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Hugh Binnie

Really well played, Scott.

It was good to see somebody getting into three figures again, too.

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I can't compete with Jack's pencil-grabbing hypergoaty goodness, but I was rather pleased with this picky/spotty thing in the same format.

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Dr Phil missed CADUCEI in R1.

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Thanks Ben, that was a lot of fun. Looking forward to tomorrow's bash, when hopefully there'll be a few more players.

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Bob De Caux wrote:If you could uniquely identify one boy exactly (so that no other boy could have those characteristics), then whether the other one is a boy or girl just reverts to Lesley's independence answer, i.e. 50%

Ah yes, of course.

Hugh Binnie

Well, I assumed that girl/boy was equally possible, and that births on all seven days of the week were equally possible, and just did the counting from that. These were fairly straightforward 1/2 and 1/7 chances. You'd have to come up with similar figures for blond haired (how many hair colours are...

Hugh Binnie

I get the same stupid answers as John.

What if you have two children; one a blond haired, blue eyed boy born on the 26th May. What are the chances of having two sons in that case?

Hugh Binnie

Well done Danny.

(50-(8+4))x7+3 = 269, as an alternative for the second numbers.

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Eurovision's worth watching with friends.

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Malcolm James wrote:R14
((25 * (7 - 4)) + 4) * 7 + 9 = 562

Yes, Rachel did this right at the end.

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Jon Corby wrote:I also got CUNTHEAD in round 1.

That distracted me too.

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I tried watching Divided on Wednesday and had to give up. My main complaint, apart from the incredibly slow pace, was that the presenter always wanted somebody to take responsibility for the question — an incredibly tiresome device. Plus the players generally seemed to be slightly lacking in the GK ...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:I like his tones too.

Do you mean the way he announces his declarations rather than asking them?

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That was fun but I spent a while trying to find the 1,000,001th by mistake.

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Marc Meakin wrote:AWEARY was there in the round Lee declared WEARY.

Marc Meakin in valid word suggestion shocker.

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A final vowel in R7 would have given DOMINANCE, while 5 vowels would have given MACEDOINE. Was annoyed when he went for too many consonants. >.>

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DEMILUNE as a beater in R13 (I think it was R13).

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Howard Somerset wrote:Maybe we should all do an image google search on our full name, and change our avi to the first pic that comes up. I remember doing that on another forum a while back, but it was stopped when someone came up with a porn pic.

Way ahead of you, Howard; way ahead of you.

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Karen Pearson wrote:FEOFFEES

There wasn't an O in that round. (Or are you saying it should go?)

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I thought Howie was your pet name for Paul, but I couldn't for the life of me work out who Candace or Marg might be. (Though I had a suspicion that Candace might be Kirk's Saturday night alter ego.)

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I am expressing an interest (my own, no less).

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I considered submitting 9!!!.... (i.e factorial function applied 999 times) but find brackets need to be used to distinguish from the double factorial function, so can only get 333 repeats - probably not as good as the tower of indices. :?: :( Gavin said that he understands !, not !! or !!! etc, so...

Hugh Binnie

Superstats' Most offered words seems to be a bit broken.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Hugh Binnie wrote:Easiest numbers game ever (R14) displays incorrectly in the recap.
I didn't think a large number could be 20 - only 10?

Looks like it's been changed with the addition of Unlimited Jr.

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Easiest numbers game ever (R14) displays incorrectly in the recap.

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Ben Wilson wrote:I declare this thread over.

That's not really any worse than some of the others posted already.

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M E X U Z
A: SULPHAMETHOXAZOLE

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Yeah, what was in her mind to think "Now, Tokyo will be a very safe option". :oops: I had about half of those Pointless cities yesterday :!: A lot of surprisingly pointless cities there. Did Richard show them all? If so, I'm surprised somebody said Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte yet nobody sai...

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That Round Table one yesterday. Good god that was hard. Hard but totally predictable, again. I cannot believe that only 67% of people named 'Christianity' when they were given 100 seconds to name as many religions as possible. Thats just mind-boggling. I would have found it amusing if it had been 9...

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Liam Tiernan wrote:Just caught the end of todays DOND on more4 (or maybe it was a repeat) . Christ, that guy had some guts. Turned down 14k to go for a 50p/50k choice.

Gutsy perhaps, but dealing on £14k when your average return is £25k is silly.

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Innis Carson wrote:Unless I'm not noticing something, everyone who played between Judith Young finishing her octorun and Frank Mulvey "retiring" in Series 53 is isolated from the rest. Don't know whether or not any of them have been in co-events or anything though.

""retiring""?

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Kirk Bevins wrote:pierogi is listed as a plural noun. It says (also perogi, pirogi, or pierogies)

Ah, excellent. Thanks.

Hugh Binnie

Surprised to see no pirogis (or maybe even pirogies) given that the alternative spelling pierogi can be pluralized. (And I'm not the only one.)

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James Robinson wrote:I've quite enjoyed the new series so far, although I'm still fuming over missing out in the audition phase. Having said that, both the final round questions have been stinkers so far. (Poets Laureate & Whitney Houston Top 40 Singles)

Well they weren't very easy, but they were very predictable.

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Oliver Garner wrote:Since there will probably be less than 110 people playing, might it be a good idea to reduce the number of wins for 'octochampdom' since if there are only 40 people, you might only get 5 people winning all the games, which kinda defeats the point of the idea of it.

So back to viscounts, then?

Hugh Binnie

((10-2)x4+50)x10+6 as an alternative for the third numbers.

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Slightly. When I tried it you could only put in the connection for the group if you got all 4 (on the show you get a point for each group, and then a point for each connection, even for groups you didn't spot). Yes, that's all it was. Still, it's a pretty big difference, at least in terms of point-...

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Is the format slightly different for the online version, or have I just not worked out how to navigate it properly yet?

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30th August 2010, at 5 pm.

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Is there a way to view your Pro Rank and rating if you're not in the top 25?

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Chris Davies 2 - 0 Hugh Binnie

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Luckily (?) for Chris, he buzzed in with an incorrect condundrum guess in the second game, which saved him the agony of a 14-max game, having not risked HUMPIER in round 9.

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Consider WAKIZASHI. You see the shuffle, and you're not sure if it's spelt WAKAZASHI or WAKIZASHI, but you know it from AAHIKSWZ?. On the show it wouldn't be an issue, but on apterous it is. You can then debate whether it matters if it's like the show, or whether the handful of conundrums that are ...

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Jimmy Gough wrote:oh I can't do May

(srsly if it's the half-term week, I can't)
When's that?

Very end of the month, i.e. 29th May (and 5th June, but June isn't in May).

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I have two classic games that I can't continue because my opponent "is offline". Only one of them has an Apterous account, as far as I can tell. (The two are Aaron Webber and Stuart Coxshall.)

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Hugh Binnie wrote:Add GENTILES.
I'm not convinced.

gentile is an adjective and underneath it says:

noun (Gentile) a person who is not Jewish.

This implies the noun version of the word is only valid with a capital G.

I'm not convinced either, now.

Hugh Binnie

Add GENTILES.

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GARBA as an equaller in R12.

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I too would like a bash at the qualifier.

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James Robinson wrote:
Hugh Binnie wrote:Another 3rd numbers method would be (75+1)*6+7+8-100 = 371.

P.S. I also heard outsteer.
That's what Rachel did, Hugh
Are you sure you were watching the show, or did you OUTSTEER that last little bit

I didn't watch the very end.

Hugh Binnie

Another 3rd numbers method would be (75+1)*6+7+8-100 = 371.

P.S. I also heard outsteer.

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Surprised that zouave isn't valid and ZOUAVES is.

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Surely bicipites?

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Marc Meakin wrote:What about fractions?

Square numbers are squares of integers.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Also, weird places like Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Channel Islands etc., are they neither a country or in a country?

Well they are neither UN member states nor any of 3 other widely recognized nations.

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Isn't the P silent, as in pshrimp?

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Hugh Binnie wrote:Touch Jr doesn't accept 8-letter words?
Would be quite hard to make one from 7 letters.

Ah, replacement. Touchundrums also make a lot more sense now.

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Touch Jr doesn't accept 8-letter words?

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I guess orsetail^+? is fairly handy too, since it's got no valid anagrams but makes 9s with 11 letters.

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TRENAILS+? and NOTARISE+? are worth learning, as is ANGRIEST+?.

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