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Chris Davies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=54688

'Agonising' doesn't even begin to describe this!

Chris Davies

Andy Wilson wrote:5 x 100 + (9x8) + 7 = 579

not too tough, surprised Rachel missed it...

I missed it too! I managed 577. But I did get PETIOLES as a DC beater in (I think) round 2.

Chris Davies

I equalled or beat Hamish in every round, including the word DEMURELY. Now I'm really keen to see what I would have scored. I'll watch it on 4OD and figure it out.

EDIT: 149 points against either contestant.

Chris Davies

Grrrrrr this is as close a topic as I could find for this but....... http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=52905 Saw the conundrum straight away, but mistyped DISCUSSED as DISCUSSES Why the hell are S and D next to each other on the keyboard?? This was clearly a major issue waiting to unfurl it...

Chris Davies

No doubt my best nine ever.

I let myself in for a crucial conundrum after misclicking on the second numbers, though.

Chris Davies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=52816

Unbelievably, I noted ROOFIES immediately in round 1, then I noted FISHER, and I convinced myself that ROOFIES wasn't in and chickened out of declaring it. If Richard had declared first, I would have gone with it. Sigh.

Chris Davies

tomrowell wrote:OPALINES is invalid on apterous, therefore it shouldnt be allowed on countdown

I'm confused here. I saw OPALINE and I distinctly remember having had OPALINES disallowed on apterous. What's going on?

Chris Davies

ARIOSO, round 1.
SPAVINED, round 2.

STODGIER, round 6.
MAHURAT, round 11.

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FURIOSO, round 2.

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Darren Carter wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:Another apto-dream fulfilled!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=50643
You bully......
My thoughts entirely.

Laura was nothing but sportsmanlike about it.

Chris Davies

Another apto-dream fulfilled!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=50643

Chris Davies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=50619 An absolutely mad Speedgoat. 6 nines! Pity about the number games though - with two easier ones I could have had the highest scoring Speedgoat in apterous history, but it wasn't to be. This was seriously one of the most enjoyable games I've ever had t...

Chris Davies

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=50060

Chris Davies

Junaid Mubeen wrote:CAPRIOLE as a beater for rd 1

I had that and also FUSARIA as a beater in another round, don't know which one. The one where Rachel had SAFARI.

According to crosswordtools' number solver, 984 is the closest it is possible to get for those numbers.

Chris Davies

My highest score for a 15-rounder.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=49359

I saw METREAGE at the very end of round 2, only a fraction too late, so that's a tad frustrating, but I'm still happy with this game, obviously.

Chris Davies

Ben Wilson wrote:3rd numbers- (6-1)*75+100-8

Very good, I only managed to do the same as the contestants.

Chris Davies

Ben Pugh wrote:MAESTROS

And MESOSAUR.

Chris Davies

Jojo Apollo wrote:Countdown great Graham Nash was on the show yesterday, seems Jenny Falconer is the new host.

Thanks for that, I caught some of this show by chance yesterday and I was wondering whether it actually was him or not.

Chris Davies

FUCK! I can't remember when I was last so angry about someone being voted off. You'd done really well with the questions apart from one slightly dodgy round; you stayed focused; and you didn't keep wasting time asking for questions to be repeated like several of your team mates did. It was such bla...

Chris Davies

I didn't get anywhere near the full time - the visible clock was fine. This was a speed conundrum attack so the clock is indicating ~4 seconds.

Chris Davies

During a speed conundrum attack, I was starting to get the impression that I was running out of time on conundrums I couldn't answer slightly before the clock had appeared to fully run down. But then this happened: http://www.freewebs.com/themusician31/conundrumglitch.JPG :? It's never happened befo...

Chris Davies

I finished today's duel in the early hours of this morning, and I've just come online now and the duel was available again, with the same conundrums but different letters rounds. I haven't completed this duel.

Chris Davies

I had ATRAZINE as a beater in one of the rounds, can't remember which, but I wasn't 100% sure it was okay (it is).

Chris Davies

Yesterday's duel was nice. Considering the fact that I never play hyper, I was dead pleased to do this well.

Chris Davies

Perfect speed conundrum attack.

Chris Davies

At long bloody last

Well, I've actually only been trying to get a perfect conundrum attack since yesterday, but it feels like it took forever.

Chris Davies

I've been finding apterous pretty much unusable since this afternoon. But it hasn't stopped me from trying

Chris Davies

Damn damn damn

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PINTAIL as a DC beater in whatever round it was (before the first numbers).

Chris Davies

Can I enter, please?

Chris Davies

There are no results coming up on the 'Most missed words' pages.

Chris Davies

Phil Reynolds wrote:The round where DC got 7 with SORRIER, I got ORRERIES for 8.

I share your glory here

Chris Davies

Unless I'm missing something, Sandy could have solved the second numbers by doing what she did and adding on (7-6) afterwards?

Chris Davies

Closest I'll ever get to a perfect speed 9: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=42146 Pissed me off immensely. I got the first numbers, but for some reason apterous doesn't think 10/2*7 is 35. Which it clearly is. So in a way, I'm glad I messed up the other numbers as well. But it's still infuria...

Chris Davies

Not that strange really, but this is almost certainly my first palindromic nine-letter word . It was a stunning spot, nice one. By the way Chris, my quietness during games is due to chat not working in case you were wondering. Cheers :D Yeah, I reckoned it most likely meant that your chat wasn't wo...

Chris Davies

Not that strange really, but this is almost certainly my first palindromic nine-letter word.

Chris Davies

Thought I'd post this little triolet of speedgoats with Chris Davies which I enjoyed, especially the second although in hindsight I'm even more gutted about round one and he beat me by a fraction to the conundrum which I only know cause I saw one the other day in a museum :x Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Th...

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Junaid Mubeen wrote:FUMAROLES as a beater in rd 1

Excellent.
MERINO as a beater in Round 2.

ERUPTION - round 11.
DERACINE - round 12.

Chris Davies

Phil Reynolds wrote:ANORAK beats DC in round 6.

I immediately saw OPANKA but never saw ANORAK.

Chris Davies

Kirk Bevins wrote:On behalf of Chris, I'm posting this in brag. Truly brilliant. I held some hope from my round 9 spot but then, bam, some more obscure words from Chris and I'm floored. Relentless.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=41326

Wow, thanks for that Kirk.

Chris Davies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=40745

I must learn to play Countdown one day.

Chris Davies

Gazpacho by Marillion is one of my all-time favourite songs.

Chris Davies

Max Speedgoat number 2 for Chris.

Chris Davies

My perfect Speedgoat game.

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=38617

Chris Davies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=39440

Spotted JINXED too late and mistyped it, and missed a really easy numbers game (saw the solution just after declaring one away). And I just couldn't solve the conundrum as I thought it was 'occupancy', not 'occupance'.

Chris Davies

Sorry, I seem to be frequenting this thread lately, but I'm on a bit of a roll. Here a a couple of nice games I've had today. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=38723 (15 rounder) http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=38732 (Speedgoat) Edit: Almost a second perfect Speedgoat within 24 hou...

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Letters max attack record!

Thanks to Jojo for being very encouraging when it became obvious that I was possibly headed for a record, even wishing me luck before round 20.

Chris Davies

MADRILENE in the third half (when the challenger got REMAINED).

EDIT: ENFORCES in Round 1 too, I'm surprised DC didn't find it. I'm watching this on 4+1

Chris Davies

I did get the last numbers the same was as Kirk, after noticing the target was divisible by 8, though I wouldn't have had time to write it down

. Congratulations!

Chris Davies

ARGHH! I was playing a Speedgoat and got three consecutives nines with the first numbers game still to come, and I was still on the max of 78 points, and the site's gone down, and I just know that when it goes back up the game will have disappeared :( It may not have done, I'm trying to figure out ...

Chris Davies

I got TUMEFIES, and MISDATE in the ADMIXES round

. But I failed the first numbers game miserably.

Chris Davies

ARGHH! I was playing a Speedgoat and got three consecutives nines with the first numbers game still to come, and I was still on the max of 78 points, and the site's gone down, and I just know that when it goes back up the game will have disappeared

Chris Davies

Kai Laddiman wrote:DOOMSTER

I got it too

Chris Davies

Jimmy Gough wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34802
Best game I've ever played.

One of my all-time favourites too.

Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34148
Great conundrum spot wd

Cheers

Chris Davies

How many have been offered as maxima? ;) In fairness, twice in one day I risked a five only to find that the max was four. I first risked GOUDA, which is a cheese I think. So is it capitalised or is it not valid at all? Then ZORIL^ a Scrabble word. Based on words like ZORIL and EPOXY, I guess Chris...

Chris Davies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34148

Chris Davies · Re: Spoilers for Mon 09/03/2009 Dinos Sfyris wrote:DEMERARA I had it too

Dinos Sfyris wrote:DEMERARA

I had it too

Chris Davies

Almost certainly my best ever numbers solution. And it allowed me to avoid a crucial conundrum.

Chris Davies

A nice game, and the first time I've beaten Kirk in a speedgoat.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=32792

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