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'''Stan Arnott''' was a finalist in [[Series 40]]. He was a bricklayer, originally from Liverpool, but living in Carluke, Lanarkshire.
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'''Stan Arnott''' was a quarter-finalist in [[Series 40]]. He was a bricklayer, originally from {{w|Liverpool}}, but living in {{w|Carluke}}, {{w|South Lanarkshire}}.
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Notably, Arnott qualified for the quarter-finals as #8 seed for this series with 5 wins out of 6 with a points total of 308 only because of a mistake in his [[episode 2475|second appearance]] going unnoticed. During this episode, Arnott offered an illegal solution to the second numbers game in Round 8 which should have been disallowed, as he used one of the numbers twice - his calculation of (75 − 2) × (5 − 2) to reach the target of 219 with the numbers 75, 7, 5, 2, 10 and 10 saw him use the '2' twice over when there was, in fact, only one '2' in the selection. Therefore, whilst this error did not affect the outcome of the episode, the final score should have been {{score|51|48}}, rather than {{score|61|41}}.
 
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Had this error been spotted at the time, then the 10 lost points would have meant that Arnott would not have qualified for the quarter-finals of this series, as he would have only have accumulated 298 points, and therefore would have lost out to #9 seed [[John Morrison]], whose aggregate points total of 305 points from an identical record of 5 wins from 6 games would have usurped Arnott's total by 7 points (in fact, Arnott would have dropped to 10th place in the seedings, as the actual #10 seed, [[Daniel Holloway]], would also have moved ahead of him by 2 points, on a total of 300 points from 5 wins from 6 games).
 
  
 
==Episodes==
 
==Episodes==
 
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{{ep | 2474 | 9/03/1999 | P |[[John Wright]]| 41 - 58 |Stan Arnott|[[Penny Smith]]|[[Mark Nyman]]|73}}
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{{ep | 2474 | 09/03/1999 | P |[[John Wright]]| 41 - 58 |Stan Arnott|[[Penny Smith]]|[[Mark Nyman]]|73}}
 
{{ep | 2475 | 10/03/1999 | P |Stan Arnott| 61 - 41 |[[Phil O'Gorman]]|Penny Smith|Mark Nyman|75}}
 
{{ep | 2475 | 10/03/1999 | P |Stan Arnott| 61 - 41 |[[Phil O'Gorman]]|Penny Smith|Mark Nyman|75}}
 
{{ep | 2476 | 11/03/1999 | P |Stan Arnott| 59 - 41 |[[Sue Jackson]]|Penny Smith|Mark Nyman|70}}
 
{{ep | 2476 | 11/03/1999 | P |Stan Arnott| 59 - 41 |[[Sue Jackson]]|Penny Smith|Mark Nyman|70}}

Latest revision as of 21:57, 16 February 2023

Stan Arnott was a quarter-finalist in Series 40. He was a bricklayer, originally from Liverpool, but living in Carluke, South Lanarkshire.

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
2474 09/03/1999 P John Wright 41 – 58 Stan Arnott Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Penny Smith Mark Nyman 73
2475 10/03/1999 P Stan Arnott 61 – 41 Phil O'Gorman Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Penny Smith Mark Nyman 75
2476 11/03/1999 P Stan Arnott 59 – 41 Sue Jackson Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Penny Smith Mark Nyman 70
2477 12/03/1999 P Stan Arnott 49 – 43 Steve Jacobs Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Angela Rippon Damian Eadie 72
2478 15/03/1999 P Stan Arnott 53 – 28 Pamela Roberts Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Angela Rippon Damian Eadie 73
2479 16/03/1999 P Stan Arnott 28 – 40 Ben Furness Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Angela Rippon Damian Eadie 72
2546 17/06/1999 QF Peter Hutchings 42 – 39 Stan Arnott Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Susie Dent 75
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