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    solarpenguinsolarpenguin Posts: 488
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    Temple of Secrets
    Spearhead from Space, part 1
    Rose
    but no other episodes

    And the answer is...
    They don't have any actors at all from the immediately previous episode.
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    bp2bp2 Posts: 1,117
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    And the answer is...
    They don't have any actors at all from the immediately previous episode.

    I count an extra as a actor. Pat Gorman was in Mission to the Unknown and Myth Makers episode 1.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,273
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    Ok this could be an easy one but here it is anyway, what is the link between all these monsters/villains:
    Weeping Angels
    The Silence
    The Empty child
    Slitheen
    Shakri
    The Gangers
    The Ood
    Judoon
    Headless Monks
    Prisoner Zero
    (There are others but I don't want to make this too easy either)
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    doctorwhofancaldoctorwhofancal Posts: 24,123
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    Ok this could be an easy one but here it is anyway, what is the link between all these monsters/villains:
    Weeping Angels
    The Silence
    The Empty child
    Slitheen
    Shakri
    The Gangers
    The Ood
    Judoon
    Headless Monks
    Prisoner Zero
    (There are others but I don't want to make this too easy either)

    They're all new series monsters?
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,273
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    They're all new series monsters?

    Yup thought it was too easy :o:p Will come up with a better one later :)
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,273
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    Ok so I have come up with an episode maths teaser which involves all aired episodes since the return in 2005 (so from Rose up to and including The name of the Doctor) not including animated series or online only episodes such as Pond life. These are the only clues you are getting other than the answer is an integer.

    Number of "Nu-Who" episodes - Number of "series" episodes/Number of CE episodes + Number of specials (MS episodes - DT episodes) = ?

    Please post your working not just the answer so I know you've got the correct numbers and not just hit lucky. :)
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    TEDRTEDR Posts: 3,413
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    Number of "Nu-Who" episodes - Number of "series" episodes/Number of CE episodes + Number of specials (MS episodes - DT episodes) = ?

    Based on Wikipedia:
    101 - 91/13 + 10 (42 - 46) = 101 - 7 + 10(-4) = 94 - 40 = 54
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    TheSilentFezTheSilentFez Posts: 11,103
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    I don't know how easy or hard this might be, but what do these stories have in common:

    The Wheel in Space
    The War Games
    Spearhead from Space
    The Time Warrior
    School Reunion
    Smith and Jones
    Human Nature/Family of Blood
    Partners in Crime
    The Unicorn and the Wasp
    Midnight
    Journey's End
    The Next Doctor
    The Crimson Horror

    The Movie is also strongly related to the common theme in the aforementioned stories, but cannot really be included with them.
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    solarpenguinsolarpenguin Posts: 488
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    bp2 wrote: »
    I count an extra as a actor. Pat Gorman was in Mission to the Unknown and Myth Makers episode 1.

    Ah, well I don't count extras as actors. But if it makes you happier, imagine I typed "actors (excluding extras)" in my post.
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    solarpenguinsolarpenguin Posts: 488
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    I don't know how easy or hard this might be, but what do these stories have in common:

    The Wheel in Space
    The War Games
    Spearhead from Space
    The Time Warrior
    School Reunion
    Smith and Jones
    Human Nature/Family of Blood
    Partners in Crime
    The Unicorn and the Wasp
    Midnight
    Journey's End
    The Next Doctor
    The Crimson Horror

    The Movie is also strongly related to the common theme in the aforementioned stories, but cannot really be included with them.
    The Doctor is called John Smith
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,273
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    TEDR wrote: »
    Based on Wikipedia:
    101 - 91/13 + 10 (42 - 46) = 101 - 7 + 10(-4) = 94 - 40 = 54

    No, interestingly. According to the official website from where I calculated all this.
    You got the Number of "series" episodes, Number of CE episodes and Number of MS episodes all right but you made a slight error somewhere in the specials, number of overall episodes and the number of DT episodes. Also you made an error even if you take wikis information. :D Sorry I should have stated I was using information from the official site :)
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    TheSilentFezTheSilentFez Posts: 11,103
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    The Doctor is called John Smith
    Correctamundo!
    They are all the stories where he calls himself John Smith. In the Movie he is called John Smith by someone else.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,003
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    Ok, one from me, NuWho only, though probably pretty easy, what to do all these have in common:

    Aliens of London
    Utopia
    Partners in Crime
    The Sontaran Stratagem
    Turn Left
    The Stolen Earth
    Time of Angels
    Vampires of Venice
    The Snowmen
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,273
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    Ok, one from me, NuWho only, though probably pretty easy, what to do all these have in common:

    Aliens of London
    Utopia
    Partners in Crime
    The Sontaran Stratagem
    Turn Left
    The Stolen Earth
    Time of Angels
    Vampires of Venice
    The Snowmen

    The only thing I can think of is
    They all have failed invasions of Earth but Time of Angels stops that so invasion or survival?
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    Dr. LinusDr. Linus Posts: 6,445
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    Ok, one from me, NuWho only, though probably pretty easy, what to do all these have in common:

    Aliens of London
    Utopia
    Partners in Crime
    The Sontaran Stratagem
    Turn Left
    The Stolen Earth
    Time of Angels
    Vampires of Venice
    The Snowmen

    Hmm, they all use previous companions/characters/organisations... meh, that's not very specific. Something to do with using something from the past?
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    TEDRTEDR Posts: 3,413
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    Ok, one from me, NuWho only, though probably pretty easy, what to do all these have in common:

    Aliens of London
    Utopia
    Partners in Crime
    The Sontaran Stratagem
    Turn Left
    The Stolen Earth
    Time of Angels
    Vampires of Venice
    The Snowmen

    I'm not completely confident, but:
    Something about the reintroduction of companions*? Specifically: Jackie, Jack, Donna, Martha, Rose, lots of people, River, Rory, Clara.

    (* applying the 'traveled in the Tardis and helped out' test)
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,003
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    grizzlyvamp: No, that's not it. I didn't even realize that happened in most of them, also Utopia wouldn't fit either.

    Dr. Linus: You were on the right track at the beginning.

    TEDR wrote: »
    I'm not completely confident, but:
    Something about the reintroduction of companions*? Specifically: Jackie, Jack, Donna, Martha, Rose, lots of people, River, Rory, Clara.

    (* applying the 'traveled in the Tardis and helped out' test)
    Very close, but it's nothing that specific at all. Also, for Stolen Earth it's only one character and The Snowmen is not only a character played by JLC, but also three more characters. Ok, I guess it's a bit specific, but not in the way your eample was.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,273
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    grizzlyvamp: No, that's not it. I didn't even realize that happened in most of them, also Utopia wouldn't fit either.

    Hehe I do appologise you are right I appologise. :)

    For those of you who might be interested the answer to the maths teaser was
    102-91/13+11(42-47)=102-7+11(-5)=95-55=40
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    king yrcanosking yrcanos Posts: 2,145
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    I can't answer your brain-teaser, sorry. (I was always terrible at DWM's Final Tests too!) But here are a couple more for everyone.

    1. Find the link between...

    William Hartnell
    Jon Pertwee
    Christopher Eccleston
    but no other official doctors (especially not Paul McGann)

    2. Find the link between...

    Temple of Secrets
    Spearhead from Space, part 1
    Rose
    but no other episodes

    Wasn't the second brain teaser in one of the Christmas DWM's?
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