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Eoin Monaghan was younger than Conor when he made the final in series 63.

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Ohhh maaa gurrrrd. Amazing final. Awesome scores. Absolutely incredible series. Congrats Conor, commiserations Jack, cheers to the Countdown Team for organising this series. Genuinely a little bit emotional that there won't be another one of these, but I guess that's what makes it so special. This s...

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Tekkers on that first numbers round from Rachel.

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Adam Gillard wrote:EXCITED!

ME TOO

EVEN MORE EXCITED NOW I'VE SEEN THE JUMPER SELECTION

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Jack and Jonathan having a conversation mid-round in round 1 made me literally choke on my dinner with laughter. I think it was funny because it was so surreal - I guess there's nothing in the rules that says you can't talk to the other contestant during a round! (Either that or I just have a really...

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Couple of gender-related questions: - What's the average max percentage for each gender? - What percentage of series finalists have been female? (A table of female series finalists ranked by max percentage would be cool.) And a couple of non-gender-related questions (not sure if anyone's asked these...

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I'm well excited about this.

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He-Man is over there. ---->

Can't help on Harvey Freeman's whereabouts though.

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What the kid on the trike said. Great game all round - the best MAX GAME on TV ever from Jono (sorry Kirk/Conor), a great attempt to keep up by Jack that would've beaten most contestants in or out of the tournament, and Dr Phil's in Dictionary Corner. What's not to like? Actually yeah fair point th...

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If I was into erotic asphyxiation, I'd be majorly getting off on this choke.

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This is definitely my favourite thread ever.

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a dark thing that looks like a cross between a tiny pig and a human face Perhaps you'd seen a picture of this, which has been doing the rounds in the last couple of days, which is how you dreamt up the GUARDAC/K? http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/21385302 I had not seen that! It looked more like an Af...

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Had a particularly weird one the other night. It's set at a Conservative Party rally - I have no idea why we were there, but the Apterites are all standing at the back of the stands. (I remember Jono, Matt Bayfield, Mark Deeks, Eddie McCullagh, Gevin and Ryan being there. There were others but I can...

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I had no idea that being 20 meant you could get away with so much stuff!! I intend to be as cocky as possible now in my daily life in the knowledge that I've got a ready-made excuse to get away with it... :D Nah, just kidding. (Kinda.) Jack: the number of messages that applaud your performance have ...

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I have to agree with Zarte's sentiments. The "Let's hope it's an A!" comment in particular was very poor etiquette indeed and soured what was undoubtedly an excellent performance (and an excellent jumper, regardless of what Nick said!). It's frustrating when a top player feels the need to ...

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This doesn't clash with a Tonbridge home fixture this year, so I may well be in attendance.

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I have never learned German. This may explain why I found the pronunciation so hilarious.

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Jon Corby not being an arsehole :D Wait - what? I must have missed this. When did this happen? He was upset about me calling him an arsehole last year and as a result was trying so hard to prove his non-arseholeynesses that he gave me surprisingly good advice when I was playing pool and was general...

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Absolutely fantastic weekend! Brilliantly run as usual, Ben. Was surprised but chuffed to do well in the actual game-playing bit of the event when there was such a strong field - proof that anything can happen in 9-rounders, really! It was also great to meet some new faces and chat to people who I h...

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4. Do away with those HIDEOUS new displays. For anyone who read the spoilers thread yesterday, I have fully recovered by looking at Comic Sans MS in Green on Pink. Sometimes I can't tell if you're trolling or not. No, I generally hate them! They are HIDEOUS! I know what a troll does. This is not it...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:4. Do away with those HIDEOUS new displays. For anyone who read the spoilers thread yesterday, I have fully recovered by looking at Comic Sans MS in Green on Pink.

Sometimes I can't tell if you're trolling or not.

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N When RTGAEICS came up i was thinking "i hope the next letter is a T" 8-) Andy and I were muttering "T, T, T, T" in the audience as he was picking the last letter - must've worked... :) Didn't you want a different letter? :p N for RECASTING - well done, I'd forgotten that!

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Grant Waters wrote:When RTGAEICS came up i was thinking "i hope the next letter is a T"

Andy and I were muttering "T, T, T, T" in the audience as he was picking the last letter - must've worked...

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If you think you're being satirical in your blog, then you clearly don't. So don't.

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Rhys - if you don't know what 'satirical' means, don't use it.

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As they say on Football Manager - what a game!!! Excellent comeback, Rose.

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Andy flew over to Germany to see Dan - I think they're winning the bromance battle at the moment. Soz guys.

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If only I'd known that the gameweek that just finished started on Tuesday

Fellaini would not have been on the bench...

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Heather Styles wrote:Cheers, Jen. I'm sure you'll agree it was a victory not just for me, but for all strong, independent black women WHO DON'T NEED NO MAN

YOU SING IT, SISTA!

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Lovely stuff, well done Heather!

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This is brilliant. Great work, Graeme!

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I don't have a problem with the format as it is now during the normal series - as it stands, there is a slight disadvantage to whoever's in the champion's chair as their opponent gets to pick the last numbers, but I'd say the champion SHOULD be tested to see if they're worthy of being there. This is...

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Sweepstakes with a cash prize, more like.

Absolutely cannot wait to see some of these matches

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Whoops

I meant (9*6)*(9 + 4/4) + 6 = 546, but you can deduct 10 if you want.

Note to self: Learn to read/write before applying.

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118 I think. 1. QUAFF (5) 2. MERGER (6) 3. OUTBID (6) 4. UPSTAGE (7) 5. 100*5 - 75 - 3 + 50/25 = 424 (10) 6. NOUNAL (6) 7. AVAST (5) 8. HARMONIST (18) 9. CAPTIVE (7) 10. (100 + 8)*4 + 25 - 6 = 349 (10) 11. IODIZE (6) 12. SAUNTER (7) 13. FOULS (5) 14. (9*6)*(6 + 4) + 6 = 546 (10) 15. OOGENESIS (10)

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122, I think? There's probably some awkward max in r3, 11 and maybe 13, plus the first numbers must be doable somehow. 1. MUCKIER (7) 2. PETIOLES (8) 3. UNMADE (6) 4. UNTRUE (6) 5. 658 - (50*(10 + 3) + 8) (7) 6. SOCIABLE (8) 7. CLONING (7) 8. LITREAGES (18) 9. FRIGATES (8) 10. 473 (25*9 + 9)*2 + 5 (...

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Graeme Cole wrote:Everyone: want to practise stemming but apterous is down? I've made this.

The name of this made me a-lol.

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Yes.

Most of the site's fine, it's just the game page that isn't working. Chat logs aren't showing the mass exit from the page, they've just kind of... frozen.

Edit: The whole damn thing's down now.

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One of the issues with my numbers games was actual the way it was recorded! I hate being asked to do things and made to wait and it does my head in most days.. By this I presume you mean that you took issue with the fact that they have to turn the board around for the numbers rounds. I presume this...

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Jordan F wrote:A rare example of a forumite who's not an apterite, Jessica "Qwizical" Pratesi has to get through the seven time winner to start her own path.

o rly?

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Totally ignored (/didn't see) the bit about taking 10 minutes to do all of them. Having said that, I was only trying the Spoilage ones anyway and several of those took over 10 minutes to get within 10 for them! That said, I'm not very good at maths so I'm quite pleased to get within touching distanc...

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Not sure that 13 is. (done the first 16 apart from that)

EDIT: I HATE 6 SMALL WITH A BURNING PASSION

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Love the idea of this. I'd maybe give it an extra week to wait for responses though as a week is maybe quite short notice. Agree with Gev about Aptomailing (or Facebookmail for those you have on there), and make a ticket or something on Apterous so people know about it. Also, more details about set-...

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Also paid. Who needs uni when you can do your drinking on the other side of the country with a bunch of anagrammers?

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It's still down. Beginning to get withdrawal symptoms.

Considering that the Apterous-namechecking CoBliviLon article is one of the most viewed/shared on the Independent website at the moment, this is probably quite a bad time for it to be down.

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Sorry about collapsing your house, Gev.

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If you've read Mark's quite excellent Champions' Special recap , you may know that there was a concerted attempt by the other attendees to matchmake myself and Adam Gillard. This worked so well that we became betrothed in the Walkabout pub after the filming session was over, despite some Irish guy's...

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Haha, brilliant. Might have a go at that.

Dreamt the other night that I uncovered damning evidence that Milo McKenzie was Carl Williams' pseudonym on Apterous and was really angry about it.

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Mark Deeks wrote:a hat with a cotton penis on it.

It actually has two penises on it. And it's all wool, fyi.

Not that this made Nick Hewer like it any more when he saw it in the car park after filming.

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Green Day's Burnout came on my ipod the other day and I was reminded how I used to think the lyric "I live inside this mental cave " was "I live inside this pencil case", even though the first time I heard the song was when I bought the album and therefore had the lyric sheet. I...

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Wooooooooow. So tense. Great game, guys - will admit I was hoping it would go to a tiebreak! Congratulations to Jack, but great almost-comeback there by Jonathan as well. PITHOI was a great spot.

When was the last time two consecutive finals went to crucials, incidentally?

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Good performance, Jonathan - you never looked in danger of losing once you'd taken the lead.

Mama Steadman got the conundrum so was very proud of her

Also, KNAVISH was there as an equaller in the HANKIES round. I think.

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THAT. WAS. TENSE. Congratulations on making the semis, Peter!

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Bit of a weird'un, but this is last night's main dream... I'm at a friend from home's house party, though the house looks nothing like her house. For some reason everyone's sat round the lounge to play drinking games, but instead of playing drinking games, someone starts a weed-smoking game. The ini...

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I think the thing here is not that forumites should censor any honest comments they have about the game or play, it's just how they're said. No-one would take offence if you said that this wasn't Jack's best performance - even if said before he said it himself - because it's a fair comment. Actively...

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Think I might be on holiday during this

Might try and smuggle my laptop away with me. If I can make it, though, I'd like to reserve an Unlimited Letters Attack for everyone's [read: my] enjoyment

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SHEENS in the FOEHNS round as an equaller [ed: though not a max if Jojo's right about ONENESS]. Congrats Jack - hope you're a bit less nervous in your semi final as you looked really, really tense in today's show! Mark gave you a good run for your money - nice to see another good contest in the quar...

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Finally finished my guide to series 66 finals, if anyone's interested. This time with fewer unfounded serial killer accusations and more detail!

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RELISHED in r2, NOVATED in r11.

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