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John Garcia

Andy Platt wrote:
Guy Barry wrote:OUTTAKE?
If apterous's dictionary is up-to-date then TAKEOUT is fine but OUTTAKE^ is not

That's what the dictionary says too. OUT-TAKE is hyphenated. But TAKEOUT is fine. Hmmmm TAKEOUT ...

John Garcia

Well done both! A great final and a great end to the series.

John Garcia

ENSLAVE in R10

John Garcia

This was one of the best 1v8 games I can ever remember! Hope it bodes well for the rest of the finals.

John Garcia

RATIFIED as an alt 8 to DAINTIER

John Garcia

Surprised no one got BESOTTED in R1.

John Garcia

Tony Atkins wrote:FOAMIER in R13.

Also EMPORIA in the same round.

John Garcia

Tony Atkins wrote:Also DROGUES in that round

Also GOURDES as a 2nd anagram of GROUSED.

Bad luck Mark. Congrats to Joe on another win. Just like another McGonigle, he gets results ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXSpPvb9lhk

John Garcia

Jordan F wrote:Alt. 1st Numbers: (100-25) x (7+4) - 10

Alternative alternative: 100-(7x3)=79; (79x10)+25=815

ATOMIZE as an alt to ACONITE
LECTERNS as an alt to LECTURES

John Garcia

I got SURNAMED instead of its anagram MAUNDERS. I got VAMPIEST too. But not too much else.
Joe's numbers were brilliant.

John Garcia

Jordan F wrote:A perhaps strange Rachel beater, but it's what I saw, as I'm apparently the 3rd person to post one.

(50-9) x 8 - 10 + 3.

I did
50/(5-3)=25; 25+8=33; 33x10=330; 330-9=321

John Garcia

szodiac wrote:Sadly no nines.

I really feel GROUNDIES (R12) should be put in the dictionary. It's a word I've used quite often as a tennis player (i.e. short for Ground-strokes), and (mis)-delcared on apterous more than once too.

John Garcia

There was a VERONAL in there somewhere for 7. Shame John lost - would have been nice to see a Husband / Wife playoff!

John Garcia

Since we seem to be running a sweepstake, I'll plump for 991.

John Garcia

When they filmed the one we just saw, they also filmed one more, John. As for its broadcast date, I'm not sure. Someone suggested it might be on TV next Friday. Edit. Info about next week: It will be a 2 vs. 2 battle again with Jon Richardson & Stephen Mangan taking on Lee Mack & Richard Os...

John Garcia

Alt last numbers: 100+25+7+2=134; 134x6=804; 804-3=801.

Does anyone know how many of these progs they are going to do?

John Garcia

Another great game and fantastic score

Final numbers game:
(9+4)=13;
(8+6)x4=56; 56+6=62; 13x62=806

John Garcia

Did anyone else notice that in the letter round immediately after Susie's segment that Rachel looked like she was trying to stop herself laughing?? I noticed a few "tells". She kept clasping her thumb with her other hand between letters (not something she normally does). She also stroked t...

John Garcia

Great game to finish off a great run Andy. Congrats on the 8 centuries. Just as an aside you hesitated on vowel/consonant choice in the UPSTAIR round where you chose consononant (Z) for: TSPRIAIUZ Had you gone for a vowel, you would have gotten an E, to give PARITIES for a possible 8 (which I'm gues...

John Garcia

Great game Andy. Couldn't match you in the letters at all today. ISOBUTANE was a belter.

Alt last numbers: 7+6=13; 13x8=104; 104x5=520; 520+9=529.

John Garcia

BUSHIDO as a great alt in the HUSBAND/ABOUNDS round.

p.s. I'm guessing Andy was fishing for OUTSTAGED in the dotages/outages round? In which case bad-luck with the final letter.

John Garcia

The four R round reminded of the infamous fourth round at COREA last year RRRUUUBIU. Brrr, that's a cold selection! The C4 continuity announcer apologized at the end saying there were some sound problems, so that was probably it. Yeah I thought it was that they were referring to, but wasn't 100% su...

John Garcia

Watching on freeview, sound is out of sync. The Sound is slightly ahead of the pictures. Most disconcerting!

John Garcia

(10+7)*4=68; 68x10=680; 680-(6/2)=677.

John Garcia

Tony Atkins wrote:Alt R11 OUTLIER Alt 3rd numbers ((7+2)x9x10)-10+1

Got both those too. Also alt to SPARKLE was PARLOUS.

John Garcia

PENTANE for 7 in one of the rounds

Bad luck Rachel! Well played Philip.

John Garcia

Had a text from Des Lynam, who's still a huge fan and compulsive Countdown viewer. He was resident in the presenters chair when Conor first came to our screens in 2005. He was delighted for Conor and wanted to convey his congratulations. Nice touch. Read quite a bit on here about Penelope, whoever ...

John Garcia

Great game both, played in the best of spirits!

Did anyone else notice that in Jonathan's last letters pick, Nick said to him "This will be your last letters pick of the tournament .." then hastily added "in this game". Hmmmmmmm!

John Garcia

Wow! Wow! Wow! 117 as a losing score is just crazy.

ROMANIZED as an alt 9 to randomize

3rd Numbers game:
10-(100/50)=8. 8x(75-1)=592. 592-25 = 567.

John Garcia

The real question is how do they know its a max game? Are they looking it up on apterous, or do they have their own solver?

John Garcia

Mondo to the max!

Alt 2nd numbers: 100+50+25=175. 175x2=350. 75/5=15. 350-15=335.

John Garcia

Graeme Cole wrote:
John Garcia wrote:Statistics can be provided by Graham Cole.
I suppose he's got to have something to do since The Bill finished.

OOpps

John Garcia

Wowsers! p.s. Does anyone have any stats for how often a countdown game occurs with a max score as high as this one? What proportion of games are we talking? 1%? Go go gadget graph! Correct. Just over 1% of 15 round games have a max of 152 or more. Wowsers! Brilliant graph - thanks for that Graeme....

John Garcia

I think we can all agree that what this thread really shows is that what countdown really needs is an "after-show" programme where issues like this can be discussed and debated much in same vein as "The Xtra Factor", and "Take me out: the gossip". I propose that the new...

John Garcia

Wowsers!

p.s. Does anyone have any stats for how often a countdown game occurs with a max score as high as this one? What proportion of games are we talking? 1%?

John Garcia

Was it just me or was there a scoring error in there somewhere? Thought Tom was awarded 10 points for his 8 letter word to go ahead, only for it to be surreptitiously amended back to 8. Or am I imagining things??? (wouldn't be the first time!).

John Garcia

Fantastic game! Was great to finally put a face to Mark Tournoff. I think I was off away at uni when he first came on. Well done Mark, and bad luck Nick.

I got the conundrum (for once!) after 10 seconds. I saw "RAIN", then "RAN" and then the other letters dropped into place.

John Garcia

Didn't help that Nick spoke over you too, and continued onto one of the weirdest monologues ever heard on Countdown. I liked your response: "Yes". I'm glad someone else noticed that! This in the same week as his Cuba rant. Someone really needs to tell him to leave off the politics. Either...

John Garcia

Stats for the contestants: Firstly, Series 63 Champion Jack Hurst - 11 Games, 11 Wins, 1,276 Points. (Average: 116) Highest Score: 133 vs. Alex Curran (7th Game) Lowest Score: 108 vs. Peter Godwin (Quarter-Final) 9's Achieved: 6/7 Total Points/Max/%: 1276/1377 (93%) Letters Points/Max/%: 871/948 (9...

John Garcia

Good game. My comment is about Nick Hewer's political rant against Cuba at the end of the show. Did anyone else think it was bang out of order??? I'm certain that Cuba doesn't have a prison every 100 yards as claimed by Mr Hewer, and even if it did, might it have something to do with the extreme pov...

John Garcia

Well done Paul, and commiserations Heather! Both of you can be proud of yourselves.

I got CHATLINE but little else.

John Garcia

Wow, wow, wow! Absolutely awesome game. Best I can remember in ages. Deserved to be a final. I know its a cliche, but it really was unfortunate that someone had to lose. Well played Heather, and bad luck David.

John Garcia

Fantastic game. Can't believe it was so close. Was rooting for Rose, but well played to both!

John Garcia

The camera seemed to show more of DC today with a bit of the bottom of the desk showing, unlike Thursday. I wonder if this was the HD cameras. I didn't record in HD so didn't see any other differences although maybe slightly brighter in general. Funny you mention that! I thought weird things were h...

John Garcia

Well done Heather! Fantastic game. Good luck for the Semis!

John Garcia

HIDEOUTS for 8 in R1

Great game from David. Will be very difficult to beat I suspect.

John Garcia

Got SHEENING in R3 too.
Also COTTIER in R4.

Thought MIXWATER might have been a word in R13, but sadly not!

John Garcia

Res Sohail Vivdi 5 515 97 85.83 Once again (as in series 65) the number 9 seed did not get to be studio reserve for the finals, but it may be that he couldn't return for some reason. His place was taken by Philip Jackson, who had 4 wins. Is there much point in being a studio reserve?? How often do ...

John Garcia

CLIQUE in R11
RATFISH in R12

John Garcia

FLEAPIT, FISHIER and COSSIES (also got DEMISING).

John Garcia

szodiac wrote:Round 3: Great spot by David: REMUDAS --
Actually had a David beater in MAUNDERS, so missed the nine.

Mauro

Same here, I had an 8 too, namely SURNAMED and also missed the 9.

John Garcia

MEDIANTS as an alt to BANDIEST

John Garcia

LOAMIEST as an alt to DIASTOLE/SODALITE & ISOLATED in R12
I did the 2nd numbers as:
(100+25)x 7 = 875; (1+4)x6 = 30; 875+30 = 925.

John Garcia

Well done Heather! Looking forward to seeing you again in the finals.

John Garcia

CORDAGE for 7 in R11

John Garcia

Great game from Heather, esp 2nd numbers game.

ZANIEST in one of the early rounds.
MONSTERA / AMNIOTES (and many other 8's) in the ROMANISE round.

John Garcia

I had just had breakfast and couldn't manage one TOASTIE, let alone two ;) lol. :D BTW is great watching someone I feel I know on countdown. You have to be the politest contestant ever, getting up to shake hands with the other contestant at the end of each show. Will be rooting for you the rest of ...

John Garcia

How did they miss the 2nd TOASTIE ??!

John Garcia

Mark Deeks wrote:BIGHEAD not valid on Apterous. I want a refund.

Does Apterous give a SWAPTION for a refund?

John Garcia

Tony Atkins wrote:
Bob De Caux wrote:R10: (2*75-6)*(1+1)-25 = 263
Unfortunately the 2 was a 9. It is possible by two ways - both quite hard - one envolving making a 4 digit number.

75-9 = 66
(25-1) / 6 = 4
(66 x 4) - 1 = 263

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