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Annedown LXXXVIII and I have 5 episodes to get through thanks to a lack of sleep, too much work, and too many evenings out - 3 in a week! Countdown recap for Friday 29 October 2021. Anne tells us not to answer the door on Halloween. Rachel suspects any screaming from her house will be because of her...

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No further comment needed. https://order-order.com/2021/09/16/will ... -tweeting/

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Annedown LXXXVII and it's not long until the end of the series, and with Len Goodman in Dictionary Corner this week, will he say "sev-ENNNN!" by the end of the week? Countdown recap for Thursday 28 October 2021. On this day in 1726, Gulliver's Travels was first published. So Rachel plugs h...

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Well, given I subscribe to the Ben Wilson school of shuffling, my honest view is that too much de-duplication is essentially undeserved score inflation.

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Channel 4's broken again! So, what's the max from "NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET... ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS", anyone? Timeline of the failure: 2:05pm - Dane Baptiste's face freezes on Steph's Crap Lunch. 2:06pm-2:09pm - ad break is cued in as normal. 2:10pm - we cut back to Dane Baptiste. 2:17pm -...

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Annedown LXXXV and I'm really sleep deprived nowzzzzzzzzzz Countdown recap for Tuesday 26 October 2021. On this day in 1972, guided tours of Alcatraz began. Most cells are more spacious than today's £1,000-per-month flats in London. C1: Champion Jasamrit Rahala (6 wins, 558 points.) Won a scholarshi...

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Annedown LXXXIV and it's a sleep deprivation edition, w00p w00p. Countdown recap for Monday 25 October 2021. On this day in 1881, Picasso was born: today, his pictures are worth around £130m. C1: Champion Jasamrit Rahala (5 wins, 462 points.) C2: Challenger Shaun Hall. From Witney. A "medical w...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:59 pm A canned applause was added in editing

Rachel and Susie were clapping, so probably not adding in editing. I think Sam CL said the applause is pumped in "live" anyway.

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Annedown LXXXIII and I'm watching the end first and the start later thanks to an exciting cricket match. Countdown recap for Friday 22 October 2021. Anne tells us about horse redundancies after the advent of cars. C1: Champion Jasamrit Rahala (4 wins, 378 points.) C2: Challenger Kitty Wood. Lives in...

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Annedown LXXXII and insert witty remark here. Countdown recap for Thursday 21 October 2021. On this day in 1854, Florence Nightingale went off to the Crimean War. Anne says that conditions haven't ever improved for nurses in that time. No comment there... C1: Champion Jasamrit Rahala (3 wins, 288 po...

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Annedown LXXXI. No subtitles, but we're back on All4 now. I didn't watch this yesterday because I was too busy being rained on at Craven Cottage. My shirt is still wet, 24 hours on. Although, amazingly, the takeaway I had wasn't as wet. So there we go - Five Guys is more waterproof than Fulham FC sh...

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Ed Conway’s journalism is excellent. Here he bashes it out of the park again.

https://twitter.com/edconwaysky/status/ ... 02060?s=21

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Annedown LXXIX and this is a very basic recap thanks to a lack of All4. Thanks to Ryan Lam. Countdown recap for Monday 18 October 2021. C1: Champion Tamsin Macdonald Johnston (1 win, 90 points.) C2: Challenger Jasamrit Rahala. DC: Susie Dent and Lesley Joseph. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or so...

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Hello everyone. It's Annedown LXXX and we're all out of order again, as Channel 4 say these issues may not be solved until mid November. :o Countdown recap for Tuesday 19 October 2021. On this day in 2003, David Blaine ended his stint in a glass box suspended above the Thames, his 44th day of doing ...

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Jeremy Paxman is much better at Rachel Riley on this topic of timing the player out - he says "come on"/"let's have it", but Rachel doesn't really give that warning, and just goes "sorry, that's too long".

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Would an accurate measure of easiness be the modal word length available? Obviously in a round of SKRAAADRV, you could have A, RAD, RADS, etc. - up to AARDVARKS, but since there's not a lot of other words there that wouldn't be an easy round?

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Nimco Ali was in a support bubble with Boris and Carrie last year and apparently this is a story.

It really isn’t.

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If by “used”, you mean “would make a fitting tribute for a campaign he worked tirelessly on”, then yes.

As an election junkie I think he should be honoured with a blue plaque in Basildon’s sports hall - “David Amess pretty much won the 92 election here”.

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TROPE was said in R7.

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Annedown LXXVII. Thanks Chloe. Countdown recap for Thursday 14 October 2021. On this day in 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was first published. C1: Champion Rachael Montgomery (1 win, 103 points.) Accounts clerk in recycling. Has watched Countdown since she was 7 or 8. C2: Challenger Stepha...

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Annedown LXXVIII. It's Friday then... it's Saturday, Sunday, what!? (And yes, we're out of order again.) Countdown recap for Friday 15 October 2021. Global Handwashing Day, not that we need reminding any more - even though it's been proven to be the least important Covid measure. C1: Champion Rachae...

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Annedown LXXV and thanks to Chloe Jones for allowing me to see this one. Countdown recap for Tuesday 12 October 2021. Today is Face Your Fear Day. C1: Champion Matt Watts (1 win, 86 points.) Masters Degree in Engineering from Oxford. (May or may not have beaten Stewart Gordon in 2006.) C2: Challenge...

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Annedown LXXVI and we're doing these out of order again. Countdown recap for Wednesday 13 October 2021. C1: Champion Adam Beach (1 win, 83 points.) Countdown superfan who plugs the Countdowners FB Group and lies about the group's reactions to Anne. C2: Challenger Rachael Montgomery. Recycling worker...

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Read the report in full if you get a chance. https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7497/documents/78688/default/ The report heavily leans on Dominic Cummings' evidence given earlier this year, and it's good to see that they actually listened to the insightful parts of his evidence rather tha...

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Annedown LXXIV and at least I'm watching this episode thanks to Chloe Jones, but again we're without subtitles. I've said it before unironically - I miss the simplicity of VCRs! Countdown recap for Monday 11 October 2021. Today is the start of Legs Matter Week, says Anne. Just another horrid reminde...

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Don't get me started. I was already thinking of composing something to send to the BBC for next year's Eurovision... and as someone who scored 93% for the Composing Module in my GCSE in Music (albeit 7 years ago), I fancy my chances... Never going to pass up the opportunity for a bit of bragging, so...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:31 pm This used to be a stat on the Countdown database thing (cdb) but I'm not sure that still exists.

It should be here: http://cdb.apterous.org/octomax.php - the links are still up under octochamps and everything - but it's fubared.

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Attractiveness has nothing to do with it. I just thought she looked a bit wooden.

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Annedown LXXII and this one comes from the wiki again, so will be very basic. Countdown recap for Thursday 7 October 2021. C1: Champion Ahmed Mohamed (6 wins, 699 points.) C2: Challenger Hugh Smithson-Wright. DC: Susie Dent and Dr Phil Hammond. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: H ...

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Annedown LXXIII. Following my electricity failure yesterday and yesterday's game still not being on All4 yet, we're out of sequence once again with today's game coming before yesterday's. Countdown recap for Friday 8 October 2021. On this day in 1945, the first microwave was patented. And yet my dad...

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I thought she was the weakest link (no pun intended) in the BTF day. Hopefully she’ll have improved.

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You can jos this up now if you want because it's on All 4. I can’t, and I can’t do today’s recap either for now, because I have had no electricity for the past 8.5 hours. (It also took me 8 hours to remember I had my spare battery.) Edit: power’s back. Clearly someone at the national grid reads C4C...

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Annedown LXXI and I've got a delayed birthday present tonight: Back to the Future, the Musical. Meanwhile my "working from home" schedule has turned into filtering data with GB News on in the background. How has Tom Harwood become a better political journalist than Laura Kuenssberg, Robert...

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For me, in order of impressiveness, I'd go 1) Winning anything bigger than a standard CoC on TV (e.g. Supreme C or 30BC) 2) Winning a CoC on Tv 3) Being the player who has spent the most time at the top of the apterous rankings for the past 5 years 4) Winning any Co:Event over 40 players 5) Winning...

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In terms of rounds remaining, what is the earliest a game has been mathematically won?

(and obviously, this needs to be per format.)

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Agreed - I think it's the RBM issue, because it's also the same on the title sequence. It's like there's a light grey filter on it.

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We're copying this from Ryan Lam's wikicap. Thanks to him for this. That means no OOW, DC segments, or non-max DC words will be in this recap. No jos score either for the same reason. Sad! Annedown LXIX. Countdown recap for Monday 4 October 2021. C1: Champion Ahmed Mohamed (3 wins, 339 points.) C2: ...

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Annedown LXX and I'm working from home today, which means I'm doing these recaps out of order with Monday's game not available online. No subtitles either. Again. Countdown recap for Tuesday 5 October 2021. Anne tells us Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted on this day in 1969. C1: Champion Ahmed Mo...

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... is currently not on All4. So we may or may not get a recap. Ever.

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Inspired by the “DickandDomtionary” round on Da Bungalow in the Noughties (and given I have just thought of a word), then this thread is to come up with an extraordinary/ridiculous/hilarious word (and its definition) that you wouldn’t mind seeing in the next ODO update. I say this because I wore my ...

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Annedown LXVIII and we're still without subtitles or continuity announcements. Ahmed, on the other hand, doesn't enter competitions. At least he's enjoying Countdown. According to Graeme Cole's site, he's been to one co-event, so I guess that counts? Countdown recap for Friday 1 October 2021. Today ...

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Packed Lunch famously got 0 viewers this time last year...

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Annedown LXVII and we're still without subtitles or continuity announcements. If some of Ahmed's obscure words are anything to go by yesterday, I'll need to page Jack Worsley to correct them again... I would never have typed out ORTOLAN in a million years... Countdown recap for Thursday 30 September...

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Which, given he needs to win 2019 Tory voters, is not a bad thing.

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Annedown LXVI and it's the day of Keir Starmer's conference speech, and we're going to race through this because I've got to get down to Craven Cottage tonight. Still no subtitles which is going to be horrible for me again. Countdown recap for Wednesday 29 September 2021. Today is Food Waste Awarene...

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zomg spoilerz

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Yes, we've had some very strong champions recently.

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Annedown LXV and we still have no subtitles thanks to the Red Bee Media incidents over the weekend. Ofcom fines incoming? On a more sombre note, Stanley's first wife (and the mother of four of Stanley's kids) had her funeral on the day this episode was broadcast, so much so that Rachel Johnson - in ...

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Not a huge Stanley Johnson fan in the real world, but he has been en excellent guest and a lot better than many of the other newbies this series.

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The media and public managed to invent a shortage when there wasn't one by scaremongering. Well done BBC. Take a bow.

Anyone see Starmer's speech? Poundland Neil Kinnock. Doesn't have the strength to expel the Maomentum cranks who heckled him as Kinnock did.

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Annedown LXIV on a day where the British public have managed to manufacture a crisis where there wasn't one, and Channel 4 may or may not have broadcast this episode live given they've been having broadcast problems. Indeed, this appeared to have no subtitles on my All4 iPad. Countdown recap for Mon...

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Stanley Johnson was an MEP and author in his own right…

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Countdown Team wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 7:26 am 'Straightwashing'

This one’s hit the headlines again in the “pink” press: https://www.attitude.co.uk/article/tikt ... WxkL-9Lt10

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Giles Hutchings in a bit of a Twitter spat. https://twitter.com/vampthebs/status/14 ... 03139?s=21

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Annedown LXIII and we're probably just over halfway through this series. I went to The Oval today and watched the final day of a match where 672-6 played 722-4. I also have a new phone which is currently undergoing the slowest iOS update of all time, and furthermore it came with a USB-C --> Lightnin...

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But that's the thing - when she was in WL, it was funny because it was hammed up. It's not being hammed up now, so it's just rude.

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When Anne was on The Weakest Link, her act was more of a pantomime villain. Ironically, being deliberately meaner on Countdown would be better, because the viewers would know she's doing it tongue-in-cheek. At the moment, it's just her natural personality (which was never that warm anyway) and it co...

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Annedown LXII and despite having napped earlier I am absolutely finished. Countdown recap for Thursday 23 September 2021. OTD in 1974, the first TV teletext started. We all remember Ceefax, don't we? Rachel reminisces about buying a holiday from teletext. C1: Champion Steven Grady (1 win, 109 points...

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Annedown LXI and I had selection meetings on Monday and Tuesday which took up my evenings, and on Wednesday "drinks after work?" turned into "bloody hell, is that the time?". R7/8 Anne asks Steven about some of the derogatory names the kids call him. Steven says he's "down w...

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Annedown LX and it's part two of the Benjo Countdown recap triple bill. Countdown recap for Tuesday 21 September 2021. It's Miniature Golf Day. "I'm told it spoils a good walk." Crikey, did Anne wake up on the wrong side of bed on this recording day? C1: Champion Ryan Sutton (3 wins, 306 p...

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