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Andy Platt

Hmm, starting off with one of the words might be right, but might make the solve too fast. The first one got solved, so maybe I'm just a bit thick, lol.
You could start with one word already offered but also throw in a decoy letter to balance out the difficulty again. Might be interesting.

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OK let's roll with LILY GATE SEA CLOCK

Guessing that's right. Seems a bit more sensible than ECO, but I thought with how many google hits ECO WATER got then it was a possibility.

Andy Platt

LILY SLACK GATE ECO = water?

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Small query; Okay, with 33 entries and 2 weeks to go 34 people listed? Or might someone (Mr Styles?) be a reserve in case we need even (divisible by 3?) numbers? Either way can't argue with the majority of that. [JR moment] Was hoping to sneak into the top seeds like a couple of years ago but with a...

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Negative. I even roped in Dan to help me but we couldn't get it. The K and the Y must be the key to getting it (ironically a word that i've tried working with), can't see it. A A C C E E G I K L L L O S T Y - just putting the letters in a line and in order to see if that helps. It does not. Maybe if...

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I like this. I think Damian said once or twice that application numbers are down in the last few years, and this would help maintain quantity and quality.

Andy Platt

I'm hoping to hear Mark's opinion of the woman on Jon's team that I'd not seen before who ...

a) was Irish
b) looked pretty fine
c) had a similarly good sense of humour

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I don't think taking issue with quality of play is unreasonable, because for most people here, it does actually make for a less enjoyable watch if contestants are missing very easy numbers games, trying proper nouns, whatever, and there's really nothing wrong with hoping or expecting one of your fav...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Andy Platt wrote:Were you saying I questioned Countdown's procedures? Hell, I was trying to say that it wasn't their fault.
Who's this to? If me, then no.

To Jen, sorry.

Agree with Jack really. All reasonable stuff.

Andy Platt

Cheers man, didn't get all of them

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Had them for 2012 and 2013 but nobody bought me one for 2014, it tended to be a token Christmas present. Maybe I'll pick one up if I see one. Any chance of pasting (well, writing) the first 10 here?

Andy Platt

Were you saying I questioned Countdown's procedures? Hell, I was trying to say that it wasn't their fault. Helen... well, I dunno. Nerves? Played awesome or got lucky on the audition? It just didn't seem quite right. A little incongruous compared to the previous games in the week and Series 69. But ...

Andy Platt

Cool. How many would Mark need to face off against you?

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Well, yeah, this isn't the nicest thread ever, but it's hardly surprising. (...I'm not sure how calling others pathetic or c---s really helps matters, but here we are...) I see it like this. You wouldn't watch a football match and see the referee disallow a goal because he thought it was offside but...

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That'll be an interesting week then. Do you know how many episodes apart you are?

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Think I'm better at scrambling them into barely coherent sentences;

Cagy like Cates, lol.

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Fred Mumford wrote:
Andy Platt wrote:Some dickhead missed a possible 149 here as well.
That was old format wasn't it Andy?

Er, um, ah, ahem, just testing you. And you passed! So, well done.

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Fred Mumford wrote:
Bradley Cates wrote:I wonder how long it will be until we see another game where the highest score ever could easily have been broken.
For what it's worth, I make this the 178th game of the new format. Until today's game the top max scores were 154, 147 and 147.

Some dickhead missed a possible 149 here as well.

Andy Platt

Nice Jack on 955 - I really sucked on that numbers round. Anyone know what the maximum possible score was? Reckon I was about 6 or 7 off it, if I risked SNOWSLIDE. Been speaking to Dan on facebook and he's pretty confident it was 161 points possible, so I'd imagine a lot of players on here would ha...

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Nice Jack on 955 - I really sucked on that numbers round.

Anyone know what the maximum possible score was? Reckon I was about 6 or 7 off it, if I risked SNOWSLIDE.

Andy Platt

Fourth nine!!!

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Lol, thought SNOWSLIDE was very impressive. Wouldn't have risked it myself but I did see it.

Actually good point Stewart, maybe I'd have risked it with the record in mind.

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Did she just declare Egypt?

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Rachels 2nd numbers needlessly complex. I saw a couple of more straightforward methods but I'll leave it to Tony to give us the standard method. :D (4 x 2 + 3) x 50 - (4 + 1) on the R9 numbers or wherever we're up to. Also, how does someone who either can't spell trio, or thinks it's 5 letters long...

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Keep picking up two that could be related but going into a dead end, like SKY/ICE (scraper) or CITY/LAKE (geography). kljajwdkawjdkmawd

Andy Platt

I've had a go, got about ten or more sets of 4 words but can't see anything to link the buggers. Might have a go tommorow

Andy Platt

Thought Danny was a good laugh and made it more entertaining. Doesn't always have to be about getting 13 maxes or having a close game.

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You can't fault people for wanting to have a laugh now and then

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Zarte "no food words are obscure" Siempre

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Oh. It felt like more.

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^ I think that sounds fair. Might Marcus also be a consideration after he had to withdraw from 30BC?

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Happy to see the challenger win that game, must have picked up a good 7-8 maxes there, seemed bright and engaging which is hard to do in your first game. Thought Rod might just have been good enough to make octochamp, but might be a blessing in disguise in a way as I felt that his 3-vowel picking ma...

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(100 - 3 x 9 ) x 7 + 3, outside of 30 seconds.

Andy Platt

Think you should delete Rhys's post as well while you're at it.

Andy Platt

Are people being serious about Abdi? lol Can't speak for anyone else, but Im serious. I think he was the most standout personality on Coundown in 2013 Are you sure we're talking about the same person? I don't think Abdi and personality really go in the same sentence without the presence of the word...

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Dave Preece wrote:Maybe a token ginger, fat guy and sex changer whillst we're at it???

PS. I cover 2/3 of those.

Which two?

Andy Platt

Got 13 potentials atm, half of which are Innis Carson/Matthew Tassier. Probably time for one or two more.

Andy Platt

I don't think that's a very realistic list. The 30th Birthday Championships fulfilled essentially the same role as a Champions of Champions tournament, so it would be a little strange to include those players included in that, especially those who had a good run. You've also missed out women, for wh...

Andy Platt

COCs are all well and good, but what the world NEEDS is a special between Zarte Siempre and Phyl Styles, because both of them were very good contestants who ended up as number 9 seeds. I kind of like the idea of this. You could even have a special week or two knockout for the best players to never ...

Andy Platt

I don't mind doing mine in public - is it ok just to reply to this thread with it or not?

Edit: So I looked at 2012 and you didn't seem keen - I'll do it in private message form.

Andy Platt

^ This. Next winter might be an idea, or Summer 2015. Wouldn't be too soon after the 30BC, I reckon.

Andy Platt

I think another CoC event would be pretty cool, not just for selfish reasons. There's a lot of good candidates from this year alone that I think both fans on here and typical armchair viewers would be happy to see again. My understanding is that Damian or perhaps officials at Channel 4, or whatever,...

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Aye, that were alreet that.

Well played everyone, particularly Callum. Presumably the strongest regular series there has ever been.

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Are you sure we're talking about the same person? I don't think Abdi and personality really go in the same sentence without the presence of the word 'devoid'.

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PMd.

Are people being serious about Abdi? lol

Andy Platt

Cool nice one. Alan Flanagan did one (Giles's best opponent in heats), which I really enjoyed. It's linked somewhere here but I can't find it in google

Andy Platt

Oh, I didn't think it was either really good or really bad so not sure whether genuine or sarcasm.

I mean it's interesting to hear what other people were thinking or doing when they were on a TV show, either during the game or before it etc, but it can probably seem conceited or some shit

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Edward McCullagh wrote:Almost forgot...

Blogger of the Year: Andy Platt

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Seems a bit serious like, but yeah, here's what I'd throw out

CPY - John Gardner from Giles's series.
Apt - probably Callum for how quickly he has improved in such a short space of time.
C4C - maybe Mark Deeks for this sort of humour.

Andy Platt

You paying for our flights?

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That's why all the best contestants start with 4 consonants

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Soph K wrote:Well hey there, not been on for ages. Mature now. Talk talk talk

16 yet?

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Jon Corby wrote:Head says Dylan, heart says Jen, cock says Gemma.

This is glorious.

Andy Platt

Can't see anything in my ODE that would allow for an objective judgement on MITREING

Andy Platt

Didn't get 7 in the SNORER round, but I got APEMEN as the only six in the NJPEABEVM round.

INTRIGUE equals in the round afterwards

Andy Platt

Can you remember the letters? I'll have another go

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Good close game there I guess you could say, even if R14 was a bit cringeworthy

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METATES in round 5 or whenever it was. Gevin will be happy to know this is a beater.

Round 6, slightly more efficient than Rachel's method is (2 x 7 + 9) x 25 + 3. Optional division or multiplication by 1 at the end.

Andy Platt

Like it. Maybe every 2nd Friday or at the end of every 3+ winning streak?

Andy Platt

Got that numbers just before Rachel declared it, was hard with the numbers given.

Standard has been poor this week, perhaps tactically making the finalists look better?

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