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Joseph Bolas

Footnote 2: I agree with you David, re your comments about Dave Reed (see forum for Wednesday's game), that it's better not to be first up on a recording day, and to have a game or two before your own which you can use as warm-up, getting used to the studio conditions, easing nerves etc. The recent...

Joseph Bolas

I am quite interested in knowing what the original letter frequencies were to be honest. If you take the letter rounds from the Series 5 Final for example (http://www.thecountdownpage.com/final5.htm) you get the following: A: 4, B: 2, C: 2, D: 2, E: 8, F: 2, G: 4, H: 3, I: 8, J: 2, K: 0, L: 5, M: 1,...

Joseph Bolas

Janowsky wrote:I sweated like a paedophile in a Barney outfit.

Is that why you were bouncing up and down?

Joseph Bolas

dinos_the_chemist wrote:Aye I did Hooray for chemists everywhere! Also a non-chemistry word EPILATES in round 1.

After seeing Marjorie's T-Shirt, I could only see the word ECLIPSE in Round 1

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Joseph Bolas

It would be ideal IMO to have at least the following in separate forums/subforums:

Polls
Recaps
CO-Events
Spoilers
Photos
Non-Countdown Topics

Joseph Bolas

Best of luck Dave, hope you become an Octochamp

Joseph Bolas

Thank you Jim for going through the games of Series 57 and compiling this list. Its nice to know if there are any changes as COLIVER will be using the most up-to-date letter distribution list

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Joseph Bolas

As soon as I saw that list I immediately thought of something. There was a topic I started one day where an 'M' had been turned upside down and was used as a 'W' because I asked, if that was an 'M' would've it have made a longer word. Well remembered. It was definitely an upside-down M, because the...

Joseph Bolas

As soon as I saw that list I immediately thought of something. There was a topic I started one day where an 'M' had been turned upside down and was used as a 'W' because I asked, if that was an 'M' would've it have made a longer word.

Joseph Bolas

I think you can also have PARODIST and PAROTIDS for the PASTORIED selection?. Another selection you can have is MOISTENER, so that gives us: ADEHINOST - 4 x 8's ADEIOPRST - 14 x 8's AEGINORST - 14 x 8's AEILMORST - 5 x 8's AEIMNORST - 13 x 8's EEIMNORST - 6 x 8's EDIT: Just had a game on the deluxe ...

Joseph Bolas

Susie is the best in so many ways. I love how gently she tells contestants that their words are misspelt/capitalised/not in the selection (or all three) and how she is still excited to declare a 9. Also forgot to add Susie started to do a segment of word origins, which I found quite interesting too.

Joseph Bolas

Like with the old C4C, would it be best to have a section for all the Polls posted and a section for any photos people may want to post in here (like the CO-Event albums)?

Joseph Bolas

My vote goes to Susie permanently.

Joseph Bolas

Corby wrote:
Gevin-Gavin wrote:10: 0-0-0-2-2-2-2-1-0-91
Any four from the first seven pirates to get two coins.

Am I any closer?
I agree completely with this answer

Ooh. The numbers I have then must be wrong.

Joseph Bolas

dinos_the_chemist wrote:Do Brainteaser still have a contestant appeal going? That might be fun Dinos

I believe Brainteaser was axed, because it was coming up with false winners on the competitions?.

Joseph Bolas

Friday's game (18/01/08) offered the following selection for Round 7: R E M A T O N I S Now looking at these letters, you would expect there to be a possible 9-letter word, but the best you can do is only 8 letters. Going by the selection, there are a total of 13, 8-letter words you can have (answer...

Joseph Bolas

Conor wrote:LEATHERN...

They said that

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Round 2 - SOAPIEST

Joseph Bolas

Correct Soo :D thats the best strategy (there are probably a few others with slight variations). I think I know the 4 people scenario you mean, Joseph (there's also a wall behind the front person right?) but I chose this one as its probably a bit more obscure (If not a bit ambiguously explained by ...

Joseph Bolas

Charlie Reams wrote:You ask a friendly neighbourhood mod like me.

Thank you for changing my username

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Joseph Bolas

Good luck to all involved. Is this to be played like a Swiss tourney? If it is then I would like to see some recaps as well as recaps of the exhibition games if anyone can manage it. What it is, is there are groups of 3 people and 2 will play against each other and the 3rd hosts: Game 1: Player 1 v...

Joseph Bolas

Conor wrote:Maybe it's a star if you've posted in it already?

I think you are right, because out of these 4 topics there are only 2 I've posted in and for those 2 there is a star and the others don't have one.

How do you change your username Conor?

Joseph Bolas

I think I've got it, but it's sort-of cheating as a smaller scenario has appeared on an Oxford admissions test paper. Edit: Wait, there isn't a fixed number of hats of each colour. That rather changes it (and now I can't see how it can be done). The puzzle you may be thinking of is where there are ...

Joseph Bolas

Anyway, having done all that, I looked up the puzzle on the internet and discovered that when posed with slightly different conditions, it has a much simpler and more elegant solution, which is perhaps what Jon was aiming for in the first place? Could there possibly be then, more than 1 answer to t...

Joseph Bolas

The worst 2 'celebrities' I dealt with were Craig Stevens on Brainteaser (later those annoying later night ITV1 quiz shows) and Nicky Campbell from a football phone in quiz on Radio 2. I am with you there on Craig Stevens. When I was on Brainteaser, he was my presenter too and he was boring (I want...

Joseph Bolas

I must admit, I was looking forward to the Hold 'Em exhibition game, because it would've been interesting to see how that went.

Joseph Bolas

Charlie Reams wrote:I've seen this puzzle before and it's a good'un.

Also if anyone has heard of Perplex City before, you can find this puzzle on card #213 of Season 1.

Joseph Bolas

metalized_deionizer wrote:Yes. And I started thinking about permutations and the odds of it happening, when I realized I've wondered the same thing. Making me think it's happened before.

What are the actual odds of that happening? How would you work that out exactly?

Joseph Bolas

Did DECANTERS really come out backwards, I wasn't paying attention.

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Joseph Bolas

ben_wilson wrote:#1 looks about 90% certain to be Futurama. My other two are Lincoln Cathedral and Van Halen (I'm nothing if not eclectic in my tastes). My back-up subject is Red Dwarf.

I agree that the obvious choice would be a cartoon, but for me it would be Family Guy.

Joseph Bolas

chawky wrote:Is TITUP good in Countdown? It's ok in Scrabble.
Chris

Nope sorry. In the dictionary, they have the spelling TITTUP.

Joseph Bolas

ben_wilson wrote:By happy coincidence I had an audition for Mastermind this Thursday just gone in Brummieland. Didn't do too badly but it remains to be seen if I'll male the cut...

What are/were your specialist subjects Ben?

Joseph Bolas

I lost my first game due to nerves and now partly wish I'd held the application back as I want a serious crack at being an octochamp. Ditto. Being in the audience for the first recording didn't help. If I was the first recording and played Jack Welsby without knowing how good he was, I may have won...

Joseph Bolas

I like it the way it is to be honest, just don't add an arcade to it

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Joseph Bolas

What was his specialist subject?

I remember applying for mastermind, but once I received the application form, they ask for 4 subjects to be classed as your specialist subjects and I couldn't think of 4, so I didn't apply in the end

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Joseph Bolas

chawky wrote:Appeared on Countdown in 1994, lost to future series-producer Damian Eadie by one point because I didn't know what AIDACRETE anagrammed to (nor did he)
Chris

Tough one, but I eventually came up with the answer: ERADICATE

Joseph Bolas

Yeah, but adding on numbers before multiplying has never been a strong point for most contestants. Oh I know that, but I thought with the number you have to multiply and then the number you have to add on, being the same (9 in this case) and there is a 1 in the selection, I thought it might've stoo...

Joseph Bolas

Lol Joseph. It gets funnier (possibly). I got banned because I created a 2nd user which I used to challenge my other user to games in order to increase my win score. The person who banned me, also had created 2 users. One of them was herself and the other was for her DOG. There was also a sub-forum...

Joseph Bolas

drawoh wrote:Changing your vote should be no problem at all. Go to the top of the thread and put your green dot against another selection.

You only have to worry about changing it in time before the poll closes.

Joseph Bolas

I am a little surprised that for the 2nd numbers none of the contestants said:

(75 + 1) x 9 = 684

Joseph Bolas

Lol Joseph. It gets funnier (possibly). I got banned because I created a 2nd user which I used to challenge my other user to games in order to increase my win score. The person who banned me, also had created 2 users. One of them was herself and the other was for her DOG. There was also a sub-forum...

Joseph Bolas

Corby wrote:Can everybody still do at least 24 lines worth of "SPOILER" before each post though please, in case I click here by accident?

I don't see how anyone can click on the thread by accident?

Will the spoiler space lines still be needed for any practice games and main game recaps though?

Joseph Bolas

I didn't vote, so on the basis of the Thomas The Tank Engine narrator thingy, my vote will go to Ringo.

Joseph Bolas

I don't have a breakfast anymore to be honest.

Joseph.

Joseph Bolas

I fear the 'downside' will be the amount of time spent sat in front of these darn PCs as we get sucked in to it! I know that feeling. I remember getting addicted to a previous forum, but that was only because they added an arcade feature so I only went in to play the games. I had 160 first-place wi...

Joseph Bolas

Loving the new forum, Soo. Well done :D. Hello all. My name is Joseph Bolas and I am 25 years old. I was on Countdown back in Series 52 and missed a simple 9-letter word and an easy numbers game, of which I hope to be able to redeem myself one day, for those slip-ups. This year I am also planning to...

Joseph Bolas

I wouldn't vote for an individual because as a group they did a few okay songs and I didn't really like them.

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