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Ryan Taylor

When I saw the second teaser I was quietly confident that Nick would be one of the few people on TV who can pronounce MISCHIEF correctly, and he didn't let me down. (I even heard someone who claimed to be an English teacher say "mis-cheef" the other day. Why do so many ignorant fuckwits g...

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Oh, weird, I've only ever seen the one type. Just a grid of squares behind which are monetary values (10/20/30/40/50p and £1, I think), some x2s (double your money), some lifeboats (which banks what you've already got) and mines. You can quit whenever and take your money, but if you hit a mine you ...

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This reminds me, how do people play the Battleships money round? We've become a bit battleships-obsessed lately, but we don't really have a strategy for when to stop. Do people just play until they strike out (which is usually what we do, you tend to hit a lifeboat or two along the way) or do you h...

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I love it when it skips on two rounds in a row! And also love just seeing one big fat Q in the box thing as opposed to the dreaded 4Q's. We should definitely start a new thread, Favourite Moments on Quiz Machines. Well, you should start it. Haha yep. There are so many moments that are awesome on qu...

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For what it's worth, CF and I have only won on MPDL once, I think, although that time it was as Corby described, with every question being super easy. Usually we get destroyed by it though. I've never won the £10 jackpot on MPDL (I've taken £8 before - which doesn't add up with my rule of putting a...

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we knew every single answer today, not even one was in the slightest way guessed. No other game does this Have you never been on Pub Quiz and it gives you silly questions and silly answers for like 3 rounds and then maybe increases only slightly to still simple questions but with at least sensible ...

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£10 JP again on first go on Million Pound Drop Live (to follow the one on Sunday!). Can't figure out why this pays so much. I think it's 'cos if you're ballsy you are rewarded. Say, if you know it's between two answers then I'd go all on one which I thought it might be more in order to try and get ...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote: Can't wait to see the Countdown Cat in all it's glory.
its.

Haha! After we'd just ranted about it together too.

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Remember Channel 4 did that 3D week last year? Well I just heard from internal sources that they're soon to be doing it again and Countdown is set to be one of the shows in 3D this time. Can't wait to see the Countdown Cat in all it's glory.

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Could probably do with a sub thread for people to post theirs. Really interesting and everything. (I actually do think it is).

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Train is looking like £22.75 each way and it's over 5 hours which means I'd have to stay over 2 nights probably which could get quite pricey. It's still not a no from me though as I might drive down and back in the same day to save on accommodation fees.

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James Robinson wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Don't know if it's tricky to get to for me or for others (it's kind of middle-ish, right? - I've never been to Burkshire ).
If you call just west of London middle, then, yes, it's middle, Ryan.

It's a good job I don't study geography.

Ryan Taylor

However, I do find it somewhat baffling to vehemently argue that somebody who played well and finished 11th definitely should have been seeded lower than someone who finished 16th. Isn't this an indication that he got this one right? Good point which I hadn't thought of. I think it's a bit unfair t...

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Nice. That's cool. Even though I know the internet and technology and everything is powerful I always get amazed by stuff like this. I mean it's spot on with everything. But then it would be. Your categories Below, you can review the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated wit...

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In too!

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Heh. Wow I'm on a roll tonight with dickish twat posts but when I submitted POETICS I was actually pretty sure of it despite me acting like it was risky. When Dan said it wasn't in I sort of wanted to say "what? are you sure? of course it bloody is!!" but to be honest I didn't want to cau...

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Round 7: P S C V E I O B T C1: COSTIVE (7) C2: poetics OT: POETICS (7) Score: 47–33 (max 48) Oooooooooooooh, Ryan might want to put in a claim here. As that POETICS in round 7 would've given him the win, he might want to actually punch Dan (see my FB photos, if you have no idea what i'm on about) f...

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Thanks for the response Ben, I'd have just told myself to fuck off! And now I'm going to be an even bigger dick... It was an exceptionally close call but I eventually decided to stick Michelle in pot B based on her on-screen performance. So in the first round on Table 1 Kirk Bevins (Pot A) plays Mic...

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Just a bit of an issue that's been bugging me. How did you decide on the Pots for Round One draw? You had Pot A, B and C, right? One from each played at each table, am I right in thinking this? And do I recall Amie winning something for finishing highest in her pot? Was that Pot C? How was she decid...

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Jon Corby wrote:For those that were wondering by the way, last year's celebrity guest Shane is now barred from the Fox & Hounds.

Haha, seriously? Was there an anecdote to accompany this or is it best left for our imaginations?

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Jon Corby wrote:Just goes to show that Countdown is essentially a game of luck.

And you're the biggest lucker around.

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Cracking stuff Ben. Great event as ever, very solid. Massive thanks to Graeme, Mark, and Matt (in alphabetical order as I'm not picking favourites) for doing lifts. Such little (but frequent) offers of generosity and responsibility really make such a huge difference to the whole weekend. Legendary....

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Obligatory to thanks to everyone involved in making it happen as always (you know who you are). I could never organise such a thing so I love that there are people to do this.

Still hungover in bed right now which points to the sign of a good night. Excellent event as ever Ben. Keep 'em coming.

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Just to get the ball rolling here (seen as there's been like 80 views of this thread and not one reply). I'm certainly gonna express an interest in this event. I'm pretty sure I'm free on this date and I quite like the charity idea too, adds a new element. After all, people don't enter CO events to ...

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No Ryan, I just can't see any cat whatsoever. Today (26th Jan): "Don't forget to put the cat out". Yesterday (25th Jan): "have a catnap with Countdown". I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for. A stuffed animal... or something on the blue screen in the background? Spoli...

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Michael Wallace wrote:Not sure we need them, but here are the answers.

Literally just last night I was thinking about posting in here for these. But I'd shut down my laptop. We are linked mentally. (That's definitely a bad thing for you.)

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Round 3 was screaming for a vowel at the end.... +E for REJOICES or even +A for SCORIAE. I physically shouted at my screen when he went consonant, haha. Yeah but wouldn't a T or M have given EXORCIST/EXORCISM, less probability yes but harder spots if you get lucky. Apologies if that wasn't the case...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:...on one of the questions I aswered I pretty much just answered it with my knowledge of that 59minutes of BBC documentary. And I'm not even kidding. Will post back if this was a good or bad idea when I get the results back.

I got 57% (a Desmond).

Ryan Taylor

When I was down in London 2 years ago they were filming Johnny English: Reborn and they were filming on The Mall. If you've seen the film, it's when he is in his motorised chair thing and has to squeeze under a lorry. In the film it looks like the chair has actually been custom built to travel at a ...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Chris Marshall wrote:http://bdodarts.fantasyleague.com/

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but it mentions Countdown. Well done Kirk!
How did you come across this?

Anyway, there's now a news article on it/me:

http://www.bdodarts.com/

Hehe, I like your team name. Well done, bud!

Ryan Taylor

I guess I'm not looking hard enough, coz I still haven't seen it. I don't want to spoil it for you because it is good when you eventually see it. But listen out very carefully to the clue at the start of the show. Seeing is believing. Until I see it and know what it looks like... then I'll believe....

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http://thequizaddict.blogspot.com/2012/ ... al_24.html

Charlie Reams wrote:Pop shove-it.

I played Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for a day and that's as much as I've been exposed to skateboarding.

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Fucking loved it. It's rare to find yourself A-LOLling at UC but each time he/his team are on I've done it at least once. For me it was the bird bonuses early on that was just hilarious, and then the shove-popit(?) answer and then I have never spoke a word of French so I'm guessing he said "don...

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I do quite like to have a look at the "#thechase" tweets each night and they wind me up. They really do. One girl one day had berated a middle aged woman for saying that the Venga Boys were going to Barbados. I picked her up on it mentioning that she clearly had the original by Typically T...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:OK thanks. But it is bizarre.

You're bizarre!!

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But what a bizarre programme. Not bizarre. Very popular and often wins TV ratings with Pointless. I've never watched before, and I can't say it's high up on my list of things to do again. The "first round" (almost all of the show) seems to be rendered almost completely pointless by the fi...

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Yep, good play Matt, you did your best. Few sloppy ones in the final chase that you'd get right under normal circumstances but there was no way that they would have made a difference. I think the form that Mark was in today he could have quite possibly reached 30. Annoys me though how slow Bradley r...

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YES! Nailed it on an anagram. Faultless so far! Good banter with the Heather reference and the name dropping etc. Loving it.

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Andy Wilson wrote:Quality cut to awkward frowny smile there when Olwyn admitted to two counts of attempted murder.

This!

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Matt, are you the black one or the white one?

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Craig Beevers wrote:So what's the actual consensus on him so far?

The opposite to what you think.

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So anyone done anything more on this? I haven't because I know I can't. Answer possibly? Or a clue, Jim?

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I can bring two board games.

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Paul is fucking brilliant TV. I think he's by far the best. To the point now where if we have quite a few episodes stored up on the planner, we'll just watch the final chase round unless it's Paul and then I'm inclined to watch the whole episode. Agreed. I definitely think Paul should (and will) ge...

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They absolutely definitely show episodes in a wildly different order than they are filmed Yeah, I'd more or less assumed as much - I don't know how many episodes they record in a day, but I'd imagine they shoot blocks of episodes with a single Chaser and then mix them up for transmission so you get...

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Just realised too that you were in Sue's episode Matt with the Will Schuester Glee question!

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Sorry. At the fringe festival I gather that on one of the nights the comedians play Countdown against each other and someone plays Rachel and Dictionary Corner etc. It' not just backstage, it's put on as a show I think. Former contestant Alex Horne won the inaugural competition at Edinburgh appaz. ...

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Liked the Countdown reference too as she is a regular at Edinburgh fringe festival. I'm not sure how you mean to make sense, is it "she had met/seen Paul at Edinburgh before, so knew he liked Countdown either from talking or him saying it in a show, so mentioned it herself"? I did think t...

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Yep Sue was good on it and came across well I thought, probably the best out of that team (young Joe was being called a "posh arrogant prick", woman was called "thick teacher" and Glenn was getting "he must be gay the fucking over dramatic cunt" by the mob on Twitter). ...

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It actually isn't though. And neither is this. Stop being dicks. You're worse than Sophie Krol and Marc Meakin's lovechild.

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Cunt.

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Yes. Although there are a couple of topics already on The Chase which you could have asked that question in.

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Just thought I'd bump it, as I might have some news soon about a CO-WY.................. 8-) When you bumped this was the topic not already bumped by Ian's post or did you not see it? Because if not I think that's pretty spooky how you both posted in this thread that was last posted in in April wit...

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Mark James wrote:Can I apply from Ireland? So many game shows wont let me.

I don't know but you could download the form and see. That's if they're doing another one.

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The idiocy of game show contestants is really starting to get on my tits. One of the contestants today said,"you've got one wrong but I couldn't tell you what the right answer is." What?? Does she not understand what the show is about? If true is wrong then false is right. And then the ot...

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I think one of the best (and funniest) wrong question/answer on a quiz show has to be Take It or Leave It (a truly awful, awful show). The way Richard Arnold pretends to know what he is talking about is even more hilarious than the balls up by the question writer. This video should tell the story. O...

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And Charlie came on late last night/early this morning to write the rules for a variant. So I think it's pretty fair to say that you and him are very similar and are telepathically linked.

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I just think some of them take the comments the wrong way. It is just banter. That bubbly girl with the glasses was pretty good at taking things on, err, the chin.

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