Talk:Des chiffres et des lettres

Translation

 * I apologise that this is just a translation from the French wikipedia; I did miss out parts I thought to be entirely irrelevant, though Zhengfu 28 June 2005 10:38 (UTC)

Supplementals
Messy Thinking 02:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Based on my own viewings, I have determined the following:
 * a number round is played first;
 * two rounds with letters will follow;
 * the cycle is repeated under normal circumstances;
 * the number tiles used to be addressed by another hostess. In fact, the contestants themselves once selected the lines from which these tiles were taken.
 * It is also possible, in select situations, to obtain an odd-numbered solution when dealing solely with even numbers. For example(100/4)x((6+4)+(8/8)) = 275

Good explanation

 * I've actually seen the show for myself now (two weeks ago) and this article is a pretty good explanation of it. Unlike Countdown, there are no lettered and numbered tiled, it's all done by computer selections. Mglovesfun 13:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It used to be that way, actually. Exactly as the British version is now. But the French version progressively changed to computer-generated draws over the past 20 years. It became totally computer-generated thereabout 1990, I'd say.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.45.180.152 (talk) 04:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Prizes

 * The article mentions what the prizes for winning contestants are on the British and Spanish versions of the show, but not on the French original! 86.132.142.207 (talk) 14:56, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Queries

 * The article says: "In the television version, there are also duels". Does this mean there is another version, which is not on TV? ie a radio version?  Or a board gane--TimothyJacobson (talk) 16:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The article also says "The winner of a match is the first player to win two games (manches, literally innings) or a player who wins the opening game by 40 points or more." I am a bit confused by this.  Does that mean the first person to win two episodes?--TimothyJacobson (talk) 00:11, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

J2ME game
There was also a J2ME mobile game (looks like official one!) with the same name and with pre-2010 nine-letter rules. 37.229.135.212 (talk) 00:04, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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Final round
>>S/he has two minutes to find the longest word from 9 different 10-letter selection as possible.

Now (January 2019) there are 8 selections, not 9. Siealex (talk) 23:51, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

number of episodes
the page states that there are 20,000 episodes of the show, which would make it the series with the most episodes. but that's likely untrue. Given that the show only started broadcasting every weekday from 1972. In contrast, the current TV shows with the most episodes "Guiding Light" was launched in 1956. 16 years before "Des chiffres et des lettres" actively started producing episodes.

For a more accurate estimate of the number of episodes I'd suggest around 12,000 episodes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomaatje12 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Modern order of rounds
In modern games (starting at least from 2016) there is only one section with ordinary letter and number rounds played alternately, usually 10 to 12 rounds, then the Duels section with four duels: classic, orthography, mental calculation and "one in the other" (always in this order), then the final round with 8 words. Siealex (talk) 12:58, 3 May 2019 (UTC)


 * In 2023, the order of duels became random. Siealex (talk) 16:50, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Bonus in letter rounds (2023)
In 2023, if TWO words of the same length are proposed, the contestant receives additional two bonus points. Siealex (talk) 16:49, 12 November 2023 (UTC)