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Ryan Taylor

Here are a few apologies that I feel are in order: Sorry to Dan for upsetting you. Sorry to Matt for throwing a pool cue at you. Sorry to Dylan who I didn't acknowledge once all day to keep up this "feud" I have with him. Sorry to the landlady who I promised I'd evacuate the pub in a nice ...

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I think you should state in the title of the thread that it contains spoilers. SPOILER WARNING JUST IN CASE I hope this is a joke. I considered doing this but then realised it's in the spoilers thread so that's a given! I never really browse the forum by the sections on it. I only ever click "...

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Well played Innis - excellent consistency. Just a quick query about tactics...when you're 8 behind, is going 4 large a wise tactic? Ultimately it then meant Adam was 15 behind and was now desperately trying to get within 10...something which is very hard to do against Innis! I did think Adam would ...

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I think you should state in the title of the thread that it contains spoilers. SPOILER WARNING JUST IN CASE Yep I very much liked SLUGFEST. And SULFATES too. I liked: Tournoff and Deller both picking up LIFEBOAT Hulme's DEADBOLT McCullagh/Rawlinson's NEOTENY Rowell's PARADIGM Hawkins' NEUROSIS and V...

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Great game. Well done to Adam for not completely losing it after Innis opened with a frigging 9! The 8's in Round 2 from you both were excellent and made me want to chuck down my pen being 26-0 down to Innis. Unfortunately the game was ultimately decided on the COGITABLE spot with you matching each ...

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I thought Adam might have had that 9 the way his eyes momentarily shifted from the letters board at one point. I knew there was a 9 but couldn't remember it. Recognised the string of letters and everything but just couldn't quite remember the word

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For those who like their crosswords non-cryptic, he's a hard but non-cryptic one I made for my family: PDF file . Ryan, do you want me to host your one so people don't have to mess about with that Mediafire nonsense? Will have a look at yours in the New Year. And if you are able to do that for me t...

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Just to update this thread a bit. I had a handful of entries for this all of which were correct so well done to those people. Phil (Reynolds) got back to me first round about half an hour before Michael (Wallace) did. Still not really got around to a prize of sorts but I'll come up with something by...

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Disgusting performance from Chris! I don't think anyone would have stood a chance against that. PINNULE, ISOGAMY, ECSTATIC, the 6 small solve and that conundrum solve were incredible. Strongest competitor I've seen so far in the Championship and surely a hot favourite for the Grand Final now? Was th...

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Adam Gillard wrote:Did anyone watching at home solve the conundrum before Chris? I don't think any of the Countdowners in the audience did.

Nor me. I "buzzed" on 3 seconds with HYPOMATIC.

Very good solve. And what a game. Great standard of play from both Martin and Chris!

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Some great spots from Chris today particularly the back-to-back NEUROSIS and VIHUELAS. However, as good as these were, there were the odd misses (ANNULETS, ENDGAME, BROMIDES and perhaps that PETTINGS round) which would most certainly be costly against someone with the consistency of Mark Tournoff or...

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Michelle Nevitt should be much lower down.

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Ben Wilson wrote:EDIT: Oh, and I'm still in need of copious amounts of copies of the board game and the ODE3.

I can provide 2 sets. And Michelle can bring the ODE3.

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It was great to finally see such a legend on TV for once and beating Mark for the first time on Apterous was definitely one of my highlights. In fact, even Innis said one day as we played "Wow! Mark Tournoff's just entered the room!" So here's hoping you can stay a bit longer! :D And on a...

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Awesome show. Terrific standard. Thrilling finish. Much enjoyed. Bravo gents!

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Why wouldn't it just be Paris/France? Seems too easy! I'm pretty sure it is Paris/France. When I was doing that one I was anticipating finding someone with a surname that was the capital of one of the countries I had. I'd got Anatole France but didn't get as far as Matthew Paris so since that fits ...

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WARNING: THIS LINK CONTAINS SPOILERS. Updated with today's game. Great game but this is a tad harsh, and I'm not that much of a cad! http://rhysbenjamin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-boom.html "Cue an idiotic scene when trying to pick the numbers"? Bit uncalled for, parti...

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Martin Long wrote:Another awesome game as expected.

Can someone provide me with the 2nd numbers game selection please? I was channel-hopping when Origins of Words came on and didn't switch back over in time.

75 3 5 7 9 4 > 359

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Tidbit of an interesting fact: a final vowel pick in R1 would have given DEATHLIKE for 9.

Terribly excited by this contest today. Enjoying it already!

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Spoilers for Question 7: If you write out those letters in order in a 10x10 grid and then read down the columns from left to right you get this: http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/200/question7.png So that is: "About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news with many cheerful facts abou...

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For those who like their crosswords non-cryptic, he's a hard but non-cryptic one I made for my family: PDF file . Ryan, do you want me to host your one so people don't have to mess about with that Mediafire nonsense? Will have a look at yours in the New Year. And if you are able to do that for me t...

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As well as the Big Fat Quiz I've done a Christmas Crossword. I think I go with most conventions of cryptic crossword writing although I possibly break one or two rules. Have a crack at it and send me your solutions. First correct entry to me will win a prize (probably a pint at COLIN). Download from...

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http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/239/20121224160006.jpg (Thank you for these Scrabble fridge magnets Santa). Mine was addressed to Rychelle and was wrapped very nicely (although I suspect Amazon wrapped it). I opened them on Skype with Michelle and we both can't wait until we have a place of our ...

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Bit of an input from me. Not watched huge amounts of the series but did manage to see at least a couple of games from each of the 8 finalists (and most of the full runs in cases). Extremely good competition throughout the series and anyone could have won it. For quite a long period of the first Quar...

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Following on from last year's freebie, I'm now selling my Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2012 for a small fee of £10. It is packed with music, events, films and sporting achievements of the year presented in a style whereby the questions are asked in a unique way and in a fun style. It has 5 questions for...

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Chris Marshall wrote:The audience got it as intercept.

Yes, I "buzzed" with this too. Although Michelle was the only one in the audience to solve this but Jay wouldn't allow her to answer since we were due to record.

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A final pick of a vowel in Round 12 would have given ZEUGMATIC, never before seen on Countdown.

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Jon Corby wrote:Person who gets it right sets the next one, and so on.

Gonna pull down your defences
Tear you apart
My laser guided love-beam's headed straight for your heart

Did you ever find out what this song was?

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WANNESS beater in R4.

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You did brilliantly and were so cool with all your answers and said everything so modestly...although I can't say the same for your captain, sorry, whose whole persona made me want to punch him in the face.

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And Caroline B who was one of my opponents when I was on Blockbusters is also on it and it was both Caroline and Jordan who got switched off by those twins in that last choice between the final 4.

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Me and Michelle got 119 combined. We think we missed the max in R13 - possibly AFOULS?

Scorecard below:

1. QUICK
2. GENOME
3. OUTDID
4. MEATUS
5. 5*100-75-3+50/25
6. NOUNAL
7. ASTRAY
8. HARMONIST
9. CAPTIVE
10. 4*(100-8)-25+6
11. IODIZER
12. SAUNTER
13. LOUSE
14. 6*9*(9+4/4)+6
15. OOGENESIS

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Jessica, everyone else who loses does so without whining. Quoted for posterity Mark "I Should Never Have Fucking Lost to Carl Fucking Williams" Deeks :P . Hey, it's Countdown, something we're all pretty passionate about like Jessica is. It hurts to lose at something that you are passionat...

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The Round Britain Quiz is back on today at 3pm! Woo! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qxpr

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Maybe I've not watched enough episodes to see examples of them throwing questions but it just seems unfair if they do that (or are told to do that) and I would like to think it doesn't happen!

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Wouldn't say they throw the questions but the questions in the celebrity editions are certainly tailored for the celebrities that are on, which is fine really as it is for charity. E.g. a question requiring knowledge of a minor character and who plays her in Emmerdale in the final chase and whaddya ...

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Booked! But only for the Saturday night. The Friday night sale rate was coming up as £29.00 and then the Saturday was £19.50. But then strangely if you just did a normal search without following their nice big red 'Price Drop' link it came up as £19.00. Strange. Also, strange is the fact that almost...

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Adam Dexter wrote:Any idea of what time it's going to start? Trying to work out if I'll be able to travel up in the morning, or whether I'll need to come on the preceding day.

Mike Brown wrote:The day is likely to follow a similar timetable to COLIN, i.e. starting around 11 or 12 and ending about 6

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Karen Pearson wrote:Finally made it to a hoigh score of 36 to earn a gold medal today!

Got 36 too Karen! I was better at this one than the hurdles.

Ryan Taylor

What's your fastest time on the Google today? I managed a 13.2s.

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Adam Gillard wrote:Bedtime Teaser 4
SELLCUES

Heh, I didn't notice this before, very nice.

Ryan Taylor

Ha, that's excellent work Graeme, dunno how you do it! I look like I want to kill Simon Mayo. About 90% of comments so far have been about my bloody accent! The WOES ("wurze") answer (or rather not answer) had been cut down a bit...there was a lot of Simon Mayo asking me what I said, maybe...

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Jordan Leckonby wrote:is this event still happening?

Yes.

Ryan Taylor

I don't get the Ryan Taylor references. Someone explain please?

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The Countdown wiki has most of the historical information. Assuming you may have spelt her surname wrong, she didn't do too great.

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Maybe.

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I hadn't heard of this until I saw a few people commenting on it and saying how shit it was - Ryan, Jason, and Jayne W. Doesn't even sound worth watching once. This is the first I've heard about it. Personally I don't really watch TV quiz shows much any more so I'm out the loop with what is new and...

Ryan Taylor

Brilliant final you guys! Much enjoyed and appreciated. You both deserved to be there and even though it wasn't as high scoring as you'd both hope for, I kind of enjoyed it better that way. It was good seeing you beat each other in numerous rounds, Jack's numbers, Jawlinson's PITHOI (lovely) etc. Wh...

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He looks more like Dylan Taylor.

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Rebral Palsy

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Nice recap! Enjoyed it

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Jesus, 14 max game in debut? Sick man. DREADFUL was a beautiful spot and ARONIA too.

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Down for me, and looks like it's everyone: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.apterous.org

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*pubic

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Mark James wrote:Unless maybe your an idiot

Sorry! Had to be done.

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This. Why are people happy to spend this much or more every month on phone contracts? It's like they've been brainwashed or something. Because it's cheaper? Thought that was pretty obvious. :roll: Did people used to spend this much on the phone at home? I only ever approached such huge outlay on ph...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17958274

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
David Williams wrote:I probably top up less than £10 a year.
This. Why are people happy to spend this much or more every month on phone contracts? It's like they've been brainwashed or something.

Because it's cheaper? Thought that was pretty obvious.

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