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More interesting spots from David. UPEND as an Alt in R13.

When was the last time three 4-larges were in a show and all three be quite easy? Alt on the last 75x10-25-8.

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QUOINED in R7 as an alt to QUINONE. ISOLATES in R13.

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Must have been great to start with a 9! Well done David.

Equallers TOWAI in R7, MASTICS in R8 and IMPOSTS in R12.

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Question on "Only Connect" BBC 4 on 19th November. What comes fourth: 'The Premiership' 'Today with Des & Mel' 'Soccer Saturday' on Sky Sports The first team didn't get it and it was passed over to the team led by S65 contestant Dave Taylor, who knew it was Countodown related, Victoria...

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Another one they missed was INTAKES in R7.

Well done Heather - time to donate some money to your charity! http://www.justgiving.com/countdown-challenge

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Thanks Tom - I will have to put up the player's list. Others have promised to come too.

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Well done Heather for some great spots.

I got MEANIES as an alt in R13. Several alts for the last two numbers.

I guess the earlier start will mean the horse racing will kick Countdown off more often than before.

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Countdown was mentioned in the introductory piece to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue on Radio 4, Monday 12th November. As the show was coming from Dunstable, Jack Dee explained that Carol Vorderman had been born there and that she left Countodwn when they tried to cut her million pound salary by 90 perce...

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Likewise in R1 and R2 MEDIANS. Alts in R3 OPIATES, R4 MITHER, R8 DEVOUR and R13 EQUANTS.

Well done Heather on another good win!

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szodiac wrote:Round 10: Liked the excellent number spot by Heather

I liked the way Heather went for a defensive last vowel after GODETIAS was in the first 8 letters in R13.
At least 4 ways to make 998 that I found in the 30s.

FUSTIAN as an alt to AUNTIES in R4 and lots of 8s of course for RETAINS+MO in R8.

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szodiac wrote:Round 1: Two words found in Oxford (but not in Collins/Scrabble) FOOTSURE and FORCEOUT. And you can put an S on the end of FORCEOUT for 9 !

Mauro

No sorry Mauro, force out is two words in ODE3 so not valid.

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I've only got an old dictionary - is medivacs valid? Yes - listed under MEDEVAC (noun). Mauro In ODE3 it has it's own "see MEDEVAC" entry and it's a verb too. ADVICE as beater in R3, LADDOOS in R13. I was also pleased with FERMIONS in R9 before Susie's 9. Well done Heather for surviving t...

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The shows were The Generation Game, Countdown, Blankety Blank, Allstar Family Fortunes/Family Fortunes, Stars in their Eyes and Name that Tune. Spoilers now follow: The CD hosts scored as follows Nick Hewer 1, Jeff Stelling 7, Des O'Connor 10, Des Lynam 6 and Richard Whitely 29 (third highest answer...

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is MONSIEUR valid in the OED? That was my initial thought as an equaller in the MOURNERS round. No it is capitalised. Did the first numbers by what is presumably the other of Rachel's "couple of ways": (10+6)x25-((8-1)x3). Well done to Heather again. Shame she missed the classic 9 though....

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Malcolm James wrote:R11
SWAPTION?

I got SWAPTION as SWAPTIONS was found by DC on one of my shows.

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Mark Deeks wrote:BIGHEAD not valid on Apterous. I want a refund.

Shouldn't be valid on Countdown either as it is hyphenated. I had HOAGIE and BODEGA as 6s in that round. Any 7s?

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Jolly well done to Heather! I gulped when Philip said 9 on the waterside round but I worried in vain. Liked the appropriate condundrum too. Alt 1st numbers ((9x8)+1)x6)-10-10 (though sadly out of time). Alt in R3 NOURISH, R12 PAROLED and R13 ROMANCES. And don't foget to support her charity at http:/...

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Bob De Caux wrote:R10: (2*75-6)*(1+1)-25 = 263

Unfortunately the 2 was a 9. It is possible by two ways - both quite hard - one envolving making a 4 digit number.

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HAMATES as another beater in R7 and UNMEANT in R2. Alt for first numbers was to subtract 6 not 4, and the obvious way on the last was (100-25)x8-10-3-5.

Knew about the time change from the discussions on here, but didn't know the date - thanks Mauro.

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We are running the second COREA (Countdown in Reading) on the Saturday of Easter weekend, 30th March 2013, in Woodley in Reading. Full details at http://www.kisekigo.com/corea13 We will be again raising money for charity and planning lots of Easter fun. *** Stop press - we will be playing the new (y...

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Thanks Greme for the recap. On playing it through I was leading for a while thanks to PETANQUE and got all the numbers to only lose on the Conundrum. Well done to Innis for another win.

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The other beater I got was CORBIES in R12.

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Countdown recap for Monday 24 March 2003. C1: Champion Beth Sutton (2 wins, 159 points.) C2: Challenger Keith WIlliams. DC: Alison Hearn and Dr Raj Persaud. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: M U R C T A I C I R02: L G T E A O Q N M R03: R D I S E H T U L R04: R X P G A O I R T ...

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I had several equallers, my favouite of which was BATTUE in R7.

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Note that BIASSED is now invalid (in case you play this classic game online).

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Grant Waters wrote:Well played by Amy. She must have had a moment when Dave buzzed
on the crucial but then said "no idea, just wanted to buzz!"

Not sure Nick should have allowed him to offer an answer at the end of his explanation. He may have got it by then...

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First time we have had adjacent champions with the same surname since Tom Barnes beat Cliff Barnes back in S64 (May 2011). No doubt James can tell us when the previous time was (at was at least before 2003), or is this the second time ever? Well, Wayne Summers, the winner of Series 24, was beaten b...

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Not sure how Mauro missed VOMITER in R3. NOWNESS is another beater alongside WANNESS in R4.

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First time we have had adjacent champions with the same surname since Tom Barnes beat Cliff Barnes back in S64 (May 2011). No doubt James can tell us when the previous time was (at was at least before 2003), or is this the second time ever?

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Alt numbers: 1st (((5+1)x6)+50)x10+7, 2nd 100+75+(5x8)+4-1

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Yes very well done by Rose. I loved the way every declaration she made ended with a tiny question mark.

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I always kept thinking and scribbling even if I had a 9, just looking for an alternative solution to avoid all that paper passing, as well as the aspect of not giving a clue to the other player. In the first numbers of my third show Cliff Barnes sat back in about 10 seconds so I knew I was missing s...

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I had CANTEEN in r13 and there are other 7s too. RAINOUTS as an 8 in the INSULATOR round.

Did the second numbers out of time doing 12x58. (931 is best on the last btw)

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Jayne Wisniewski wrote:Well done Tom - I'm sure Tony will be pleased that you got the 'Go' question right!

Yes - good show Tom!

BTW Tom was a junior Go player for Reading School and won a team prize at the British Youth in 2007.

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MEDICOS as a beater in R6.

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Jordan F wrote:Couldn't Rose have put an R at the end of her GREASE for GREASER? I always thought that was in.

Is PALETTE a valid spelling of the word?

It is the only spelling, I believe, and is a beater in round 8.

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szodiac wrote:Round four: like with GREASE + R why not PRESAGE + R as well ? Definitely a Scrabble word

Mauro

PRESAGER is fine but I didn't risk it.

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szodiac wrote:First numbers game different (simpler) solution: (((9+9) x 8) + 1)

Mauro

That's the second numbers game - another method ((9+8)x(9+1))-(100-75).
Alt for the first ((50-8-1)x8)-75. Both were sadly for me out of time.

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If Nick Turner really had omitted to wite down the solution in the first numbers game, then he was unlucky as he would
have won by a point otherwise. If he had tried to wing it then an alt solution is (75+5+8-2)x10+2. It seems 393 or 395 is
best on the last one.

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Not mentioned so far was Phyl Styles winning B divison. Heather Styles did the Rachel bit and Alan Styles played the event too. Others taking part were Paul Worsley (B runner up), Stewart Gordon, Anna Woodward and Damian Banks. Best way to find out about these events seems to be to make sure you are...

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Here are the other 6 games without answers. Game 1 - 15 rounds IOIWNRPIA MACADETSL RNQGEOETE INVTEEIPS 1 2 5 9 10 50 = 498 UDMEYLUTI WOFOSEPXI DGREUAHES BDSAOETBR 9 7 8 7 3 75 = 275 OEGCDANRI CUNEFETZU RLJYOOEES 8 4 1 6 5 100 = 242 GISARDINI (con) Game 2 - 15 rounds SUHELERUO VPROEEONW CMSAOADTO LEG...

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Here are the selections for the finals (no answers)

PRSVIUEIK
EDSSEIIOG
6 4 25 50 75 100 = 683
OHRBMUIEY
VTLYAIITT
2 4 1 3 5 75 = 591
ROUNDMICE (con)
AFXWAISNR
DRBCOIEAG
3 9 2 8 10 100 = 896
TFRREIEZU
ETNJIWAUS
8 10 25 50 75 100 = 259
UISOLDIER (con)

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I was hoping for an A to be the last vowel in R1 to get "my 9" DRAMATISE, but had to settle for the E which gave the 3 nines. A strong performance from Tia - well done.

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I liked the Touchdown Teaser of BOSSYBAY=BOBSTAYS!

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Nice to see another apeterite playing in the form of Ryan Sword, but ratings predicted the outcome.

Was NITROUS a beater in R8?

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DRAGONET as alt to DRAGOMEN in R7. (8x75)+100-(2x6) as alt last numbers.

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Most of the solutions to the first numbers involve make 965 and dividing by 5 (taking to the seconds ads to solve), but the 35/5=7 solution is nicer.

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AVIATES in R3?

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Peter Mabey wrote:Thanks for this, as 4oD doesn't have it.

Does anyone know why

It was uploaded finally on 27th September - is this a record?

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Martin Long wrote:I'd have gone for OVERBOIL in round 13.

I was thinking of the invalid blokier.

Sorry to see Jessica lose - at least she is still the reigning COREA Junior Champion.

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NARDOOS in round 2 and ACUPOINT in round 1. Also saw UNPACKERS in round 6 but didn't go for it. Turns out it's valid. :x Susie talked about PLUTONIC being similar sounding to PLATONIC but did say it was also there. I was happy with SPANKER in the UNPACKERS round (it is a sail of course). Sorry that...

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Mark Deeks wrote:Bit of a bad break for Liam there, cos that is how you spell Alsatians.

But of course no plurals or proper nouns in conundrums was the clue.

Alt for second numbers but well out of time: (8x75)+(4x(50+5))-9=811.

Also I tried floriates for 9 in R2 but only floriated is valid.

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And Gerri won two games - she also beat Natalie Willbe. (Nice dolls)

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COPULA as alt to CUPOLA and had PERIDOT as alt to PAROTID until DC beat it. Only managed 710 outside the time like RR.
Anyway well done Kerry - a solid apterite performance.

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I always thought Jimmy Carr would have been the perfect host after Richard died.....

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peter lee wrote:Wow New Max on the cards today

Unless there were some DC beaters, I made it max 151 which is 1 below the leader board.

Oddest selections of letters ever? Two RETAINS+, two VAUNTERS, two FOREGUT(S) and three nines (not that I got them).

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No I didn't spot it, but it's 3:57 in if you want to see it - just after introducing Mark Foster.

Equallers: COSYING in R8 and PEARLIES in R9, and beware DOUGHS is invalid in Apterous.

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I wasn't sure who to cheer for: Edward being my series or Graeme being my town. So ended up just cheering for good play and got plenty of that. Well done to both for a high standard game. Alt for last numbers - well out of time - (((5x25)+9+10)x6)+3. Lots of ways of making 946 in the second... so ba...

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Well done again Chris, and well done to Brian for a close match.

I did the second numbers (75-2)x(9+4)-10. Lots of equallers around, did anyone find any beaters?

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Well done again to Chris for continuing to follow my record by beating up a young woman.... hope he doesn't get a pub landlord with blue dreadlocks tomorrow! Shame Philippa didn't do better on the numbers so that the conundrum wasn't crucial. I got very excited with VILENESS in R11 until the 9 was r...

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