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Graeme Cole

RACKETEER/CARETAKER: I remember a few years ago someone making the very same mistake; I suspect the same initial letters were used, but can't be sure. He was an ace crossword solver (D... McN... I think) and one would have expected him to win. But it was a crucial conundrum and he jumped in almost ...

Graeme Cole

I genuinely just read this topic and thought, wouldn't it be hilarious if I made a silly parody topic called "cake forks"?

Then I realised it was already there, and was there first.

So yeah, that's all I came in to say, really. I'll get my coat.

Graeme Cole

Now my views have developed and I retook the test: Economic Left/Right: 4.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.69 Within touching distance of Thatcher now. Is Thatcher your target? You should probably be letting your political viewpoint develop on its own based on what you think, rather than tryi...

Graeme Cole

I'm told I watched Countdown even when too young to remember it. When I was at school I watched semi-regularly, thinking that one day I'd apply to go on it. Then I stopped watching it when I was at university (the inverse of the student stereotype). After that I watched occasionally, but when googli...

Graeme Cole

Woohoo! Congratulations Jayne. See you at the finals.

Graeme Cole

Into the 10th month we go, and based on information from my internal sources, this series (and with it presumably, Jeff's career as host of the show) will end on December 16th, so there are 48 prelims to go. That means that Mark has qualified and Graeme is more or less there, but who else will join...

Graeme Cole

The variants help page is a bit behind the times and quite a few of the newer variants aren't described. Is an update planned at some point? Reading the "declare reversed" section on that page reminded me of something. Why is it that on apterous the person who picks the letters normally d...

Graeme Cole

Also, is TONNAGES allowable? DC only mentioned TONNAGE today but I'm sure I've seen it allowed before. It's one of those debatable ones. In S61, it was disallowed after Susie looked it up, but not long before that she allowed it, while using the same dictionary.............. tonnage noun [mass noun...

Graeme Cole

Countdown viewing figure are at an all-time low, even beating what was the lowest of Episode 3. So, let's boost viewing figures from a furious fan backlash! 1 . Move Countdown (or, at least, the finals) to 7pm. Probably a mistake, as then Countdown would need to become more of a viewing-figure chas...

Graeme Cole

That's the fifth conundrum in a row that's gone unsolved. Does anyone know when was the last time this happened, or what's the maximum number of consecutive conundrums that have gone unsolved? The record seems to be six, which has happened twice, the runs ending in episodes 261 and 2103. In the lat...

Graeme Cole

This game was worth watching just to see the RECAPTION/captioner round, especially as it turned out Jayne would have lost if she'd picked the wrong one. Good work Jayne, let's hope you win a few more. Up until last week I always assumed RECAPTION meant to "caption again", as if to change t...

Graeme Cole

That's the fifth conundrum in a row that's gone unsolved. Does anyone know when was the last time this happened, or what's the maximum number of consecutive conundrums that have gone unsolved?

Graeme Cole

Mark Deeks wrote:Andy looks scared, uncertain and/or angry at every word he declares. Really scrunches his face up. Cheer up Andy!

Looks to me like he's too busy trying not to fall asleep. Still, he woke up a bit after Jeff did his "WHAT'S THE FIVE, ANDY?"

Graeme Cole

Seemed very stuttery in places today. Maybe they should work on that upstairs. :roll: I noticed that too... they usually have to cut the banter and anecdotes down to fit in the time, so maybe there wasn't a "natural" place to do it so they had to cut it in an "unnatural" place. ...

Graeme Cole

I might be one of the people having time zone issues -- I've logged on all the times I've been available (which have spanned about 14 hours of the day) and haven't seen any first week opponents online yet. Well, actually, I did see one of them, but he'd just finished the Duel when I logged on and i...

Graeme Cole

Also, if we're digging up old feature requests, two things I'd really like to see are the tnetennba for offering a max that's spelt out in the selection, and updated Watchwords . Maybe I'm being a miserable cunt, but do Watchwords really add anything to the game anyway? Perhaps not. Maybe I'm just ...

Graeme Cole

The "most missed words" feature in Superstats is useful, but if you've played thousands of games over many months the list gets filled with words you used to miss but now have no trouble spotting. How about a "most missed words in your last N games" feature? Not sure what a sensi...

Graeme Cole

116-43 eh? Betcha probably thinking you needn't have made such a horrible fudge of blatantly copying Beth's declaration in the first numbers round eh, Carl? Ugh. God I'd give him such a pummelling for that if I ever met him. I thought it was strange that he didn't declare it "not written down&...

Graeme Cole

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Let's not forget conditioning. If you fall asleep then wake up during red or black I'm fairly sure chances of red are 2/3.

Wait, that means you get two votes.

Anyway, isn't this show basically a rip-off of Tim Vine's Fluke, but much less funny and with an absurdly large prize?

Graeme Cole

Interesting nerdy statistics: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday. :geek: :ugeek: Having nothing better to do with my Saturday evening, I've got the data from Mike Brown's Octochamps and Viscounts pag...

Graeme Cole

Johnny Canuck wrote:BOODLES in the BLOUSED round? BOODLE is in, but for some reason the plural doesn't appear to be.

BOODLE is a mass noun.

Graeme Cole

I've never been to a CO-event before. This probably needs to change.

Emailed.

Graeme Cole

Charlie Reams wrote:This is shaping up to be pretty awesome, I would play but I think the timezone thing might get annoying (and also I am quite terrible now).

Graeme Cole

Round 6: U S R G E I H C E C1: CHEERS (6) C2: CHEERS (6) DC: GUSHIER (7) OT: CUSHIER (7) EUCHRES (7) HEURIGE (7) Score: 25–26 (max 47) Pretty tough 7's I'd say. EUCHRES brings to mind an excellent spot by Graeme Cole in his first game which is certainly up there as one of the spots of the series fo...

Graeme Cole

RECUSANCE isn't in ODE3, unless I'm not looking properly. RECUSE, RECUSAL, RECUSANT and RECUSANCY are, but I can't see RECUSANCE.

Graeme Cole

Most trivial bug report ever: Hardcover of Hargreaves isn't pluralised properly.

Or maybe it's two Hardcover of Hargreaves, and one Hardcover of Hargreave?

Graeme Cole

When on holiday in Scotland last year, I noticed a lot of their signs involve people falling off of things, and looking particularly pleased to have done so. Here are some from a path around a gorge: http://greem.co.uk/pics/warning_signs/do_not_attempt_ymca_dance_on_cliff_path_small.jpg Do not attem...

Graeme Cole

Matt Morrison wrote:Seen on a ferry between Hamburg and Copenhagen, a potentially deadly but cool-sounding room filled with CO2 and rum:

I wonder if I was the only person who thought "someone's replaced NUND with 2".

Graeme Cole

I think it was CAPTIONED. If so, it must have been this game.

Edit: and my first on apterous was REDACTION.

Graeme Cole

In, please.

Graeme Cole

Charlie Reams wrote:Hope that helps!

Very informative, thanks. Looking forward to when it's all shiny and complete.

Graeme Cole

Looking at that product of many hundreds of man-hours of work by people on this forum, the Countdown Database , I'm wondering what goes on behind it. I presume it's some sort of relational database like MySQL or similar, but how detailed is it? I'm guessing it has the potential to store everything, ...

Graeme Cole

Best Monopoly playing piece: the correct answer is the little car, but due to some oversight it wasn't included in the list. Obviously they've got Edexcel writing this quiz. What list? If you go to answer the quiz in the link below the video, it takes you to a survey. If you fill that out, it asks ...

Graeme Cole

Best Bond: Sean Connery. Top of Christmas tree: a star. Best chocolate: Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Best Monopoly playing piece: the correct answer is the little car, but due to some oversight it wasn't included in the list. Obviously they've got Edexcel writing this quiz. Order of cream tea construction:...

Graeme Cole

Ryan Taylor wrote:My final 20 conundrums for reaching the peak of Mount Conundrum was ruined by no fewer than 7 repeats. This was meant to be a joyous occasion.

Edit: I hope apterous got stolen.

I'm seeing this as well: CONCOCTED and CONCOCTED, nine minutes apart.

Graeme Cole

Charlie Reams wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:TANDOORI. How is anyone supposed to get a word that ends in an I?
I remember it as DORATION*.

I could never spot AUDITOR until I connected it with OUTRAID^. Same with LONGATE^ for TANGELO.

Graeme Cole

Thanks for that, young man. Not quite true....... That is when Series 65 will resume, but there are going to be 2 more specials shown on the 15th and 16th August. 8-) UPDATE: The specials have now been postponed. So, no Countdown for 19 more days. :( :cry: Instead repeats of Come Dine With Me and D...

Graeme Cole

Picture four is from Liam Herringshaw's father's website. Is that in any way relevant?

Graeme Cole

Mine:

TOTALISE / TOTALISES / TOTALISED
DINOSAUR
LIAISON
FEDORA - I'm wearing one in my apterous picture. According to superstats, the plural is my most missed word ever.

Yours?

Graeme Cole

Shouldn't RADDER and RADDEST be allowed as well?

ODE3 gives RAD as an adjective ("informal, chiefly N.Amer. excellent; impressive") and it's not implausible that something could be radder than something else, or the raddest of many things.

Graeme Cole

Has to be Jon Culshaw, basically for the reasons Mark's mentioned. He was like that both on and off screen. When we were having the group photo done, someone called him "Rory", whereupon he started impersonating Rory Bremner. And at one point when I was heading back to the studio from the ...

Graeme Cole

Congratulations Mark, a great run, especially that last game. A thoroughly deserved #1 spot.

I'll have to hope that if we meet in the finals you haven't got any better at 6 small.

Graeme Cole

Sorry for shit answer Graeme but fairly sure if you searched the forum you'd find all the answers, this has been discussed aplenty before, possibly even with Damian's confirmational input at one point. I looked around yesterday and could only find this and this , but I've had another look and found...

Graeme Cole

Well played again Mark. Very possibly the next member of the 800 club, so you're after at least 102 points tomorrow. (But preferably not more than 115. :)) That said, what if Mark wins with 115 tomorrow, so we both have 813 points? The wiki claims that "players with the same number of wins and ...

Graeme Cole

Liam Tiernan wrote:Mark sticks with his reLIABLE 6 as LInda only declares 4. I'm guessing that he had pliable^, which I thought was valid, but seemingly not, so well left if so. DC find one of the two 8's available.

Nope, PLIABLE is in.

Graeme Cole

Hi, haven't posted here before so I don't know if it's the right place to put it... FLORIGENS was disallowed in a game i've recently been involved in... http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=488523 Prettttty sure it's plant-related cos I've heard it before somewhere but dictionary.com is playing up...

Graeme Cole

Mark Deeks wrote:SURFERS

SURFERS is allowed on apterous, it's just that you only had the one S.

Graeme Cole

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8628690/News-of-the-World-final-crossword-has-a-message-for-catastrophe-Rebekah-Brooks.html Made me wonder whether there was an equivalent of PNECRISIS for the occasion. Best I could come up with is RATREBEKAH, which is pretty good (apart from ha...

Graeme Cole

I thought Susie said GEISHAS as well. Didn't even occur to me that there wasn't an H. DIAGRIDS in R4 (which I was almost certain I'd made up, but apparently it's a kind of structure in buildings), and FRONTSIDE in R7 (spotted by having guessed FRONDIEST^ on conundrums too many times). Good performan...

Graeme Cole

I did 75+50+4+100/25.

Rule of thumb for 125 is it's usually better to do 75+50 rather than 100+25, as you're left with the more useful large numbers.

Well played, Mark - you've already spotted as many conundrums as I did in my entire run. I wouldn't be surprised to be #2 seed this time next week.

Graeme Cole

From the Daily Wail: Countdown conundrum - what is C4 to do about its one million missing viewers? If this story were about a BBC show, you'd expect Auntie to issue an automatic apology to the Mail for any distress caused, followed by commanding the Director General to commit seppuku live on Points ...

Graeme Cole

Only on apterous... 2011-07-12 22:50:53 Adam Gillard says: womaniser 2011-07-12 22:50:53 Adam Gillard takes his 60540th point! The 9 from WNAIROESM was WOMANISER! 2011-07-12 22:51:05 Andy Platt says: you'd know all about that adam, right 2011-07-12 22:51:11 Adam Gillard says: yep 2011-07-12 22:51:17...

Graeme Cole

"Edition 5,302", eh? Which two aren't they counting?

Graeme Cole

James Robinson wrote:Nice to see the INCORRECT answer return again, after a mini hiatus.

After all the debate on here about why it didn't get used last week and the week before, and whether they were phasing it in slowly, the correct explanation was the simplest one. They'd just forgotten about it.

Graeme Cole

Thanks for the explanations, Charlie.

Is this the right thread to ask whether apterous should still be allowing OUTSETS?

Graeme Cole

It's not helped by the fact that ODE3 doesn't indicate whether adjectives are comparable or not. As I've just added above, isn't is indicated by the [attrib.] marker? I don't have an ODE3 but I can't imagine it's changed. No, FEINT isn't indicated with [attrib.], but that wouldn't mean it's compara...

Graeme Cole

Taxies? If it's not the correct plural isn't it the verb form? Sorry if I'm being thick, I haven't got the 3r. Amazed they've taken out taxying too, just cos it look less ugly than taxiing. Chuffed they've added the RENEGUER/S though, 'bout time too. The verb is TAXIS. Unfortunately, whoever writes...

Graeme Cole

Charlie Reams wrote:(I decided to overrule DC on FEINTER and FEINTEST and leave them in, since they're just plain wrong about that.)

Graeme Cole

Onboard has caught a lot of people out. It was even accepted without question at a Co-event . ONBOARD should be allowed. The usual sense meaning situated on or in a vehicle is hyphenated, but ODE3 gives a second sense ("denoting or controlled from a facility or feature incorporated into the ma...

Graeme Cole

NAILERY and NAILERIES aren't in ODE3, nor is PAGANISE/PAGANIZE and its inflections.

Also, apterous gives PROPELLOR as valid but not PROPELLORS.

Edit: ONBOARD should also be allowed.

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