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- Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: What is your preferred format for co-events?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2457
Re: What is your preferred format for co-events?
I do get why some people like the divisions format as more people can win prizes not just those at the top of the tree, but IMO the big problem with the divisions format is that your final position is largely determined by how you perform solely in the first half of the day. Take the recent CO:NUT ...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 6:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
What are the chances of a 'Golden Game', on Apto or elsewhere? Standard 15-player finds a nine in each round, along with all numbers, and the con. This hypothetical game would have a score of 230. Statisically, what are the chances? I imagine there's not a lot, but is there anything the player coul...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
Rita Meston scored in all 10 letters rounds on 14th March 2023, despite only finding the longest available word in two of them. Has anyone ever scored in every letters round without finding any maxes in the 15-round era? The following seven players have all played a modern 15-rounder in which they ...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
6 small: 2650 1 large: 22055 2 large: 4637 3 large: 958 4 large: 1361 This is extracted from a post on numbers success by pick, and is the closest thing I can find to "how often each selection has been picked". So yeah, how often has each selection been picked, and is that possible as a m...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
I noticed that the vast majority of John Hastings's games went to crucial conundrums on his way to running up Series 42. Is 70% a record for games that went to a crucial with contestants with, say, more than 2 games? (If you discount Hastings's non-crucial 14-round final, it's 7/9 in terms of 9-rou...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
What's the longest we've gone without an E? Consecutive non-E letters and consecutive non-E vowels. (Not time because that would just be a holiday or something.) I don't think it's too spoilerific to say that today we had four consecutive rounds with no E. 42 letters including 16 vowels, if I've co...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
What's the biggest points difference between two Octochamps A and B where A got a higher octo total than B, but B had a better % of available points scored in their octo run? Luke Boynton scored 1032/1149 (89.8%) but Ed McCullagh scored 896/979 (91.5%). This is the biggest octotal difference I can ...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
I've been having this question in my head and thinking about where to post it, and I think here might be a good spot. I've been using WebRack a lot to host weekly games in my Discord and it's been great fun. Recently though I've been introducing some of the variants that Apterous has through WebRac...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
Based on the standard letter distributions mentioned earlier in this thread (you can just pick the most recent one, and ignore the effects of shuffling), what is the least likely 9-letter word that has been available in a selection at least once? What is the least likely 9 that has actually been sp...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774414
Re: Ask Graeme?
Graeme, what is the average max length for letters rounds in the modern 15Rer? And is there much of a difference in the ave maxes between 3/4/5 vowel selections? The mean average max length for letters rounds is 7.46. This covers 20,890 rounds from the start of the modern 15-rounder to the end of s...
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 9th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 100)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1273
Re: Spoilers for Friday 9th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 100)
When I watch it, all I can see is C2 getting the right answer then being told it's wrong. Maybe there was more discussion or clarification we didn't see? When a contestant says something which sounds like both the correct answer and some made-up word in neither the dictionary nor the selection, it s...
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 8th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 99)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 847
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 8th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 99)
Is Graham the first returnee to have had the same guest as last time? Junaid Mubeen had Barry Cryer as DC guest in two different series. Zarte also had Jon Culshaw twice - in the prelims of his first series, and the latter stages of his COC victory. Kirk Bevins had Dr Phil Hammond as a guest in his...
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 98)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1607
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 98)
Unlucky Adam, that could have gone either way. Glad you'll be back for the finals. Good to see Graham get the teapot though, and Colin playing up the whole thing about a certain pasta dish and history repeating itself in multiple ways. It seems appropriate to mention that on this occasion Graham got...
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 6:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743443
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Fortunately for him there was one thing Andy Celsius didn't think of.Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 12:23 pm Seems like he missed an obvious trick, though. Coulda been the ubiquitous one with a bit more forethought. Silly Gary.
- Tue May 23, 2023 11:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 87)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1650
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 87)
Let the Hurricane roll on!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Ubergeek question: Has any max game ever actually been confirmed on screen to have been a max game? I could see them doing this for some of the newer ones. Kirk's max game in the 30th Birthday Championship was announced by Nick Hewer at the time but t...
- Tue May 23, 2023 10:14 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 86)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1553
Re: Spoilers for Monday 22nd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 86)
Improbably enough, no. By a happy coincidence I only thought to work it out last night.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 9:25 am Interesting stat Graeme. I bet you've been sitting on this for a while.
- Mon May 22, 2023 11:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 86)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1553
Re: Spoilers for Monday 22nd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 86)
As of today's episode, 8,164 episodes of Countdown have been broadcast. Naturally there are significant caveats to this number* because there are so many ways to define what counts as an "episode", but for everything before the current series I've gone with "if it has an entry in my d...
- Sat May 20, 2023 12:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816629
Re: Politics in General
It's like the famous saying says (I'm probably paraphrasing here) "I might not agree with what you are saying but will fight to the death for your right to say it" Voltaire When I spoke at the Oxford Union last year about the alarming recent popularity of people filming things vertically ...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 13th March 2023 (Series 87, Heat 36)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1678
Re: Spoilers for Monday 13th March 2023 (Series 87, Heat 36)
I did wonder what he was talking about here. The hyphen makes it clear.
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816629
Re: Politics in General
Andrew Neil never called the Government Nazis Nor did Gary Lineker. This is what he said, here and here : Good heavens, this is beyond awful. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I...
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:00 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 112110
Re: Only Connect
I'm sure you wouldn't deliberately misgender someone, but her pronouns are she/her. So now you know.
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Corrections to numbers methods on the wiki
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1927
Re: Corrections to numbers methods on the wiki
Hi everyone. It's been nice to trawl through the archives (it's been a while) and I'm pleased to say that I can provide insight of varying levels into these discrepancies. Series 4, Episode 163: The wiki matches my notes exactly. Although it's obviously possible that I wrote down an 8 instead of a ...
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Censorship
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2753
Re: Censorship
It's not as if they're quietly removing things in order to pretend they were never there. There's been quite a lot of publicity about it. A child reading the book afresh will not necessarily know any of this. They're not getting any of the context of the removal. The publicity is just now. It won't...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Censorship
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2753
Re: Censorship
I'm not entirely convinced that "enormous" is any less offensive than "fat". Seems like an exercise in silliness. Its like some of the words in the expurgated scrabble list which include, BINT, CISSIES and ASPIE And, erm, BOGTROTTER . I can understand why people might have diffe...
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 12:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13742
Re: Countdown adjudication dictionary
CSW isn't exactly freely-available, either. CSW word checkers that take a word and give you a simple yes or no are all over the place, but the actual raw word list is more restricted . This is so obviously a comment from someone from outside of the world of Scrabble. The new CSW lists are always fr...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13742
Re: Countdown adjudication dictionary
Maybe when Damian retires the new person will have the vision to make the change. Okay, let's play. What exactly am i supposed to be changing to and why? The dictionary isn't perfect, but are any of them? It's not long since we had the best C of C ever and two highest scores of 154 in pretty close ...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th February 2023 (Series 87, Heat 17)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1679
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th February 2023 (Series 87, Heat 17)
Not sure I understand the reason for Ann's 0 seconds conundrum solve ( "the amount the clock moved" ). Can someone explain please? As I recall, they'd recently built a new clock, which had a few teething problems. Occasionally the music would start but the clock hand wouldn't. This happen...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 1:22 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th February 2023 (Series 87, Heat 17)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1679
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 14th February 2023 (Series 87, Heat 17)
25 points behind going into the last "half" and going on to win. Must be fairly rare. Good game. According to my recently-refreshed wiki-derived database, the last time a contestant was 25 or more points behind after R9 and went on to win was in 2014: https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5896
- Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:42 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sporcle multiplication tables
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4866
Re: Sporcle multiplication tables
My first two attempts were over 2:00, but that was by looking at the dot that appeared in the grid and reading off the row and column. Then part way through attempt 3 I realised the actual question appeared in the same place above the grid each time, and you could just use that and ignore the grid. ...
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed! *UPDATE: NOW FIXED*
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3647
Re: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed!
Even if you apply that method, over-general rules such as these have more holes than a cheese grator.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 7:20 pm The blanket rule that allowed "dominater" would have been badly thought out though. It should be DOMINATOR, and not because it's a special case. ATE -> ATOR is the standard method.
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed! *UPDATE: NOW FIXED*
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3647
Re: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed!
the said words are all reasonable So are most agent nouns in some context, but many of those aren't specified (e.g. invoicer, tightener, deployer, ...) and we're used to that. Perhaps adjectives that don't have their own entry, and are instead only mentioned as derivatives of a noun, are rare enoug...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
The other question, which I don't think has actually been explicitly addressed, is what would we do if e.g. Jim applied to enter anther CO-event? That's easy. "No." Because realistically, refusing him entry would be more about not wanting to play with / associate with him than an actual s...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown mentions on other shows
- Replies: 315
- Views: 153936
Re: Countdown mentions on other shows
Not exactly a show, but Bolton Wanderers just used Jeff Stelling-era Countdown to announce the signing of a useless player… I can say he’s useless, cos Town have had him for 5 months, in which he played 6 times, starting just 3, and in one of them, he played so bad that he basically helped concede ...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:09 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
Can you make online payments using fake ID, I have no idea? Going back to my idea of having a membership for Focal with a nominal annual fee to cover event costs and running potentially a data base giving every player a rating, based on average game score or games won against ranking like in Scrabb...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:48 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 175060
Re: You Are The Ref
Player 1 buzzes Player 2 buzzes just (but very clearly) after and says the word. Player 1 says they had the word and they're reputable. Do you: Allow Player 1 to have the conundrum Use another conundrum Happened at Lincoln twice from what I gather. One game allowed Player 1 to have it. One game had...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
In countless scrabble tournaments (well II tried to count but it has to be over a hundred.) There have been cases of verbal abuse but no criminal activity. Scrabble has an ABSP database for players. Maybe some sort of database should be used for Co events to at least mean that people can be made ac...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14036
Re: COLIN XVIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2023
And Tim takes the title, winning 85-75 in a titanic battle for his first COLIN title win! Many thanks to everyone who came over the weekend, its you guys who make the event what it is. :-) I'm now going to go back into hibernation for the next 9 months. See you all in 2024 for COLIN XIX! Once again...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
I may have to have a word with myself, but I actually agree with Eoin here. Its a one day social event not a sleepover. There is far more risk at the pub afterwards surely. Agreed. And the pub afterwards does not come under the event organiser's remit. Of course it doesn't, but if an eventgoer does...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
This is not a problem that "doesn't exist". Provide some evidence to back up that wild assertion please. There are at least five people I can think of who have contributed to C4C, played on Apterous and attended events (in some combination or other) who were later put on the sex offenders...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
The code of conduct was a good start, and yet, it still happens. Something peculiar about the code of conduct is the process for reporting violations - currently, it is to send an email to a FOCAL email address. To come closer to parity with other modern conventions/meetups/events, I would like to ...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
Let's find a solution that is 100% ineffectual for a problem that doesn't exist. He's a fucking genius. Please take at least €20 off me to help implement it. If FOCAL insists on Garda Vetting (or whatever the UK equivalent is) for all event organisers / attendees, FOCAL should bear the financial co...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
Maybe I wasn't clear, but: It is free if you are a volunteer (although we might need to establish whether “event attendee” counts). So this shouldn't be a barrier for first-time attendees. In what sense does "event attendee" mean "volunteer"? Can you honestly say that players at...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
It's worrying that people would probably readily have signed up for this hypothetical event in 2022, and there might well have been children sign up too. Nobody would have known, even in spite of the fact he'd been on the sex offenders register since 2020. If there was any argument against DBS chec...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread. The fact that this discussion is happening, with everyone in general agreement about the direction of travel even if not on how exactly to get there, is a win. I'll address a few points that have been made above. "DBS checks don't catch everything...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
Good idea. Done.Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:17 pm I strongly recommend splitting off such discussion into a separate thread to give it the eyes it deserves.
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 155752
Re: Countdowners in the news
I've split the general safeguarding discussion off to this new thread.
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Countdowners in the news
Ideally, yes. But anybody can hire a hall and call what they're doing a co-event, and we can't stop them.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:09 pm Forget "FOCAL" - this goes for all co-events, including non-FOCAL ones.
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Countdowners in the news
Up till a conviction, a paedophile would get a clean DBS. You could argue that someone is less dangerous after a conviction and the ones we might need to worry about are the ones we don't know about. You could argue that but I don't think it would be a good argument. What would the consequences be?...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Re: Countdowners in the news
Some have them via work-I've got three, courtesy of jobs and various voluntary things. I have a feeling more would as well?? It's not universally able to root all bad eggs out (then again, what could?), but it seems a definite decent starting point. Yes, if you've already got a basic check, or one ...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9167
Safeguarding at and around co-events
(I split off this and subsequent posts from "Countdowners in the news" ) Looking at the date on that article (December 2020), and some of the case details given in it (which I am not repeating), what concerns me a lot is the fact he has been active on Apterous and here between then and no...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 175060
Re: You Are The Ref
Hypothetical situation - You're entering tournament scores into atropine in a Lincoln style tournament The selection and declarations have been recorded on the score sheet. The R2 selection was FRIGLITES c1 declared girliest x c2 declared GRISTLE You notice that GIRLIEST had been incorrectly allowe...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816629
Re: Politics in General
I'm currently drunk off my ass in lanzarote so should probably stay out of it but fuck me. the gay Conservative who will be first in the fire if his fascist party actually got to implement thier ultimate agenda. As I said, you'll be first in the fire. Do you want to make a more sober rephrasing of ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5207
Re: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
Very close back-and-forth game which you don't see often, especially in a final. Congratulations to Ahmed on the well-deserved victory, especially winning it on the conundrum in a competition with conundrums of that difficulty level. Congratulations also to James for playing a great tournament to fi...
- Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th January 2023 - CoC XVI QF 2
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3691
Re: Spoilers for Friday 13th January 2023 - CoC XVI QF 2
Two first-class players and a game which could easily have gone either way. Dan effectively treated it like a 14-round game with his last numbers pick, which turned out to be the right call. My opinion: a non-obscure conundrum, even if it's solved on a buzzer race, is preferable to an obscure word t...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337250
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Deceiving an opponent within the rules of a game is a completely different thing from deceiving the referee.
- Mon Jan 09, 2023 12:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Words and expressions that grind your gears
- Replies: 108
- Views: 22098
Re: Words and expressions that grind your gears
Couldn't agree more. Blatant erasure of my salad-pioneering ancestors.
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Getting back on for a second go
- Replies: 88
- Views: 21815
Re: Getting back on for a second go
I don’t understand why some contestants get another go after 3 or 5 years and others have to wait 9 or 10. This “10 year rule” is inconsistent, woolly and misleading. May as well say you can come back in at least 3 years’ time. Are contestants genuinely asked to have another bite at the cherry with...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Getting back on for a second go
- Replies: 88
- Views: 21815
Re: Getting back on for a second go
Regarding online application vs posting a piece of paper... There persists this strange superstition that applying for something on paper is "more likely to work" than filling in an online form. This belief is held far more widely than for applications to Countdown or even game shows in ge...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:50 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Getting back on for a second go
- Replies: 88
- Views: 21815
Re: Getting back on for a second go
Formally, there’s no chances. Informally, you can get back on after 10 years. Even more informally, it’ll be on a case-by-case basis (see Zarte Siempre, Glen Webb for ones which were very generous to give them a second go). How new is this “online form”? I distinctly recall posting mine off but eve...
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 6 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 5
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4970
Re: Spoilers for Friday 6 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 5
I wonder if they would have given STEALINGS. @Countdown Team could you confirm whether it’s valid or not, please? I went for that and scored it as it's on Apterous. I don't have the dictionary subcription so didn't go into it any finer. This might count as STEALING but here is the dictionary defini...