Spoilers for Monday 12th October 2026

[Philip A]

Had a feeling OPALINES would eventually be disallowed and it was today. Unfortunate but will be kicked out of Apto next update. Didn’t affect Owen’s great form though.

[John Garcia]

This has come up a few times before, most recently almost exactly a year ago on 9th October 2025:

https://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=216890

p.s. I think I've just worked out that the letters repeat more or less every 365 days.

[Howie Myers]

r4: MARSHIER
r14: 10*(50+10+4)-25=615

[Gevin Chapwell]

Another year later, and OPALINES is still haunting us then! For the 625 I managed a 25^2-10. 50*25*7/(10+4)-10 = 615.

[Philip Wilson]

Another year later, and OPALINES is still haunting us then! For the 625 I managed a 25^2-10. 50*25*7/(10+4)-10 = 615.

Had to look up 'milk-glass' (noun) because Susie's reasoning was still ambiguous - eg: how do you know it's hyphenated just by listening on the TV? On seeing what it means it's obvious it's a mass noun, so it's questionable why the Premium entry still doesn't say so, and you still have to go to the 'entry it's another word' for to find out.

I did 615 Howie's way.

[Philip Wilson]

Another year later, and OPALINES is still haunting us then! For the 625 I managed a 25^2-10. 50*25*7/(10+4)-10 = 615.

Had to look up 'milk-glass' (noun) because Susie's reasoning was still ambiguous - eg: how do you know she was saying a hyphenated word, and not 'a milk glass' just by listening on the TV? On seeing what it means it's obvious it's a mass noun, so it's questionable why the Premium entry still doesn't say so, and you still have to go to the 'entry it's another word for' to find out.

I did 615 Howie's way.