Which contestant...?

[Jon Corby]

...has the most bountiful name if we were playing some hyper variant with the letters of their name?

JON CORBY is rubbish because it only yields a 6 (BRONCO), but at least I've just given Kai an opportunity to quote the first four words of this sentence and go "lol i no" or something.

I guess some people are going to have quite long surnames which are actually words, but which past contestant's name contains the longest ODE2r-valid word?

(I haven't given this any thought btw)

[Helen Andrews]

Not a past contestant, but you can only manage sevens from helenandrews anyway (handles, learned, slender, and probably loads more).

chrisdavies is dishier, though

[Michael Wallace]

I cheated and found CAMELLIA from my name, got to be better than 8 out there, though.

Edit: Or if you take the RACCOONBOY approach (and ignore the obvious), Jon and I can be BRONCO-buddies.

[Jon Corby]

Not a past contestant, but you can only manage sevens from helenandrews anyway (handles, learned, slender, and probably loads more).

You're right, not a past contestant so you don't count

There's better than seven out of your name too though.

[Helen Andrews]

Not a past contestant, but you can only manage sevens from helenandrews anyway (handles, learned, slender, and probably loads more).

You're right, not a past contestant so you don't count

Way to make a girl feel wanted!

There's better than seven out of your name too though.

Oh dear, I thought that might happen, let me have another think...oh, I suppose you can be a handler can't you, so I could have just stuck an r in handles above to manage an 8. Although you'll be telling me there's a 9 in there next.

[Marc Meakin]

Magda Greensmith yields MAGNETISED.
But I am sure you can do better.

[Marc Meakin]

Michael MacDonald-Cooper yields MACROECONOMIC.
Beat that.
Methinks another contestant with a double barrelled surname will do it.

[Jon Corby]

Way to make a girl feel wanted!

I wouldn't complain, this is me being nice!

Oh dear, I thought that might happen, let me have another think...oh, I suppose you can be a handler can't you, so I could have just stuck an r in handles above to manage an 8. Although you'll be telling me there's a 9 in there next.

I dunno actually, I just saw HANDLERS and RELEASED at a glance, so I was careful to phrase it as I did rather than say "there are a couple of eights" as some smart(er)-arse would come along and say that there's more in there. I've just seen ENSNARLED for 9 actually.

[Jon Corby]

Michael MacDonald-Cooper yields MACROECONOMIC.
Beat that.
Methinks another contestant with a double barrelled surname will do it.

Are you using a solver?

(Not that that isn't allowed, just wondering how you came up with it)

I'm hoping somebody's gonna feed the entire contestant roll through an ODE2r solver to come up with a definitive answer at some point.

[Helen Andrews]

Way to make a girl feel wanted!

I wouldn't complain, this is me being nice!

Oh I see, you must be fighting them off with sticks

Oh dear, I thought that might happen, let me have another think...oh, I suppose you can be a handler can't you, so I could have just stuck an r in handles above to manage an 8. Although you'll be telling me there's a 9 in there next.

I dunno actually, I just saw HANDLERS and RELEASED at a glance, so I was careful to phrase it as I did rather than say "there are a couple of eights" as some smart(er)-arse would come along and say that there's more in there. I've just seen ENSNARLED for 9 actually.

So to summarise, you'll be telling me there's a 9 in there next. Clearly I need to spend more time practising Countdown. I'll give that apterous site another go.

[Marc Meakin]

Michael MacDonald-Cooper yields MACROECONOMIC.
Beat that.
Methinks another contestant with a double barrelled surname will do it.

Are you using a solver?

(Not that that isn't allowed, just wondering how you came up with it)

I'm hoping somebody's gonna feed the entire contestant roll through an ODE2r solver to come up with a definitive answer at some point.

I am indeed using a solver, but my contestant knowledge is based on searches through the Apterous archives on classic games.

[Philip Jarvis]

Just checked out the anagrams I did in April last year -

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... t=namagram

There are a couple of 10 letters words at nos 29 and 72 - FORMIDABLE and BAROMETERS. I believe at least one of them is a past contestant.

[Kirk Bevins]

I'll give that apterous site another go.

I read this as "I'll give that apterous shite another go."

[Jon Corby]

Also, whose longest word uses the largest proportion of their name? While the 13 letter MACROECONOMIC is the longest so far, it only uses a feeble 59% of MICHAEL MACDONALD-COOPER's 22 letter name. BRONCO uses 75% of mine

[Dinos Sfyris]

ADHESION = 80% of JOHN DAVIES

In yo' face Corbster.

[Matt Morrison]

AMNIOTE = 89% of TIM O'KANE

In your respective faces, Corby and Dean.

[Marc Meakin]

AMNIOTE = 89% of TIM O'KANE

In your respective faces, Corby and Dean.

Also Tricia Pay RAPACITY = 89%

[Howard Somerset]

All I'll say for the moment, until I find something longer, is that I'm AWESOME.

[Jon Corby]

AMNIOTE = 89% of TIM O'KANE

In your respective faces, Corby and Dean.

Also Tricia Pay RAPACITY = 89%

DON WRIGHT is downright unbeatable at 100%.

(Er, obviously a longer 100%er will actually beat him though.)

[Matt Morrison]

AMNIOTE = 89% of TIM O'KANE

DON WRIGHT is downright unbeatable at 100%.

(Er, obviously a longer 100%er will actually beat him though.)

Haha, good work. Beat me to the ol' 100%-er. I like that you barely even have to arrange the letters. Cracking.

[Marc Meakin]

Rita Bean is ATABRINE.
Oops CSW only.
Don Gill is DOLLING, for second place.

[David Roe]

I have the same problem as Jon Corby when it comes to trying to find a 9.

[Matt Morrison]

I have the same problem as Jon Corby when it comes to trying to find a 9.

Is this an erectile dysfunction joke?

[Jon O'Neill]

I have the same problem as Jon Corby when it comes to trying to find a 9.

Is this an erectile dysfunction joke?

It says something about us as people that that was my first thought too.

[Jon Corby]

I have the same problem as Jon Corby when it comes to trying to find a 9.

Is this an erectile dysfunction joke?

It says something about us as people that that was my first thought too.

Yeah, it says that you're all obsessed with my cock.


My limp, lifeless, insensate cock

[Philip Jarvis]

I've heard that Man Utd's PATRICE EVRA could follow in the footsteps of Clarke Carlisle by appearing on the show.

There again ........ he may PREVARICATE.

[Gavin Chipper]

AMNIOTE = 89% of TIM O'KANE

In your respective faces, Corby and Dean.

Also Tricia Pay RAPACITY = 89%

DON WRIGHT is downright unbeatable at 100%.

(Er, obviously a longer 100%er will actually beat him though.)

Maybe we should look at biggest statistical freak rather than purely length or percentage. So someone with 100 letters in their name but a 98-word anagram would kick arse in this despite not being a 100%er. I nominate one of you to come up with the formula.

[Jon Corby]

I've heard that Man Utd's PATRICE EVRA could follow in the footsteps of Clarke Carlisle by appearing on the show.

There again ........ he may PREVARICATE.

[Mike Brown]

I wish I'd gone on the show using my full name (i.e. Michael) now, then I could have claimed CHAIRWOMEN, rather than the more mundane WONKIER (or several other sevens).

[Kevin Davis]

KEVINDAVIS yeilds...a really crappy selection. Also, probably the only name on the site that nets you INVASIVE or SKIVVIED.

[Jon Corby]

Maybe we should look at biggest statistical freak rather than purely length or percentage. So someone with 100 letters in their name but a 98-word anagram would kick arse in this despite not being a 100%er. I nominate one of you to come up with the formula.

Hahaha, you put "word" instead of "letter". That's the funniest thing ever.

[Ian Volante]

IAN VOLANTE yields VENATIONAL at 100%.

Eat that.

[Jon Corby]

IAN VOLANTE yields VENATIONAL at 100%.

Eat that.

That is impressive, and I will gladly eat it given how much your name sounds like vol-au-vent.

People seemed to have got sidetracked from the original aim of finding the longest words with all this talk of percentages though (what twat started that?)

Can Michael MacDonald-Cooper's 13 letter MACROECONOMIC not be beaten?

[Ian Volante]

IAN VOLANTE yields VENATIONAL at 100%.

Eat that.

That is impressive, and I will gladly eat it given how much your name sounds like vol-au-vent.

That's one nickname I've not yet received, although I've heard my dad addressed as such. Same latin root of course

[Jon Corby]

That's one nickname I've not yet received

I'm stunned!

You must have dozens of hilarious physical characteristics and personality traits for that to have been overlooked!

[Ian Volante]

That's one nickname I've not yet received

I'm stunned!

You must have dozens of hilarious physical characteristics and personality traits for that to have been overlooked!

I'm probably not the best person to list them all. You can find out if I ever turn up at a CO-event...

[Richard Priest]

RICHARD PRIEST yields CHARITIES which came in very useful in the series 58 semi

(I have to give credit to my opponent on the day, Peter Davies, for suggesting that one )