Spoilers For Wednesday January 13th 2010

[James Robinson]

Well, we're midway through the first Countdown week of 2010.

Jan put up a very commendable effort yesterday, but Aptoforumite Oliver Garner managed to squeeze out a victory thanks to his 0.1s conundrum solve, leaving Jan with a record of 5 wins and 500 points, a nice benchmark for the start of this series, when you consider that Jacqui got to the finals in the last series with just 10 more points.

Can Oliver continue his run today against his opponent?

I'll let you know when the Robinson Recap returns later today.

[Ben Hunter]

Cool, new sproilers

[Lesley Hines]

Nice opener, James

[Matt Morrison]

My balls, your chin.

[Matt Morrison]

Dude's called Troy Ramsey-Axelsson and turns up in a peachy pink shiny satin shirt, dude's gotta win, what a stud.

[Marc Meakin]

MINGLED also

[Sue Sanders]

MINGLED was there too, in FOLDING round. I bet some lovely shirts had a nice trip to the studios. Well, the dressing room of the studios!

[Stewart Gordon]

(9 + 8) × (10 + 10) + 1

[Chris Davies]

KIAATS.

[Chris Philpot]

Freakishly topical conundrum!!

[Matt Morrison]

if you come dressed in a shiny pink shirt, you gotta have some skills to back that shit up. brave man

[David O'Donnell]

Freakishly topical conundrum!!

Lol!

Would have went for windfrost^ or frostwind^ myself but then I am fairly shit at conundrums.

Not a dig, Oliver! Well done again - bit more straightforward this time.

[Marc Meakin]

if you come dressed in a shiny pink shirt, you gotta have some skills to back that shit up. brave man

I bet he is quite good at backing shit up

[Peter Mabey]

RUDDLES as an alternative to DODDLES
Alternative third numbers: 25x75/3-100/50

[Kirk Bevins]

Nice work, Oliver. You looked much more relaxed and I'm hoping today's trouncing will relax you even further for your next game.

[Matt Morrison]

ALternative 3rd numbers, doing the simple 625-2 thing:

100 x 6, +25 = 625
50 x 3 = 150, /75 = 2
625 - 2 = 623

[Matt Morrison]

if you come dressed in a shiny pink shirt, you gotta have some skills to back that shit up. brave man

I bet he is quite good at backing shit up

No way man. Troy's had more girls than me and Kirk put together, serious.

[Martin Bishop]

Freakishly topical conundrum!!

Thanks to the snowdrifts here, I've had the chance to watch a game go out "live" for the first time in ages. Having lost to Oliver today, though, I might leave it a while before watching live again. Well played.

[Kirk Bevins]

ALternative 3rd numbers, doing the simple 625-2 thing:

100 x 6, +25 = 625
50 x 3 = 150, /75 = 2
625 - 2 = 623

Or even (75-50)x25 then subtracting 6/3.

[Julie T]

MINGLED was there too, in FOLDING round. I bet some lovely shirts had a nice trip to the studios. Well, the dressing room of the studios!

Nice to see you back, Sue!

Ollie certainly had an easy opponent to ease him into the champion's chair.

Amazingly weird answer to round 5 numbers, but Troy did get the target.
I did 110x7 etc. method (IIRC that was Ollie's way?)
When Troy started 100x8, I thought, ah yes, he'll do 4x7 and subtract, but no.

On to tomorrow's game!

[Richard Priest]

Would have went for windfrost^ or frostwind^ myself but then I am fairly shit at conundrums.

And grammar

[Alec Rivers]

I bet he is quite good at backing shit up

Counter-sunk turds.

[James Robinson]

Alternative to 2nd Numbers:

10 + 8 = 18, 10 + 9 = 19, 18 x 19 = 342, 342 - 1 = 341

OPANCI in round 6. Only know that after failing with CAPUCCINO on a Goatdown before.

[Jojo Apollo]

Impressive stuff, I think Oliver will be the first Octochamp of this series (hopefully!)

[Brian Moore]

MINGLED also

and MELDING, as in Vulcan minds. My mother fancied James Shatner. That's my excuse.

[Marc Meakin]

MINGLED also

and MELDING, as in Vulcan minds. My mother fancied James Shatner. That's my excuse.

My mum fancied William T. Kirk

[Kirk Bevins]

My mum fancied Kirk

I don't blame her.

[Brian Moore]

My mum fancied William T. Kirk

Yeah, sorry, I haven't been the same since the Tribbles.

[Marc Meakin]

My mum fancied William T. Kirk

Yeah, sorry, I haven't been the same since the Tribbles.

I used to get trouble with the Klingons til I changed my loo paper.
Btw, wouldn't it be cool if James Doohan posts next.

[Gavin Chipper]

Freakishly topical conundrum!!

Lol!

Would have went for windfrost^ or frostwind^ myself but then I am fairly shit at conundrums.

Not a dig, Oliver! Well done again - bit more straightforward this time.

I was surprised no-one in the audience got it at all. I got it, but then I'm sure it's been on before (ages ago maybe) and for some reason it came to me.

[Stewart Gordon]

Freakishly topical conundrum!!

If this is freakishly topical, then what's Keith's guess of EPICENTRE 5 days later?