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Standard method for the 904 was ((7+6)×9-4)×8 = 904.

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Round 7 - MAILS and FAILS for 5 and Susie offers ILIUM (a bone) for another 5. Turns out plural is ILIA, but Susie just leaves it hanging there (which is not an infrequent occurence).

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Marc Meakin wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2026 10:40 am Bill Oddie.
The last Goodie

Well I suppose the other living one is on Gardening leave.

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Thanks!

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Kevin Keegan!

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Terence Donovan. Thought you'd all be rushing to post that.

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Garfield Sobers

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Yeah, it doesn't change anything about

"P1 is unhappy because he believes P2 has gambled that the hesitant declaration from P1 is based on a possible S ending word and had nothing to lose by just copying P1's word with an S added, as if it turned out not to be good they only had a 7 anyway ...

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This question has also come up several times in the past if you do a search.

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Susie disallowed EXTOLER in yesterday's show saying it was the North American spelling. It's also not valid on Apterous etc. if that makes a difference. What does the dictionary actually say in its entry?

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Surely we've discussed similar before. I thought the general consensus was you didn't need to say not written down if it was a different length.

And if it's not routinely checked on the spot, I don't think we want to encorage a situation where contestants routinely protest each other's words.

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Well she wasn't a current MP. But it does seem politics is a dangerous profession.

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Dermot Murnaghan

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Far from unpopular, by damning it with faint praise you've hit the nail on the head.

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Rein Me In by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean has been at number 1 for 16 weeks in the UK charts. You've probably never heard it. Contrast that with that Bryan Adams song that you heard a million times when it was number 1 for 16 weeks in 1991. (This one hasn't actually been all consecutive though ...

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Patricia Greene who played Jill Archer in The Archers. There is currently no murder investigation open as far as I am aware.

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Murder!

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Yeah, round 14 was a very good spot and unexpected. I'm not sure I'd really call the champion octo material but she's come this far now so could get across the line.

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Just the nameplates or their name as referred to on the show at all times?

Just listing the greatest players: Harvey Freeman, Julian Fell, Conor Travers, John from Coventry.

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Try this link.

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Colin says: "CHEWSWORDS. After chewing their swords they return to [wherever they came from or something]"

A 10-letter TTT Colin?

TTT - "CHEWSODS".

You just never know when his accent is going to throw a curveball.

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Victor Willis from The Village People. I nearly said from the YMCA.

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It says you have to log in to a Google account when trying to view it. Is that something you've set? It would probably be better without that hurdle.

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The forum was completely down for quite a long time.

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I thought it was going to be Keir Starmer.

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Where did this news come from btw? According to this Apterous ticket , there already wasn't a restaurant rule back in 2024.

Here it is.

Ah yes, thanks. I did see that but forgot where I saw it. Seems they actually introduced the change earlier (at least as far back as 2024) but just ...

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Where did this news come from btw? According to this Apterous ticket, there already wasn't a restaurant rule back in 2024.

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I think it was likely triggered by LAGERS being disallowed 4 times in under a year in 2001/2, whereas BRANDIES was allowed simply because it was an "irregular" plural and explicitly listed. Maybe the dictionary is better designed these days. Will LAGERS be allowed based on the dictionary entry of ...

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Linguine speaking there is though.

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How old is Patrick by the way? And Luke Selway while we're at it.

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Not that I think it was a Hansford, but there was a dramatic pause before Patrick gave his conundrum answer.

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CoC confirmed for next year by Colin.

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For each seed number from 1 downwards (and you can go beyond 8 if you want), who had the best run (each format separately presumably)? By wins then points, although obviously it wasn't always done like that but we don't want to complicate things too much. So e.g. the best number 1 seed run in the ...

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This is good work. I'm hoping to be retired from driving by the time I reach your age.

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Adam Gillard wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 4:54 pm For me:

Blood type - a hit
Cheese - OK
Butter - a miss

Well you would say that, Adam Gheelard.

(Meakin stole my login details.)

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Not bad. Always check no-one has come up with the same before though. Can happen a lot with one-liners.

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Was it good refereeing? I've seen people counted out for far less. Maybe they thought it wouldn't matter because Karen also had 750 to clinch the game, but she could have gone wrong and Sam could have got the conundrum...

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Roger Cook.

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Roy Hattersley.

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Exciting times.

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This thread has been dormant for too long.

When I was at primary school, I had to walk up the road to where my mum had parked the car. I think she would come to the school to meet us, but I would often go on ahead anyway. In any case I wasn't with any family members at this point. I was walking ...

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I think a lot of people would have a problem with voting for an F1 driver, since so much of it is about having the best car. And so few people get to do it in the first place so it's a smaller pool of talent than a lot of other sports.

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Alex Zanardi, Kyle Busch (both racing drivers) and Judith Chalmers all died in May.

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Anthony Head. There will quite a few gaps to fill in as well.

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Yep! Charlie took it down because it had problems and was also causing problems with the wiki. It's now been updated and hopefully things will be better!

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Just looking further at the Discord, apparently there was some adjudication chat but he hadn't declared that it wasn't written down, which seemed to have swayed it, though I'm not sure it should have gone to that since he did the whole thing before saying he'd gone wrong.

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Charlie got the solution to his 3-away 575 correct (target was 578), but incorrectly said he'd gone wrong after he'd completed it, so he should have got the points. Just been on the Discord and people seem to agree.

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Nature is healing!

Thank you for doing the update of course, and hopefully the problems will settle down. One weird thing that seems to be happening is that when I try to log in on my phone it tells me I've got the password wrong, but it ...

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Yes!

Though I am still getting:

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Well we had Ians Huntley and Watkins so we probably waived that a while ago.

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Do the rules just say US spellings? I've wondered this before.

Edit - Having done a search, it generally seems that North American should be OK. Not sure if this has been tested on the show though.

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The moon is pre-fucked. The Earth a few degrees warmer than it is now is still infinitely more habitable than the moon. There's not much you can do to Earth to make the moon a more attractive place to live on.

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This trip round the moon is at best only marginally less frivolous than that Katy Perry trip.

I know I said elsewhere about them having to get a move on if they want there to continuously be someone living who has been to the moon, but this is purely for something along the lines of bragging rights ...

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Watched Project Hail Mary at the weekend, partly based on your recommendation. I thought it was OK but it was really just a poor man's The Martian. Seemed messier and less coherent. Bits that didn't really make sense. So a bit disappointed.

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YouTube is much more accessible btw.

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Well yeah. It's pretty insane when you think about it.

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According to the Wikipedia article about daylight saving time in Australia:

Of the states that observe DST, most began on the last Sunday in October, and ended on the last Sunday in March, until 2007.

So it was a thing that they did it at the same time as us. It just isn't any more.

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I'm not sure that what you said about Australia addresses anything I've said.

(Which was that I thought I'd heard that in the southern hemisphere they generally also changed their clocks at around the same time as us - so late March / October - which would make it asymmetrical compared to us as ...

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Well 6/6 would be logical if it was the same dates in the southern hemisphere (which I thought it generally was). But it should be symmetrical around the solstaces, so I agree there.

That's if they do it at all. I've never quite seen the point myself. You get the same number of hours of light and ...

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Probably. We lose an hour.

What I want to know is why is the split 7 months in BST and 5 months in GMT? As far as I understand most countries, including in the southern hemisphere, change their clocks at a similar time, so some countries will have the 7/5 split the other way round in terms of ...

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