Spoilers for Friday 30 September 2022 (Series 86, Heat 74)

[Ronan M Higginson]

CADENTIAL in R10

[John Garcia]

CADENTIAL in R10

Nice.
DENTALIA seems to be a good word to learn as it has pretty common letters and stems to a 9-letter word with 4 different letters (in this case C but also E, M & S).
I'm just glad I managed to nip a round off Tom at last with HOARILY.

[Toby McDonald]

DOITHERS in R8
FAGINES in R11

[Tom S]

It was nice to meet Andy and his wife, and hear his stories about his previous appearances. Think he was frustrated with how he fared at the numbers rounds, but hopefully had a good time overall.

Chickened Nomadizes, Hoarily, and Yolkier.

[Philip A]

This is Heat 75.

[Andres Sanchez]

Decided to play along on this one, even though I normally don't do such.

R1 NOMADIZES
R2 SPOILER
R3 839 (75+50-4)*7-8
R4 MUGUETS
R5 HOARILY
R6 958 (100+50+10)*(7-1)-2
R7 MOPANE
R8 HOLDERS
R9 477 (75+4)*6+5-2 (same as Tom)
R10 DENTALIA
R11 BASING
R12 SPINIER
R13 RAVIGOTE
R14 763 (50+25+5-3)*10-7
R15 REPLICATE (1.5s) (literally pressed the pause button right before Tom buzzed in)

Tom vs. Me : 87 - 111
Andy vs. Me : 41 - 118

Solid performance there, Tom. Unlucky with the chickens, but still a worthwhile game there.

[Ronan M Higginson]

Calling people out on what they got wrong as always Mr Pedantic

[Ronan M Higginson]

Decided to play along on this one, even though I normally don't do such.

R1 NOMADIZES
R2 SPOILER
R3 839 (75+50-4)*7-8
R4 MUGUETS
R5 HOARILY
R6 958 (100+50+10)*(7-1)-2
R7 MOPANE
R8 HOLDERS
R9 477 (75+4)*6+5-2 (same as Tom)
R10 DENTALIA
R11 BASING
R12 SPINIER
R13 RAVIGOTE
R14 763 (50+25+5-3)*10-7
R15 REPLICATE (1.5s) (literally pressed the pause button right before Tom buzzed in)

Tom vs. Me : 87 - 111
Andy vs. Me : 41 - 118

Solid performance there, Tom. Unlucky with the chickens, but still a worthwhile game there.

Excellent stuff Andres. I'd have won 139 - 79 to Tom and 139 - 27 to Andy. Looking forward to see how Tom gets on Tomorrow...

[Howie Myers]

r4: GUSTOES

[Gavin Chipper]

r4: GUSTOES

Not on Apterous but I don't have access to the source dictionary. GUSTOS valid though.

[Steve Hyde]

r4: GUSTOES

Not on Apterous but I don't have access to the source dictionary. GUSTOS valid though.

It's a mass noun according to ODO so I'm not sure GUSTOS should be valid either

[Fiona T]

It's fine - there's a singular definition

[IN SINGULAR] archaic
A relish or liking:
he had a particular gusto for those sort of performances

[Gavin Chipper]

It's fine - there's a singular definition

[IN SINGULAR] archaic
A relish or liking:
he had a particular gusto for those sort of performances

It's fine. It can be pluralised because there's an "IN SINGULAR" specification. Got to love the logic!

[Fiona T]

It's fine - there's a singular definition

[IN SINGULAR] archaic
A relish or liking:
he had a particular gusto for those sort of performances

It's fine. It can be pluralised because there's an "IN SINGULAR" specification. Got to love the logic!

Yeah, I'm with you. Not sure that logic is correct! Might be fine, might not!

[Fiona T]

It's fine - there's a singular definition

[IN SINGULAR] archaic
A relish or liking:
he had a particular gusto for those sort of performances

It's fine. It can be pluralised because there's an "IN SINGULAR" specification. Got to love the logic!

Yeah, I'm with you. Not sure that logic is correct! Might be fine, might not!

A quick search gives this

viewtopic.php?p=197157#p197157

So it certainly isn't the case that 'in singular' always allows plurals on the tellybox.

[Gavin Chipper]

Yeah, it's a bit of a minefield.