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Philip Wilson

Noisy audience today!

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That last numbers solution was a split multiplication and a half!
Sorry to hear that about Richard Samson.
Also enjoying this, it seems to move so much faster than it does now.

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Who was that Ryan from Hull guy I just saw on Blockbusters on Challenge? !

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote: Er endings to one syllable adjectives were allowed if not specified too.
Isn't this still the case?

Yep sorry, I made it sound like it was different to now. I just mentioned it because I didn't think it was always the case but it was then. Or has it always been the case?

Philip Wilson

So this was the first series to use the pencam and it also saw the introduction of the second conundrum in the event of a tie instead of a rematch which happened before. It was also legal to pick only 2 vowels at this time. The champion sat next to the host and the challenger had first pick. Er endi...

Philip Wilson

We certainly should do - at least with spoilers. Spoiler threads can be started by anyone but with the recaps we could just post extra details in the existing historic recaps if we pick anything up. We already have the recaps, or have you forgotten about the work that I mostly did to recap them a f...

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So what about the DC guests? Did they go back too or did they manage to somehow edit the original shots because the tiles would not be visible in the same shot?!

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Johnny Canuck wrote:How do you pronounce "Szewc", anyways?

As in unicef by the sound of it

So would it be allowed now to offer 3 or 4 words? Also it looked like the contestants may not have been able to see the board very easily.

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Are we having spoilers and recaps for these matches?

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James Robinson wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:There's a "Countdown 2 days to go" teaser on screen on challenge today.
There was a "Countdown 3 days to go" teaser on screen on Challenge yesterday.

Ha ha

I have a pretty good idea what it will say tomorrow then!

Philip Wilson

There's a "Countdown 2 days to go" teaser on screen on challenge today.

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Spotted a well behaved (dc) equaller in the boner round!

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Same way here. When looked at written out I wondered why I went for 37600/100, and not just do 752/2, but obviously I did it the proper way!

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Done it! Took me 2.5 hours though!

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Great game to watch. Unlucky Daniel coming up against Jonathan but good not to have a walkover too! Well done to both and Greg for being a good DC guest too!
Anyone get the last numbers yet?

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(50-10+2)x4+(10/2) also makes 173 but out of time too

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Yes, Friday round 13.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Darn - just spotted the alt of (6x10x10)/2 + 7x8 for the last numbers.

Or indeed 700/2 + 6.

Didn't Susie offer remoter last week sometime? Maybe I'm dreaming.

Philip Wilson

Easier to spot 111 x 9 = 999 than 27 x 37.
In the 287 Tony's way of saving the 13 and make the 4 a different way to x 75 by is a lot simpler than 72 x 4 - 1.
Seemed to be some unnecessarily complicated solutions today.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Went for "piggiest" - that's my max game gone.

Me too - well that's half true - the second bit doesn't apply to me

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Also thought it was a bit weird but the scores weren't that close so no real need to try to gain an advantage.
Also if I was Stephen's challenger on his 7th game I'd be quite confident that even a risky word from him would be ok so it wouldn't affect my declaration.

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Different ways of doing 2 numbers rounds:
(8x75)/(7+5-9)-1 = 199
(9+9+7)x10-2 = 248

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But there Is one Tony!
8x9x11=792. 2/2+10=11
Available 9 notwithstanding, does DC not mentioning minuter mean you can't be one?

Philip Wilson

Now that was a shock - to me anyway! Great game to watch though.
Hopefully Stephen will do well and they'll have a rematch in the finals.

Philip Wilson

Well she won 7 games because none of her first 7 opponents beat her. Another time 2 players of a higher standard will oppose each other and one will lose.
Stating the obvious but so long as it's a fair draw then who can complain?

Aside from that I now know PIRATES + CD = 9!

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The 461 round would have been a chance for Rachel to say something like just add the 4 before multiplying by 3. Both contestants did the same thing so no bias and Susie often says things like "you could add the i or s" or whatever and it might help people with the delights and benefits of ...

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Alternative alternatives:
100 + 25 + 9 x 8 / 4 - 1 = 267
100 / 4 - 4 x 25 = 525
I found my plus key!
And yes I'm behind!

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My way to 908 was
(100/4)-7x50 then add the 6 & 2.
I don't seem to have a plus sign sorry!
Well done again Rhys!

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In Colin's numbers game:
7 x (75 plus 9) - 50/2 also works.

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Hmm. Seems complicated to me. You could get somebody winning 110-100, and the max was 110. But it's not a max game because it was a tie-break. Isn't it easier just to say there were 120 points available? So how did this affect the guys here who play along and go for a max game? You wouldn't know if...

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Tony Atkins wrote:QUADRIC in R2 and 1 away is (100+50-(75/25))x6+4=886

My way to 886 was (6+(75/25)x(100+4))-50.

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Philip Wilson wrote:Also spotted that 78x11 was an available solution to 858 for the second time this week

Just realised the first time was in the April 10th special, which I only watched this week

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Also spotted that 78x11 was an available solution to 858 for the second time this week

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EBONITE in round 1, VESICATE in round 3. 1st Numbers Alt.: (7 x 100) + ((75 + 4) x (6 / 3)) = 858 Well weird seeing a show with only 3 numbers rounds again............ :roll: :P Indeed! Wouldn't want to go back to it personally. Another way for 858 was (7 + 4) x (75 + 3) and I have now finally caug...

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My conundrum performance is probably about 50/50 but I actually got that one [albeit after 29 seconds]! Then when nobody in the audience admitted to having it I thought I was probably wrong. Sorry if this comes across as showing off but I'm not really like that

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Gavin Chipper wrote:How do you get one away in round 6?

I just put my methods on the spoiler thread, probably well-known by now though

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Round 6: 1, 1, 2, 3, 25, 75. Target: 367.
Seeing they're not on the recap and there's a question there, here's my methods:
(((25 - 1) x 2) + 75 x 3) - 1 = 368
(((25 - 1) x 2) + 75 - 1) x 3 = 366

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Philip Wilson wrote: Did anyone get any of Rachel's 1 away in the impossible numbers round? I see nothing on the recap.

Ok I've done them now

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:
Tony Atkins wrote: I made 297 by 9x33.
2 ways to do that too
But presumably only one standard method.

Do we do standard methods without a large? Maybe, if there's a 10 I guess!

Philip Wilson

'Another' must be one of the most common words to be missed.
Did anyone get any of Rachel's 1 away in the impossible numbers round? I see nothing on the recap.

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Would have been shocked at that result if I'd missed the third quarter! The whole game seemed to completely change track after the tinier/tinnier round.

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Tony Atkins wrote: I made 297 by 9x33.

2 ways to do that too

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Saw undersow but not sure I would have risked it. SD didn't mention what more than one rondeau is called, but from the description you can have more than one, so I imagine it ends with an x then?
Sorry I'm late, still behind after the snooker

Philip Wilson

Hi, I can't see this being mentioned anywhere else so I will do so here and apologies if I've missed it! During a mid-session interval of a match at the World Snooker Championship at the weekend, John Parrott was interviewing Nick Hewer over a 'sort of' frame of snooker, when Countdown was mentioned...

Philip Wilson

Also nice to see PIRATES + L turn up in the first round ;) Indeedy do, a 14-maxer for me, as I couldn't quite solve the 3rd numbers game, which my mum got just after the time with: (((25 x 2) + 6) x 10) - 9 - 3 = 548 PARTITE in round 7 and OTTOMAN in round 12. 1st Numbers Alt.: (((25 x 3) - 5) x 8)...

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Also nice to see PIRATES + L turn up in the first round

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Also 9 x 8 x (5 + 3) - 4 for the 6 small but well after 30 seconds!!

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Round 14: 2, 7, 50, 100, 25, 75. Target: 415. Jordan: 418. Mistake in working. Mark: 418. Mistake in working. RR: 415. (((50-2)*7)+4)+75 (10) Score: 87–23 (max 125) It’s a super solve by Rachel meaning she has no need to “have another look” today. Even more super really, because she also had to mak...

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So Kevin Steede (an apterite) is the new champion and with his apterous-learned skills he must have a shot of making eight wins. Interesting that they put him as first game of the recording day, I think they tend to do that when contestants travel from longer distances (Kevin is from Plymouth), I’d...

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There was another one of those strange Susie moments when GLS found a 7 containing the X [Oxidase] and then Susie offers a 6 if you wanted to use the X! Must just be stress

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Jon Corby wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:Wonder if Tess thought Minuscule was Miniscule like me
How small are you?

Lol

I guess I meant to say: 'like I did'

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That's really sad. I was hoping she may have been going to Bristol.

Philip Wilson

TBF it may be that she doesn't see it because she's not sitting there comfortably analysing it all like we are. She's writing up their method, checking calculations, checking they haven't used all the numbers, while chatting and presenting to camera as well. It just may be that if she hasn't gone t...

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Must be rare enough to score with a 3 in any round, but to happen in the first round so it shows on the scoreboard must be almost unheard of! 2nd numbers game (690) could be solved by keeping the numbers as they appeared and adding the signs thus: + - - x x 4th numbers (10 + 7) x 50 + (6 x 5) - 8. W...

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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 there going "the fuck?" Adam Gillard noticed that too but I forgot to mention...

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Rachel is so polite when they make 31 from 1 5 and 6 and not 36. I did it the way she showed. Hmmm, sorry Tony but I just find that really annoying when she doesn't do that. Who would actually be offended if she did? From the post above, I didn't do it that way (with 6 squared anyway), but would st...

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Mark Kudlowski
1st numbers alt: (50-1) x (25-((9+6)/3))

Mark Kudlowski
4th numbers: (75+3)x(6+5+1)

James Robinson
2nd Numbers Alt.: (75 x 10) - 50 - 9 + 5 = 696

Damn!! All my methods! I will really have to start trying to be here when the programme's actually on

Philip Wilson

Tony Atkins wrote:Alt 2nd nos (75-10)x7+6

Also with 4 numbers, ((75-2)x7)-50 = 461

Sorry I'm catching up here but remember that one because I was so shocked I saw it so quickly!

Philip Wilson

I suppose the only consolation for Tom, is that Antoinette didn't spot UNCLAMPED. If Tom had been declaring 2nd he would have probably gone for the 9 because Antoinette would have only declared an 8 and he only had a 7 otherwise. Wonder if it affected how he played afterwards? Hard to tell really, ...

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Mark Kudlowski wrote:Alt for the "502" numbers round: ((50 + 6) x 9)-2

Also 9+6-5 to make the 10, then as RR
9x10+75 for the 165 round

Able to take advantage today of learning last week that PIRATES + L = an 8

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