Friday 19 November 2010 (Series 63, Prelim 95)
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 5:44 pm
Countdown recap for Friday 19 November 2010 (Series 63, Prelim 95).
C1: Champion Niall Young (3 wins, 267 points.)
C2: Challenger Janet Dodsworth.
DC: Susie Dent and Dave Spikey.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
I’m feeling a little flat today after the shenanigans that have been happening at C4C in the past week, so I’m hoping that perhaps a Friday recap will cheer me (or anyone else who’s feeling a bit down at the moment) up. Niall Young has won three games so far and if he can beat Janet Dodsworth from Winnersh in Berkshire, he’ll have reached the heady heights of half-octochampdom. Let’s see what happened...
R01: R D W U I E S T R
R02: P F O I H O R D E
R03: V E A S G T O U C
R04: T P G I E O T X D
R05: 50, 10, 7, 4, 5, 10. Target: 457.
TTT: INTOPOTS - "Fire saliva into this type of pot."
R06: T N L C E A O M T
R07: W U I S P E R L D
R08: S N R B S U A O E
R09: J C R A A I N R D
R10: 3, 7, 6, 8, 5, 10. Target: 407.
TTT: USINGPOT - "Talking nonsense about the teapot, perhaps."
R11: L G E A U S N O R
R12: N P H M E I A L E
R13: V O A E G M F A S
R14: 3, 7, 6, 2, 1, 7. Target: 824.
R15: T R A P E S E E D (conundrum)
Countdown is sponsored by Wellwoman, the first Vitabiotics product to be plugged for a second stint, I believe.
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Apparently, today is World Toilet Day (which I have to say passed me by completely unnoticed, like most of the special days Jeff mentions), and he hopes both our contestants are ‘flushed with success’ today. Groan. Meanwhile, in totally unrelated news, Rachel is apparently off to Florence for the weekend. Which is Nice (or rather, which is Florence).
Round 1: R D W U I E S T R
C1: STURDIER (8)
C2: TRUStED
DC: STURDIER (8)
Score: 8–0 (max 8)
Janet doesn’t get off to a good start and is seeing double, while Niall’s STURDIER offering takes all the points.
Round 2: P F O I H O R D E
C1: HOOPER (6)
C2: PROOFED (7)
DC: HOODIE (6)
OT: POOFIER (7)
Score: 8–7 (max 15)
A good seven from Janet allows her to recover some ground.
Round 3: V E A S G T O U C
C1: OUTAGES (7)
C2: CAUSE (5)
DC: OUTAGES (7) OCTAVES (7) AVOCETS (7)
OT: ACETOUS (7) SCUTAGE (7) VAGUEST (7)
Score: 15–7 (max 22)
A bit of a Countdown favourite for Niall, while Janet’s offering is a bit of a lost CAUSE on this occasion. In case you were wondering, SCUTAGE is money paid by a vassal to his lord in lieu of military service.
Round 4: T P G I E O T X D
C1: TIPTOED (7)
C2: POTTED (6)
DC: POTTED (6)
Score: 22–7 (max 29)
Niall thinks his word is risky, but there’s nothing iffy about TIPTOED (unless you’re trespassing) and he duly gets his seven points.
Round 5: 50, 10, 7, 4, 5, 10. Target: 457.
C1: 457. (((10x4)+5)x10)+7 (10)
C2: 457. ((5+4)x50)+7 (10)
Score: 32–17 (max 39)
A nice easy first numbers game means Janet is no longer on single figures, which is always nice.
Before Jeff ‘teases’ us (or should that be ‘teasers’ us?), Dave rounds off his week of anecdotes with some stuff about his grandparents: apparently his grandfather suffered from ‘spiralitis’, while his grandmother once ate someone else’s doughnut in a cafe because she mistakenly thought he’d eaten her KitKat (sorry Dave, I’ve heard that one before – nicely told though!).
Teatime teaser: INTOPOTS -> SPITTOON
Round 6: T N L C E A O M T
C1: monacle
C2: MOTTLE (6)
DC: LACTONE (7) OMENTAL (7) MATELOT (7) (JS)
OT: COALMEN (7) MANTLET (7) TELAMON (7) TOMENTA (7)
Score: 32–23 (max 46)
Oh no! Niall isn’t the first in Countdown history to fall into the ‘monacle’ trap, which allows Janet to play catch-up via her six. Some nice sevens there, both from DC and others (including Jeff!).
Round 7: W U I S P E R L D
C1: SPIDER (6)
C2: UPRISE (6)
DC: PERILS (6)
OT: SERPULID (8)
Score: 38–29 (max 54)
“End of the week” syndrome hits the studio, as no one spots any of the sevens available in the selection, let alone the darrenic SERPULID (which is another worm, in case you were wondering).
Round 8: S N R B S U A O E
C1: BONUSES (7)
C2: BONUS (5)
DC: AROUSES (7) BARONESS (8)
Score: 45–29 (max 62)
Janet’s after a BONUS, but Niall makes it plural and bags the points on this round. Meanwhile, Dictionary Corner AROUSES the BARONESS. Ooh er, missus.
Round 9: J C R A A I N R D
C1: DRAIN (5)
C2: CARD (4)
DC: CRANIA (6)
OT: ACARID (6) ACARID (6) CARDIA (6) CARIAD (6) ARNICA (6) CARINA (6) CANARD (6) RADIAN (6) RANCID (6)
Score: 50–29 (max 68)
Dave correctly suggests that CRANIA is a plural of CRANIUM and Niall’s game plan doesn’t appear to be going down the DRAIN.
OoW: Susie starts off her slot today by discussing the origins of the expression “take someone for a ride”, which she claims is all to do with mafia types picking people up in big, black cars (or something like that), at which point Dave rather amusingly holds up a card saying “BLUFF”, which temporarily puts her off the task in hand. Composure regained, she tells us about bullets “with your number on” and the origin of the word ‘thug’.
Round 10: 3, 7, 6, 8, 5, 10. Target: 407.
C1: 407. (8x5x10)+7 (10)
C2: 407. (8x5x10)+7 (10)
Score: 60–39 (max 78)
Despite it being six small, this deserves to be flagged as easier on the William Tunstall-Pedoe scale than the last numbers game; I wonder if it is.
Teatime teaser: USINGPOT -> SPOUTING
Two teasers involving the word ‘pot’. Have the producers been smoking something funny?
Round 11: L G E A U S N O R
C1: ORANGES (7)
C2: rangles
DC: GRANULES (8) LOUNGERS (8)
Score: 67–39 (max 86)
Susie points out to Janet that there’s no ‘W’ for ‘wrangles’, but as she declared a seven, I’m assuming she was spelling it without one. We will probably never know.
Round 12: N P H M E I A L E
C1: HEMLINE (7)
C2: MENIAL (6)
DC: MANIPLE (7)
OT: EMPANEL (7) EMPLANE (7) IMPANEL (7)
Score: 74–39 (max 93)
Susie offers up MANIPLE, which hasn’t been mentioned for a while. Personally, I always get it confused with MANDIBLE, but that’s enough jawing from me.
Round 13: V O A E G M F A S
C1: GAMES (5)
C2: FOAMS (5)
DC: SAVAGE (6)
OT: AGAVES (6) OMEGAS (6)
Score: 79–44 (max 99)
DC spot SAVAGE at the last minute. I rather like its anagram AGAVES. Incidentally, I can recommend agave nectar as an alternative to honey or golden syrup if you’re watching the calories or trying to eat more natural products.
Round 14: 3, 7, 6, 2, 1, 7. Target: 824.
C1: -
C2: 830. ((6x7x2)-1)x(7+3) (5)
OT: 826. (((7+3)x6)-1)x7x2 (7)
Score: 79–49 (max 106)
After two easy numbers games, CECIL gets the knife out. Perhaps surprisingly, and despite having just lost, Janet pulls out a great effort from the bag for a consolation five points (I actually felt she deserved a round of applause, although she didn’t get one). Rachel says she doesn’t think it’s solvable, and she’s right.
Round 15: T R A P E S E E D
C1 buzzes on 1.25 seconds to say DESPERATE which is correct.
Final Score: 89–49 (max 116)
Not much hesitation from our left-handed champion as he buzzes in ‘quick sticks’ to exactly maintain his average score so far of 89 points. What will Monday bring when Gino D’Acampo returns to DC, and hopefully C4C will be starting a quieter week than the one it’s just experienced? Look out for Monday’s recap to find out!
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=63
C1: Champion Niall Young (3 wins, 267 points.)
C2: Challenger Janet Dodsworth.
DC: Susie Dent and Dave Spikey.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
I’m feeling a little flat today after the shenanigans that have been happening at C4C in the past week, so I’m hoping that perhaps a Friday recap will cheer me (or anyone else who’s feeling a bit down at the moment) up. Niall Young has won three games so far and if he can beat Janet Dodsworth from Winnersh in Berkshire, he’ll have reached the heady heights of half-octochampdom. Let’s see what happened...
R01: R D W U I E S T R
R02: P F O I H O R D E
R03: V E A S G T O U C
R04: T P G I E O T X D
R05: 50, 10, 7, 4, 5, 10. Target: 457.
TTT: INTOPOTS - "Fire saliva into this type of pot."
R06: T N L C E A O M T
R07: W U I S P E R L D
R08: S N R B S U A O E
R09: J C R A A I N R D
R10: 3, 7, 6, 8, 5, 10. Target: 407.
TTT: USINGPOT - "Talking nonsense about the teapot, perhaps."
R11: L G E A U S N O R
R12: N P H M E I A L E
R13: V O A E G M F A S
R14: 3, 7, 6, 2, 1, 7. Target: 824.
R15: T R A P E S E E D (conundrum)
Countdown is sponsored by Wellwoman, the first Vitabiotics product to be plugged for a second stint, I believe.
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Apparently, today is World Toilet Day (which I have to say passed me by completely unnoticed, like most of the special days Jeff mentions), and he hopes both our contestants are ‘flushed with success’ today. Groan. Meanwhile, in totally unrelated news, Rachel is apparently off to Florence for the weekend. Which is Nice (or rather, which is Florence).
Round 1: R D W U I E S T R
C1: STURDIER (8)
C2: TRUStED
DC: STURDIER (8)
Score: 8–0 (max 8)
Janet doesn’t get off to a good start and is seeing double, while Niall’s STURDIER offering takes all the points.
Round 2: P F O I H O R D E
C1: HOOPER (6)
C2: PROOFED (7)
DC: HOODIE (6)
OT: POOFIER (7)
Score: 8–7 (max 15)
A good seven from Janet allows her to recover some ground.
Round 3: V E A S G T O U C
C1: OUTAGES (7)
C2: CAUSE (5)
DC: OUTAGES (7) OCTAVES (7) AVOCETS (7)
OT: ACETOUS (7) SCUTAGE (7) VAGUEST (7)
Score: 15–7 (max 22)
A bit of a Countdown favourite for Niall, while Janet’s offering is a bit of a lost CAUSE on this occasion. In case you were wondering, SCUTAGE is money paid by a vassal to his lord in lieu of military service.
Round 4: T P G I E O T X D
C1: TIPTOED (7)
C2: POTTED (6)
DC: POTTED (6)
Score: 22–7 (max 29)
Niall thinks his word is risky, but there’s nothing iffy about TIPTOED (unless you’re trespassing) and he duly gets his seven points.
Round 5: 50, 10, 7, 4, 5, 10. Target: 457.
C1: 457. (((10x4)+5)x10)+7 (10)
C2: 457. ((5+4)x50)+7 (10)
Score: 32–17 (max 39)
A nice easy first numbers game means Janet is no longer on single figures, which is always nice.
Before Jeff ‘teases’ us (or should that be ‘teasers’ us?), Dave rounds off his week of anecdotes with some stuff about his grandparents: apparently his grandfather suffered from ‘spiralitis’, while his grandmother once ate someone else’s doughnut in a cafe because she mistakenly thought he’d eaten her KitKat (sorry Dave, I’ve heard that one before – nicely told though!).
Teatime teaser: INTOPOTS -> SPITTOON
Round 6: T N L C E A O M T
C1: monacle
C2: MOTTLE (6)
DC: LACTONE (7) OMENTAL (7) MATELOT (7) (JS)
OT: COALMEN (7) MANTLET (7) TELAMON (7) TOMENTA (7)
Score: 32–23 (max 46)
Oh no! Niall isn’t the first in Countdown history to fall into the ‘monacle’ trap, which allows Janet to play catch-up via her six. Some nice sevens there, both from DC and others (including Jeff!).
Round 7: W U I S P E R L D
C1: SPIDER (6)
C2: UPRISE (6)
DC: PERILS (6)
OT: SERPULID (8)
Score: 38–29 (max 54)
“End of the week” syndrome hits the studio, as no one spots any of the sevens available in the selection, let alone the darrenic SERPULID (which is another worm, in case you were wondering).
Round 8: S N R B S U A O E
C1: BONUSES (7)
C2: BONUS (5)
DC: AROUSES (7) BARONESS (8)
Score: 45–29 (max 62)
Janet’s after a BONUS, but Niall makes it plural and bags the points on this round. Meanwhile, Dictionary Corner AROUSES the BARONESS. Ooh er, missus.
Round 9: J C R A A I N R D
C1: DRAIN (5)
C2: CARD (4)
DC: CRANIA (6)
OT: ACARID (6) ACARID (6) CARDIA (6) CARIAD (6) ARNICA (6) CARINA (6) CANARD (6) RADIAN (6) RANCID (6)
Score: 50–29 (max 68)
Dave correctly suggests that CRANIA is a plural of CRANIUM and Niall’s game plan doesn’t appear to be going down the DRAIN.
OoW: Susie starts off her slot today by discussing the origins of the expression “take someone for a ride”, which she claims is all to do with mafia types picking people up in big, black cars (or something like that), at which point Dave rather amusingly holds up a card saying “BLUFF”, which temporarily puts her off the task in hand. Composure regained, she tells us about bullets “with your number on” and the origin of the word ‘thug’.
Round 10: 3, 7, 6, 8, 5, 10. Target: 407.
C1: 407. (8x5x10)+7 (10)
C2: 407. (8x5x10)+7 (10)
Score: 60–39 (max 78)
Despite it being six small, this deserves to be flagged as easier on the William Tunstall-Pedoe scale than the last numbers game; I wonder if it is.
Teatime teaser: USINGPOT -> SPOUTING
Two teasers involving the word ‘pot’. Have the producers been smoking something funny?
Round 11: L G E A U S N O R
C1: ORANGES (7)
C2: rangles
DC: GRANULES (8) LOUNGERS (8)
Score: 67–39 (max 86)
Susie points out to Janet that there’s no ‘W’ for ‘wrangles’, but as she declared a seven, I’m assuming she was spelling it without one. We will probably never know.
Round 12: N P H M E I A L E
C1: HEMLINE (7)
C2: MENIAL (6)
DC: MANIPLE (7)
OT: EMPANEL (7) EMPLANE (7) IMPANEL (7)
Score: 74–39 (max 93)
Susie offers up MANIPLE, which hasn’t been mentioned for a while. Personally, I always get it confused with MANDIBLE, but that’s enough jawing from me.
Round 13: V O A E G M F A S
C1: GAMES (5)
C2: FOAMS (5)
DC: SAVAGE (6)
OT: AGAVES (6) OMEGAS (6)
Score: 79–44 (max 99)
DC spot SAVAGE at the last minute. I rather like its anagram AGAVES. Incidentally, I can recommend agave nectar as an alternative to honey or golden syrup if you’re watching the calories or trying to eat more natural products.
Round 14: 3, 7, 6, 2, 1, 7. Target: 824.
C1: -
C2: 830. ((6x7x2)-1)x(7+3) (5)
OT: 826. (((7+3)x6)-1)x7x2 (7)
Score: 79–49 (max 106)
After two easy numbers games, CECIL gets the knife out. Perhaps surprisingly, and despite having just lost, Janet pulls out a great effort from the bag for a consolation five points (I actually felt she deserved a round of applause, although she didn’t get one). Rachel says she doesn’t think it’s solvable, and she’s right.
Round 15: T R A P E S E E D
C1 buzzes on 1.25 seconds to say DESPERATE which is correct.
Final Score: 89–49 (max 116)
Not much hesitation from our left-handed champion as he buzzes in ‘quick sticks’ to exactly maintain his average score so far of 89 points. What will Monday bring when Gino D’Acampo returns to DC, and hopefully C4C will be starting a quieter week than the one it’s just experienced? Look out for Monday’s recap to find out!
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=63