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The venue has signposted me to The Duke of Wellington for the lunch plans. It's a pub that is a five-minute walk away and offers takeout. I'm going over to the venue on Wednesday afternoon, so will pop into the pub and enquire about making a bulk order. Link to the menu: https://www.emberinns.co.uk/...

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(ANOTHER) IMPORTANT UPDATE Hey everyone. Sadly, the venue that was originally booked for this event was permanently closed down at the end of February (though I was only informed on Monday after enquiring about having a look around). Luckily, I've secured a booking for a new venue — Merryoaks Commu...

I can't wait for this triple-header. Couldn't think of a better way of spending a Friday night than Countdowning followed by a walk to the Fox in the freezing cold. :lol: The pre-drinks title is just brilliant. Re the poll, I've selected 6:30pm, as that's the time the Vicar of Dudley *prays* is open...

Yeah it was much nicer this year - we went on Friday - been refurbished, friendly and helpful bar staff. But yeah the dartboard is now a big telly and I think they'd have been a bit upset if we'd chucked arrows at it. The social club did a good job of providing the traditional colin activities - Di...

Agreed, it may sound simple but manually redistributing the letters packs is a massive ballache. Please don't mess the packs up when playing with them everyone! I also found the selections benefitted from the marvellous efforts of MSR and Beachy this weekend. I have to say I absolutely adored using...

Following from this post ... If I had one small suggestion, it would be that if there are table numbers, it's best to have them explicitly labelled rather than people having to infer them from the set numbers on the lids of the letters/numbers boxes, which are generally harder to find with the lids...

IMPORTANT UPDATE Due to Durham’s annual Miners’ Gala taking place on the same day as the event’s original date (13th July), for which the hotel companies have naturally put their prices through the roof, Co:Durham will now be held the week prior, on Saturday, 6th July 2024 . My sincere apologies to...

If lunch is provided then the cost of providing the lunch will affect any prize pot surely Unlike Scrabble tournaments, we don't have prize pots at co-events. Do you think if there were prize pots it would be more popular? I would guess the prize pot is a big factor in why at a scrabble tournament ...

If lunch is provided the downside is the catering cost will up the entry fee or any prize fund Huh? How do you mean it will up any prize fund? If lunch is provided then the cost of providing the lunch will affect any prize pot surely Unlike Scrabble tournaments, we don't have prize pots at co-events.

This is something on my to-do list, because I've overheard it happening a lot. I'm on making a new batch of the foldable conundrum 'tents' as we speak, and will ensure they are included with every set of cards going forward. A stupid idea, to reduce the wonkiness issue pointed out, is to have a pie...

You can often get slightly striped effects when printing blocks of colour, so really does depend on what the host has available. I know when I made my cards I got through a couple of crazy expensive blue ink cartridges, so will be avoiding colour backgrounds going forward! Printing in colour is a c...

Does anybody have some low effort high impact suggestions for reducing the % of botched printed conundrum reveals? I had a botched conundrum given to me in at least 5/8 of the events I attended in 2023 which had paper conundrums. Reasons for botched conundrums reveals could be any of (but not limit...

Another new city, another new host, and another exciting co-event to add to the mix. For the first time, letters, numbers and conundurhams are coming to the historic cathedral city of Durham. ———————————— Date and times [/u] Saturday, 6th July 2024 Doors open: 10:00 First half Introduction and firs...

Thanks a lot for the comments and feedback regarding the conundrums and my hosting. I agree with Jack's view on FLOWERAGE being too easy as a con for the finalists. In typical Adam fashion, this was meant to be one for the openers, but I stuck it in the wrong file. Epic fail #2. Saying that, if it s...

One other thing - if there's a grand final at the end of a tournament and no screen with the scores, it's important to announce the scores at the end of each round. My bad. I was a complete scatterbrain and overcome with nerves during the final. My board was intended to be used a score display but ...

Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:18 am
I for one am interested in joining this breakaway faction going to the Indian restaurant.

Not a problem. Come join us

Count me in for food please! Unfortunately the venue have set a capacity which we've met (actually we went over and have had to reject a couple). However Beachy has made alternate meal plans so worth messaging him. Ofc anyone else is welcome to join us for the karaoke (up until 10pm) Ok no worries ...

I gather there's a discussion on the Apterous wiki about whether I'm a troll (https://wiki.apterous.org/Talk:Jane_Guestin). I'm not, I'm genuinely Jane's daughter! I have a VHS with this episode on, and have extracted an image showing the correct spelling of my mum's name - but I can't figure out h...

JackHurst wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 2:43 pm I can't find any records of individual games for this event. Does anybody have them? Would like to get them added to the event rankings.

Same. Would be good for the wiki page that like 6 people will have looked at.

FWIW, that's not enough C's. I had two shows in my octorun where 5 C's were drawn and another that had 4. Yeah, I saw your post about that last year on another thread. I think it's simply a case of the quantities of certain letters being changed every so often by the guys who shuffle them. 3 seems ...

The consistency in the letter packs was because I sat down and sorted through every one of them in the weeks beforehand and gave them equal distribution (yes, I'm sad). I kid you not, one of the packs had 4 Ks in before doing this. I'm all for fairness and everyone playing with the same quantities ...

Please please don't set conundrums with one of the players names in. Lots of people know at least some of the scrambles with their name, and it gives a huge potential advantage to that player. Twice in tournaments I've faced crucial conundrums where the scramble started with my opponent's 6 letter ...

Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 12:41 pm Fun Event

Any chance of a run down of all the results for both events?

Goat:Brum — https://greem.co.uk/cgi-bin/colive/tour ... atbrum2023

Co:Brum — https://greem.co.uk/co/brum2023

Thanks to Adam and MSR for putting on this event! Several things about this event were awesome: - Adam did a cracking Job hosting his first event(s) - The venue was excellent. Hope there's another Co:Brum there next year - 8 game format. Probably not everybody's taste, but it's good to have a few o...

Matt Rutherford wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:14 pm but it does mean the added risk of having to put up with my shit puns should I end up on your table

In that case, fingers crossed we’ll need two Prunes so I can rig the draw and have you with them. xo

Thank you to everyone for making the weekend great. I enjoyed my COLIN debut very much, and was honoured to preside over the grand final for the Hangover — it made up for my embarrassing performance of coming last. Looking forward to next year's. :)

Seems like as good a place as any to post this. I recently bought a set from a charity shop. Is there any official letters distribution to check they are all there in the correct quantities? Same for numbers (I assume 2 of each plus 4L covers that). Generally accepted thingy is A 15 E 21 I 13 O 13 ...

I've somehow miraculously managed to book a room for myself and Maus at the Novotel for £122 via Booking.com . It's non-refundable, however you can add cancellation insurance for a fairly reasonable (I think) £8.42 . At the time of writing this, it says there are 6 rooms available at that price. Tho...

If a lack of physical tiles is a problem atm, I'm sure most of us attending have a version of the board game and could bring along a set of tiles? Hi friends :) First post on here, but have been familiar with the site for years, so thought I'd chip in for once. This is exactly what I'm going to be ...