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If any "well-known" name gets the job it could be a disaster. To anyone who doesn't follow football through Sky Jeff Stelling was completely unknown and thus a breath of fresh air. What he has done is made the show much more about the contestants and less about the presenter than anyone el...

Interesting. In the last series Andrew Mossford had a second go having been wrongly denied a victory in series 63 against Tom Rowell. His reward? To be pitched in against Ed McCullogh. And now James's reward for also receiving a dodgy decision is to be put in the path of another player who's obvious...

John Bosley wrote:So the new competitor gets airtime to witter about going to Lourdes (and I thought he meant to watch the cricket!) and Dev's wife does some palm reading. We will be having payers in Countdown next.

Payers? Are you suggesting Damian will soon be accepting bribes for a place on the show?

I like the thoughtful way the op hides Ed as winner of series 64 just in case someone had yet to watch the previous Friday's final. Showing Adam in the reserves list might just have been a clue though....

Just watched the second semi and the final back-to-back and have to say Ed timed his run brilliantly. Great end to a very good series. Congratulations to both players, not only for the high standard but for the spirit in which the game was played. With Jeff leaving after the next series hopefully th...

Not as depressing as to not make it to a second game at all, and whilst we don't know why Graham Hill couldn't make it - he could be ill for exanmple or have a family crisis - I'd be staggered if it was because he was worried about losing.

I've always hoped that if someone offers "Urinating" Susie will reply "But there's no P in the selection...."

Yes, not been able to get on since yesterday aternoon; just hangs, doesn't even come to an error message. Must be the effects of the ash cloud.

Only just been able to catch up with this.

Very well done Tom, not just on the preformances but how you came across. Looking forward to seeing the finals.

Then you have Eggheads Daphne Fowler, who appears as a "sweet old granny" but is one of the most ruthless quiz competitors ever, she shows no mercy and rightly so. I agree with the sentiment, but how do you show mercy on Eggheads? Very easily. The whole thing is entirely fiddlable ("...

well played Tom. But while theres no way someone as good as you would ever lose to a 60+ year old woman who's only practice comes from watching on TV, you could have just declared the same as her on a few rounds when you were way ahead. That would have been the nice thing to do (thats what Keith wo...

You have to feel sorry for Christine, wouldn't wish that on anyone. But when someone like her comes on it makes me wonder why the Production team will not reconsider the rule insisting somebody can't have a second go (except in exceptional circumstances). Presumably they would say they get enough pe...

She's managed to take it a stage further at the parade last Tuesday

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebri ... -fans.html

I'll bet James wishes the Terriers' directors could say the same about the playoffs

Yeah it's been discussed in the spoiler thread already, Keith. The article is actually all around the web - I've stumbled upon two today already without even trying to (one was on the Metro website, can't remember where the other was). Seems to be one of those ones where the text is pretty much the...

Just saw this from Tom's first show on Tuesday:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011 ... -countdown


Don't know about anyone else but was so busy failing to solve it I never noticed what it spelt out at the time.

DRATTED in the RATTED round?

Must say after all that build-up I was expecting at least a max game and and announcement that Tony had copped off with Rachel. Bet Adam and Ed are pissing themselves in case he gets seeded. My wife, totally out of the blue (without knowing anything that has been drip-fed to us on here by today's co...

I wouldn't wait for a response Charlie - just get it deleted (and our subsequent replies).

Dan McColm wrote:Today's challenger is my ex-girlfriend's sister's friend. She cheated in her phone audition.

That's a fairly bold assertion on a public message board Dan, especilly one visited in the past by the show's producer.

Ryan Taylor wrote:Is there a thread on procrastination already?

No, but I might start one tomorrow.

Brilliant as it was that Rachel spotted 704 is (15*47)-1, 16 x 44 i.e. (50-6) x (9+7) is much simpler.

What timezone are you lot on? You seem to have posted all this by 3.00pm, and the show isn't on until 10 past.

Or are you just psychic? If so please share tomorrow's winning lottery numbers with us....

Heard David Spikey in Manchester early last year and he was brilliant, but as a result some of what he subsequently used on Countdown on his last visit was familiar. But that's inevitable. Much prefer him to the likes of Durden Smith and that Irish investigative bloke who was on a few weeks ago. Loo...

Well, I did set up a comment on an Anglo Italian game

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=425588

which drew one person in, but I'm not even sure he realised he'd been had. There weren't many people around at the time unfortunately.

I do get irritated when the hosts put pressure on people with a maths degree, or similar, in the numbers rounds. Maths and arithmetic, certainly mental arithmetic, are quite different. I know because I am married to someone who breezed maths at every level and has a degree in it, yet who is no bette...

Have to feel sorry for a couple of the people who lost to Andy in the last few days; they would surely have beaten either of these two quite easily.

Call me cynical but I suspect they were determined to get another lady champion somehow, and this was the easiest way to achieve it.

I've just realised that between the start of the show and the first advert break on both yesterday and today i only dropped one point, and then i get progressively worse. Instead of the 15 round format, maybe a 5 round format would best suit me Given that Ned P seemed to specialise in failing to sc...

If whatever replaces rolling rankings is better, fine, and I agree that the bots are clearly under-rated under the present calculations. The point I was making was merely that it's very useful having an easily visible guide to who is currently online, whether playing or not, and the comparative stre...

Only been here a few weeks and not seen the new version yet, whch is fine. Would like to offer a couple of comments about ratings and the start of a game. Firstly in looking for/at challenges the rating list seems a very useful guide as it is currently shown (except when someone deliberately crashes...

I've thought in the past that one or two talented young players went on the show a year or two too soon, and missed out on winning the series as a result. Andrew Perry was one if I remember correctly. In the last series Eoin was brilliant - but Jack was brilliant too and just that vital bit older, m...

Seems to me that every other contestant is either a Customer Services Adviser/Rep or from the Emerald Isle. And in some cases, both.

Glad Michelle won, that guy's insistence on calling 4 vowels straight off without seeing any consenants was driving me mad.

A few years ago I arranged the Noel Coward song Mad Dogs and Englishmen which contains the line "Even caribous lie around and snooze, for there's nothing else to do". Unfortunately he was only doing it to achieve a suitable rhyme (I'll leave you to speculate what caribou might lie around a...

Great play Edward. I hope you get (or got) through the week without that tiresome self-loving guy in DC beating you.

And if Fernando Torres goes down with food poisoning in the near future we'll know who'd invited him round for dinner....

Now as you will gather I haven't been here long but already have managed to upset the Gods of the Dictionaries on numerous occasions, and not always through optimistic spelling. No doubt some of these have already been mentioned but I haven't had time to trawl through the whole thread, so apologies....