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R13: GOBIID

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R8: SUTIABA

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R2: YODELIST - for some reason, not listed as an American spelling like yodeled and yodeling (and yodellist isn’t in at all).

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Ian Fitzpatrick wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:52 pm Demasting in the first round, missed by everyone!

It is a word, to be fair, it’s just not (yet) in Oxford Dictionaries Premium.

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:42 pm OCCUPIED in R10?

Snap!

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No foolin’.

OCCUPIED in Round 10.

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30 years ago, when most households could only get 4 channels (BBC One, BBC Two, ITV and Channel 4), between 15 million and 20 million people on the UK would gather round to watch feel-good Saturday night telly: from Blind Date to Gladiators , Noel’s House Party to Generation Game . Nowadays, anythin...

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Similarly for 8 in R8: ASSONATE, and DOLOUR as an alt. in R10.

Any of the top 3 currently can still take this title, if there isn’t a 900 or 1,000 member, depending on how deep they dig in the finals. 9 or even 10 octochamps still possible – this is going to be an exciting second half of the series.

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Sorry to burst your hot air balloon, but this was axed years ago. It ran for two series which were shown in… 2015!

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The questions for 23rd of March were good. I think the questions tend to be better and worse in different episodes over the series, in terms on ambiguity. The 45% question about the clockface had a second correct answer if you account 24-hour format, but that doesn’t make it any less unfair.

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Not sure how I feel about BEYONDS being allowed. Dictionary specifies "the beyond" as the noun form which doesn't feel like it should take an S I’m inclined to agree. Apterous usually goes by what the dictionary says, when it does say so. On balance I don’t think BEYONDS should be allowed.

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Howie Myers wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:44 am r 11: UNSAILED (maybe....)

Not in: nearest entries are UNSOILED, UNRAILED and UNMAILED.

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Toby Byfield debuts. A battle of the Apterites today.

R14: Got 940=((75*25+9)/2)-100/50

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r4 OUTCRIED? r11 SOUNDABLE? r12 UNQUESTED? asking for a friend,,,,, All invalid. Just when I thought I'd found a reliable source to check my words (an OUP link posted here recently) I now find out it's UNreliable! Soundable is valid on it! I give up. Curious to know which link. Don’t think I saw it...

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I seem to have miscounted the number of heat games for this week, which may have skewed the heat numbers. Oops!

This is definitely game 54 (first week was just 4 shows).

R7: NANOWIRES
R10: OOTHECA

Why is UNPRECISE not on Ascension?

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The apparently invalid overbet x looked tempting in Round 10; I had 6 but would have tried it over OVERJET if I were to bid 7. HETERONYM was an excellent solve from Rick Edwards, considering the obscurity and difficulty. I do think conundrums of that difficulty should be reserved for the finals in p...

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I bet Pilates is the most frequently declared word on TV Countdown without it ever being allowed: 22 instances in total if you include matched answers.

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Nice debut from Apterite and crossword fiend in Lucas Glanville. R4: DIVAGATE R5: HERONITES Max game for me. TALIPES and, more obscurely, ALPISTE, are the useful anagrams of invalid Pilates, which has now been disallowed for the 22nd time (including matched plays). Coincidentally, Rick Edwards was t...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:41 pm I've still not watched this. Is it like 1 vs 100 (which I've also not watched)?

This should help: http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/The_1%25_Club It has a live play-along app as well.

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Saw this for the first time yesterday. Can imagine many Countdowners having a go especially if they need 100 players per episode! Anybody else find Lee Mack unbearably facetious? Quite a few Countdowners already have played. I don’t find Lee facetious at all. I find him a natural. Without him this ...

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Better questions this week. I stupidly failed 25%. I got 1% right, though.

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5 octochamps in 48 games! What a series!

R1: NURAGHE

R8: AMATIVE

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After record ratings, they’ve just renewed 2 more series and we’re only 2 episodes in this current one.

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Tempting to try ‘Matilda’ in Round 10, but alas capitalised.

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Round 14: Oh, darn. Good game though.

R13: THURIBLE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurible

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Tony Green passed away today at 85. Legendary darts commentator and scorer who made a terrific double act with the late, great Jim Bowen on Bullseye. Sad to learn this after recently watching it on YouTube again.

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R2: URACIL (Kirk word)

This week may or may not see our 5th octochamp in two months.

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50*5-10-4 for a faster 236.

R14 alt: (75*3+3)*2-10=446

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How many people have won a Countdown teapot and a Mastermind glass bowl? Isabelle Heward is the one I'm aware of. May well be others. Geoff Thomas marginally missed doing the double, arguably failing at the easier task. Another one for sure is Andy Page (bowl in 2003, teapot in 2004). I know it’s a...

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Such a sad loss. Talented cook, lovely man above all. We enjoy their recipes. RIP

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How many people have won a Countdown teapot and a Mastermind glass bowl?

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Can anybody explain to me like i'm a 5 year old why words get taken out of the dictionary? A lot of the words that have been removed from apterous have been because of misinterpretation of the countdown rules - thinks like percent, readout, outearn etc are now considered to be US spellings of the h...

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There seems to be confusion over what dictionary the show uses. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary is often confused with other Oxford dictionaries available, as this tutorial video explains at 2:34. https://youtu.be/JAdoOY3muqw?si=JNbXhFrSu9-sj7Cd So I thought I’d make this clear by explaining t...

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Anyone knocked out in previous questions before that point should never be brought back. Otherwise players would deliberately get a question wrong to try and walk away with a bit of money on the 1% question, and it wouldn’t be a good game. Not sure I understand this. What benefit is there to delibe...

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Anyone else find the ending unsatisfactory when we have the scenario where everyone remaining gets eliminated on the same question? Seems a bit of a cop out that all those eliminated on that question just get flung to the 1% question and have the ability to collect the money, or play for the full p...

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The 5% question was: “YOU is a three-letter word that when you remove the first two letters and just the third letter remains the word still sounds the same. What other commonly-used three letter word does this?” The “correct” answer, according to the show, was WHY - Y. Indeed, the phonetic spelling...

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Aye, some horrible questions there. I'd have gone 5 instead of 2 on national anthem question, but you can make a strong argument for both. The eyes/is thing was brutal too - it's not so much ambiguous as a question, but when read out... Also, we had a difference of opinion on "first letter of ...

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Is it just me or were there 3 or 4 questions where you could make a decent argument for more than one answer being correct tonight? 5% question in particular can eff right off Yes, there were at least two, what I called ambiguous, questions last night. Aye, some horrible questions there. I'd have g...

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Will Michael Calder be the 4th octochamp in 8 weeks?!

Will we get TEN octochamps?!

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Howie Myers wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:18 am r4 OUTCRIED?
r11 SOUNDABLE?
r12 UNQUESTED?
asking for a friend,,,,,

All invalid.

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I wonder what they'd have done if she'd said something like "UNPOWD ... Oh no, GUNPOWDER". You are the ref . . . I think I'd have to say that she lost, and she shouldn't be able to profit by actually giving the answer away completely, so any sort of rerun would be wrong. Maybe just refilm...

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Would anyone else have been tempted by the invalid ‘opacities’ in Round 1? https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_8210

R9 alt: (100+5*6-7)*(9-1)=984

R14 alt: (50*3+10/2)*5=755

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FAINEANTS for 9.

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Have a feeling this could be a 9-strong octochamp series, which has happened once before. A very open competition so far having seen some consistent scores among non-Apterites, and we’re not even at the halfway point of Series 89.

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RASCALS for an anagram of SCALARS in Round 2.

Since the recording of this episode, WORLDIE has been added to the premium.oxforddictionaries.com website. Thankfully, it didn’t cost the winner in the end.

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“Unpowder” was unfortunate. Very unlucky, Katharine. I’m sorry to see you go so soon.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:46 pm Although not as long as FACTOTUM, TACTFUL was the standard method contestant-beater in round 4.

I got FACTOTUM, but the lack of E always makes the game harder IMO.

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R2: MASTOID, MIKADOS

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Heads up!

Series 3 starts 17th February at 8:50 pm. And it’s twice longer; 16 shows!

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R4: PLUTEAL

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RETINULE in R8

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Howie Myers wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:49 am r11: PRETRIED?

Alas, no. PRETRIAL is a word, though.

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Round 11: from the first 7 letters, FATUITY.

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Martin Long wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:18 pm HOMININ in round 10.

Excellent.

R5: GEOTAGS

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:42 pm POLITRUK in R10

Wow!

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Good non-Apterites lately.

UPTHREW is off the list. Just UPTHROWN and UPTHROW(S) now.

PANDOURS to beat PARDONS.

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I feel people may benefit from a free version of Lexplorer to check words without paywalls. There was one in the past, but I think it stopped working, somehow. Agree. But Lexplorer works fine for me without subscription. You just need to sign in. Can't use advanced features like anagrams, but basic...

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I feel people may benefit from a free version of Lexplorer to check words without paywalls. There was one in the past, but I think it stopped working, somehow.

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It’s a very simple format (which I know and love) and yet some viewers still don’t fully understand how it works. I think Stephen Fry should outline the rules properly at the very beginning of each show as most people don’t necessarily know of the US format; answers must be in the form of a “Who/Wh...

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Not sure if this is free to play, but my personal favourite is the daily PlusWord from The Telegraph Puzzles – Wordle and Crossword combined, introduced in 2022. The aim is to solve a 5*5 concise crossword and the PlusWord underneath; some of the cells in the crossword have yellow and green squares ...

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