Discuss anything that happened in recent games. This is the place to post any words you got that beat Dictionary Corner, or numbers games that evaded Rachel.
Rachel disallowed Ahmed's numbers solution because he said 100-8 and then wanted to change it to 100-9 but hadn't written it down. No consistency there. On another day that would have been perfectly acceptable.
Another silent buzz on the conundrum. Anyone else getting that? I don't know if it's anything to do with that power cut thing. About accidentally showing the wrong episode of a programme, here it says:
The channel blamed it on "ongoing tech issues" after technical problems at a broadcast centre resulted in several channels going off air on Saturday.
Channel 4 said its services were also having sound and subtitle problems.
Zero silent buzzers on my television in all editions I’ve seen, on Channel 4 HD, and on All4 on my iPad. When I wear headphones it’s louder on my left speaker and this this normal.
Also, consistentcy cannot and should not be expected in a programme that’s made over 7,700 shows. But I think they were right to disallow Ahmed’s solution on this occasion, as he hadn’t declared NWD before beginning to give his solution. It makes sense for refereeing to be stricter when you forget to say NWD.
Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:44 pm
Also, consistentcy cannot and should not be expected in a programme that’s made over 7,700 shows. But I think they were right to disallow Ahmed’s solution on this occasion, as he hadn’t declared NWD before beginning to give his solution. It makes sense for refereeing to be stricter when you forget to say NWD.
I wonder if he had just written it down the wrong way.
I don't mean that they shouldn't be allowed to change how things are done at all over about 40 years, but they should at some point settle on a way of doing things.
By the way, I'm pretty sure his method was (100-9)×8-50=678. It's what I did anyway.
Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:44 pm
It makes sense for refereeing to be stricter when you forget to say NWD.
100% this.
I also had a solution disallowed over a very similar slip. So it is consistent, but just so rare that that precise situation pops up, to a casual fan it might seem as though the are making it up as they go along.
Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:44 pm
It makes sense for refereeing to be stricter when you forget to say NWD.
100% this.
I also had a solution disallowed over a very similar slip. So it is consistent, but just so rare that that precise situation pops up, to a casual fan it might seem as though the are making it up as they go along.
I don't know. Just because it happened on two occasions it doesn't mean it happened on all the occasions. See this discussion. And this. So Coral Heath and James Martin got away with it. I make that 2-2.
Maybe those episodes would be worth a rewatch just to compare properly.
I have noticed Rachel giving the tiniest bit of leeway with nums... but not much. It's pretty consistent.