Spoilers for Thursday 17th July 2008

[JasonCullen]

Post them here. There are likely to be many beaters!

[Howard Somerset]

Not impressed with Rick's spot today

[Charlie Reams]

No beaters for me yet, but I (and anyone else watching last night's COOT games) must surely have been willing the last vowel of Round 3 to be an E.

Also it'll be pretty dismal if Carol can't work out that numbers trick. If you know your birth year and the current year then yep, you really can work out your age! Who knew?

[JasonCullen]

It worked for me today . The number I was thinking of was 8 and I ended up with 816 with the last two numbers being my actual age of 16 . I was well impressed

[JasonCullen]

No beaters for me yet, but I (and anyone else watching last night's COOT games) must surely have been willing the last vowel of Round 3 to be an E.

Also it'll be pretty dismal if Carol can't work out that numbers trick. If you know your birth year and the current year then yep, you really can work out your age! Who knew?

I willed on an E Charlie . I think it was for AUMBRIES!

[Michael Wallace]

Also it'll be pretty dismal if Carol can't work out that numbers trick. If you know your birth year and the current year then yep, you really can work out your age! Who knew?

Now now, you also need to know whether you've had your birthday this year yet or not

[JasonCullen]

I thought CLANGIEST but apparently not

[Michael Wallace]

Was half expecting him to take a bit longer on that last C/V selection in the STEALING round, given he knew what vowel he'd get

[Howard Somerset]

I thought CLANGIEST but apparently not

I had CLEATING, but cleat's not a verb

[Matt Coates]

same here jay, i thought CLANGIEST, bev is lucky shes not playin someone like DOD cuz she would end up on 0 points, i aint kidding, i do like her tho, but i cannot believe how she passed the audition, i dont think she has declared anything in 5 numbers games, which may well be a first

[JasonCullen]

same here jay, i thought CLANGIEST, bev is lucky shes not playin someone like DOD cuz she would end up on 0 points, i aint kidding, i do like her tho, but i cannot believe how she passed the audition, i dont think she has declared anything in 5 numbers games, which may well be a first

And it is not like she is getting difficult numbers games! But I do agree that she seems like a nice lady. You've gotta give her that

[Michael Wallace]

Aw, no BACKIES? (as in, naughty bicycle use, rather than baccy)

[Matt Coates]

shes like that nervous woman on catherine tate, when shes asked to pick her letters/numbers. she is likeable but one of the worst players ive seen, the new chap doesnt seem all that good either, ah well, at least there are some good 'uns in the pipeline

[JasonCullen]

ARTERIAL as a beater

[Charlie Reams]

ARTERIAL as a beater

Damn, beat me to it.

[JasonCullen]

6+5 + (10/5) = 13*75 = 975 + 1= 976

[Joseph Bolas]

3rd Numbers: ((6 + 5 + (10 / 5)) x 75) + 1

EDIT: Damn beaten by Jason

[Matt Coates]

(6+5=(10/5))X75=975+1

[Ray Folwell]

(6+5+10/5) x 75 + 1 - you beat me to it

[JasonCullen]

Is 30 points the lowest champion score in the 15 round era of all time? It must be...surely?

[Kirk Bevins]

Damn you're all too quick. I was gonna post ARTERIAL and the CV beater in round 14. I also can not believe Carol didn't understand the algebra trick for the year etc. I used that exact trick on my year 8s the other month (except the starting number was how many days a week do you eat chocolate, between 1 and 7 -- anything will work as long as it's less than 10 and my example will force it to be less than 10).

As for DoD beating her to 0, I did quite well, beating her 115-13, but doing that in the studio is different as we all know I'm a bottler.

P.s HEREIN was a nice 6 in round 1.

[Peter Mabey]

I did (9+5+5-6)x75+1=976

Also the initial number needn't be less than 10, as you just get a 4-digit answer, and you just take the first two. (You do need to be aged less than 100, though. )

[Howard Somerset]

Is 30 points the lowest champion score in the 15 round era of all time? It must be...surely?

Almost certainly. And I guess 88 is the lowest total for anyone over two games. Still, she gets one day as #8 seed before she gets passed by Chris Davies tomorrow.

[Joseph Bolas]

Damn you're all too quick. I was gonna post ARTERIAL and the CV beater in round 14. I also can not believe Carol didn't understand the algebra trick for the year etc. I used that exact trick on my year 8s the other month (except the starting number was how many days a week do you eat chocolate, between 1 and 7 -- anything will work as long as it's less than 10 and my example will force it to be less than 10).

I was meant to catch this algebra trick on Channel 4+1 after missing it first time around but I forgot to watch it.

What is the trick you use Kirk and does anyone remember what the conundrum was, as I missed that as well

[Howard Somerset]

Is 30 points the lowest champion score in the 15 round era of all time? It must be...surely?

There's at least one less. In her opening game, Heather Culpin managed to keep her opponent down to 29. See here.

[Howard Somerset]

Carol did seem to go round the houses a bit in explaining Rick's "trick". Was it really necessary for her to explain that 1758 is 2008 - 250, and so when you add 1758 to 250 what you're doing is 250 + 2008 - 250, so the 250s cancel, leaving 2008? Surely simply adding 250 and 1758 to give 2008 would have been a simpler approach. But maybe there were a few minutes spare and she was asked to pad it out a bit.

As for the conundrum, Joseph, it was THYGLOOMY.

[Richard Priest]

same here jay, i thought CLANGIEST, bev is lucky shes not playin someone like DOD cuz she would end up on 0 points, i aint kidding, i do like her tho, but i cannot believe how she passed the audition, i dont think she has declared anything in 5 numbers games, which may well be a first

Yeah, I thought that about the audition too Matt, nice lady but I'm amazed she passed.

I also noticed, I think in the round where she declared LANCING but was beaten by the 8, Susie never mentioned that she'd used the N twice which she normally would do.

[Joseph Bolas]

As for the conundrum, Joseph, it was THYGLOOMY.

Thank you Howard . It seems I didn't miss much .

After having words this week like RECTUMS, SCROTUM and GENITALS I am hoping that one day, the word SPHINCTER will be used for a conundrum

[Julian Fell]

I was extremely dozy when watching Thursday's show - first I went for YARNERS in round 7, which is patently bollocks, then in round 9 I got TAXONOMY, and didn't realize till I loaded up CountMax after the show, that there was no Y Damian's going to crush me in the COOT final...

But yes I think declaring nothing on 6 consecutive numbers rounds must be an all-time record...