Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
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Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
David Edgar is now entering the latter half of what some might see as an unlikely octochamp run, as if he completes it with his current average, he will be the lowest-scoring octo in the new format. Can he progress further toward the goal -- and possibly "The Record" -- today?
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
David must be getting close to the record now for non-attempts at numbers solves.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
Did David declare nothing in Round 9? I was too busy mooching the R1 and R2 selections off other people to note down what he declared.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
TRAMPLES as a beater in the last round before Susie's bit.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
What's the record for most rounds in a row with no score? 3 in a row must be a contender.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
ENMASKED is listed as valid on Apterous. Sigh.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
I don't think it was just the numbers that did for David in that game. Not scoring in any of the last four letters games probably also had something to do with it.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
It is valid indeed. ENMASK an alternative spelling of INMASK, but the search bar doesn't find ENMASKED. Susie should always check the non-inflected word.Johnny Canuck wrote:ENMASKED is listed as valid on Apterous. Sigh.
Edit - IMMASK
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
Also in that round was an astronomical beater almost the same as polaster - I think.Steven M. McCann wrote:TRAMPLES as a beater in the last round before Susie's bit.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
After last Friday's repeated teaser, it's tea-ja vu all over again.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
I don't understand this at all - if you've spent even a little bit of time on the ODO since its massive update, then you'd know that inflections of most alternative spellings don't come up, and you have to search the non-inflected word to find them. Surely an expert lexicographer, part of whose job is to determine whether or not words are in the ODO, would have cottoned on to this at some point in the months since the update happened?Gavin Chipper wrote:It is valid indeed. ENMASK an alternative spelling of INMASK, but the search bar doesn't find ENMASKED. Susie should always check the non-inflected word.Johnny Canuck wrote:ENMASKED is listed as valid on Apterous. Sigh.
<sarcasm>Clearly, this is yet more evidence that Susie uses a different dictionary</sarcasm>
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
Steven M. McCann wrote:TRAMPLES as a beater in the last round before Susie's bit.
I had Temporal in that round
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
But there were quite few eights in that selectionSteven M. McCann wrote:TRAMPLES as a beater in the last round before Susie's bit.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
Rachel got temporal but it seems to have been edited out.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
According to the database, three rounds in a row with no score has happened five times before, but all of them were a letters round, a numbers round, and a conundrum.Tony Atkins wrote:What's the record for most rounds in a row with no score? 3 in a row must be a contender.
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_1056
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3042
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4917
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5012
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5501
Today was the first time three consecutive letters rounds were scoreless.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
However, since ENMASKED ought to have been allowed, Jack Creswell will probably have those extra eight points added if he makes it to the finals, so perhaps they're not truly scoreless.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 10 February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 13)
No-one had told her about the lack of functionality on the website at the CoC, so not sure why she would be expected to know? It's only by actually searching for inflected words that you know are in would you find out normally. Before my game I mentioned this lack of functionality on the searching for alternate forms to her - she looked visibly surprised and concerned, and told me she would report back to OED about the lack of functionality. So hopefully it will be ok from nowDave Ricesky wrote:I don't understand this at all - if you've spent even a little bit of time on the ODO since its massive update, then you'd know that inflections of most alternative spellings don't come up, and you have to search the non-inflected word to find them. Surely an expert lexicographer, part of whose job is to determine whether or not words are in the ODO, would have cottoned on to this at some point in the months since the update happened?Gavin Chipper wrote:It is valid indeed. ENMASK an alternative spelling of INMASK, but the search bar doesn't find ENMASKED. Susie should always check the non-inflected word.Johnny Canuck wrote:ENMASKED is listed as valid on Apterous. Sigh.
<sarcasm>Clearly, this is yet more evidence that Susie uses a different dictionary</sarcasm>
p.s. ENMASK is an alt spelling of IMMASK not inmask^