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Ryan Lam wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:58 pm
samir pilica wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:45 pm R 11 EMOCORE
Sorry Samir but I searched it up and unfortunately it's not in!

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/emo

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Yes: http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_108

Though this would now have IDDUT available for a 5: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/iddat

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:03 am -How many Octochamps have faced an opponent in their first game who had up till that point an average game score of over 110pts?

Well, at least the holders of the 2 highest octotals, so seems a recommended way to start your run.

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I'll be there

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zorbed not valid for round 12 even though ZORBING is in. Cos obviously when you go zorbing you're not actually zorbing. That's an error surely? I'd say you should ticket that if you haven't. No (unless premium has it in). zorbing is in (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/zorbing) as is Zo...

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Also well done to Tom Rowell and team for a more comfortable Only Connect victory

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Wow, that was a thrilling contest! Well done to Innis and team for coming through against strong opponents. Can just apply that comment for this round as well. So evenly matched all the way through, and just nicking it at the end. Edinburgh in front for a whole set of bonuses at the end this time. ...

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Found one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEpQ05577TE

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Bumping this cos I can't create a new one. If the first three rounds ( i.e.first 27 tiles ) where from a pool of the 26 letters of the alphabet plus an additional A what would be the best distribution for maximum points ? Interesting. Ignoring the fact that you don't have enough vowels for 3 valid ...

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Bumping this cos I can't create a new one. If the first three rounds ( i.e.first 27 tiles ) where from a pool of the 26 letters of the alphabet plus an additional A what would be the best distribution for maximum points ? Interesting. Ignoring the fact that you don't have enough vowels for 3 valid ...

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Mark Murray wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:42 pm Time for meal now amended to 7pm . Adam-this would also give you enough time if you got a taxi to leave for about 8 pm from restaurant to temple meads

Brilliant, thanks very much!

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Hey Meal will be booked at Za Za for 8pm to ensure enough time between finishing event and getting there to relax first. price will be £17.99 per person and this can also be paid by paypal to markmurray97@hotmail.com Any chance of getting the booking any earlier? In the past it's felt like a long w...

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Yes please for whatever food happens as well

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Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:46 pm Wow, that was a thrilling contest! Well done to Innis and team for coming through against strong opponents.

Can just apply that comment for this round as well. So evenly matched all the way through, and just nicking it at the end.

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I think I know the answer to this question, but I'm genuinely curious: All spots for the Series 77 finals are now claimed, and there are still seven heats left in the series. If someone wins the next six games and loses the seventh and last heat, and six wins proves to be enough to make it into the...

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I'm also catching up with the new series of Robot Wars. I'm glad they've tweaked the format slightly. I think it's slightly better now. But in both this series and the last one the two grand finalists from the previous series have ended up in the same heat. If it's just a random thing then OK, but ...

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I'm also catching up with the new series of Robot Wars. I'm glad they've tweaked the format slightly. I think it's slightly better now. But in both this series and the last one the two grand finalists from the previous series have ended up in the same heat. If it's just a random thing then OK, but ...

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UK (3), Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Vatican City, Montenegro, Croatia, Greece, UAE (transfers only), Japan, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, USA for 20 total. No new ones planned for this year yet - may fill in one of the holes in Western Europe Ad...

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Mean confidence: 76.00% Actual percent correct: 88.00% You want your mean confidence and actual score to be as close as possible. Mean confidence on correct answers: 77.05% Mean confidence on incorrect answers: 68.33% You want your mean confidence to be low for incorrect answers and high for correc...

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I also have the following duplicate keys: VVVVVV The Stanley Parable Super Meat Boy Mini Metro And if anyone didn't get the Humble Freedom Bundle earlier this year (list here ), and wants anything from it other than those, Stardew Valley and The Witness, you can probably have those as well. I haven'...

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Can I claim the Shadow of Mordor one please?

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UK (3), Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Vatican City, Montenegro, Croatia, Greece, UAE (transfers only), Japan, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, USA for 20 total. No new ones planned for this year yet - may fill in one of the holes in Western Europe Ad...

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I was fourth show - 2 that day, 5 the next, then came back a week and a half later for the final one. Did mean I got to meet the standby player, the one contestant during that time who was happy to see me win.

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I somehow got https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality, but very marginal between, observant and intuitive, and all the descriptions for INTP match much better.

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I'm going to have to drop out of this, as will be away that weekend.

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Giles and team showing how to do a proper comeback on UC tonight. Brilliantly stressful watching.

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The last few months has been pretty insane for politics (particularly in the USA), but this manifesto (by a Stoke by-election candidate who has been arrested for it) is probably the most insane thing I've ever read . That's pretty amazing. Not decided what my favourite bit is yet. Probably either t...

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I dreamed that I was on Countdown and Susie's origins bit was something interesting about words related to marine animals. It was interesting enough that well into the next round I was distracted thinking about various fish parts and how they got their name, so I could only find a three letter word...

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Finally got one that I can remember some details of. Was at some CoEvent, and was looking through a Countdown calendar with Jack Hurst, trying to show him the picture of our final (no idea what final). However, it had for some reason been replaced by a picture of Conor holding a trophy from the even...

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Catriona Cappleman (unsurprising, also comes under Countdowners whose houses I've been in and who have been in my house) Graeme Cole Phyl Styles Heather Styles (last 3 related to Only Connect filming) Jack Hurst Giles Hutchings (both at work) Many more if you count the last day of CoC filming, when ...

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Unlucky there Giles - Bobby Seagull's a machine, and the bonuses you did get just didn't seem to fall well for you.

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In please.

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Seems to be a Chrome problem (at least) - tried that first, then changed to Firefox and working fine.

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Thomas Carey wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Tony Atkins wrote:please note food and knives etc may not be brought on site.
You say etc, but there's not enough there to make a connection. What about drinks and forks?

Is that a round 1 or round 2 question?

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Wrong

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I'd put Adam Gillard in the top 10, based on his complete dominance of the top all rounders list (http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?section=top_all_rounders), and his large number of high scores (http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?section=highscores). May not be the very best in English countdo...

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Done. (Red/bold means first event; orange/bold means first event and former event winner; yellow means former event winner.) Is former event winner filled in retroactively? Otherwise, having won an event before your first event would be impressive, and I should only be yellow from St Albans onwards...

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Maybe an "ask Greame" in there somewhere as can't be many who have won a show after blanking the first 3 letters games? It's not common, but it's happened a few times. 9 times in 9-rounders, 14 times in old 15-rounders, and up to the end of series 74, twice in new 15-rounders. Ned Pendlet...

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The Betfair odds look good for Remain. As long as enough people do vote, I'm still pretty confident of a win for Remain. I'm looking forward to the referendum thing being over, though - to be honest, I'm not sure one should even have been called in the first place. This by David Mitchell is quite i...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Do Israel and Australia get to enter this?

Israel do (along with other famously European countries like Kazakhstan), though never qualify. For football Australia choose to be in Asia instead.

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Conor wrote:There is also a list of the Bottom 100 rated films: http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

I have only seen one - Epic Movie - at it remains the only film where I have walked out of the cinema.

Only seen Troll 2 of those, which was bottom for a while until that made it gain in popularity.

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Johnny Canuck wrote:Lexplorer lists PIEANNOTS as a 9 in the PANTIES/ENATIONS round, but I can't find any way to get to it on ODO. Was it one of the junked variant spellings?

May have been a variant of http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... ish/pianet - I think that had a lot of stupid variants.

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JimBentley wrote:So, apropos nothing, this is coming up again soon, isn't it?

Nope. They realised they stuck the leap day in the wrong place, so they're skipping April 1st.

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They get pushed to the following week, which leads to Nick getting even more confused as to what day it's meant to be. A lot of the time the first show on a filming day isn't a Monday.

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Is there a list of positions for each individual event? No. I kind of wanted to put that info up but it massively clutters the table - I'm probably just going to link to the respective Wiki pages from the finished event pages (maybe the events calendar page too). Could be worth making a page on the...

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The last 4 series winners were all past contestants, each having won no games previously. My gap was around 6 years as well, and Dan's was even less. 2 of the losing finalists were also past contestants, and I think I played a few others as well, so they seem pretty relaxed about it these days. I ju...

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If we're going to use the previous champions ONLY as a measure for how to get good, it would seem the best bit is to fuck up your first attempt and go on again later :P (Not in any way moaning about people going back on, I hasten to add. Chances are I would) This is probably one of the best motivat...

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Yeah, I stopped once I found a winning move, so probably a few missing, in particular ones that don't touch the 5 immediately.

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I think the following is a list of winning positions (ones where your next move can get you back to a winning position no matter what your opponent does). If you strike one or more sticks from the middle of a line you effectively split it into 2 lines, hence some positions involving more than 5. As ...

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There's a technique for analysing games like this where you assign each position a score for if you reach it at the end of your turn. If there's just 1 stick left then your opponent takes that and loses, so we'll assign that (and all other winning positions) a score of 0. Then you gradually work out...

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Which large numbers are generally most useful, across all combinations with other numbers, and which are least useful? 97 and 12 respectively? Nope. The most useful numbers, in order (some omissions) are: 11, 13, 12, 14, 17, ... , 92, 90, 98, 96, 100 97 comes in 15th from bottom. As you can see, 12...

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Which large numbers are generally most useful, across all combinations with other numbers, and which are least useful? 97 and 12 respectively?

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Johnny Canuck wrote:Where do 12, 37, 62, 87 fall?

2 prime numbers, and 62 having 31 (a prime greater than 10) as a factor should put it much higher than the default.

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I'll put this here because I don't know where else to. The chance of being able to declare a new word as a max is around 16%. The chance you can beat the old max (OED max) by playing a new word is around 7% I had a very convoluted way of calculating this. I'm happy to do a write up of the method if...

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That earthman case is just bizarre. Neither definition could have made sense in the Middle ages, and yet it has a spelling and earliest use from then.

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I voted for improved, though also conflicted. This was an unusual case, where most players hadn't had a chance to learn which words will come up a lot, and so it led to some interesting encounters. Despite this, the best player still won each game I think, almost regardless of the new words. By the ...

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Great game by both, Dan's recovery keeping it tense to the very end. Fantastic spot by Dylan on the conundrum to take it. Was a great competition to watch/be part of, with the new words and the suspiciously kind letters arrangements leading to some very interesting scores. Haha - couldn't let this ...

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Great game by both, Dan's recovery keeping it tense to the very end. Fantastic spot by Dylan on the conundrum to take it.

Was a great competition to watch/be part of, with the new words and the suspiciously kind letters arrangements leading to some very interesting scores.

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Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:Can someone explain the magic in "the product of two primes", Rachel mentions it often and I feel I should know it but I'm afraid it has escaped me. Thanks.

I think it's just that there is a way of getting the target by multiplying 2 smaller numbers, but only one so it's hard to spot.

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I'll put in another vote for full ODO adjudication. Playing on Apterous is annoying at the moment, having to guess whether or not to try a new word.

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