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Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:13 pm**

I got OILFIELDS last week in a 10-sec game which I was rather impressed with. I also got GADABOUTS but only after I saw Paul Howe get it in the singular.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:49 pm**

Classier.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:49 pm**

I think my best spot to date was RHEOSTATS, having not had cause to think about the word since doing A level physics.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:22 pm**

EUKARYOTE, or picking the final U for DEUTERIUM.

I quite like the words that come up as the best picks in goatdown sometimes, e.g. COWABUNGA, JUNKYARD, LIFEBUOY, SYSADMIN, BACCARAT, TRITHEISM and so on.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:33 pm**

BARGEPOLE, definitely.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:40 pm**

Innis Carson wrote:BARGEPOLE, definitely.

Ha, I remember that. Mine's probably PARTRIDGE, RHATANIES or COMELIEST.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:53 pm**

Mine has to be AEPYORNIS.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:49 pm**

Probably PSORIASIS in a regular letters round.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:40 pm**

In any game, QUANTISER in goatdown probably. I chose the S (was going for URINATES till I remembered that it took a Q, otherwise I'd of course gone Z).

In a 15 rounder, SCIAENID.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:11 pm**

I'd say DIDJERIDU would be the greatest spot ever.

Posted: **Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:38 pm**

I always like it when I "beat the dictionary" which is to say I get a word which clearly should be in there but isn't, but is longer than anything allowable. Once I got FANBASE (of course it's a word) but then there's the nine-letter DUMBARSES which is surely worthy of a medal.

Posted: **Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:21 pm**

ANHEDONIA (although it was Goatdown.)

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:23 pm**

KEIRETSU, REQUINTOS, BINDAAS and AVIRULENT (but only because this last one was against Corby and he had VIRULENT mu ha ha)

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:59 pm**

David O'Donnell wrote:KEIRETSU, REQUINTOS, BINDAAS and AVIRULENT (but only because this last one was against Corby and he had VIRULENT mu ha ha)

My "A" key doesn't work though.

(I cut and pasted that A from elsewhere. And these ones.)

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:55 pm**

proud of myself when i got MISSHAPED against David O'Donnell although i did get beat

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:36 pm**

I had NERDIEST today, made me happy. Actually i think i've had it before, tis quite a common letters combination? or would be on scrabble... nobody ever did answer my qu about countdown letter frequencies...

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:39 pm**

Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:proud of myself when i got MISSHAPED against David O'Donnell although i did get beat

Yeah, well done. My niner radar is a bit awful sometimes but luckily it's never gonna cost me.

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:57 pm**

Just got EUTHERIAN against Dinos. Been wanting to get it ever since I learnt it. Incidentally, it stems from HERNIA as such: HERNIA-HAIRNET-HAURIENT-EUTHERIAN.

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:24 pm**

Clare Sudbery wrote:I had NERDIEST today, made me happy. Actually i think i've had it before, tis quite a common letters combination? or would be on scrabble... nobody ever did answer my qu about countdown letter frequencies...

There's a topic on it somewhere, but I can't be bothered to try and find it

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:05 pm**

maybe you can just tell me if they have equal nums of all letters on countdown, yay or nay?

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:24 pm**

Clare Sudbery wrote:maybe you can just tell me if they have equal nums of all letters on countdown, yay or nay?

Take a guess.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:23 am**

Clare Sudbery wrote:maybe you can just tell me if they have equal nums of all letters on countdown, yay or nay?

Clearly not, otherwise you might expect on occasion to see Z, X, Q etc coming up more than once per game.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:08 pm**

Clare Sudbery wrote:maybe you can just tell me if they have equal nums of all letters on countdown, yay or nay?

There is a thread that Jim Bentley did, which mentioned the Letter Frequency for series 57.

Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:13 pm**

Has to be SPINNERET in round 1 of this game. I'd noted it, but wasn't convinced of the spelling, so I was going to declare SPINNER until Plum went first and declared a 9 so I decided I had to go for it. Turned out Plum's word wasn't in the selection so 18-0 to me.

I went to pieces towards the end of the game, but was pleased to get two 9s in the first 6 rounds.

Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:20 pm**

Phil Reynolds wrote:Has to be SPINNERET in round 1 of this game. I'd noted it, but wasn't convinced of the spelling, so I was going to declare SPINNER until Plum went first and declared a 9 so I decided I had to go for it. Turned out Plum's word wasn't in the selection so 18-0 to me.

Nice!

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:58 pm**

PANACEAS.

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:14 pm**

MIREPOIX

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:08 pm**

HENDIADYS

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:43 pm**

JALAPENOS!

Posted: **Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:02 pm**

Cornflake!
Except...
It's not a valid word

Posted: **Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:19 pm**

Neil Zussman wrote:Cornflake!
Except...
It's not a valid word

Yeah, that was so unlucky. it's odd coz I was thinking yesterday about CONFLATES (as you do) and then started wondering whether you could have CORNFLAKE. It's one crazy, crazy world.

Posted: **Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:15 pm**

Jimmy Gough wrote:I'd say DIDJERIDU would be the greatest spot ever.

I had that as a conundrum recently, saw it but typed the wrong first letter.

My best was INTERWOVE

Posted: **Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:32 pm**

Got ARBORETUM a few days ago, not sure whether or not it takes the title though.

Posted: **Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:51 pm**

Jimmy Gough wrote:
Neil Zussman wrote:Cornflake!
Except...
It's not a valid word
Yeah, that was so unlucky. it's odd coz I was thinking yesterday about CONFLATES (as you do) and then started wondering whether you could have CORNFLAKE. It's one crazy, crazy world.

Interesting. Cornflake was valid in the series where COD9 was the dictionary of choice.

Posted: **Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:10 pm**

Gary Male wrote:
Interesting. Cornflake was valid in the series where COD9 was the dictionary of choice.

Yeah, stupid ODE2r only lists CORNFLAKES as a plural noun. So what is one of them called?

Posted: **Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:24 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Gary Male wrote:
Interesting. Cornflake was valid in the series where COD9 was the dictionary of choice.
Yeah, stupid ODE2r only lists CORNFLAKES as a plural noun. So what is one of them called?

Frank Cole?

Posted: **Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:01 pm**

Probably OSCULATED.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 714#r71714

Posted: **Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:49 pm**

OSTRACIZE, with a Z.

Posted: **Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:56 pm**

Martin Gardner wrote:OSTRACIZE, with a Z.

As opposed to OSTRACIZE without a Z?

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 3:28 pm**

Update?

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 3:29 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:Update?

That's rubbish - you suck.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 3:48 pm**

Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Update?
That's rubbish - you suck.

UPDATING, on the other hand...

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 3:53 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Update?
That's rubbish - you suck.
UPDATING, on the other hand...

Hahaha you big gay.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 6:25 pm**

Still gotta be PAROCHIAL.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 7:15 pm**

Not being given free access to an easy archive of my own nines, I can't really tell you for sure, but HEINOUSLY ranks up there, as does MARTINET which secured a huge comeback.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 7:23 pm**

I think I'm the only person to have spotted MELIORIST, although it has come up a few times.

Edit - Actually Andrew Hulme has too, but he hadn't last time I checked.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 8:54 pm**

Mine, I think, was STUCCO. Not that it's long, but more that it's quite obscure, and was a catalyst in my greatest ever comeback. Maybe a "generous type" could do a handy link to my game?

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 9:08 pm**

I like the whole 'nines this person got' feature, saves me from having to trawl through my archive to find this one.

Non-goaty, it'd have to be this one or this one.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 9:13 pm**

Adam Dexter wrote:Mine, I think, was STUCCO. Not that it's long, but more that it's quite obscure, and was a catalyst in my greatest ever comeback. Maybe a "generous type" could do a handy link to my game?

I'm not generous yet (although I should have paypal funds by the time of my 1000th game, so that's how I'll celebrate), but I am smart.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 10:12 pm**

Can I ask nicely for people posting links to game records etc. on apterous to please use the www in front of the domain name (rather than just using apterous.org) as otherwise I have to scroll past adverts to get to the bit I'm supposed to be looking at.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 10:18 pm**

Well given that this thread was my idea I think I should pick the winner:

Take a bow Mr Briers, HENDIADYS it is!

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2009 12:13 am**

Phil Reynolds wrote:Can I ask nicely for people posting links to game records etc. on apterous to please use the www in front of the domain name (rather than just using apterous.org) as otherwise I have to scroll past adverts to get to the bit I'm supposed to be looking at.

hmm... let Charlie know about this. The cookie for the website should now be shared across both 'domains', avec 'www.' and sans 'www.' - though maybe you have to specifically log in to both, I dunno?

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2009 12:22 am**

APERITIFS. Only person to get this in normal (except for Paul Howe in a duel). FLINTLOCK in the same game was pretty good but it was a conundrum guess.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2009 7:41 pm**

ENDOSPERM from some game I can't be bothered to find. Also, I think I am the only human user to find either DIGICAM or DIGICAMS.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2009 9:30 pm**

Mine is probably arboretum in this game. On my opponents pick in a speed game as well. Only Innis has spotted it before, and the great Bevins missed it here! (admittedly several months ago).

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2009 9:49 pm**

Neil Zussman wrote:Mine is probably arboretum in this game. On my opponents pick in a speed game as well. Only Innis has spotted it before, and the great Bevins missed it here! (admittedly several months ago).

I definitely got it against my mom once. Maybe that was before the games got logged or something. It is a good word though.

Posted: **Wed May 13, 2009 10:55 pm**

PHENOMENA or SAMPHIRES I would say for me.

Posted: **Wed May 13, 2009 11:09 pm**

Usually, I panic if there's not an E in the selection, which is why I'm particularly pleased with UNITARILY and UNITARIST. Strangely, against the same player, and only a couple of days apart.

Posted: **Sat May 16, 2009 10:09 pm**

Updating my entry to GUAIACOL.

Posted: **Sat May 16, 2009 11:10 pm**

GUAIACOL is ridiculous!

I would say for me SIXTEENMO

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