Spoilers for Wednesday 1 June 2011

[Rhys Benjamin]

So, after a Breaker yesterday , Andy "The Gurner" McGurn barely has 5 minutes to breathe before facing Adam "The Stanmore supernova" Gillard, who's not actually closer to Edgware from my reckoning. Anyway....

Here are the stats:

Firstly, The Stanmore Supernova - 9 wins, 1020 points
Highest Score: 126 vs. Ray Li (3rd Game)
Lowest Score: 102 vs. Adam Manning (7th Game)
Total Points/Max/%: 87.0%
Conundrum Success: 7/9

Secondly, The Gurner - 9 wins, 791 points, not inclding TB.
Highest Score: 110 vs. Pam Hill (3rd Game)
Lowest Score: 64 vs. Adam Fleetwood (2nd Game)
Total Points/Max/%: 79.9%
Conundrum Success: 3/9 not including TB, 4/10 including.

Join....erm.... someone later on for today's recap.... or you can find the wiki version comes up a lot quicker.

[Jordan F]

For the record, my style of nicknames for these two would be Adam "I Have A Yamaka" Gillard and Andy "I Have The Gift Of Foreshadowing Female Semi-Finalists" McGurn.

[Adam Gillard]

Adam "The Stanmore supernova" Gillard, who's actually closer to Edgware from my recogning. Anyway....

Your "recogning" is wrong. I live in Stanmore. If you're going to stalk me, at least get the facts straight.

For the record, my style of nicknames for these two would be Adam "I Have A Yamaka" Gillard and Andy "I Have The Gift Of Foreshadowing Female Semi-Finalists" McGurn.

Heh was expecting you to come up with that. It's "yarmulke", "yarmulka", "kippah", "kippa", "kipah", "kippa" or "kipa" by the way. ODE couldn't decide how to spell it either.

[Oliver Garner]

Round 8 - PERENTIE

[Oliver Garner]

Round 13 - INFOWARS

[Rhys Benjamin]

PECCARIES in Round 2
PERENTIE in Round 8
INFOWARS in Round 13
3rd Numbers alt: 75 x 8 - 25

[Eoin Monaghan]

Well played today Adam, a solid performance. Andy was a great contestant as well. Well done on keeping the centuries up.

[Ryan Taylor]

PECCARIES in Round 2

I think that Innis was probably the only one in the audience who spotted this during the round.

[Liam Tiernan]

PECCARIES in Round 2
PERENTIE in Round 8
INFOWARS in Round 13
3rd Numbers alt: 75 x 8 - 25

WOW Fantastic spots, Rhys.
And posted only FIFTEEN minutes after the Recap.
Performance of the day

[Rhys Benjamin]

Well, as I said yesterday, I did exactly what James does/did - reveal the answers. The only genuine one I got was the numbers on Monday.

[Martin Gardner]

Good game from Adam after making a mess of round 1.

First numbers alt: (5*10+4+5+8)*9

Second numbers, one away: (50+25+1)*2*5+7

Very good spot on a hard conundrum. Good game, albeit not as competitive as I would have liked.

Martin

[Liam Tiernan]

Well, as I said yesterday, I did exactly what James does/did - reveal the answers. The only genuine one I got was the numbers on Monday.

That's not what James does. He's only telling us what words he himself has spotted .

[Rhys Benjamin]

Erm.... yes he does.

[Ryan Taylor]

James just posts the words he spots himself in the spoiler threads and will explicitly say if he didn't spot a particular beater.

[Andy McGurn]

Andy was a great contestant as well.

Thanks Eoin. My girlfriend was a huge fan of yours in series 63.

I had a great time on the show, i surpassed my expectations by a huge mile. It was great to be there for the finals and meet some of the community. Josh, Oli, Richard, Marcus and the others who i didn't get much of a chance to talk to it was great to meet you all. Hopefully i'll attend a CO event at some point and meet you all properly.

Plenty of top things to say about the other finalists too, but i'll wait until the final is broadcast so as to avoid spoilers.

[Adam Gillard]

Thanks Eoin and Martin. I second what Andy said. It was a pleasure meeting you and Rekha (sorry if spelling is wrong) too. Andy, you were a worthy opponent and I enjoyed seeing flashes of your quick wit, especially the "horrible conundrums" bit at the start of today's show.

[Gavin Chipper]

For the record, my style of nicknames for these two would be Adam "I Have A Yamaka" Gillard and Andy "I Have The Gift Of Fores

I don't like where this is going.

hadowing Female Semi-Finalists" McGurn.

Oh I see. (Actually I don't really get any of it.)

I was hoping for SPECCIER^ in round two or whatever it was but apparently not. But I got the numbers that only Rachel did (the same way).

[Oliver Garner]

PERENTIE in Round 8
INFOWARS in Round 13
3rd Numbers alt: 75 x 8 - 25

WOW Fantastic spots, Rhys.
And posted only FORTY-EIGHT minutes after I posted them above.
Performance of the day

The third numbers - WOW, aren't you amazing!!!!!

[Adam Gillard]

PERENTIE in Round 8
INFOWARS in Round 13
3rd Numbers alt: 75 x 8 - 25

WOW Fantastic spots, Rhys.
And posted only FORTY-EIGHT minutes after I posted them above.
Performance of the day

The third numbers - WOW, aren't you amazing!!!!!

Give Rhys a break, Oliver, Liam et al. I think he was just collating the various beaters / alternatives in an attempt to provide Robinsonesque input. For what it's worth, I also think that we should be grateful that Rhys is on board with the recapping / updating the wiki. I'm sure he'll get the hang of everything soon enough with some constructive criticism.

[Oliver Garner]

WOW Fantastic spots, Rhys.
And posted only FORTY-EIGHT minutes after I posted them above.
Performance of the day

The third numbers - WOW, aren't you amazing!!!!!

Give Rhys a break, Oliver, Liam et al. I think he was just collating the various beaters / alternatives in an attempt to provide Robinsonesque input. For what it's worth, I also think that we should be grateful that Rhys is on board with the recapping / updating the wiki. I'm sure he'll get the hang of everything soon enough with some constructive criticism.

Maybe I was being overly harsh and unreasonably sarcastic for which I apologise, but to me it didn't seem necessary to post stuff which had been posted elsewhere, especially earlier in the thread. It seemed to me just one of his recent barrage of posts which I perceive as merely a way of getting his post count up without adding to the thread in a productive way (that's not to say he is alone in this ). I think I speak for a lot of people in finding alternative numbers solutions to easy games is pointless and annoying.
I am more than appreciative of Rhys et al's work on the Wiki and hope it continues.