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Gavin Chipper

I think the max should be 124 because 3 points are missing on the 172 and 739 round.

Gavin Chipper

The top 3 on the leaderboard (Tracey, Andy and Kevin) have got their places confirmed, I was just reading that and then had a look at the Wiki page , and I was wondering, where do you get all the information about the broadcast dates until the end of the series and also the DC guests? Is it just fr...

Gavin Chipper

I actually got the 809 in round 3, but then I realised it was a Scrabble-only solution.

Gavin Chipper

Maybe if a publicly funded international body was set up to develop drugs with countries contributing a certain percentage of GDP we could simply fuck off these private pharmaceutical companies.

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:Indeedy do, a 14-maxer for me, as I couldn't quite solve the 3rd numbers game

Poor.

Gavin Chipper

Congratulations to Rex for winning this, and well done Adam for organising this again.

Gavin Chipper

Assuming this hasn't already been asked, who was the "best" number one seed, number two etc. with "best" meaning most wins followed by highest total score. Also can this extend beyond the top eight, so we can see people who missed out. Like "Wow, this guy was only the 12th s...

Gavin Chipper

"IQ scores" have very little credibility in my eyes.

Gavin Chipper

New Scientist often complain about "Big Pharma", but it's a tricky one. I mean, what about banning patents on these things? I can't imagine that would completely wipe out the economic viability for these companies. Or if countries nationalised this type of thing. Although I suppose telling...

Gavin Chipper

Excellent work. Thank you.

Gavin Chipper

Jojo Apollo wrote:Well done on becoming an octochamp, Jordan. Good set of games there.

Agreed. Nice to see the octochamp factory on full steam this series. I've always wanted to see what would happen if we had nine in a series!

Gavin Chipper

GAOLERS as the standard method equaller to GHERAOS.

Gavin Chipper

Johnny Canuck wrote:The conundrum scramble was probably meant to suggest "RUBEN'S HAT". Did anyone else read it as something else at first?

Not me but I got the answer as soon as Jordan said HEATBURNS because it's been a scramble before!

Gavin Chipper

MICRONISE in round 12 (and ISOMERIC)? Can't think where I got that from... Also, PLUMAGES in round 2? No way of making an objective decision. (Search thing finds it, but that's been discredited.) Different birds can have different plumages. It was allowed here . Does the dictionary say anything diff...

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:
Dan McColm wrote:Josh Hurst found MICRONISE in the ISOMERIC round, must be new to ODO?
Only one R in the selection..........

MICRONISE has only got one R!

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:Also a beater available in the TOASTER/TREASON round.

Was that NOTATORS? I got that in one of the rounds.

Gavin Chipper

Ben Wilson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Just to clarify, the thing about being a sociopath - was that just something you said in the dream?
Yes, I said that in the dream.

Yes, but was it just something you said in the dream?

Gavin Chipper

Just to clarify, the thing about being a sociopath - was that just something you said in the dream?

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper wrote:The first E was the 9th vowel out. A record?

Funny you should ask.

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:Nad is right - it is a great feeling getting a 9 on the show. But not to DRAMATISE things it was also good to get two
sat at home today. Will he rise to Rachel's challenge? I suspect not.

He has already done a 6 small though.

Gavin Chipper

Rachel and Nick both laughing at the challenger during her selection!

Gavin Chipper

Did they give a six in round 2? I wasn't paying enough attention. There's TONGUE anyway.

Gavin Chipper

ORATOR in round 1.

The first E was the 9th vowel out. A record?

Gavin Chipper

Does 50 pass for young?

Gavin Chipper

The round 6 solutions (Andy and Rachel) and Andy's in round 14 still don't work.

Edit - Look at Peter's solutions for Rachel's round 6 (except use 50 instead of 59!) and Andy's round 14.

For Andy's round 6, you can use (50+8+6-1)x10

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
REVEILLE isn't an obscure word, you tit.

It does feel like they accidentally messed up the pile of teasers with the Catsdown ones though
It is an obscure word. No-one has used it ever.
No, it isn't.

It is, and that's the matter closed.

Gavin Chipper

Well, I suppose it's interesting to note these things in the historical record, and it's also useful for threads like this . Ironically, had these things not been noted in the historical record, analyses such as the one in the thread referred to might have had some validity. I suppose Graeme just s...

Gavin Chipper

OUTSOLD in round 8. REVEILLE needed more explanation. It's one thing to have obscure words, but then not to say what they mean is even worse! REVEILLE isn't an obscure word, you tit. It does feel like they accidentally messed up the pile of teasers with the Catsdown ones though :) It is an obscure ...

Gavin Chipper

Rachel also gave a solution to the last numbers out of time and it was more intuitive than the one in the recap. (100-4+3)*(50+75)/25=495 Correct, but unlike the other two this is statement of fact and not something that affects the recap as a whole so no edit is required. Also, can I apologize to ...

Gavin Chipper

OUTSOLD in round 8.

REVEILLE needed more explanation. It's one thing to have obscure words, but then not to say what they mean is even worse!

Gavin Chipper

A few good opponents for Kevin to have to deal with to finish off his run.

Gavin Chipper

What, Gavin (2)?

Gavin Chipper

Rachel also gave a solution to the last numbers out of time and it was more intuitive than the one in the recap. (100-4+3)*(50+75)/25=495

Gavin Chipper

Indeed. Happy birthday Charlie (31)!

Jason, you forgot to number your post.

Jon, are you sure you counted correctly?

Gavin Chipper

Standard method for the last numbers was (50-1)×(9-2)+10=353.

Edit - Beaten to it by the king of the standard method.

Gavin Chipper

NOTATOR in round 10.

Gavin Chipper

"View active topics" is back! Thanks to Charlie for sorting it out.

Gavin Chipper

UI is User Interface and UX is User Experience, which does have a major impact on your forum experience, being the thing itself. Well when I was talking about things that make very little difference, I was talking about things like "Marking all posts read is done via AJAX. That's beautiful.&qu...

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:I don't think UI/UX makes "very little difference". I also don't believe anything to do with view active topics is basic functionality, I've never ever clicked it. Ever.

What is UI/UX and what difference does it make to one's forum experience?

Gavin Chipper

I'm surprised no-one spotted the standard method of 25×9-10/5=223.

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:If you were proposing that I don't care, then yes.

So why do you get excited about all these "extra features" that make very little difference but don't care about basic functionality?

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:Adam is correct. There is no favicon setup in the HTML code, and there is no default one here.

And am I correct about "View Active Topics"?

Gavin Chipper

1)Most maxes/ most points scored by a non series finalist? 2)Least maxes/ least points score by a series finalist. (Not including finals games)? 3) did the answer to 1) do better than any series champs did in their heats? Not an exact answer to your question 3, but David Franks failed to make the q...

Gavin Chipper

CARESSING in round 12.

Gavin Chipper

Demasted in the maddest round. Not even demast there........., sorry. :( Interestingly, it says OEDEMA can be pluralised, but the definition here doesn't seem to suggest it, unless I'm missing something............: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/oedema When you say it can be ...

Gavin Chipper

LABOUR was the standard method alternative to ARBOUR.

Gavin Chipper

Another pointless teatime teaser...

Gavin Chipper

When the answers to the teatime teasers are too obscure (e.g. PELTRIES), I think it defeats the whole point of them in that they're meant to be gettable from the clue by a "casual viewer". It's OK once in a while but it seems to happen rather a lot. Discuss.

Gavin Chipper

The highest such disparity is that of Samir Pilica , who maxed 68.75% of his letters rounds and 46.875% of his numbers rounds. I know your database won't cover any of this series, but I believe Andy Noden has an even bigger disparity (76.25% on letters, 53.13% on numbers). That's using the stricter...

Gavin Chipper

Yes Neb. That would make the most sense, but only on the list that includes winning and losing games. The reason I (belatedly) asked about just the winning games was because I was wondering about the minimum level people have had to reach to scrape a certain number of wins.

Gavin Chipper

Thanks Graeme. Nice work as always. Also, sorry to be a pain, but would it be possible to do that including just winning games as well, so not including their final, losing game?

Gavin Chipper

Throwing away a massive lead against an inferior opponent on Countdown can't have helped.

Gavin Chipper

What's the lowest total score and number of maxes for a one-time winner, two-time winner and so on?

Gavin Chipper

Did anyone else notice Susie saying SNAPPIER is an anagram of PANNIERS? Yes. Me too. Also the other annoying thing which happens occasionally: Champ: 8, REASONED Nick: Good. What about in the corner? DC: We got some 7s, blah blah, but there was an 8 there: REASONED Nick: Wow. And Champ's sitting th...

Gavin Chipper

Bradley Cates wrote:Did anyone else notice Susie saying SNAPPIER is an anagram of PANNIERS?

Yes.

Gavin Chipper

Sad news. RIP.

Gavin Chipper

Adam Dexter wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:People who share a birthday with Jeff Gordon.
And why would that be? Was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother not trustworthy?

Edit: Used correct tense

It has to be the same year as well.

But probably not anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Quite pleased with my 137 today. Must be my best playing at home.

Gavin Chipper

Could have had MANEUVERS for 9 without the American spelling rule.

Gavin Chipper

Out of curiosity, hat do the standers do in the dead of night? Put the light on? Stand in the dark? Obviously put the light on. That's the most stupid question I've ever heard. Why would I walk into a dark room at 8pm and turn the light on but not do the same if it was 3am? And it's nothing to do w...

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