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Chris Davies

Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=30288
brilliant from chris

Hehe, cheers. I was on pretty good form at the time. Why'd you post it in scrag? There was nothing really bad about your playing.

Chris Davies · Re: Spoilers for Wed 04/03/2009 Congratulations Kirk!

Congratulations Kirk!

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My highest speedgoat score yet..

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Thank you

What with all my 'almosts', I was beginning to wonder if I would manage it.

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Perfect game at last.

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=29209 5 disallowed words and some appalling misses. And in front of the Countdown man himself. I haven't been this embarrassed since I dropped both my drumsticks during a song at a gig. I was completely sober while playing this absolute shambles of a game, ...

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I got FEEDLOT for a DC beater, can't remember which round though.

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got BEMOANS, PAROTIDS and DERANGED. Also spotted BRASSICA in the ASCRIBES round but in my dictionary it is capitalised so it would have been disallowed unless it has changed. Another solution for 364. 25+8+3 = 36 times 10 = 360 + 4. A closely fought and enjoyable game today. BRASSICA is fine, my mu...

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I wasn't a million miles from a max speedgoat here.

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355 Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game. Why does that count as strange? I dunno. :) I thought it noteworthy but couldn't think of any other existing thread in which to post it. In hindsight, it...

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I finally get to use the 75x25 = almost 2 x 938 method.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... und=424775

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=28355

Karen started off so-so, but then became series champion material in the latter half of the game.

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What an excellent conundrum scramble

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Kai Laddiman wrote:I'm claiming the longest word spelt out in the letters (AMARETTO).

I can match that with BRACONID here. And it wasn't Goatdown

This game here has a mix of quite decent playing and complete incompetence from me.

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I thought I had a max game (WOOO!!!), until I saw Chris' post ( :evil: :cry: ). Well done Neil, and I can say that I got the conundrum quicker than you. :P That round with POOJAS was the first one I saw, as I was out of the house for much of the episode. I did get the last numbers game exactly, but...

Chris Davies · Re: Spoilers and comments for Wednesday 18/02/2009 POOJAS

POOJAS

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Just a couple of hours ago, I was playing my favourite Itbox game, Word Soup, at a local restaurant where I often go with my family, and a few members of the bar staff were watching me (impressed with my clearing the board in a previous game, apparently). When I mentioned to them that I was going to...

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50*(10+5+3)-75-3 for the last numbers

Chris Davies · Re: Spoilers & Comments, Tuesday 17/02/2009 ITERATED

ITERATED

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Innis Carson wrote:I think CARMINES was there in Round 3 for a beater.

I had that too. It's fine.

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My internet is completely failing, in addition to the site being shaky. Every letter I pick is taking a ridiculous amount of time to appear, and I actually didn't even get to see one of the conundrums at all (heard the beep, but no letters), and Kai buzzed correctly before I could even reload the ga...

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25987

I think I played pretty well in this game. I was particularly happy with ATHETOID, although having my max game spoiled in round 11 was pretty disappointing.

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Mark Kudlowski wrote:Numbers 3 :

(75 - 5 - 2) x 9 = 68 x 9 = 612; 612 + 5 - 4 = 613.

I did this too.

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=25545

By far the worst game I've ever played. My mind went blank in the first round, and never un-blanked.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=24930

What a comeback (if I do say so myself) with 3 nines!

After round 7, I really thought I had the game in the bag. At least I found one of the nines, but I'm still a complete moron.

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MINNEOLA for 8 just before the first numbers!

TUQUES is OK in round 13, but it's a Scrabbley word so I wasn't sure about it, but now I've checked.

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So close to a max game. Can't believe I missed CAUTIONS/AUCTIONS.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=22548

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Apterous is back up.

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Jimmy Gough wrote:I don't know about others but I think a prefix search would be really useful too - that way you could see all the possible under/over, up/down words. Good little tool Chris, thanks.

Already done one:

http://www.phptests.f-snet.com/prefix.php

I forgot to mention it

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Thanks for the nice comments. I've slightly updated the page - now each word in the results links to its relevant page at onelook.com

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:I didn't get PESTICIDE
As far as I'm aware, he was the only person to get it in the whole building.

Wow. Excellent spot - I won't kick myself then.

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CHANSON as a contestant and DC beater just before the second numbers game. But, I didn't get PESTICIDE.

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I did get this conundrum about 10 seconds before Steven. I'm not too cocky however as it's the first time it's happened in this CoC.

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I've made a page which allows you to search for all words in ODE with a specified suffix (e.g. -ium).

http://www.phptests.f-snet.com/suffix.php

(It's called phptests because, when I registered it, I was new to PHP and didn't yet have my own server).
Hope it's useful/entertaining.

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I saw RESONATE

And BEDTIME! Well done Jeff.

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OK, get ready for this:

(I did spot AUTUMN just in time, BTW

)

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When Innis told me he'd broken the 9 round record, I thought his meant his own PB. No idea he had broken the high score record for both apterous.org and televised Countdown. So, Congratulations again!

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Maximum minus one! http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16836 Annoyingly, I knew OPALINE (round 2). The conundrum was a complete guess. Once I'd assumed it wasn't an -ING word, I started making compound words in my head, hoping to some up with something feasible. Well worthy of note, good stuff...

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Not sure if it's noteworthy, but I finished this game 4 points shy of the maximum. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16419 Well worthy of note, good stuff. As a CSW-to-ODE convert, you'd probably benefit from spending some time studying -SOL words (ARIDISOL, VERTISOL, etc) on which, unusual...

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Not sure if it's noteworthy, but I finished this game 4 points shy of the maximum.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=16419

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I somehow managed to amass 134 points in this 15-round game: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=15927 . Largely thanks to my risking NITRATION for 9 in the 12th round. It just seemed like it should be a word, and fortunately for me it was. Whereas, I lost the previous three games I had with I...

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I did get SANITIZE (missed by both contestants), and I saw ORDINATES before the clock even started for that round, but not NOTARISED.

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