Spoilers for Friday 22nd December 2017 (Series 77, GRAND FINAL!)

[Ray Wilding]

Tom Chafer-Cook vs Bradley Horrocks

GO!

[samir pilica]

Congratulations, Tom. A massive well done to you both !

[Ray Wilding]

Great end to a great series, huge congratulations to Tom and commiserations to Bradley.
Tough conundrum at the end, especially as neither player has had it on Apterous.

[Jojo Apollo]

Great game, lads. Well played both, a fitting nail-biting crucial conundrum game between the two top players of the series. Many congrats Tom on becoming series champ, well deserved and well done Bradley on being series runner-up. Another top notch series, well done the Countdown team.


How many times has the finals gone as expected per seeding as in this series?

[Johnny Canuck]

Wow. Just... WOW. Congratulations to Tom and commiserations to Bra; this could literally be game of the week if it was the grand final of an Apterous tourney. I'm heading back to bed right about now, but I'm sure I'll have more congrats to give later in the day.

3rd Numbers Alt. ("standard method"?): (25 * 4 + 5) * (6 + 3)

Tough conundrum at the end, especially as neither player has had it on Apterous.

Not only that -- it's unpencilled, too!

How many times has the finals gone as expected per seeding as in this series?

Five previous times, namely Series 23, 25, 45, 63 and 68. (I'm not Rain Man; there's a handy-dandy template listing those instances on the wiki.)

[Ray Wilding]

If you considered the plurals of PSILOSIS and/or POLIOSIS to be PSILOSES or POLIOSES (though wiktionary gives both as uncountable) instead of PSILOSISES or POLIOSISES, either would give 8 in R4.

[Tom S]

Great game. Great show. Great players. Great series. Need I say more? Well done to both!
My scores:
Me:98-100 (Tom) (Couldn't take him to a crucial, but got the conundrum).
Me:105-91 (Bradley) (First and last time I'll beat him!).

[Jojo Apollo]

How many times has the finals gone as expected per seeding as in this series?

Five previous times, namely Series 23, 25, 45, 63 and 68. (I'm not Rain Man; there's a handy-dandy template listing those instances on the wiki.)

Ah cheers Johnny.

I'm assuming Bradley took the risk on the last numbers game to try to get a lead thinking the conundrum would be hard to get as has been the case in many finals.

[Gavin Chipper]

Great game. Great show. Great players. Great series. Need I say more? Well done to both!

I echo this. Except to add - shit conundrum. Should be a real word.

[Joyce Phillips]

Great final played in a great spirit. Well done to you both.

[Elliott Mellor]

Excellent final, really well done to both players - it could easily have swung either way. That last numbers game really would have been the turning point and I'm sure on apterous you'd have got it Bradley. Think that gets you series runner up time on apto....(you know what I mean by that!)
However, Tom is our series champion and a deserved one too - a consistently strong player and a very nice guy over all - well done!:D

[Zubair Patel]

Looking at the conundrum scramble, RILEYISMS, it seemed to me the obvious scramble should have been MISSRILEY. So lead me to think MISSRILEY would have made the answer much easier to solve.

[Peter Mabey]

Great game. Great show. Great players. Great series. Need I say more? Well done to both!

I echo this. Except to add - shit conundrum. Should be a real word.

I concur - however, although I didn't get the conundrum, it is a word I'd had occasion to use in my days in the aerospace industry (back in the fifties, so unsurprisingly forgotten).