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Steve Hyde

Great job making this! Cheers - and thanks for sharing your algorithms/distributions etc! Not sure if the name will stand the test of time though... Yeah I am having second thoughts on that one! Blame Steve ;) You can't blame me, I'm not even sure it was my favourite of the two names I suggested! N...

Steve Hyde

There are three possible letters picks (3V6C, 4V5C, 5V4C)

There are 5 possible numbers picks (6S, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L)

I'm not sure how any sensible combination of these plus one conundrum adds up to 14 rounds

Steve Hyde

Howie Myers wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:10 am r5: DRAFTIER (US spelling of draughtier?)

Yeah, US spelling so not valid. I had that as well

Steve Hyde

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:29 am This might be more apt for the Apterous thread but how about a Countdown Game with 14 rounds 5 of every permittable vowel and consonant combinations ( for each player to choose) numbers rounds with every combination ( from 6 small to 4 large) and a conundrum as usual at the end

So... 21 rounds?

Steve Hyde

And the more common BODEGA

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The only word that the challenger scored points with was ORGASM, what an absolute legend

Steve Hyde

Here's one I think I will get outvoted against on. The Grand Final for EOY FOCAL finals should be a 15r game. Keep the 7 heat games as 9rs, but make the GF 15r :) Throughout the year, most events use 9r as the format, but there is some variation - we have some Goatdown, some 14r events, and some 15...

Steve Hyde

What would people think of doing away with tie-break conundrums and allowing draws to happen? There isn't the same need to declare a winner that the TV show has, and I feel like achieving level scores over 9 rounds should count for slightly more than a defeat and slightly less than a win. Also avoid...

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:00 pm LAIRDIES in R4

Beaten by RIVALISED

Steve Hyde

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

Steve Hyde

I'm making a play for the non-Apterite belt!

Steve Hyde

Second George should be George Baker I think

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MISSUS in round 4 for a surprisingly common beater

Steve Hyde

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:00 pm It's moot unless any of the contestants answered the alternate choices

It's annoying for those of us playing along in the app

Steve Hyde

For the record I don't really think EFF is commonly used enough to be a valid answer, regardless of how many times I used it during last night's episode. I was trying to avoid spoilers. OUR and WHY definitely are though

Steve Hyde

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

Steve Hyde

Dan Byron and Fiona Titcombe advertising craft apprenticeships on Twitter
https://twitter.com/heritage_crafts/sta ... XSrEw&s=19

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DIATOMS too

Steve Hyde

I'm a big fan of the badges. I'd like to see a few that are either achievable by any player at any time, or more "consolation prize" type things for people who aren't having such a good day. e.g. one for losing multiple crucial conundrums, or perhaps a "too hot for TV" badge for ...

Steve Hyde

Fiona T wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:52 am happy to lend a shower if anyone fancies joining me!

Steve Hyde

It's probably disingenuous for someone who wasn't at an event to give feedback on it, but: the Fox and Hounds was always integral to my Co:Lin experience. The way that 35 or so people who would never otherwise go to the pub together, would go to the pub together, get embroiled in the world's longes...

Steve Hyde

It's definitely in ODO, informal term for hamstrings or hamstring injuries

Steve Hyde

DRAINCOCK (noun): A valve for draining the water from a boiler. No verb form, surprisingly

Steve Hyde

SEALPOINT must be ANTIPOLES since Viraj played the singular in the last series final. Boardwalk is BROADWALK, which doesn't even make an interesting conundrum scramble, ditto BLOCKWOOD and BROADHEAD

Steve Hyde

BONGRACE (noun): A projecting brim or shade attached to the front of a bonnet or headdress, protecting the wearer's face from the sun. Also figurative and in extended use

Well, that's a disappointing definition if I ever heard one

Steve Hyde

Up to a point, it really doesn't which words plus arbitrary collections of letters masquerading as words we use, so long as there is a definitive list of them. I'd strongly suggest the position for all events in the short term should be "just use the Apterous dictionary", whether it be vi...

Steve Hyde

I don't think DANCIER is valid either. I had ARANEID in that round, but DC got an 8 so it's moot anyway

Steve Hyde

GRUNTLED in R1. Susie mentions it every couple of weeks in OOW, surprised she didn't spot it here

Steve Hyde

Any Countdowners going to be on it that we know of?

Steve Hyde

Letter Quest and Spellspire are both fun. The differences from the Countdown dictionary can get annoying though

Steve Hyde

Erroneous beefeater witnessed ovulating, from series 85, is one hell of a tabloid headline

Steve Hyde

The upset was there for the taking, I feel. No particularly tricky numbers rounds and only one or two obscure maxes in the letters. No shame in losing to Harry but Paul might have a few regrets, should have been 16 points up at the first break then who knows what would have happened.

Steve Hyde

Howie Myers wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:21 pm r7: UNELASTIC

Not in the Countdown dictionary unfortunately, only INELASTIC. Max from that round was 8

Steve Hyde

FORETOPS is going on the "safe anagrams of slightly rude words" list, alongside THIRTIES and EARHOLES

Steve Hyde

He probably has the best anagram-solving qualifications of anyone who has been on the show in the last decade, but I'd still back any one of the Apterites who have made the finals in that time to beat him. Really shows how Apterous has changed the game, armchair Countdowners don't really stand a cha...

Steve Hyde

Apologies for being late on this, but here are the statistics for Series 88! Feel free to discuss them here! Here's the sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ibD_GElKJ6HZnHTPwPAukOROHMYS28fPc871mphZBe0/edit?usp=sharing Your #2 and #6 seed tabs are mixed up. Great set of stats though! Makes...

Steve Hyde

Difficult to look beyond Harry for the title, but Viraj might take a numbers round or two off him if Cecil is in a cooperative mood. Ben is a dark horse - clearly didn't have the depth of dictionary knowledge of a top Apterite in his heat games, but hardly missed any of the words that he did know. O...

Steve Hyde

Episode 1504 is the only time 100 has been both a target and a starting number. This opens the question of whether a method of just "100" would be a valid solution. The rules in the contestant agreement I was sent in 2011 say "... the contestants should attempt to devise an arithmeti...

Steve Hyde

In today's episode a contestant scored points by declaring 99 in a numbers round. Has this ever happened before?

Steve Hyde

Apropos of nothing, what is the smallest number vowels ever picked by an Octochamp across their entire octorun? Has anyone managed a perfect 120? Hi! This question caught my eye as it may be a record for me! (Episodes 8112-8119) I think I chose 4 vowels on 4 occasions, choosing 3 vowels in all of m...

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I was surprised by WEDGIED not being allowed at CO:MK

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:24 pm My mum got EVENSONG in one of the rounds as a beater (round 8 looking at the wiki).

I got GUENONS in that round as a beater, which I guess makes EVENSONG a beater beater

Steve Hyde

R14 alt: ((7*10)+5)*9 + (8-2)

I will always remember KENDOIST from its falseagram DONKIEST

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125 points without spotting a 9 - only Elliott Mellor has ever scored more

Steve Hyde

One of the tea-time teasers was BEENBALD, and Colin made a point of spelling the BEEN part. Lucky I looked up at the screen just before it went off, because I thought I was trying to solve BEENBOLD! Enobbled (when the King knights you, but instead of using the traditional sword on the shoulder, tak...

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R11 alt: CLEOPATRA (a type of butterfly, which may or may not come at ya)

DC and Fran managed to max the letters rounds between them, solid stuff all round

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UNSNARLED in the round where one of the contestants got SNARLED, bad miss from DC

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:02 pm I'm not sure it would be a great idea to start naming people.

What do you mean? I can't see a single possible issue with establishing the Kountdown Kangaroo Kourt, or 'KKK' for short

Steve Hyde

Do you have a quick way to produce a list of teapot owners, who won their first game by <10 points, and solved one of the numbers rounds in the same way as their opponent after declaring second?

https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/171 ... 8EnYw&s=19

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Virginia Bottomley - I'm an evil Tory bigot

Steve Hyde

In Round 2, there were 25 sevens, but no eights or longer: DILUTER, DIOPTRE, DROPLET, ETOURDI, EUPLOID LEPROID, OUTLIED, OUTLIER, OUTRIDE, PELTOID PERIDOT, PETROIL, PILOTED, PLOITED, PLOUTED PLOUTER, POITREL, POLITER, POULTED, POULTER POUTIER, PROTEID, PROTIDE, PTEROID, TRIPLED Disclaimer, I didn’t...

Steve Hyde

Bad day at the office for DC today with a lot of beaters. 4 and 13 at least you'd expect Susie to spot on a good day
R1. MONERGIST
R4. DOMINEER
R11. TRIDUA
R12. MADWORT
R13. REPELLANT as stated above

Steve Hyde

Apropos of nothing, what is the smallest number vowels ever picked by an Octochamp across their entire octorun? Has anyone managed a perfect 120?

Steve Hyde

R10. EGGCORN as a lovely alt

Steve Hyde

I always think it's a bit strange when both contestants get the same x away from the target with different methods when spot on is quite doable. One for the coincidences thread. Methodical thinking is a lot harder in a studio environment compared to anagrams. I also think the former requires more t...

Steve Hyde

In Round 2, there were 25 sevens, but no eights or longer: DILUTER, DIOPTRE, DROPLET, ETOURDI, EUPLOID LEPROID, OUTLIED, OUTLIER, OUTRIDE, PELTOID PERIDOT, PETROIL, PILOTED, PLOITED, PLOUTED PLOUTER, POITREL, POLITER, POULTED, POULTER POUTIER, PROTEID, PROTIDE, PTEROID, TRIPLED Disclaimer, I didn’t...

Steve Hyde

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:49 pm ADMIRALS in round 10 as a beater.

ARMLOADS and DIORAMAS also. Unusual for DC to be beaten by so many relatively common words

Steve Hyde

R3: (4*2*100)-75-1 seemed like a much simpler way of getting 724 than Rick Edwards' method

R14 alt: 9*100 + (9+7)*2

Steve Hyde

The app now has a subscription feature which gives unlimited access to Jokerdown, Decadown and Mini rules, as well as a new 30 round "Triathlon" format. There's also the word check screen (which has a new "add 2 letters" section, and a couple of stats screens with graphs. I plan...

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Howie Myers wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:12 am r11 alt: PURPLES maybe.....

PURPLE is fine to have an S put on the end in its verb form. If in doubt you can always make SUPPLER from the same letters

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