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Hugh Binnie

Kai 2-1 Hugh. I stole the first game but was convincingly beaten in the other two games.

Kai Laddiman 95 - 97 Hugh Binnie
Kai Laddiman 99 - 79 Hugh Binnie
Kai Laddiman 102 - 74 Hugh Binnie

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Robert Baxter wrote:You missed me

That seems unlikely; I don't think anybody would miss you.

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Graeme Cole wrote:FANBASE. Also, you can have UPTIME but not DOWNTIME.

Good news and bad news wrt the 3rd edition — DOWNTIME is in [mass noun] but fan base is two words.

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Scores in here?

Hugh Binnie 123 - 45 Jim Bentley
Hugh Binnie 105 - 85 Jim Bentley

R14 in game one.

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I have a feeling James Doohan is going to quote my post from the correct thread to try to make me look stupid. Don't be fooled by his shenanigans!

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I can't remember if I've seen this proposed before, but: <arithmetician's> choice on the numbers game, for when you don't really care (right now I just hold down tab for a while and then randomly press enter, but sometimes you get 4 large and that's just annoying). You could just press enter as soo...

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Maybe using normal ratings would be better, given how odd the Goatdown ratings are for some (a lot of?) players — Goatdown's hardly different enough for people to be good at it but hopeless at the normal game, or vice versa.

P.S. I'll play whether I can use my goatdown rating or not.

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Junaid's comments from last year are still applicable, methinks.

Junaid Mubeen wrote:Awesome, congrats! Although....ah dammit, Varsity Countdown has taken a horrible twist.

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They had an article about this in the Times on Saturday. It said about 1200 words were going in and "a rather smaller number" were coming out (including INTERNAUT — get the pencil while you still can!), so it doesn't sound like there should be too much to do.

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JackHurst wrote:So Did tom Declare SAUTE or SAUTEE?
Also, what was the end score, and what did the other player declare in the same round as Tom had SAUTEE/SAUTE?

Tom had sautee for 6, matching Andrew's UNEASE; he won the game by 4 points.

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sautee^?

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This buggy game is still included in the most max games page.

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Why isn't episode 1 available?

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In the open, Hugh Binnie 2 - 1 Kai Laddiman. Three closely fought games, all coming down to crucial conundrums:

Hugh Binnie 88 - 85 Kai Laddiman
Kai Laddiman 73 - 58 Hugh Binnie
Kai Laddiman 94 -105 Hugh Binnie

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In this 'maxes score' game against the Guardian, he scored on the numbers round despite declaring one away from the max.

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A convincing debut, Tom; well played.

(5-3)*(6*8*10-9) = 978 as an alternative method for R4.

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You're choosing your children's names according to the anagrams. I actually rather like this idea. I might have to call one of my children Patton (I'm sure he'd forgive me eventually) because it nicely anagrams to NOT BIPINNATE, which would be true (always a plus for name anagrams, right?) and have...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Hugh Binnie wrote:In Superstats, could the nines offered page include touchdown too?
I think it already does, but the change was fairly recent so you might need to wait for the pages to update.

Ah, excellent. Right you are.

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In Superstats, could the nines offered page include touchdown too?

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In the Open, Hugh Binnie 2 - 0 Matt Morrison.

Matt Morrison 80 - 91 Hugh Binnie
Hugh Binnie 90 - 68 Matt Morrison

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I think you should only be allowed to submit alternate words and DC beaters as pictures, it would make spoilers threads far sexier. R? yielded http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/media/cinderella/thumbnails/Incentre.jpg http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/media/cinderella/thumbnails/Incentre.jpg I think, f...

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I don't know; nobody ever rings me.

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I made some changes to Hypercountdown. There are now 60 SECONDS in each round and you score 5pts for 50-off, 7pts for 20-off, 10pts for 10-off, 15pts for 5-off and 20pts for exact match in numbers round. I think Hypercountdown must be REALLY HYPER . You seem to be somewhat overestimating the diffic...

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Rachel doesn't appear on my junk mail — that's got to count for something.

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Ryan really could have won that. He finished only 14 behind, and all those disallowed words probably cost him more than that. I know it's easy to say with hindsight, but it's a good example of why you shouldn't just start declaring v. unlikely words if you fall behind. OMG I could listen to Doug Elk...

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Also wrt blind, are the letters meant to pop back up at the end of the round?

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I wouldn't mind seeing some more junior star charts.

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In the open, James Doohan 2 - 1 Hugh Binnie.

James Doohan 96 - 77 Hugh Binnie
Hugh Binnie 86 - 82 James Doohan
James Doohan 95 - 87 Hugh Binnie

James ran away with the first game, though it wasn't quite the massacre he'd predicted before we started.

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Martin Bishop wrote:No one complains about Father Ted, Blackadder or Fawlty Towers having laughter on them.

I do.

Canned laughter has no place in a civilized society!

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Charlie Reams wrote:Haha. Well, the mute button exists for a reason.

Don't suppose you could add one for the forum too, could you? >.>

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Hope everyone's enjoying it so far. You'll be amused to know that we've already nearly doubled the previous record for most conundrums solved in a day, and it's barely 10am. Congrats to those who've already picked up jerseys . Hugh's total in the 16:00 hour is phenomenal. It seems the hourly totals...

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The idea that there was then this "elite clique" of Countdowners (every one of them a nerdy milk or Ribena drinker in a tank-top) who got together outside of the show to play bizarre variants and partake in petty bickering and displays of one-upmanship is just laughable. As if. Ridiculous...

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In the Open, Innis Carson 2 - 0 Hugh Binnie.

Hugh Binnie 97 - 129 Innis Carson
Innis Carson 125 - 115 Hugh Binnie

A couple of very good games — Innis maxed the first, and we matched each other in every round of the second (except the conundrum, obviously).

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James Robinson wrote:By the way, did anyone else notice Tim doing his legendary "Pen Behind The Ear" trick in Round 7

<3

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Seriously though, brilliant stuff - does anyone want to enlighten me why there's a reluctance over another C of C? and what could and would replace it?? Watching a bunch of 20-something males take it very seriously (e.g. by refusing to make a SEAMAN joke) for three weeks just doesn't please the mas...

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No, it's completely pseudo-random.

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Michael Wallace wrote:ad infinitum

This; this; a thousand times this.

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No. I think this is better: if your word length is equal to the length of the longest possible word in the dictionary, you get twice the points for that word (a rule which is REALLY used on http://www.wedigtv.com . I played it there many times). I call it The Undefeatable Dictionary. Kirk would get...

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I don't understand the Chris hate.

I also didn't notice the electron thing. I'm probably just too laid back for this.

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Hugh, when suits?

Saturday (any time) or Monday evening (after 8) would be best.

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BRAZIL WIN THROUGH IN THRILLING SEMI Brazil 10 - 10 Serbia aet; Brazil win 4-1 on penalties. Brazil came into this match as strong favourites, having brushed past the impressive Dutch in the previous round, but Serbia were also on fine form. Before the match, Kevin Keegan was heard to exclaim, &quo...

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Well done, Scott; another solid performance. Better keep practising for the finals now.

Looking forward to seeing how the other big guns this series compare.

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Serbia 7-6 Argentina. Argentina bowed out after an early grab for glory unfortunately backfired, giving the Serbs a crucial early lead. The Argentines' TECHIEnical play in the middle went unrewarded and when they chose to play it safe shortly afterwards, they missed their last chance to draw level. ...

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Hugh Binnie 102-91 Chris Philpot
Hugh Binnie 90-65 Chris Philpot

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Was Scott fishing for UAKARI in the DOZIER round?

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I agree wholeheartedly with Gavin's suggestions (training aids in general, and that training aid in particular).

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A lot of the commentators are dreadful. I'd much rather just listen to the vuvuzelas. The playacting has also been horrendous throughout.

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Well done Oliver; you've been excellent throughout & thoroughly deserved to win.

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Final vowel in R2 would have given SAGAMORES.

P.S. I thought Paul was fairly weak today.

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OXJAM

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James Robinson wrote:the literage/LITERAGE fiasco

Eh?

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Liam Tiernan wrote:Have you applied to be a contestant, Ryan? Has anybody ever been a contestant on both versions? (this might be a question that would even stump James)

The wiki reveals that at least two people have, namely Tricia Pay and Pierre Sandrini.

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This would eliminate concerns about inequalities in conundrum difficulty No it wouldn't. If I go first on an easy conundrum, and you go first on a hard conundrum, I've got a much better chance of winning overall. I think Liam's suggesting that the conundrum would be hidden from player 2 while playe...

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Australia 5 - 5 Serbia. The Australians started off impressively to take an early lead before a couple of slip-ups allowed the Serbians to equalize and then take the lead. But, showing impressive fighting spirit, Australia scored a last-minute equalizer to set up a must-win game against the highly i...

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1st numbers i think the contestant in the black shirt may have had a total mind blank and blagged his way to th total haha I thought the second seemed blaggier. no i had the second, rachel actually apologised to me after that one cause she had a big pause after i said 100-1-6 cause she expected me ...

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Scott Gillies wrote:1st numbers i think the contestant in the black shirt may have had a total mind blank and blagged his way to th total haha

I thought the second seemed blaggier.

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This sounds like a larf. (In please!)

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Thank you for putting so much effort into organizing this, Ben; a really enjoyable few evenings of something different. :D My favourite was probably Bash 3 (the Nastynums), made more enjoyable at least partly because there were a lot of people in it. I think you got a little bit unlucky with the goo...

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James Robinson wrote:and the person he'd most like to meet is Tiger Woods, who plays..... (fill in blank).

...the field.

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I'll play in this, Andrew!

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