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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:39 pm THANDAIS in R8

Thought I had SHITNADO in that round, sadly hasn't made it to ODO yet

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The Lemonheads are currently on tour. Reviews have been mixed to say the least, but overall have been nothing but complimentary about support act The Bevis Frond, whose frontman Nick Salomon was a semi-finalist in the early 90s https://alexreviewsgigs.com/2025/08/17/the-lemonheads-the-ritz-mancheste...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Aug 11, 2025 3:18 pm This also makes me wonder which contestant had the earliest ever date of birth. Probably quite hard to find out, but I did a bit of research for DC guest and got Brian Johnston, born in 1912.

Bertha Bourne looks like a strong contender: https://wiki.apterous.org/Bertha_Bourne

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If Phil wins, Brett will become the first non-Octochamp member of the 800 club. Should be a good match!

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Anyone watch the new episode? I don't think the contestant audition process is quite as rigorous as for regular Countdown

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Steve Hyde wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:04 pmI think today was the first since John Aziz?

Nope - https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_8108 . I stand by the Maus fact though

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After a slow start the quality has certainly been very high. Out of interest, given Angus coming straight after John, does anyone know the longest streak of century games? Well it’s at least 8, because the best octochamps have scored centuries in all 8 their preliminary matches (Julian Fell being t...

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PEASANT in R10 as a surprising DC beater

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I miss the days when a Countdowner getting sectioned just meant a nice 18 points

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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... r-32085774

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"ITV is poised to axe expensive flop The Genius Game after its finale had the same viewing figures as a BBC2 show about pangolins"

Oof. Pangolins rule tho

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So close to GANDISEEG in R2

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 8:42 am It might depend on the measure. TINCLEMEN involved just moving the T to the end but all 9 were out of place.

I wasn't really thinking of conundrums, but yeah that's a bad one

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Has there ever been a less-scrambled 9 than SPCEIATSE? 5 letters in the correct position and the other 4 right next to where they needed to be

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R14 alt. (7+4)×5×10 -3

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Jamie Weisenberg wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:36 pm Just reckless from Tim James. He guessed a silly word - WARFIELD ??!

Also final numbers round was soooo easy. How do you miss that ?

I can only assume Tim didn't have a 7 in that round so had to gamble with Rhys declaring first

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Devastated that the single-syllable adjective rule doesn't allow WANKEST

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R14 alt: (3×8 - 7)×(50 - 1) - 5 = 828

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The Deal or No Deal theme tune was composed by Mat Osman, Suede bassist and brother of Richard

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:46 pm (given that they must be pre-selected to some extent as there aren't 20 on display)

There are, though? Two rows of 7 and one row of 6

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Couple of nice LNAFP opportunities

R9. I can't remember what the numbers were exactly but 49x9 was on
R13. (10+4)×9 -4-1

DISENTAIL as an alt in the DENIALIST round

Doctor Tom is settling in well, does the job competently with no nonsense and excellent Lego hair

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Seems a nice person, good debut. That was filmed after Stephen Fry got his knighthood so is this the first time that a Doctor and a Sir have appeared in the same episode? We've certainly had Doctor/Dame before (Anne-Marie Imafidon/Prue Leith in Series 84), and Doctor/Honorary KBE Who Can't Technica...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:57 pm Seems a nice person, good debut. That was filmed after Stephen Fry got his knighthood so is this the first time that a Doctor and a Sir have appeared in the same episode?

Surely one of the contestants in one of Sir Tim Rice's 120 appearances must have had a PhD

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Watching the 24th Jan episode... sorry, I know it's only Catsdown but PENISROTA is a bs conundrum. What if Big Zuu had whipped ISOPTERAN out of the bag, what then?!

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Update: wallet has been found! Almost immediately after I'd ordered replacements for everything in it, naturally

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Re: amplification, I'm happy to sling my PA in my car boot for any events I'm driving to

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Thank you Ben, hope it's not too much of an inconvenience

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Random one, did anyone find a wallet in the Clubhouse bar on Saturday night? Small, black metal thing with a few bank cards and a driving licence in. I seem to have misplaced mine somewhere

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This is the first episode I remember - the absolute gimme of a 7 in round two has stuck with me. But I was definitely watching for a couple of years before that

https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_1274

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Late 80s-early 90s all the way through to Richard Whiteley's death, then a long break until Anne Robinson started presenting

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It has been a while since episode 7341

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What's the highest maximum score potential recorded in the standard 15 round game? (Episode 8400's was 165.) 175 - https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6745 , https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_7341 and https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_7945 . It'll be a while before we hit those heights again with the...

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The MOTD-Countdown pipeline only flows one way. Lineker as next Countdown host?

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Wet Wet Wetwang
Wet-Wang Clan

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Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 3:56 pm Adam Latchford popping up in one of my education videos at work: https://youtu.be/WBYOWeFZqQ4?si=Ah0PzEs8Bs873wzJ&t=269

That's not a lookalike, that's just Adam putting in an accent

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JAEGERS as a beater in R10

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Monday's challenger Donna Hurd and Debra Jo Rupp

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I did (50+8)×(5+5) -75 and (5+1)×75 +50+5 in the 30 seconds

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Surprised nobody has asked this yet, but on the show which contestant has submitted the most words that were both added as part of the great influx of 2015 and subsequently recently removed? Can anyone beat four in https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_8024 - RITUALITY, HENWARE, MIAGITE and OSETROVA? E...

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Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:17 am Surprised nobody has asked this yet, but on the show which contestant has submitted the most words that were both added as part of the great influx of 2015 and subsequently recently removed?

Can anyone beat four in https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_8024 - RITUALITY, HENWARE, MIAGITE and OSETROVA?

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Only 24 players have won teapots on 2 occasions (teapots weren't awarded prior to series 40 or that number would have been higher) 5 of the 24 played in CoCXVI, making it the most teapot-heavy Champion of Champions ever. I think I'm the only person to have won a teapot on the same date of two diffe...

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CALICOS as an alt in R2

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What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method? It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. Yo...

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it's in the tails of the distribution things get interesting. with the old dic: ~1 in 52.6 games you could score more than 145. with the new dic that's down to just 1 in 12.2 ! This is the really interesting bit for me - a player capable of hitting 154+ is now much, much less likely to encounter a ...

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I don't have Oxford Dictionaries Premium but I just had a quick check and if I'm right only two of the 9s in Ell's octorun (NODALIZES and POSTERIAD) will no longer be valid, so he would likely still have comfortably beaten 1000 with this dictionary. NEOTERISM is gone; along with various other maxes...

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Nobody's ever going to get near Cillian/Tom/Elliott's points records without all the extra words are they? This whole era of Countdown will be looked back on like the few years of swimming where LZRs weren't banned

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Channel 4 trying to avoid giving Elon Musk free advertising

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What were the nicknames he had for all eight? Arthur "A5" Page Mark "To Win" Finnerty (and beyond) Toby "2 Small" Byfield I don't think he had one for Jessica or Mark G? Michael "The Ice Man" Calder Jack "The Cat" Harvey No nickname for Isabel eithe...

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So many missed opportunities to name check the previous Michael Calder when talking about "names engraved on the trophy"
POSAUNE and AENEOUS as alts in the NGAPEES round

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Carol Vorderman appeared as a guest on HIGNFY on Friday, with former contestant Little Alex Horne as host. Is this the first time a former contestant has hosted a TV show with a former/current Countdown team member as a participant? (excluding Catsdown) Carol has also been on Beat the Chasers oppos...

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Colin must have seen a few of the obvious 8s and decided to applaud regardless of what the challenger actually said. Ended up looking a bit of a numpty

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Equally fun fact: this Richard Williams is not the subject of the biopic King Richard, that was about tennis or some such nonsense. My disappointment knows no bounds

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Amazed that HANDIES doesn't have an Australian (vulgar slang) entry in the dictionary yet, though I doubt Susie would have mentioned it in any case

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 11:59 am116?!

Yep, that was in the grand final too. 117 in his octorun. Scoring in every round will do that for you

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JackHurst wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 10:19 am - Lowest score is 110. Has any series champ done better than that?

Luke Johnson-Davies 112, Tom Stevenson 116, Zarte 111

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Looking out for that sweet AERUGOS hat-trick on Monday

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He'll be disappointed with that, seemed like an eminently gettable con. Also would have been the highest ever score without a 9

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ISOPOD as a DC beater in R11 and PRESCIENT as another alternative 9 in R12

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There was reference to the fact that yesterday's game featured two players born in the 21st century. My quarter-final game was the 1st finals game to feature two players born after the millennium. I'd also wager that it is the game with the smallest age difference between two players (5 days), but ...

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Who is the best ever contestant on TV Countdown that isn't involved/is completely oblivious of the professional scene ? By professional, I mean Apterous, CO-events, ZoomDowns etc .. Scott Mearns, Harvey Freeman, Allan Saldanha. I think the question was about contestants of the post-Apto era, though...

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