I\'d like to think the contestants the show gets are a little more sophisticated than to use a word like \"selfie\" or \"twerk\".
Sounds like the article (and fans) are overreacting a bit...sounds more like a convenience/technology move to me, not an effort to get more dick questions in like Feud. I mean the odds of those letters showing up are still a bit long, no?
Dunno; that ten-year-old managed to rip off a \"FARTED\" for six.I\'d like to think the contestants the show gets are a little more sophisticated than to use a word like \"selfie\" or \"twerk\".
There\'s two hundred letters in the pool, and I think they\'re evenly divided \'tween consonants and vowels. If someone is looking at this and their takeaway is that \"twerk\" might be an acceptable answer and lo! we should all sit and pray for the show, they\'re not getting it. The language evolves, we get more words all the time and this is a way to account for that and to not have to tell someone that their answer that is most definitely a word doesn\'t count because it isn\'t in the big ol\' book.Sounds like the article (and fans) are overreacting a bit...sounds more like a convenience/technology move to me, not an effort to get more dick questions in like Feud. I mean the odds of those letters showing up are still a bit long, no?
You can be assured that they\'ve been using modern technology for a while now, and the physical dictionary was just a prop. And if you really think the reason for the change was to accept modern words, then you really don\'t understand...well...much at all about Countdown.
I\'d like to think the contestants the show gets are a little more sophisticated than to use a word like \"selfie\" or \"twerk\".
If I\'m behind by 5, and \"selfie\" is the longest word in that particular pool of letters, you\'d better believe I\'m all up in that. Pride doesn\'t win teapots.
Pride doesn\'t win teapots.
If your opponent can\'t make a six, it most certainly can.
The language evolves, we get more words all the time and this is a way to account for that and to not have to tell someone that their answer that is most definitely a word doesn\'t count because it isn\'t in the big ol\' book.
Well said. I equate this to the reason crosswords don\'t really become stale. There\'s always a new word or phrase like \"twerk\" or \"clickbait\" looking to insinuate itself in the mainstream, and I think some of the more savvy \"Countdown\" people may glom onto these new words once they go to the online source. Staunch traditionalists may not like this, but hey.
But one thing does bug me...with the computer, could it be that anyone can now do Susie Dent\'s job? They\'ll still rightly call it \"dictionary corner\", but without that bulging tome there it\'ll seem less like an authoritative source.
What I do think changes positively is that they may use the laptop to find the longest word available for each pool of letters, There are indeed times where Susie will miss the longest word.
What I do think changes positively is that they may use the laptop to find the longest word available for each pool of letters, There are indeed times where Susie will miss the longest word.
Personally, I like this. When Susie misses the longest word, it\'s usually some ridiculous word that no reasonable person would catch. Similar to Carol not making it to the target because she didn\'t think to go 133 times 7. It also creates an impressive moment when the contestant outdoes Susie or Carol.
managed to rip off a \"FARTED\"
*TEEHEE*