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Thomas Carey

I have no idea how to prove it, but I'm pretty sure that the 750k examples are the maximum possible. What I'd love to know is what is the highest possible whereby it's actually a necessity to go that high (rather than a flashy alternative). No idea where to start with it! http://www.c4countdown.co....

Thomas Carey

Hi, I know it's only very early days for the new format, but do you have any idea about the average available max compared to the average available max in the old format? I imagine the new format has a slightly higher mean and a smaller standard deviation than the old format. Cheers Using apterous ...

Thomas Carey

[quote="Rhys Benjamin"One should not wish ill of the dead. Despite your hatred of her, I find the thought of people rejoicing over the death of someone quite repulsive./quote Here, here! Hear, hear? Sorry, I have cold! ;-) [/quote][/quote][/quote] http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o257/s...

Thomas Carey

Philip Jarvis wrote:
Andy Platt wrote:Some spoilers or something
Presumably Giles will be doing the recap today then. Otherwise, you have just spoiled the result of todays game.

Sure, Giles can if he wants.

Thomas Carey

946 by Jack Hurst, averaging 118.25 a game. This is going to be a record anyway if he wins eight games, just like Tom Hargreaves set the record regardless of whether he beat David Williams's total! (I would probably say the new format is worth about 20 points to an octorun - between 2 and 3 a game....

Thomas Carey

I've always wondered what would happen in this scenario: (again not really about stats, but meh) Selection: R E T I N U X A S C1 declares 7 C2 declares 8, not written down Nick: OK, C1, word please. C1: URINATES Susie: That's an 8. C1: D'oh! Nick: What's your 8, C2? C2: URINATES, but i hadn't writte...

Thomas Carey

Superb debut Giles. I think you got 13 maxes (correct me if I'm wrong), which I think is one of, if not the, best debuts ever. Couldn't help but snigger when Nick said that Jean had "beat off" Peter yesterday. Shame I missed yesterday's show. :lol: Rawlo got 14 maxes on his debut. Still, ...

Thomas Carey

If we're doing DC words, CUNJEVOIS for me in one of Jayne Wisniewski's prelims http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5344

Thomas Carey

Grant Waters wrote:Was thinking about GAMELIKE in one of the rounds. Prob risky but i mighthave been tempted.
Supertough conundrum! Worthy of 30BC that one!
Well played again Andy. On target for a great octotal. Has anyone done 8 tons?

Andrew Hulme has. Don't know about any others.

Thomas Carey

I guess if everyone's doing it... My top 13 (Probably skewed towards 30BC, but meh): 1 Conor Travers 2 Kirk Bevins 3 Jon O'Neill 4 Jonathan Rawlinson 5 Paul Gallen 6 Edward McCullagh 7 Craig Beevers/Jack Hurst 9 Grace Page 10 Chris Davies/Jack Worsley 12 Innis Carson/Julian Fell

Thomas Carey

Graeme Cole wrote:
Tom wrote:Dix pois to our champion.

Graeme, you are truly amazing!

Thomas Carey

Really, Steve?

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 1#r7000001

Thomas Carey

Graeme, not sure how hard this would be to do but could you make a list of all players who've had at least one 13+ max game, and their amounts of 15, 14 and 13 max games? So Conor and Kirk (I think) would be: GAMES 15s 14s 13s Conor Travers 20 3 2 2 Kirk Bevins 15 2 0 3 etc.

Thomas Carey

I got the conundrum fairly quickly thanks to remembering the scramble from Julian Fell's 146 game. Did anyone else? http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3387 DETONATE as an alt to TALENTED in round 9 (don't think DC mentioned it). I didn't remember that it was the exact scramble, but I did remember tha...

Thomas Carey

To start with, let's look at series 66 only. B 2 C 3 D 6 F 2 G 4 H 2 J 1 K 1 L 5 M 4 N 8 P 4 Q 1 R 9 S 9 T 9 V 2 W 2 X 1 Y 1 Z 1 The Countdown board game I have (the new flashy blue Jeff and Rachel one which I think is the newest edition) uses that, but with an extra B and F (3 of each). In that, t...

Thomas Carey

Johnny Canuck wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote:If Rachael doesn't qualify for these series finals, I'll record myself eating a whole 5kg bag of potatoes (not the actual bag) and put it on YouTube. There, I said it.
Please don't.

Heh, OK. Rachael's going to get into the finals anyway.

Thomas Carey

Ah, so GoNot didn't mean 'there'll be one, but I'm not letting you go to it because you appear to be stalking me' which was my first thought after your youtube comment. Yes, I'm slow. :derpemoticonwhichdoesn'tseemtoexist:

Will it still be Bristol style?

Thomas Carey

Speaking of which, as I said before, it'd be sad for me to see either of these two lose This. I wanted to see Phil get his teapot after ten years of waiting, but at the same time Rachael deserved to win more than four games. Still, people have qualified for the finals before with four wins, and the...

Thomas Carey

When you say 15 rounder, do you mean classic 15 rounder or new crappy number-infested 15 rounder?

Thomas Carey

I feel I must complain that today's show was by no means the mundane affair we had been promised. Hoping to reclaim my weekday afternoons from today onwards, I tuned in to seek reassurance that these 'mortal' games were not worth 45 minutes of my time. Did the young lady perchance have a lingering ...

Thomas Carey

Such a shame they didn't get 483 - but this was EPIC. Well done to Jack and great 146 by Conor.

For the first time ever, I'm changing my mind about who was the best ever contestant. Sorry Kirk, but Conor Travers just... Conor, why have you quit apterous?

Thomas Carey

3618 with all this tiredness/ timewastage

Thomas Carey

That guy looked nothing like Jack! To be honest, if it wasn't for the countdown skillage, I'd say that wasn't Jack up there. Unless he had a complete makeover in one recording day. Anyway, well played both, and unlucky DOD, the conundrum could have gone either way really. Good luck against Rawlo, Ja...

Thomas Carey

He defriended me on Facebook. Barry's the only one I've got now.

Thomas Carey

It's happened.

The Kirk II has been beaten.

Thomas Carey

Mark Ivey wrote:Here's a question that's come to mind...

Have the words COUNTDOWN or CONUNDRUM ever popped up in a game (either during the letters or as the conundrum)?

COUNTDOWN would have if Phil bloody Watkins had picked a final consonant. http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4145

Edit: ninja'd by Johnny.

Thomas Carey

Oh crap, need to improve my numbers more then! What's this new format going to be called?

Thomas Carey

FURNACES as an alt in R7

Thomas Carey

Pancake Wednesday for me.

Thomas Carey

No offence meant to anyone.

Thomas Carey

with a remarkably energetic James Robinson on the drums, sitting on a platform about 25 feet in the air. Wahey, it's nice to finally be in someone's Apto-dreams. ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) I had one about you around 6-12 months ago but refrained from posting because it was slightly weird. Well, here it...

Thomas Carey

Yesterday, it decided to update Java. Well actually, it said it wanted to and then said I had the latest version but then wanted to again and decided to do it this time. But since then, I keep getting a message saying asking if I give permission to Oracle America Inc to make some update on my compu...

Thomas Carey

Who has faced the most impossible numbers games? How about impossible to get within ten also?

Awesome thread by three way.

Thomas Carey

Anyone notice that Carl Williams donated £100?

Thomas Carey

NOT A POINTS CLAIM : I hear Joseph was at COLIN, but haven't seen him online for ages. Is he still distributing weed to bellfaces? NOT A POINTS CLAIM: His apterous subscription expired October, and he's currently addicted to chess rather than Countdown. He was at COLIN though. By the way, I'm still...

Thomas Carey

I'm going to revitalise this thread: 1. Get a good presenter. 2. Put Countdown back to an erstwhile time. The prime-time specials show that there is a market for Countdown (8/10 cats #1 was third that week). Countdown is watched by students and elderly (mainly). The elderly aren't surviving, and th...

Thomas Carey

Going to bring my board game (the new one which does not exceed the legal limit of shitty letters), complete with a badly drawn on marker pen A tile as it was on my windowsill for the best part of 2012 and it faded in the sun.

Thomas Carey

Rhys Benjamin wrote:SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER. Today's game. http://rhysbenjamin.blogspot.com/2013/0 ... -boom.html?

Can you make it so the the latest game always goes to the top? It's a pain having to scroll through all of them every time a new game happens.

Thomas Carey

Good recap, wrong date.

Thomas Carey

I got drawn Wayne in the sweepstake. I didn't think he'd do very well, but this game seems to have proven me wrong. Well done Wayne, hope you beat Mark/Jack!

Thomas Carey

Mark Deeks wrote: Err well I have the diet of a 7 year old boy, so it might be tough to find common ground.

Raw carrots and custard creams blended together.

Thomas Carey

TRAVOIS R1

Also, why the new numbers tile backgrounds?

Thomas Carey

Entertaining as the pie-eating contest will no doubt be, if there isn't any more demand you may have to supply it yourself. :( Also I've been hearing a lot of people saying they'll be heading along but haven't got their money to me yet- payment in advance is the only way to guarantee your place at ...

Thomas Carey

I am still up for the S67 final and will continue recapping in series 68, but I think it's better if somebody else does the Friday recaps for the supreme championship thing.

Thomas Carey

P.S. What happened to the recap for this game? Still in Thomas' brain methinks. :P Yup, sorry I'm being slow. I have a lot of coursework this time of year but it should all be done by the time my next recap (the final, since there isn't one on the 14th) should come out. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thomas Carey

Now Sohail is down, Grant goes through. Who do you think will win?

For some reason the finals start on Wednesday, and Friday has no game.

For matchups, see this this I made.

Should be good!

Thomas Carey

Please can somebody tell me the scores?

Thomas Carey

Countdown recap for Friday 30 November 2012. C1: Challenger Terry Redfern. A cemetery officer from Buxton. C2: Challenger Sohail Virdi. A locum pharmacist from Blackburn. DC: Susie Dent and John Inverdale. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: P L T A O M I F L R02: T S L E I E R S W ...

Thomas Carey

Countdown recap for Friday 23 November 2012. C1: Champion David Barnard (3 wins, 292 points.) Back for a fourth time, DB is an apterite who got 111 yesterday. C2: Challenger Chris Tracey. From Worksop, he is in bands and injured his arm clubbing. His girlfriend is Amy Gilbert who got 2 wins in Octob...

Thomas Carey

Wow, odd. Since Series 63 all the even numbered serieses have had people with as little as 4 wins get to the finals, whereas the odd numbered ones needed 7 to get through. Maybe, if David and 1 other person become octochamps, Grant won't even get through...

Thomas Carey

Matthew Tassier wrote:R13 other valid 7s are IODATES TOADIED TOADIES TOADISH and C2 said TODDIES not TODDISH*.

Oh, not sure what happened there. Also I seem to have forgotten the 'Better version coming soon. Will add soon.

Thomas Carey

So it’s the 30th birthday of Channel 4, and with that comes the 30th birthday of Countdown; it’s come a long way in 30 years and let’s hope that it will continue for a long time! Nick tells us to thanks Marcel and Jeanne Stellman for bringing Countdown over the channel. Countdown recap for Friday 2 ...

Thomas Carey

Wow, the tine of this forum really has changed since Countdown Team joined...

By the way I'm siding with James here.

Thomas Carey

Isn't this most likely to be recording accuracy? As in Robbo might time it to the 1/100th of a second, but most recappers'll just go "yeah, that was about 10 seconds". The fact that it's a nice round number makes me more inclined to think this. Surely not? I reckon most people would at le...

Thomas Carey

Countdown recap for Saturday 27 October 2012. C1: Champion Dave Boyle (1 win, 79 points.) All his friends still in audience. C2: Challenger Amy Gilbert. Wants to jump out of a plane. DC: Susie Dent and Jon Culshaw. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: F P T R E A U D O R02: P N E I D...

Thomas Carey

Better version coming soon. Countdown recap for Friday 19 October 2012. C1: Champion Rose Boyle (4 wins, 361 points.) C2: Challenger Tom Moran. DC: Susie Dent and Dr. Phil Hammond. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: C T D A E E W O M R02: S R G I E I H F N R03: P Y S T A U I M C R0...

Thomas Carey

Round 7: FACEPALM?

Thomas Carey

i quite fancied playing along to this. i'm in work and bored, can you tell? PRSVIUEIK - risky 7 privies EDSSEIIOG - 8 geodesis 6 4 25 50 75 100 = 683 - solved target 100x6 + 75 + 4*50/25 OHRBMUIEY - 6 imbrue VTLYAIITT - 8 vitality 2 4 1 3 5 75 = 591 - solved target 75x(5+3) - 4*2 - 1 ROUNDMICE (con...

Thomas Carey

James Robinson wrote:Yeah, it was about double, although Jayne Wisniewski pulled out this morning with a tummy bug.

Joseph pulled out too.

Spoilers:
Dylan won, Jack was second, Matt was third, I was fourth.

Thomas Carey

Countdown recap for Friday 12 October 2012. C1: Champion Tia Corkish (7 wins, 589 points.) Her husband has been in numerous disasters, including 9/11. :o C2: Challenger Janet Chambers. Recalls being at Thai spas. DC: Susie Dent and Matt Allwright. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01:...

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