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Well, with the football season heading towards an interesting climax (for me at least), Countdown is now starting to enter the home straight, with just a month to go to the start of the finals. 4 people have booked their places, so far. *Oliver Garner, still the only octochamp of Series 62. *Dave Wi...

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Wow

It sounds so fantastic, Jeff.

Unfortunately, I'm heading off on holiday on that very day, so I'm afraid I'm gonna have to pass on this one.

So sorry.

Hopefully everyone else will have a good time.

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So, the week ends with confusion in Westminster, Huddersfield on the verge of an unlikely promotion and Lee Graham one win away from breaking into the top 8.

Can he make it to next week

Mr. Brown (not that one) will be here along later with the recap.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:
James Robinson wrote:OCELLAR means pertaining to an ocellus.
What's ocellus mean?

Altered to give info now.

James Robinson

Welcome to just about the only place today which is a guaranteed No-Election Zone. So, enjoy, before election fever spreads. Countdown recap for Thursday 6 May 2010. C1: Champion Lee Graham (4 wins, 338 points.) From London. He works as a magazine and book editor. His most memorable experience was m...

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CONGAED in round 7 and DIOPTRE in round 11.

2nd Numbers Alt: ((75 - 3) x (8 + 1)) - 7 = 641

3rd Numbers Alt: (9 x 50) + 10 + 5 - 100 = 365

Another good win for Lee there. He could be the dark horse of the finals possibly.

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Well, it's general election day today, so hopefully, all you will have been to your polling stations in your constituencies, so you can now forget about politics till this evening, as Countdown will be taking centre stage soon. Likable Lee is now a half-octochamp, so if he wins today, he'll be withi...

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With just under 12 hours until the polling stations open, this pre-election Robinson Recap, should take your mind off the torture that a lot of you might be suffering from, while waiting to find out who will govern us for the new term of Parliament. Countdown recap for Wednesday 5 May 2010. C1: Cham...

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Lee knocked out six times winner Nicky last Friday in yet another nail-biting finish for Nicky , but this time Nicky was on the losing end. Originating from The Wirral, Nick now lives in Highgate in North London, where he works as a book and magazine editor, specialising in puzzle magazines - sound...

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Well, with one day to go till the general election, the whole country is buzzing, although that might be just the bees making some honey. But, still another exciting prospect is our champ Lee Graham, who has reached 3 wins, and is doing pretty well at the moment. Will he be buzzing with joy by the e...

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A good match with decent spots from both players. Unlucky for our Leeds United fan Chris who will no doubt be at Elland Road on Saturday when Leeds take on Bristol Rovers hoping to gain promotion. 3rd place Millwall take on Swindon and James' Huddersfield stand an outside chance of automatic promot...

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John Gillies wrote:I've just noticed this. As I'm too shit (and too shit scared) to apply for Countdown, I would love to have played in this. I guess I'm miles too late?

I doubt it, considering that we haven't actually started yet!

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Lee remains on top at the moment after his 2nd win. Still a bit of a way to go for him, if he's to get to the finals, but you never know.

We'll know soon enough, whether it'll be 3 out of 3 for the champ.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:
James Robinson wrote:3rd Numbers Alt.: ((50 + 25) x (7 + 5)) + 7 + 4 = 911

Following from that conundrum anagram today, I wonder if the rest of the conundrum anagrams this week are going to be people on this forum/past contestants?
What was the scramble?

DEBIFRACK (obviously think of Debbi Flack)

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3rd Numbers Alt.: ((50 + 25) x (7 + 5)) + 7 + 4 = 911

Following from that conundrum anagram today, I wonder if the rest of the conundrum anagrams this week are going to be people on this forum/past contestants?

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1st Numbers Alt.: ((9 + 4) x 9) + 50 - 10 = 157

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I wonder if this is the Nick Singh who appears on Apterous from time-to-time

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ABACUS in round 1.

James Robinson

So, the weekend is over. Well, some would say it isn't as it's a bank holiday today. (Hence the late start for this today. :lol: ) Unfortunately, another octochamp celebration has been scuppered by Ace Of Base fanatic Lee Graham, who is our new champ today. After his narrow win on Friday, he might S...

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Mike Brown wrote:Yes, nice first recap, Ryan. Hope it's not your last.

What Mike said.

Welcome to the family, Ryan.

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Unsurprisingly there are loads of James Robinsons. There's the dye company now called Vivimed. There's the James G. Robinson, who is a film producer, who had a tiff with Lindsay Lohan a while ago. There's the media editor of The Observer newspaper. And all these guys that Wikipedia mentions: http://...

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Thanks again for doing this one, James.

Not a problem, Dinos.

Happy to help anyone, anytime.

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Tiny spoiler to today's show:

(Don't look if you don't want to know)

http://www.spenboroughguardian.co.uk/ne ... 6263716.jp

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Good lord, Fulham just don't die!

However, I think Atletico will probably murder them, like Sevilla did against Middlesbrough 4 years ago.

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Welcome to the 3rd Robinson Recap of the week. Whether you're watching the 3rd Prime Ministerial Debate, either of the Europa League semis, or even having a go on Apterous, spare a few minutes of your time and enjoy the recap of this afternoon's show. ;) :) :D Countdown recap for Thursday 29 April 2...

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Or they didn't know her name to vote and just refer to her as "that bird off Countdown" which is what most people asked me as their first question: "Is that blonde lass off Countdown as fit as she is on the tele?" (or words to that effect). Shocking, I know. That must be a bit s...

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Didn't last too long. The 2010 list was released today. No sign of our number queen on it.

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I wonder if James know how long it is since we had a century? If you don't count Peter Zyss' 2nd game when he got his 100 by result of a 2nd conundrum, then the last person to get a century on the show was Clarke Carlisle, just over 2 months ago, when he beat Alexander Johnston 101-78 :!: :shock: :...

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Happy birthday to my fellow recapper Howard.

(and to Callum too.)

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Scott Gillies wrote:cheers for the positve comments ben, nice to hear people think i'm good. As for quite a few max games its only 2 lol. my show is on 3rd june for anyone interested.

Excellent, another good Robinson Recap to look forward to.

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With the general election just 8 days away, the forum at this moment in time seems like a political battleground, with defections, resignations and swearing all over the place. But, I, the chief calmer-down person, will keep everyone in check with a nice Robinson Recap. ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) Countd...

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TAILORED in round 4, ASPIRIN in round 6 and TAJINES in round 13.

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So, by the skin of her teeth, Nicki reached half-octochampdom yesterday, despite having 4 words disallowed :!: :shock: :o Can she reach her 5th win and get herself within touching distance of a place in the finals in 6 weeks time :?: (Or if you're one of the lucky few, you're watching them in the st...

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Oh cool, is it actually confirmed now that Dale's going on the show? Didn't seem like he wanted to last time I spoke to him about it. Not necessarily. I did stress: Eoin Monaghan, Edward McCullagh and even Dale Levell might have done auditions, or are about to do some. It could easily just be idle ...

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From what I've got from people talking on Apterous, we've possibly got Scott Gillies, but he's actually busy recording at the moment, but I believe he can't win enough to be in the Series 62 finals, so assuming he wins all his games, he'd carry over into Series 63. No guarantee obviously. Jonathan W...

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Jon Corby wrote:Congrats to Huddersfield for securing the last play-off spot (Saints will piss the division next season though, barring some kind of close-season catastrophe).

Thanks, Jon.

I certainly agree. Southampton will certainly get promoted next season, I'm sure of it.

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It's time to go back in time to see the possibilty of an octochamp being crowned. 8-) Countdown recap for Tuesday 13 April 2010. C1: Champion Peter Zyss (7 wins, 548 points.) From Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He likes walking in the Peak District and playing Frisbee, as well as camping. He's the 3rd ...

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I've won no trophies ever, for anything. And I'm cool with that. I'm mediocre as fuck. Even if I did win a trophy I don't know what I'd do with it. If it had anything valuable in it I'd sell it, so I probably shouldn't have such things anyway. Fuck off. There's nothing mediocre about Jim Bentley - ...

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I might start recapping again. What slots are available? Alternate Mondays are available with Howard, while Kai is in retirement. I've got today's sorted, so you don't need to worry about that. As Dinos mentioned above, those 3 Tuesdays are available. Everywhere else is sealed, at the moment. I don...

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Welcome to the first of a TRIPLE TRIPLE TRIPLE bill of Robinson Recaps this week. Let the fun begin :!: ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) Countdown recap for Monday 26 April 2010. C1: Champion Nicki Sellars (2 wins, 171 points.) From Swindon, Wiltshire. She's a former teaching assistant, but is currently in te...

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Jon Corby wrote:I might start recapping again. What slots are available?

Alternate Mondays are available with Howard, while Kai is in retirement. I've got today's sorted, so you don't need to worry about that.

As Dinos mentioned above, those 3 Tuesdays are available. Everywhere else is sealed, at the moment.

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Suprised you didn't mention Huddersfield's impressive win at the weekend James. How will you choose between CoLON and the P/O final assuming they get there ? Bad spelling there, Douglas. I thought that people might be bored if I kept on mentioning the brilliant 6-0 win over Stockport County at the ...

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I actually do like the glass trophy. It looks much better than the other trophies I have at home. Cool - what trophies do you have? They're a couple that I got when I was much younger. One was a shield for being in the winning team at the inaugural West Yorkshire Youth Games swimming event in 1999....

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Is that strictly a trophy, cos it looks more like a paperweight to me :?: :? I considered getting a 'proper' trophy, but thought people might be a bit annoyed if I blew the entire prize fund on something for the winner to put in a cupboard. Nah dude, don't sell yourself short, that whole "bron...

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Since there does seem to be a diminishing interest in new recappers, just to clear up the backlog, I could do the one from 2 weeks ago, after I do tonight's, since I'm still interiming until Kai's replacement is sorted. Having said that, there does need to be some new talent to be found. Maybe we sh...

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Is that strictly a trophy, cos it looks more like a paperweight to me

EDIT:Yup, strictly it IS a trophy

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So, the weekend is over and while Manchester will soon be temporarily populated with series finalists galore, the majority of us will just have to make do with having to watch and wait on the TV. Maybe our current champion, Nicki, will be amongst the finalists. After beating our own Phil Reynolds on...

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Exchange

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It was a very good edition of the show. Very good performance by Phil. Nicki has done 2 very good performances so far. Hopefully she'll continue well into next week.

3rd Numbers Alt: ((75 - 6) x 10) - 25 + 4 + 3 = 672

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Round 14: 100, 10, 4, 2, 5, 8. Target: 427. C1: 428 . (100+4)*8-5 (7) C2: - Score: 74–47 (max 104) Round 15: G R E E N P I L L C1 buzzes on 19 seconds to say REPELLING which is correct. Score: 84–47 (max 114) I think Claudia got the full 10 points for 427, not 7 for 428. So, she got 3 points then y...

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33. Thankfully, NO

35. Jeff Stelling on Countdown OR Jeff Stelling on Soccer Saturday

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29. Kill, Kill, Undecided

31. Favourite breed of dog

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Welcome to the Robinson Recap. With the general election just 2 weeks away, it's time to have a break from hard labour, be more conservative and liberal with your time, but make sure you're not green. So, enjoy the recap, but don't u kip :!: :lol: Countdown recap for Thursday 22 April 2010. C1: Cham...

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Welcome to the Robinson Recap. With the general election just 2 weeks away, it's time to have a break from hard labour, be more conservative and liberal with your time, but make sure you're not green. So, enjoy the recap, but don't u kip :!: :lol: Countdown recap for Thursday 22 April 2010. C1: Cham...

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ADMIRERS in round 2 and DURIANS in round 3.

1st Numbers Alt: (25 + 1) x ((7 + 4) x 3) = 858

2nd Numbers Alt: ((75 + 7) x 6) + 5 + 4 = 501

Pretty proud with myself, as that was my first max game from a live show.

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Michael Wallace wrote:
James Robinson wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:12. The Sahara.

Marc Meakin wrote:12. Sahara
I said deSSert, not deSert, you numpties.
(psst - I think that was the joke)

I thought so, but I would still like to know what their proper answers were though.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:12. The Sahara.

Marc Meakin wrote:12. Sahara

I said deSSert, not deSert, you numpties.

18. Raccoons

20. Corrie or EastEnders

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10. Damian Eadie, then you get to produce Countdown. Result

(I'm not sure he'd like to exchange with me though.)

12. What is your favourite dessert

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So, today's possible octochamp party has been cancelled following Chris' win yesterday. Can he keep up with the Joneses and win his 2nd match today

I'll be back later with the recap.

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3. Epsilon (clearly watch too much Only Connect)

5. Which football team would you rather support? - Huddersfield Town OR Leeds United

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