Spoilers for Wednesday, 8th April
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:38 pm
This challenger's looking pretty handy...
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What about rehosting?Hannah O wrote:For the round with NEOSHGIRT- GORIEST as a contestant equaller?
Not in, nor is STIBINE^. SEMIOTIC/COMITIES as nice equallers to COMFIEST. I was chuffed with MEIOTIC in that round until that damn S came out.Andy Wilson wrote:What about rehosting?Hannah O wrote:For the round with NEOSHGIRT- GORIEST as a contestant equaller?
I did.Was also hoping for an E for PAGINATES in the ADAPTING round but Fiona asked for a consonantBen Wilson wrote:No one felt like adding the H to SORTING to make SHORTING then?
I thought stibine was a chemical compound of antimony and hydrogen, formula SbH3.Kirk Bevins wrote:Not in, nor is STIBINE^. SEMIOTIC/COMITIES as nice equallers to COMFIEST. I was chuffed with MEIOTIC in that round until that damn S came out.Andy Wilson wrote:What about rehosting?Hannah O wrote:For the round with NEOSHGIRT- GORIEST as a contestant equaller?
It is, but it's not useful enough to have made it into the ODE2r. Many words aren't listed (obviously) so you really do have to know your dictionary.Mark Kudlowski wrote: I thought stibine was a chemical compound of antimony and hydrogen, formula SbH3.
Yeah, if a word has alternative spellings then they don't normally list the alternative inflections, so SAMBOES is fine.Howard Somerset wrote:Got SAMBOES in R3 as an equaller.
Would it have been allowed? SAMBO is listed together with both versions (S and ES) for the plural, but it's capitalised. On the other hand it's also listed lower case, but no plurals this time. CountMax has it, so I guess it's ok.
Likewise, I didn't manage to get any of them today. Very impressive. She'd kick Carol's arse in a Numbers Attack.Vikash Shah wrote:Rachel = Outstanding.
I'm normally reasonably handy with the numbers rounds, but today is the first time I failed to get any of them with Rachel getting them all.
I really want to marry her
Without finding my notes, I think the two she got were split multiplications weren't they (i.e. times, then add, then times)? When I was playing in the studio she told me that's the way she looks for first all the time. After my 8th win she reiterated this to me in the green room saying how I always do the numbers games different to her as she does the split multiplication way. Naturally I smiled at her and said "well, opposites attract" which didn't quite cause the desired effect.Darren Carter wrote:That was the best I have seen Rachel do in a long while, I kept expecting her to say she couldn't do them.
I only managed to do the first one but there were all rather hard.
Not really, the second one was 524 = (75-25)*10+(5-2)*8. That's pretty far removed.Kirk Bevins wrote:Without finding my notes, I think the two she got were split multiplications weren't they
One thing I haven't yet seen her do is much division. Carol almost never used division (occasionally by 2 or 3). I have often found neat answers that way - even really silly things like 75 / 3 *4 may be useful - though I never found anything as brilliant as the guy a few seasons ago (whose name escapes me) who solved almost all his numbers game that way.Kirk Bevins wrote: if you see a numbers game that may appear hard but can be solved by timesing, then adding/subtracting, then timesing again, Rachel will have probably solved it.
That was probably one of the most awkward moments of my life.Kirk Bevins wrote:Naturally I smiled at her and said "well, opposites attract" which didn't quite cause the desired effect.
Would this be Jon O'Neill who always chose 4 large numbers and divided by 25? If it was, that's slightly different as he doesn't know what, say, 784x25 and then work backwards - he learns tricks.Rosemary Roberts wrote: One thing I haven't yet seen her do is much division. Carol almost never used division (occasionally by 2 or 3). I have often found neat answers that way - even really silly things like 75 / 3 *4 may be useful - though I never found anything as brilliant as the guy a few seasons ago (whose name escapes me) who solved almost all his numbers game that way.
I few weeks ago I began a study comparing Rachel's performance to date with CV's over a randomly chosen "equivalent" period, using William T-P's rating system to provide a tariff for every game which neither contestant could solve.Jon Corby wrote:Likewise, I didn't manage to get any of them today. Very impressive. She'd kick Carol's arse in a Numbers Attack.
It very likely was him, there haven't been very many such. But I would never denigrate "learning tricks" - it's a very good trick if you can do it.Kirk Bevins wrote:Would this be Jon O'Neill who always chose 4 large numbers and divided by 25? If it was, that's slightly different as he doesn't know what, say, 784x25 and then work backwards - he learns tricks.Rosemary Roberts wrote: One thing I haven't yet seen her do is much division. Carol almost never used division (occasionally by 2 or 3). I have often found neat answers that way - even really silly things like 75 / 3 *4 may be useful - though I never found anything as brilliant as the guy a few seasons ago (whose name escapes me) who solved almost all his numbers game that way.
Yes.Clive Brooker wrote:Does anyone think I should pursue this, cleaning up the data as far as possible from the recaps?
Agreed. It doesn't really prove anything much, but it's potentially interesting.Jon Corby wrote:Yes.Clive Brooker wrote:Does anyone think I should pursue this, cleaning up the data as far as possible from the recaps?
Thanks. Bristol auditions are next Wednesday, so don't expect anything before then!Charlie Reams wrote:Agreed. It doesn't really prove anything much, but it's potentially interesting.Jon Corby wrote:Yes.Clive Brooker wrote:Does anyone think I should pursue this, cleaning up the data as far as possible from the recaps?