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Tony Atkins

In case you are wondering why Tom got nothing on the second numbers, neither player had written it down and when they paused to allow both players to do so Tom forget his method.

Tony Atkins

Tom Barnes, to be exact. Surely he has a chance of making it to the finals, doesn't he :?: I don't get what this can mean other than a massive straight-up spoiler that Tom wins? Finally, as I predicted, a good player has come along before series end - at least if he is from apterous I assume that m...

Tony Atkins

Congrats to Ryan for all the hardwork he put into today's recap! Just for the record it was actually 10:00 in the morning of the 14th April and I did not sleep well after not leaving the studio until after 21:00 the previous day. My Maths brain was unfortuantely still asleep. Also there were only 13...

Tony Atkins

Did Keith Bennett get an answer to his question yesterday? No word of a lie, my wife Julie watched today's episode whilst doing the ironing and asked if Tony is a carpet salesman. I was bit nonplussed until she said "He's got a nice line in rugs." I remain au naturelle. It's the hairspray...

Tony Atkins

Adam Gillard wrote:I've never lost a single game of Go (I've never played a single game of Go). Maybe I could beat you, Tony...

I don't expect there will be time on Tuesday afternoon!

Tony Atkins

I was very careful to check every answer except in the DUMPED round. I had a whole lot of 6s, eg POUNDS, MOUNDS and presumably HUMPED. Somehow I had writen HUMPED down as DUMPED and didn't check it. Should have picked one of the others.... Don't you mean H*MPED, Tony!!! This week is full of rude wo...

Tony Atkins

I was very careful to check every answer except in the DUMPED round. I had a whole lot of 6s, eg POUNDS, MOUNDS and presumably HUMPED. Somehow I had writen HUMPED down as DUMPED and didn't check it. Should have picked one of the others....

Tony Atkins

Matt Morrison wrote:I'm getting quite into the idea of Go after Tony championed it. Some useful information from the Wikipedia entry:

http://www.britgo.org for British Go Association
www.kisekigo.com is my own site

Tony Atkins

I case you are wondering, yes Jordan is Jamie Humphries' (2 wins back in January) sister. Will she do as
well?

Tony Atkins

I think it is quite unusual to only see 1 of the big 4 letters in a show. Maybe they were
fed up of people saying "and a better consonant please Rachel"? The max was at least 145 so my
95 looks a bit pathetic really.

Tony Atkins

Innis Carson wrote:Sad to see Jennifer go (just knew she was going to say "captioner" when she declared 9) but undoubtedly the better player won. Very well played Tony.

But am I better than Roger Edwards? Only time will tell (or a large bribe).

Tony Atkins

Jennifer was thrown a bit by the captioner/RECAPTION round. Not sure why I stuck on PROTEIN
when there were CREATION/REACTION for easy 8s.

Tony Atkins

Unlike the last 6 shows I was not in the audience for this show (recorded 7pm on 13th April), so I am excited to see what it looks like.... Yes, and who this friend of Roger's is too that you have mentioned in the past..... OK I admit it - it is me! Sorry I got off to a ropey start. Geoff actually ...

Tony Atkins

Unlike the last 6 shows I was not in the audience for this show (recorded 7pm on 13th April),
so I am excited to see what it looks like....

Tony Atkins

I thought Jennifer had blown it on the second numbers when she forgot the "plus 5" to complete her declaration - if you wanted to do 6 times 100 then take the 4 off first. Lots of methods possible on the last one including making the 13 a different way so you have 8 and left over after mul...

Tony Atkins

CHORIZO! Go girl....

Tony Atkins

So, it was check mate for Roger yesterday, meaning not only that his chances of appearing in the finals have gone, but he won't play his best friend tomorrow (if we're to believe what Tony says :geek: ). Also Roger was relieved as his 8th show would have been the first show recorded the following d...

Tony Atkins

Nice shot of Dudley, the warm-up guy, sitting in the centre of front row during the "I love Joe" bit.
He had to fill an empty seat whilst they filmed this sequence at the end - not often we get to see
our Dudley on the screen!

Tony Atkins

Should be a noisy show today - lots of students in the audience.... Hang on, were you at the recording? Tell us! Tell us! If anyone wants to know what happens up to Friday of next week then let me know and I will tell them which phonebox to leave the large sum of money in..... Unfortunately I will ...

Tony Atkins

Roger Edwards is certainly staking a claim to be there thanks to his 3 wins to date. Can he make it 4, and acquire half-octochampdom status :?: So I make it Roger gets second reserve, behind Michelle and Mike and the others. Statisticaly there is quite likely to be a multi-win player from within th...

Tony Atkins

Shorter words suggested by DC that didn't make the edit were R6 HIRPLED and R7 PEANUTS.
FOETID also possible in R3.

Roger's R9 selection had to be refilmed as he only selected 8 letters the first time.

Tony Atkins

Should be a noisy show today - lots of students in the audience....

Tony Atkins

For some reason this is indexed on CDB as Tuesday 3rd!

Tony Atkins

Quite a few of the DC bits were edited today eg TOWNEE in R13.

Congrats to anyone who got 972 in the 30 seconds, and quite well done if you
solved it afterwards (the computer says 85% difficulty level).

Tony Atkins

Having learnt from Joseph's sig I got BANISTER in round 3 and DC offered URINATES
(which was edited out) before coming up with the RETAINS+B+U stonker.

BTW Puriton is a village near Bridgwater in Somerset.

Tony Atkins

Of course Roger has had 13 days since recording last week's shows to get some practice in
and take lots of long walks to help clear his brain of any nerves. Don't forget he also has
the pressure of knowing that if he is still champ by Thursday he will have to play his best mate.

Tony Atkins

R12 OROTUND as a DC-beater?

At least Roger has two weeks now to get over his nerves and be back in the studio after lunch on
Wednesday 13th April, for the first of two days of filming on odd days because of Jeff's football
commitments. Hoping for something better from him when we watch on Monday.

Tony Atkins

R8 TANKER wasn't the original *ANKER word that Matthew offered!

Tony Atkins

R6 SOLVATED (didn't see it at the recording)

Tony Atkins

James Robinson wrote:1st Numbers Alt.: (((9 x 6) - (7 - 5)) x 7) - 1 = 363

((9*5) +7) is a quicker way to make the 52. There are many other possible solutions too.

Tony Atkins

Not sure why DC did so badly in Round 13. There were some 7s too - eg PLAINED and DEPLANE

Roger says he went off on tangents on 2nd and 3rd numbers games. Normally he is good
at the numbers. We think nerves got to him. Looking forward to seeing his second outing tomorrow.

Tony Atkins

Roger's tactics of taking a big block of consonants first is paying off.

His hesitence on the numbers was caused by him not being used to
writing the solution down (he didn't) and then forgetting what he had done.
Other ways (25+10) * 7 + 1 or (25 * 7) + (8*10) - (10-1) etc

Tony Atkins

Ryan Taylor wrote:Do you only contribute to the forum when a block of shows that you were at are being televised?

So far 13 posts not at recording and 7 at the recording.

Tony Atkins

Richard Whiteley used to say that the Queen watched, so hopefully she will see today's - a more interesting game than tomorrows (perhaps). I hope she will not be upset by Scott being vulgar again. Scott's oponent today has had 2 shows of watching to work out his tactics to beat him. More pressure fo...

Tony Atkins

Rhys Benjamin wrote:What was the swear word? I was busy trying to find inflections of OPINE.

Scott's was P****D meaning "drunk". Jenny's was B****R, meaning "more buglike".

Tony Atkins

Well she did rather well then considering.

Tony Atkins

... he must have been feeling a little sleepy towards the end. Apart from bleeping his P-word
they also cut out the expletive when Jenny's word was disallowed (a B-word)!

Some 7s and 8s on the INDISPOSE round (INSIDES, DOPINESS etc) so Scott could easily have
avoided his 6.

Tony Atkins

Well it's just after lunch on Wednesday 30th March and so it depends very much how much Scott
ate in the studio canteen, and how much his opponent ate....

Tony Atkins

Eoin Monaghan wrote:Very impressive from Scott today.

It will take some tactical play to beat him (I only tied with him today).

Tony Atkins

Thursday's contestant was watching in the Green Room with his Down-syndrome son.
Guess which one saw VAMPIRE!

Tony Atkins

It was stated at the recording that Dr Phil had been delayed by traffic ("stuck in Bath"), but later it was revealed that his secretary had thought it was a lunchtime start. He seemed a bit moody as a consequence, but anway get ready for some good medical word spots later in the week. Also...

Tony Atkins

In which case http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=63 is wrong as it shows them winning by 10 and not drawing. Thanks for the explanation. Unless I'm missing the point Tony, the scores do include the extra ten points, but those extra points aren't then carried forward when calculating the ...

Tony Atkins

Erm............... no they didn't! From The wiki: Since Series 39, players are sorted by number of wins then by number of points. Points from both wins and losses count. Points from sudden death conundrums aren't counted, and players with the same number of wins and points are sorted by highest sco...

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Michael Wallace wrote:Presumably because it's not really fair to consider it part of someone's run, as it's giving someone another shot at an extra 10 points that other people wouldn't get.

Series 63 prelim 106 and 107 both add the extra points on to the player's score.
So the rules seem to have changed for series 64?

Tony Atkins

It's a Good Friday so let's see if the episode of Countdown is as good. :lol: Mary Adie is now on 440 points from 5 games, at an average of 88 ppg (points per game) :arrow: :shock: Who will be her challenger today? Join Mike soon. If you include the double conundrum then she was on 450. Any reason ...

Tony Atkins

Rhys Benjamin wrote:1st nums alt:

75 x 8 = 600
9 - 4 = 5
5 - 2 = 3
7 x 3 = 21
600 + 21 = 621.

Simples.

or (4*7)-(9-2) or even Mary's way to make 616 + (9-4)...

Tony Atkins

25 + 2 + 2 + 6 + 8 is the quick way to make 43....

Tony Atkins

If anyone tried ICEFLOES in round 8 and SEALION in round 11 - they are each spelt as two words in ODE3.

Tony Atkins

I did the last numbers the easier way (75+2) x 3 x 4 + 7

Tony Atkins

One word about the 3rd numbers game; THICKOS! (75 x 3) - (6 x 5) - 5 + 7 - 6. What that not hard enough? I don't think THICKOS is the right word here, that method is not simple. Not sure what solution you meant to offer but that method uses 7 numbers and doesn't make 181. (7+3) x (5+5) + 6 + 75 is ...

Tony Atkins

91+7=98 so max is actually 115.

Is there a recap on the final? Maybe Charlie has hidden it because he's a bad loser....

Tony Atkins

Mike Brown cheated and used the 2 twice.

Correct solution ((6*5)-2)*25)-(6*3) = 682

Tony Atkins

ODE says greige is a cross between grey and beige, so greiger is even more so!

Tony Atkins

I think James meant to add 5 and not a second 7 to make 930.

Tony Atkins

Was it just me or were the letter selections horrible today?

Tony Atkins

The easy way of doing the first numbers is 4x8x25 +50 +5.....

Tony Atkins

SCOURGER for equaliser in round 1.

My C4 signal went before the last numbers so I am going out in disgust....

Tony Atkins

HERMETIC as DC Beater in the HERETIC round (R4).

Tony Atkins

Adam Gillard wrote:RURALIST in the RITUALS round

The other DC beater was MOMENTA, with equallers OUTMAN and MANQUE,
in R8 where Ms Dent said AMOUNT was the only 6.

Tony Atkins

Joseph Krol wrote:HAIRNET and THERIAN for round 2
ETALONS for round 3

I think you are a round out. Round 2 was RETAINS+R!

Also RELIANT R3 and possible LATTENS R4 (my dictionary doesn't say mass noun).

I was also shocked that RR didn't get the numbers in time and the easy way.

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