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Matt Morrison wrote:
sean d wrote:Australia. Sydney Olympics. Claimed to be the Irish archery team while hanging out with a bunch of Ozzies pretending to be the Australian beach volleyball crew.
FTFY

megalolz Matt, gg wp.

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I make it 22 countries. The asterisks are for countries I’ve been to football matches in, cos that’s how I roll. UK [3***], Ireland [2**] (see what I did there?) Spain, Portugal (family hols and a couple of other trips to Spain) USA (work, but with some touristy bits. Almost got shot in New York) Au...

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I too am amazed by the Nasty 3L revelation! I guess, as Jon suggests, the smaller large numbers are more flexible. For starters multplying any two of 25, 50, 75 and 100 immediately catapults you way out of potential target range, where 12 x 37 = 444 or 12 x 62 = 744 are immediately usable. Experienc...

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Just catching up on last week's show. Did anyone else notice an incorrect answer in the missing vowels round? Under Italian football teams they accepted a pronunciation along the lines of the INTERNACIONAL for INTERNAZIONALE, a 'French' sounding pronunciation which crucially omits the final syllable...

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A group tried to do this on the Irish lottery about fifteen or so years ago, but wasn't (?) the flaw in their plan that while they did cover all the combinations (I think it was the 13 million or so from the 1-49 model), they didn't (well, couldn't) cater for which numbers came out; as it happened,...

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Anyone know if Egghaeds gets repreated?

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As I'm sure you well know Jim, this award has always suffered from having "Personality" in it's title rather than something more suitable, like as you say "Achievement" or maybe "Performance". Ironically enough it might be Mr. Fury's "personality" that may ro...

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Surely crazy golf is played using matchplay scoring. Unless you're playing crazy golf on your own.

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Here's the list, that's to Thomas for the tip on working it out via Apterous lexplorer: A: 28 9-letter words with 4 As, including my personal favourite MWAHAHAHA B: 13 9-letter words with 3 Bs, including COBWEBBED, BLABBERED etc C: 1 9-letter word with 4 Cs: CACHECTIC D: 1 9-letter word with 4 Ds: D...

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Are we going to get an answer for this one Jim?

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Not too much activity around here, but let’s see if there’s any interest in this anyway. Prompted by facing a conundrum on paterous featuring 4 L’s (ILLEGALLY) I’m wondering what’s the biggest number of recurrences of the same letter you can have in a valid 9 letter word, for each letter. i.e. what’...

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This is extraordinarily exciting, if I'm entirely honest! And Eddy has saved me the bother of trying to organise one, so big thumbs up.

All cross-channel visitors will be force fed Guinness and potatoes for the duration. Whether the spuds are cooked first is at the discretion of the host.

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Jack Worsley wrote:I don't think you were even the worst contestant of the week you were on.

http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5844

Jeez. I remember that one. A strong opponent could easily have whitewashed her.

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How many times have 3 or 4 different numbers combinations (ie 1L 2L 3L 4L 6S) been selected in the one game?

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Dunno about anyone else on here, but for me "champion hammered in first round of CoC " > "champion avoided CoC"

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Yes, if someone fluked the correct answer during their working Rachel would just affirm it. It's a minor irritation of mine that Rachel can be quite leading when writing up someone's solution, especially when someone is clearly unsure. You'll often hear a contestant start with an an almost apologeti...

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down, it seems

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This has to go down as the most disappointing thread ever...

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Funny enough I raised question 6 almost word for word in the studio last year. When seated before recording I asked if I could write down the 75 times tables (I actually planned to write reminders for some of the 4 large tricks but I thought it was easier to say 75 times tables, and the principle is...

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BEATLESROK ... STROKEABLE

MINIONSECT
COMEINTRAP
CRATEOCUNT

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STRAWBERRY GEOGRAPHIC PLAYGROUND

FUCKINGRON
GHOULASSES
CUNTRACKER

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Looks like Apterous is down this morning....
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/apterous.org

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Looking down, from here.

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Obvious really, but any of those cnuts who insert themselves into a transaction as a third party purely to take an undeserved slice of the action, including but not limited to recruitment consultants, insurance brokers, estate agents, football agents England goalkeepers Men who wear pink Men who wea...

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I have it.... Professor Plum, in the library, lead piping

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On the subject of keepers, Ireland's third registered keeper at Italia 90 was Niall Quinn. Not sure if you'd get away with that these days

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On the subject of keepers, Ireland's third registered keeper at Italia 90 was Niall Quinn. Not sure if you'd get away with that these days

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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 f...

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Though I am primarily a Dundalk fan, like most Irish people I grew up with an interest in English football. I followed Liverpool from a young age (I grew up in the 80s, what do you expect). From the early 90s I was a semi-regular visitor to Anfield. Later in the mid-90s I spent a year working in Eng...

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Unfortunately I only spotted this thread now

Did anyone win big with these fine selections?

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After 25 odd years I've just discovered that Paul Simon is actually calling someone Betty, not Daddy, in You Can Call Me Al. Mind=blown.
"I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al"

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Though it's a tiny sample I'd be interested to see if Jonathan Rawlinson's tactic of always picking 5 vowels conferred any advantage ( as defined above). 5 vowels seems like an area where a regular practicer could gain a small advantage over the general population

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Cheat of the Year. Competitive category and Abdi won't get a look in

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I'm with Ian on this one. Disappointed to see not a single player v player game. This looks like a Practice Performance of the Year vote rather than Game of the Year vote.
Which is better, a round of 62 when practicing golf or a 68 to win a tournament?

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If you're shocked by the odds in a lottery then truly you are easily shocked. Or completely lacking in understanding of probability and/or lotteries.

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Welcome Andrew. As has been said above get on to Apterous. It's brilliant and in four/five weeks you could easily improve your game by 20%. It provides great stats to show what words you miss etc and gives the opportunity to play semi competitively against 200 odd other enthusiasts of varying abilit...

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Welcome Andrew. As has been said above get on to Apterous. It's brilliant and in four/five weeks you could easily improve your game by 20%. It provides great stats to show what words you miss etc and gives the opportunity to play semi competitively against 200 odd other enthusiasts of varying abilit...

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looks to be down alright

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Stephen there are other profit guaranteeing combos but avoid playing for a month and stick 10 grand on the first two options other than yourself, 4 grand on the next then 1,500 and 1,000 on the others. Guaranteed profit of min 49 big ones. Any bank or venture capitalist will be happy to back you

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One more spoiler note

I had Darude for Sandstorm, not sure if it in the Word doc, as I'm on my phone. Was a big dance track at the time and crossed over to the mainstream

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Great quiz Peter. Thanks.

I picked up the same extra artist as Matt in his spoiler, not too obscure if you were into that scene at the time!

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Certainly appears to still be down.

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Alas contestants are furnished with guidelines for such t hings, not rules. And the guidelines come with the caveat that each case will be taken on its merits.

Fwiw Fainer / fainest are both invalid on Apterous, surprisingly. I feel Apterous tends to be a little more accomodating than countdown too.

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It's a pity that Ciaran, Mark and Pete are likely to run into each other, specially so as this series seems unlikely to be as Apto heavy as last.

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Great stuff Graeme. Now the obvious follow up.... who has appeared with most different hosts /guests etc?

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A max game is a max game, even if you have a futile stab at an impossible round.

A "perfect" game is something else entirely, imo. ie the top possible score in every round, so 200 point NA or CA or a theoretical 230 point 15 rounded or 360 point LA (that's a challenge for Conor).

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Blog link AP? Not sure if I wanna get inside your mind though!

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A superb run to the semis from Bradley and he kept right up with Dylan to the end. Good to see he had the balls to go 6 small at the end ( though it arguably plays to Dylan's strength there was no point in going 1 large). Dylan is top notch but you feel he could do with having 10+ points lead after ...

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Travers
Horace
Matt Morrison

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Some players use 5V to simplify / reduce variability in letters rounds. (There are only 5 different vowels so obviously less variety, if you play a lot of 5V you'll get used to spotting lots of 7 letter words with 4 vowels, for example) A bit like using 4 large numbers it doesn't make it easier but ...

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Not winning a game is the new black. Octochampdom is so passe.

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Great set of knockout games in prospect. Is it too late/pointless to say good luck Gemma! Hopefully the hard work on Apterous will help her to at least keep Dylan close

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Great that it's coming back, but if they try to increase the chat/question one iota, I'll be pretty displeased. Yes, the joy of it was getting 100 odd questions into 20 whatever minutes. They even introduced the contestants during the opening titles, no messing around, no banter, no colourful back ...

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Excellent. I loved 15 to 1 almost as much as Countdown back in my student days. Bill McCaig's 433 was immense!

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On the Apto v Countdown thing, I'd be interested to see how many letters rounds feature 9 different letters in each format I expect it's considerably higher on the show.

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It was partly investigated on the Ask Graeme thread, and coincidentally Jack Hurst raised the issue again over the weekend. Hopefully Graeme will get a chance to look into it. I'd suggest you less often see clumps of letters on the show possibly for the aesthetic and audience friendly reason that a ...

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A couple of other points... personally speaking I'm a lot more likely to give myself the benefit of the doubt watching on tv in terms of selecting a safe 7 or dodgy 8. Also you lose time online typing and deciding what to declare. There's much more pressure online when you're playing another person ...

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A couple of issues... Many many words have multiple definitions, presumably any definition in the dictionary would be acceptable. In the case of SET or PLAY or HEAD there could be a dozen or more. If you're given a choice of four definitions are you expected to know all possible definitions? eg I se...

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Mark has it right about the parameters of the game. Clearly it's perfectly valid to learn word lists for a word recognition contest. Robert has a point about the spirit of the game though. Personally I find it much more satisfying to find a winner it a word I know. I feel a bit of a fraud playing UA...

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22. I have a maths degree and had considered myself fairly geeky but it appears I'm a Conference level maths geek ( see, a football reference, points away for that)

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