Countdown Game

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hopeful traveller
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Countdown Game

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Without cheating, PM your answers to me.

Letters: Simply make the longest word from the letters available. You can only use each letter as many times as it appears in the selection.
Numbers: Make the target figure (or as close to as possible) using the numbers, and only using +, -, x, and /.
Conundrums: Solve the anagram.

Time your answers, for you can spend no longer than 30 seconds. Faked entries will be disqualified. And tell me how quickly you got the conundrum.

Round One: S N M A I O S J E
Round Two: B X S E I E P L S
Round Three: 100, 4, 6, 5, 8, 8. Target: 756
Round Four: T D N O A E F T A
Round Five: R D C E A I O G B
Round Six: 2, 7, 3, 10, 9, 1. Target: 349
Round Seven: S P N U I A R T O
Round Eight: M S R E A I C L N
Round Nine: 50, 75, 7, 7, 6, 2. Target: 149
Round Ten: Y D N U U I K F W
Round Eleven: D R T E E I Q P H
Round Twelve: M T T I U A N S E
Round Thirteen: L R D O O I R A A
Round Fourteen: 50, 100, 75, 25, 6, 6. Target: 220
Round Fifteen: R A I L S T O C E (conundrum)

Entries in, please, by FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2014, 23:59 GMT.
1 FNC Completion (PB: 17:18:18 with G Bryant, A Chilcraft, I MacNaughton)
4 Zone Ones (PB: 03:00:35 with G Bryant)
15 R15s (PB: 01:55:48 with T Cooling and R Jackson)
11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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Re: Countdown Game

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hopeful traveller wrote: Time your answers, for you can spend no longer than 30 seconds. Faked entries will be disqualified.
How are you going to judge this? I could have a go, but I've already looked at them all for at least 30 seconds.
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Re: Countdown Game

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GuyBarry wrote:
hopeful traveller wrote: Time your answers, for you can spend no longer than 30 seconds. Faked entries will be disqualified.
How are you going to judge this? I could have a go, but I've already looked at them all for at least 30 seconds.
Those who've googled answers or have clearly spent more than 30 seconds. Just as you can't judge the legitimacy of R15s and Z1s.
1 FNC Completion (PB: 17:18:18 with G Bryant, A Chilcraft, I MacNaughton)
4 Zone Ones (PB: 03:00:35 with G Bryant)
15 R15s (PB: 01:55:48 with T Cooling and R Jackson)
11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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GuyBarry
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Re: Countdown Game

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I haven't googled anything, but it was impossible to read your post without looking at it for 30 seconds. Nevertheless, I'll try to give it a go as though it was an actual game of Countdown.
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Re: Countdown Game

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Any results, HT?
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I only got one entry. I'll wait for at least another one.
1 FNC Completion (PB: 17:18:18 with G Bryant, A Chilcraft, I MacNaughton)
4 Zone Ones (PB: 03:00:35 with G Bryant)
15 R15s (PB: 01:55:48 with T Cooling and R Jackson)
11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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GuyBarry
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Re: Countdown Game

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hopeful traveller wrote:I only got one entry. I'll wait for at least another one.
I presume it was mine then!

I've just noticed I made a silly error on the first numbers game - I must have misread the target. It's actually quite hard reading the questions off a screen.
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