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I humbly submit this as the one that made me laugh the most so far. I had nothing useful to declare so went for the childish 9, but Gyles actually managed to outdo me with his double entrendre.
Another entry illustrating the dangers of stock dialogue:
Another entry illustrating the dangers of stock dialogue:
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Just played Raccoon boy with Jo Brand in DC, and in round 13 RMKRAEOOP we both had REMARK but Jo uttered this little beauty:
"Susie has come good again with MOREPORK which is new to me!" I'm sure it isn't new to her although realistically she would get the word POOMAKER!
"Susie has come good again with MOREPORK which is new to me!" I'm sure it isn't new to her although realistically she would get the word POOMAKER!
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I liked this:
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If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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jimbentley wrote:I liked this:
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FunniestJulian Fell wrote:jimbentley wrote:I liked this:
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Not that funny, but one of those weird things that happens in testing sometimes. I'm sure you can figure out what went wrong:
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Interestingly enough today, it gave me the conundrum PEEORGANS, I'll leave you to work out the answer.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Haha. On a similar theme I've had ASSWIENER and VAGINALEZ, but forgot to screenshot them.Martin Gardner wrote:Interestingly enough today, it gave me the conundrum PEEORGANS, I'll leave you to work out the answer.
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One of today's was NEXTSHITECharlie Reams wrote:Haha. On a similar theme I've had ASSWIENER and VAGINALEZ, but forgot to screenshot them.Martin Gardner wrote:Interestingly enough today, it gave me the conundrum PEEORGANS, I'll leave you to work out the answer.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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I don't know if this has been explained elsewhere, but broadly speaking, how are conundrums set?
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It picks an answer at random from a list of all the valid 9s in the dictionary (somewhat hand-filtered to eliminate anything ultra-obscure.) Then, it tries to split the word into two subwords (of length 3/6 or 4/5), and if successful sets that as the conundrum. If that doesn't work, it tries to extract one subword and appends the rest of the letters as shuffled junk (this works quite well because you can normally find a subword of 7 or 8 and no one asks many questions about some junk on the end.) If even that proves impossible, it just shuffles them at random. Oh, and any candidate shuffle is filtered to make sure it doesn't look too much like the answer (otherwise the process of extracting subwords tends to give you stuff like COMBHONEY.) There might be some other black magic involved that I don't remember, but that's the essence of it.Gavin Chipper wrote:I don't know if this has been explained elsewhere, but broadly speaking, how are conundrums set?
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Martin Gardner wrote:One of today's was NEXTSHITECharlie Reams wrote:Haha. On a similar theme I've had ASSWIENER and VAGINALEZ, but forgot to screenshot them.Martin Gardner wrote:Interestingly enough today, it gave me the conundrum PEEORGANS, I'll leave you to work out the answer.
I think your program has a dirty mind, Charlie. I remember that in one of Paul Howe's games in COGST, there was a really flat round with loads of alternative 5s, and one of the ones it chose to display in the recap was QUIMS
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I think it actually gives them in alpha-order.Julian Fell wrote: I think your program has a dirty mind, Charlie. I remember that in one of Paul Howe's games in COGST, there was a really flat round with loads of alternative 5s, and one of the ones it chose to display in the recap was QUIMS
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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I think you could have fairly easily confirmed that it doesn't.Martin Gardner wrote:I think it actually gives them in alpha-order.
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I know it's probably the start of a gradual decline into complete insanity when you start talking back to the bots, but I couldn't help myself. I hate Apterous Prime, the smug shit.
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I talk to the bots too, if it's any consolation. I'm always a little wary of Apterous Prime when he says he likes a tight one.
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Haha! I do it too! Priceless
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I've never talk to the bot myself, but sometimes there come up with weird words and you think how the fuck did they know that, so you do want to tell them to fuck off.jimbentley wrote:
I know it's probably the start of a gradual decline into complete insanity when you start talking back to the bots, but I couldn't help myself. I hate Apterous Prime, the smug shit.
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You better not play Julian, Conor or Paul then - they might punch you.Joseph Bolas wrote:I've never talk to the bot myself, but sometimes there come up with weird words and you think how the fuck did they know that, so you do want to tell them to fuck off.jimbentley wrote:
I know it's probably the start of a gradual decline into complete insanity when you start talking back to the bots, but I couldn't help myself. I hate Apterous Prime, the smug shit.
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You can do that over the internet !? Must be that clever new violence over IP (VoIP) we've been hearing so much about. So many wasted opportunitiesKirk Bevins wrote:You better not play Julian, Conor or Paul then - they might punch you.Joseph Bolas wrote:I've never talk to the bot myself, but sometimes there come up with weird words and you think how the fuck did they know that, so you do want to tell them to fuck off.jimbentley wrote:
I know it's probably the start of a gradual decline into complete insanity when you start talking back to the bots, but I couldn't help myself. I hate Apterous Prime, the smug shit.
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Well, I've played against Conor before (at COLIN) and played Paul online (in COGST) and obviously I got thrashed in both games , but I don't think I've sweared at them. Infact I was quite apologetic to Conor for not giving him a decent matchKirk Bevins wrote:You better not play Julian, Conor or Paul then - they might punch you.Joseph Bolas wrote:I've never talk to the bot myself, but sometimes there come up with weird words and you think how the fuck did they know that, so you do want to tell them to fuck off.jimbentley wrote:
I know it's probably the start of a gradual decline into complete insanity when you start talking back to the bots, but I couldn't help myself. I hate Apterous Prime, the smug shit.
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I couldn't screenshot it but my numbers in my 174-round game against Prune were:
50 2 1 6 10 5 Target: 1353
A 4-figure target?
50 2 1 6 10 5 Target: 1353
A 4-figure target?
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Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
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I think the apocalypse mucked everything up. I just got:
25 50 75 100 3 6 Target: 1603
25 50 75 100 3 6 Target: 1603
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Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Don't have screenshots but I've had several dialogues along the lines of "I got BEATEN" and some ruder ones I can't recall. Now that this thread has been bumped (i.e. now that I know about it) I'll take more careful notice.
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This one amused me on a number of levels:
(What's embarrassing is that I still lost the game...)
(What's embarrassing is that I still lost the game...)
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I know Susie is renowned for being ladylike (at least on screen) but this takes the biscuit:
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Completely failed to get a screenshot, but Brian Blessed told me I could've picked a D for DICKHEAD in a speedgoat yestreday. The bastard.
Oh yeah and I got some negative numbers to appear in my numbers solution, as Jon Corby will strenuously deny.
Oh yeah and I got some negative numbers to appear in my numbers solution, as Jon Corby will strenuously deny.
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I don't have a screenshot either, but I myself have used a negative number in a solutionPaul Howe wrote:Oh yeah and I got some negative numbers to appear in my numbers solution, as Jon Corby will strenuously deny.
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Lies. All lies.Paul Howe wrote:Completely failed to get a screenshot, but Brian Blessed told me I could've picked a D for DICKHEAD in a speedgoat yestreday. The bastard.
Oh yeah and I got some negative numbers to appear in my numbers solution, as Jon Corby will strenuously deny.
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I have recently had an easy but funny conundrum CUNTSGILT.Martin Gardner wrote:One of today's was NEXTSHITECharlie Reams wrote:Haha. On a similar theme I've had ASSWIENER and VAGINALEZ, but forgot to screenshot them.Martin Gardner wrote:Interestingly enough today, it gave me the conundrum PEEORGANS, I'll leave you to work out the answer.
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Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
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I think this needs a "sorry Kai" from someone.Kai Laddiman wrote: I have recently had an easy but funny conundrum CUNTSGILT.
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(For those who don't know, it's DoD )John Evans wrote:I think this needs a "sorry Kai" from someone.Kai Laddiman wrote: I have recently had an easy but funny conundrum CUNTSGILT.
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Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Some good advice here:
(I appreciate that this isn't actually very funny, but now I've gone to the effort of cropping it, so eh)
(I appreciate that this isn't actually very funny, but now I've gone to the effort of cropping it, so eh)
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Geoffrey was obviously as confused as Rick:
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Not sure why people think this is a bug. Picking W would have given DILEMMAS, and it's mentioned because it's better than what you did pick (T) because there are fewer alternatives.Phil Reynolds wrote:Geoffrey was obviously as confused as Rick:
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Ah, I hadn't worked this bit out, clever stuff.Charlie Reams wrote:it's mentioned because it's better than what you did pick (T) because there are fewer alternatives.
edit: although now I think about it, I have some excuse since the alternative was not strictly better, unless I've missed something, which is always possible
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That bit was @ Phil. In your case it was just an equally good alternative. I guess the dialogue could be more explanatory but I got bored of fiddling with it.Michael Wallace wrote: edit: although now I think about it, I have some excuse since the alternative was not strictly better, unless I've missed something, which is always possible
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OK, but it's not obvious that that's the thinking, so you must be sure really!Charlie Reams wrote:Not sure why people think this is a bug. Picking W would have given DILEMMAS, and it's mentioned because it's better than what you did pick (T) because there are fewer alternatives.Phil Reynolds wrote:Geoffrey was obviously as confused as Rick:
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This one I do rather like, although it put me off the solution:
meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles
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For me, one of the best conundrums I've had was BOLASBREWIan Volante wrote:This one I do rather like, although it put me off the solution:
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And another:
meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles
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I got a screenshot but couldn't get it on here (please, someone, tell me how) but:
Des O'Connor: What was your method, Kai?
Kai Laddiman: I did
4+4=8
8x100=800
Des O'Connor: How did you make 800, Apterous?
Apterous Prune: I thought I had it but I made a mistake somewhere.
Des O'Connor: What was your method, Kai?
Kai Laddiman: I did
4+4=8
8x100=800
Des O'Connor: How did you make 800, Apterous?
Apterous Prune: I thought I had it but I made a mistake somewhere.
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A few I collected in recent weeks, only just got round to uploading-
Practice game (hence the screenshot instead of a recap) of an unlimited csw game against Rex.
Who says Ann Widdecombe isn't classy?
Prune breathes a sigh of relief.
Practice game (hence the screenshot instead of a recap) of an unlimited csw game against Rex.
Who says Ann Widdecombe isn't classy?
Prune breathes a sigh of relief.
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OUROBOROSES - awesome.
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Sometimes the insertion of a DC word into the template dialogue has an outcome that is truly felicitous:
OK, I admit - the above 'screenshot' is a reconstruction, as I realised how apt* Richard's line was a nanosecond after I'd clicked Done to close the window. I thought it was worth it and hope you agree.
* Putting the 'apt' into apterous, you might say.
OK, I admit - the above 'screenshot' is a reconstruction, as I realised how apt* Richard's line was a nanosecond after I'd clicked Done to close the window. I thought it was worth it and hope you agree.
* Putting the 'apt' into apterous, you might say.
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Haha, that's great, and worthy of reconstruction.Phil Reynolds wrote:
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Paul Howe wrote:Ho ho ho
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It's funny (well it made me giggle) because Santa sounds like he's stopping himself from saying hell even though he's just sworn far more grievously.
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I thought it was because you lost.Paul Howe wrote:It's funny (well it made me giggle) because Santa sounds like he's stopping himself from saying hell even though he's just sworn far more grievously.
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Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Yes, but why do you appear to have photographed the screen through a turquoise net curtain?Paul Howe wrote:It's funny (well it made me giggle) because Santa sounds like he's stopping himself from saying hell even though he's just sworn far more grievously.
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Sadly that's what my screen looks like since I dropped my laptop a few days ago I think it's a problem with the graphics card (since you can see it), maybe a loose connector somewhere since if I press down in a particular place it either returns to normal or produces even more psychedelic effects.Phil Reynolds wrote: Yes, but why do you appear to have photographed the screen through a turquoise net curtain?
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Do you get the impression that maybe Susie rejected Brian's advances in the bar the night before?
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Against Ian Dent I declared that 'I got SHAGGED'.
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Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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OK, get ready for this:
(I did spot AUTUMN just in time, BTW )
(I did spot AUTUMN just in time, BTW )
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Kai Laddiman wrote:Against Ian Dent I declared that 'I got SHAGGED'.