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Jon Corby

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

+ 1 (year)

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So Damian's the one who has memorised them all?

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You're welcome.

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M. George Quinn wrote:Wow. That's impressive. How many possible ones are there?

There are 11,905,457 distinct possible numbers games. 10,858,746 are solvable, 1,046,711 are not. Please click here for further information.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:There's no way she could just know that it was possible or impossible.

There's only just over a million different games that are unsolvable. Piece of piss to convert that to some mnemonics and arrange into some catchy songs to aid memorization. Apparently.

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Why would he spell it out? Whoever does that? Did you ask him to? No, I think I've just remembered what happened. Rubbish writing on my paper. He actually said GENESSING, rather than CENESSING. He had 30+ seconds to come up with a guess, and didn't even get the right letters? Ryan's gone down in my...

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Why would he spell it out? Whoever does that? Did you ask him to?

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Round 9: S E C E N S I G N Jon buzzes on 4 seconds to say INCESSING which is incorrect. Ryan buzzes on 29 seconds to say CENESSING which is incorrect. The answer was SENESCING. What happened here with Ryan's answer please? Did he pronounce CENESSING different to SENESCING? It looks like you'd prono...

Jon Corby

Would you like to play a game?

Jon Corby

Love conundrum guesses that don't contain the right letters, moreso when they actually contain more than nine letters. I was truly spoiled today. I realised straight after buzzing that my guess was wrong. I should've kept my mouth shut about what I was going to guess. :D Alternatively, I lose on cr...

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Very nice. There's some missing, but the conclusion that the player who goes first wins is correct. (You can also take the lone 1 instead of 1 from the 5, so 5,4,3,2 should be on your list, for example). I had it down to a few winning positions that are obvious (2,2) & (3,2,1) for example, plus ...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:It's not raining.
That's the game.
So are you saying that I win?

No. The winner is the one who doesn't cross out the last stick, the pretence that its raining is unconnected to the result.

Jon Corby

Gavin Chipper wrote:It's not raining.

That's the game.

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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a game for two players (my maths teacher showed us this during wet break) Draw 5 lines of sticks like above (1,2,3,4,5). Players take it in turns to move. Each move consists of striking through at least one stick. You can strike through as many sticks as you lik...

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Tracey Anne Mills wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:I'm not one to criticise usually, I know how tricky it is under the pressure and the lights etc.

But fuck me.

Not easy under pressure so easy to miss quite a bit

Yes, I already acknowledged that.

But still.... fuck me.

Jon Corby

Lol buttfuck me

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I'm not one to criticise usually, I know how tricky it is under the pressure and the lights etc.

But fuck me.

Jon Corby

Numbers masterclass today.

Jon Corby

Your crowing and gloating in this thread is quite unpleasant Gevin. Imagine people who were good at Countdown doing similar.

Jon Corby

Stewart absolutely destroying Gev in here,

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Thanks for reminding me.

You could've thanked me in the form of "not mentioning our games" tbf

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:You missed the Co:Parkrun on Saturday night.

2 runners, me and Gev.
Fox & Hounds to McDonald's.

RESULTS:
1. Jono
2. Gevin
Gevin + heavy bag + general knackeredness + lack of motivation.

Surprised you didn't post the Sunday Pool results instead.

Jon Corby

It's how bitwise operations work though.

Jon Corby

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Not a single duplicated consonant in the CoC though. Not one.

Edit: Also, fuck off
And just 1 in the previous 15 games. So, pretty much just like normal mate! It's ok, everyone's wrong sometimes.

Exactly, and 1 is the very opposite of NOT 1.

Jon Corby

Not a single duplicated consonant in the CoC though. Not one.

Edit: Also, fuck off

Jon Corby

I looked at the first 4 games and there wasn't a single duplicate. Please show your workings. Also, if it wasn't in S73, when did this 'lack of duplicates' start, because it was really noticeable in the CoC, and I'm positive it hasn't "always been like this" - there's definitely less dupli...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:There's nothing special about CoCs anyway when it comes to letter distributions. If you think the letter distribution was weird, compare it to any other games, not just other CoCs.

Can you do that please? It really did seem like there were fewer duplicate letters than normal.

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Fuck off

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My original thinking was that duplicate letters seemed to be unusually rare, with most games having no consecutive letters the same in either pile (proof that I should write what I'm thinking more clearly). While this is staggeringly unlikely with a pure random shuffle, picking some random games fr...

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Beadle was a sound chap, really good egg. Brown's a cunt.

Jon Corby · Re: COLIN XII- Countdown in Lincoln, 30-31 January 2016 Fuck off

Fuck off

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:the divey the better almost.
diveier?

No, two syllables so it would have to be specified.

Jon Corby

Love conundrum guesses that don't contain the right letters, moreso when they actually contain more than nine letters. I was truly spoiled today. I always think it's strange when the second contestant buzzes in quickly only to get it wrong when they've got the whole time to themselves. She clearly ...

Jon Corby

Love conundrum guesses that don't contain the right letters, moreso when they actually contain more than nine letters. I was truly spoiled today.

Jon Corby

I wasn't on about replacing the F&H, I was just after some lunchtime beers on the Saturday, don't give a shit about food and I doubt the Spurs match will be that interesting. Any of these pubs sounds okay, the divey the better almost. We could even do a fucking crawl if that there's that many in...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Oh shit, I forgot we had a new location. What/where's the nearest licensed purveyor of alcoholic beverages please?
And FA Cup football matches..

Colchester v Spurs? Meh.

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Ben Wilson wrote:
Stewart Gordon wrote:What are the lunch arrangements this time round?
The venue's directly opposite a chippy and very close to a co-op, so there'll be plenty of places to get lunch.

Oh shit, I forgot we had a new location. What/where's the nearest licensed purveyor of alcoholic beverages please?

Jon Corby

Except Beadle's about (* alien skit aside) was WAAAY more believable.

Jon Corby

Well done guys, great final. Like others I was worried it might be a bit disappointing in terms of a contest when Dylan took a commanding early lead, but Dan did really well to pull it back round. Very fitting end to a great tournament. Congratulations to both of you, but obviously more to Dylan for...

Jon Corby

I just assumed that there was always a load of fucking obscure shit in the dictionary, it's just that I used to know quite a bit of it, and now I don't, so it would be a bit rich to get pissy about it.

Jon Corby

Ian Volante wrote: and it costs about £45M to cover every combination.

Nope, £2 a line now.

Jon Corby

Yeah, amazing game again. I've been utterly annihilated in so many games playing along at home. Damn new words.

Jon Corby

Matt Morrison wrote:I think you'd have to meet him at least two or three times to know the difference.

Have you got one to fill out the seats in your train group?

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PS 75*50/6-8 was the standard method for the first numbers

Jon Corby

Jennifer Steadman wrote:This was the first game I wrongly predicted the outcome of during the tournament (Zarte and I were having a prediction game. I won easily.)

ZOMG what a massive spoils

Well done Dylan! Hard luck Giles. Great game.

Jon Corby

I saw REPOURING and decided it was bollocks. When Dan declared 9, I instantly knew it would be good though, and decided he was DEFINITELY trying to throw Mark off declaring it too by being all "ooh, I really don't know, it's so risky" shit. Anyone else get that? I knew that there were loa...

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I saw REPOURING and decided it was bollocks. When Dan declared 9, I instantly knew it would be good though, and decided he was DEFINITELY trying to throw Mark off declaring it too by being all "ooh, I really don't know, it's so risky" shit. Anyone else get that? Dunno, but I did think of ...

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I saw REPOURING and decided it was bollocks. When Dan declared 9, I instantly knew it would be good though, and decided he was DEFINITELY trying to throw Mark off declaring it too by being all "ooh, I really don't know, it's so risky" shit. Anyone else get that?

Jon Corby

Well, that was an unexpected introduction.

Jon Corby

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Must be nice getting on a train with your friends and having pizza.
Wasn't my fault. But if you must know, it will be a much lesser experience without you guys.

Er, I dunno, we're having pizza?

Jon Corby

A COLIN train of Dominos and lager would be amazing for us, my only concern is for the other passengers, for whom it would undoubtedly be disgusting. CORBY IN CONSIDERATE SHOCKER It's amazing. I don't think it will be disgusting though. We'll have our own table and won't exactly be chucking bits of...

Jon Corby

I'm confused though, if you think they thought it was all real, then it what way was it "a load of jumped-the-shark bollocks"? What's your objection?

Jon Corby

What advantage did Chris gain from moving the body? Who knows what he was thinking? He was going along with it for some reason that we will never know. Yeah, him and the other three. Some entirely predictable (by Derren) reason that we will never know. Sigh. (They knew full well it wasn't real.)

Jon Corby

What advantage did Chris gain from moving the body?

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I probably don't know anyone personally who would behave like that, true, but I've met a lot of people who certainly would. I don't believe you, by the way. Be very clear about the exact situation, don't be fooled by Derren explaining to you that Tom is wearing a tux and therefore Chris feels subse...

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You're misunderstanding me Jim. Patsy = mark, target, victim. I don't mean they're plants. I mean they've been to their Derren audition, they know full well they've been through the whole process, they've probably been told the essence of what the show will be about. They've shown that they'll play ...

Jon Corby

A COLIN train of Dominos and lager would be amazing for us, my only concern is for the other passengers, for whom it would undoubtedly be disgusting.

Jon Corby

I kind of see what you mean, but I presumed that the point of this show (if there was one) was that you can engineer situations in which (certain) people can be coerced into doing stuff using something more akin to peer pressure rather than pressure from An Authority Figure. Either way, the subject...

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I disagree Jim, the show would have been revealing something massively astonishing... if we're expected to take everything at face value. The Milgram experiment is markedly different because the subject is literally following the instructions of the person running the experiment, with constant assur...

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I'm just dicking about, I have had no clue about any game I've watched so far, nor any one still to come.

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