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James Robinson wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:Just curious -- how exactly do you decide whether a conundrum solve time is 1.25s or 1.5s? Does it have to do with the clock music?
I do it by the position of the clock as I see it on the screen.

So do I, except that it's always "wrong".

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Graeme Cole wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:How many possible contestants are there?
The population of the world is 7 billion, so 6,999,999,999 unless you somehow persuade Matt Bayfield to apply.

6,999,999,998 until I graduate. Unless I flunk out. Then we're back up to 6,999,999,999.

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So based on this, and using an estimate of the number of valid conundrumable words (probably 10,000 or so), we should be able to work out how many different possible shows there can be.

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Got the conundrum quickly as, uniquely among those we've seen so far in CoC, it was used before -- anyone know when?

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Just curious -- how exactly do you decide whether a conundrum solve time is 1.25s or 1.5s? Does it have to do with the clock music?

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Hiya Graeme, On an alphabetical list of all letters-game selections ever seen on the show (all the way from AAATLNLIL to ZYTAIAICU ), which two are the closest? Have there ever been two selections that differ only in the final letter? If so, were there ever two that were only one alphabetical place ...

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Maybe, as a follow-up to the "GANDISEEG" easter egg at the end of Series 60, the first letters of the CoC conundrum answers are going to spell out "BRITTAIN IS A <insert 4-letter expletive here>".

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Oops, forgot it was true of you too -- that was indeed what I was going for. Seemed like an unlikely enough occurrence to not be true for almost 20% of the contestants.

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Potentially hard trivia, but solvable via the wiki: Does anyone know what the two contestants in this game had in common that is not shared by any of the other contestants in the CoC (as far as I know)? NOTE: Statements to the effect of "They both played in Episode 6279" will be punished b...

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Is UNREALIST new? I knew that UNREALISM was in before.

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Still have to put up with it for another year though. Personally I hope with more episodes needed it means we might get some more specials! That is a big assumption. Hopefully it will happen, and hopefully it will realise my dream of nine octochamps in a series. Is your dream to have nine octochamp...

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I think putting Dylan as 7th out of 16 just because he didn't win a grand final (in particular, that grand final) is underestimating him a little. I've actually got him down as overall champion based on his record aggregate score and his longtime occupancy of the #1 Pro Rank spot on That-Weird-Onlin...

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Could a similar listing be made of people who only became Apterites after (or shortly before) their shows were taped as opposed to those who were Apterites for a long period beforehand?

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In the first semifinal Rachel beat DC with COOEEING - I think she's done this before - but how often? (Though I suspect that the recapper doesn't always credit her - I wouldn't have known this time if I hadn't watched the TiVo recording) :geek: I'm not sure the resources to answer that question are...

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Well done to both Jonathan on winning and Matthew on second prize. A letters vs numbers battle royale right down to the end. Hoping to see you both back for CoC XV, the 40th Birthday Championship and any and all other Ultimate Showdowns of Countdownate Destiny. I only got that conundrum because I se...

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Wonder if Stephen knew that Jonathan was on for an all-time high score when he went 4 large after he had already lost.

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Well done to Matthew, and severe commiserations to John -- had he chosen DUALIZES over UNSAILED^, it would have gone to a tie-breaker.

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Has anyone gone longer than R7 in a finals match without scoring?

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MAIZES as an equaller in round 5 when DC went for the more obscure MAISES. It is a mass noun but it's allowed on Apterous and crucially you're just as likely to order maizes in a restaurant as you are fennels. I think they actually said what they found in that round was "MAISES, M-A-I-S-E-S......

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The letters in Round 13 were so bad that I wanted to pick up a biopot and smash it over someone's head.

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Well, we've reached the end of the Series 73 preliminaries, and accordingly, the age-old question is back again. Probably too late, I'll declare a SPOILER ALERT for people who have missed the last few weeks of programmes, but of course, if you're here, you need to be prepared to be spoiled anyway. I...

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Just realised... if Tim wins today, Stephen's in-chat name for the games in his run will be "Downdown".

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Had a pretty spooky one last night -- I called Channel 4, either to participate in a phone audition or to see if I could set one up, and somehow Richard Whiteley himself ended up talking to me from the other end of the line!

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Urrrgh... Sorry guys, no chance of an early recap today either. Laptop got critically low, forgot charger, and they don't make any of 'em the same.

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Only two heats left now before a major heat hiatus (heatus?) begins thanks to the finals and CoC. Will Jamie Collyer take the glory for the fourth time on today's programme?

Join Stephen, Anthony E (I believe) or myself for the details later.

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Sorry, no early recap from the Great White North today. Am writing a final exam.

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Just switch Countdown to an all-numbers format.

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Down to the final five prelims of the series and only one person capable of stealing the #8 spot from Matty remains. Will Jane Kempton win five games and qualify? Will she fall at an earlier hurdle? Or will she carry her bat over to the fourth week of Series 74? You'll be at least 20% of the way to ...

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James Robinson wrote:Just to be clear, if Scott loses this week, then Matty will be in the finals, and have a quarter-final with Tom Carey to look forward to.

Can't Jane still qualify for the finals by winning every game this week, losing next Monday, and achieving a higher total than Matty over those 6 games?

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Jon Corby wrote:
Philip Wilson wrote:Am I right in thinking mounties is no longer in with a small m?
Not sure it's ever been valid. Not since ODE2r anyway.

For one thing, I know Mounties being on the show is invalid.

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I can think of a much better scramble for that conundrum, but if the production team actually dared to use it on daytime TV, they'd be up ____ _____ without a paddle.

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Time is rapidly running out to claim a place in the Series 73 finals. At this point, a new spot on the seed table can be clinched only either by our current 2-time winner Chris Betteridge or by another person who defeats him on or before next Tuesday. Will Betteridge be sufficiently "better&quo...

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Steven Fletcher is the latest conqueror of Countdonia, having spotted a nine-letter word and put James Richards' five-game streak to an end yesterday. Will he pull off another victory on today's show?

If you want to find out, just head to the wiki. Also, join Jen on here for the recap later.

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Within each of the 15-round formats (and the 14-round format, too, I suppose), what is the closest all numbers game targets have been? In other words, what is the smallest interval between the smallest and largest targets in a game? I'm not asking about 9-rounders because I know there were a few tha...

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Paul Erdunast wrote:When else has the conundrum been a word with 2 anagrams where you have to get the other word? Don't think I've seen that before except from teatime teasers

Assuming you mean "a word with 1 anagram", Mike Brown seems to think this was the first time it was done.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Anthony Endsor wrote:Round 2: P K E A N G I T E

James: KEEPING (7)
Indika: PEAKING (7)
DC: PAINT (5)
OT: KITENGE (7) PEEKING (7)
Score: 14–7 (max 14)

It's 7 a piece with KEEPING and PEAKING.
Do we know it was PEAKING and not PEEKING?

As was clearly mentioned on the wiki, no, we don't.

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I'd name myself "A". Or "Eh?". They're homophones.

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If there was a "Group of Death" in the Supreme Championship, which one was it? Which group (A-G) was made up of people with the highest numbers of prior wins and prior points? Note that groups A,B,E,G had 8 people whereas C,D,F had only 7, so I'd appreciate if this could be adjusted for so...

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The drama is heating up at the MediaCityUK studios as the filming of the CoC quarter-finals gets underway today, but on the TVs in our own homes (or possibly jails, depending on whether you're a law-abiding citizen), we'll need to make do with a few more weeks of heats. Musician James Richards is ou...

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Thomas Carey wrote:
James Robinson wrote:
Johnny Canuck wrote:Kudos to Tass, who definitely deserved more than 77 points today. JAMBEAUX was my third favourite letters spot of all time.
What are the top 2??
This better be one of them.

It was indeed. The other was the opening word here.

And no, not TALL. Smart alecks.

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A question that might be appropriate for 11-11-2015: Is Round 1 of this game the only time a given letter has come up four times in a row on the board with no intervening letters?

(And how did this round even stay in? I'd expect it to be reshot after even the third R.)

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Kudos to Tass, who definitely deserved more than 77 points today. JAMBEAUX was my third favourite letters spot of all time.

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In his debut yesterday, Matthew Tassier has proven that he can play Countdown better than Keith Kan. In MY debut as a spoiler thread starter, I ask the usual rhetorical question: Can he pull off another victory today?

Join whoever does recaps on Tuesday for the recap later.

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How exactly did the production team manage to round up 80-90% of all past series champions, runners-up and other top players for the original Supreme Championship (Series 33) and have them all accept their invitations? I thought the proportion who came to 30BC was impressive, and that still only inc...

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Thought I had wandered into Ask Graeme. Oopsie.

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Is the selection in round 3 here the only selection from which it has ever been possible to make a 9 by moving just one letter?

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Awesome analysis of the raw scores -- it'll help me loads when I'm trying to figure out how good (or miserable) my Mocktorun performances are in comparison to the crowd. I'll reward you for your awesome number-crunching by giving you another question. In the past few weeks, most recently today, I've...

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How long has it been since the last time a round contained two Ys (assuming this was not actually a typo)? I'm pretty sure what's on the wiki is a mistake, and it was two Ts, not two Ys. Ah, OK. I suspected that putting multiple copies of such an uncommon letter in the pile would be none too wise. ...

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How long has it been since the last time a round contained two Ys (assuming this was not actually a typo)?

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Mark James wrote:

Have to get me one of these. You can find this and more great stuff here http://jimllpaintit.bigcartel.com/

Haven't a couple of people worn this shirt on the show recently?

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Is this the first time anyone has ever been #9 seed by a single point?

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Gavin Chipper wrote:You're also Canadian.

Thank you for acknowledging that there's a difference!

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"Logging into www.apterous.org as uid #11074, please wait...
Attempt 91 of 500."

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No prob!

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A short one from last night involved me at a co-event, I didn't recognise the venue but Robbo was hosting, it was around half way through and I was playing Jack Worsley on the front table at first but then the dream merged to later in the day. I was playing Andy Platt at this point but at the back ...

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SHOTALIEN or SHOTAILEN?

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If you remove the restriction of the answers having to be 9 letters long, there are actually multiple semi-common words featuring four Zs.

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Giles wrote:People who think the past tense of the verb text is text.

Are you sure they're intending it as a past tense? I know people who are texting so constantly that, for them, "text" needs no past tense.

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In Round 13, the combined declarations of the two players contained all the letters in the selection with no repeats. Is this a first? Anyone?

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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 mo...

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