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Countdown Conundrum

  • 01-08-2018 6:21pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭


    I watch Countdown regularly and I always wonder when both contestants have the same word or calculation and one has to show the other their answer, if the 'same' answer was ever different.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,146 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Up Donegal wrote: »
    I watch Countdown regularly and I always wonder when both contestants have the same word or calculation and one has to show the other their answer, if the 'same' answer was ever different.

    If it was different would they not say it?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    Then it clearly wouldnt be the same. When its the maths one they are saying they literally did it the same way, the person would just say no they didnt do the same way..they did xyz but got the same answer. Why would they want their opponent getting points they dont deserve and keep quiet?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 102 ✭✭blazard


    Up Donegal wrote: »
    I watch Countdown regularly and I always wonder when both contestants have the same word or calculation and one has to show the other their answer, if the 'same' answer was ever different.




    always question lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Up Donegal wrote: »
    I watch Countdown regularly and I always wonder when both contestants have the same word or calculation and one has to show the other their answer, if the 'same' answer was ever different.

    lol

    I wonder that sometimes too.

    If they might just write "PLEASE PLAY ALONG!!" and the other person who checks it goes "errrmmm yup that's fine".


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 102 ✭✭blazard


    split the fame


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,828 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I'm pretty sure they show it to the host or the ones in Dictionary corner to confirm


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 102 ✭✭blazard


    thats a conundrum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,194 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    If Contestant A said he did the same, showed it to Contestant B and Contestant B said "No, that's not the same", they'd just show it to someone else to confirm. But I'd imagine a) No one would claim they got the same if they didn't as it's such an easy thing to check (show it to host or Dictionary Corner), b) No one would try to claim the other person didn't get the same when they had as again, it's such an easy thing to check, and c) they probably just wouldn't show it on TV even if it did happen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Under His Eye


    Since when are Americanised spellings allowed? Polarized was today's conundrum.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭s3rtvdbwfj81ch


    Since when are Americanised spellings allowed? Polarized was today's conundrum.

    always have been, if it's in the dictionary it's allowed, and English dictionaries have always included the american spellings as an alternate version.


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