Spoilers for Tuesday 1 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 97)

[Philip A]

Unlucky, Lewis. But you can still add the finalist’s trophy to go with your teapot if you qualify.

[Steve Hyde]

GELATION and LEGATION in R11.
OUTSETS in R13, possibly, but the fact that DC didn't spot it despite declaring OUTSET makes me doubt its validity

[Ronan M Higginson]

(75-9)*(10+4)-(50/5) as an alt in R14

[Gavin Chipper]

OUTSETS is valid on Apterous, however much difference that makes. KATANAS was in round 12.

Also for the 977 Rachel got in the break I did (also in the break) (100×50-25×6)/5+7=977.

[Philip A]

GELATION and LEGATION in R11.
OUTSETS in R13, possibly, but the fact that DC didn't spot it despite declaring OUTSET makes me doubt its validity

We had a similar debate on Apterous a couple of years ago when DC said VULGATE with an S available, which I noted to the producer who replied that they would allow the plural. They seemed to relax the ‘rule’ which banned plurals of [IN SINGULAR] words when the laptop replaced the outdated paper dictionary. DC doesn’t always follow guidelines and doesn’t always make it clear whether or why an available S can be added, and they’ve even in the past been wrong on exclamations with no nounal contexts such ad wilcos x and cheerios x without even checking the dictionary; this is not only unclear and annoying but also misleading. FTR, OUTSETS was added to Apterous in 2017 after a dictionary update. OUTSET is still labelled [IN SINGULAR] today.

[Johnny Canuck]

Was Round 2 the first time both players have ever declared the same unavailable word?

[Toby McDonald]

MINUETTO in R10

Gutted for Lewis to just miss out on octochampdom. Would be nice to see him in the finals hopefully.

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

So far, they have had nostalgia clips to honour Dent and Riley... there had better be a few for Vorderman.

[Howie Myers]

r3 alt: 100+75+25-(3*10)-6=164

[Philip A]

Was Round 2 the first time both players have ever declared the same unavailable word?

Earlier this series, two players declared mushroom with just one M available.

[Andres Sanchez]

Genuine question, has Lewis faced the most crucials that anyone has ever faced? I don't think I've seen anyone that's come across what I think may be four or five crucial conundrums.