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One word. And one hashtag. #cheekysip.

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James Robinson wrote:We were mainly still sniggering after the second teatime teaser for most of the last part of recording, before I had to depart early.......

You and me both, bro.

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Blatantly Obvious 4th Numbers Alt.: 100 + 9 - 50 / 25. I did (9x8)+25+10 (not the std method), but don't know what the players did as the streaming crashed. I was actually half-expecting Sean to do it that way given the outlandish methods he's used so far, but he did 8-(10-9)+100 and Heather did 25...

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Was chuffed to achieve a personal best of 143 while playing along. However, am even more chuffed by the high standard; this must be one of the greatest games between two non-(known-to-be-)Apterites.

Blatantly Obvious 4th Numbers Alt.: 100 + 9 - 50 / 25.

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And rounding off the pantheon of best training practices for each Countdown discipline... it's very useful to learn all 9-letter words that are plurals, present-tense -S verbs, capitalised, not in the ODO or obscene to train for conundrums.

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Zarte Siempre wrote:TEEVEES in the E-see round.

Wonder if that's the first-ever max word that contained four copies of the same letter. Greem?

This also has to have been the closest game ever that didn't go to a crucial. The margin was under 10 points in every round EXCEPT the one where that actually mattered!

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In this of the week, two new challengers are making their debuts following Conrad Teixeira's induction into the 800 Club. Will they be able to live up to the excellent standards of the Series 74 finalists we have seen so far? Today is the day we start to find out. Join Tracey later on for the answer.

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Stewart Gordon wrote:Susie misread the definition of POUNDAL. And everybody seemed blissfully unaware that "an acceleration of one foot per second" makes no sense....

Her mind must have only been going a few knots per hour when she said it, I guess.

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Marc Meakin wrote:John McCruick

Had a mini heart attack after accidentally reading that as my username.

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For days when horse racing happens, Countdown programmes aren't even recorded at all, right? Or are there still 5-6 programmes in every recording session and are the extras just pushed to the following week?

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No. I'm not dead yet. Though I thought I might come dangerously close during the past few days when cramming for the 35%-valued exam I sat today and probably did OK on. And now, with the pesky little technicalities of academic success and career security out of the way, I finally have a couple days ...

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After a bit of research, it appears this may have been the tourney I was talking about with the vaguely Apter-ish scrambles. That was a while ago though. Deliberately- that's always (or at least for the past few years) how I've done conundrums for COLIN/CoNot. Come to think of it, this is a good id...

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After a bit of research, it appears this may have been the tourney I was talking about with the vaguely Apter-ish scrambles. That was a while ago though.

P.S.: Props to whoever created the scrambles for .co.mk containing the names of various players. That was cute.

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Just imagine how subpar Harvey Freeman would look to Apterites if he missed that first-round 9 today.

Tangentially Related Note: I believe Round 3 was the first time the word APTEROUS was ever known to have been available in a game.

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Was this the first game with more than one repdigit target?

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Mark James wrote:Damien told me the usual waiting period to reapply is 10 years.

How did Dan get back on after only 4 years, then? Particularly as he was already an adult the first time as opposed to some other people like Bradley Cates.

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Fantastic showing from Conrad today -- kept me to a crucial and at one point he was 20 ahead. Very good play by Angus as well; unlucky that an Apterite had to come up against one of his own kind on his debut. When Conrad said "I'll stick with a 7" in the DARIOLE/EXORDIAL round, I wonder if...

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Do you maybe have to have won at least one show, say? From what we've seen so far, I think people are more likely to be readmitted if they haven't been successful on previous appearances. I'd say you have quite a good shot, especially given who your original opponent was. The longer ago you were on...

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3rd numbers alt.: (100 + 7 - 4) * 2 + 5 * 9.

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And after FREDBRIAN yesterday, another member of Queen gets referred to in today's scramble! Only John Deacon is left, and not many people even knew he existed.

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Sorry, I have to redact my previous statement because I was tied up with homework and tourney games yesterday. The recaps are coming, trust me.

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Props to the conundrum scramble for mentioning not one but two members of Queen.

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Following James Hogan's capture of the champion's chair, we may be looking at a very Apterite-heavy week as he takes on our own Conrad Teixeira today. Which of them will be saying "wd" after the show, and which "ul"? Join me later today for TWO forumcaps, the other one of course ...

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Just so you know, Graeme, if I ever do make it to Britain, I'm buying you a pizza. It's totally on me. Your choice of toppings, too. Next question, again conundrum-related: Following on from the infamous FREEDRUTH incident, how many times has a conundrum answer been used more than once in a series? ...

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I wonder if the person who came up with this conundrum was the same person was the same one who set the scramble METALICCA and the answer MEGADEATH in the S72 finals.

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Also, my apponent was quite immature and he liked mind games. Maybe, this slightly put me off? * He refused to pass over his sheet when he declared the same word as me (probing). He had to be told by production to pass his sheet to me. * He told me that Dudley was a “pr*ck” 3 times during the recor...

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Peter Mabey wrote:Couple of beaters - OUTCRIES & AGISTERS

Afraid there was no S in the first round, if that's where OUTCRIES came from.

There was a second (or third, including both ANGOSTURA and ARGONAUTS) nine tucked away today. Anyone else spot it?

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I guess the Internet acronym "STFU" isn't infamous enough to be censored or re-shot (yet, anyway).

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Was today's episode the first in its filming session? If not, I'm extremely surprised that both players missed MANKIER/PINMAKER because presumably they would have seen yesterday's game from the audience.

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Philip Wilson wrote:That last numbers game was such a gift!

This was the first time I had ever been pleased about getting a number more than 10 away, which I did via (75-50)*25+(2+1)*100.

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(SPOILER ALERT for anyone who has been living under a rock for six weeks)

Were the final two games of Championship of Champions XIV the first pair of consecutive games in which the same nine-letter word was available in both games?

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Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The CanuckRecap Show. As we speak, I'm poised at my computer, made entirely of ice (yes, including the transistors), on the warmest side of my igloo. Yes, I do know Bob from Canada, and I need to write this fast because he wants to play some hockey ...

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Did Colin declare DARKENS in R7? My computer emitted an error-message "bling" during his declaration.

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Edward Byrne wrote:I might take you up on that offer for Co.Dublin!

Fantastic! You'll only need 7 conundrums for that in total, correct?

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Very bad luck with that final vowel pick in the last letters round Paul -- you were of course fishing for a U, and I fully expected you to get one as there hadn't been any in the two rounds previous either.

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So apparently BONAFIDE^ isn't a bona fide single word after all. Still very impressed with myself because I beat Paul 103-82 here.

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Mark Deeks wrote:I guess the only thing left to do now is get Dinos put in prison somehow.

What, O'Donnell is locked up too? What did he do this time?

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:D :D :D Brilliant. Back to the OP - who else would be willing to put £20 into a pot to get Big Jase over for a Co event? We'd only need like 30 people to do it. #TeamBigJase I'd be willing to kick in $50 Canadian. Mind you, that's only worth like £1 right now. And everyone's blaming Justin Trudeau...

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Well i guess i've probably met more forumites than anyone else around, so for what its worth, i'd save your airfare Jason and stay in the USA. Most of the guys here are dangerously warped and if it were not for the fact that our prisons are massively overcrowded, i'd suspect that at least 75% of th...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:which is how Apterous' shuffler generates them
Sometimes!

It's been revamped, then.

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I could have sworn I saw one event where pretty much all of the scrambles were dictionary words with 1 or 2 letters changed (e.g., RESIDEXCE => EXERCISED; DNESCENDO => CONDENSED), which is how Apterous' shuffler generates them. But that might be co:incidence; they could have been written by someone....

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To all members of the FOCAL Team, Just wanted to let you know that if you're ever in need of developing large volumes of witty conundrum scrambles for CO-events (even the night before they happen), you can always contact me and I'll throw together a couple hundred that I had planned to use as chat t...

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Fun fact: If Paul completes an octorun here, then, only one month into the series prelims, he is already guaranteed to qualify for the finals.

Also, he is currently on track to achieve an octototal over one thousand. Not sure why I didn't put that one first.

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Is Daft Punk (specifically, the album Random Access Memories) considered electronic? If so, it's the only album I own from the genre.

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Based on (a) prior numbers of wins, (b) prior point totals, and (c) prior average scores, who are the statistically weakest contestants to have ever qualified for Championships of Champions? I would expect at least one of them to be from CoC IX, since all contestants in it were drawn from only one y...

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They must have had to dig pretty deep into the vaults to find four Y tiles. Or do the tiles on the conundrum scramble ("COUNTDOWN") and solution ("CONUNDRUM") boards only appear to be visible simultaneously due to video editing?

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Our very own Paul Erdunast hit the ground running yesterday with a 12-maxer debut that bettered the incumbent champion by 90 points. In this final game of the week (and the recording session), can he repeat... or beat... this feat? Tune into the show today and find out the answer, or join Anthony E ...

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Well done to Paul. Thought he was going to max the game, but 13 max is pretty hot. Was it not 12 maxes? (Still way better than I usually do on Apterous, even with an optimal blood alcohol content.) Yeah, ridiculously great standard by Paul. I almost thought David was going to unfortunately break th...

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Round 13: B L S O U O K T L What a horrible round....., if only there was a C in the selection.... :P :lol: Heh, noticed this too, but only after the final L had come up. Interestingly, though, there's also an 8 if the C replaces the L instead of replacing what you were thinking of... (Also, happy ...

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ESSAYED in the SUEDES round. Also, in my opinion, the decision made on SUEDES was "It's not in, but you get the points anyway."

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Jon Corby wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Happy Birthday Charlie Reams (29) !
+ 1 (year)

+1 (on Google Plus)

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When we last spoke* on Tuesday*, David Edgar reached the halfway point of his commandingly strong* prospective octochamp run. However, sadly, the title was not to be for him as he was thrashed* on Wednesday by Jack Creswell in an excellent* game decided by a crucial. Jack then held out with high sco...

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James Laverty wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:There's a recently minted Apterite named Dave Armstrong; anyone know if this was him?
It is. He confirmed on apto last week

Ah, very nice. Shame he'll have to hit a higher-rated one on Thursday...

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There's a recently minted Apterite named Dave Armstrong; anyone know if this was him?

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Jon Corby wrote:Would you like to play a game?

Not really. And it's not raining here either.

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Three Rs in a row in Rounds 4-5! When was the last instance of a consonant being thrice repeated?

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Gavin Chipper wrote:But treating scores individually could cause problems, because it might then turn out that 49 on average converts to 79!

Why on Earth would 49 convert to 8.94618 × 10¹¹⁶?

...
I'll see myself out.

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Magnificent number-crunching skills as always, Graeme, particularly on the alphabetically closest selections question because I know (or at least strongly suspect) that your database isn't exactly well suited to answering it. Next up: Let us call a conundrum scramble "unoriginal" if it has...

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Octochamp Tim Down has been off our screens for six days now, and the atmosphere in the Countdown studio is just beginning to come back down to Earth from the frenetic fever pitch it was at previously during what was undoubtedly the most exciting event in the show's 2016 history. Michael Lees led th...

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After last Friday's repeated teaser, it's tea-ja vu all over again.

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