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I've heard a rumour that Apterous Prime is going to appear on the show. Is this true Charlie, can you ask him when he turns up for work today? If so, will he be the first robotic contestant?

Does Prime always get the max? Apart from not buzzing for the conundrum in 0.01 second, I've never seen it miss a max.

Au contraire, Prime is quite beatable, I've taken it to crucials on many occaions (and typically screwed them all up).

Martin Gardner wrote:Does Prime always get the max? Apart from not buzzing for the conundrum in 0.01 second, I've never seen it miss a max.

No, it doesn't miss too often though. I've got 55 primes on a stick

Paul Howe wrote:

Martin Gardner wrote:Does Prime always get the max? Apart from not buzzing for the conundrum in 0.01 second, I've never seen it miss a max.

No, it doesn't miss too often though. I've got 55 primes on a stick

Oh bollocks I'm thinking of Apterous Rex. To put it another way, does Apterous Rex ever miss a maximum?

Martin Gardner wrote:
Oh bollocks I'm thinking of Apterous Rex. To put it another way, does Apterous Rex ever miss a maximum?

Nope. There was a brief period when the time adjustment made rex weaker and you could beat him, but that's fixed now. The dialogue if you manage to take a round off him is "Cheater!".