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Callum Todd wrote:Awesome. I got a 9 first round I played so it gets my approval

I played one round and the max was a couple of obscure 5s. Maybe I was unlucky.

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As people have said, it wasn't the close game we were hoping for, but Mark was solid throughout the series and definitely the best overall player.

In Corby mode, I wondered if Andy decided he could make 770 only after Mark declared it.

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Nice to see Jon mentioning Callum Todd.

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People who use the spelling FOCUSSED.

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James Robinson wrote:I MAXED it, with the exception of the 2nd numbers game

I also MAXED it, apart from the rounds where better numbers solutions or longer words were available.

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Quite an interesting game. Neither player put in their best performance. Mark might be feeling quite lucky that Neil didn't put in a stronger showing and Neil might be feeling annoyed he didn't capitalise on a potential opportunity.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Wow did Mark go round the houses there or what (eg 50/10=5 is quicker). The standard way is 4x100-75+10, or
10x50-100-75+10

That's not the standard name for it though.

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Stupid thread. Getting beaten in the first round at Wimbledon and acceding to England manager both require a lot of previous success. Yes, although the idea that football managers have particular ability in their job doesn't quite have the same body of evidence behind it. Probably even less so with...

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Two more confirmed here. As we need to decide on whether to stay over or not, is the afterparty likely to also be in The County Club or are other plans afoot? Is there likely to be a contingent hanging around until late evening? I think there are plans to be in the club, as the 3rd place play-off w...

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I'm officially in now.

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This is my first recap on here, and possibly my last given the amount of effort that's involved. Well done to everyone that manages to churn these out on a regular basis. 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown recap for Friday 20 June 2014. Host: Jimmy Carr Team 1: Josie Long - She loves the word game Bogg...

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James Robinson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Recapper required for Catsdown tomorrow night.
Can I do it? I've never done one of these before. It won't appear until the next day though.
Fair enough, I was 2 days late with mine last week. Go for it.

It will be Sunday now.

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Graeme Cole wrote:Gevin's first ever recap, and it's the first show to give nine points for a nine.

Awesome. And this discussion came up.

Edit - Found it here too with the actual word in question..

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samir pilica wrote:
Adam Gillard wrote:Off on a tangent here, but does anyone know if the pencam was used at these finals? Or has the last word to be pencammed already been broadcast?
It was used for the last time in the Grand Final, in the very last letters round to highlight an awesome word.

Spoiler!!!

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Matt Morrison wrote:Make it good or don't bother gev

What are you going to do about it?

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James Robinson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Recapper required for Catsdown tomorrow night.
Can I do it? I've never done one of these before. It won't appear until the next day though.
Fair enough, I was 2 days late with mine last week. Go for it.

OK cheers.

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James Robinson wrote:Recapper required for Catsdown tomorrow night.

Can I do it? I've never done one of these before. It won't appear until the next day though.

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Discounting finals games, the seven-time winner with the highest losing margin is David Franks in this game (48). This game seems particularly worth highlighting. You might expect that the biggest defeat of a 7-time winner would come about from a few high-volatility rounds and some nines, but this ...

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You may have already tried this, but assuming there is some sort of 'official' Scrabble magazine, how about putting a plea in there? I imagine a fair few of the contestants in the early days were Scrabble players (they were pretty hopeless at numbers anyway), and I reckon 1982 would be about when I...

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Tanmay Dixit?

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This is just "people I don't care much for", right? (cue "people who question the thread" when I resisted saying "people who take the thread off at tangents") Yeah, the "trust" thing doesn't need to be taken literally. I think I can trust you to use this thre...

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And what do you mean by national identity? Is it: If you ask 100 random foreigners what they associate with the UK, what would be the top answer? And if the royal family come top it makes the sycophancy acceptable? By that logic we should be sycophantic towards football hooliganism if it came top.

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People who think it's necessary to scream before they sneeze. It adds nothing. It's just a bad habit.

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Johnny Canuck wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Time we got an explanation for these.
You just did...?

Where?

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Time we got an explanation for these.

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Totals of the columns go up by 2 each time. Seems pretty simplistic though. I'd say it's unlikely to be the answer they're after. It also renders the hexagon thing irrelevant.

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What are the lowest and highest eight-game totals of seven-time winners?

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Fred Mumford wrote:If only you had gone a little more overboard on the racism theme to the point of being ludicrous, and then removed all the humour from your post, you'd have practically written Bradley's weekly blog for him.

His next post is going to be about you.

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Correctly guessing one upset isn't that big a deal! Let's see if all four teams end up on four points.

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Oh of course, everyone fumbles sometimes when speaking off the cuff. Those two phrases I highlighted (along with "No offence but") are things that you quite often see people very deliberately say though, often in typed messages, as though it's going to actually make what they're saying an...

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In the same vein, people who habitually add things like "Just saying" or "Just putting that out there" immediately after saying something. Clearly they know that what they're saying is at least somewhat contentious, and if they're that afraid of people reacting badly then they s...

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Why are longitude and latitude the wrong way round? I'm bumping this because I had a conversation with someone about this and they didn't seem to get what I was on about. Latitude is a sideways thing and longitude is an up/down thing, so latitude should measure east/west and longitude should measur...

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Finally, we're off and running, Croatia certainly deserved something from the game, but thanks to the Japanese Howard Webb & their own hapless keeper they ended up getting well and truly shafted, with at least 3 huge decisions going against them. Brazil looked nothing special and are going to n...

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Peter Mabey wrote:In R14 I think Geoff had said (100-3x2)x3 without mentioning 3=4-1, so had used the 3 twice - so thought he'd gone wrong anyhow.

Seconded.

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Tony Atkins wrote:That will give poor Geoff Shaw sleepless nights - making 10 away but having 10 left over....

He used the 3 twice didn't he? I know he had a 4 and a 1 but I'm not sure how close he was to actually getting the target.

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The first clip has that date in the title as well.

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Bear in mind that Neil has to play Sean in the Quarter Final, and Sean has beaten him once already. He could do it again, although Neil may have been a bit tired last time. In a one-off game, upsets are possible, but I think Neil was quite a bit better than Sean overall. It could depend on what Nei...

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My guess is that Dmitry is Russian (The clue being his e-mail address there is .ru), so has no idea what you're on about. 0668964628 is quite a common name in Russia as well. 0668964628 is my first mobile phone number in Ukraine. Unfortunately Dmitry is no longer available on this number, but he ca...

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I'd predict with 90% certainty that Mark will beat Samir in the final, and expect that they'll carry their QFs and SFs accordingly. The third and fourth QFs might be a little more up in the air -- as we already know, from the fact that Neil vs. Sean is a rematch of a heat game that went to a tie-br...

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Jon Corby wrote:Jack Hurst being snidey about me to the guy next to him in the audience too, the prick.

I wasn't sure if it was him or Giles Hutchings. Also Jack Worsley in the top left of the picture.

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People who won't commit themselves to an exact frequency of blog posts, but say they're intending to post at least one a week on average, but then don't, and then they don't apologise for misleading their loyal reader. It is terrible. I'm sure it will be addressed shortly (by whoever you're talking...

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My subconscious has been at it again. The setup for last night's dream saw me in Amsterdam to apologise for a diplomatic incident- don't know what, exactly- and upon arrival I immediately headed to the main parliament, or at least, the main parliament's vast dining hall. After grabbing a pear (whic...

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Tony Atkins wrote:And how many goes at the conundrum are you allowed? (Mind you he did say afternoon before fartenoon)

BEIGNETS (and BETAINES) alt in the BEATINGS round.

Are they allowed a go each so two per team? I dunno how it works.

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Sean declared FITTER. The fact that he hadn't written it down should only come into play if someone else had declared it. The fact that he talked them out of giving him the points is just crazy. Him for doing it and them for forgetting he isn't the game's judge. More than made up for it with the 10...

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Sean declared FITTER. The fact that he hadn't written it down should only come into play if someone else had declared it. The fact that he talked them out of giving him the points is just crazy. Him for doing it and them for forgetting he isn't the game's judge.

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Maxed it.

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I read the other day that the best way to keep your continence when you're old is to, when you're young and/or middle aged, consciously stop yourself midstream a few times every time. It toughens up the prostate muscle and gives you a better chance of holding it in down the road. This is way easier...

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Peter Mabey wrote:(100+50)x6+75=975

When Rachel did 100+50 I thought she was going to do that as well. But instead she went backwards and did 150/6 and used all 6 numbers instead of 4!

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People who share a birthday with Jeff Gordon.

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People who don't Google themselves.

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Further to yesterday, the contestants' methods for 270 suggested that they were at full stretch.

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People who use "quiche" as a serious word.

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Did Pad (the challenger) find a flaw in the conundrum? Having declared INCORRECT and the solve was shown as INCORRECT (like they normally have done) would he have got the points for being correct? He did well there. I think it's been discussed on here before that someone could do that. Also I like ...

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Someone who missed the show wrote:I missed the show. Who won?

We all did. It was Myleene's last game.

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Cheers Ciaran. A couple of things - there's no total points for the previous winner, no target for the first numbers, and the order of players in the round keeps changing. But not too bad for a first go :) Just out of interest, where do you get the total points from, or does every recap writer manu...

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To me that 864 game suggested that the contestants possibly weren't even aware of the concept of adding before you multiply. This is the very first "trick" you learn. And it's not about going out of your way to learn it. Watch two episodes of Countdown and it's almost impossible not to enc...

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Matt Morrison wrote:You were the Faroe Islands Gevin.

Thanks. I'm glad someone is taking this seriously.

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What country am I? I was in the qualifying for this, so I must have been a country, right?

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Jon Corby wrote:Haha, so it's fine to include yoghurt eaters and hat-wearers, but religion's off limits because.... why?

Religion has its own thread. Whereas yoghurt, er, also has its own thread.

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