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Gavin Chipper

I've noticed some people use more brackets than they need to. That's a pretty bad crime as well. So I'm going to start calling people up on it.

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, it's just made up. What are they basing it on? http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lifetables/historic-and-projected-data-from-the-period-and-cohort-life-tables/2012-based/sty-babies-living-to-100.html Perhaps you could save me the trouble of reading it by having a look at the statistical bulletin ...

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Tony Atkins wrote:Don't think there are any beaters today - nice that Neil finally found his feet on the numbers - didn't expect him to find
71- in the 711 round for instance.

I was going to say - that was probably his best numbers round in his run so far.

Gavin Chipper

As long as you don't use it to play pool.

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I wasn't duped. I knew he was being incredibly devious in his post - enough to make me physically sick in fact - but I just didn't want it to detract from the valid point. When I said you were being a cunt, I meant you were being one to everyone else on the forum for potentially taking away our chan...

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Yeah, it's just made up. What are they basing it on?

Gavin Chipper

^ They've added this new thing now where, after the final box, you can choose to gamble what you wound up with on "Box 23," which either doubles what you won, halves it, adds ten grand to it, leaves it unchanged, or takes it all. Hmm. How do they decide what goes in it then? Is this expli...

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It might be worth doing an "Ask Graeme" on biggest difference between letters and numbers performance (maybe difference between percentage of max) when he's finished his run (octo or otherwise), or just the list of octochamps by percentage of numbers solves or percentage of available numbe...

Gavin Chipper

Whatever it is, I doubt it's down to presenters' styles.

James Robinson wrote:even though different hosts have had different styles of setting off the buzzer, etc.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Yeah I'm with Clive here Jon. Don't you care about statistical accuracy you cunt? Michael Wallace will have you across his knee.

It's time to bully him off the forum.

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They all got posted by Adam Gillard in one big post.

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Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:
James Laverty wrote:Since when did Rachel start dancing during the easy numbers solve.

Alt 2nd numbers: (25-4-2)*(7+3)
That's the second time I've seen her do it!

Should it go in the Wiki recap?

I solved it without having to dance.

Gavin Chipper

On the conundrum thing, are there 120 distinct positions for the light to be in (4 a second)?

Gavin Chipper

Clive's making a valid point. No need to be a cunt about it, Corby.

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Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and ...

Gavin Chipper

Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and ...

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Steven M. McCann wrote:Yesterdays game (April 27th) had to be seen to be believed,
the player had 1,000 & 100,000 left in his last two boxes, gets offered 30,000 and still manages to go home with NOTHING!

I haven't seen this for years but wouldn't he have to have got one of £1000, £30,000 or £100,000?

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Steven M. McCann wrote:I have now discovered under my mattress (safest place)I have some Adam Elgar £20's I can't spend!

I have some Edward Smith £20 notes. Can I use them?

Gavin Chipper

So, er, what actually is the standard method?

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Tony Atkins wrote:Oddly I did 26x9 as well - but if you make the 26 from 25+5-4 yyou have 7-5 left to add on.

Wasteful method though. You only add before you multiply if it gets you closer in terms of numbers needed to make the target, not merely in terms of arithmetical distance.

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:I've just started watching yesterday's, and Sandi opened the show by saying "your odds of winning are 15 to 1". Quite a key thing to get wrong

I don't think a viewer at home has ever won.

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Andy Platt wrote:C2 needs to pick up on his numbers otherwise he could be throwing away a potential 40 points a game

Yeah, he did nothing to dispel the scrabbler/numbers games stereotype.

Gavin Chipper

Judging by the lack of posts in this thread, I assume that the website crashed. I wasn't able to access it at all! I thought it was just me. I would imagine other people were affected, hence the lack of posts here. The website didn't crash, it was just inaccessible from certain places. downforevery...

Gavin Chipper

So do you know the rules?

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Results now up at http://www.kisekigo.com/corea14/results.html - recaps will appear here later. Thanks to all who came for helping to raise £225 and thanks to all who helped, especially to Zarte and his anonymous source for broadcasting the final on apterous after I was delayed from logging in. Sor...

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:Wearily awaiting some troll responses.

Billy Goats Gruff for the book. I'll let you know shortly on the others.

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No thanks.

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No snoopier but SPOONIER is there.

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Results now up at http://www.kisekigo.com/corea14/results.html - recaps will appear here later. Thanks to all who came for helping to raise £225 and thanks to all who helped, especially to Zarte and his anonymous source for broadcasting the final on apterous after I was delayed from logging in. Sor...

Gavin Chipper

FOVEAE using the standard method in round 2.

Edit - Beaten by the man himself.

Gavin Chipper

Unfortunately I only spotted this thread now :-( Did anyone win big with these fine selections? Heh,touch of sarcasm? 9 out of 30 runners finished the race. All 7 of Mr McCann's selections were in the 21 that didn't finish... If there are 30 horses and 21 don't finish, what's the probability of ran...

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Philip Wilson wrote:Susie did it today's programme [Thursday] though, first time anyone has in ages I think.

Sometimes she does, because Nick never does and she wants it to happen so has to make it happen herself. She should give Nick a look as if to say "Why the fuck didn't you ask?" when she does it.

Gavin Chipper

It's another flaw of the game but they could put it down as "good tactics". Aye, I'm sure it was always the case in the original series and had actually been "exploited" on an occasion, but typically I can't actually cite the episode it happened in, so I might have misremembered...

Gavin Chipper

Standard method for round 3 was (100-75-9)×50+8=808.

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By the way, Nick never asks people what they also had if they stick with six or seven or whatever. It used to be quite interesting when contestants were asked this. So this is disappointing.

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Interesting discussion.

Gavin Chipper

According to its own link, it's the 151,372nd post. I think this was debated before, but do deleted posts mean that it's allowed this status? Someone could delete a load of posts now, reducing the number to under 150,000 and then post a new 150,000th post. So really, all you can say is that at the ...

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According to its own link, it's the 151,372nd post. I think this was debated before, but do deleted posts mean that it's allowed this status? Someone could delete a load of posts now, reducing the number to under 150,000 and then post a new 150,000th post. So really, all you can say is that at the t...

Gavin Chipper

Bit late but ( (100-75)×10+1)×2-9=493

Edit - Yeah what Worsley says.

Gavin Chipper

FWIW I would be a bit wtf if I was on a show and in my intro they brought up that I was disabled without discussing it with me first. Oh absolutely, I wouldn't have expected them to just chuck it in without asking. But I would have expected them to ask, is what I'm saying. And I would've expected C...

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I see former 15 to 1 contestant Martin Riley is on today's show. Using his old intimidation tactics of immediately nominating back the contestant who has nominated him. That wasn't allowed in ye olden days! In my memory, he looks like Michael Portillo, is that still the case? I think it was allowed...

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Jon Corby wrote:Unlucky Ciaran, congrats Mark, high quality game. Did I miss it, or was Ciaran's deafness not even mentioned? How could this be?

Your baldness wasn't mentioned in the CoC.

Gavin Chipper

Johnny Canuck wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:So basically it happens pretty much every single game.

He doesn't mean single games as in people playing on their own, because it would be impossible in that case, if that was your concern.

Gavin Chipper

I beat Abdi and we both got two nines. And Glen Webb had two nines when he lost to Callum. I would assume there'll be a few more, particularly in the 30th Birthday Championship. There was also Ross Mackenzie, who got TOTALISES and HERALDING, but Chris Davies got those in his 139. :geek: What a coin...

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Looking forward to lots more 3L action here! Hopefully the standard method will work on some of the rest... For those who don't like the standard method there were 87x10 solutions for the second numbers. Mark said he would pick tactically - but that 4L was a bit too easy. So, about the standard met...

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Players whose go it isn't?

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I'll put a bit more effort in because of circumstances. We have a champ. I don't know who it is. But I do know that facing this person today is one of us, apterite Mark Murray. This is his second debut, first appearing in 1999. Can he win again 15 years later? James'll recap later. So both players ...

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I was surprised the copper got away with ROZ coming out in one of the rounds with no comment.

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GROSSER as a beater.

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Seems fair.

It's fair - he's just pointing out what massive names there are in this tournament that aren't in the top 16.

Gavin Chipper

I'm glad Susie told us she got MOTELS in the VIOLATES round.

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It shouldn't be Abdi either because he cheated to get where he was. It should be Callum...

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You don't say "Fifteen to One". You say "Quarter to One". Stupid name. And it's on at the wrong time.

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It is?

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You might think this is a bit of a shit "coincidence" but you're getting it anyway. Last night I dreamt that Michael Douglas died, and when I put the news on it was almost like fucking Diana had died again. I was thinking "Yeah, he's famous, but really?" And then today, the less ...

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hoiking^ not in for some reason.

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tl;dr

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I'm going to be on the show too (episode 19/20 on 30th April). What struck me most about the new series is how much slower the pace is now. William G used to really rattle through the questions. I'm not keen on the tense background music either. I didn't really get to enjoy episode 1 properly until...

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James Robinson wrote:That's also the first 0-second conundrum in a regular edition of Countdown, as in exactly 0 seconds, not 0.25, 0.5, etc.

How are you defining that though? How are these things objectively measured? I've seen others that were probably just as quick.

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