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  • Can anyone beat 4?

    I have an 8 and I'm sure there must be plenty of 5s and 6s

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    • 2273
      case, care, base, card, bare, acre, bard, cape
      You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman

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      • Originally Posted by Mitsuko
        2273
        case, care, base, card, bare, acre, bard, cape
        Did you see my above post before I edited it? I didn't see anyone's name but mine on the viewing list.

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        • Yes I did, is this a problem?

          I saw can anyone beat 8?
          You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman

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          • Originally Posted by Mitsuko
            Yes I did, is this a problem?

            I saw can anyone beat 8?
            I gave the list of 8 and then promptly edited it out!

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            • Oh, I didn't see it before you edited!
              You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman

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              • But as you have no proof, how about:- 2253 Able, Cake, Bake, Bald, Bale, Calf
                You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman

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                • Originally Posted by Mitsuko
                  But as you have no proof, how about:- 2253 Able, Cake, Bake, Bald, Bale, Calf
                  As you have no proof, that is a good answer!

                  No, I was pretty sure you hadn't seen it. I think the 8 will win the point!

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                  • Congratulations Mitsuko! THe most I had found was the 8 that you cited.

                    Anyhow, here is the table after Round 12:

                    Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Person
                    1 . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . elvaago
                    2 . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . hegeland
                    3 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . Mitsuko
                    4 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . rambon
                    5 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . The Statman
                    6 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . snookersfun

                    (We will assume the same principles as in the snooker quiz, whereby you go straight to the top of your new points total to avoid tied positions.)

                    ROUND FOURTEEN

                    I would like you to come up with FOUR verbs that rhyme. They must be one-syllable words and rhyme properly in both pronunciation and spelling; for example, win, sin, thin.

                    These verbs, in the past tense, must not rhyme with each other – i.e. no two of them must rhyme.

                    So in the above example – win, sin, thin – won does not rhyme but sinned and thinned do; so this is not a valid answer.

                    You should use the past tense in the "I ....ed" formation, not "I have ....ed" (e.g. the relevant past tense of go would be went, not gone; swim would be swam, not swum, etc.).

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                    • bring (brought), ring (rang), wing (winged), fling (flung) ?
                      "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
                      David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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                      • Congratulations davis_greatest! There is also another answer – bake (baked) or brake, fake, rake; wake (woke); take (took); make (made).

                        Anyhow, here is the table after Round 14:

                        Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Person
                        1 . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . elvaago
                        2 . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . hegeland
                        3 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . Mitsuko
                        4 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . rambon
                        5 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . The Statman
                        6 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . davis_greatest
                        7 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . snookersfun

                        (We will assume the same principles as in the snooker quiz, whereby you go straight to the top of your new points total to avoid tied positions.)

                        ROUND FIFTEEN

                        anyone?

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                        • Originally Posted by The Statman
                          7 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . snookersfun

                          (We will assume the same principles as in the snooker quiz, whereby you go straight to the top of your new points total to avoid tied positions.)
                          Don't think I like that rule. Now I am stuck at the bottom unless I use my brain again

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                          • Round fifteen.

                            I am going to pose a series of statements to prove that every number is four. This, however, is still a word game.

                            Four = four
                            Twenty = six = three = five = four
                            Seventy = Seven = five = four
                            Thousand = eight = five = four

                            The first person to explain how this works gets the point.

                            Game on!

                            Edit: I forgot the deadline. Wednesday 9 PM GMT.
                            "I'll be back next year." --Jimmy White

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                            • Four = four letters
                              Twenty = six letters= three letters= five letters= four letters
                              etc...
                              Seventy = Seven = five = four
                              Thousand = eight = five = four

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                              • Man... this has my friends stumped for hours... :-)
                                "I'll be back next year." --Jimmy White

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