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Johnny Canuck

In Round 13, the combined declarations of the two players contained all the letters in the selection with no repeats. Is this a first? Anyone?

Johnny Canuck

In the car this morning I had on Radio Cornwall and they were talking about a guy who is "obsessed with numbers" and when he was young he wanted to go a different way home from school everyday so he could write down the numbers on lampposts and keep a list. They went on to say that his mo...

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http://www.bartbonte.com/mustpopwords/

Prepare to have hours of study time -- or whatever else productive you had planned -- taken away from you.

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Very appropriate conundrum scramble, given the record that Jonathan's octorun set. I mean, we could all go to the recap thread or the wiki... Yeah, last time I mentioned something like this, I did it on the wiki and no one responded to my comment, so I thought people would notice it more easily in ...

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What's the closest any selection has ever been to TNETENNBA, both (a) disregarding the positions of the letters, and (b) with the letters needing to be in the correct positions?

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Have you -- or anyone else, as far as you know -- made a list of octochamps in order of raw score yet? If so, would you please be able to compile this? (Just the new 15-round format would be fine.) Apologies if this was already asked somewhere, but I was curious about it after doing my last Mocktoru...

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Was this the first-ever double century game where neither player got a 9?

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James Robinson wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:How late into the year does horse racing go? Slightly surprised the weather would still be good enough.
Pretty much all year round, Johnny. They now have all-weather tracks at some courses to counter the threat of rain...

The threat of having too much fun watching Countdown, more like.

Johnny Canuck

How late into the year does horse racing go? Slightly surprised the weather would still be good enough.

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Very appropriate conundrum scramble, given the record that Jonathan's octorun set.

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How do you pronounce "Szewc", anyways?

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szodiac wrote:
Edward Byrne wrote:Vulgate would be a DC beater in round 1
So would VIHUELA

Mauro/(Jessica got it)

Was this round an exact repeat of a round that aired sometime last week?

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JimBentley wrote:Now Jono's ruled himself out, we're 0.00000014285% of the way there! Oh, and it's not me either, so make that 0.0000002857%.

0.00002857% (or just plain 0.0000002857), surely?

Johnny Canuck

With the exception of CoC XII, where it happened with Corby -- he had to be entered into XIII instead. (Possibly Martin Bishop in CoC XIII too, although this seems to be more as a result of them having too many people from Series 59 already.) Sorry to go back to a post from ages back, but have been...

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Today's conundrum solution was the second one in a row that they've stolen from CoC XI.

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James Robinson wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:Also, that conundrum looked strangely familiar.
I actually mentioned that to Dylan (while we were sat together in the audience) during the time that it was one of your CoC conundrums.

Just shows how much the standard has increased since then...

Johnny Canuck

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

(That says "who?" -- bring on the draw!)

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The draw for CoC 13 was announced late in October, with filming taking place a few weeks later. So it's probably too early to speculate as to whether or not there has been a postponement. That's true. I was just curious as to whether JR (or anyone else) had been to the studio and heard Damian confi...

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The draw for CoC 13 was announced late in October, with filming taking place a few weeks later. So it's probably too early to speculate as to whether or not there has been a postponement. That's true. I was just curious as to whether JR (or anyone else) had been to the studio and heard Damian confi...

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I believe the finals of S73 have been moved from 2nd & 3rd November to 3rd & 4th November, which makes it unlikely that there will be a CoC starting on the 4th. Perhaps the plan is to put the CoC into one three-day filming block starting from 23rd November? Maybe, but I bet it won't be till...

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"Sounds like" according to whom? Is that a guess, or did you hear it from someone?

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For the conundrum, Richard Whiteley phonetically read out the anagram for Richard Foster a second before the reveal. Round 9: N A Z E L I F U N What exactly did Whiteley do here? Did he spell it out? If he "phonetically" read it, Foster would have had no way of knowing if he meant NAZELIF...

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Delayed again?

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Steven M. McCann wrote:I got 702.5 for the second numbers game, would that have been allowed?

Only if you're willing to get 8.5 points for your solution.

Johnny Canuck

JimBentley wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:I think I AM right and your puzzle just has multiple solutions.
Demonstrate another of your solutions, then.

All of the words contain fewer than 65,536 letters.

Johnny Canuck

I think I AM right and your puzzle just has multiple solutions.

Johnny Canuck

They all contain consonants.

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(*Although he couldn't win unless he got all 10 points, so was probably only looking for the 404 - but even so.) This is ridiculously easy to do, more so than you might think... I just thought of the best headline ever for Nathan's performance in that game... "ERROR: 404 NOT FOUND" After ...

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After tomorrow, seeds 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 could have 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 wins. Has that ever happened before?

Anyone?

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Peter Mabey wrote:Alt 1st numbers: (10+9)x(50+3)-5-3

Congratulations, you just won a Concorde.

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Also, I've read somewhere on here that a contestant once offered DOING in an onomatopoeic sense, rhyming it with BOING, and Susie spent ages trying to find it in the dictionary before remembering the verb DO. In general we should believe a cock-up before a conspiracy. And there was also Paul Gallen...

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Are there any "recap gaps"* that might be able to be filled in by these transmissions?

*also a valid conundrum scramble

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A dumb loss in this game legitimately just made me use a four-letter word.

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Does monitoring Countdown Team's profile page and repeatedly checking the "Last Active" date and time count as stalking?

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What selection has contained the fewest distinct letters? I'm willing to bet that every selection has featured at least four different letters.

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Will the design of the set be changed at the start of CoC XIV? In the past, CoCs (specifically, X, XI and XIII) have often been the times when the set's appearance gets revamped. Of course this might just be a coincidence that only losers with no lives will catch. That would be quite a quick change...

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Thomas Carey wrote:08193?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

I'll leave this up for another few days just in case someone else wants to try to figure out why that's the answer.

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Will the design of the set be changed at the start of CoC XIV? In the past, CoCs (specifically, X, XI and XIII) have often been the times when the set's appearance gets revamped.

Of course this might just be a coincidence that only losers with no lives will catch.

Johnny Canuck

What is the next number in this sequence?

00001
65536
32768
32769
16384
49153
16385
49152
08192
57345
24577
40960
?????

Hint: [

Warning: Has been solved; the answer is in black text in the post directly below.

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My choices would be the 12 champions/runners-up, but my 4 wild cards would be David, Jen, Glen and Samir. Basically, I was tempted to include Bradley as well, but having 5 from one series just seemed too much (although admittedly 4 is at a stretch, but that's purely based on Jen and Glen's super hi...

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Predictions ahoy. Series 67: Paul James, Heather Styles, David Barnard Series 68: Giles Hutchings, Andy Platt Series 69: Callum Todd, Dylan Taylor, Jen Steadman Series 70: Mark Murray, Andy Naylor Series 71: Dan McColm, Antoinette Ryan, George Ford Series 72: Tom Cappleman, Tracey Mills, Gerry Tynan...

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Well, here we go.

*Ctrl+R*
*Ctrl+R*
*Ctrl+R*
*Ctrl+R*
*Ctrl+R*
*Ctrl+R*

It's gonna be a long week.

Johnny Canuck

How far through filming for this series are we? If we already have the 16 invitees, is it not dependent on the result of the series? Presumably the CoC will only include contestants from series 67-72, and people from S73 will have to wait for the next one. This would be the same as what happened wi...

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Hoping to get finality on the C of C within the next week or so. Filming would be Nov 4, 23 and 24 - with the shows being aired from the start of Jan 2016. Have drawn up the list of 16 invitees, plus one reserve to cover for any illness / unforeseen absence, and once everything is ratified, we will...

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Heather Styles wrote:No need for awkwardnesses, Gavin. It would be unthinkable for Jen to miss out on CoC of any discernible quality.

Was the omission of an "a" intentional there?

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Within each format, what are the lowest scores achieved by someone who scored in every round?

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Will the letter shuffling system be freaky again? I actually kind of liked it that way.

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Hey all, Just wondering... did anyone ever post a complete recap of the 5-round game that Chris Davies played against the Big Brother housemates in 2009? And if not, would they have records of it anywhere? I can't seem to find a recap of it anywhere on the wiki or forum. I know the conundrum was SEE...

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I know that no letters selection has ever consisted of a valid 9-letter word that is already spelt out in the correct order. However, have any letters selections ever consisted of a concatenation of multiple valid words spelt out in the correct order (e.g., CATDOGCOW or ABADRADIO)? EDIT: I suspect ...

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Has any game ever had a 0-0 score after two rounds?

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BADACTORS would be a better scramble.

Johnny Canuck

Mark Deeks wrote:People change on Apterous entirely

Totally true. It's made me change from a hard-working university student to a Countdown-obsessed procrastinator.

(And I like the new personality better.)

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Tony Atkins wrote:standard method alt in 2nd Nos (6-6-1)x25+100+3

So the target was "078"?

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Mike Brown wrote:The only ever 9-round grand final!

Wasn't the final of Series 1 a 9-rounder too?

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I actually had TWERKING accepted on Apterous about three months ago. Possibly before it was cool.

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Is it a cryptogram similar (in terms of the solution method, not the answer text itself) to the one featured in the story "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe? If you're all cryptography enthusiasts I'm guessing you've heard of that one.

Johnny Canuck

I know that no letters selection has ever consisted of a valid 9-letter word that is already spelt out in the correct order. However, have any letters selections ever consisted of a concatenation of multiple valid words spelt out in the correct order (e.g., CATDOGCOW or ABADRADIO)? EDIT: I suspect t...

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Brilliant as always, Graeme, and quick as well. Thanks very much. I actually don't think tracking sub-second conundrum solves is all that unreliable, given that a segment of the clock will light up only after exactly 1.0s has passed and otherwise the clock will be dark. Whenever you'd like another q...

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I wonder if editing out all unsolved tie-break conundrums is going to be the new norm. I suppose their lack of influence on the game's result does make them droppable.

Well done Rhys, and good luck (again, retroactively).

Johnny Canuck

What is the earliest recorded instance of a player correctly solving a conundrum with a time under 1 second? Did this ever happen in the 9-round era?

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