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Hugh Binnie

In please.

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3. LAAGERING
8. VICARSHIP
24. QUADRATED
26. AFFIDAVIT

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In a series of scrappy games, I just about beat James Hall 2-1:

James Hall 84 - 74 Hugh Binnie
Hugh Binnie 61 - 60 James Hall
James Hall 70 - 100 Hugh Binnie

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This Classic game against should be against Stewart Gordon, not Michael Batty.

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Qual ap.

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The Monty Hall problem only works because the presenter knows what's behind the doors, which (presumably) the banker doesn't. So yeah, swap or not makes no difference. It's the player who'd need to know what's behind the doors for this DOND Monty Hall to work, isn't it? The player is the one who's ...

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Is there an EDA for the update / do you want volunteers?

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SUNGAZER is in but not sungaze^.

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Speed Demon: Eoin Monaghan 83 - 99 Hugh Binnie

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Speed Demon: Hugh Binnie 99 - 82 Leslie Hines.

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JrMt: Hugh Binnie 99 - 95 Thomas Cappleman
Thomas Cappleman 81 - 103 Hugh Binnie

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:
FLASHCUBE a set of four flashbulbs arranged in a cube and operated in turn.
I will now never be able to use the stem CHASUBLE + F.
Sure you can. You can use it to help you find the following word: FLASHCUBE.

Not very useful when's invalid, though, is it?

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Is pouncers valid? Seems odd that it would be in when pouncer^ isn't.

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I'm almost there now! Jr Mint:

James Hall 98 - 115 Hugh Binnie
Hugh Binnie 92 - 88 James Hall

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Yes, because this is the first series in which there had been more than 1 person who got a century in all their heats. Bad logic. Somebody could have won their debut with a century then lost their next game with a century to someone who got all centuries meaning that both players have got all centu...

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Surprised nobody spotted CALENDULA.

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Really excellent game today; it's just a shame one of you had to lose.

(The latter thought being something of a recurring theme in these finals.)

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Caecilius is in the forum. Caecilius has a silversomething in the forum. Hermogenes goes to the forum. Hermogenes is a Greek merchant. The merchant has a navel. The merchant salutes Caecilius. “I am a Greek merchant,” says Hermogenes, somewhat predictably. “I am a probing merchant. I ask money.” “Wh...

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The newly-expanded unique offerings page (which is excellent to see) seems to list pencils for non-standard variants (?), e.g. unlimited and spoilage, rather than unique offerings. Also, 20 as a target with a 20 in the selection displays oddly in the recap and during the game. (See too the recapper'...

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Further apologies for lateness. In the Speed Demon, Andrew Herbertson 28 - 95 Hugh Binnie.

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Jr Mint:
Marcus Hares 95 - 97 Hugh Binnie
Hugh Binnie 100 - 96 Marcus Hares

Speed Demon: Marcus Hares 94 - 105 Hugh Binnie, including a hard-to-spot 9 in R6.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:[...]in the Sanctum you tend to just reply with a witty comment[...]

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I'd like to play in every section if possible.

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The whole SHITFACE/shitfaced^ thing is really rather irritating. Do journalists really not have access to dictionaries these days?

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Andrew Feist wrote:Don't know about the "real" dictionary; my dictionary only contains etiolate as a verb and not an adjective.

3rd edition has ETIOLATED (adj.) and ETIOLATION (noun) but not etiolate^.

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Two Boy Scouts for KAIKAI?

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JackHurst wrote:VARSITY COUNTDOWN (would be a bit one sided tho)

IAWTP on both counts.

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JackHurst wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Edit: Why were you sucking cock after you'd solved the round 10 numbers game?
What?

I think he's referring to your totally uninappropriate tongue-in-cheek motion.

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James Robinson wrote:So, you'll be able to do your own games, and everyone else can do theirs.

James Robinson wrote:C1: No.6 Seed Kirk Bevins (4 wins.) - Only loss to James Robinson.
C2: No.2 Seed Matt Bayfield (5 wins.) - Last unbeaten contestant of the day.

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Ben Hunter wrote:Just checked the openbook for Countdown. Loads of original people sharing that Dracula's spastic brother joke.

Was thinking the same thing.

PS fairly hefty spoilers if you scroll down too far.

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Was going to vote "fuck yeah!" but then I saw Kirk's post and I had to go with

instead.

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It would be very awesome if Display Case items linked to their items page.

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I've played Scott Gillies 8 times in the past 3 days, and 7/8 games have had diamond conundrums. Compare this to the seven games I have had again Innis this past weekm there have only been 3/7 conundrums of a difficulty of 10/10. I though this is a bit odd, considering Innis has a rating about 450 ...

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So apparently I'm over 50 because I'm not a British history moron.

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Maybe there is a clamp on the length of word which Sponge can offer _if and only if_ that word is offered by a player, not by Dictionary Corner? I wondered this but Sponge had a chance to learn ANTIDIS... and PNEUMONO... from Dictionary Corner in this game , where Sponge also declared CHLORDIAZEPOX...

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Charlie Reams wrote:OIC. Maybe the maximum length is clamped somewhere, I don't remember.

At any rate, he declared ANTIDIS... in one round then missed it later when it was a max. Also I forgot to mention that I kept getting sponges (not pencils) for the same words. >_>

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PHREAK as a beater in R7.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Hugh Binnie wrote:Apterous Sponge is really bad at Spoilage.
For now, yes! What makes you think this is a bug?

I thought Sponge was meant to be like Rex once he'd seen a word.

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Apterous Sponge is really bad at Spoilage.

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Robert Baxter wrote:BREAKDOWN

I don't get it. What's the point of it?

Oliver Garner wrote:Whilst Chris's SLEEPSUIT was one of the best solves in Countdown history, people finding stuff in less then a second makes as good TV IMHO.

Really? I mean, really really?

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Ben Hunter 77 - 109 Hugh Binnie
Ben Hunter 82 - 108 Hugh Binnie

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Absolutely awesome Eoin. Very well done.

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There should be a forum meta-game where you can gamble Likes. So if you think you've done a post that will get a Like you can check a box somewhere that will get you points if you get Likes, but lose you a point if you don't get one (in like, 7 days or something). Nice idea in theory, but MWM could...

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This is as close as you'll get for now, I think.

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For me, it's always only been Tarrant who drags, reiterating the current situation at every conceivable juncture and playing silly buggers with cheques. Somebody ought to tell the producers of quiz shows how stupid and tedious it is. Why can't they assume the viewers understand what is going on, as...

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Watched it for the first time tonight and saw Caroline Ambrose get up to £75k before guessing back down to £50k. I don't know if they've changed it since it first went out but it seemed fairly pacy and there weren't any messages of support.

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Would take a few nines and excellent consistency to happen though.

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Dmitri! I thought you were dead.

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Thought you were just being economical with the truth when you said you play whenever you can, but then you went and bloodied lied.

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Hugh Binnie 89 - 77 Tom Rowell
Hugh Binnie 103 - 66 Tom Rowell

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3 large is clearly the worst; what's the point of it? If you're going to pick lots of larges, you might as well take all of them.

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Was thinking about this recently and wondered if Countdown would be a feasible choice.

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If you try typing stuff after you've accepted a conundrum round, it buzzes you in automatically at the very start of the round with a free choice of starting letter, as seen here and possibly here.

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I once got ANILINGUS when I was playing with Martin Bishop. He confessed to not knowing what it was when I offered it but I encouraged him not to think too much about it and just keep on going.

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There's a fair few plural conundrums in Touch Jr, among them DYBBUKS, FIZZOGS, HOOKAHS, HUBBUBS, HUZZAHS, JAZZBOS, JUJUBES, MUKLUKS, MUUMUUS, MZUNGUS, PAWPAWS, POWWOWS, QUOKKAS, WEEJUNS and ZIGZAGS. Plurals are allowed in Touch Jnr (there weren't enough possible conundrums otherwise). I have a feel...

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At least Dmitri didn't clog up the whole forum with useless junk that made it impossible to find which topics have new readworthy posts.

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There's a fair few plural conundrums in Touch Jr, among them DYBBUKS, FIZZOGS, HOOKAHS, HUBBUBS, HUZZAHS, JAZZBOS, JUJUBES, MUKLUKS, MUUMUUS, MZUNGUS, PAWPAWS, POWWOWS, QUOKKAS, WEEJUNS and ZIGZAGS.

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asdfghjhgfdss why would somebody who did a chemistry (+high tea) degree not choose chemistry? At least he has some specialist knowledge.

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If Facebook had a dislike button, I would ask Charlie to add one to this forum so that I could dislike today's episode.

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Karen Pearson wrote:The only thing that comes to mind on universities is the Ivy League unis in the USA. If it is, then my three attempts at Pointless answers are the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia (or maybe Brown). No doubt, no one will chose it so we'll never know!

Not Dartmouth?

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