Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:09 pm
I got stuck on 99 for a while, but slipped up with the word 'barefaced'...
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Best I can manage is 47, I'm afraid.Mid A 15 wrote: Come on lads look lively!
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:34 pm
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:34 am
I'm up to 50. I think I'll quit while I'm ahead. Otherwise, this could go on all night... :/Mid A 15 wrote:Looks like the Hertford girls are setting the early pace with 47 and 50.
Come on lads look lively!
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:36 am
Well, you are all much cleverer than me then. I got to 1000 grains, but only had a vocab level of 39. I was disappointed, then remembered it is all about the grains! 
I think my conscience is going to make me addicted.
I think my conscience is going to make me addicted.Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:29 pm
I've only got 40 and 41!lonelymom wrote:Well, you are all much cleverer than me then. I got to 1000 grains, but only had a vocab level of 39. I was disappointed, then remembered it is all about the grains!
Like you say though it's the grains that count!
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:50 pm
I got to 46 - once!
Was promptly demoted to 41. At that point I gave up!
Has anyone counted 100 grains of rice yet??
Was promptly demoted to 41. At that point I gave up!
Has anyone counted 100 grains of rice yet??
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:39 pm
I got to 4870 grains, but have got to get on with other things, so have stopped midway! I hope that's a bowlful anyway!
Munch
Munch
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:02 pm
Well, I did manage to get above 39, but then, like everyone else I got knocked back by two wrong answers in a row. I should have given up while I was ahead, but I was going for the grains!
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:44 pm
mountebank? what kind of a word is mountebank?!
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:04 pm
A quack or charlatan, a snake oil salesman
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:22 pm
demonstration of why the Hertford lot are leading the field !
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:36 pm
I well remember seeing a 'snake oil salesman' in full flow in a market in Borneo (it may even have been snake oil he was selling!) The before and after photos were grisly and graphic. His elixir would apparently cure all - especially in the love department. He had a large crowd getting out their money.
Back to the vocabulary, I'm now giving 500 grains at a time and regularly at 50 but I haven't got any higher yet!
Back to the vocabulary, I'm now giving 500 grains at a time and regularly at 50 but I haven't got any higher yet!
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:28 pm
MKM wrote:I've got as far as 50 (670 grains of rice) briefly.
Same here, but then I am a professional translator. I keep falling back after 50 too.
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:59 pm
I read the small print and you cannot get higher than 50! I find their concept of difficulty strange but perhaps that is a reflection of my eclectic vocabulary!