Welcome one and all to a rather late night recap which allows me to be extra naughty. And today's show is show number sex, woops, six.
C1: Champion Graeme Cole (4 wins, 408 points.)
C2: Challenger Graham Moonie-Dalton.
DC: Susie Dent and Jon Culshaw.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: R F B E I E T N I
R02: D A N T O D H A E
R03: M T N E O E N M U
R04: D S A I P X E T K
R05: 7, 8, 5, 6, 5, 1. Target: 577.
TTT: EMUCELLO - "She sounds like a relative of Harry's but only a little bit"
R06: L Y O I R N V E L
R07: C S Z A O I R W U
R08: C V E M O C E P G
R09: Q R L A E U P F A
R10: 25, 75, 4, 7, 5, 2. Target: 480.
TTT: CUTCHOKE - "Til dosh us do part"
R11: G N T E I A R S I
R12: J L R U E O G S R
R13: G S R U O A S D I
R14: 100, 25, 2, 5, 7, 8. Target: 157.
R15: A R A B A C O R N (conundrum)
And now a brief interlude before our main feature:
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Jeff introduces the show talking about pub quizzes saying how they are a very popular pastime and he even quizzes Rachel with three GK questions although she only answers the one right. Disappointing. Susie did get one of the others though. Right, the contestants...
Graeme Cole is an early contender for the series having strolled onto the scene with a victory over 5 time champion Liam Herringshaw with a whopping score of 112. He is now averaging 102 points per show as well so it will take some effort to dislodge him from that seat that he is becoming used to.
Graham Moonie-Dalton provides the opposition today. He's originally from Fife but now lives in London and has a 16 month old girl called April. His wife is pregnant again with October (just kidding he hasn't got another one on the way (or a wife for that matter)). In his spare time, when he isn't pushing April on swings at the park, he can be found in cinemas and theatres and drinking real ale, although presumably not in the cinema. I got pissed once when I went to watch The King's Speech at cinema, on my own. That was a low point of my life.
And in Dictionary Corner today is yet another impressionist after only recently having Alistair McGowan on the show. Jon Culshaw will be providing us with laughs hopefully throughout the show. I dunno what it is about Jon Culshaw but I find his natural voice very, very weird. It's just wrong.
Enjoy the show.
Round 1: R F B E I E T N I
C1: feinter
C2: TRIBE (5)
DC: BENEFIT (7)
OT: NIFTIER (7) NITERIE (7)
Score: 0–5 (max 7)
Well, I won't go into details but basically FEINTER probably should have been allowed. Unfortunately for Graeme Cole Susie fucks him over and then reels off the 7 that she found. Thinking about the word BENEFIT reminds me of the song 'For the Benefit of Mr Kite' by The Beatles, which, leads me to a quiz question (since that was discussed at the start). So here's a question you can ponder over whilst you read down: Name the six Beatles' songs that contain the first name of a male. (Answers at the end)
Back to the contest...
Round 2: D A N T O D H A E
C1: DONATED (7)
C2: DONATED (7)
Score: 7–12 (max 14)
Darrens all round here. Not much more I can say on that.
Round 3: M T N E O E N M U
C1: MOMENT (6)
C2: MONUMENT (8)
DC: MEMENTO (7)
Score: 7–20 (max 22)
Graeme will be a bit gutted to miss MONUMENT but still it was a nice spot by t'other Graham.
Round 4: D S A I P X E T K
C1: PASTED (6)
C2: SPIKED (6)
DC: EXPATS (6)
OT: ADEPTS (6) PASTIE (6) PIETAS (6) SKATED (6) SKITED (6) SPADIX (6) SPITED (6) STAKED (6) TASKED (6) TAXIED (6)
Score: 13–26 (max 28)
Flat as Countdown's banter.
Round 5: 7, 8, 5, 6, 5, 1. Target: 577.
C1: 576. (8*7+1)*(5+5)+6 (7)
C2: 576. (8*7+1)*(5+5)+6 (7)
RR: 577. (7+5)*6*8+1 (10)
OT: 577. 8*6*(7+5)+1 (10)
Score: 20–33 (max 38)
Decent mathsing from the GG's although Rachel manages to get it spot on but only after the time has ran out.
Teatime teaser: EMUCELLO -> MOLECULE
Harry Kewell (Molly Cule) for those who don't follow football. Married that bird from Emmerdale who died in that great storm on it or something. Trisha I think's her name.
Round 6: L Y O I R N V E L
C1: LIVELY (6)
C2: VOLLEY (6)
DC: LOVELY (6) LIVERY (6)
OT: NERVILY (7) NOVELLY (7)
Score: 26–39 (max 45)
Graham the Challenger is still holding on to his 13 point lead.
Round 7: C S Z A O I R W U
C1: CARIOUS (7)
C2: SCOUR (5)
DC: CURIOS (6)
OT: CURIOSA (7)
Score: 33–39 (max 52)
Ah, but Graeme the Champion breaks the tough exterior of Moonie Graham with a lovely spot. Strange how DC didn't mention CURIOSA when they spotted CURIOS.
Round 8: C V E M O C E P G
C1: COME (4)
C2: MOVE (4)
DC: COPE
OT: COMP COPE COVE MOPE OGEE PEGO POEM POME VEEP
Score: 37–43 (max 56)
The worst round of the day even if everyone did max it.
Round 9: Q R L A E U P F A
C1: PLAQUE (6)
C2: PLAQUE (6)
DC: FLARE (5)
OT: EARFUL (6) FERULA (6) LUPARA (6) PLEURA (6) PURFLE (6)
Score: 43–49 (max 62)
Maxes again means the Challenger has still only been penetrated once by the Champion (that CARIOUS spot) and still has a slender lead. Let's head over to Big Suze.
Susie's Soap Box: Susie has a little natter about the online Oxford English Dictionary and how lovely sounding words get added to it like nom nom and kerching.
How many of the songs have you got? Are you stuck with just Jude from 'Hey Jude'?
Numbers time!!
Round 10: 25, 75, 4, 7, 5, 2. Target: 480.
C1: 482.
C2: 480. (25+75-4)*5 (10)
Score: 43–59 (max 72)
Well this is interesting and not going to script. Graeme blobs a pretty straightforward numbers game leaving the challenger to power on into a 16 point lead with only the third "half" to play. This could spell disaster (like if Tim Vine's alphabet grenade goes off).
Teatime teaser: CUTCHOKE -> CHECKOUT
Round 11: G N T E I A R S I
C1: GRAINIEST (18)
C2: RANGIEST (8)
OT: GRANITISE (18) SERIATING (18)
Score: 61–59 (max 90)
A huge sigh of relief and a bit of good fortune for the Champ as he manages to surge into the lead in one swift swoop of his GRAINIEST word. Excellent. Other Graham may be kicking himself since he did go with an -IEST word too leaving him with trying to get a word out of GNARI. Oh well, the game is still in the balance.
Round 12: J L R U E O G S R
C1: RULERS (6)
C2: GRUELS (6)
DC: ROUGES (6) REGULO (6)
OT: GROUSER (7) REGULOS (7)
Score: 67–65 (max 97)
Evens again whilst DC again fail to add a letter on the end of one of their 6's to make it a 7. Just LNC to go with only 2 points in it.
Round 13: G S R U O A S D I
C1: GIAOURS (7)
C2: GOURDS (6)
DC: RUGOSAS (7)
OT: SARDIUS (7)
Score: 74–65 (max 104)
Hoo hoo, champion uses his apto knowledge to pluck GIAOURS with ease out of a tricky looking set but his lead is only 9 points meaning he would probably like a tricky numbers game so that he doesn't have to face a crucial conundrum (having only solved the one so far).
Round 14: 100, 25, 2, 5, 7, 8. Target: 157.
C1: 157. 100+2*25+7 (10)
C2: 157. 100+2*25+7 (10)
Score: 84–75 (max 114)
But the numbers turns out to be piss easy meaning that we do have ourselves a crucial conundrum and it has to be said, it is what this game deserves. It's been a very good contest and may the best man win...
Round 15: A R A B A C O R N
C1 buzzes on 22 seconds to say CARBONARA which is correct.
Final Score: 94–75 (max 124)
BANG! Graeme Cole storms away as the winner with what has to be the most dramatic buzz this series so far. I watched the buzz moment back in slow mo three times and it still made me smile. Clearly a passionate player of the game (hey, you just lost The Game) who likes to win and I like to see this. A huge grin spreads out on Graeme's face when he knows he has CARBONARA and he has overcome his trickiest obstacle yet on his road to what could be octochampdom. For Moonie Graham, it's back to London, back to his little girl and back to the real ale safe in the knowledge that he did himself quite proud today.
And to quote Bruce Forsyth, sorry, SIR Bruce Forsyth..."good game, good game".
So have you got 6? Here are my 6:
Jude from Hey Jude
Maxwell from Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Rocky from Rocky Raccoon
Bill from The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Will from I Will
John from The Ballad of John and Yoko
No, you can't have Sgt Pepper or Mr Mustard or Mr Kite (none of which have "male first names") nor can you have Teddy from Teddy Boy (Paul McCartney only).
If you can think of any more let me know!
Right, join somebody tomorrow other than me who will be recapping Graeme Cole's 6th game.
Hello, goodbye!
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=65
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