/tiredness. I still think he's almost certainly ...

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Just gonna bump this thread, as I'd also love to see some more added here. I've read through them and they're very fascinating. Does Mike still linger anymore?

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Anyone else think the Q in round 7 looked a different shade of blue? My eagle eyed sister spotted this and pointed it out.

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If a non apterite can ever win a series, I reckon today's contestant is one of the best shots assuming he doesn't use a pseudonym....

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This John's a bit good isn't he?
Can't find anyone by that name on apterous, though with his level of ability I strongly suspect he uses a pseudo.
His 6s is top notch too!

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Possibly not, or at least not without some fairly unlikely circumstances. For a non apterite to win a series they'd have to either be in a very weak series or have some efficient training mechanism that wasn't apterous (eg Julian Fell studied the dictionary and used the handheld Countdown game). One...

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Had a dream last night where I was competing in a game of apterous against a low ranked apterite who shall remain unnamed because of what happens. Basically it turns out to produce some 9s this game, 2 to be precise (RETAINAGE and UNREALISM/SEMILUNAR)...we both get both of them and it goes to a cruc...

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What was that conundrum today!?
Hardness 10/10 on apterous!

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Laura's bosom was a bit big in round 1....

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Yeah, I had PILOTARI as well.

Congrats to Tom on a very impressive octorun, 896 is quite a total

Have to laugh at Nick's unintentionally slightly patronising comments sometimes....

"Tom on 98...Barry on a very brave 17..."

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Wish my dreams were on par with Ben's though.

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Two rather short ones from last night. Not as good as Ben's are but I'll post them anyway. The first one is where I'm perusing Mike Brown's Countdown experiences page, and discover a hidden link to the 'updated version' which, remarkably, contains the experience of Angus Burns (the one it says is co...

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You can just imagine the next challenger in the audience: "I've suddenly come over sick...I'll be back in a year!"

HUMORISE is a beater in the mousier round.

Tom is still on track to achieve the all time points record, at this rate he'll achieve 980 ! Magnificent stuff.

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Excellent performance by Tom, one of the best I've ever seen certainly for the first 13 rounds.
Got the last nums in time, the large smalls made it look harder than it was perhaps.

Carmel was such a lovely contestant, I share Zarte's sentiments

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Congratulations Stephen, a deserved winner :) Felt a bit sorry for Moose though, he deserved to be a lot closer to Stephen by scoreline. Moose has been one of the greatest, if not the greatest natural letters spotter I've seen. It's a pity his numbers let him down, if they hadn't it would have been ...

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I think if he'd got an A or I for the 8th letter he would have done. I agree about SOLARIZED too.

Also, r13 is probably the most welcome an errant Q has ever been for Stephen, since the only way for Annie to win was to beat Stephen with a 9, the nums and 2 conundrums.

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Might Stephen have been fishing for UROKINASE in a certain round.....?

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ROMANIZE isn't as good as it gets, PROMAZINE is there for 9.

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Can't lie, I wanted Wes to win.
What a cracker of a semi final though, could have swung either way and was very enjoyable to watch. Wonder if Wes had the 9 and didn't risk it?

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Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:27 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2017 6:46 pmGlad to see they aren't using ludicrously hard FIBREFILLesque conundrums for the finals
Whilst I agree with the principle, I actually got fibrefill...

Of course you would! I'm talking about us mere mortals having a chance

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Great stuff Jeff -- were you fishing for PARAKEET in the OPERATE round? Commiserations to Lawrie on keeping it so close, too. I wondered that too. Glad to see they aren't using ludicrously hard FIBREFILLesque conundrums for the finals, instead using ones that you might actually have a chance of get...

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PENITUDE as well in that round. Had AGONALS too as a beater.
Interesting decision not to gamble on the last nums by Lawrie...even if you aren't a strong numbers player it's surely in your best interests to gamble. Was surprised they both didn't get 897 though, though it must be hard in the studio.

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Excellent play both. TEGULAE as a beater in r2 as well.
CATHOUSE was a very good spot under pressure from James, I was chuffed to spot it at home, not sure if I would have done in the studio!
An exciting contest for sure, I look forward to more!

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Interesting looking at the Mack vs Humphries line up. On the letters Annie is certainly stronger based on stats, with Annie getting 40 maxes from 80 and Elliott 30. On the numbers they're pretty much neck and neck, with Annie on 17 maxes from 32 and Elliott on 18 (or 19, if you count not getting the...

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Because I have nothing better to do...here are Stephen's stats for the series LETTERS Maxes: 50/80 (62.5%) Raw points: 543/621 (87.4%) NUMBERS Maxes: 28/32 (87.5%) Points: 308/320 (96.3%) CONUNDRUMS Maxes 7/8 (87.5%) Points 70/80 (87.5%) TOTAL Maxes: 85/120 (70.8%) Raw points: 921/1021 (90.2%) Hard ...

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Wes's 6s may well prove tough for Moose, who was prone to missing even easy 1l games, so if Wes can nail both his numbers with Moose messing them up then Moose will have a hill to climb. However, Moose's letters are stronger which does give him an obvious advantage considering there's a lot more let...

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:24 pm
Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:45 pm A lot of 9s available today
PINKWEEDS and CELLAROUS in rounds 5 and 8, but I failed to get the 9 in the IMPLODES round.
I saw PINKWEEDS as well, but I got it after the time was up.

Get on apterous innit

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My predictions... Quarters Stephen Read (1) v James Slater (8) - Stephen to win by 40-50 points Jeff Clayton (2) v Lawrie Collingwood (7) - Jeff to win by 20-30 points Moose Rosser (3) v Wesley Jardine (6) - Moose by 20-30 points Elliott Mack (4) v Annie Humphries (5) - Could swing either way, but E...

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It's pretty impossible to please everyone though, what you might hate someone else might love. There's only a very small number of guests who I absolutely cannot stand, which are the ones who seem disinterested and/or are always "I got....(insert obscure word anyone who wasn't an obsessive Coun...

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Excellent spot on TWOSOMES, I didn't spot it.
INTERPOSE as another 9 in r13

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EDICULAR as a beater in round 2, not sure if there was any other beaters available in rounds but I'd doubt it.
Ellen wasn't actually a bad contestant, it's a shame she was let down by her numbers.

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Hello! I'm Dan, I've been playing on Apterous since roughly the start of 2017 and I'm loving it! At the moment I'm just playing for fun, especially with important exams coming up (A Levels + STEP) but my end goal one day is to become a series champion (I'm not nearly at that level yet but I'm willi...

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Hello! My name is Toby McDonald and I am a very big fan of Countdown. I have been watching Countdown for quite a while and I started playing more seriously in 2013. I used to watch it before though, as early as the Des Lynam era. However, I was born in 2001, so I didn't get to watch many programmes...

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:15 pm I got OUTARMED as a beater in R12.

Nice spot. I was convinced that my 7 wouldn't be the best there.

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I've watched it back and the conversation basically goes like this: Dan: If you got - IRONIC's in there, can you throw an AL on the end? Can you make IRONICAL? Susie: Ah, that's always the big debate. Dan: Is this a regular Countdown debate? Susie: Not in Countdown, but it's in the dictionary, yes....

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Also, do we reckon Dan got all the words he was implying he got?

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Susie seemed to imply IRONICAL wouldn't have been allowed had it been declared, yet it's perfectly fine on apterous. It seemed she said "Yeah, not on Countdown but it's in the dictionary" when asked if it was okay.
CILANTRO as an equaller in the same round.

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You could tell how apologetic Moose felt towards the end of the game today, it was becoming a little bit embarrassing for the challenger. Particularly in the HUNTED/HAUNTED round Moose seemed really sorry. I also wondered whether Moose deliberately didn't declare an 8 in the ANOINTER/REANOINT round ...

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The infamous Fellesque GERONTIC as an equaller in the INTERCOM round. Love the word GERONTIC.

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Great topic to start with I guess.
Serves him right for his consonant-loving ways. And it produced a beautiful HETAIRA.

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Congrats to Stephen on becoming an octochamp, a member of the 900 club and also the all centuries club :D Think TRILOGUES was there in the OUTLIERS round. Shame you had to suffer the most boring dictionary guest I've ever witnessed for the last part of your run. Gives the impression he'd rather be ...

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He must be fairly high up on the max % and number of maxes list...he hardly missed a thing!

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Congrats to Stephen on becoming an octochamp, a member of the 900 club and also the all centuries club :D Think TRILOGUES was there in the OUTLIERS round. Shame you had to suffer the most boring dictionary guest I've ever witnessed for the last part of your run. Gives the impression he'd rather be e...

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Aye, he's been unlucky to have a fair few bad selections and only one (relatively obscure) 9 thus far. Still on track to get 888, which is more than respectable.

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2nd nums (within time too!)
(25*100-7)/(2+1)-9=822

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MOUSERY available in the MOUSER round, surprised DC didn't pick up on this.

Nick clearly fudged that last numbers game. "Twen--ty fi-ve timeeees twooo"

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Berkan seemed somewhat surprised when Rachel said that 77*12=924. Makes you wonder if he had perhaps miscalculated It as something like 914 and added on the 10 after, but just blagged that that was his final step when Rachel said 924. The way he said it certainly didn't make it sound like that was h...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:15 pm
Tony Atkins wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:09 pm Lucky that "unwashing" was invalid as if he had gone for it, and it was valid, he would have scored 0 for using the N twice.
0 points is 0 points, whether it's disallowed for one reason or two!

Or even three, as I believe has happened on the show before.

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COLIN XII attendees who are good at Touchdown may have seen the exceptionally rare 9 that was one letter out in the DIOXIN round... I actually did spot that it would have been there but for one letter, which made me look very smart lol. Anyone else get the impression that Berkan is really nervous?

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Possibly not a great surprise but Emma Marano - formerly the world's oldest person - has died today at the age of 117. I think this also means that the only people who are living now were born in or after 1900 (but will have to check that out). I thought she might reach 118, but having followed all...

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Just feel it's worth mentioning that OUTLIED was spelt perfectly backwards on the board....

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ISOGENIC as a beater in the last letters round.

I was rooting for the challenger to win today, he was so cheerful

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Loved his consonants did today's challenger. 6C3V every time urgh.

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Good luck with your audition today, L'oisleatch McGraw!

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My dad, who normally is quite bad at the game and comes up with loads of invalid words, walked in the room in r10, looked at the screen and instantly said "what about RETINOL for 7?". Not the max, but still a pretty good find.

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"An inverted L please Rachel"...come on....what's wrong with "3 large and 3 small"?

However, a very well deserved win and well done on octochampdom and number1seeddom Jeff:-)

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A blip today for Jeff today, though I'm sure he needn't worry.

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Aye, it certainly sounded like it. Didn't really affect the outcome of the match luckily. Perhaps Nick had just become accustomed to him being a good player and so assumed he'd said the right answer. The only possible thing this could affect is what seed he is for the finals, though fortunately the ...

Elliott Mellor · Re: Spoilers for Monday 13 March 2017 Believe PILOTARI is okay though B-)

Believe PILOTARI is okay though B-)

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