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Old 09-02-2016, 07:05
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Interesting that the £10,000 winning contestent though that having the Jackpot Counter flat and hard against the right hand edge of Drop Zone Four was to his disadvantage. The best start position is only equalled by a flat Jackpot Counter on the far left hand side of Drop Zone One.
Either start position maximises the movement of the Jackpot Counter - even from near misses.

The worst start positions include being very close to the border of two Drop Zones. We have seen a few cases recently where the Jackpot Counter has got stranded on the border.
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Old 09-02-2016, 10:06
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Interesting that the £10,000 winning contestant though that having the Jackpot Counter flat and hard against the right hand edge of Drop Zone Four was to his disadvantage. The best start position is only equalled by a flat Jackpot Counter on the far left hand side of Drop Zone One.
Either start position maximises the movement of the Jackpot Counter - even from near misses.

The worst start positions include being very close to the border of two Drop Zones. We have seen a few cases recently where the Jackpot Counter has got stranded on the border.
I thought exactly the same thing. Past programmes have shown that the best position for the jackpot counter is to be against one of the side walls. I'm sure some contestants have been tempted into one of the two middle zones by a mystery prize or double counter, and then end up with the jackpot counter ending up half way between two zones.
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:35
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Eek, werewolf versus zombie
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:37
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Eek, werewolf versus zombie
lol If this guy was a chocolate bar he'd eat himself.
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:41
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and the werewolf wins it by a hair...or two
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:42
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Not a very exciting show today. Two contestants go home with nothing, the other two battle it out to see whose the best of a bad bunch.
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:50
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Hipster boy has just uttered the magic phrase 'I wasn't even born then...'

They are now asking him about the Black Death. Oddly, he didn't give the same excuse.
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:53
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Ben trying hard not to laugh at him.
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:54
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Hypnic jerk?

You'd have thought one jerk would have known another.
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:54
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What a total loser...even his explanation of a wrong answer was wrong
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Old 09-02-2016, 16:58
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Poor show tonight.
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Old 09-02-2016, 17:01
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So, Jane Austen couldn't have written "Emma" because Emma is a modern name? Hasn't he heard of Emma Hamilton? No, perhaps not.
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Old 09-02-2016, 17:03
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So, Jane Austen couldn't have written "Emma" because Emma is a modern name? Hasn't he heard of Emma Hamilton? No, perhaps not.
No chance. If it isn't celeb based then these people have no clue.
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Old 09-02-2016, 17:08
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He was a university student but unable to realise hypnic referred to sleep, hypnosis, Hypnos?
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Old 09-02-2016, 18:06
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I'm often willing the final contestant to win, not tonight though. What a haughty bore.

Verbose explanations of his (often wrong) answers.
I also think he was trying to belittle Ben by showing off that he wasn't even born in the 1990s. Well mate, Ben might be a 1970s relic but he looks better than you, scruffy ginger oik.

As others noticed, it would not be too hard to work out 'hypnic' etymologically.
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Old 10-02-2016, 16:36
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Today's questions go from the sublime to the ridiculous. Some are suitable for nursery school children and others for graduates. It really makes a difference if you choose to go first or second.
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Old 10-02-2016, 16:36
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Sometimes I think people give up on questions that sound difficult but are actually dead easy if you give them a little thought.

"The pika, rabbit and what other animal make up the class of lagomorphs?"

That sounds quite tricky. But it isn't. I'd never heard of pikas, or lagomorphs. But you don't need to know what they are to get it right. The key word in the question is rabbit. All you're really being asked is to name an animal that's a bit like a rabbit. Hare. It has to be. It can't be anything else. This is Tipping Point. There are no trick questions. The obvious answer will nearly always be correct.

The first player passed. The second said, "Horse".

The answer, unsurprisingly, was hare.
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Old 10-02-2016, 16:58
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I think if I were on Tipping Point and refused the trade at the end, and we had to do the nonsensical "Let's see if you would have won bit", if the jackpot counter was in drop zone one, I'd ask for my three extra hypothetical counters to go into drop zone four. "There, see, I wouldn't have won."

It would make about as much sense doing that as what they do, playing them out and then pretending that's what would have happened if it had been for real.
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Old 10-02-2016, 16:59
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Deirdre has no one but herself to blame for not winning the jackpot. Her counter dropping timing was rubbish. She would have "won" the jackpot, as Ben "proved" at the end had she gambled. She could have won it outright if she hadn't had so many riders due to late dropping.

If she had followed John's example of a few days ago she would have gone home with almost £7,000 more that she did.
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Old 10-02-2016, 17:52
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Never heard someone so out of breath. Thought she was about to pass out.
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Old 10-02-2016, 17:58
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Deirdre has no one but herself to blame for not winning the jackpot. Her counter dropping timing was rubbish. She would have "won" the jackpot, as Ben "proved" at the end had she gambled. She could have won it outright if she hadn't had so many riders due to late dropping.

If she had followed John's example of a few days ago she would have gone home with almost £7,000 more that she did.
Am I mistaken or do the counters drop and bounce about in a completely random manner? If so even if she'd gambled they might have dropped in completely different places, or she could have got three riders, and not have won anyway.
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Old 10-02-2016, 18:16
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Am I mistaken or do the counters drop and bounce about in a completely random manner? If so even if she'd gambled they might have dropped in completely different places, or she could have got three riders, and not have won anyway.
No, you're not mistaken. If you gambled for real the counters would drop at a completely different time and could end up anywhere.

It's not very often we viewers get to see when the counters are released. Not so very long ago I actually saw that it was Ben who released the counters. Whether or not he does it every time I don't know. Interestingly I have never seen a rider among the "let's see if you would have won" session at the end of the show. It's complete nonsense.
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Old 10-02-2016, 18:37
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Deirdre has no one but herself to blame for not winning the jackpot. Her counter dropping timing was rubbish. She would have "won" the jackpot, as Ben "proved" at the end had she gambled. She could have won it outright if she hadn't had so many riders due to late dropping.

If she had followed John's example of a few days ago she would have gone home with almost £7,000 more that she did.
As two other posters (EDIT and yourself) have already pointed out we don't know what would have happened had she gone for the jackpot. I don't know if Ben believes the nonsense he speaks when he says "if only you'd been a bit braver" or if he's just cynically trying to con people even though he knows it's incorrect.

I agree about the counter dropping, the riders were here own fault, she could have done with watching the lady on last week whose timing was perfect.
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Old 11-02-2016, 16:05
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Game over today before 4.05pm. Chatterbox Steve got £1100 with the double counter.

Gaynor may be making a game of it. She only £200 behind after the first round. The timing of all four contestants today is poor. Will they never learn?
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Old 11-02-2016, 16:11
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Game over today before 4.05pm. Chatterbox Steve got £1100 with the double counter.
Gaynor is only £200 behind now so she could catch him.
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