It is, and that's the matter closed.Jon Corby wrote:No, it isn't.Gavin Chipper wrote:It is an obscure word. No-one has used it ever.Jon Corby wrote:
REVEILLE isn't an obscure word, you tit.
It does feel like they accidentally messed up the pile of teasers with the Catsdown ones though
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- Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday February 19th 2015 (S72 P34)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2710
Re: Spoilers for Thursday February 19th 2015 (S72 P34)
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 16th February 2015 (series 72, prelim 31)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2983
Re: Monday 16th February 2015 (series 72, prelim 31)
Well, I suppose it's interesting to note these things in the historical record, and it's also useful for threads like this . Ironically, had these things not been noted in the historical record, analyses such as the one in the thread referred to might have had some validity. I suppose Graeme just s...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday February 19th 2015 (S72 P34)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2710
Re: Spoilers for Thursday February 19th 2015 (S72 P34)
OUTSOLD in round 8. REVEILLE needed more explanation. It's one thing to have obscure words, but then not to say what they mean is even worse! REVEILLE isn't an obscure word, you tit. It does feel like they accidentally messed up the pile of teasers with the Catsdown ones though :) It is an obscure ...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 16th February 2015 (series 72, prelim 31)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2983
Re: Monday 16th February 2015 (series 72, prelim 31)
Rachel also gave a solution to the last numbers out of time and it was more intuitive than the one in the recap. (100-4+3)*(50+75)/25=495 Correct, but unlike the other two this is statement of fact and not something that affects the recap as a whole so no edit is required. Also, can I apologize to ...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 3:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday February 19th 2015 (S72 P34)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2710
Re: Spoilers for Thursday February 19th 2015 (S72 P34)
OUTSOLD in round 8.
REVEILLE needed more explanation. It's one thing to have obscure words, but then not to say what they mean is even worse!
REVEILLE needed more explanation. It's one thing to have obscure words, but then not to say what they mean is even worse!
- Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday February 18th 2015 (S72 P33)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2012
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday February 18th 2015 (S72 P33)
A few good opponents for Kevin to have to deal with to finish off his run.
- Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Birthdays
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 130377
Re: Birthdays
What, Gavin (2)?
- Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 16th February 2015 (series 72, prelim 31)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2983
Re: Monday 16th February 2015 (series 72, prelim 31)
Rachel also gave a solution to the last numbers out of time and it was more intuitive than the one in the recap. (100-4+3)*(50+75)/25=495
- Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Birthdays
- Replies: 1252
- Views: 130377
Re: Birthdays
Indeed. Happy birthday Charlie (31)!
Jason, you forgot to number your post.
Jon, are you sure you counted correctly?
Jason, you forgot to number your post.
Jon, are you sure you counted correctly?
- Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday February 17th 2015 (S72 P32)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3391
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday February 17th 2015 (S72 P32)
Standard method for the last numbers was (50-1)×(9-2)+10=353.
Edit - Beaten to it by the king of the standard method.
Edit - Beaten to it by the king of the standard method.
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday February 16th 2015
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2169
Re: Spoilers For Monday February 16th 2015
NOTATOR in round 10.
- Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: We got upgraded!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5638
Re: We got upgraded!
"View active topics" is back! Thanks to Charlie for sorting it out.
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: We got upgraded!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5638
Re: We got upgraded!
UI is User Interface and UX is User Experience, which does have a major impact on your forum experience, being the thing itself. Well when I was talking about things that make very little difference, I was talking about things like "Marking all posts read is done via AJAX. That's beautiful.&qu...
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: We got upgraded!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5638
Re: We got upgraded!
What is UI/UX and what difference does it make to one's forum experience?Matt Morrison wrote:I don't think UI/UX makes "very little difference". I also don't believe anything to do with view active topics is basic functionality, I've never ever clicked it. Ever.
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday February 13th 2015 (S72 P30)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1525
Re: Spoilers for Friday February 13th 2015 (S72 P30)
I'm surprised no-one spotted the standard method of 25×9-10/5=223.
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: We got upgraded!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5638
Re: We got upgraded!
So why do you get excited about all these "extra features" that make very little difference but don't care about basic functionality?Matt Morrison wrote:If you were proposing that I don't care, then yes.
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: We got upgraded!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5638
Re: We got upgraded!
And am I correct about "View Active Topics"?Matt Morrison wrote:Adam is correct. There is no favicon setup in the HTML code, and there is no default one here.
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 692924
Re: Ask Graeme?
1)Most maxes/ most points scored by a non series finalist? 2)Least maxes/ least points score by a series finalist. (Not including finals games)? 3) did the answer to 1) do better than any series champs did in their heats? Not an exact answer to your question 3, but David Franks failed to make the q...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday February 12th 2015 (S72 P29)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1537
Re: Spoilers for Thursday February 12th 2015 (S72 P29)
CARESSING in round 12.
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 12:23 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday February 11th 2015 (S72 P28)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1458
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday February 11th 2015 (S72 P28)
Demasted in the maddest round. Not even demast there........., sorry. :( Interestingly, it says OEDEMA can be pluralised, but the definition here doesn't seem to suggest it, unless I'm missing something............: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/oedema When you say it can be ...
- Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday February 10th 2015 (S72 P27)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4479
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday February 10th 2015 (S72 P27)
LABOUR was the standard method alternative to ARBOUR.
- Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday February 10th 2015 (S72 P27)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4479
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday February 10th 2015 (S72 P27)
Another pointless teatime teaser...
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday February 9th 2015
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1749
Re: Spoilers For Monday February 9th 2015
When the answers to the teatime teasers are too obscure (e.g. PELTRIES), I think it defeats the whole point of them in that they're meant to be gettable from the clue by a "casual viewer". It's OK once in a while but it seems to happen rather a lot. Discuss.
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 692924
Re: Ask Graeme?
The highest such disparity is that of Samir Pilica , who maxed 68.75% of his letters rounds and 46.875% of his numbers rounds. I know your database won't cover any of this series, but I believe Andy Noden has an even bigger disparity (76.25% on letters, 53.13% on numbers). That's using the stricter...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 692924
Re: Ask Graeme?
Yes Neb. That would make the most sense, but only on the list that includes winning and losing games. The reason I (belatedly) asked about just the winning games was because I was wondering about the minimum level people have had to reach to scrape a certain number of wins.
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 692924
Re: Ask Graeme?
Thanks Graeme. Nice work as always. Also, sorry to be a pain, but would it be possible to do that including just winning games as well, so not including their final, losing game?
- Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:06 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Clarke Carlisle
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1798
Re: Clarke Carlisle
Throwing away a massive lead against an inferior opponent on Countdown can't have helped.
- Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 692924
Re: Ask Graeme?
What's the lowest total score and number of maxes for a one-time winner, two-time winner and so on?
- Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday February 3rd 2015 (S72 P22)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3660
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday February 3rd 2015 (S72 P22)
Did anyone else notice Susie saying SNAPPIER is an anagram of PANNIERS? Yes. Me too. Also the other annoying thing which happens occasionally: Champ: 8, REASONED Nick: Good. What about in the corner? DC: We got some 7s, blah blah, but there was an 8 there: REASONED Nick: Wow. And Champ's sitting th...
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday February 3rd 2015 (S72 P22)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3660
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday February 3rd 2015 (S72 P22)
Yes.Bradley Cates wrote:Did anyone else notice Susie saying SNAPPIER is an anagram of PANNIERS?
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Patricia Pay RIP
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6222
Re: Patricia Pay RIP
Sad news. RIP.
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 403749
Re: People you shouldn't trust
It has to be the same year as well.Adam Dexter wrote:And why would that be? Was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother not trustworthy?Gavin Chipper wrote:People who share a birthday with Jeff Gordon.
Edit: Used correct tense
But probably not anyway.
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday February 3rd 2015 (S72 P22)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3660
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday February 3rd 2015 (S72 P22)
Quite pleased with my 137 today. Must be my best playing at home.
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday February 2nd 2015
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3464
Re: Spoilers For Monday February 2nd 2015
Could have had MANEUVERS for 9 without the American spelling rule.
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: (Men) sitting down for a wee
- Replies: 101
- Views: 23941
Re: (Men) sitting down for a wee
Out of curiosity, hat do the standers do in the dead of night? Put the light on? Stand in the dark? Obviously put the light on. That's the most stupid question I've ever heard. Why would I walk into a dark room at 8pm and turn the light on but not do the same if it was 3am? And it's nothing to do w...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 12:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
It could have been a properly thought out system. It just turned out not to be. Even if it were, it wouldn't automatically follow that it always means what you think it ought to. For example, CLEAROUT redirects to clear-out, thereby showing you the error of your ways rather than condoning the use o...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
SALMONS? Surely SALMONS is allowed in the restaurant rule? No. The food rule just means SALMON can be pluralised. The plural is still SALMON. Exactly. I mean, someone might ask for two "salmons" in a restaurant, but people say lots of things that aren't in the ODO. The ODO has the plural ...
- Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XI: The Hangover Recaps
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4361
Re: COLIN XI: The Hangover Recaps
I thought you were supposed to play the same game as each other, but other people did it differently. I played Elfeshire and we had two separate games against Prune. When he was acting as Prune' picking agent against me, he picked randomly for vowel or consonant for the 8th and 9th letters rather th...
- Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday January 30th 2015 (S72 P20)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6743
Re: Spoilers for Friday January 30th 2015 (S72 P20)
What could she have possibly done to deserve that?James Robinson wrote:But, well done to Tracey, who deserved octochampdom, and I was glad to give her a well-deserved big hug straight afterwards.
- Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday January 30th 2015 (S72 P20)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6743
Re: Spoilers for Friday January 30th 2015 (S72 P20)
Well done Tracey, but is 6 a record?
- Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday January 29th 2015 (S72 P19)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4631
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
Nice phone cover. I might get one for my phone, but I'll have to check it's big enough first.
By the way, Jono might be giving it all this in this thread, but let's not forget that he was wandering around with shit in his hair the other day and needed me to save him.
By the way, Jono might be giving it all this in this thread, but let's not forget that he was wandering around with shit in his hair the other day and needed me to save him.
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
SALMONS? Fair enough. I don't think it would be completely insane to allow it, but if not, then we could still come up with other rules that are still objective. We could use the search box for comparatives, superlatives and plurals of mass nouns, and have everything else covered by basic rules tha...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
I never said it was perfect. I have concluded that what we have now is the best option that's been suggested so far. Until your originally concrete, now very vague, suggestion resolidifies, that will remain the case. It's not very vague. It would mean we would disallow words that redirect to entrie...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
No, it wasn't allowed. She offered it, but it's obvious (to me) that contestant declarations are subject to more scrutiny than DC offerings. I can't see SALMONS being allowed. Well, maybe it wasn't allowed as such but someone watching the show might later offer the word on the basis that Susie sugg...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What would you put in a letter to Oxford Dictionaries?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6089
Re: What would you put in a letter to Oxford Dictionaries?
Cool. E-mail it.Zarte Siempre wrote:Dear Oxford Dictionaries,
Sorry about Gevin. There's plenty of us he doesn't speak for, honest.
Love, Z
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What would you put in a letter to Oxford Dictionaries?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6089
Re: What would you put in a letter to Oxford Dictionaries?
OUP only need to do three things to ODO for it to be perfect for Countdown: - List EVERY derivative, even if it's "obvious" or "logical" - For Mass Nouns, introduce a [countable] label for stuff (like food and drinks that can be ordered in portions, actions, fabrics, plants) whi...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
But, yes, we do need more from OUP. And what happened seems strange. Damian said they were clarifying stuff with them, but in the end nothing changed. I'm not sure what went wrong, but something did. I might send them another e-mail. Last time I did that, shortly afterwards they changed from the pa...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
For a start, there might be some people who are interested in the mechanics behind the idea you are suggesting. I naively thought you might be one of those people. But never mind. What we know is that there is information somewhere which tells us what search terms redirect to what page. What we don...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
The reason I didn't have this debate with you before is that a lot of words are wasted on what is quite a simple problem. I like to argue with you so I entertained myself a little with talk of who said what and why, but it's completely irrelevant, and as I suspected, has given credence to your logi...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:17 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: We got upgraded!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5638
Re: We got upgraded!
On the "View Active Topics" thing, I Googled it (on the advice of Jono actually), and from what I understand, it should be relatively easy to fix. According to here , for example: There was a bug in 3.0.5 that meant all the forums were used for active topics even if the option was on no. I...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What would you put in a letter to Oxford Dictionaries?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6089
Re: What would you put in a letter to Oxford Dictionaries?
Based on discussions in this thread, and discussions more generally, I think it's time to reopen this thread. I'm going to send another e-mail if I get round to it, and maybe some of you could do the same!
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
Of course you're being ridiculous. I haven't suggested any alternative, because YOUR approach is the alternative to the status quo. And it is not an improvement. Just to restate, the status quo is to apply the rules of Countdown (as they have more or less stood for 10+ years) to the headwords found...
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CoEdi 3 is go - Saturday 1st November
- Replies: 82
- Views: 29976
Re: CoEdi 3 is go - Saturday 1st November
Can we get back all the people that Corby bullied off the forum as a result of it?
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
Of course you're being ridiculous. I haven't suggested any alternative, because YOUR approach is the alternative to the status quo. And it is not an improvement. Just to restate, the status quo is to apply the rules of Countdown (as they have more or less stood for 10+ years) to the headwords found...
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
This all convincingly undermines Gevin's Search Box Word Validation method, consequently necessitating the presence of an expert adjudicator like Susie. Oh, so you think that because Graeme has posted you can come along and hide behind him rather than just whine to me by text like you normally do w...
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 3:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday January 27th 2015 (S72 P17)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2582
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday January 27th 2015 (S72 P17)
BOMBSIGHT???!!! Well done to Tracey for getting that, considering it's a made-up word. I wouldn't expect a word like that outside a CoC game really.
- Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XI- Countdown in Lincoln, 24-25 January 2015
- Replies: 133
- Views: 36114
Re: COLIN XI- Countdown in Lincoln, 24-25 January 2015
Many thanks, Ben, and Ben's mum and everyone else involved. Once again, you've pulled off the best co-event ever. Also once again, Ben, you suggested that you were unsure whether you were going to do a Hangover event next year. In my view it's very much part of COLIN weekend now, and a very enjoyab...
- Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
A few alts about so far (eg OCTUPLE+T), but just one 7 beater available for R8 (DEFEAT+COM). Not sure if the 7 beater would be valid - it's listed as a derivative of FACET, but has a note to say it can only be used 'in combination', so it's really more like -FACETED. Is there anything in the rules ...
- Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9479
Re: Spoilers For Monday January 26th 2015
A few alts about so far (eg OCTUPLE+T), but just one 7 beater available for R8 (DEFEAT+COM). Not sure if the 7 beater would be valid - it's listed as a derivative of FACET, but has a note to say it can only be used 'in combination', so it's really more like -FACETED. Is there anything in the rules ...