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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:36 pm If it's been going 5 years, then bingo.

Bit of a rogue choice given that it's a game of total luck.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 12:12 am I would just kill the billionaire and take all his money, but also tetris.

Isn't Paul Erdunast really good at Tetris? If you are picking Countdown as your 2nd the. I'd advise you to pick something you expect to definitely be better than Paul at

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 1:17 pm I'm telling you, write the goddamn cheque, Buffet.

Buffet far too sensible for this sort of nonsense. Feels more like a Elon Musk thing. He'd turn it into some sort of reality series to be exclusive to Twitter*

*Disclaimer I don't know how Twitter works.

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Update from the Billionaire: You can pick team games. He will use his wealth and access to advanced science to create temporary clones of you and the candidate so that there are enough copies of each of you to fill the teams. He's also displeased at the nonsense suggestions such as "Impressions...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:36 pm Sarcasm, the original Destruction Derby on the Playstation, cutting perfectly round fingernails using massive kitchen scissors.

I've heard that you use the grater on your toenails when you've ran out of parmesan.

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:37 pm Game 1. Who is taller?
Game 2. Who is shorter?
Game 3. Countdown

Game 3 should have been finding loopholes.

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An eccentric billionaire gives you the chance to win £10,000,000. The rules are as follows: You nominate 3 different sports / games that you will play. The billionaire recruits a candidate deemed to have the best chance of beating you at all 3 of those games. You then play against the candidate at a...

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Wahoo train strikes AGAIN on the day of a co event.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:55 am Some geezer got into trouble for declaring "Paki" in an online game of Countdown on the Sidemen YouTube channel.

For those who have the Android app, you can click here to play the round. Spoilers: The offending word isn't even valid, so don't declare it!

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What about the bloke who pretended to be Scottish to get on the X factor twice?

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Funny that the results of Karaoke and Park Run garner more attention than the event itself.

Thanks to all involved for running the event! Hope it can happen again next year

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Tim Down wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:47 am COVID test just now very positive indeed, so I’m definitely out.

Sorry to hear it! Hopefully see you at the next one.

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Just crossed the 20K downloads mark

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James Robinson wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:22 pm Harbottle Suite

Excellent name for a room to host a countdown event in.

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OK thanks. It seems strange that you'd have two sources of conundrums, one up to date and one not, though. I agree. This is mostly stemming from the fact that that game supports full offline functionality. Oh right. Got it. Maybe I should play it more and I'd know. Maybe you will get game 100000 an...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 4:31 pm OK thanks. It seems strange that you'd have two sources of conundrums, one up to date and one not, though.

I agree. This is mostly stemming from the fact that that game supports full offline functionality.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 10:42 am What do you mean by an external source? Where's it getting them from?

The backend.

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Today will be the day we hit 100000 games on the app!

I'll give out a prize to whoever gets game 100000 if it's a 15 rounder scoring over 100

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Version 1.64 is out today. Unfortunately there was an issue introduced in 1.63 with numbers targets being repeated. Turns out the root cause of this is an actual bug in the Android Source code 😱. In spite of JetBrains best efforts to ruin the numbers game I have found a workaround and targets should...

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So this is if the dictionary update happens on the same day as that conundrum rendering a valid conundrum invalid? There are two types of Conundrum in the app: - Provided by an external source. For example the daily challenge gives all rounds from the backend. - Random. For example when you play a ...

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Looking at the first of today's daily challenges (the one with 8 conundrums), by clicking through to people's games on the leaderboard everyone seems to have been given a different conundrum in round 4. Why is this? 🧐🧐🧐🧐 I added a fallback to generate a random conundrum in the app in the event the ...

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FWIW, have never really been in favour of people making multiple appearances. Would be far more interested in seeing new talent performing under the spotlight. Personally, would find it a tad inconsiderate towards others presumably eagerly awaiting to make the first appearance. Very easy to say if ...

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Another interesting one from the weekend: A player declared a word in one game, but misspelled it so got no points. The next game the same word turned up in a selection (though this time the singular rather than plural). The player declared it, and stated that they'd checked with the previous game ...

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Player 1 buzzes Player 2 buzzes just (but very clearly) after and says the word. Player 1 says they had the word and they're reputable. Do you: Allow Player 1 to have the conundrum Use another conundrum Happened at Lincoln twice from what I gather. One game allowed Player 1 to have it. One game had...

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Great weekend! Thanks to Ben for organizing, and well done to Conor and Tim D, both thoroughly deserving winners.

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There's a preview of fun mode on today and tomorrow. This mode aims to have simplifications to make the standard game more accessible to new and beginner players. Numbers: Most of the time the target is easier Letters: When you hit "Save" button you get told whether your word is valid or n...

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Until there's an account on there of what actually happened at Co:MK I've been telling everybody that Rob Foster only dropped 5 points during the whole day. Obviously this is a lie.

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got a 16 today that was easier than the 100% 14! Also it's disappointing to see the share content only shows 100% even when you beat it - am now wondering how many 100%s above are actually higher. Nice. Be sure to give the app a try. It's not my finest work, but I am still currently the _only_ resu...

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JackHurst wrote: ↑Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:44 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote:Wow. You really need to get a life.
Still applies.

Haven't actually scrolled up to see why I was slagging off Gevin, but just for the laughs: Still applies 9 years later.

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People haven't really been talking up James Haughton too much but he would be the number 3 seed... Agree completely with people underplaying James. I disagree with your obsession to try and put seedings on to things all the time just by adding points scored together 😂 . The situations of games vary...

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Ahmed and James the two standout player of the competition and they didn't fail to deliver. Great Job guys. Commiserations to James, but big congrats to Ahmed so proud of you man. :) Conundrums have been exquisite and they are in the end what proved Ahmed to be on the next level. Was also not a huge...

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Brilliant game. Dan was superb but Ahmed held his nerve and produced the goods on the conundrum. Conundrum difficulty has got a little bit less crazy since Chatoyant. I actually sent POPLITEAL as a con to Ahmed on WhatsApp this Monday. Thankfully he just answered it without giving me any spoilers 😂 ...

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This was a great match. I rate James and Adam both highly as players who perform at their best under pressure, so it was a treat to see them go head to head and put on a high quality and close show. Nice one lads

Adam must be the most successful player to never get a 9.

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Surely with words such as DOUGLAS, GIAOURS (and other derogatory terms), it is best to let the players declare them, actually televise them and let Susie explain why they are derogatory. This would serve an educational purpose and, in my view, would be better than just editing the words out. I'm so...

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Surely with words such as DOUGLAS, GIAOURS (and other derogatory terms), it is best to let the players declare them, actually televise them and let Susie explain why they are derogatory. This would serve an educational purpose and, in my view, would be better than just editing the words out. I'm so...

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Well Done Ahmed for a stunning performance today. Brilliant to beat Luke by the margin he did. It was a great performance by Luke too and I think against any other player without the pressure he's not making those mistakes on the numbers and winning the game.

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Countdown Team wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:49 pm Also, i get married in April, so i'll need to keep working to help towards the plastic surgery bills.

TTT
FACTFILE : Stare at the elevator, it makes you look better.

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Nice work! Congrats on your first max game. Hopefully first of many

Good work keeping it together to spot the tricky Darren in Rd 13

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:09 amBut I predict Sam and Elliott to go through anyway.

This aged well.

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When two players are at the top of their game, tactics become futile - there’s so little you can do other than play the best you can. Yeah it an interesting argument. However you could also argue if two top players are playing you know it will be close so it could be tactics that makes the differen...

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What a game. Solid performance from Dan there today. Commiserations to Elliott. The 2 QF conundrums are a step up in difficulty from the 8 R16 conundrums so far. As Graeme said, Dan did the right thing to approach it like a 14r game. Never really understood Elliott's obsession with 5 vowels. It tend...

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Great win for Florence. What a game!

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So you'd say Ahmed is god tier but not Elliott? Ahmed's word knowledge is god tier. I think for a long time WTF have been the three players clearly ahead of everybody else, but since he came back Ahmed has managed to start knocking on the door too. Elliott will get to God Tier if he wants to, he's ...

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The pressure was completely off for the final numbers game, so it didn't matter so it doesn't really matter, but 925 from the 4 larges and the 1 can be an instasolve if you play enough 4 large and practise the tricks.

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Good win for Sam. This game had some really tricky rounds so he did well to control the game like he did. The r9 numbers solve was a great spot under the pressure.

Can't believe we're going to have a husband and wife playing in the QFs of a Countdown C of C!

FORASTERO yet another juicy con.

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Great win for Dan! TAWDRIER and LETTIGAS both quality spots.

Another great conundrum in this episode too!

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I think Rachel may be right when she said the Championship of Champions Winner may come from the third Quarter-Final next Monday, both Ahmed and Luke have strong potential apart and of course, we'll know the answer either by next Thursday or Friday. I thought it was a bit harsh on the rest of them ...

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Never take it for granted that you will get another go. You set yourself up to be very disappointed after a long long time of anticipating getting back on. It's completely up to the discretion of the team and there are so many factors at play. It's like applying for jobs. Best applicants don't alway...

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Cracking episode! Commiserations to Tom. Great win for Adam - he outplayed by Adam on the day both in terms of performance and tactics.

Nice Conundrum.

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What a performance from Ahmed!

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If you update to version 1.62 there's a new mode which lets you try a different game mode each day. Today's is Jokerdown letters.

From the game setup screen choose mash up on the left menu.

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Great work from Elliott today.

Can't wait to see if tomorrow's conundrum is:

ADAGIETTO

Though I doubt it. Damian knows the game and the players well enough to know that he can get away with two in a row, but if you go further then players spot the pattern and have a good go at second guessing...

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Absolutely love a tough conundrum, that was a great one. I reckon about 5 or 6 of the players in that c of c would have solved it which feels like an appropriate level of difficulty. FWIW I have a personal list of around 1000 conundrums which are not on Apterous but are the most common words in the ...

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For those who want to play this game more than once per day and who have an Android phone, I made an app! I made my own twist to the scoring system so there's a focus on using a variety of different letters of the alphabet. It currently has 20 levels and is overall very basic, but I hope a few of yo...

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🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #7

Length Score: 100%

Rare long word found!

Letter Score: 29

Play Wordiply: https://www.wordiply.com

Today's starter: 🄱🄰🄲🄺

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Low point for me was generally every time I tried to slice a malt loaf for breakfast. They seem to have air bubbles in them and it makes them impossible to slice nicely.

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I sincerely hope you all had a good year and that you have a good Christmas and new year. I know that Christmas is a different experience for different people and can be challenging for some. Let's all just agree that anagrams are the best. Number are ok too. What was your high of 2022? And (If you ...

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Appears to happen to me roughly 1/10 times a log in. Thought I was going mad the first couple of times it happened.

Surely this is a fuck up so bad by the hosting provider we can get a free year from them or something...

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Pass and play is what I think you mean. I'll have a think about how that would work, and where to prioritize it. Full blown multiplayer isn't something that I'm close to supporting yet, but would love to have. The problem with this is then I have to deal with cheating and I can see it being a huge t...

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... They even gave the show an extra Saturday slot for 8 weeks... I had forgotten about the Saturday slot. That's a great achievement. Thinking about how TV scheduling works, I suspect this was down to "We need to fill 45 mins on Saturday for 8 weeks with something cheap and reliable" rat...

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