Spoilers For Monday January 17th 2011

[James Robinson]

So, we have enter week 2, and already we have the possibility of crowning our first octochamp of the series by the end of the week.

That person in question is our very own Adam Gillard, on 3 wins so far, so will need to win all 5 shows this week to become the first octochamp of Series 64.

He likes his 3's does our Adam - 3 wins, 3 centuries, 3 solved conundrums, 333 points. Well, actually it's 337 points, so that's 333 + 3 to the power of 1 + 1 to the power of 3.

In DC this week, and having the honour of being the first DC debutant of 2011, is the broadcaster, Jonathan Maitland.

Join Ryan for the recap later.

[Joseph Krol]

R4 ENCASED, INCASED

[Joseph Krol]

Anyone noticed that AG's games have often had selections with high numbers of T's in?

[Stewart Gordon]

GRUNDIES?

[Joseph Krol]

R9 has Stephen Balment's name in it.

[Adam Gillard]

Is it BANDMATE, Jeff? Interesting scramble, eh?

[Ben Hunter]

Nice conundrum solve there Adam.

[Joseph Krol]

Lol at the conundrum, definite candidate for the Charlies 2011.

[Matt Morrison]

When Jeff said he wanted to get his revenge on Rachel in his dreams, my mind wandered.

[Ryan Taylor]

Good stuff, just 3 points off the max I made it so a 12 max game. I think if Andy had played you 100 times he wouldn't have ever beat you. That's how comfortable it was.

[Adam Gillard]

Nice conundrum solve there Adam.

Thanks. It was a bit distracting with the little skit beforehand; normally I don't even notice if the scramble contains a phrase or anything like that but was sort of looking out for it in the end. Anyway, another ODE3 one.

Good stuff, just 3 points off the max I made it so a 12 max game. I think if Andy had played you 100 times he wouldn't have ever beat you. That's how comfortable it was.

Thanks. I spotted SAPIENCE watching it back, but still missed DRUGGIES and MALONATE. As you noted yourself, Andy did manage to stick with me for quite a while towards the end and certainly wasn't a push-over, finishing with a very respectable score (much like Ray did on Friday).

[Ralph Gillions]

Smashing performances Adam

[Joyce Phillips]

In fairness to Andy, he was clearly very nervous at first, but played much better later in the game.

[Gavin Chipper]

Was UNRIGGED in the DRUGGIES round?

[Joseph Krol]

Was UNRIGGED in the DRUGGIES round?

Yep.

[Graeme Cole]

I managed to beat Adam, but only because I'd read that conundrum on Countdown's Twitter feed last month. Spoilers!

Well done on another win, Adam. Hopefully there'll be another four like that.

[Adam Gillard]

I managed to beat Adam, but only because I'd read that conundrum on Countdown's Twitter feed last month. Spoilers!

Yes I noticed that too. Poor form.