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Tony Atkins

Congrats to Jonathan de Souza who won all 6 games, including the final, to take gold medal.
Sam Stock was second and MSR was third, beating Jessica Pratesi in the 3-4 play-off. 12 players.

Tony Atkins

We will be in room 3 in the London Suite. The hotel is just five minutes walk west of West Brompton station (District/Overground Mildmay).
Reasonably priced drinks and snacks are available from the kiosk in the foyer.

Tony Atkins

CO MSO is on again this year as part of the Mind Sports Olympiad (see https://mindsportsolympiad.com) at a new hotel venue.

Mercure London Earls Court, 47 Lillie Road, London, SW6 1UD.

The event is 5 round Swiss, followed by a final and 3rd place play-off, using the Bristol System where the same ...

Tony Atkins

Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Feb 11, 2026 5:31 pm I hadn't noticed the warning. Specifically it says "Dangerous times". I think the particular wording needs to be highlighted.

I spotted this too - I always thought it was division that was dangerous.

Tony Atkins

Recaps of the rounds and final are now available at http://www.kisekigo.com/cd/

Tony Atkins

Congrats to Tom Cappleman who beat Matthew Brockwell in the final.
Watch the game on CCW's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFwyfcgwJKA

Tony Atkins

Congrats to the winners:
Gold: Dan Byrom
Silver: Tim Hebbes
Bronze: Fiona Titcombe
4th: Tom Carey
Tim won all five heats and Tom noteworthily maxed a game with 120. 10 players took part.

Results http://www.kisekigo.com/cd/mso25.html

Tony Atkins

CO MSO is on again this year as part of the Mind Sports Olympiad (see https://mindsportsolympiad.com) at JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET on Sunday 24th August from 10:00 to 18:00. Note this is at a modern Jewish Community Centre and that food and dangerous items may not be brought on site ...

Tony Atkins

History of the first nine COREAs is at http://www.kisekigo.com/cd/

Details of Christ Church Woodley are at http://christ-church-woodley.org.uk/
Click on "Find Us" for more travel info.

The pub for after event drinks/food is likely to be the George Inn at Loddon Bridge. https://www.chefandbrewer ...

Tony Atkins

Results tables now available on http://www.kisekigo.com/cd/
Games and recaps later!

Tony Atkins

Congrats to Gold medal winner Matthew Brockwell who beat Mark Murray 108-91 in the final, having won all 5 games
in the heats. Bronze medal went to Matthew S Rutherford, beating Fiona Titcombe 98-74 in the play-off game.

Tony Atkins

Note that MSO entries are now open

https://mindsportsolympiad.com/product/countdown/

Entry fee is £20 this year.

Tony Atkins

I can now confirm that COMSO will be the following day, Sunday 25th August - more details when registration for MSO is open.

Tony Atkins

And the answers to all the rounds are now up at http://www.kisekigo.com/cd/corea24recaps.pdf

Tony Atkins

The game records are now on the CO:REA website at http://www.kisekigo.com/cd/corea24games.pdf

Top three and Fiona.

The final: Tom v Tom.

Tony Atkins

Here are the selections for the final to keep you amused until the recaps - max is 113.

SIFILIJSI
SETONAPEH
7 8 75 25 100 50 = 255
LANAREDES
CAPARELUN
2 7 10 2 8 8 = 913
REMOCETTE
PEBIGADEG
5 2 25 100 75 50 = 343
LOXELERAY
MADOQOVTD
ROFESAWOC
NARIROHIO
9 6 5 10 4 4 = 165
HOUSPARTY (con)

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Prize winners with 4 wins: James Robinson (482), Adrian Fletcher (489), Dan Byrom (499), Tim Down (572), Rob Foster (575 and third place). Best newcomer Martin Pegram. Highest on 3/5 Tim Hebbes. Name the software winner Steve Hyde ("RoboRiley"). Final between Tom Cappleman (4 wins 601) and Tom Carey ...

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When I have watched the manual shuffle at show recordings, they have shuffled the packs face up so they can spot really silly repetitions and manually placed the Q and Z thereafter. It is quite traditional to have repetitions even with the manual shuffle of cards at COREA - who can forget the round ...

Tony Atkins

Sorry for delay - results and game records are now on http://kisekigo.com/cd/

Tony Atkins

Congrats go to Ronan Higginson who won the event for the third time in a row (4th total).
He beat Silver medalist Rob Foster 94-84 in the final and also takes Junior Gold.
Bronze medal went to Thomas Carey who beat Jonathan de Souza 96-79 in the 3rd-4th game.
Ten players took part.

Tony Atkins

6 players registered with MSO at present.

Tony Atkins

CO MSO is on again this year as part of the CO:LON weekend.

It will be held at the Mind Sports Olympiad (see https://mindsportsolympiad.com) at JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET on Sunday 27th August from 10:00 to 18:00. Note this is at a modern Jewish Community Centre and that food and ...

Tony Atkins

Conundrum for my second show was MINIMUSED

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Alt last numbers (4+9)x5x10+100+1=751.
Ahmed could saved a number in third numbers by making 7 from 5+2 not 10-3.

Tony Atkins

In the Guardian's magazine for 24 Dec 2022, an article on top games players included a peice on Jonathan Liew and his Countdown experience. See https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... a-and-more

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Rather annoying that Colin read the 969 points total of Ed when describing Steve.

Anyone get the missed 9 or numbers?

The standard method to 549 is (10+7+5)x25+4-5.

Tony Atkins

As all good Go players know 361 is 19 times 19, so 100-75-6 and 10+8+1 (though not the standard method of course).

Tony Atkins

Results table now at http://kisekigo.com/cd/mso22.html

Games now at http://kisekigo.com/cd/mso22games.pdf

Recaps now at http://kisekigo.com/cd/mso22recapsgames.pdf

Tony Atkins

Well done to Ronan Higginson beating Jack Hurst 105-96 on the crucial conundrum RUNVIEMSO.
Third was Jonathan de Souza beating Tim Hebbes 108-94. 10 took part.

Tony Atkins

Thomas Carey wrote: Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:55 pm Well done my son. Pretty pleased to beat them on two numbers rounds - 19*6*6 and 146-9

Not obvious how to make the 146?

I used the standard method to 137 50+75+((100/25)x(9-6))

Very interesting game - well done to both!

Tony Atkins

CO MSO is back in person this year after two years online.

It will be held at the Mind Sports Olympiad (see https://mindsportsolympiad.com) at JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET on Sunday 28th August from 10:00 to 18:00.

Sorry for lack of update registration was delayed.

5 round swiss ...

Tony Atkins

734, but sadly just before the end of the ads: ((8+4)x10+25)x5+9

Tony Atkins

Actually it was the Beat Rachel Show (though not by the Standard Method):

(75+5+2)x8-100/50=654

Tony Atkins

News story today about this Series 62 finalist:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/countdown-win ... 00451.html

Tony Atkins

Doesn't AR know the rules? She will cause an incident sometime if she doesn't go to the not written down contestant first and they have the same word as the written down contestant.

Tony Atkins

Beating Rachel (3x10x25)+100+2=852

Tony Atkins

The 2019 Reading and all the recent COMSO events are missing too - result links at http://kisekigo.com/cd/

Tony Atkins

As last year the Mind Sports Olympiad is being held online.

The Countdown Tournament will be held on Apterous (apterous.org) on English Bank Holiday Monday 30th August at 19:30.

It will be a 5 round swiss (play people of equal number of wins), followed by a final and 3rd place play-off (players ...

Tony Atkins

Nice that Rachel found a standard method solve for the 3L, whereas I could only find a normal method solve:
(50+75+6)x7-4=913

Tony Atkins

VASELINE should be valid as it is a verb as well as a noun (it is valid on Apterous)

Tony Atkins

Last numbers round:

All Go players know that 361 is 19x19 (the size of the board) so an easier method than Rachel's:
(10+9)x(3x5+6-2)

Tony Atkins

Beating RR in R14: ((6+3)x9+6)x10-5=865

Tony Atkins

PROFANES a beater in R8

Tony Atkins

Alt 2nd numbers (6+10/5)x50+(7x2)=414

Tony Atkins

Always nice to see a former S64 player doing well the second time round.

Rebecca would have been my fifth opponent if I had lasted that long.

Beaters today CONCHIES in R2 and MODERATE in R4.

And ARSENIC is not a compound!

Tony Atkins

Managed the last numbers just out of time by an easier way (but not the standard method).

(75-10-9)x5-100/50=278

Tony Atkins

I was expecting Connor to win a few so a bit surprised at his score today. And so many possible 9s too! I make max score somewhere above 170?

Tony Atkins

Can't find a standard method solution for the first numbers (the 3L), but the quick method is
(75+25-7)x(50/5)=930

Tony Atkins

Results at http://kisekigo.com/cd/mso20.html

Tony Atkins

Congrats to the medal winners:

Gold Bradley Horrocks
Silver Sam Cappleman-Lynes
Bronze James Rowan
Junior Gold Ronan Higginson

and those on four wins: Thomas Carey, Hazel Drury, Billy Stokes and Jason Turner.

Full results tomorrow.

Tony Atkins

16 players signed up so far.

Tony Atkins

If you are an expired apterous user or want to play anonymously, then create yourself a new (trial) user (for free) using a second email address. You will need to declare your pseudonym on registration under your real name and your real name will not be revealed until after the event is complete.

Tony Atkins

Trying and failing to find out about the poker events from the website - what are the entry criteria for that, what platform etc etc.

If you go to their calendar of events at https://msoworld.com/mso-is-open-for-registrations/
you can see all the different events. Click on each each event to ...

Tony Atkins

The annual game-playing festival, the Mind Sports Olympiad,
is being held online on various platforms during the month of August 2020
instead of being played face-to-face in London.

I am hosting the Countdown event (CO-MSO) on Apterous (apterous.org) during the evening of Friday 21st August from ...

Tony Atkins

(75-50/25)x8+100=684 for those who don't like using 7s.

Tony Atkins

(9+7-1)x10+8x8=214 but out of time.

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Less impressive way for first numbers (50-75/25)x7-10=319

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Well done to James (and to Callum).

Tony Atkins

Third numbers out of time (100x10-75+7)x25/50=466

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Alt first numbers (25x100-50)/10=245

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