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by sean d
Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:33 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Countdown puzzles
Replies: 38
Views: 11091

Countdown puzzles

A couple of Countdown related things I've been pondering.... Is it possible to have a legitimate letters selection where the max is a 2 (or 1) letter word? Perhaps something like... U U U U X J Q Z K And we've all seen people going going way above 1,000 during a numbers solution, but what's the high...
by sean d
Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:19 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Calculating one's own score
Replies: 19
Views: 4823

Re: Calculating one's own score

I play against each contestant, though if its obvious I'm going to win comfortably against one or the other I'll stop counting. Hard to resist the temptation to give myself the benefit of the doubt when playing the likes of Giles! (Ah yeh, I would have declared that dodgy 8 that turns out to be legi...
by sean d
Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:01 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
Replies: 1961
Views: 1044568

Re: Welcome! - Post here first

First time posting... be gentle with me! I'm a long time fan of the show and delighted to stumble across the forum, the database and Apterous. Getting quite hooked on Apterous now I have to say! Anyway, I had a successful audition in Dublin a month or so ago, so I'm guessing I'll appear on the next ...