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- Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Validity of letters, their plurals, and Roman numerals
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2526
Re: Validity of letters, their plurals, and Roman numerals
It's very unlikely that a contestant would offer a 1-letter word, and even unlikelier still that it would be a winning word. It would be tempting, therefore, to assume that the possibility just never occurred to anyone in charge of the rules. However, at least one person considered it as early as 1...
- Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Validity of letters, their plurals, and Roman numerals
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2526
Re: Validity of letters, their plurals, and Roman numerals
It's very unlikely that a contestant would offer a 1-letter word, and even unlikelier still that it would be a winning word. It would be tempting, therefore, to assume that the possibility just never occurred to anyone in charge of the rules. However, at least one person considered it as early as 19...
- Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: First impressions of Anne
- Replies: 141
- Views: 25291
Re: First impressions of Anne
This is the first impression of Anne I can find. It's from 1995. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHoLKd9WrUA#t=18m55s
- Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Not Written Down
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4384
Re: Not Written Down
No.
Am I missing some context to this post? Has anyone suggested banning not-written-down answers?
Am I missing some context to this post? Has anyone suggested banning not-written-down answers?
- Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 22nd June 2021 (Series 83, Fourth Quarter Final)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3487
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 22 June 2021 (Series 83, Fourth Quarter Final)
Allowing PICRITES was slightly controversial I think but it didn't make a difference in the end. Isn't there more than a whiff of virtue-signalling bullshit off this, though? The presenters of the show need to appear impartial. Rachel and Susie clearly rooting for any female (or <insert minority he...
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 22nd June 2021 (Series 83, Fourth Quarter Final)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3487
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 22 June 2021 (Series 83, Fourth Quarter Final)
I've given it the admin error category given she disallowed vaseline the other day. http://c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14724&sid=fd07c9729172b6ef92bc5b2b97e1fb7b I don't agree this belongs in the admin error category. That category is for clear mistakes where there's no room for a...
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 21st June (Series 83, Quarter Final 3)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2732
Re: Spoilers for Monday 21st June (Series 83, Quarter Final 3)
Very well done if you got those at home.
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:33 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 314
- Views: 115858
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
On the subject of timings, I've tried to reverse-engineer the amount of time Countdown allows for each bit, based on the most recent episode. Presented here for interest. My best guess at the breakdown is as follows. Opening titles: 0:30 . Intro: 2:50. This includes Nick's introduction to camera and...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:15 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 314
- Views: 115858
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
Any other thoughts? Here are my thoughts on ZoomDown, what it does well, and what could improve it. They are offered as my own opinions, which may or may not be widely held. tl;dr: ZoomDown learned early on that engaging with and involving the live chat in the show turns people into repeat viewers....
- Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
A long time ago (perhaps even the late 80s or early 90s but I'm not sure) I'm pretty sure a woman gave a 1-away solution to a numbers round but started by doing something like 100 x 1. So she could have saved the 1 but seemingly didn't realise until afterwards. Assuming this game was recapped, coul...
- Sat May 29, 2021 10:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XVII- Countdown in Lincoln, TBD 2022
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26006
Re: COLIN XVII- Countdown in Lincoln, TBD 2022
No - Atropine reorders the finalists after the finals have been played, so that the overall winner is at the top.
- Thu May 20, 2021 11:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Graeme: How do you answer all these questions so readily? Do you have a whole bunch of Countdown stats entered into a database that can be manipulated in different ways? And if so, what sort of database? Access? MySQL? I used to use MySQL, but now I use an SQLite database. I update it once per seri...
- Thu May 20, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Has anyone scored 0 on the show and if so, does this usually not get broadcasted? Yes, twice, both in the 9-round era: https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_637 https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_2343 It hasn't happened since the show grew to 15 rounds. I'm not aware of any episode not being broadcast b...
- Thu May 20, 2021 11:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
For Graeme or someone else with too much time on their hands. How many numbers games have Carol and Rachel each presided over? Seeing as there are twice as many now as there were for most of Carol's time it could be close. And probably for Graeme alone. Which of them is better (at numbers)?? The da...
- Thu May 20, 2021 11:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Yes, great thread :D To add to the current surge of questions.... What is a) the biggest margin of defeat, and b) the lowest score, by someone who got 2 or more valid nines in a 15r game? Same question also for getting one nine. Heaviest loss by someone who got two or more nines was 50 by Ross Mack...
- Thu May 20, 2021 11:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Since people are asking in aptochat - what's the longest run of heat games without any player reaching n wins, for all n from 2 to 8? Where there are ties, only the latest run is shown. Without 2 wins: the 7 episodes up to and including https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_7349. Without 3 wins: the 15...
- Thu May 20, 2021 11:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Apologies if already done but what’s the highest possible available octorun score in the 15 round era? And what’s the average possible octorun score? To avoid format changes affecting anything, I'm only looking at the new 15-round era, from 2013. The highest available octorun score in any eight-pre...
- Thu May 20, 2021 10:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
When will new 15s overtake old 15s? Up to the end of series 82 there have been 1,757 new 15 rounders (2013-present), compared to the 2,609 old 15 rounders (2001-2013). If we say a series has roughly 120 episodes in it, that makes 240 episodes a year. New 15 rounders will overtake old 15 rounders wh...
- Thu May 20, 2021 10:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
With Ruth Cappleman and Chloe Lavan playing today (08/03/2021), it got me wondering when the last time there was an all female Apto-registered game on Countdown (if there even has been one?). I guess it's maybe not that easy to quantify given the use of pseudonyms and registrations being possibly t...
- Thu May 20, 2021 10:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Happy birthday Graeme! Q that came up in aptochat - What percentage of players who have won n games go on to be octochamps? So if you win 0 games then you've got 0% chance, to 8 games 100% chance, but what are your chances when you've won 4 or 6 or any other? TIA :) If I've understood the question ...
- Thu May 20, 2021 10:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
This apterous game holds the record for biggest letters deficit overcome: Vincent Barcet gave up 46 points on the letters and still won the game. What's the record on Countdown? (Sorry if this got asked before; maybe by page 25 it's time we made an index for this topic!) 30. In episode 6374 , Jonny...
- Thu May 20, 2021 10:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
What's the highest number you can get to such that all whole numbers from 1 up to that number have had their spelling appear in letters selections in a single episode. So for example, if an episode had: SWTEEOCRN TREEHOUSE (kudos to readers who spot the falsie) FORTUNESE as selections, but no selec...
- Thu May 20, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
What's the most Darrens a player has spotted in a single game? Which players who've played 50 or more letters rounds have the best darren spotting per centage? Any question involving dictionary analysis is out I'm afraid - the database doesn't store the "others" column from the wiki., nor...
- Thu May 20, 2021 9:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Longest reigning: - Series champion - Series number 1 seed - Champion - Dictionary corner guest (1 consecutive stint) I would guess James H takes longest reigning series champ and Luke takes longest reigning number 1 seed? Yes, James Haughton is the longest reigning series champion, holding the tit...
- Tue May 18, 2021 9:54 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 314
- Views: 115858
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
What, two?L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 2:23 pm Probably unsurprising that this has more "dislikes" than Zoomdown videos normally get.
- Sun May 16, 2021 7:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717118
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Apparently when you leave the gas on, the smell is an artificial smell that's been added to the methane as a warning, as methane has no smell. So my question is - why is the smell " Can you smell gas? " rather than " I can fucking well smell that someone has left the gas on! " &...
- Thu May 13, 2021 11:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 13th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 94)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1011
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 13th May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 94)
Would someone with better sound quality on their TV and better hearing than me give some assurance that she didn't say PERCEDING. She was pretty hesitant about it, that's what it sounded like to me, and she pronounced it with the wrong emphasis on the syllables - similar to PERCEIVING, whereas it's...
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782678
Re: Politics in General
As well as many political opinions, I share a birthday with Tom Harwood. Which would be nice if I didn't have a huge inferiority complex. I guess it's time for me to decide whether I want to model my political views after Neil Kinnock or Lady Gaga I guess it's time for me to decide whether I want t...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14905
Re: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
Let's not forget her basic inability to ask questions in a coherent manner on The Weakest Link. E.g. if the question was "What is Countdown - a gameshow or a type of shoe?" she would say "What is Countdown, a gameshow or a shoe?" like all three things were part of a list and it ...
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 5:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 167310
Re: You Are The Ref
Based on the reverse declaration discourse going on at the moment... It is the final numbers game in a 15-rounder, and C1 is trailing 76-84. The selection is 100 75 50 25 10 1 --> 813. C1 is sure they can do 811, and may be able to do 813 but isn't sure. The time runs out and the host asks C1 for t...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782678
Re: Politics in General
I was ashamed that same sex marriage was being pushed for, that it made its way onto the political agenda, and very disappointed that many gay people were campaigning for it as though it were an advancement of gay rights. Personally I think it is a backward step... and a rather petulant one at that...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:16 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14266
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
You can go any distance uppie-downie or leftie-rightie.
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:18 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14266
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
I'm 9 episodes into this inaccurately-named "speedrun" of chess by Daniel Naroditsky. He's a grandmaster, playing on chess.com under a pseudonym, starting with a very low rating, playing against players of similar ratings*. As he plays, working his way up the ratings ladder, he talks thro...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:44 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14266
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
I'm 9 episodes into this inaccurately-named "speedrun" of chess by Daniel Naroditsky. He's a grandmaster, playing on chess.com under a pseudonym, starting with a very low rating, playing against players of similar ratings*. As he plays, working his way up the ratings ladder, he talks throu...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:27 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
- Replies: 50
- Views: 24219
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that? 500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page. None of this seems particularly relevant howeve...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 22676
Re: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
I understand that due to Nick Shielding and Colin Murray being unavailable ther will be no filmiming of Countdown Next week. Hopefully we wont have to get repeats because of this Who is Nick Shielding and why is he unavailable? I'm told they have enough shows recorded to last until 4th March, anyway.
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the record for the same number of matching declarations in a game? 11, between Jack Hurst and David O'Donnell in this 30BC game . I've taken "matching declarations" to mean that in a letters round the players declared the same word and scored the same number of points, and in a nu...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the record for the same number of matching declarations in a game? 11, between Jack Hurst and David O'Donnell in this 30BC game . I've taken "matching declarations" to mean that in a letters round the players declared the same word and scored the same number of points, and in a nu...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers for Tuesday 22nd December 2020 (Special S48)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3168
Re: Special Spoilers for Tuesday 22 December 2020
R6 alt: 3 times the sum of the rest.
Well played both. Still surprised that BIG-HEADS hasn't lost its hyphen.
Well played both. Still surprised that BIG-HEADS hasn't lost its hyphen.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers for Monday 21st December 2020 (Special S47)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7174
Re: Special Spoilers for Monday 21 December 2020
Why not also refer to Colin as "the Richard"?Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:18 pm I thought getting the host rather than the Carol to pick was a nice touch.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers for Monday 21st December 2020 (Special S47)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7174
Re: Special Spoilers for Monday 21 December 2020
There are two options for the next permanent Countdown host: the right choice (Colin Murray) and the wrong choice (anyone else). Great game, well done to Tom and George. Could, not Would. Would have been if they just chose to go with the result of the first. But yeah I see your point. I don't think ...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:25 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5362
Re: Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
My solver doesn't have anything precomputed - when you put in a selection, it works out all the expressions you can make from that selection (by representing each expression of N numbers as a tree, and combining them with the remaining numbers to make (N+1)-number expressions), and therefore what t...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 2:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5362
Computerphile - Brute Forcing the Countdown Numbers Game
Published yesterday: an interesting new Computerphile video about the Countdown numbers game, and a method of generating every possible solution using Reverse Polish Notation. Analysis of this kind has been done on this forum before, but one thing that I hadn't realised was that even targets are sta...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 11:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 18th December 2020 (Series 82, Grand Final)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11588
Re: Spoilers for Friday 18 December 2020 (Series 82, Grand Final)
Congratulations Luke and commiserations to Sam. MAEGBOTE was a great spot. Thanks also to all the finalists and the production team for giving us series 82 in such difficult circumstances.
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 16th December 2020 (Series 82, 1st Semi-Final)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4958
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 16 December 2020 (Series 82, First Semi Final)
Just posting to say well played to Luke and Ian, and that I also got CREAMABLY. There's enough of us that it almost qualifies as a R15 alt.
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:40 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31118
Re: Obscenity democracy
The reason I am not happy to simply let this go, is that it is a point of principle. Forget all the bluster, hot air, and white people pretending to be offended by things they are not offended by... this boils down to one simple question for me: If I go back into that post from last week, and remov...
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31118
Re: Obscenity democracy
There is NO WORD in the English language (including the dreaded N-word) that is so taboo that in cannot be used in any context. There are countless examples online... If you wanna do a cursory search for the n-word, you will find hundreds of thousands of articles, forum posts, etc. that contain the...
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 160015
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
So having harassed Dominic Cummings for not technically breaking the rules, Beth Rigby and Kay Burley break Covid rules. You couldn't really make it up. Just remembered I wanted to reply to this post. Dominic Cummings did break the rules. Even if you argue that his trip from London to Durham was al...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:57 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 314
- Views: 115858
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
DC doesn't have to announce every possible max This is slightly my fault as I've told them it makes it a lot easier to write the recap if I don't have to split DC/OT words, because the recap writer churns them out as DC-words-then-OT-words when we actually list them in alphabetical order regardless...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:29 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 314
- Views: 115858
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
I don't know if this refers to my or Eoin's post, but just in case, this is obviously not what I was suggesting.Paul Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:18 am I’m quite triggered at the suggestion we don’t know what we’re doing
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:23 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 314
- Views: 115858
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
On a real TV show with real producers who know what they are doing, PACKIES (with not even a hint of a racist or unpleasant definition in the dictionary) would be shown, and would not be bleeped out. As it happens, something similar might have happened on Countdown, which as I'm sure you know is a ...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: ...and that's ZoomDown
- Replies: 314
- Views: 115858
Re: ...and that's ZoomDown
Maybe other like-minded people share your moral code, but why should it be imposed on the majority? What on Earth makes you think you're in the majority here? Know, not think. When John Chew pushed through a "Naughty list" whereby certain 'offensive' words were blacklisted in the US versi...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Tom Chafer-Cook is the only double-barrelled champion, and he played Bradley Horrocks, so yes. Can confirm. I think T-Cap misread the question but got the right answer anyway. Erm, yes, so did I. I thought it was only asking about finals. There's exactly one episode in Countdown's history where bot...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Can confirm.Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:10 pmTom Chafer-Cook is the only double-barrelled champion, and he played Bradley Horrocks, so yes.Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:30 pm If the series 82 final ends up being Luke v Sam, will it be the first CD episode ever with both contestants having double-barrelled surnames?
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
What’s the highest number of points conceded for an octachamp? Great question! Another good question inspired by this is which players have the highest and lowest aggregate score difference over all of their games. Elliott Mellor had an aggregate margin of 854 over his octorun opponents. Glenn Lean...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Assuming we're counting only points scored by opponents in the relevant heat run, the highest is 585 by the opponents of David Edwards.Patrick Thompson wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:17 pm What’s the highest number of points conceded for an octachamp?
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
New 15 rounder: 0 wins: Alan Flanagan, Ross Lander (82) 1 win: Jean Wright (151) 2 wins: Peter Fenton (262) 3 wins: Jill Hayward (374) 4 wins: Margaret Lawless (359) 5 wins: Zarte Siempre (656) 6 wins: Gemma Church (602) 7 wins: Callum Todd (747) 8 wins: Dylan Taylor (974) Could we have an update o...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
Any non-finalist who averaged over 90 in their games? (excluding those who couldn't make the finals) The following list is sort of that - I haven't got a way to exclude people who qualified for the finals but didn't turn up for whatever reason. Furthermore, I've taken the relevant series finals to ...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754196
Re: Ask Graeme?
How many times has the max been 100 or more, and how many times has at least one contestant hit 100 or more? (Basically, "century success rate", please.) I know no one ever got a century in 9-rounders but I'd like to see how often it was possible...! Up until the end of series 81... Forma...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 5:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Historical recaps
- Topic: Monday 29 November 1982 (Series 1, Prelim 16)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13546
Re: Monday 29 November 1982 (Series 1, Prelim 16)
Ahead of his time, many years before co-events started doing this. I almost expected him to ask for a CV7.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:39 am Andrew, who asks for letters more than one at a time, gets comments from Richard as to how fast he picks the letters.