Spoilers for Thursday November 8th 2012 (Series 67 Prelim 68

[Jordan F]

Heather Styles came on to the Countdown scene with a bang yesterday, getting the highest score of the series so far with 114. Can she keep things going today? Also as a quick note: as mentioned in the thread yesterday, Heather is using this appearance to help raise money for charity; specifically Providence Supporting People, a charity that provides long term help to those with drug and alcohol addictions. You can learn more about the campaign here: http://www.justgiving.com/countdown-challenge.

Join James for the recap later.

[szodiac]

Liked the round 2 selection PRATESI+LO. Studied the 7 combo + 2 whilst practising with Jessica (not that it helped).

Round 3 DC beater LORICATE.

Mauro

[Peter Mabey]

MADISONS in MASSING/DOSSING round

[Mark Deeks]

BIGHEAD not valid on Apterous. I want a refund.

[Peter Mabey]

OCARINA as alternative to CARINAE

[Malcolm James]

R11
SWAPTION?

[Tony Atkins]

BIGHEAD not valid on Apterous. I want a refund.

Shouldn't be valid on Countdown either as it is hyphenated. I had HOAGIE and BODEGA as 6s in that round. Any 7s?

[Tony Atkins]

R11
SWAPTION?

I got SWAPTION as SWAPTIONS was found by DC on one of my shows.

[szodiac]

Will double check later wot I did wrong. Rhonda had 27 points after round 6 then magically had 32 by the numbers game. I thought Rhonda only got 5 to Heather's 6 in round 7 then not scored again til round11. I'm off to give my brain a 'systems restore'.

Mauro

[John Garcia]

BIGHEAD not valid on Apterous. I want a refund.

Does Apterous give a SWAPTION for a refund?

[szodiac]

[quote="szodiac"]Will double check later wot I did wrong. Rhonda had 27 points after round 6 then magically had 32 by the numbers game. I thought Rhonda only got 5 to Heather's 6 in round 7 then not scored again til round11. I'm off to give my brain a 'systems restore'.

Spotted where I went wrong... 'twas in round 9 when CRONIE was disallowed and ACORN allowed.

Dozy me.

Mauro

[Adam Gillard]

Well done again Heather; can't believe that Susie allowed bighead* having checked the dictionary.

[Andy Platt]

Wow, so BIGHEAD isn't in? Controversial.

I had LORICATE, MADISONS (after 30s admittedly) and SWAPTION but apart from those I was absolutely horrendous while playing along there

[James Robinson]

Wow, so BIGHEAD isn't in? Controversial.

I thought it was a definite when Heather said it, so am well shocked it's not in, but as Adam said, it makes you wonder if Susie actually looked in the dictionary if it is clearly hyphenated in there..............

BIGHEAD not valid on Apterous. I want a refund.

Shouldn't be valid on Countdown either as it is hyphenated. I had HOAGIE and BODEGA as 6s in that round. Any 7s?

No, Tony.

[Gavin Chipper]

Well done again Heather; can't believe that Susie allowed bighead* having checked the dictionary.

She has form.

[Andy Platt]

By the way, the challenger looked really familiar, has she been on other quiz shows before?