Monday 31st January 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 16)
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:16 pm
Countdown recap for Monday 31 January 2011.
C1: Champion Jody Sparrow (2 wins, 185 points.)
C2: Challenger Dave Dyer.
DC: Susie Dent and Gregg Wallace.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: S U B I R A S O M
R02: T A R T E N R I N
R03: C E J O S I Y A C
R04: D S F E O E R P Z
R05: 100, 2, 8, 3, 8, 5. Target: 289.
TTT: EARGRIEF - "The cost of getting Bryan across the water perhaps"
R06: S T O I P T U I V
R07: G E F E W O D A R
R08: N C R E O I L L P
R09: M T K D U I A T U
R10: 100, 2, 6, 9, 9, 7. Target: 522.
TTT: ALANSGAS - "Alan's gas oven is cooking these for tea"
R11: S A G E N U D E T
R12: G L I L N O A W H
R13: S S M B E E A O N
R14: 75, 7, 6, 5, 8, 1. Target: 315.
R15: E L L M I X T U P (conundrum)
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Jody Sparrow is back for his third game today. He is a Norwich City fan and studies Media and Creative Writing at Winchester University. He was fairly quiet in his first show but now he's in the swing of things we are seeing more of his personality and that is evident with the revelation that he went to a fancy dress party (with the theme of superheroes) dressed as Countdown Man (click here for an artistic impression).
Against Jody is Dave Dyer who is a maths teacher from Oxford. He enjoys playing poker, chess and also juggles. In fact his juggling has been on the TV in an episode of Midsomer Murders (1995) where he was a fire juggler at a festival. Clearly he's a bit of a character (his very loud shirt tells us this).
Gregg Wallace is in DC for the week and is famous as the presenter of Masterchef and it's sister programmes. Amusingly on his wiki at the moment one sentence simply states that "He is bald."
This should be a really good show today in terms of being both enjoyable and a close contest. Although one forumite stated before the match that "I think it will have to go someway to beating how great a show Friday was with Paolo". The forumite did not leave their name although we understand the comment was made by somebody who AIN'T A FAT PRICK. (IZ really)
Enjoy the show.
Round 1: S U B I R A S O M
C1: BRASS (5)
C2: ROAMS (5)
DC: ISOBARS (7) BARIUMS (7)
OT: BIRAMOUS (8)
Score: 5–5 (max 8)
Round 1 throws up a lovely selection with nice words in it. Sadly Jody and Dave just find 5's but words like ISOBARS (equal lines of pressure on weather maps) ad BIRAMOUS (to branch into two; forklike) show their faces.
Round 2: T A R T E N R I N
C1: TRAINER (7)
C2: TRAINER (7)
DC: ENTRANT (7) NITRATE (7) INTRANET (8)
OT: INERRANT (8)
Score: 12–12 (max 16)
The audience respond to the first four letters. A few 7's there which both spot whilst Susie betters them again with the relatively modern word INTRANET.
Round 3: C E J O S I Y A C
C1: JOYS (4)
C2: cosey
DC: COSY
OT: CISCO (5) COCAS (5) JOEYS (5) SECCO (5)
Score: 16–12 (max 21)
Horrid set of letters and Dave unfortunately falls foul of an incorrect spelling. Jody JOYS at Dave's slip up. ¬_¬
Round 4: D S F E O E R P Z
C1: DEFERS (6)
C2: REPOSED (7)
Score: 16–19 (max 28)
Dave shows a bit of class to snatch the lead off Jody by spotting a darren.
Round 5: 100, 2, 8, 3, 8, 5. Target: 289.
C1: 289. 3*100-(8+8-5) (10)
C2: 289. 3*100-(5+8-2) (10)
Score: 26–29 (max 38)
All eyes on the maths teacher for this one but CECIL chucks out an easy target and both challenger and champ manage it with ease. Dave leads the champ by just 3 points as we hear from Gregg...
DC Guest Time: Gregg recalls when he was on a bus and he ended up sitting directly below a poster of himself advertising Masterchef.
Teatime teaser: EARGRIEF -> FERRIAGE
Round 6: S T O I P T U I V
C1: STOUT (5)
C2: STOUT (5)
DC: PIVOTS (6)
OT: OTITIS (6) OUTSIT (6) PISTOU (6) PITOTS (6)
Score: 31–34 (max 44)
Another tough collection with just 5's being found by the contestants.
Round 7: G E F E W O D A R
C1: WEDGE (5)
C2: FORAGED (7)
DC: RAGWEED (7) DOWAGER (7)
OT: WORDAGE (7) OARWEED (7) WAGERED (7) WAFERED (7)
Score: 31–41 (max 51)
Dave manages to extend his lead in this round with a maximum spot of FORAGED but the lead is 10 points so this game is still very close.
Round 8: N C R E O I L L P
C1: COLLIER (7)
C2: COLLIER (7)
DC: PONCIER (7)
OT: REPLICON (8)
Score: 38–48 (max 59)
Neck and neck once more with only a computer being able to beat the two of them with REPLICON which is a DNA molecule.
Round 9: M T K D U I A T U
C1: AUDIT (5)
C2: MAID (4)
DC: MUKTI (5)
OT: DIKTAT (6) MAKUTU (6)
Score: 43–48 (max 65)
Not for the first time a horrid set of letters show up with some new words springing out. MUKTI found by DC comes from Sanskrit and means to be released or liberated whilst the Maori word MAKUTU is a magical curse. Interesting indeed.
Susie's Origin's of Words: Susie talks about ham. She likes to know the history of meat and the longer the better.
Round 10: 100, 2, 6, 9, 9, 7. Target: 522.
C1: 521. 100*6-9*9+2 (7)
C2: 521. (7-2)*(100+6)-9 (7)
RR: 522. (100-6*7)*9 (10)
Score: 50–55 (max 75)
Dave gets to pick the numbers this time and opts for the safe option of 1 large. Rachel wonders whether his students will be hoping he doesn't get it or be supporting him. Dave thinks the latter and I hope so too as he is a nice chap. As it is though, a bit of a trickier target is set but both boys manage to get within 1 leaving the expertise of Rachel to shine.
Teatime teaser: ALANSGAS -> LASAGNAS
Round 11: S A G E N U D E T
C1: unstaged
C2: unstaged
DC: UNSEATED (8)
OT: ENDGATES (8)
Score: 50–55 (max 83)
Jody, being behind, pushes for an 8 causing Dave to do so as well. Both are very unlucky as UNSTAGED^ is one of those words that pretty much most users of apterous have wondered about.
Round 12: G L I L N O A W H
C1: HOWLING (7)
C2: ALLOWING (8)
DC: HALLOWING (18)
Score: 50–63 (max 101)
Great round with beaters coming thick and fast. Jody has 7, Dave gets an 8 and then DC find a 9. I did spot this but wasn't confident of it and I imagine Dave may have thought about sticking the H on the front. Even though he didn't he managed to pull 8 more points clear of Jody and take his lead to 13 points. Jody has just 3 rounds left to find a beater.
Round 13: S S M B E E A O N
C1: EMBOSS (6)
C2: SEASON (6)
DC: SESAME (6) BEANOS (6) BEMOANS (7)
OT: AMBONES (7) BASEMEN (7) NOSEMAS (7) SAMBOES (7)
Score: 56–69 (max 108)
A tense final selection sees them both tied on 6's whilst DC point out one possible 7 that was lurking. The game is out of Jody's hands now though as Dave has the final pick of the numbers and will surely go 1 large...
Round 14: 75, 7, 6, 5, 8, 1. Target: 315.
C1: 315. (5-1)*75+7+8 (10)
C2: 315. (5-1)*75+7+8 (10)
Score: 66–79 (max 118)
...and Dave does and it works as it should. Everything goes smoothly meaning Dave keeps his 13 point lead and with it has earned himself a teapot. Just the conundrum to go, let's see how the maths man fairs with unscrambling a 9.
Round 15: E L L M I X T U P
C2 buzzes on 1 second to say MULTIPLEX which is correct.
Final Score: 66–89 (max 128)
Very good! An incredibly quick solve by Dave on his debut means he finishes just shy of 90 points. A deserving winner of this close contest certainly but hard luck to Jody who was just outshone by Dave today. Looking forward to see Dave's progression and on screen persona.
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=64
C1: Champion Jody Sparrow (2 wins, 185 points.)
C2: Challenger Dave Dyer.
DC: Susie Dent and Gregg Wallace.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: S U B I R A S O M
R02: T A R T E N R I N
R03: C E J O S I Y A C
R04: D S F E O E R P Z
R05: 100, 2, 8, 3, 8, 5. Target: 289.
TTT: EARGRIEF - "The cost of getting Bryan across the water perhaps"
R06: S T O I P T U I V
R07: G E F E W O D A R
R08: N C R E O I L L P
R09: M T K D U I A T U
R10: 100, 2, 6, 9, 9, 7. Target: 522.
TTT: ALANSGAS - "Alan's gas oven is cooking these for tea"
R11: S A G E N U D E T
R12: G L I L N O A W H
R13: S S M B E E A O N
R14: 75, 7, 6, 5, 8, 1. Target: 315.
R15: E L L M I X T U P (conundrum)
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Jody Sparrow is back for his third game today. He is a Norwich City fan and studies Media and Creative Writing at Winchester University. He was fairly quiet in his first show but now he's in the swing of things we are seeing more of his personality and that is evident with the revelation that he went to a fancy dress party (with the theme of superheroes) dressed as Countdown Man (click here for an artistic impression).
Against Jody is Dave Dyer who is a maths teacher from Oxford. He enjoys playing poker, chess and also juggles. In fact his juggling has been on the TV in an episode of Midsomer Murders (1995) where he was a fire juggler at a festival. Clearly he's a bit of a character (his very loud shirt tells us this).
Gregg Wallace is in DC for the week and is famous as the presenter of Masterchef and it's sister programmes. Amusingly on his wiki at the moment one sentence simply states that "He is bald."
This should be a really good show today in terms of being both enjoyable and a close contest. Although one forumite stated before the match that "I think it will have to go someway to beating how great a show Friday was with Paolo". The forumite did not leave their name although we understand the comment was made by somebody who AIN'T A FAT PRICK. (IZ really)
Enjoy the show.
Round 1: S U B I R A S O M
C1: BRASS (5)
C2: ROAMS (5)
DC: ISOBARS (7) BARIUMS (7)
OT: BIRAMOUS (8)
Score: 5–5 (max 8)
Round 1 throws up a lovely selection with nice words in it. Sadly Jody and Dave just find 5's but words like ISOBARS (equal lines of pressure on weather maps) ad BIRAMOUS (to branch into two; forklike) show their faces.
Round 2: T A R T E N R I N
C1: TRAINER (7)
C2: TRAINER (7)
DC: ENTRANT (7) NITRATE (7) INTRANET (8)
OT: INERRANT (8)
Score: 12–12 (max 16)
The audience respond to the first four letters. A few 7's there which both spot whilst Susie betters them again with the relatively modern word INTRANET.
Round 3: C E J O S I Y A C
C1: JOYS (4)
C2: cosey
DC: COSY
OT: CISCO (5) COCAS (5) JOEYS (5) SECCO (5)
Score: 16–12 (max 21)
Horrid set of letters and Dave unfortunately falls foul of an incorrect spelling. Jody JOYS at Dave's slip up. ¬_¬
Round 4: D S F E O E R P Z
C1: DEFERS (6)
C2: REPOSED (7)
Score: 16–19 (max 28)
Dave shows a bit of class to snatch the lead off Jody by spotting a darren.
Round 5: 100, 2, 8, 3, 8, 5. Target: 289.
C1: 289. 3*100-(8+8-5) (10)
C2: 289. 3*100-(5+8-2) (10)
Score: 26–29 (max 38)
All eyes on the maths teacher for this one but CECIL chucks out an easy target and both challenger and champ manage it with ease. Dave leads the champ by just 3 points as we hear from Gregg...
DC Guest Time: Gregg recalls when he was on a bus and he ended up sitting directly below a poster of himself advertising Masterchef.
Teatime teaser: EARGRIEF -> FERRIAGE
Round 6: S T O I P T U I V
C1: STOUT (5)
C2: STOUT (5)
DC: PIVOTS (6)
OT: OTITIS (6) OUTSIT (6) PISTOU (6) PITOTS (6)
Score: 31–34 (max 44)
Another tough collection with just 5's being found by the contestants.
Round 7: G E F E W O D A R
C1: WEDGE (5)
C2: FORAGED (7)
DC: RAGWEED (7) DOWAGER (7)
OT: WORDAGE (7) OARWEED (7) WAGERED (7) WAFERED (7)
Score: 31–41 (max 51)
Dave manages to extend his lead in this round with a maximum spot of FORAGED but the lead is 10 points so this game is still very close.
Round 8: N C R E O I L L P
C1: COLLIER (7)
C2: COLLIER (7)
DC: PONCIER (7)
OT: REPLICON (8)
Score: 38–48 (max 59)
Neck and neck once more with only a computer being able to beat the two of them with REPLICON which is a DNA molecule.
Round 9: M T K D U I A T U
C1: AUDIT (5)
C2: MAID (4)
DC: MUKTI (5)
OT: DIKTAT (6) MAKUTU (6)
Score: 43–48 (max 65)
Not for the first time a horrid set of letters show up with some new words springing out. MUKTI found by DC comes from Sanskrit and means to be released or liberated whilst the Maori word MAKUTU is a magical curse. Interesting indeed.
Susie's Origin's of Words: Susie talks about ham. She likes to know the history of meat and the longer the better.
Round 10: 100, 2, 6, 9, 9, 7. Target: 522.
C1: 521. 100*6-9*9+2 (7)
C2: 521. (7-2)*(100+6)-9 (7)
RR: 522. (100-6*7)*9 (10)
Score: 50–55 (max 75)
Dave gets to pick the numbers this time and opts for the safe option of 1 large. Rachel wonders whether his students will be hoping he doesn't get it or be supporting him. Dave thinks the latter and I hope so too as he is a nice chap. As it is though, a bit of a trickier target is set but both boys manage to get within 1 leaving the expertise of Rachel to shine.
Teatime teaser: ALANSGAS -> LASAGNAS
Round 11: S A G E N U D E T
C1: unstaged
C2: unstaged
DC: UNSEATED (8)
OT: ENDGATES (8)
Score: 50–55 (max 83)
Jody, being behind, pushes for an 8 causing Dave to do so as well. Both are very unlucky as UNSTAGED^ is one of those words that pretty much most users of apterous have wondered about.
Round 12: G L I L N O A W H
C1: HOWLING (7)
C2: ALLOWING (8)
DC: HALLOWING (18)
Score: 50–63 (max 101)
Great round with beaters coming thick and fast. Jody has 7, Dave gets an 8 and then DC find a 9. I did spot this but wasn't confident of it and I imagine Dave may have thought about sticking the H on the front. Even though he didn't he managed to pull 8 more points clear of Jody and take his lead to 13 points. Jody has just 3 rounds left to find a beater.
Round 13: S S M B E E A O N
C1: EMBOSS (6)
C2: SEASON (6)
DC: SESAME (6) BEANOS (6) BEMOANS (7)
OT: AMBONES (7) BASEMEN (7) NOSEMAS (7) SAMBOES (7)
Score: 56–69 (max 108)
A tense final selection sees them both tied on 6's whilst DC point out one possible 7 that was lurking. The game is out of Jody's hands now though as Dave has the final pick of the numbers and will surely go 1 large...
Round 14: 75, 7, 6, 5, 8, 1. Target: 315.
C1: 315. (5-1)*75+7+8 (10)
C2: 315. (5-1)*75+7+8 (10)
Score: 66–79 (max 118)
...and Dave does and it works as it should. Everything goes smoothly meaning Dave keeps his 13 point lead and with it has earned himself a teapot. Just the conundrum to go, let's see how the maths man fairs with unscrambling a 9.
Round 15: E L L M I X T U P
C2 buzzes on 1 second to say MULTIPLEX which is correct.
Final Score: 66–89 (max 128)
Very good! An incredibly quick solve by Dave on his debut means he finishes just shy of 90 points. A deserving winner of this close contest certainly but hard luck to Jody who was just outshone by Dave today. Looking forward to see Dave's progression and on screen persona.
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=64