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Elliott Mellor

Yeah, felt sorry for him that he'd guessed wrongly and couldn't reach a century today but it's alright, he still won anyway. By the way, to clarify "Hansfording" since someone else mentioned it as well Philip did not do that since the definition is to buzz in before the letters are reveal...

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Had a brief one last night where Innis Carson had been allowed back on to Countdown (hey, maybe there's hope for James Robinson yet...). Think he struggled to a win against the champion, mainly due to losing some rounds due to lack of knowledge of new words. Then either I forgot what happens or woke...

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Neil A Collins wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:12 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:58 pm Also, was it just me, or did there seem to be loads more Us today?
Nope, just U

*Applauds*

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Ryan Lam wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:57 pm
Burst out in laughter when I heard Philip declaring 100000 in R14...has anyone topped such a high target before LOL?

My sides were splitting.

Elliott Mellor

"I think I've made it up"...you knew it was good.

That aside, excellent performance today - INEXPERT in particular was very good, beat my PETTIER

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Excellent score today by Philip, and very fast con too - not many could have had a chance on that!

Might be a risky thing to put down your pen after a while in the numbers round though...if I saw someone doing that I'd definitely start looking for a simpler method.

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John Cowen- yes, he was largely inconsistent at times, but had Brad lost his QF, I am sure John would have stormed through to the final and would have produced a very close game against Tom. Who knows what the outcome would have been like?... John's best was as good as anyone. John's worst was... p...

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Also, was it just me, or did there seem to be loads more Us today?

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Not sure I fully agree with this, or at least he isn't of the standard of a lot of the people mentioned in this thread. Suppose I am thinking of him in terms of this series, and whilst I agree with the statement aforesaid, I still think he is worthy of a spot on here.... Yeah.. no. If you included ...

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FOYAITES in R13...this is hands down the best game I've seen since Noel McIlvenny and Eoin Jackson's Quarter-Final on 19 December 2017! Such a shame Becky had to lose in the crucial...oh well and tomorrow's challenger is already know. Who shall prevail? :) Totally second this, minus the FOYAITES co...

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Tom S wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:22 pmChris Thorn.

Not sure I fully agree with this, or at least he isn't of the standard of a lot of the people mentioned in this thread.

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Had one last night where I was at a hotel-like fun place which seemed to contain just about every single thing you could possibly hope for. Part of it was a bank run entirely by apterites, which I went to to withdraw £20 of 50 pence coins to sort through. Fairly certain the person who served me was ...

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Simon seemed nice, but he was not on game at all today. Becky is not bad, and consistent on the numbers, but don't feel she will last long..... Have to agree with this. Definitely beatable. Alistair seems to be a fairly decent player if he indeed is getting all the words he claimed, MILIEUS beat me...

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Brief one last night which involved me playing apterous but being completely unable to spell my declarations correctly, as my fingers were seemingly typing the letters in a different order to what they were in my head.

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Cracking play by Phil today, beating me overall on the final conundrum, which was (inevitable and) partially down to the disallowal of BULLIER on my part. It's surely safe to say we'll see him in the finals.... :) He's playing strong for sure. Do wish he'd desist from saying "I've got a...&quo...

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2018 2:46 pm ORGIASM in R12
(9*5-5)*10+7-3 surprised Rachel missed that in the last numbers.

ROOIGRAS for a beater beater

MOLLIENT in r2
Got 404 too, surprised she missed it. Though she is only human I guess.

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Also had one where me and Bradley Horrocks had decided to take the public bus matters in to our own hands and hijack some buses to learn how to drive them. We waited for them to arrive at Oldham bus station and then hijacked them as the drivers. We then seemingly drove to the middle of nowhere and ...

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Phil gave his weakest performance imo, but was still competent enough. Will we be seeing him more?- we'll have to see.... :) I think we will! He's spotted good words thus far, IMBUED, UNLINED, FLAMENS, PHIAL I could go on... (P.S. As Johnny is busy today, I will be putting up the recap, should be u...

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Dreamt last night that Nick Hewer had decided to open up his own antiques shop. Me and my dad were the first (and only) customers and were making up our mind on whether to buy the solitary item in the shop: an antique teapot. Fairly certain Nick started becoming more and more overly friendly as we d...

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:18 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:05 pmThere was some nurses attending to us, who at one point asked me if I was doing anything "MANTICORE minus E, or mythical being minus E" for valentine's day, which dream me translated as ROMANTIC.
"You know you're #1 in Pro Ranks when..."

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Opposite me was what was made out to be Ian Birdman also in a hospital bed. Haha to the story. But how did you make it out to be Ian Birdman? What does he look like? :shock: It was implied it was him, I definitely recall that I was sure it was Ian - so maybe his name was mentioned or I have psychic...

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Countdown Team wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:38 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:10 pm The correct action would have been to check his paper I think, and see if it corresponds.
Have a bit of faith. We edited out many seconds of indecision prior to the DQ.

Cheers for clearing that up - apologies if I sounded very harsh.

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Had one last night which involved me in a hospital bed in a hospital within a building at my school. Opposite me was what was made out to be Ian Birdman also in a hospital bed. There was some nurses attending to us, who at one point asked me if I was doing anything "MANTICORE minus E, or mythic...

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ROBINETS and RAGLORE as consecutive r1/r2 beaters.

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Can see why he might have felt cheated, and he was clearly very annoyed by it judging by his actions after. However, in fairness he was taking the mickey a bit and I can see why Nick thought he was playing for time. The correct action would have been to check his paper I think, and see if it corresp...

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Tony Atkins wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:55 pm In the NEGATIVE+P round didn't Suzannah say "I got PAGEANT"?

Yet another alt for 2nd nos (25+3)x(10+8+4/4)

Yeah she did, I wondered why too.

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METACOEL in the EMULATE round.

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Philip Wilson wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:11 pm Apterite in the last letters round
Bad luck Chris for not seeing downsize in the extra few seconds taken

Yeah, hate it when they do this. Glad he didn't spot it and ended up looking silly.

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Great game. Unlucky Sam. When Sam stuck on 6 in the OUTLAND round I wondered if he too had OUTLAND. I thought it might have been a tactical error. At 23 points up, I think it's generally best to try and make the same spots as your opponent in any 50/50 calls. It's your opponent who needs to try and...

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On a similar culinary note. I've only recently found out when you cook a steak the redness oozing out is not blood it's myoglobin, found in muscle tissue I legitimately wonder if Michael Calder learned this fact shortly before he filmed the Series 42 grand final (featuring his famous declaration of...

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Is there a good place on here to record results for personal use, as it is probably the best place for me to do so? I use an excel spreadsheet if that's what you're referring to :) Ah cool thx for that! :) It's actually very fun, you can organise it in all sorts of ways - scores against contestants...

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Tom S wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:47 pm Is there a good place on here to record results for personal use, as it is probably the best place for me to do so?

I use an excel spreadsheet if that's what you're referring to

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I like Tom's reports and think I would miss them if they stopped. Oh, don't get me wrong, it's good that he comments nicely on the game in general terms and would encourage more people to do this - I just think that publicly displaying every day that he (more often than not) beats both players whil...

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Cracking game to watch today - Sam you were amazing, LATERISED especially being a brilliant spot and on a different day you could definitely have won a few. Take nothing from Chris though, he did very well to hold his nerves even when it looked like he was going to the slaughterhouse. Good job Sam o...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:26 pm Bumped this to create (hopefully) some debate.
Would you be more inclined to play Scrabble more if the consonants and vowels were in seperating bags ?

I quite like this idea tbh. Sort of a mish mash of scrabble and countdown. Would probably prefer them to alter the letters distribution too.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:22 am To be fair the singing by all of them is not a problem it's the songs that are dire.

Fully agree with this.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 5:09 pm ^^ Good post.

Seconded.

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Tom S wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:22 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:27 pm
Tom S wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:58 pm My play was off today- but thankfully Chris did not take me to a crucial.
It would have been an absolutely disaster if he had I'm sure, that really would have tarnished the reputation of everyone here.
Haha lol- good sense of personality

Sarcasm is my middle name

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Very sad indeed. Condolences to his family and friends.

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Tom S wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:58 pm My play was off today- but thankfully Chris did not take me to a crucial.

It would have been an absolutely disaster if he had I'm sure, that really would have tarnished the reputation of everyone here.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:56 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:24 pm Some horrible selections today - no doubt due to mass consonant picking.
And six smalls...

(Actually I don't mind six smalls, but are difficult rounds always a bad thing?)

Not necessarily, horrible should be taken to mean unfruitful here.

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You mean the same habit that got us a 175 max on Friday? :P The only beater today was DUELLIST/GUILLETS -- did anyone here max the DUELLIST round? Meh, it's still a fact that a lot of rounds have been strangled due to picking 6 consonants without fruitful vowels. I have been frustrated at the end o...

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Some horrible selections today - no doubt due to mass consonant picking. You mean the same habit that got us a 175 max on Friday? :P The only beater today was DUELLIST/GUILLETS -- did anyone here max the DUELLIST round? Meh, it's still a fact that a lot of rounds have been strangled due to picking ...

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Some horrible selections today - no doubt due to mass consonant picking.

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UNTHREADS to beat THUNDERS ARRONDI to beat ORDAIN Wish they'd start picking more vowels, mind...that last round was screaming for ATOMISED... I was screaming for an I in R4 for SEALPOINT. But some are just like that. Left UNTRASHED in the UNTHREADS round so a good false anagram to remember. Or E fo...

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UNTHREADS to beat THUNDERS
ARRONDI to beat ORDAIN

Wish they'd start picking more vowels, mind...that last round was screaming for ATOMISED...

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KARROID to equal KORADJI in Round 2. Was anyone else rather enraged when Chris went 6 small, given the circumstances? Very glad Rachel managed to come through on that one. Wasn't particularly really, the vast majority are possible and I doubt he new about the record max or whatever. It's sort of li...

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MISFARED in Round 8 for me! Yep, I got this too :) Mary's certainly able to hold her own, her only let down is her massive conundrum fallibility - she's not solved any and it's not as if she's had difficult conundrums either. Still, I reckon she's probably capable of octoing, and would love to see ...

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:51 pm MIDLIFE + Z = FILMIZED for a R11 beater.

Completely missed this - excellent spot.

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I notice that the champion asked for one large and five small in the last numbers game. Maybe she got a telling off in the break for always doing it the wrong way round, and quite rightly too. I noticed this - and have to say for some absurd reason it felt really wrong the other way around. I think...

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Tom S wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:50 pm Though 888 was a bit of a bad miss considering the fact that he had 811 which was a bit more complex.

Have to pick on this - what method did you use that was so complex? There was plenty of easy methods available. I'd say the 888 was harder.

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Surprised Susie didn't extend Mary's NOTATE to ANNOTATE in R1. Bad miss! I was doubting as to whether I was seeing a phantom letter there :D I doubt she missed it - she likely just didn't want to embarrass Mary and so withheld it. If she did miss it though then meh, it's much easier to do sat at ho...

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LOWAGER in R13...what a shame Jacob fell at the last hurdle! The episode was recorded at about 2030hrs-ish back on Monday, 23 October 2017 so yeah maybe that explains why... Hate to disappoint but no lowager....LOWAGES though. Does anyone else ever think it'd be amusing if they invited all those gu...

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Last nums alt: (10*9-7)*4

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Very horrendous rounds today - a max of only 118, which I would have got had I seen QUIRLED and not gone for the invalid CLIQUED:(

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Also, when Susie says "I think there might be an X...I'll have another look" does she ever actually do this or is it just to save face at the fact there might be an obvious word she's missed? I've never seen them pan back to her.

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Anyone else screaming for a vowel in round 13...?

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Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:37 pm Can anyone explain to me why ROMANITE and TIMEOUT are allowed? Because ROMANITE has a capital R and TIMEOUT is two separate words.

The free dictionary is not really the best source to check dodgy words. I'd just stick to apterous as a source in future

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VOLUMED for Round 2...surprising DC missed this. I risked that one though... I considered this strongly but bottled it to be honest. Gonna mention that my dad found RHEOSTAT before me, which is an impressive spot for someone who doesn't practise at all save watching the show in an evening. He's get...

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Sean Fletcher wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2018 7:27 pm 1 is POSTRENAL

Yup!:)

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