Spoilers for Wednesday 30th October 2024 (Series 90, Heat 81)

[Philip A]

Round 6: 2 large can be meddling, but if you divide the target by 2 it becomes easier

236 / 2 = 118

So

(75 + 50 - 7) * 2 = 236

[Gavin Chipper]

I thought it was a bit weird they didn't explain SUMMERED and everyone acted like it was just a normal word.

[Philip A]

I thought it was a bit weird they didn't explain SUMMERED and everyone acted like it was just a normal word.

Only 8% obscurity according to Apterous.

[Gavin Chipper]

I thought it was a bit weird they didn't explain SUMMERED and everyone acted like it was just a normal word.

Only 8% obscurity according to Apterous.

Yeah that's BS though. When I looked it up I was like "Oh yeah, birds summer in places" but seeing it in isolation I was ??? and I wasn't the only one in my household.

[David Roe]

"Wintered" is probably more commonly used, and summered is (I would presume) the direct opposite. Nothing was edited out for that one IIRC, it was treated as needing no explanation.

[Gavin Chipper]

Thanks for the info. Having Googled it, most of the top matches are dictionary entries and a couple of sites discussing the word. None of it being used as a word.

[Gavin Chipper]

I thought it was a bit weird they didn't explain SUMMERED and everyone acted like it was just a normal word.

Only 8% obscurity according to Apterous.

Yeah that's BS though. When I looked it up I was like "Oh yeah, birds summer in places" but seeing it in isolation I was ??? and I wasn't the only one in my household.

For comparison, POTHOLE has an obscurity of 69% and is considered rare. 8% corresponds to ubiquitous. I don't know how Apterous calculates these numbers but they're way off.

[Jojo Apollo]

"Wintered" is probably more commonly used, and summered is (I would presume) the direct opposite. Nothing was edited out for that one IIRC, it was treated as needing no explanation.

Yeah that's what I thought. You can have SPRINGED, SUMMERED, WINTERED but don't think you can have autumned???

[Fiona T]

springed is not in the dictionary

[Howie Myers]

"Wintered" is probably more commonly used, and summered is (I would presume) the direct opposite. Nothing was edited out for that one IIRC, it was treated as needing no explanation.

Yeah that's what I thought. You can have SPRINGED, SUMMERED, WINTERED but don't think you can have autumned???

You can, of course, have fallen.....

[Jojo Apollo]

springed is not in the dictionary

Ah righto

"Wintered" is probably more commonly used, and summered is (I would presume) the direct opposite. Nothing was edited out for that one IIRC, it was treated as needing no explanation.

Yeah that's what I thought. You can have SPRINGED, SUMMERED, WINTERED but don't think you can have autumned???

You can, of course, have fallen.....

Nice

[David Roe]

Only 8% obscurity according to Apterous.

Yeah that's BS though. When I looked it up I was like "Oh yeah, birds summer in places" but seeing it in isolation I was ??? and I wasn't the only one in my household.

For comparison, POTHOLE has an obscurity of 69% and is considered rare. 8% corresponds to ubiquitous. I don't know how Apterous calculates these numbers but they're way off.

If Apterous thinks "pothole" is rare, then it clearly isn't a car driver.