Monday 21st February 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 31)
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:58 pm
Countdown recap for Monday 21 February 2011.
C1: Champion Ned Pendleton (2 wins, 139 points.)
C2: Challenger Andy Johnson.
DC: Susie Dent and Mark Foster.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: H A R O I L V T P
R02: X N M A U A G R E
R03: Q O N I O T M E J
R04: N D P U E A R S E
R05: 100, 25, 50, 75, 6, 6. Target: 393.
TTT: SEAHINTS - "The sea hints to where you might hear these"
R06: C T S I A O H V T
R07: R E B U A L N T R
R08: M W P O I E S D G
R09: R A M E O Z T L C
R10: 75, 7, 4, 4, 10, 6. Target: 571.
TTT: PENLYRIC - "Even for royalty it can be quite a sum"
R11: N E Y A I R C D N
R12: S N T D O U I D A
R13: R E S E I K S G L
R14: 75, 8, 8, 5, 2, 2. Target: 211.
R15: G T H I S T L E S (conundrum)
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Ned Pendleton is the champion after beating off Colin Cox in a pretty close contest on Friday. Ned is known for his love of travelling and his black beard too.
Ned faces another bearded chap in the form of Andy Johnson. He is from Fife and is a massive rock fan. He is a big fan of Noddy Holder's rock band Slate. Slate? Rock? Band? Geddit? Oh it wasn't funny? OK.
Mark Foster returns to DC for the week and is of course known for his achievements in a swimming pool as well as his rather poor dancing on SCD. I also believe he carried the flag at the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony which has cropped up as a quiz question from time to time. If anybody is thinking about going to London 2012 (like I am) then I'm pretty sure I read in the Daily Mail that you can apply for tickets from between March 15th until April 26th (and it isn't first come first serve).
Enjoy the show.
Round 1: H A R O I L V T P
C1: TAILOR (6)
C2: PIVOTAL (7)
DC: PATROL (6)
Score: 0–7 (max 7)
PIVOTAL kind of jumped out for me too and it seems it did for the challenger as he takes an early lead by spotting the darren.
Round 2: X N M A U A G R E
C1: MANGER (6)
C2: MANAGER (7)
DC: GERMAN (6)
Score: 0–14 (max 14)
Heaven knows how Ned missed MANAGER having spot MANGER but it happened meaning Andy is 14 points to the good.
Round 3: Q O N I O T M E J
C1: EMOTION (7)
C2: EMOTION (7)
Score: 7–21 (max 21)
Amazingly Andy spots the third darren of three rounds and is still on a max game. Ned also managed it his time though and is on the scoreboard.
Round 4: N D P U E A R S E
C1: unspared
C2: SPEARED (7)
DC: PANDERS (7)
OT: PERSUADE (8) UNDERSEA (8)
Score: 7–28 (max 29)
Ned pushes for a dodgy 8 having declared first and it doesn't pay off at all. The steady 7 from Andy means he has scored 7 points for the 4th time in 4 rounds. How very consistent indeed. However this time there were 2 8's lurking both going unspotted by anybody.
Round 5: 100, 25, 50, 75, 6, 6. Target: 393.
C1: 392. (50+6)*((100+75)/25) (7)
C2: 400.
RR: 393. ((100/25)+50)*6+75-6 (10)
Score: 14–28 (max 39)
Ned needed to gain ground on this numbers game and that he did. A tricky little bugger separated the two men as Ned gets to 392 rather complicatedly. Rachel gets to 393 even more complicatedly. Very well done to her for that.
DC Guest Time: With the Olympics coming up Mark tells us about his numerous visits to the Olympic Village which is just full of sex once the Games get under way. Mark also saw the first tile being laid in the swimming pool which is rather cool.
Teatime teaser: SEAHINTS -> SHANTIES
Round 6: C T S I A O H V T
C1: STITCH (6)
C2: chaviots
DC: TOAST (5) STATIC (6) ATTICS (6)
OT: CATTISH (7)
Score: 20–28 (max 46)
Ned hits back straight after the break as Andy goes for an extremely risky sounding word. He probably could have done to stay with a 6 in this one.
Round 7: R E B U A L N T R
C1: BLUNTER (7)
C2: BLUNTER (7)
DC: NEUTRAL (7)
OT: NEBULAR (7) TUNABLE (7)
Score: 27–35 (max 53)
Like Andy and Ned's word this round is pretty blunt, in fact, you could say it doesn't get much BLUNTER.
Round 8: M W P O I E S D G
C1: IMPOSED (7)
C2: podgies
Score: 34–35 (max 60)
Oh how the tables are turning. Ned is now picking out the darrens whilst Andy is struggling to score in this second "half". However Andy still has a 1 point lead.
Round 9: R A M E O Z T L C
C1: CROTALE (7)
C2: coater
Score: 41–35 (max 67)
This is where Ned's apterous playing has paid off for sure. CROTALE I'm sure many will agree is one of the first cool words that you learn after submitting the invalid LOCATER^. Or maybe I'm just talking bollocks and I'm an uneducated sod who was the only person who'd ever heard of CROTALE until apterous. Anyway, Ned takes the lead for the first time in the match.
Susie's Origins of Words: Susie talks about the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
Round 10: 75, 7, 4, 4, 10, 6. Target: 571.
C1: 570. (75-7*4+10)*(6+4) (7)
C2: 569.
RR: 571. 75*7+10*4+6 (10)
Score: 48–35 (max 77)
And there is no stopping the man from Covent Garden. Andy fails to score on the second numbers game and it means that Andy has only picked up 7 points in the last 6 rounds. This does not bode well as Ned goes more than 10 points clear whilst Jeff solves the numbers exactly. Can Andy turn it around in the third "half" much like Ned managed to do in the second?
Teatime teaser: PENLYRIC -> PRINCELY
Round 11: N E Y A I R C D N
C1: incendary
C2: DANCER (6)
DC: CRANNIED (8)
Score: 48–41 (max 85)
Oohh bad luck there. Ned spells a 10 letter word wrongly (INCENDIARY), mistaking it for a 9. That could be costly because Andy pulls to within 10 points with his 6. DC mop up.
Round 12: S N T D O U I D A
C1: ASTOUND (7)
C2: ASTOUND (7)
DC: NUDIST (6)
Score: 55–48 (max 92)
All level here as the darren is picked off with ease. Just 3 rounds to go, LNC, and it looks like it could go all the way.
Round 13: R E S E I K S G L
C1: LIKES (5)
C2: LIKES (5)
DC: SKIERS (6) RELIES (6)
OT: GRILSES (7) RESILES (7) SELKIES (7)
Score: 60–53 (max 99)
Again they are tied whilst the computer seeks out some lovely 7's. A GRILSE is a "mature salmoniod ready to return to freshwater for spawning after spending one winter at sea" whilst a SELKIE is a seal that can transform into a human in Icelandic, Irish and Scottish mythology.
Round 14: 75, 8, 8, 5, 2, 2. Target: 211.
C1: 211. (8-5)*75-(2*8-2) (10)
C2: -
Score: 70–53 (max 109)
This has summed up Andy's game. He's been decent on the letters but ultimately the number rounds have cost him the game having scored zero, zilch, nada on all 3.
Round 15: G T H I S T L E S
C2 buzzes on 7.9 seconds to say SLIGHTEST which is correct.
Final Score: 70–63 (max 119)
Last word goes to Andy but it's another win for Ned.
This game started with promise from Andy having scored 28/29 in the opening 4 rounds but then he rather fizzled away and Ned came back to overtake him heavily relying on the numbers games. Well played to Ned for the comeback and unfortunate for Andy that he hadn't practised his numbers before coming on.
Nap time.
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=64
C1: Champion Ned Pendleton (2 wins, 139 points.)
C2: Challenger Andy Johnson.
DC: Susie Dent and Mark Foster.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: H A R O I L V T P
R02: X N M A U A G R E
R03: Q O N I O T M E J
R04: N D P U E A R S E
R05: 100, 25, 50, 75, 6, 6. Target: 393.
TTT: SEAHINTS - "The sea hints to where you might hear these"
R06: C T S I A O H V T
R07: R E B U A L N T R
R08: M W P O I E S D G
R09: R A M E O Z T L C
R10: 75, 7, 4, 4, 10, 6. Target: 571.
TTT: PENLYRIC - "Even for royalty it can be quite a sum"
R11: N E Y A I R C D N
R12: S N T D O U I D A
R13: R E S E I K S G L
R14: 75, 8, 8, 5, 2, 2. Target: 211.
R15: G T H I S T L E S (conundrum)
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Ned Pendleton is the champion after beating off Colin Cox in a pretty close contest on Friday. Ned is known for his love of travelling and his black beard too.
Ned faces another bearded chap in the form of Andy Johnson. He is from Fife and is a massive rock fan. He is a big fan of Noddy Holder's rock band Slate. Slate? Rock? Band? Geddit? Oh it wasn't funny? OK.
Mark Foster returns to DC for the week and is of course known for his achievements in a swimming pool as well as his rather poor dancing on SCD. I also believe he carried the flag at the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony which has cropped up as a quiz question from time to time. If anybody is thinking about going to London 2012 (like I am) then I'm pretty sure I read in the Daily Mail that you can apply for tickets from between March 15th until April 26th (and it isn't first come first serve).
Enjoy the show.
Round 1: H A R O I L V T P
C1: TAILOR (6)
C2: PIVOTAL (7)
DC: PATROL (6)
Score: 0–7 (max 7)
PIVOTAL kind of jumped out for me too and it seems it did for the challenger as he takes an early lead by spotting the darren.
Round 2: X N M A U A G R E
C1: MANGER (6)
C2: MANAGER (7)
DC: GERMAN (6)
Score: 0–14 (max 14)
Heaven knows how Ned missed MANAGER having spot MANGER but it happened meaning Andy is 14 points to the good.
Round 3: Q O N I O T M E J
C1: EMOTION (7)
C2: EMOTION (7)
Score: 7–21 (max 21)
Amazingly Andy spots the third darren of three rounds and is still on a max game. Ned also managed it his time though and is on the scoreboard.
Round 4: N D P U E A R S E
C1: unspared
C2: SPEARED (7)
DC: PANDERS (7)
OT: PERSUADE (8) UNDERSEA (8)
Score: 7–28 (max 29)
Ned pushes for a dodgy 8 having declared first and it doesn't pay off at all. The steady 7 from Andy means he has scored 7 points for the 4th time in 4 rounds. How very consistent indeed. However this time there were 2 8's lurking both going unspotted by anybody.
Round 5: 100, 25, 50, 75, 6, 6. Target: 393.
C1: 392. (50+6)*((100+75)/25) (7)
C2: 400.
RR: 393. ((100/25)+50)*6+75-6 (10)
Score: 14–28 (max 39)
Ned needed to gain ground on this numbers game and that he did. A tricky little bugger separated the two men as Ned gets to 392 rather complicatedly. Rachel gets to 393 even more complicatedly. Very well done to her for that.
DC Guest Time: With the Olympics coming up Mark tells us about his numerous visits to the Olympic Village which is just full of sex once the Games get under way. Mark also saw the first tile being laid in the swimming pool which is rather cool.
Teatime teaser: SEAHINTS -> SHANTIES
Round 6: C T S I A O H V T
C1: STITCH (6)
C2: chaviots
DC: TOAST (5) STATIC (6) ATTICS (6)
OT: CATTISH (7)
Score: 20–28 (max 46)
Ned hits back straight after the break as Andy goes for an extremely risky sounding word. He probably could have done to stay with a 6 in this one.
Round 7: R E B U A L N T R
C1: BLUNTER (7)
C2: BLUNTER (7)
DC: NEUTRAL (7)
OT: NEBULAR (7) TUNABLE (7)
Score: 27–35 (max 53)
Like Andy and Ned's word this round is pretty blunt, in fact, you could say it doesn't get much BLUNTER.
Round 8: M W P O I E S D G
C1: IMPOSED (7)
C2: podgies
Score: 34–35 (max 60)
Oh how the tables are turning. Ned is now picking out the darrens whilst Andy is struggling to score in this second "half". However Andy still has a 1 point lead.
Round 9: R A M E O Z T L C
C1: CROTALE (7)
C2: coater
Score: 41–35 (max 67)
This is where Ned's apterous playing has paid off for sure. CROTALE I'm sure many will agree is one of the first cool words that you learn after submitting the invalid LOCATER^. Or maybe I'm just talking bollocks and I'm an uneducated sod who was the only person who'd ever heard of CROTALE until apterous. Anyway, Ned takes the lead for the first time in the match.
Susie's Origins of Words: Susie talks about the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
Round 10: 75, 7, 4, 4, 10, 6. Target: 571.
C1: 570. (75-7*4+10)*(6+4) (7)
C2: 569.
RR: 571. 75*7+10*4+6 (10)
Score: 48–35 (max 77)
And there is no stopping the man from Covent Garden. Andy fails to score on the second numbers game and it means that Andy has only picked up 7 points in the last 6 rounds. This does not bode well as Ned goes more than 10 points clear whilst Jeff solves the numbers exactly. Can Andy turn it around in the third "half" much like Ned managed to do in the second?
Teatime teaser: PENLYRIC -> PRINCELY
Round 11: N E Y A I R C D N
C1: incendary
C2: DANCER (6)
DC: CRANNIED (8)
Score: 48–41 (max 85)
Oohh bad luck there. Ned spells a 10 letter word wrongly (INCENDIARY), mistaking it for a 9. That could be costly because Andy pulls to within 10 points with his 6. DC mop up.
Round 12: S N T D O U I D A
C1: ASTOUND (7)
C2: ASTOUND (7)
DC: NUDIST (6)
Score: 55–48 (max 92)
All level here as the darren is picked off with ease. Just 3 rounds to go, LNC, and it looks like it could go all the way.
Round 13: R E S E I K S G L
C1: LIKES (5)
C2: LIKES (5)
DC: SKIERS (6) RELIES (6)
OT: GRILSES (7) RESILES (7) SELKIES (7)
Score: 60–53 (max 99)
Again they are tied whilst the computer seeks out some lovely 7's. A GRILSE is a "mature salmoniod ready to return to freshwater for spawning after spending one winter at sea" whilst a SELKIE is a seal that can transform into a human in Icelandic, Irish and Scottish mythology.
Round 14: 75, 8, 8, 5, 2, 2. Target: 211.
C1: 211. (8-5)*75-(2*8-2) (10)
C2: -
Score: 70–53 (max 109)
This has summed up Andy's game. He's been decent on the letters but ultimately the number rounds have cost him the game having scored zero, zilch, nada on all 3.
Round 15: G T H I S T L E S
C2 buzzes on 7.9 seconds to say SLIGHTEST which is correct.
Final Score: 70–63 (max 119)
Last word goes to Andy but it's another win for Ned.
This game started with promise from Andy having scored 28/29 in the opening 4 rounds but then he rather fizzled away and Ned came back to overtake him heavily relying on the numbers games. Well played to Ned for the comeback and unfortunate for Andy that he hadn't practised his numbers before coming on.
Nap time.
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=64
