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Hugh Binnie

Bloody hate twin primes now.

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Joseph Bolas wrote:Also going by the list of 493 pokemon, there are 76 pokemon with 9-letters in there names and only one of them is allowed on Countdown (and it's not even an anagram)

Also MAGNETON is there for 8, or MAGNETONS for 9.

Hugh Binnie

Ah, I understand now. >.< Can't beat Jim's score, but I'm working on it.

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PUZZLE D1: GOLF There's a 9-hole golf course near my house where I like to play, but my golf swing is very inconsistent. One day while totting up the scores after playing with my friend, he points out to me that my difference in scores on subsequent holes are all different prime numbers. What is th...

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Puzzle 5 attempt: I can get up to 164 by doing 0/ X 1/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 9/2. The first ball, and the first ball thrown after the strike, don't count towards the score so you might as well stick 0 and 1 there. Don't think the rest of the order matters. I imagine this is on the right lines but you k...

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Why have you lumped work/my own business together? "What I do on the internet is work"; "what I do on the internet is my own business" — hardly the same.

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Depends whether I just want to stew in my misery, in which case... I don't know... maybe I See A Darkness by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (perhaps the whole album for which that's the title track). But if I feel I should just bloody well cheer up, which is obviously the more sensible approach to take, then...

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I got the same answer as Dinos. I've got working, if that's worth extra credit.

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The trick is to notice that you can have a higher average if you lose a frame than if you win. Bearing this in mind, hopefully the average is maximized when the player goes second and makes 9 9-dart checkouts but loses to 10 9-dart checkouts, having scored 360 in each loss, which gives an average o...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Only me and Innis had our hands up in the audience and we were told we couldn't be on TV. Oh well.

Monday's match should be interesting, then.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Is it not considered sad/cheating to do it again and again?

Cheating? No.

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Anyone tried the countries of the world one? the best I can get is 181/195- it's so annoying. Just finished it now with 6:02 left. I don't know how you approach it, but trying doing it in increasing continental country numbers (so South America, Oceania, North America, Europe, Asia, Africa). Knowin...

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It was British Olympic gold medal-winning track athletes from 1970 onwards. Ouch, that's pretty scarily specific. I wonder if that suggests there will be more of the same this series (I bloody hope not). On further reflection, I think it was track and field . Nonetheless, yes, that's very specific.

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After a couple of other people mentioned Sporcle in Michael's Pointless thread, I took it upon myself to compile a Sporcle quiz on Countdown champions. So dust off your anoraks, give it a go and (most importantly?) tell me whose names I've misspelt.

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Andy Thomson wrote:But if England can get their goalkeeping problem sorted I think they have a real good chance.

Don't forget their "bottling it when it really matters" problem, too.

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Yeah, Sporcle's great. Disney films would surely be worth learning if they haven't been done already.

Michael Wallace wrote:(British?) Olympic gold medalists (post 1980?) (from the previous thread)

It was British Olympic gold medal-winning track athletes from 1970 onwards.

Hugh Binnie

In a recent game, I buzzed in and incorrectly guessed the conundrum. Scott then buzzed in 0.1 seconds before me (?) with the correct answer.

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Well it's nice to know I wasn't the only one.

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A final vowel in R13 would probably have given a 9. (pistoler+ A, E or O.)

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On the subject of the best 8 letter stems, does anybody have a clue about which selection of 8 letters with no valid anagrams stems the most 9s? AEIOLRST, which makes a nine with 11 letters, looks promising.

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In Flight A, Hugh Binnie 2-0 Josh Overhill

Hugh Binnie 98-77 Josh Overhill
Hugh Binnie 81-70 Josh Overhill

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We had a similar question asked on this forum about what was the best 8 letter stem. I think ANGRIEST is one of the best with 16 add ons and the old scrabble favourite of stainer has 18. Yes, I was surprised that ANGRIEST seems to be the best — NOTARISE has 13 and ENTRAILS 14, and I thought one of ...

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Flight A, Nick Wainwright 2 - 0 Hugh Binnie

Nick Wainwright 99 - 93 Hugh Binnie
Nick Wainwright 91 - 87 Hugh Binnie

Two close games and probably the best I've played in a while, but Nick was just too strong and won without the need for a third game.

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Surprised to see SCANT can't have -ER and -EST added.

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In Flight A, I (Hugh Binnie) beat Peter Lee 2-0.

Hugh Binnie 76-59 Peter Lee
Hugh Binnie 95-62 Peter Lee

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Darren Carter wrote:I don't see what the big problem is, neither act stood a chance of winning anyway. As it happens, he has pleased more of the British public than he has pissed off, as Jedward had more votes than Lucie.

If it was a public vote out rather than vote in, I'm sure Jedward would have gone by now.

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Flight A closed for me, please.

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Slightly confused: the draw says I should play Andrew Herbertson, who duly beat me; but a tournament match instead came up against Andrew Feist, whom I beat.

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¡ɹɐǝɥ 'ɹɐǝɥ

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Phil Makepeace wrote:
Jimmy Gough wrote:You forgot Conor.
No posts for two months and only five since February doesn't really suggest activity.

Nowhere does it say the contributions have to be on this forum. >.>

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I came to post the same as you, Steven. I was just googling to find out who he is, and up that pops.

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Phil and I have just played our game in division 2: Hugh Binnie 162 - 121 Phil Reynolds.

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ALOHAS is invalid (on Apterous).

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James Robinson wrote:It is known now as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There is a separate country called Congo, but I don't recall it being mentioned on the show.

The Congo is "split" into the DRC and the Republic of the Congo. There's no country just called Congo.

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Edwin Mead beat me, Hugh Binnie, 159-131.

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I'd say I'm marginally less incompetent at the numbers, so I'll give it a go too.

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Michael Wallace wrote:Hey, why did you edit your score away? That sort of behaviour seems worthy of an increase in your ASQ...

I thought it distracted from the main purpose of my post. >.>
I scored 31, which is only "above average". Just. But if you want me to say I'm abnormally high, I'll concede that.

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Kieran Child wrote:I don't like these no-one likes Kieran Child jokes

Jokes?

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Did Chris record before this post by Charlie? If not, he has some explaining to do. >_>

Either way, congratulations, Chris, on a great run and bad luck on not making 900 due to a bloody shameful omission by the mathematical innumerates at OED.

Hugh Binnie

If there was a prize for correctly guessing specific rounds' questions given the general topics, I think I would have a good chance of winning said prize.

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Yea I dunno why they're so conservative in the last round, the pairs nearly always go for 1-2 'safe' answers that will never in a million years be pointless - although I suppose they really are pointless answers in one sense. Would you suggest making up answers and hoping they're correct, then? It ...

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My rapid grade is 140 and I would like to think my standard is still lower than it should be. I play weekly but am hoping/trying to play more to see if I can get my slow play up to the same standard as my rapid play. My experience against C4Cers is limited to a couple of games, I think, against Kier...

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Michael Wallace wrote:I did wonder about the MAGISTER round - is a vowel or a consonant the better pick after MAGISTED? (I would guess vowel, but I really have no idea)

Surely a vowel, for the possible 9.

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JimBentley wrote:I think International Flags was around as a category last week but no-one went for it, and you can't blame them really, it's always going to be a bit of a bastard.

Alexander Armstrong said it was its fifth and final day as a final category, or something like that.

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I agree. I thought that Qatar's flag must have been Bahrain's (and vice versa, I suppose) for it to be considered red.

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The numbers weren't horrible. They were very nice numbers. If someone got the word "exquisite" would it be a horrible set of letters, because of the q and the x? :) I don't agree with your analogy. I would say, "If somebody got the word HAMERKOPS would it be a horrible set of letters...

Hugh Binnie

Got As in maths, further maths, chemistry and physics but I'm not sure what to do with them.

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I don't keep my fingers on any guide keys, or necessarily use the same fingers for particular keys in a consistent way. I've just sort of got used to the spacing between keys on a standard keyboard, so "know" where everything is by its relative proximity to other stuff, if that makes any ...

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I hope the answer isn't what I think it is.

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Derek Hazell wrote:Des O'Connor pronounces all "t" words with a hard "t", such as "tune" which he pronounces "toon", and "d" words, such as "dook" for "duke". I wonder how he pronounces "margarine"?

Probably "butter."

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