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Tag: game shows

  • Rachel Riley, wearing a pink and black dress, stands in front of a partially-filled Countdown board showing the letters 'DANQ.ME'.

    Impossible Countdown

    Are there any tilesets that can be legitimately drawn during Countdown's Letters Game for which there exist no English words? I began writing a program to try to find the worst possible deals, but then found a series of heuristic shortcuts that meant I could find one with just a few minutes thought... because it turns out computers aren't always the right answer!

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    • posted 5 October, 2025
  • Tweet by @wordpressdotcom: Good question. What ARE blogs in 2020? #whatareblogs Thanks for featuring us on tonight's episode, @Jeopardy!

    What are blogs?

    @wordpressdotcom shares a video from Jeopardy in which wordpress.com is featured.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

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    • posted 5 February, 2020
  • Lateral: Game 1 with Kat Arney, Helen Arney, Simon Clark, and Sally Le Page

    https://youtu.be/_xS-BIcu4ew (youtu.be)

    Tom Scott (YouTube)
    Tom Scott's new YouTube game show, Lateral, has just finished it's first series. Start watching from here, if you're at all interested... and you should be, it's funny and clever (albeit in a very different way to Citation Needed).

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    • posted 30 June, 2018

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