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Darren Carter

No disrespect to Clive as he is a good player, but I have no doubt that Innis will win this and go on to win the 8.

Darren Carter

Jon Corby wrote: Also, Tim Vine is fecking brilliant.

He has rapidly become my favourite DC guest.

Darren Carter

I got 151-58 against the champion and 151-20 against the challenger so would have been 2 records: highest score and largest margin. I couldn't believe it when the C came out for CAVEWOMAN though. I got 142-80 against the champion and 147-27 against the challenger which is far, far more than I have ...

Darren Carter

I'm suprised MUNTER isn't in yet as well.

Darren Carter

Jeffrey Burgin wrote:
Darren Carter wrote:How about DELUXE? I know it's supposed to be two words but is so often used as one that I'm suprised it's not in. Was disallowed it on Apterous a while back and was shocked.
You're not the only one.

Shhh I think that's bordering on a spoiler......

Darren Carter

How about DELUXE? I know it's supposed to be two words but is so often used as one that I'm suprised it's not in. Was disallowed it on Apterous a while back and was shocked.

Darren Carter

James Robinson wrote:
Darren Carter wrote:
James Robinson wrote: We should do since I was at today's, tomorrow's and Wednesday's recordings, back on May 11th!
Blimey James, you seem to always be at the recordings!
Are you suggesting it's illegal, Darren

No not a all, just saying you seem to be there quite a lot. Do you live nearby?

Darren Carter

James Robinson wrote: We should do since I was at today's, tomorrow's and Wednesday's recordings, back on May 11th!

Blimey James, you seem to always be at the recordings!

Darren Carter

I pressed my virtual buzzer and declared GRAINVORE - close but no cigar.

Darren Carter

I was never too keen on her but she was very nice yesterday.

Darren Carter

James Robinson wrote: I've been to see the recordings in Manchester today (to be shown September 14-18th) and all of them were fantastic battles.

Weren't they just!

Darren Carter

Just blue screened again when quitting Apterous, but this time didn't seem to have a particular error message. Can't for the life of me think what is causing it, so unfortunately will have to play it less frequently on a battered old laptop....

Darren Carter

Douglas Wilson wrote:I've just done a massive poo, should I flush or not?

Leave it there long enough for the water to turn brown.

Darren Carter

Matt Morrison wrote:Nasty. never seen before. quick google search suggests it's something to do with a dodgy driver,

Yeah I noticed that when I searched on Google - will have to just keep an eye on it I guess.

Darren Carter

A couple of weeks ago I was playing Apterous on FF and when I closed the game window, I got a blue screen with the error "BAD_POOL_CALLER". The computer restarted and for my FF settings had all reset back to the factory settings. Occasionally when I quit Apterous on FF it freezes the compu...

Darren Carter

Thomas Wood wrote:It was good when it first started because no-one knew what it was like or what would happen.

And it was some normal people in a house, being made to do decent tasks.

I have shamefully watched BB from Series 1 to 9, but not bothering with this one.

Darren Carter

I've done the same.

Darren Carter

Is anyone else who uses firefox experiencing the incredibly annoying feature that the popup for a round is sometimes sent physically behind the next window in sequence, but you cannot just reclick on to the round, you have to alt tab or click out then in again? I don't know how to stop this. Yep mi...

Darren Carter

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:
Darren Carter wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:The quarter finals start next Thursday so there is not enough time left for another octochamp so this series will have to stick with 6 octochamps - not bad.
You, Jimmy, Cate, Shane, James - who's the other one?
Don't forget our Neil Zussman

That's the one! Sorry Neil.....

Darren Carter

Kirk Bevins wrote:The quarter finals start next Thursday so there is not enough time left for another octochamp so this series will have to stick with 6 octochamps - not bad.

You, Jimmy, Cate, Shane, James - who's the other one?

Darren Carter

The only suggestion I can make is to make sure Java is the default processing engine for Firefox. Go to the Java control panel section, Advanced > Default Java for browsers > make sure Mozilla family is ticked. You could also try toggling the 'next generation plug-in' option on the same page under ...

Darren Carter

And when I try to play it on IE 64-bit, it says that Java isn't installed correctly - but it works fine on normal IE.

Darren Carter

I used to play Apterous on Firefox but have just reinstalled Windows and now it no longer works on Firefox. I have installed the latest Java and the game works fine on IE, but when you try to play it on Firefox, it just pops the window up and says 'Done'. Any ideas on how to get it to work on FF? W...

Darren Carter

JackHurst wrote:Alternate conundrum!

OUTSOURCE

what do you think would have happened if someone buzzed in with that as their answer?

I had OUTSOURCE as well and was shocked when it wasn't the right one! Checked the OED2r and found it was definitely in.

Darren Carter

I used to play Apterous on Firefox but have just reinstalled Windows and now it no longer works on Firefox. I have installed the latest Java and the game works fine on IE, but when you try to play it on Firefox, it just pops the window up and says 'Done'. Any ideas on how to get it to work on FF?

Darren Carter

Charlie Reams wrote: It's one of them Nash equilibrium things innit.

I've just done an exam on Game Theory, I don't want to see it on here as well!!!

Darren Carter

First one I've listened to and it was so much better than I thought it would be. Originally meant to have it on in the background whilst revising, but ended up just sitting there listening to it.

When's the next one?

Darren Carter

I think DRAINED was a DC-equaller in one of the early rounds.

Darren Carter

When you click on a users name on Apterous, and you can see their most recent games, I would quite like it if it also showed your record against them as well. Any thoughts?

Darren Carter

Or how about some young kids playing Junior Countdown?

Darren Carter

I think it would be cool to have a completely Apterous game. For example, Junaid on the numbers board, Chris and Kirk in Dictionary Corner, Charlie as presenter, and then two contestants - Kai v Callum?

Darren Carter

We're looking into the possibility of making some special stand-alone 30-min editions of Countdown in a few weeks time, possibly June 17th - the idea being these are aired at a later time of day during the back end of August. Damian, I know you said it will possibly be on June 17th, but if it was h...

Darren Carter

I know it was only a 9 round Junior game, and that he gave me a thrashing straight afterwards, but I was still pleased with this scalp:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=66338

Darren Carter

ooh... tense. I wonder did James have a 6 there? Obviously not... polite was an easy enough spot... Yeah, there were lots of easy 6s (PLANET was another one), and there was also POLENTA for 7 - Jack obviously lost focus for a moment there. IMPLANT, TOENAIL, ELATION etc - I think that round is the o...

Darren Carter

Innis Carson wrote:Not really important, but it's possible to cheat on the teasers by looking in the chat logs, where you can see people's correct guesses.

So *that's* how you have managed to get over 500 points.....

Darren Carter

They should all agree to just choose an amount, and then at the end of the show put it all together and split it equally.

Darren Carter

Love the new features, especially the recent games in the player profiles. I don't see how it can improve any more if I'm being honest.

Darren Carter

Dinos Sfyris wrote: Beat both contestants quadruple stylee 115-27!

I put 100 past both of them, not quite quadruple though!

Darren Carter

Filming on the 17th June, the last contestant before the long break - so if I win I will be back in September. I'm the third recording out of five on that day, starting at 2pm, pending final confirmation- here's hoping I get the chance to play you! :) That's the first game I will be watching in the...

Darren Carter

Ian Dent wrote:A 6 small duel....

It started off nicely with two easy ones, but then went quickly downhill!

Darren Carter

Howard Somerset wrote:
Ken MacKenzie wrote:Well, courage finally came to the fore and I'm due to record in Manchester on June 16th.
Excellent! I know that at least three forum members will be in the audience on that day.

Who are they then? Anyone in the audience on the 17th?

Darren Carter

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=61236

Couldn't do numbers and was making up words......that means its time for bed.

Darren Carter

It's amazing how simply knowing there's a longer word in the selection can sometimes make you see it instantly Yeah. This is a well documented fact and I used this policy a lot on my run. I told myself "there's a 9 here" and treated it as a conundrum and more often than not the 9 just jum...

Darren Carter

Kai Laddiman wrote:In my resumed game with Innis, chat was working fine his end, but at my end I had a blank in-game chat pane. He could still see my messages. Someone else seemed to have this too. I think.

EDIT: I now have a blank spectator pane as well.

I'm finding that happening with resumed games as well.

Darren Carter

I was so pleased when I spotted ALTERNATE, completely missed the other one though.

The challenger, who had presumably already watched Jimmy in the studio, seemed to know he was going to lose but still enjoyed it anyway. Good stuff.

Darren Carter

Not sure it will be worth watching this year without Terry Wogan, but will no doubt give it a go.

Darren Carter

Just passed the telephone audition - got 2 out of 3 conundrums, got both the numbers, and out of 6 letters games I got a 9 and two 8's! :D Filming on the 17th June, the last contestant before the long break - so if I win I will be back in September. Sweet, congratumalations mate. Plenty of time to ...

Darren Carter

Just passed the telephone audition - got 2 out of 3 conundrums, got both the numbers, and out of 6 letters games I got a 9 and two 8's!

Filming on the 17th June, the last contestant before the long break - so if I win I will be back in September.

Darren Carter

Kate, Howard and Yasmina have also done pretty well and I think one of those three will end up winning. I think you're on the right track with Kate and Yasmina, but Howard has only really excelled in the one task so I reckon it will be Ben in the final with the two girls. Kate will definitely win t...

Darren Carter

Stuart Arnot wrote:The ratings aren't moving.

I noticed that - just beat two people who are rated an awful lot higher than I am and haven't moved!

Darren Carter

Hands up whoever managed to score any points in today's ridiculously hard duel..........

Darren Carter

Michael Wallace wrote:
At my audition they just read out the conundrums, which didn't help when presented with MINDNOISE and I wrote down MINEDNOISE...

Dimension?

Darren Carter

A telephone audition? Also, they can't accuse you of cheating by looking at your neighbours work (which I'm sure nobody would do anyway). But they could accuse you of cheating by using the internet. I definitely will not do that however as I only want to go on the show if they think I'm good enough...

Darren Carter

Ian Dent wrote:A telephone audition?

Yep, apparently there are no auditions in Birmingham or Nottingham soon so they're trying it over the phone to see how it works.

Darren Carter

I applied about 6 weeks ago and have had a call today arranging a telephone audition for next week - 6 letters games, 2 numbers games, 3 conundrums.

Darren Carter

Ian Volante wrote:
Darren Carter wrote:You do realise there will be 7 winners, so one will have to receive a bye in the next round? Finding two more competitors would surely make it easier?
I'm assuming the other match is Charlie v Neil, but this has somehow been omitted.

Yes you're right, that explains it.

Darren Carter

You do realise there will be 7 winners, so one will have to receive a bye in the next round? Finding two more competitors would surely make it easier?

Darren Carter

ORBITERS as a DC equaller in Round 9.

Darren Carter

CALORIES and AILERONS in Round 1.

Darren Carter

Ben Wilson wrote:I'm pretty sure Bob used to host Bullseye.

(Yes, I did start the thread just for that.)

I thought exactly the same thing!

Hamish started off well but seemed to go off the boil as the game went on, shame.

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