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R5 numbers:

(10 + 3)*(5 * (8 + 7)) - 4 = 971

The trick was 13 * 75

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Matt Morrison wrote:Surely if I keep saying "Adrian Chiles" someone will agree with me?

Thanks. I couldn't place him. That's it!

LOL at Jeff "Multiply 3 and 4 to get closer"

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It would have been nice to have seen him win the game, but at least he managed the conundrum, so did well on that score. Why would it have been nice to have seen him win a game, because he has a disability? how patronising is that?. I don't think Kathleen was referring to the disability in this com...

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Joseph Bolas wrote:They haven't done Liverpool yet so can't street view where I live.

Erm I was looking at the wonders of Anfield, Toxteth and London Road in the town centre this very morning so dunno why you think it hasn't been done yet :S

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And this: One day God calls down to Noah and says "Noah, I want you to make me a new Ark". Noah replies, "No probs God, anything you want after all you're the boss". But God interrupts, "Ah but there's a catch this time Noah, I want not just a couple of decks, ..... I want 2...

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Yes, I've copied and pasted this. Far away in the tropical waters of the Caribbean, two prawns were swimming around in the sea - one called Justin and the other called Christian. Prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks that patrolled the area. Finally one day during a tropical...

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David Williams wrote:As this is clearly being done solely to confuse the French, I think your reaction is rather niggardly.

Did you have "no pun intended" on the solely? I guess you did but made me chuckle!

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Ian Dent wrote:What were you doing Adam?

I was working as waiting staff in the private box of the director of Ladbrokes *boast boast*

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That's brought some shine to a Tuesday morning

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(I live on the second floor of a tenement...) That's only the second time I have ever heard that word . . . the first was in "The Days of Pearly Spencer". Tenements are great. I used to live here , right on the top floor. How intriguing... are all Ladbrokes blue in Scotland, or is this a ...

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Ben Hunter wrote:
Ben Pugh wrote:Is it possible to be a WATERGIRL?
Not for me it isn't.

Beat me by a minute damn... was too busy watching!

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Ben Pugh wrote:Is it possible to be a WATERGIRL?

Not for you and I

But no, it's not in my dictionary. Although neither is Waterboy so :S

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I didn't realise that countdown had moved, as I was working at the Cheltenham Festival!

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This applies to many other aspects of our language. Words like "fantastic" and "brilliant" once conveyed extremes of emotional response to objects or events. Nowadays, they can just as often be heard in reply to statements such as, "I've made you a cup of tea." Luckily...

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R4: PESETAS

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Naomi Laddiman wrote:Login and choose your account. The Vodafone bill centre is on the left hand side of the screen above tools. In this is an option to view mobile bills. Hope this helps.

Muchos gracias segnorita

Have they redesigned the site? It seems a whole heap clearer than when I was last on it! :S

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David O'Donnell wrote:You're card is marked now, Kirkie

You're?

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OK

Count me in. Train gets into Nottingham at 10:37... don't know how long it takes to get to the community centre from there? Might be a tad late looking at distance; hope that isn't a problem!

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I must say I am mightily interested in this one. Closer to my area for a change

What kinda times is it?

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Kai Laddiman wrote: Hmmm.

Yes but why get only GRID? RIGID was an easy spot... if using a solver... surely that would be easy! I'm confusing myself so I might be quiet now :S

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
I've never seen a more nervous contestant.

Kinda wonder how she got through the audition tbh. Felt a bit sorry for her

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My 13 year old sister got INSOLENCE within 3 seconds... BRILLIANT!

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Painfully bad numbers round... thought it was easy tbh!

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R1: MULLERS?

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Dinos Sfyris wrote: This is perhaps the biggest case of IAWTP in the history of my life.

Haha. I didn't know what IAWTP stood for, so guessed at "I am walking the plank". Genuinely. Just googled it and... oh dear!

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Hi. I know this isn't particularly interesting, but I really need some help before I go insane. Could someone with online billing on Vodafone please tell me how to get it? I have registered, but can't seem to find bills anywhere :@ Going insane here!

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Kai Laddiman wrote:Is Rd 10 possible? I can't get it.

EDIT: Oh, it is, that was a good spot by the contestants.

I did it

100 * (((7 * 10)/2)/(6-1)) = 700

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Here we go

GUSTOES for R4?

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I'll give it a bash. Anyone know where the studios are? Londinium I presume...

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Of course it's an egg. ANDIESEGG to be precise.

You make me chuckle

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Ben Hunter wrote: The double negative doesn't have much to do with it, it's more the fact that everyone who plays Countdown knows that RELATIONS = ORIENTALS = TENSORIAL.

Oh... I didn't know that it's an anagram of TENSORIAL... :'(

Now I feel like a cretin.

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Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think. I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve. ;) You got out-humoured by a 12 year old 8-) Oh well... Just realised the double negative in his post... therefore meaning that he does think it does... so why post that on this thread? Oh well......

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Q: What do you call a cow praying?
A: Annie Lennox

I like this.

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Two nuns in a bath. Nun 1: Where's the soap? Nun 2: Yes it does, doesn't it? Two nuns ride bicycles down a cobbled street. Nun 1: Will it take long? Nun 2: I don't know, I haven't come this way before. I get the second one, but not the first. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER ...

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Tracey Lilly wrote:Thanks Ian for satisfying my curiosity.

I was wondering this as well

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Ben Hunter wrote:I feel as though you're making unreasonable demands, therefore I'm going to post the unfunniest thing I can think of in protest:

Mathew Horne.

Here's another one:

James Corden.

I for one find them a breath of fresh air on a Tuesday evening. Better than rubbishy non-comedy BBC3 shows anyway!

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How about Kazra (?) who was on today 18/03/09? As I would have said a few years ago "Oi oi!"

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:...Yet nobody replies.

We're too scared.

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No you're right, Kirk destroyed her from the audience. He was going on about how he could've had a record against her had she appeared during his run. I don't remember his score was though, I'll point him in this direction later. Yeah, I would have beaten her 115-6. That's the lowest ever opponent'...

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Kai Laddiman wrote:Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.

I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve.

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If you mean absolutely no sub-words, I think the Scrabble solution to this is SYZYGY. In French it's XYLOL. This one is a bit better, although it's one letter shorter you can play without a blank. So on the first move, if you have WXYLOLQ the best play is XYLOL for 66 - not only that, it's the only...

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David Roe wrote:GRRRL for 5, maybe? Or is GRR in there?

Well you can pluralise that! Erm GRR is not in the OED (well not mine anyway, but mine is a concise one). Hmmm.... I was thinking of a non-pluralised word anyway

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Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters. CUD Sorry, don't get this at all. DUCK has 4 letters, not 3. And CUD isn't an anagram of DUCK. Do you mean find the longest word from which no other words of three letters or more can be made? Yes I do. I knew my phrasing was confusing, which was wh...

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My challenge is, to find the longest word that has no anagrams (excluding 1/2 letter anagrams)

For example:

Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters.

CUD

My highest is 6 letters.. any beaters?

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Yes, I was thinking of the JFK memorial at Runnymede. About 20 miles west of the centre of London. Again, maybe a slight stretch to describe it as US territory, but Wikipedia does so it must be etc. etc. For the town names, the answer is that they have the stress on the final syllable, which is ver...

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Martin Gardner wrote:

Apologies for the size!

Yes, it was a bit small.

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Mine's pretty much f*cked atm also. I can log in, occasionally, and even start a game if I'm lucky, but when the game starts, my laptop crashes, and takes a while to calm down. Can't get anywhere atm. ARGH

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Hannah O wrote:Good luck! Some of the younger people in my school (I think it's year 7s) are taking part too, but I didn't know it was this big! If only competitions like these had been around in my youth...

Hear hear.

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Mark Kudlowski wrote:1st numbers:

(25 + 9 + 4) x 10 x (7 - 5) = 380 x 2 = 760

I did (((7 * 5) - (9 - 4))*25) + 10

Seemed easy to me!

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OK thanks :) So the thing is when is -ER? As in an "agent verb"... I use this term scaredly... knowing that it's probably not that! You mean agent noun . This is the noun formed by adding -ER to a verb to indicate a person or thing that performs the action indicated by the verb. Thus WALK...

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Is YATTERED allowed? I looked it up, and it's not specified.. I thought anything over 1 syllable had to be? Or am I confused (as per!)? You're confused. Specifically, you're confusing the past tense of a verb (which is what YATTERED is) with the rule about comparatives and superlatives of adjective...

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Sorry to disappoint you chaps but this quiz expired in June 2008 but may be resurrected by myself again at a later date due to it's fairly good popularity last time round! Watch this space :D Some dope left it in the Off Topic forum. :evil: And yet I can't see the actual quiz... feel like a numptyk...

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Yeah, I had a max game from the audience, although Kirk had more interesting words than me in most of the rounds. YATTERED was really the only difficult one, and I vaguely remembered Craig getting it in some MSN game. But to drop only 3 points on the other side of the cameras is still a ridiculous ...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Wow, the first show I watch since the CoC and I got a max game! Even beat Kirk to the conundrum!

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?

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Well, normally I complain about this sort of thing, but enough people have already hinted at it IMHO. Bit difficult to keep quiet about 'our Kirk' being on the show. In particular, although I haven't clicked on the thread, the fact that Kai has already started a spoiler thread for Wednesday 11th Ma...

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Charlie Reams wrote: Maybe we should do that with every game or something!

Yes, but you do it for the greater good, wheras mine is akin to onanism....

Incidentally, if the duty recapper needs any help, I have it all here (ish)

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OH and in R7, did Kirk say DOMINE? Because I can't seem to see it in the OED...

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Erm In R12, is AMIRATE allowed? As Amir is an alternative to EMIR, and EMIRATE comes from EMIR, can AMIRATE come from AMIR? Not in the OED, but AMIR as an alternative to EMIR is. Today I undertook the seemingly autistic task of writing all the words the contestants got, and all the ones I got. I cal...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:(b) do you say "sand-witch" or "sand-widge"?

Neither... I say sam-widge (samwIdʒ) (I hope the pronunciation guide is correct, I really do!)

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Hannah O wrote:Apparently he was responsible for starting the comeback by answering a question correctly.

It sounds like this is the reason he was being investigated lol! Maybe just the way I read it, but yes... made me chuckle

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