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- Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's happened to dictionary definitions being shown on screen?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1092
Re: What's happened to dictionary definitions being shown on screen?
Is that what they said - it looked rubbish? Or are you just hazarding a guess? Furthermore, at the moment I don't remember being unable to see it properly. And you would have thought it would have been sorted out by now.
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 8th December 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 112)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 989
Re: Spoilers for Friday 8th December 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 112)
I was surprised nobody mentioned OVENING in round 10. I'm also surprised that it doesn't seem to be a word according to ODO, but would have thought someone would have at least queried it.
(If I try searching for it it gives me "micro-ovening". It's even weirder that that's in there.)
(If I try searching for it it gives me "micro-ovening". It's even weirder that that's in there.)
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's happened to dictionary definitions being shown on screen?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1092
What's happened to dictionary definitions being shown on screen?
Back in the day, we had the pencam.
When the laptop was introduced to replace the paper ODE, the pencam was replaced with superimposing a screenshot of the ODO over the central portion of the screen.
However, they then stopped doing this. Does anybody have any idea why?
When the laptop was introduced to replace the paper ODE, the pencam was replaced with superimposing a screenshot of the ODO over the central portion of the screen.
However, they then stopped doing this. Does anybody have any idea why?
- Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:33 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Count to Infinity in Pictures
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9544
Re: Count to Infinity in Pictures
This game doesn't seem to be moving ... let's give it some of this stuff:


- Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 26th September 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 60)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1265
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 26th September 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 60)
At the risk of telling the world how far behind I am with Countdowns.... Malaphor. I've come across the concept but had no idea there was a word for it. The 'Mangled Expressions' section here has a few examples of these. The one I've heard quite a bit in my time is "get the short end of the stick".
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 142
- Views: 10645
Re: How many countries have you been to?
Vatican City (dubious if this is counted) OF COURSE THIS COUNTS. Wait what? That's a sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right? I went there while I was in Rome. So 9. Vatican City is one of the two sovereign states that aren't UN members - the other being Taiwan. At least, I'm not...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 142
- Views: 10645
Re: How many countries have you been to?
Not quite at the bottom of the list with 6/197 (3/4):
United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Republic of Ireland, Belgium (purely by the 10-minute rule), Finland (England, Scotland, Wales)
United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Republic of Ireland, Belgium (purely by the 10-minute rule), Finland (England, Scotland, Wales)
- Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Glasgow & Co:GlasgowOnThen
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3742
Re: Co:Glasgow & Co:GlasgowOnThen
I'm confused. The Facebook event page says it's cancelled, but the indication here and on the entry form is that it's still going ahead. Which is correct?
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 13 June 2017
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1355
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 13 June 2017
Looks like MATEY now has a variant form MATY. So by standard English rules, MATIES would be the plural. But if (as Susie implied) the dictionary doesn't explicitly give the plural, then according to something we were told once upon a time the plural would be MATYS. Unless it's changed since that tim...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:52 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Count to Infinity in Pictures
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9544
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Set designs and opening sequences over the years
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1246
Set designs and opening sequences over the years
Has anybody kept track of these?
It would be good to have a full list, or as near to a full list as we can, of the various sets and title sequences and the range of series for which each was used. And maybe start a page or two on the wiki....
It would be good to have a full list, or as near to a full list as we can, of the various sets and title sequences and the range of series for which each was used. And maybe start a page or two on the wiki....
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 2:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Has MOTLIER ever actually been valid?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1053
Re: Has MOTLIER ever actually been valid?
I see. So the dictionary that used to be freely available (and which Countdown use) has now been hidden behind a paywall, and a cut-down version has been sneakily put in its place. And so now only subscribers to Oxford Dictionaries Premium can verify if a word validation error has been made on the s...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Has MOTLIER ever actually been valid?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1053
Has MOTLIER ever actually been valid?
It seems that on a handful of occasions this word has been given by a contestant, and each time allowed. I've just checked the dictionary, and from what I can make out it isn't a valid word at all. There is no entry for MOTLIER, MOTLY or MOTLIE on en.oxforddictionaries.com. The entry for MOTLEY does...
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 4:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 24th April 2017
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1539
Re: Spoilers for Monday, 24th April 2017
Yes, as I guessed, OUTBOX as a verb means to be better at boxing than someone else. On the other hand, INBOX as a verb is somewhat more puzzling. To my surprise, ODO tells me the email meaning of OUTBOX is an Americanism. What's it called on these shores then? I always thought it was called an outbo...
- Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 17th April 2017
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1637
Re: Spoilers for Monday 17th April 2017
Susie talked about expletives. I knew about the literal meaning being 'filler word'. According to Wikipedia, this includes something not mentioned in Susie's piece: words such as "it" and "there" when used as grammatical placeholders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_expletive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_expletive
- Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 13 February 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 25)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1088
Re: Spoilers for Monday 13 February 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 25)
Do you reckon CUTLERIES would have been allowed in round 4? (Where does the scope of the 'portions' rule begin and end?)
Also, there was no mention of PULSATOR in round 11.
Also, there was no mention of PULSATOR in round 11.
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 3:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thusday August 25th 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1483
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many UK cities have you been to?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2306
Re: How many UK cities have you been to?
Chipping in a bit late here (and if I've counted correctly):
England: 15 (17 if you include having changed trains there; 16 if you include those that later became cities; 18 if you include both)
Wales: 0
Scotland: 1
Northern Ireland: 0
England: 15 (17 if you include having changed trains there; 16 if you include those that later became cities; 18 if you include both)
Wales: 0
Scotland: 1
Northern Ireland: 0
- Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1079
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
You wouldn't speak of "a tinsel" or "five tinsel", therefore it's nonsense. Speaking nonsense in the name of saving time is a false economy.
I'm pretty sure her usual "shortcut" explanation is "you can't pluralise it"....
I'm pretty sure her usual "shortcut" explanation is "you can't pluralise it"....
- Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1079
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
Joe asked if TINSELS would be valid. So TINSEL is the word that Susie was claiming is singular, plural and a mass noun all at the same time. (Which might actually be true of some words, but they would be distinct subcategories of noun to which the word belongs, not ways of saying the same thing.)
- Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1079
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 25th October 2016
I have trouble believing Susie managed to make this fundamental error: "Yes, same in the plural. It's a mass noun, in other words." Somebody of her standing certainly shouldn't be confusing the two concepts.
- Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: On the mass noun restaurant rule
- Replies: 9
- Views: 984
Re: On the mass noun restaurant rule
The point is that something appearing on a menu seems to be an invitation for people to stick an S (or ES or whatever) on the end of a word regardless of how its usually pluralised or indeed whether it is usually pluralised What are the exact rules about the "S (or ES or whatever)"? I think we need...
- Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Nottingham V- Saturday 23rd July 2016
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3635
Re: Countdown in Nottingham V- Saturday 23rd July 2016
What are people thinking of doing about lunch?
- Tue May 17, 2016 6:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dress and make-up when appearing on show
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1910
Re: Dress and make-up when appearing on show
What sort of dress and make-up do the production team insist on for contestants appearing on the show? I am asking this for a serious reason. I was on in 2007. What I remember being told is: Not white No logos or patterns, other than wide stripes Preferably not round-necked T-shirts for men (why me...
- Fri May 06, 2016 12:50 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 21 April 2016 (Series 74 Episode 57)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1069
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 21 April 2016 (Series 74 Episode 57)
How many meanings of DINGBAT are people here familiar with? It seems odd to me that Nick apparently knew only the "crazy person" meaning. I knew both meanings (crazy person and crazy Unicode character), but was surprised that the clue was basically just a dictionary definition/description of only t...
- Mon May 02, 2016 2:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 29 April 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 63)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 627
Re: Spoilers for Friday 29 April 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 63)
No Susie, the French for "to the right" is "à droite", not "à droit". The two words are very closely related, but you have to be careful not to confuse them when giving or interpreting directions.
- Sun Apr 24, 2016 5:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 21 April 2016 (Series 74 Episode 57)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1069
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 21 April 2016 (Series 74 Episode 57)
How many meanings of DINGBAT are people here familiar with? It seems odd to me that Nick apparently knew only the "crazy person" meaning.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 20th April
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1098
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 20th April
Of WORSER, "According to the rules of Countdown, we'd allow it, because WORSE is a single syllable." So the rules now say you can put the -ER on any single-syllable word? And so a lot of these agent nouns that have been rejected in the past are now valid? Even if she meant only single-syllable adjec...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 2:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday April 18th 2016
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1015
Re: Spoilers For Monday April 18th 2016
Maybe. But on this basis I ought to have come across at least one commentary that includes a comment to the effect of "If this were the opposite of anything, it would be 'hevelled'".Gavin Chipper wrote:People see the "dis" and think of that even though that would make it dis-hevelled.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 1:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday April 18th 2016
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1015
Re: Spoilers For Monday April 18th 2016
Not for the first time, Susie spoke about words like "gruntled", "kempt" and "couth". It seems that "shevelled" always comes up in discussions of this nature. Susie gives it as an example of "where we think only the opposite exists". It puzzles me that these discussions seemingly always fail to even...
- Sun Apr 17, 2016 12:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday March 31st 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 44)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1030
Re: Spoilers for Thursday March 31st 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 44)
Exactly. Well said.Gavin Chipper wrote:You definitely want to look right as the last thing you do before crossing. That's where you'd get hit from as you step into the road.
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 9:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday March 31st 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 44)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1030
Re: Spoilers for Thursday March 31st 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 44)
Tim Vine was taught the Green Cross Code as "look left, then look right, then look left again". Opposite of what my mum taught me and what seems to make most sense. Do you think he learned it from someone in a country that drives on the right? That said, according to every edition of the Highway Cod...
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 1st April 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1131
Re: Spoilers for Friday 1st April 2016
I was taught as a child that you're only allowed to play April Fool before 12:00. But I've always wanted to know who invented that rule.
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 6:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Where have all the recaps gone?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1092
Re: Where have all the recaps gone?
I thought we had multiple recap writers ... so they've all collapsed? :( (I'd volunteer myself, but knowing me I'd probably fall behind with it.) For the meantime, where's the best place to start discussions of things referred to on individual Countdown episodes? For example: the words the contestan...
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 4:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Where have all the recaps gone?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1092
Where have all the recaps gone?
The last one here seems to be from 4 March.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 10:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 18th February 2016 ( Series 74 Prelim 19 )
- Replies: 3
- Views: 909
Re: Thursday 18th February 2016 ( Series 74 Prelim 19 )
Johnny Canuck wrote:Her mind must have only been going a few knots per hour when she said it, I guess.

(Where's the like button when I need it?)
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 10:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 18th February 2016 ( Series 74 Prelim 19 )
- Replies: 3
- Views: 909
Re: Thursday 18th February 2016 ( Series 74 Prelim 19 )
Susie misread the definition of POUNDAL. And everybody seemed blissfully unaware that "an acceleration of one foot per second" makes no sense....
(Not to mention that it actually came out as "icceleration"....)
(Not to mention that it actually came out as "icceleration"....)
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 1:05 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1278
Re: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
What would that be - an adult fefemale human being?Gavin Chipper wrote:There is also WOMAN but no WOWOMAN.
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 6:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1278
Re: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
The male contestant takes first blood with a masculine word which apparently has no feminine equivalent. Nope, not even in the 2016 aptodic update can one be a SHOWWOMAN^. If she were still with us in Recapland, Jen would be outraged. You could well ask. There are loads of feminine words that seem ...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 6:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1278
Re: Tuesday 26 January 2016 (Series 74, Prelim 2)
Do many people realise that, once your opponent has buzzed in and got the conundrum wrong, you have the rest of the time to yourself? Margaret should have taken her time, and checked her answer before buzzing in.
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1409
Re: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
Which is the whole thing I was asking in the first place. Hence my point.Gavin Chipper wrote:We don't have to know literally everything to come up with a "best explanation". My version has the gap of why Susie doesn't/didn't use the pronunciation guide.
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:01 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1409
Re: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
How does this explain why she refuses to use the pronunciation guide?Gavin Chipper wrote:1. She uses the same dictionary as us but doesn't use the pronunciation guide,
How does this explain why she decided not to use it on this occasion?Gavin Chipper wrote:or at least didn't use it on this occasion.
Please stop this silliness.
- Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1409
Re: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
That isn't an explanation at all. It's really just saying the same thing I'm querying (that she guessed the pronunciation rather than referring to any pronunciation guide) in different words.Gavin Chipper wrote:That Susie doesn't look at the pronunciation guide.
- Fri Jan 29, 2016 6:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1409
Re: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
Is that a quote from Susie? Is the point you're making that because she didn't know the pronunciation even though it's specified, she must have been using a different dictionary? Of course. I don't think that's really evidence that they use a different dictionary. What alternative explanation do yo...
- Fri Jan 29, 2016 6:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COREA16 - Saturday 26th March 2016
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3505
Re: COREA16 - Saturday 26th March 2016
Don't start that again.Gavin Chipper wrote:But is it Easter Saturday?Tony Atkins wrote:The fifth COREA (Countdown in Reading) is on the Saturday of Easter weekend
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XII- Countdown in Lincoln, 30-31 January 2016
- Replies: 132
- Views: 11194
Re: COLIN XII- Countdown in Lincoln, 30-31 January 2016
I could have sworn it used to start earlier than that....Ben Wilson wrote:As always, COLIN will begin at 11:30
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:31 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 157
- Views: 31113
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
Those of you who aren't regulars on the wiki might be interested to know that we have a comprehensive list of such people.
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1409
Re: Wednesday 20th January 2016 (CoC XIV, 1st Semi-Final)
"I think 'ow-bwwt' probably." I had to look it up.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... ish/ouboet does give the pronunciation. So it looks like we were wrong, and this isn't the dictionary the show uses after all.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... ish/ouboet does give the pronunciation. So it looks like we were wrong, and this isn't the dictionary the show uses after all.
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XII- Countdown in Lincoln, 30-31 January 2016
- Replies: 132
- Views: 11194
Re: COLIN XII- Countdown in Lincoln, 30-31 January 2016
What are the lunch arrangements this time round?
- Mon Nov 16, 2015 2:21 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 17th Septmeber 2015 ( Series 73 , Prelim 54 )
- Replies: 3
- Views: 742
Re: Thursday 17th Septmeber 2015 ( Series 73 , Prelim 54 )
From which dictionary did Nick get that NYLON comes from London and New York? I was explicitly taught that this isn't the case ... and I would have expected Susie to comment on the matter.
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How do I know if my word is valid?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7202
Re: How do I know if my word is valid?
VASELINE is weird - it's marked as a trademark but it's lowercase. I would say the trademark supersedes the case, as many trademarks have a lowercase initial letter anyway (ebay to name but one - I have always thought of it styled as eBay but maybe I imagined it?). Is the rule that the word must st...
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How do I know if my word is valid?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7202
Re: How do I know if my word is valid?
I'm sure that when the ODO was being put together there were many competing requirements. It's hard to imagine the needs of Countdown being the highest priority. What other requirement would have competed with this one, exactly? I can imagine. The Countdown community would have just been a small bu...
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How do I know if my word is valid?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7202
Re: How do I know if my word is valid?
You'd think that with an online dictionary you could just enter a word in the search box, and if it's a word then it'll find it, and if it isn't then it won't. Sadly, it doesn't seem that this is the case with ODO. For instance, POETRIES brings up POETRY, even though Susie once told us there's no se...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 12:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The restaurant rule
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1279
Re: The restaurant rule
I've just looked it up , and it now gives RAVIOLI as a plural noun. It must have been listed as a mass noun in the dictionary that Countdown used at the time. So now, if they allow RAVIOLIS, then I guess that they would have to allow CHIPSES? Or does it make a difference whether it's listed as a plu...
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:16 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 18th August 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 37)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1170
Re: Tuesday 18th August 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 37)
Different structural forms of the same element are allotropes. It's a similar concept to isomers in that they are different arrangements of the same atoms. But allotropes are necessarily of a single element, and not necessarily at the molecular level as isomers are.
- Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 18th August 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 37)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1170
Re: Tuesday 18th August 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 37)
I'm surprised Susie read out only the nuclear physics definition of ISOMER (an atomic nucleus with the same atomic/mass numbers as another but a different energy state), and not the chemistry one (a compound with the same combination of atoms as another but a different arrangement of the atoms). I'd...
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 8:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 7th July 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 13)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 879
Re: Tuesday 7th July 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 13)
From where did Nick get that Boris Becker was, at 17, the youngest ever Wimbledon winner? According to sources I've seen, it was 15-year-old Lottie Dod in 1887.
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 10:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CoStAl2 - Countdown In St. Albans - Saturday 27th June 2015
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4619
- Mon May 18, 2015 11:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 28th April 2015 (Series 72 Prelim 74)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 740
Re: Tuesday 28th April 2015 (Series 72 Prelim 74)
No mention of whether ANTIQUER would have been valid. Would it? It would have to be listed under this entry , and it's not. Have you established that this is indeed the dictionary Countdown uses now? I wasn't sure whether it was actually the free-for-all one or a more comprehensive one that you hav...
- Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 23rd April 2015 (Series 72 Prelim 72)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1029
Re: Thurrsday 23rd April 2015 (Series 72 Prelim 72)
Susie wasn't sure whether FAILOVERS is a word. It seems to me that it ought to be. But what would have happened if a contestant had tried the word and Susie couldn't make up her mind about it? Is it an 8 you are prepared to gamble if you need the points ? I hope I would manage not to misdeclare it ...