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Philip Wilson

That last numbers game was such a gift!

Philip Wilson

Trust Rachel to have another method to show rather than completing the 14x51+10 method. Both contestants could have got there. 8×9×10+9×6-50=724. Yeah that was my way but then I realised it was basically RRs method too except she just did some split multiplication and saved herself a 9. It was the ...

Philip Wilson

Tony Atkins wrote:Also there was a 9 missed in the SPRAINED/DESPAIRS round - but sadly I missed the 8s too....

ORDINALS as an alt to DINOSAUR.

Hmmm, is it an obscure one? Just seen aridness as another 8.

Philip Wilson

Not sure if there was a standard method for 4th numbers. 100/25 x (50+75) - 10 - 2 ?

Philip Wilson

Right. So a 2 and a 3 actually works as the tie you wrote about before (in the absence of a 1 + root 2)!

Philip Wilson

Interesting! So that made me wonder what if you only have one 1. Do you always add it to the lowest number in the selection? Looking at it it seems so, and this bit surprised me - for every pair of consecutive numbers I tried, it only makes a difference of 1 in each case. eg using a 2 & 3 gives ...

Philip Wilson

What a hard show - I think the max was only 107. Hmmm. Presumably it was the end of the recording day too! Not much to test anyone's numbers skills with 2 impossible, one ridiculously hard and one ridiculously easy, which was just Cecil taking the pee! I actually risked outwind but as in winding a ...

Philip Wilson

Tony Atkins wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:Got my 45 by doing 4 x 11 + 1 in the 450 round and made 936 in the 947. What was the closest possible I wonder?
Crossword tools says 936 is best - well done - I could only make 960.

Oh right, thanks for that then

Philip Wilson

Got my 45 by doing 4 x 11 + 1 in the 450 round and made 936 in the 947. What was the closest possible I wonder?

Philip Wilson

Steven M. McCann wrote:TRAMPLES as a beater in the last round before Susie's bit.

Also in that round was an astronomical beater almost the same as polaster - I think.

Philip Wilson

He should have got 5 points for the second numbers game too for being 9 away!

Philip Wilson

Tony Atkins wrote:PROSOMA in R13, then got the numbers same as Rachel, then the streaming jumped to the title credits.....
is it time to get a TV?

Just watched this really enjoyable match!
Do you want the scramble Tony or wait for the recap?

Philip Wilson

I don't think this counts as a spoiler but not sure. Anyway, how many times has a numbers game been solvable using only two numbers? Can't be very many. Thanks.

Philip Wilson

Cool upside down S in the conundrum which was the right way up when shown with the answer.
So Come Dine With Me now has a C O C!
And yeah I know none of this spoils anything

Philip Wilson

Tony Atkins wrote: I guess she did 61x8 in the last one.

50 x 10 - 12 was the basic method though Tony, right?

Philip Wilson

Graeme Cole wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:I've edit this to correct the max, see http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6229 .
Dunno how important it is but there's something up with the brackets in RR's solution for round 9 in that link.
RR: 222 = (50 − (100 − 9) ÷ 7) × 6

What's wrong with it?

Ooops, nothing I can see! My bad!

Philip Wilson

Charlie Reams wrote:I've edit this to correct the max, see http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6229 .

Dunno how important it is but there's something up with the brackets in RR's solution for round 9 in that link.

Philip Wilson

Dan McColm wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:Having now missed it twice in a few days I need to write down "ugliest + o = eulogist" 10 times before CoBristol!
Yeah me too

Lol, oops, sorry

Philip Wilson

Having now missed it twice in a few days I need to write down "ugliest + o = eulogist" 10 times before CoBristol!

Philip Wilson

Anyone else notice Nick said today's match is the last before the quarter-finals?!

Philip Wilson

From RRs reactions to the crew sometimes it looks like she is probably told easy ones are possible sometimes!

Philip Wilson

But what about when 6s and 9s can come out upside down like Ms and Ws do? That must change the numbers available

Philip Wilson

Graeme Cole wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:
What's this about Callum about please?
Callum was cheating on apterous for a few months around 2013-2014. This got found out and everyone was like:

Ah right, thanks.

Philip Wilson

"Callum's set the bar pretty high tbf, so who knows" But at least nobody was hurt in the making of the Immoral Octochamp's records. There's misguided, and then there's pure evil. Still, better hadn't say too much given the type of character RB might spend the next few years making friends...

Philip Wilson

That looking around works sometimes if I haven't solved the numbers and see RR smiling after 5 seconds.
Back to today and how different it could have been if john had risked his other 8

Philip Wilson

This could be the spoiler thread that doesn't actually spoil anything

Philip Wilson

Jamie was so close to scoring more points in this game with soared, daemons and the 4th numbers. I wanted to be unrattled too James and would have probably risked it if playing you !
Another way to 225 is 50 x 3 x 3 x 4 / 8.

Philip Wilson

Am I right in thinking mounties is no longer in with a small m? Seamount looks ok though.
Also another way to 103: (8+5)x9-9-5.
Good game that, kinda my standard

Philip Wilson

It was good to see Rachel continuing the contestants' methods in 2 numbers rounds today, seeing James's reaction to making 30 and Nick asking for Her method when we'd already seen a solution.

Philip Wilson

Did Nick miss Hassan's Off The Wall joke at the beginning? If he did that's so Bad he should be History himself!

Philip Wilson

In the first numbers game I would have declared 969 not written down (having seen it fairly quickly, then spent the rest of the time failing to find 968). As she declared 968 Nick would have gone to her first. She then gives the same solution to 969 that I have in mind, and of course realises she's...

Philip Wilson

I would, along with my 2 ragweeds.
Another way to 253 was (10+10)x(6+7)-7 and I spotted a risky 8 in the levator round, which apparently is ok.

Philip Wilson

Wow, I did uselessly today against those two! I would have had zero after 3 rounds! Rachel had it dead right at the end saying about those two playing each other being a shame. Romaine would have won though if he'd seen the straight forward 964 (one away) in the last numbers, which I thought he was ...

Philip Wilson

Yet another way to 211 is (9+9+8+3)x7+8 but out of time too.

Philip Wilson

Interesting anecdote at the end of this episode from Martin Jarvis, when he mentions his agent as a certain Michael Whitehall.... :shock: :o 8-) Who'd have thought that within 25 years, he would be in DC with MJ not to be seen for nearly a decade.... :roll: :roll: :roll: Yep, this episode came roun...

Philip Wilson

Right - I'm confused by this thread now. Was this: Apparently it isn't! I still wouldn't want to risk it though! a response to this: Perhaps the rule specifies proper nouns rather than whether the word starts with or contains any capitals, so then the question would be: Is eBay a proper noun? Yes i...

Philip Wilson

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:Apparently it isn't! I still wouldn't want to risk it though!
According to what? But anyway in the Apterous discussion (for non-members who might not be able to read it) it was confirmed that words have to be all lower case to be allowed.

According to the link in the first post in the thread.

Philip Wilson

Apparently it isn't! I still wouldn't want to risk it though!

Philip Wilson

VASELINE is weird - it's marked as a trademark but it's lowercase. I would say the trademark supersedes the case, as many trademarks have a lowercase initial letter anyway (ebay to name but one - I have always thought of it styled as eBay but maybe I imagined it?). Is the rule that the word must st...

Philip Wilson

Prenation for 9 - which is obviously a country BEFORE it becomes a sovereign state and a member of the United Nations in its own right!

Philip Wilson

Gavin Chipper wrote: Who does Andrew Irvine remind me of? I was thinking maybe Joe Cornish, but is there a better match?

Ben Shepherd?

Philip Wilson

Surely there will be more!

Philip Wilson

Mark Kudlowski wrote:
Tony Atkins wrote:Alt last numbers (3x7x10)-50/25

I will let James give you the beaters and alt 9s later.
Another one : ((25 - 3) x 10) - (7 + 5)

Love that reverse-standard 208 solve!
I think I spotted another nine too - Annoying people when you don't want them but useful when you do??

Philip Wilson

Now James informed us, and confirmed via my TV magazine listing, the series will be cut short today (Friday) and only will see the first three quarter finals :shock: So did Challenge buy all the episodes? Or will Challenge keep the missing ones for future screening? Either way it was great to see t...

Philip Wilson

Jenny Edge was shown in the audience at the end of the episode before though if that helps.

Philip Wilson

James Robinson wrote:Nope, not been allowed since Series 47.

Ahhh, was wondering when that happened

Philip Wilson

A few episodes after the Ravioli incident in the Challenge repeats, Catherine states that they can certainly allow the American spelling of Calicos without an e. Can't do that now though?

Philip Wilson

There was a standard method for 737 too, which is ((6x2)+3)x50-9-4.

Philip Wilson

The way the conundrum was answered on the 15th October it looked as if the monitor could have changed from displaying the scramble to displaying *look at Nick" when the player buzzed! Doubtful but it might work.

Philip Wilson

Damn! I had tidewater as a Jo Brand and would never have risked it!

Philip Wilson

Series link works it out by itself, luckily, as I've got behind being away. I noticed my box recording something at 4 o/c on Monday, which was how I found out they'd changed it.

Philip Wilson

What was that on the top line when Rachel put up "nearer" as the winning word?

Philip Wilson

To get knotted must have been a thing in 1991. Also is it just me or have they narrowed the screen? Yes, must've been done "incorrectly", hence it was in 4:3 format for this one. Nice to see 3 conundrums on a show for the first time too. ;) :) :D So there were 3 conundrums (as a tiebreake...

Philip Wilson

She certainly made it sound like she didn't.
The insureds incident was strange too. What if those letters had come up again and one contestant went for it and not the other?

Philip Wilson

Changing the subject but still relating to this edition, I just wonder what the reason was for disallowing David from correcting his declaration in the surrogate round. He changed it quickly before Matt declared so it didn't determine his opponent's declaration. It just seems an unnecessary rule and...

Philip Wilson

I'm a week behind now with these so just watched this one. Is waspier the first word that's cropped up in this series that was disallowed then but is ok now? I don't remember much being disallowed so far.

Philip Wilson

A sudden change to the challenger being on the right today!
Sheridan seems quite a good DC guest.

Philip Wilson

I'll see if I can find out more from the station's facebook page!
Isn't there a programme recappers here use that gives solutions with their percentage difficulty?
Maybe he has access to that! Maybe he is on this forum?

Philip Wilson

In the car this morning I had on Radio Cornwall and they were talking about a guy who is "obsessed with numbers" and when he was young he wanted to go a different way home from school everyday so he could write down the numbers on lampposts and keep a list. They went on to say that his mot...

Philip Wilson

Who was that Ryan from Hull guy I just saw on Blockbusters on Challenge? ! That'll be Ryan Taylor. Definitely not on Simon Mayo's Christmas card list, I think..... :P :lol: Ahh thought so. Thanks. Remember seeing a recently shown special looking a bit younger! I don't think I've reached that part y...

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