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Philip A

I confidently reckon come July/August she’ll get rid of her Weakest Link traits, and she’ll flow better.

Philip A

Good game, and Anne added more banter this time round. She upped her game today.

Philip A

Sorry to be negative, but this would be against the spirit of a word game. As a side point, Apterous disallows words in ODO that are defined as a noun but its definition indicates it is an obvious abbreviation (e.g. PSIA). This is not an official Countdown rule, but I think these, as well as letters...

Philip A

Anne was even better today: more light-hearted witty banter and a bit more supportive.

Philip A

Re opening titles: I actually asked the producer about this, but he said they won’t get new titles because they cost quite a bit of money to make. Countdown really are cutting costs now.

Anyway, Anne was solid, and she’ll grow in to the role and improve.

Philip A

I had PICOTEE in R13.

Philip A

Anne Robinson was professional. Good start.

Philip A

Luke: 13 nine-letter words.

Adam? 0

Philip A

These finals just prove that previous form goes out the window. Latchford has the lowest average score for a champion of a 15-round series with 92.18181818… per game. He amassed 1,014 points to Boynton’s 1,315.

Philip A

Bloody hell…

Philip A

This is it, then. Who will be Countdown’s last ever recipient of the now long-outdated twenty volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary?

Philip A

Susie saying no to VASELINE and yes to PICRITES has made me raise a ticket: https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=6165

Philip A

Hate to say it, but I doubt Declan will be picked for a Championship of Champions, because he was only a quarter-finalist. Jen Steadman was a quarter-finalist, but was chosen as she was statistically the best female player between the 30BC and CoC XVI, and she narrowly lost to the eventual series ch...

Philip A

Commiserations to Tom. The letters were the undoing in the end. Well done to James.

Philip A

In my experience I find myself score 10 or 11 maxes yet still not achieving centuries at the same time. I think it proves the damage done by scoring 0 in a round is underestimated.

Philip A

Only a handful of words will be removed from the Apterous dictionary – will hardly affect the game.

Philip A

VASELINE is *not* valid and therefore will be removed from the Apterous dictionary (note that it lags behind Countdown). Where a headword is capitalised, it must have an un-capitalised sub-entry in bold to be valid So why does Susie go through the example sentences for mass nouns to see if any of t...

Philip A

VASELINE is *not* valid and therefore will be removed from the Apterous dictionary (note that it lags behind Countdown). Where a headword is capitalised, it must have an un-capitalised sub-entry in bold to be valid, which is the case for the aforementioned HOOVER but not for vaseline. Can also confi...

Philip A

I believe all the series winners get an invite, so if anyone one of them doesn’t participate it will be due to them not accepting it for whatever reasons.

Philip A

Millionaire and Beat the Chasers are definitely event television in their own right, especially if they air in consecutive nights. The first 7 series of Millionaire from 1998 to 2000 ran for 7 to 12 consecutive nights, roughly once every four months or so. That was when it was at its height; up to 1...

Philip A

Yep, sure: Okay, this is what Countdown producer Damian Eadie has said about no more audiences at Countdown (I spoke to him on Apterous today): “Think the Covid thing has affected lots of future practices. Saves ITV a fair bit of cash, insurance, nurses, warm up chap, ushers, water, biscuits, securi...

Philip A

I disagree the time slot doesn’t matter. This article from 2020 is good: http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver% ... 2020-05-17

Philip A

Couple months on, I haven’t heard anything by my understanding remains that it is permanent.

Philip A

Marcel Stellman, the man who brought Countdown to the UK from France in the early 1980’s, has died at the age of 96. https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.ph ... =6124&vc=0

He presented the winner’s trophy to Conor Travers in the 2013 30th Birthday Championship final.

RIP Marcel - a great man

Philip A

Luke sets the record for the most nine-letter words in preliminary matches with 12.

Philip A

Never mind 1,000 club... his average is currently 138.333... which, over 8 wins, would put him in the eleven hundred club!!

Philip A

Clive Myrie announced as the new host.

Excellent choice.

Philip A

Couldn’t agree more, Gavin.

Philip A

It’s possible he practised on old Countdown apps, several other software, electronic games and/or regular viewing and memorising.

Philip A

The challenger first appeared on Countdown in 2004 and lost on his debut by a crucial conundrum, so he must have put 17 years of hard work in to improve non-stop. I doubt he’s an Apterite under a pseudonym TBH. Very bad luck to Tom - overwhelmed by the second-highest maiden victory score in Countdow...

Philip A

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:00 pm Poor Dudley. He always brought the energy, no matter the odds.

FYI, Dudley left Countdown at the end of Series 79.

Philip A

UK television operates to a more limited budget than US television, Jason.

Philip A

A statement from me as a fan of Countdown since 2003: When Damian Eadie announced this in ZoomDown chat, I wanted to take this transparency onboard and disseminate the news on my Facebook wall in order to bring us – the Countdown community – up-to-date with what’s going on with the programme’s futur...

Philip A

Eagle-eyed viewers may have spotted that in the last letters round, on the last letter Rachel drew the letter M turned upside-down making it appear as a funny-shaped W. When Colin Murray started the clock, the letter was immediately replaced with a W turned the right-way up.

Philip A

Would Susie allow BUTINES/BUTYNES? According to Lexico and Premium: The two alkynes are "1-butyne" or "but-1-yne" (CH≡CCH₂CH₃) and "2-butyne" or "but-2-yne" (CH₃C≡CCH₃C); both are gases at room temperature. The other two isomers are buta-1-3-diene (CH₂=CHCH=CH...

Philip A

Coral becomes an octochamp. Congratulations to her!

If she makes the finals (which is almost certain) she’ll be the first female contestant to become an octochamp AND finalist since Fiona Titcombe in Series 80 (2019).

Philip A

She won’t be mean, I’ve read in the Radio Times article on this that’s she’s been practising being nice during lockdown.

Agree with Fiona on this. I think Anne will get it right, even if her tenure doesn’t last long.

Philip A

Countdown currently uses two versions of Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) for adjudication in the letters rounds on Countdown : > the Premium version, which can only be accessed via an annual subscription fee and is the one Susie Dent uses; > the free version, which since June 2019 has been branded...

Philip A

Countdown currently uses two versions of Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) for adjudication in the letters rounds on Countdown : > the Premium version, which can only be accessed via an annual subscription fee and is the one Susie Dent uses; > the free version, which since June 2019 has been branded ...

Philip A

Has anyone here seen Jayne Lynch’s version of the US Weakest Link?

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