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As far as I can remember, there are also America, Quebec, Melbourne and (if you can count it) Scotland. I've a feeling there's a Canada as well. And was Washington mentioned?

What surprised me is that Charlie was allowed to advertise this site on the programme. When Mike Brown was on, it was said that he runs a Countdown website, but the URL wasn't given. And I mentioned my numbers game solver on my application form, but this information was completely censored out for s...

That's the situation with COLIN, but as COBRIS (and COLEI too I think) have games where everyone plays with the same letters ("Swiss Tournaments" I think the term is), you don't need the 3rd person to host, so its just tables of two then. Swiss tournament is nothing to do with whether eve...

(10 + 7 - 8) × (6 + 5) + 75 = 174

(50 - 10 - 3) × (25 + 7 - 8) = 888

(25×9 + 4/4) × (8-5) = 678

I just got it in the time.

Susie just used "revometer". Is that in ODE? It was called a tachometer when I went to school.

Ben Pugh wrote:

smjg wrote:Better late than never I guess....
Round 4: UNDERHEAD

That's not a word.

According to every dictionary in the world, even the 6 that OneLook gives me?

Better late than never I guess....

Round 4: UNDERHEAD

(100 - 7 - 4) × 9 + 10 = 811

Was it my imagination, or was there an N in the round where someone just got PARTAKE?

952
10 9 9 7 6 1

I did it!

(9 + 6) * 9 = 135
+ 1 = 136
* 7 = 952

I thought TARMAC was a trademark, and therefore would be capitalised in the dictionary. Isn't it? Lots of them have become generic, like HOOVER and VASELINE. Just looking at them in my 2001 OPD: Hoover (cap) as a noun is a trademark, but apparently the verb (-cap) was never trademarked vaseline is ...

I thought TARMAC was a trademark, and therefore would be capitalised in the dictionary. Isn't it?

Joseph Bolas wrote:FOCUSSED?

Yes, it can be spelt with one S or two. How they found only the 7-letter spelling, I don't quite get.

How about THINNESS?