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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to the first Countdown of the week.
00:35We're here Monday to Friday and it's worth pointing out,
00:38maybe stating the obvious, but every single day,
00:41Monday to Friday, you get a fresh cut of Countdown.
00:44No repeats, no summer schedules, no best of.
00:48It's always a brand-new episode every single day.
00:51I'm just the receptionist pulling the strings.
00:54It's Rachel Riley, Striped Twins.
00:56Yeah, I've gone with Diagonal.
00:59So, tonight, I'm inviting you to dinner.
01:01We're going to have a nice bottle of Rioja.
01:03We're going to have a cheese board
01:05because today is National Cheese and Wine Day.
01:08Oh! Right, but that's the reaction.
01:11Something everyone can get on board with.
01:13No. No? Only adults.
01:15I was thinking about this.
01:16As a kid, you weren't allowed alcohol
01:18and you knew you were on a mile from blue cheese, most kids.
01:21You were on Swedish.
01:23The things we used to hate as children that we love now.
01:27Do you have a favourite spot? Oh, yeah.
01:29You think of any?
01:30Probably, I think, classical music.
01:33Yes.
01:34Tell a child we're going to listen to some classical music.
01:37They go, oh, can't we have some party tunes?
01:39But now I quite like getting in the car
01:41and it's peace and quiet and some nice piano jingling away.
01:45Beautiful. What about sleep?
01:47You never want to sleep when you're young.
01:49You cry, you try anything to stay up.
01:51Mm-hm. But now, I crave it.
01:53There's nothing better than sleeping between the sheets.
01:55Are you a night owl?
01:56I am, but I will stay up all night,
01:58but try and get me up in the morning
02:00and you'll have a bit of an effort there.
02:02I can't do mornings, even with children.
02:04I'm still a night owl, through and through.
02:06Listen, I don't want to tell you this, but all the career countdown,
02:09they avoid you until half past 11 on a workday.
02:12That's a fact. Very wise.
02:13Well, listen, let's go over to Dictionary Corner,
02:16where Susie Dent is always a breeze.
02:19I've only got good things to say about our Dictionary Corner guest,
02:23Levi Roots.
02:24Yeah!
02:28This is casual Levi day.
02:30I know, and whenever I dress like this,
02:32people are always asking what's happened to me.
02:34I really can't understand it,
02:36because back in the day, before my moment and my business,
02:40I was always just like this.
02:42I suppose everybody expected me to be in the old Obies,
02:46the old Oswald, all the time.
02:48But I feel nice and chilled.
02:49Brilliant stuff.
02:50And back for a second bite at the cherry is Damien McAvoy,
02:55our polyglot, who won his first game.
02:57And, of course, you speak that many languages.
02:59I said to you just before we came on air,
03:01I said, you must have visited a few countries.
03:03Couldn't believe the answer.
03:0597.
03:06Wow!
03:0797 countries.
03:08That's a lot of air miles for you.
03:11Absolutely.
03:12The goal is to visit all 196 before I move on from this earth.
03:16But, yeah, nearly halfway there.
03:18I mean, the first place you visited was Coventry,
03:20because even though you're our Dubliner,
03:22you moved there when you were six,
03:24and Sue Telfer, our challenger, is from Coventry.
03:26Sue, brilliant to have you here.
03:27Going to get a little bit nerdy,
03:29because your family has a fantastic history.
03:32Your maiden name, Pollard,
03:34and it goes back into the history of bicycles.
03:36Just give me a little bite-sized history of the Pollard bike.
03:39Well, my grandad was the first frame builder in Coventry.
03:42His first bike is actually in the Coventry Museum,
03:45so that's good.
03:46And we had two cycle shops, and he was a racer as well,
03:49a racing cyclist.
03:50I'm sorry to point this out, but everyone's thinking it at home.
03:53Does that mean you're Sue Pollard?
03:55Yeah, it was.
03:56Well, listen, say hi-dee-hi to Damien McEvoy.
03:59Howdy-ho.
04:00Yeah.
04:01Don't you start.
04:02Right, let's see if you can send our champion on his bike.
04:05Damien, you start, of course, it's your letters.
04:07Hi again, Rachel.
04:08Hi, Damien.
04:09Can I have a consonant, please?
04:11Start the week with D.
04:13And another?
04:15S.
04:16And another?
04:18L.
04:19Vowel, please.
04:21A.
04:22And another?
04:23U.
04:25And another?
04:26E.
04:28Consonant, please.
04:30D.
04:32And another?
04:34G.
04:37And another, please.
04:38Lastly, N.
04:40At home and in the studio, let's play Kindle.
04:43Kindle.
05:14Damien?
05:15Eight.
05:16And Sue?
05:17Just a seven.
05:18That's very good for your first round. What do you get?
05:20Dangles.
05:21Dangles.
05:22And, Damien, dangle an eight?
05:24Unsalted.
05:25Unsalted.
05:26Very well spotted.
05:27Excellent.
05:28APPLAUSE
05:31Nothing you can do there.
05:32Yeah, nothing better.
05:33Seven is the best.
05:34Tangled.
05:35That's good.
05:36You did well, you're no Buck Egypt.
05:38That's for sure.
05:39That's right.
05:40So, first time, you get to say hello to Rachel.
05:42Hi, Rachel.
05:43Hi, Sue.
05:44Can I have a consonant, please?
05:45You can, indeed.
05:46S.
05:48And a consonant?
05:49R.
05:51And a consonant?
05:53L.
05:55And a vowel?
05:56I.
05:58Another vowel?
05:59O.
06:01And a consonant?
06:02T.
06:04And a consonant?
06:06B.
06:10And a vowel?
06:12E.
06:14And another vowel, please?
06:16Lastly, A.
06:1830 seconds.
06:39Possibilities, Sue?
06:51I'll try an eight.
06:53Good.
06:54I like the way you take your glasses off with authority.
06:56It's wonderful.
06:57Damien?
06:58I'll try an eight as well.
06:59OK.
07:00Sue?
07:01Bloaters.
07:02Bloaters.
07:03Lovely.
07:04Damien?
07:05Bloatier.
07:06Bloaters and bloatier.
07:07Susie?
07:08Bloater is a salted herring.
07:10That is in the dictionary.
07:11But bloatier you can't be, I'm afraid.
07:13Sorry about that, Damien.
07:14It's OK.
07:15Nothing else?
07:16Well, yes, actually.
07:17Very last-minute find.
07:18But orbitales.
07:20Sounds very Italian.
07:22And actually it goes back to the German, believe it or not.
07:25And it's a term from anthropology.
07:27The lowest point of the inferior margin of an orbit.
07:31Very good.
07:32Very good.
07:33APPLAUSE
07:35Right, let's get our first numbers of the day, Damien.
07:37McAvoy?
07:38Let's go six mild, please, Rachel.
07:40Six little ones, I like a challenge.
07:42Hopefully this will bring one for us.
07:44First numbers of the week.
07:46Two, one, ten, nine, eight and six.
07:52And the target...
07:53Ooh, 889.
07:55Putting our challenger under pressure.
07:57Numbers up.
08:07MUSIC PLAYS
08:29889.
08:31Frustrating. Damien?
08:32No, sorry, I've gone wrong. Sue?
08:34No, sorry, I didn't get that.
08:36I was one away. Is it doable?
08:38It is doable, Colin.
08:40If you start with six times two is 12.
08:43Take away one is 11.
08:45Times by eight is 88.
08:47Times by ten, 880.
08:49And add on the nine, 889.
08:51Yes.
08:52APPLAUSE
08:54There we go.
08:55Cagey start, just eight points apiece.
08:57Let's have our first tea time teaser.
08:59Green fist. Green fist.
09:01Uncle's fist had turned green.
09:03It was very septic. Yuck.
09:05Uncle's fist had turned green.
09:07It was very septic.
09:23Welcome back, everybody.
09:24Green fist was the tea time teaser.
09:26Uncle's fist had turned green.
09:28It was very septic.
09:30Adam's family.
09:31Uncle Fester.
09:32Festering is the answer.
09:33A few demons in the studio so far.
09:35Eight points apiece.
09:36Sue, it's your letters.
09:38Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:39Thank you, Sue. S.
09:41And another consonant.
09:43P.
09:45And another consonant.
09:47C.
09:49Another consonant.
09:51M.
09:52And a vowel.
09:54I.
09:55And a vowel.
09:57A.
09:59And a consonant, please.
10:01S.
10:03Another vowel.
10:05E.
10:07And another consonant, please.
10:09Lastly, R.
10:11And an R. 30 seconds.
10:32MUSIC
10:44How do you get on, Damien?
10:45Seven.
10:46And Sue?
10:47Seven.
10:48OK, Sue, what have you got there?
10:49Messier.
10:50Messier.
10:51And Damien?
10:52Spicers.
10:53Levi, how do you do?
10:54Yeah, we're doing well here.
10:55We've got premises for eight.
10:57That is excellent.
10:58And I'm so sorry, Damien, dictionary's not your friend today.
11:00There's no spicer in the... I'm sorry.
11:02No, what's going on?
11:04There you go, Sue takes the lead.
11:06Damien, let's get more letters.
11:08Consonant, please, Rachel.
11:09Thank you, Damien.
11:10G.
11:11And another.
11:12N.
11:14Vowel, please.
11:16U.
11:17And another.
11:19E.
11:21Consonant, please.
11:22L.
11:23And another.
11:25T.
11:27Vowel, please.
11:28A.
11:29And a consonant.
11:31S.
11:33And a vowel, please.
11:34And the last one.
11:35O.
11:36Start the clock.
11:58MUSIC PLAYS
12:09Sue.
12:10Seven.
12:11And Damien.
12:12Seven as well.
12:13Go for seven.
12:14What's yours, Damien?
12:15Tangles.
12:16Tangles.
12:17And Sue.
12:18Same word, tangles.
12:19Wonderful.
12:20Let's see if Dictionary Corner had the longest word.
12:23Yeah, we've got the longest.
12:25No bigger word than longest.
12:27Bonus points for it, shouldn't you?
12:29Absolutely.
12:30Right, seven points each.
12:32Susie, any better?
12:33There's possibilities there?
12:34There is.
12:35I didn't know whether Damien had this on his paper
12:37but wasn't daring to say it.
12:39Well, I had something.
12:40OK, there is a nine there.
12:41Longoost?
12:42No.
12:43I went...
12:44OK.
12:45I had outgleans, so...
12:47Oh, I don't think that's in.
12:49But a longoost is...
12:51That would have given you the nine.
12:53And that is a spiny lobster
12:55and you have to prepare it and cook it.
12:57A longoost.
13:01Challenging the league by seven points.
13:03And Sue, it's your numbers.
13:05One from the top, please, Rachel, and any of the five.
13:08Thank you, Sue.
13:09One large, five little this time.
13:11And the five small numbers are six, four, six, two and two.
13:18And the large one, 50, all the evens.
13:20And the target, 884.
13:23Numbers up.
13:25OK.
13:26BELL RINGS
13:28BELL CONTINUES
13:31BELL CONTINUES
13:55OK, 884.
13:57Damien?
13:58888.
13:59Sue?
14:00And I've got 888.
14:01OK, let's go with Damien first.
14:036 divided by 2 is 3.
14:056 over 2 is 3.
14:0750 by 6 by 3 is 900.
14:1050 by...
14:11The other 6 by 3, 900.
14:15And 6 by 2 is 12.
14:19And that's three sixes.
14:21Oh, there you go. Sue?
14:24I'm so sorry, I've gone wrong again.
14:26You two, it's contagious. Sorry.
14:28You two are terrible all at the same time.
14:30I love it.
14:31Is this possible?
14:33It is possible, but you have to leave it with me.
14:35Well, listen, it's a perfect time to have to work something out.
14:38A low, you're going to be distracted
14:41because Levi Roots did promise us some singing
14:45to cheer up our Monday blues, if anybody has them.
14:48Yeah, absolutely, I did indeed.
14:50But I'm always going to go through the music
14:53when I'm thinking of giving advice to young people.
14:56I think when they saw me come on Dragons,
14:58then it was because of the music, why I got the investment.
15:01If I didn't bring my guitar, I probably would be out of my tud.
15:04So I always try to give people and tell them that,
15:07you know, when people ask me about advice to be successful,
15:11the key thing is always to be yourself,
15:13because that was me, a musician, so I wanted to go in as me.
15:16But there are three tips that I think I really want to give out there
15:20to anybody who has a small to medium business
15:23or now are perhaps looking to get to that next level.
15:26And the first one, really, I think it's about being...
15:29..getting yourself ready for being investable.
15:33It's really important to change yourself first
15:35before you even think of the business plan to do with the business.
15:39Get yourself ready for business first.
15:41Because a lot of the times,
15:42investors are not really investing in the product.
15:45They are investing in the person,
15:47a bit like how, in my case on Dragons then.
15:50My second tip is about...
15:52What I start with is about being honest with yourself,
15:55being true to yourself.
15:57And it's this thing about, I think a lot of people are shy
16:00when it comes to pitching business to a bank manager
16:03or to a potential mentor.
16:06And it's that shyness, especially when it comes to numbers.
16:09Hold my hands up!
16:10But I think the most important thing is to let your investor know
16:14or your bank manager know that you are shy.
16:16It's to be honest about your frailties.
16:19And I think that will help to get over that first hurdle
16:22of the person who you're asking for them to give you your money,
16:25they'll be comfortable that you are honest about your little frailties.
16:29Because sometimes, if you're bad at numbers,
16:32your investor should be somebody who could actually help you to get through.
16:36Or your mentor should be able to do that.
16:38So be honest about who you are and be true to yourself.
16:41And the final one, before I sing this song,
16:44is about the numbers again.
16:46Don't shy away from the numbers.
16:48I know it's one of the hardest things to do.
16:50And when you see these shows about pitching investment,
16:53it always go tails up when it comes to the numbers.
16:56But my thing is about, before you get to that point,
16:59it's always that thing about surrounding yourself with like-minded people.
17:03And one of these like-minded people is somebody like an accountant.
17:07I think it should be one of the first friends that,
17:10you know, somebody young that's starting out in business,
17:13should seek lawyer, legal advice, and an accountant.
17:18I think those are the two most important things
17:20when people say surround yourself with like-minded people.
17:23But of course, if you can't do that,
17:25then maybe you need to sing a little song like me,
17:27and then you will get through.
17:29But one of my favourite singers is Bobby McFerrin.
17:32And if you are struggling, you can always whistle a little too, like...
17:35WHISTLES
17:44WHISTLES
17:46Yeah!
17:48And you definitely get the investment.
17:50Thank you, Levi.
17:54So, Levi, I'll stick to the singing,
17:56and then definitely you stick to the numbers.
17:58Rachel, you're better at that, he's better at singing.
18:00I'm not worried anymore, I'm happy.
18:02With 50 plus 6 for 56.
18:062 times 4 is 8.
18:08Times those together for 448.
18:11Take away the second 6 for 442,
18:14and times it by the second 2.
18:16884.
18:20Well, we don't need a maths degree to keep track of today's scores.
18:23Sue has 22, Damien has 15.
18:26Really cagey. Let's see what happens now
18:28as we get back to Damien for more letters.
18:30Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:32Thank you, Damien. M.
18:34And another?
18:36P.
18:37One more, please.
18:39T.
18:40Vowel, please.
18:42E.
18:43Vowel.
18:44I.
18:46Consonant.
18:48D.
18:49Consonant.
18:51T.
18:53Vowel, please.
18:55A.
18:57And a consonant, please.
18:59And the last one, H.
19:01Good luck.
19:10MUSIC PLAYS
19:32OK, Sue, how do you get on?
19:34Just a 6. Damien?
19:366 as well. Good stuff. Sue?
19:38Matted. Matted. And Damien?
19:40Pitted. Matted.
19:42And pitted.
19:44Anything else in the corner, Levi?
19:46Yeah, we've got a 7 here in pithead.
19:48Pithead, yes, which is simply the top of the mineshaft.
19:51The pithead. I always thought it might have been a slang term for a miner.
19:54Oh, yeah, I could see where you're going.
19:56That is a beautiful way to translate it.
19:58There you go, but I was wrong. Sue, let's get some more letters.
20:01Consonant, please, Rachel.
20:03Thank you, Sue. L.
20:05And a consonant?
20:06N.
20:07And another consonant?
20:09G.
20:10And a consonant?
20:12P.
20:14And a vowel, please?
20:16E.
20:17Another vowel?
20:19E.
20:20And another vowel, please?
20:22U.
20:24And a consonant?
20:26T.
20:28And another vowel, please?
20:30And the last one, another E.
20:33Start the clock.
20:35CLOCK TICKS
20:37WHISTLE BLOWS
20:39WHISTLE BLOWS
21:04A rare three Es to contend.
21:06Wes, Damien, how did you get on?
21:08Six.
21:09And Sue?
21:10Six.
21:11There you go. Damien?
21:12Plunge.
21:13And Sue?
21:14I've got the same.
21:15What's on your bit of paper there, Levi?
21:17Yeah, I've got one here. Gentile for seven.
21:20Nice!
21:21Very good.
21:22Gentile for seven.
21:24The six points is what counts, though,
21:26so we still have that seven-point gap as we get some numbers now.
21:30And it's you, Damien.
21:32Let's try and get some confidence back with too large, please, Rachel.
21:35Too large. Moving away from the six.
21:37First of all, too large and for little.
21:39Let's see what we have here.
21:41The small numbers are four, eight, nine and nine.
21:46And the large ones, 150.
21:48Could be tricky still. Let's see the target.
21:51397.
21:52The numbers are...
22:07CLOCK TICKS
22:23Let's see how that did for your confidence, Damien.
22:26397.
22:27On the button, Sue?
22:29399.
22:30397 it is. Damien, big ten points if you're right.
22:3350 by eight is 400.
22:35True.
22:37Nine divided by nine is one.
22:39Yep.
22:40400 plus the one, 401 minus the four.
22:43Perfect. 397. Lovely.
22:45There you go.
22:46APPLAUSE
22:48Damien going for his second win back in front,
22:51so let's break for a tea-time teaser.
22:53Giant legs. He's got giant legs.
22:55This word fits him perfectly.
22:57Giant legs. He's got giant legs.
22:59This word fits him perfectly.
23:01APPLAUSE
23:17Welcome back this Monday afternoon to Countdown.
23:20Giant legs was our second tea-time teaser.
23:22He's got giant legs.
23:24This word fits him perfectly.
23:26Not too hard, that one.
23:27Gangliest. Gangliest.
23:29There are two points in it, so you're in control of the letters.
23:32Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:33Thank you, Sue. V.
23:35And a consonant.
23:37R.
23:38Another consonant.
23:40N.
23:41Another consonant.
23:43W.
23:44And a vowel, please.
23:45O.
23:47And a vowel, please.
23:48I.
23:50And a consonant.
23:52D.
23:53And a vowel.
23:55O.
23:59And a vowel, please.
24:01Lastly, E.
24:03Start the clock.
24:29MUSIC PLAYS
24:34Damien, how many?
24:35Seven.
24:36And Sue?
24:37Eight.
24:38Wow. Damien?
24:39Woodier.
24:40Woodier.
24:41And Sue?
24:42Overwind.
24:43Overwind.
24:44It is in the dictionary.
24:46APPLAUSE
24:50From Fast Forward to Levi, I had Rewind, but I didn't have Overwind.
24:56Well, Woodier was my seven as well, too,
24:58so I didn't get anything better than that.
25:00Yeah, Overwind is brilliant.
25:01It's a mechanism beyond the proper stopping point.
25:03Very, very good.
25:04Big moment in the game, the lead chopping and changing.
25:08We'll get more letters now with Damien.
25:10Consonant, please, Rachel.
25:11Thank you, Damien.
25:12C.
25:13And another.
25:15N.
25:16Vowel, please.
25:18A.
25:19And another.
25:20A.
25:21And another.
25:23A.
25:25Consonant, please.
25:27S.
25:28Consonant.
25:30K.
25:31Vowel, please.
25:34O.
25:36And a vowel, please.
25:40Good luck with this lot.
25:42Final I.
25:4330 seconds, triple A pass for everybody.
25:53MUSIC PLAYS
26:16Time's up, Sue.
26:17Just a five.
26:18Just a five. Damien?
26:19Six.
26:20A six. OK, Sue, what's the five?
26:22Five.
26:23Snack.
26:24OK, and Damien, did you play safer gamble?
26:26With the casino.
26:27Yeah, there you go.
26:28Very good.
26:29There you go.
26:30Cashed his chips in with that.
26:31I'm thinking, Levi, that's it, we're getting three A's out there.
26:34Yeah.
26:35Casino's got to be the jackpot.
26:36I told you, you and I are...
26:39You know, yeah.
26:40That's it, isn't it?
26:41That's it.
26:42There you go.
26:43Bank wins every time.
26:44It is 43 to our champion, Damien.
26:46It is 42 to Sue.
26:48We're blessed over the last week and a half
26:50with so many close games.
26:52I feel like every time, Susie, we stop for origins of words,
26:55we're in a really tense moment more often than not, which I love.
26:58But what are we talking about today?
27:00We're talking about apples,
27:02which you might like with your cheese and wine
27:04on your appreciation day.
27:06And apple used to mean any kind of fruit,
27:09so I often talk on the programme about how,
27:11before varieties of things kind of proliferated,
27:16meat was all food, a deer was any kind of animal,
27:19and so it was with apple.
27:21Apple was any kind of fruit.
27:23And so, in the Garden of Eden,
27:26the fruit that was typically thought to be an apple
27:29actually might have been anything else.
27:31It could have been a peach, whatever.
27:33It's just called a fruit in the King James's Bible.
27:35But I was really thinking about it,
27:37because you know that old rhyme,
27:38an apple a day keeps the doctor away?
27:40In the full version of this,
27:41there are quite a few different variations,
27:44so it goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
27:46Apple in the morning, doctor's warning.
27:48Roast apple at night, starves the doctor outright.
27:51Eat an apple at bed, knock the doctor on the head.
27:54So there were quite a few.
27:56So this wasn't invented by a marketing association for apples,
28:00as you might think.
28:01Actually, it's very, very old.
28:03It goes back to at least the 19th century,
28:05although some people think it was already around then,
28:07by 300 years, it was just a spoken thing
28:09rather than something written down.
28:11And today, of course,
28:12we don't want to try and get our kids to eat their fruit, possibly.
28:15But what it does show is that there was a general mistrust,
28:19if you like, of conventional medicine,
28:21because the idea suggested here
28:23is that you don't want the doctor to come,
28:24not just because you don't want to be ill,
28:26but because they'll probably charge you
28:28and probably not cure you very well at all.
28:30So I just love the idea that an apple a day keeps the doctor away
28:33actually began with something like a real mistrust
28:36of conventional medicine
28:37rather than what we might think of it today.
28:39And also, it gives them warning that if you want a really rosy face
28:42and you want to be very healthy indeed, eat a red one,
28:45because if you eat a green one,
28:47you might actually end up rather sick.
28:49Yes.
28:52Who's going to pick who in today's counting?
28:54Let's get back to it, Sue. Cheerleaders.
28:56A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:58Thank you, Sue. R.
28:59Another consonant.
29:01F.
29:02And a consonant.
29:04R.
29:05And a consonant.
29:07C.
29:09And a vowel, please.
29:11U.
29:12And a vowel.
29:14E.
29:16And another vowel.
29:18I.
29:20And a consonant, please.
29:22P.
29:25And another vowel, please.
29:27And the last one.
29:28E.
29:30He's dying.
29:38MUSIC PLAYS
30:01Every point important, Sue.
30:03Seven.
30:04Very good. Damien?
30:05Six.
30:06Damien, what have you got?
30:07Recipe.
30:08Sue?
30:09Fiercer.
30:10Brilliant. Yes, we're good, we're good, Suzy, aren't we?
30:13We certainly are.
30:14Wow. There you go. It changes again.
30:17Levi, it probably can't be the seven, but anything?
30:20Yeah, it can't be, but he stole my recipe, because that's my word.
30:23But, yeah, there's an epicure for seven, but other than that...
30:26OK, three rounds to go.
30:28The lead changes hands again.
30:30Damien, last time for the letters, and it's you.
30:33Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:35Thank you, Damien.
30:36Y.
30:37And another.
30:39N.
30:41Vowel, please.
30:43E.
30:44And another.
30:45I.
30:47Consonant.
30:48S.
30:50Consonant.
30:51M.
30:53Another consonant.
30:55D.
30:57Vowel.
30:58O.
31:01And a consonant, please.
31:04And lastly, B.
31:06Let's go.
31:07MUSIC
31:37Gosh, you've got to put your pens down. Sue?
31:39Six.
31:40Six for Sue. Damien?
31:41Six as well.
31:42OK, Sue?
31:43Demons.
31:44Demons, and Damien, demons.
31:47Monies.
31:48Monies and demons from Sue and Damien and Levi.
31:51Can you add to that?
31:52Yeah, running away with it. Seven here in disobey.
31:55Disobey.
31:56Best we've got?
31:57Best we can do.
31:59Really good.
32:00Six points in it.
32:0120 points maximum up for grabs.
32:05And it's our challenger who always picks the last numbers.
32:08Thank you. One from the top, please, Rachel.
32:10And any of the five.
32:11Yep.
32:12And your last chance to avoid a crucial conundrum.
32:15Let's see how it goes.
32:17Last numbers.
32:18184,
32:2010,
32:214
32:22and 100.
32:24And the final target of the day, I'm going to sit down with this one.
32:27399.
32:28Secretly very happy at that.
32:31MUSIC
32:35MUSIC
32:39MUSIC
33:03399.
33:05Sue, I want to get that crucial top nine conundrum.
33:07399.
33:08Yes, and Damien?
33:09399.
33:10Sue, go ahead.
33:11Four times 100, take away the one.
33:13Yeah.
33:14Damien?
33:15Yes, I've just...
33:16Yes.
33:17Yeah, there you go.
33:18Well, well, well, here we are again.
33:21Another epic finale to an episode of Countdown.
33:24We have Damien from Dublin, we have Sue, who lives in Milton Keynes.
33:28They were both born in Coventry.
33:30One of them is getting sent back there now.
33:33Anyway, let's reveal today's crucial Countdown conundrum.
33:45Sue's buzzed in.
33:46Snowboard.
33:47Snowboard, let's take a look.
33:49Wow!
33:53Christmas comes early, Sue.
33:56Damien, we can't keep a champion.
33:59It's the curse, yeah.
34:00I said I wanted to stay in that chair, but I wasn't allowed.
34:03Seven champions in eight days, but you've been great to have around.
34:06Thanks so much, it's been brilliant.
34:08And Sue, you sent him on his bike, as I said.
34:11And you've got to make a short journey on foot to that other chair
34:14because you're our new champion.
34:16And that's us done, Susie, Levi, thank you very much.
34:19Rachel, we're spoilt at the moment.
34:21Apart from Colin's curse, strikes again.
34:23Don't start again.
34:24There's no curse at all, but you will be cursed
34:26if you don't come back tomorrow.
34:28But Susie, Rachel and I will be here in Count On Us.
34:31APPLAUSE
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