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Remember, remember, the 7th of November..........., for what you say, well nothing at the moment, but you never know there might be something later.

Not me, unfortunately, as I have just been informed that my 2nd Pointless episode has been postponed thanks to the BBC bigwig schedulers. More on the new date in due course.

But that does mean that we can fully focus on Countdown, which is never a bad thing.

Clive Barham now has 2 wins under his belt and has shown some good skill so far, and could go even further methinks. How much further, we'll have to wait and see.

Back in DC this week, is Radio 2's Ken Bruce.

Join Rhys for his recap later.

Definitely quiet here today - all the forumites must be on their way to Manchester for the finals. I did get the middle numbers during the ads, but Rachel did the reveal before I could log in. Good game, but it had the feel of a Tuesday morning game, where the champ has to wake himself up after the late end to recording the night before.

Tony Atkins wrote:..it had the feel of a Tuesday morning game, where the champ has to wake himself up after the late end to recording the night before.

So every game that goes out on a Monday is the first game of the day in recordings? I had kinda half presumed this but interesting to know.

I was poor there when playing along tho, missed a lot of stuff I normally get. My mate (should probably take the credit myself but I'm too honest!) got ideogram in round 13 which is a beauty. Only other thing I have to offer is dateline in round 2.

Thought Adam showed some promise but was too risky when he should have been playing safe late on. I can honestly say I beat the maths teacher on the second numbers game, got to 920.

STOOLED in round 12 but no interesting words to offer.
3rd numbers alt: ((4x3-1)x7-2)x10=750

Andy Platt wrote:

Tony Atkins wrote:..it had the feel of a Tuesday morning game, where the champ has to wake himself up after the late end to recording the night before.

So every game that goes out on a Monday is the first game of the day in recordings? I had kinda half presumed this but interesting to know.

The normal recording pattern is start Monday after lunch and do 3 afternoon shows and 2 evening ones, end about 9 pm.
Tuesday and Wednesday two morning shows and three afternoon shows. So if you are there until 9 pm on Monday and
win you have to be back to the studio by 9:30 am and not much time to wake up or warm up. That's my excuse for only
winning 2 shows and I am sticking to it. (Also fits in nicely with a guest being there for a whole day, being one week.)

Jack Worsley wrote:Thought Adam showed some promise but was too risky when he should have been playing safe late on.

Yeah, he shot himself in the foot, quite literally. Big, big waster.

SAMFIE in round 1, DENTINAL in round 2, OSTIOLE and STOOLIE in round 12.

James Robinson wrote:

Jack Worsley wrote:Thought Adam showed some promise but was too risky when he should have been playing safe late on.

Yeah, he shot himself in the foot, quite literally. Big, big waster.

SAMFIE in round 1, DENTINAL in round 2, OSTIOLE and STOOLIE in round 12.

Literally?

Joseph Krol wrote:

James Robinson wrote:

Jack Worsley wrote:Thought Adam showed some promise but was too risky when he should have been playing safe late on.

Yeah, he shot himself in the foot, quite literally. Big, big waster.

SAMFIE in round 1, DENTINAL in round 2, OSTIOLE and STOOLIE in round 12.

Literally?

It's amazing how many people misuse that. Spikey was talking about it in DC a few months ago.

So it wasn't literally? Saves me the time of watching it on 4od then.