c4countdown

Countdown recap for Monday 15 June 2009.

C1: Champion James Doohan (8 wins, 692 points.)
C2: Champion Jimmy Gough (8 wins, 782 points.)
DC: Susie Dent and Phil Hammond.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.

This promises to be a great quarter final as it is the first involving 2 octochamps for 3 series. Let's see if they can live up to it...

R01: N G R N E O E A B
R02: D O S E S O C I R
R03: S P R O I A H N E
R04: D I P E D I Z E E
R05: 100, 1, 10, 6, 8, 1. Target: 333.
TTT: INDEXPAP - "Body part that's always brought to book."
R06: T I L U P A L I H
R07: W R S A O I L L N
R08: Y A D E N I S E N
R09: F R L S E A I B E
R10: 25, 3, 1, 4, 2, 4. Target: 214.
TTT: GRABDEED - "Repeatedly annoyed someone about an animal."
R11: S G Q A I O M R I
R12: P U N O G E T T A
R13: M R T E A E N C F
R14: 25, 100, 50, 75, 6, 1. Target: 449.
R15: N I N E C A R A T (conundrum)


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Enjoy the show (go on, it's on the house).

Round 1: N G R N E O E A B

C1: BANNER (6)
C2: BANGER (6)
DC: ONAGER (6)
OT: AEROBE (6) GRABEN (6) BAREGE (6) BARGEE (6) BEGONE (6) BERGEN (6) BORAGE (6) BORANE (6) BOREEN (6) ENROBE (6) BROGAN (6) ENRAGE (6) GENERA (6) NANOBE (6) NONAGE (6) ORANGE (6)
Score: 6–6 (max 6)

FLAT (as flat as this line _________ )

Round 2: D O S E S O C I R

C1: COSIER (6)
C2: CROSSED (7)
DC: DISCOES (7)
OT: ODORISES (8)
Score: 6–13 (max 14)

Jimmy draws first blood to the Doohanulator, but even DC miss the darrenic 8.

Round 3: S P R O I A H N E

C1: SHARPEN (7)
C2: SHARPEN (7)
DC: APHORISE (8)
Score: 13–20 (max 22)

... And this time, they make no mistake.

Round 4: D I P E D I Z E E

C1: DEEP (4)
C2: PEED (4)
DC: PEEDIE (6)
Score: 17–24 (max 28)

A very obscure Scottish word spotted by DC.

Round 5: 100, 1, 10, 6, 8, 1. Target: 333.

C1: 333. (100 + 10 + 1) x (8 - (6 - 1)) (10)
C2: 333. (100 + 10 + 1) x (8 - 6 + 1) (10)
Score: 27–34 (max 38)

So we go into the break with just CROSSED between them.

Dr. Phil (YAY!) kicks off his week of 3-minute medical lessons with an introduction to the fashion accessories known as stethoscopes. Honest.

Teatime teaser: INDEXPAP -> APPENDIX

Round 6: T I L U P A L I H

C1: TULIP (5)
C2: TULIP (5)
DC: PILAU (5) PHIAL (5)
OT: LITHIA (6) PHALLI (6) THALLI (6) UPHILL (6)
Score: 32–39 (max 44)

Obviously Kirk wouldn't have got PHALLI...

Round 7: W R S A O I L L N

C1: SAILOR (6)
C2: ALLOWS (6)
OT: SALLOW (6) ASWIRL (6) LLANOS (6) LOWANS (6) NORIAS (6) ROWANS (6)
Score: 38–45 (max 50)

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Round 8: Y A D E N I S E N

C1: INSANE (6)
C2: DENIES (6)
DC: ANISEED (7)
OT: ADENINES (8)
Score: 44–51 (max 58)

And again, everyone misses the darrenic 8 which is actually almost spelt out. Never mind, there's still only a small margin between them...

Round 9: F R L S E A I B E

C1: REALISE (7)
C2: SEALER (6)
DC: FEASIBLE (8) BARFLIES (8)
OT: BALEFIRES (18)
Score: 51–51 (max 76)

Until now! Jimmy seems to have brain freeze and misses a few 7s. Then Jeff: "Would it be FEASIBLE to say there were any 8s?"
DC: "Yes, there was BARFLIES."

Great 9 though, I remember seeing it on Rex's 9s list twice the other day. I still missed it.

OoW: Susie talks about the inevitability of the '1,000,000th word' (which turned out to be "Web 2.0", a term ) and says how it could be from Chinese (yup, it sounds pretty Chinese to me).

Round 10: 25, 3, 1, 4, 2, 4. Target: 214.

C1: 213.
C2: 214. (25 + 2) x (4 + 4) - (3 - 1) (10)
Score: 51–61 (max 86)

James slips up on the numbers, allowing Jimmy to get a 10-point cushion.

Teatime teaser: GRABDEED -> BADGERED

Round 11: S G Q A I O M R I

C1: ORIGAMI (7)
C2: ROAMS (5)
Score: 58–61 (max 93)

A great spot from the Jamesinator and a clever leave of ORIGAMIS^.

Round 12: P U N O G E T T A

C1: OPEN (4)
C2: OUTAGE (6)
DC: PEANUT (6) POTTAGE (7)
Score: 58–67 (max 100)

But he undoes his good work by freezing his brain, allowing Jimmy to edge a bit further ahead.

Round 13: M R T E A E N C F

C1: CREATE (6)
C2: FENCER (6)
DC: CREMATE (7)
OT: CRENATE (7) FERMENT (7) FREEMAN (7) MENACER (7)
Score: 64–73 (max 107)

Round 14: 25, 100, 50, 75, 6, 1. Target: 449.

C1: 449. 75 x 6 - 1 (10)
C2: 449. (100 + 50) x 75 / 25 - 1 (10)
Score: 74–83 (max 117)

A 'tactical' choice of 4 large partially pays off in an unusual way for Jimmy. Why is 4 large considered tactical? I always choose it.

Round 15: N I N E C A R A T

C2 buzzes on 17 seconds to say CENTARIAN which is incorrect.
C1 buzzes on 29 seconds to say "I haven't got a clue" which is, surprisingly, incorrect.
The answer was INCARNATE.
Score: 74–83 (max 127)

Ah, the bliss of the 'I just wanted to press the buzzer one more time' mentality. And, er, Jimmy got the conunudrum wrong after buzzing in first, again.

A great game the two of them provided, which was high in spirit and tension, even if low on scores.

And now we head over to SC (Statistics Corner) for a summary of today's game.

C1:
Total score: 74
Raw score: 91
Total % of max: 58
Raw % of max: 72
Total average score per round: 4.9
Raw average score per round: 6.1
Number of maxes: 5

C2:
Total score: 83
Raw score: 94
Total % of max: 65
Raw % of max: 74
Total average score per round: 5.5
Raw average score per round: 6.3
Number of maxes: 5

Recap brought to you by Dr. Ladd (filling in for Dr. Awoh).

(Thanks for edits everyone)

Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=60

Kai Laddiman wrote:C2 buzzes on 17 seconds to say CENETARIAN which is incorrect.

CENTARIAN.

Matt Morrison wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:C2 buzzes on 17 seconds to say CENETARIAN which is incorrect.

CENTARIAN.

This, and also the clue to the second TTT was "Repeatedly annoyed someone about an animal".

And why take the mickey out of James when he missed the Scottish word PEEDIE ---- he's Irish.

Kai Laddiman wrote:DC: PEEDIE (6)

A very obscure Scottish word

So obscure, indeed, that I've only ever heard one person use it, and that was Sweyn Kirkness who repeatedly asked Carol for "one big number and five peedie ones".

Wot no GANDISEEG?

Kirk Bevins wrote:And why take the mickey out of James when he missed the Scottish word PEEDIE ---- he's Irish.

I forgot again

I thought the conundrum was NECTARINE until I realised there was only one "E"!

Also ADENINE is a mass noun so ADENINES is dubious. I wouldn't accept.

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Round 7: W R S A O I L L N

INLAWS?

Tim wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Round 7: W R S A O I L L N

INLAWS?

No.

Tim wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Round 7: W R S A O I L L N

INLAWS?

Hyphenated I'm afraid.

"Also ADENINE is a mass noun so ADENINES is dubious. I wouldn't accept."

I agree - you might use a plural informally, e;g; "There are 27 adenines in this fragment of DNA", but technically that's wrong. We have had this argument many times about other chemicals....

Kevin

Kai Laddiman wrote:Recap brought to you by Dr. Ladd (filling in for Dr. Awoh).

Many thanks, Ladd

Given Friday's opening banter I think a better scramble for teaser 1 would have been EXPAND PI