Spoilers for Tuesday 15 July 2008
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:47 pm
First try was wrong ![Embarrassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
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Yeah, FOOTPADS was actually there for a 2-letter DC beater. It doesn't mean anything like you might think though, unless you think it's a historical term for an unmounted highwayman.Michael Wallace wrote:was FOOTPAD there in round 13? my fiance saw it but too late for me to check if the letters were actually there
Yeah - he did know that (all I've got to do is train him to be good at the word spotting part of Countdown, his vocabulary is fine for it, well, word spotting and maths, but one step at a time...)Charlie Reams wrote:Yeah, FOOTPADS was actually there for a 2-letter DC beater. It doesn't mean anything like you might think though, unless you think it's a historical term for an unmounted highwayman.Michael Wallace wrote:was FOOTPAD there in round 13? my fiance saw it but too late for me to check if the letters were actually there
I started noticing this during Neil's week, but was too afraid to mention it (for obvious reasons, of which I hope have now blown over) but I am right in saying that none of the conundrums in this series are going to be ending in -ING.Michael Wallace wrote:also, TOXICPEEN is a much better scramble
Don't apologise - it was a DC beater all the same and if people reading didn't know it then they can learn from it.Joseph Bolas wrote:I started noticing this during Neil's week, but was too afraid to mention it (for obvious reasons, of which I hope have now blown over) but I am right in saying that none of the conundrums in this series are going to be ending in -ING.Michael Wallace wrote:also, TOXICPEEN is a much better scramble
P.S. Also apologies for posting STIFADO as a DC beater, as I thought it was the maximum you could've had (I didn't know about FOOTPADS)
I suppose you are right, because its not like STIFADO is an everyday word, unless you live in GreeceKirk Bevins wrote:Don't apologise - it was a DC beater all the same and if people reading didn't know it then they can learn from it.
I'm glad someone's different, Howard as that's how I did it too!Howard Somerset wrote:I went for a completely different method for third numbers game:
(50 x 3 - 6 - 4 - 3) x 4
And meKirk Bevins wrote:I'm glad someone's different, Howard as that's how I did it too!Howard Somerset wrote:I went for a completely different method for third numbers game:
(50 x 3 - 6 - 4 - 3) x 4
Charlie Reams wrote:Re: Susie's origins of words, as Julian probably knows, mooting (in the sense of mock legal debates) still happens in Cambridge. But then most things in Cambridge are unchanged since the 16th century.