Spoilers For Tuesday 27th April 2010

[Douglas Wilson]

Well the climax of Series 62 will be recorded today and tomorrow and a select group of lucky people are in Manchester watching it unfold.

The rest of us will have to make do with the latest prelim edition of Series 62 which features 3 time winner Nicki who may or may not be back recording today. She'll definitely need to win today and tomorrow to stand any chance and the long awaited second octochamp party of the series could be next Monday.

[Marc Meakin]

[Andrew Hulme]

TOURACO Rd 2

[Marc Meakin]

UNAVOWED was there for 8.

[Kirk Bevins]

FOSSAE for 6 in round 7.

[Matt Morrison]

This is way more annoying than leaving whatever was there intact. Probably. I wouldn't know cos I didn't get to see it obviously, but I'm annoyed now gard damnit.

[Kirk Bevins]

RORTIEST for 8 in round 8 for a beater.

[Marc Meakin]

This is way more annoying than leaving whatever was there intact. Probably. I wouldn't know cos I didn't get to see it obviously, but I'm annoyed now gard damnit.

Wanted to delete the post but couldn't.
To put you out of your misery, I put down MOLERAT but it is only a CSW word.

[Matt Morrison]

This is way more annoying than leaving whatever was there intact. Probably. I wouldn't know cos I didn't get to see it obviously, but I'm annoyed now gard damnit.

Wanted to delete the post but couldn't.
To put you out of your misery, I put down MOLERAT but it is only a CSW word.

Thanks Marc! Be a love and leave it next time I'm sure I've seen you doing plenty of "would have been XXXXXX there but it's CSW only" posts before, so dunno why this one got culled.

[John Brackstone]

opencast for a dc-equaller

[Marc Meakin]

Fantastic contest today.
Well done Nikki for acheiving your half octochampdom.

[Ray Folwell]

Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

[Kirk Bevins]

Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

The contestants virtually did this. They said, essentially, 25x6x4+10 for their 2 away. They wanted to do 25x6x4+8 which is 25x6x4+2x4, which is (25x6+2)x4, which is what Rachel did. Job done.

[Matt Morrison]

Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

The contestants virtually did this. They said, essentially, 25x6x4+10 for their 2 away. They wanted to do 25x6x4+8 which is 25x6x4+2x4, which is (25x6+2)x4, which is what Rachel did. Job done.

Sometimes I get frustrated when Rachel's method is very very similar to the contestants and just involves splitmultiplicationising it, yet she presents it in a totally different-looking way.
I think usually the contestants don't see the link at all and it's a shame Rachel doesn't get another 10 seconds just to explain how they could have developed their method just slightly to get it right.

[Ben Hunter]

Well done Nikki for acheiving your half octochampdom.

Can Huddersfield win tonight?

[Peter Mabey]

Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

I did it quite differently: (25+6X6)X10-2

[Gavin Chipper]

Slightly simpler version of the 3rd numbers : (6x25+2) x (10-6)
I do hope Rachel gets well soon

I did it quite differently: (25+6X6)X10-2

Mabey I did it like that too. In fact I definitely did.

[Jon Corby]

I did (6*5-6)*25+10-2.

Well done Nicki!

[Ryan Taylor]

Nice one Nikki! Great steal on the conundrum woohoo!!

[David Williams]

Sometimes I get frustrated when Rachel's method is very very similar to the contestants and just involves splitmultiplicationising it, yet she presents it in a totally different-looking way.
I think usually the contestants don't see the link at all and it's a shame Rachel doesn't get another 10 seconds just to explain how they could have developed their method just slightly to get it right.

Agreed. I can appreciate that Rachel's got a few things to think about at the same time, while not forgetting her own solution. I can also see it could look like trying to make contestants look foolish, but Susie often does something similar ("You'll kick yourself") without upsetting anyone. It would be good to illustrate the tricks of the trade for viewers at home in this way.