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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33Tattoos, can they go wrong?
00:36Here's one that went wrong in a funny sort of way.
00:38It's a Swedish woman, Rachel, who had a little chap with a baby.
00:43And she decided that she'd have the baby's name, Kevin, tattooed on her arm.
00:51Just a reminder what it was called, I suppose.
00:53Anyway, off she went and got herself tattooed.
00:57And when she got home, the father of the child, her partner, her husband, said, what's all this Kelvin then?
01:02She said, what do you mean Kelvin?
01:03They tattooed Kelvin.
01:05They said, what are we going to do?
01:07We'll change the name to Kelvin.
01:09So this little boy is now called Kelvin.
01:12Ridiculous.
01:13Quick thinking.
01:14What else they can do?
01:15Kelvin, wherever you are, over in Sweden, good luck, mate.
01:19What about you?
01:19Have you ever had an ingenious way of getting out of an error?
01:23No, not like that.
01:24But my brother's got, I don't know how many tattoos now, maybe eight or so.
01:27Has he?
01:27All over his legs and his arms and his back.
01:30My mum absolutely loathes them with a passion.
01:33But one, he got a Blink-182 symbol.
01:36And it was just before Blink-182 split up.
01:38So now he's got all kinds of things covering up the other tattoos.
01:41I did meet Charlotte Crosby, who presents the programme called Just To Two Of Us,
01:46where they get two mates or partners or whatever,
01:48and one of them gets to design the tattoo for the other one.
01:51And then they get it on each other.
01:53And some of the stories of what mates think are funny.
01:56Yeah.
01:56Oh, dear, oh, dear.
01:58I think a lot of it all happens after midnight.
02:00Would you trust me to draw one for you, Nick?
02:02No, we're not going to get into the tattooing thing.
02:05But now, of course, now, of course,
02:07show me somebody who hasn't got a young person who hasn't got a tattoo.
02:10Me!
02:11Am I still young?
02:13You are still young.
02:15And completely unmarked, if I can put it that way.
02:19Rachel, we've got Tony Manwani back.
02:21Well done, Tony.
02:22Wow.
02:23Could you stop taking these risks?
02:24He had you on the run yesterday, young Sam.
02:27He did.
02:27But here we are.
02:29Seven.
02:30You're on the brink, young man.
02:32You're on the brink.
02:33And you're joined by Duncan Hill, who's going to try and spoil it all for you.
02:36And Duncan's a heating engineer from Brixham in Devon.
02:39Yep.
02:39Lovely spot to be in.
02:41Very nice.
02:41Very nice.
02:42Wonderful.
02:42Yeah.
02:43And it's a lovely story.
02:45I'll let you tell it.
02:46But I'll set it up for you.
02:48There you were, working in an empty flat, getting the heating day.
02:52And you were dancing and singing.
02:55What were you singing and dancing?
02:57Yeah.
02:58My youngest daughter was massively into Frozen.
03:01Yeah.
03:01And the song, Let It Go, came on.
03:04And I started singing quite loudly and dancing away to it, quite merrily by myself.
03:09All on your own?
03:10Went bounding into the garden, still in mid-song, to find two window cleaners who gave me a standing ovation.
03:15I bet they tore into you, didn't they?
03:19Just a little bit, yes.
03:20I bet they did.
03:21All right.
03:22Well, listen, have fun here today.
03:24You're not alone.
03:26Have a lot of fun.
03:27Both of you.
03:27Big round of applause now for Tony and Duncan.
03:34Lovely.
03:35Susie's over in the corner there.
03:36Joined once again by sports presenter Mark Pugach.
03:39Welcome back, Mark.
03:40Welcome back.
03:41Now, Tony, off we go.
03:47Let's let's go.
03:48OK.
03:48Afternoon, Rachel.
03:49Afternoon, Tony.
03:50Another consonant to start, please.
03:51Start today with V.
03:53And a second one.
03:55S.
03:56And a third.
03:58L.
03:59And a vowel, please.
04:01E.
04:02And another.
04:03U.
04:04And a consonant.
04:06Q.
04:07And another.
04:09L.
04:10And a vowel.
04:12O.
04:13And a vowel, please.
04:14And the last one.
04:16I.
04:17Stand by.
04:18All right.
04:19T carrot.
04:29Go ahead!
04:29And a vowel, please.
04:33Well, Tony?
04:50A six.
04:51A six.
04:51Duncan, six.
04:53Tony?
04:54Quills.
04:55And Duncan?
04:57Loveys?
04:58Loveys?
04:59Erm, yes.
05:01I think it's OK.
05:02Oh, it might be E-Y, actually, Duncan.
05:06Erm, see if it's...
05:07Yeah, it's E-Y, and there's no variance spelling listed there.
05:11I'm really sorry.
05:12That's bad luck.
05:13It's bad luck.
05:14Yeah.
05:15Mark, Susie, Mark?
05:16Erm, olives as well.
05:18Yeah.
05:18Another six olives.
05:20It was, yes.
05:20Six was our best.
05:21That's it?
05:22Yeah.
05:22Done.
05:24So, Duncan, your letters go.
05:27Afternoon, Rachel.
05:28Afternoon, Duncan.
05:28Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:31Start with D.
05:32And a vowel.
05:35E.
05:37A consonant.
05:38N.
05:40A consonant.
05:42L.
05:43A vowel.
05:45A.
05:46Another vowel.
05:48I.
05:50A consonant.
05:52W.
05:53A consonant.
05:54A consonant.
05:56S.
05:57And a final consonant, please.
06:03And a final P.
06:05Stand by.
06:06W.
06:07A consonant.
06:08That Ready for sure.
06:18A Questions.
06:20A jotain.
06:21Let's start with a man.
06:21A consonant.
06:24A consonant.
06:25A consonant.
06:26A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:28A consonant.
06:29Aicha.
06:29A consonant.
06:30A Ollie.
06:31A contained.
06:31A cie.
06:32A Olympic NFC.
06:33Azech hairy.
06:34A ر lined.
06:34Well, Duncan?
06:37Seven.
06:39Tony?
06:39Yep, seven.
06:40Duncan?
06:41Spaniel.
06:43And?
06:43Swindle.
06:44And swindle.
06:46Not bad.
06:46How do we do, Mark?
06:47Quite a few sevens, actually.
06:50Spawned.
06:50Yes.
06:51Which is normally followed by the words, the devil, isn't it?
06:55We've got some more sevens.
06:56What else have we got there?
06:58Denials and dulaps as well.
06:59A dulap is the fold of loose skin that you'll find hanging from a cow, for example.
07:03That's the dulap there.
07:05Anything else?
07:06That was it.
07:06Spawned.
07:07Thanks, Mark.
07:08Thirteen plays seven.
07:09Tony on thirteen.
07:10And, Tony, it's your numbers game.
07:13Six more, please, Rachel.
07:15Don't need to ask.
07:17Thank you, Tony.
07:17Six little ones to start the day.
07:20And we'll start with seven.
07:22Five.
07:23Eight.
07:24Four.
07:25Another five.
07:27And ten.
07:29And the target, 931.
07:319-3-1.
07:32And the target, 931.
07:34And the target, 931.
07:35And the target, 931.
07:36And the target, 931.
07:36And the target, 931.
07:37And the target, 931.
07:38And the target, 931.
07:38And the target, 931.
07:39And the target, 931.
07:39And the target, 931.
07:40And the target, 931.
07:40And the target, 931.
07:41And the target, 931.
07:42And the target, 931.
07:42And the target, 931.
07:43And the target, 931.
07:44And the target, 931.
07:44And the target, 931.
07:45And the target, 931.
07:46And the target, 931.
07:47And the target, 931.
07:48And the target, 931.
07:49And the target, 931.
07:50And the target, 931.
07:51Tony? No, I've lost it completely.
08:05Mmm, Duncan. And lost it as well.
08:08No.
08:09This must be very, very hard.
08:12Let's see whether Rachel can help us on this.
08:15You can get to one away, but this one's impossible.
08:18One away. Yeah. There we are.
08:19Let's have a tea-time teaser instead, shall we?
08:21It's fine atoms and the clue.
08:23Honesty might be the best policy, but this is full of them.
08:27Honesty might be the best policy, but this is full of them.
08:46Welcome back. Welcome back.
08:48I left you with the clue.
08:49Honesty might be the best policy, but this is full of them.
08:52And we're talking about a manifesto.
08:56Manifesto.
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09:08Countdown Leads, LS 3, 1, J, S.
09:13So, 13 plays 7, Tony in the lead.
09:16Duncan, your letters go.
09:18Start with a consonant, please.
09:20Thank you, Duncan.
09:21C.
09:22And another consonant.
09:24G.
09:25Vowel.
09:27O.
09:28Another vowel.
09:29E.
09:30Consonant.
09:32P.
09:34Consonant.
09:35N.
09:37Consonant.
09:37B.
09:41Vowel.
09:43I.
09:45And a final consonant.
09:47And a final X.
09:49Countdown.
09:50Vowel.
09:50Vowel.
09:51Vowel.
09:51FLs.
09:53Vowel.
09:53O.
09:55Vowel.
09:55Duncan, six.
10:23And?
10:23Yep, six as well.
10:24Six for Tony Duncan.
10:26Boxing.
10:27Tony?
10:28Coping.
10:30We happy, Susie?
10:32Very happy, both of those, yep.
10:34What does Mark think?
10:35We didn't get any more off the top of our head with those sixes.
10:38Is there anything else that's come to mind since?
10:41There's a musical six, a peg box, a structure at the head of a stringed instrument where
10:45the strings are attached to the tuning pegs.
10:47Okay.
10:48Peg box.
10:4919 plays 13.
10:50Tony, your letters game.
10:52A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:53Thank you, Tony.
10:55D.
10:56And another.
10:58S.
10:59And a third.
11:01T.
11:02And a vowel, please.
11:04E.
11:04And another.
11:06A.
11:07And a consonant.
11:10D.
11:11And another.
11:12D.
11:14And a vowel, please.
11:16E.
11:17And a vowel, please.
11:19And the last one.
11:20O.
11:22Stand by.
11:23E.
11:23And a vowel, please.
11:24And a vowel, please.
11:25And a vowel, please.
11:25And a vowel, please.
11:26And a vowel, please.
11:26And a vowel, please.
11:27And a vowel, please.
11:27And a vowel, please.
11:28And a vowel, please.
11:28And a vowel, please.
11:29And a vowel, please.
11:29And a vowel, please.
11:29And a vowel, please.
11:30And a vowel, please.
11:30And a vowel, please.
11:30And a vowel, please.
11:31And a vowel, please.
11:31And a vowel, please.
11:32And a vowel, please.
11:32And a vowel, please.
11:33And a vowel, please.
11:33And a vowel, please.
11:34And a vowel, please.
11:35And a vowel, please.
11:35And a vowel, please.
11:36And a vowel, please.
11:37And a vowel, please.
11:38Tony?
11:54Just a five.
11:55A five.
11:57Duncan?
11:57Er, try a seven.
12:01Right.
12:01Tony?
12:02Stead.
12:03Now, Duncan?
12:04Deadest.
12:05Deadest is absolutely fine.
12:06Yes, single syllable, superlative.
12:09I know you can't have degrees of death, but, yeah, it's absolutely fine.
12:15We allow superlatives of single-syllable adjectives.
12:18Well, I'm amazed.
12:20Well, well done.
12:20Look at you, Duncan.
12:2120 points now to Tony's 19.
12:24And I think you're a little bit dubious, aren't you?
12:27Yeah.
12:27I think I'd have been more convinced on the sofa.
12:31All right.
12:32So, over in the corner?
12:35A sedated for seven.
12:39Yeah, I'll give you another seven.
12:40Great feeling.
12:41Anything else, Susie?
12:44No.
12:44Just look at the various senses of dead.
12:46Not financially productive, dull, devoid of emotion, sympathy, etc.
12:51So, figuratively, it makes a bit more sense, deadest.
12:54Thank you very much.
12:56So, as I say, point in it, and it's Duncan's numbers game now.
12:59Duncan.
13:00I have two large, four small, please.
13:02You can indeed.
13:03Thank you, Duncan.
13:04Two from Top Pro, four litlands.
13:06And the four small ones are seven, ten, six, and four.
13:11And the big ones, 25 and 50.
13:14And your target, 460.
13:16Four, six, zero.
13:17Four, six, zero.
13:47Well, Duncan, 460.
13:51Tony?
13:51Yep, 460.
13:52So, Duncan, 50 minus 4 is 46 times 10.
13:57Simple.
13:58Thank you, Tony.
13:59Yeah, all right, let's have a fight about that.
14:0229 plays 30.
14:03Duncan, a point ahead as we turn to Mark,
14:05who's going to talk to us about technology.
14:08Technology, yes, can't do this job, radio or TV, without technology.
14:13But luckily for you today, I'm nowhere near the camera
14:17or anything to break it.
14:19Because certainly when it comes to radio,
14:20where you have to handle quite a lot of equipment yourself,
14:23I'm a bit of a Jonah, and they would go running come the end
14:26and go, what is he going to do next?
14:28We used to work with little, they're about the size of a wallet,
14:30a little portable Wi-Fi that, you know, connect to 3G
14:34and you get on with work.
14:35I took it out of my bag one day, getting ready for work on a Saturday,
14:38and it spontaneously combusted.
14:40And I rang the office and said, it's on fire, it's in my sink.
14:43And they said, well, what have you done now?
14:44And I went, I haven't done anything.
14:45I've literally just taken it out of my bag.
14:48And then the next week, this, absolute no-no in a radio studio,
14:52a glass of water.
14:54Cardinal sin, do not take a glass of water in a radio studio.
14:57Took it in there at one minute to seven, on air at seven o'clock,
15:00knocked it over, straight through.
15:02You could see straight through the buttons and the knobs
15:05and everything and the electrics.
15:07We luckily had three minutes on news to get to the next door studio.
15:10And then about half an hour later, I looked up
15:12and there were two men in the sort of brown overalls
15:16that the two Ronnies wore in the four candles sketch,
15:19wheeling a very expensive kit out of the next door studio
15:22with me keeping my head down, thinking nothing to do with me.
15:25In the end, they used to get a piece of paper, a bit of tape,
15:28and they just used to write on it,
15:29Pugac, do not touch and keep away from it.
15:34And one day, we were in Johannesburg at the start of the Football World Cup,
15:38and for whatever reason, the engineer wasn't with me
15:40as we were rigging up.
15:40So he was a couple of miles away in the International Broadcast Centre,
15:43and he was going, put the left, you know, the blue lead in there
15:46and the right one in there and sing an ABBA song
15:48and eat a packet of crisps and do a dance and it'll all work.
15:51And I couldn't get anything to work.
15:53And we were having a bit of to and fro,
15:54and in the end, I just said to him, I was so frustrated,
15:57and I said, don't give me any of your technical mumbo-jumbo.
16:01And in the end, we had a barbecue at the end of the World Cup,
16:04and they put it in a massive banner over the barbecue.
16:07Don't give me any of your technical mumbo-jumbo.
16:09And when anything goes wrong today, that's what they still quote.
16:13But luckily, by the end, we had somebody on hand all the time to help.
16:16But when I first started, and bearing in mind Saturday is quite an important day,
16:20the person that would help would only work Monday to Friday.
16:23So you'd ring him on a Saturday morning at Twickenham and go,
16:25I can't get the line to work.
16:26And he'd go, well, I'm only contracted to work Monday to Friday.
16:29And one day, it was very busy.
16:30And I said, what's all that noise in the background?
16:32And he goes, well, I'm working in my wife's shoe shop in South London.
16:36And he said, just hang on a second.
16:37I'll help you in a minute.
16:38So would you like those brogues in size eight or nine?
16:41Oh, brilliant.
16:42In the end, though, we got them on hand when we needed them
16:44to help idiots like me out.
16:46Exactly.
16:47Thank you very much.
16:53Yeah, I sympathise with you.
16:56One point between you.
16:5730 plays Tony's 29.
17:00Tony, your letters game.
17:02Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:03Thank you, Tony.
17:04R.
17:05And another.
17:06L.
17:10And a third.
17:11Y.
17:12And a vowel.
17:14U.
17:15And another.
17:16E.
17:18And a consonant.
17:20T.
17:21And another.
17:23R.
17:24And a vowel.
17:26I.
17:27And another one, please.
17:29And the last one.
17:30A.
17:32It's going by.
17:32The last one.
17:38It's going by.
17:39It's going by.
17:41Well, Tony?
18:04A seven.
18:05A seven?
18:06Yes, Duncan.
18:07Seven as well.
18:08Tony?
18:08Trailer.
18:10Duncan?
18:10Reality.
18:11Happy enough?
18:12Very happy.
18:13Why not?
18:14Mark, Susie?
18:15One more you've got.
18:16The new seven.
18:17Yes, retrial is also there.
18:19Retrial.
18:2036 plays 37.
18:22Duncan.
18:23Now then, letters again.
18:24Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:26Thank you, Duncan.
18:27S.
18:28And another consonant.
18:30F.
18:32Vowel.
18:33E.
18:35Vowel.
18:36O.
18:37Consonant.
18:39N.
18:39Er, consonant.
18:43T.
18:44Er, consonant.
18:47B.
18:48Er, vowel.
18:51A.
18:53And a final vowel, please.
18:55And a final O.
18:58It's going by.
18:58But you're there.
19:00T
19:10T
19:17Do
19:17Well, Duncan?
19:30Er, five.
19:31And?
19:31Just a five.
19:32Two fives?
19:33Duncan's five?
19:33Boats.
19:34Yes, Tony?
19:35Tombs.
19:36Mmm, fives.
19:37Can we get beyond five?
19:39No, nothing beyond five.
19:40Beast?
19:41Yes.
19:43Fatso?
19:45Fatso, yes.
19:46Sounds like something out of Billy Bunter, doesn't it, yeah?
19:48Yeah, fatso.
19:49I'm not sure whether...
19:51I think you still can use fatso.
19:53Susie would explain.
19:55I'm not sure I can, actually.
19:57I would tread very carefully before calling someone a fatso.
20:01Personally speaking.
20:02Yes?
20:02It says derogatory in the dictionary, so things have moved on.
20:06We'll stay there, then.
20:06Fatso it is.
20:0842 plays 41.
20:09Tony, try this numbers game.
20:12OK, stick with six more, please.
20:13Stick with six more.
20:14Try and get your lead back this time.
20:16Thank you, Tony.
20:17And this time, they are...
20:19Two.
20:20One.
20:21Six.
20:22Nine.
20:23Another nine.
20:24And three.
20:26And the target, 267.
20:29267.
20:30Hang on, let's go.
20:43Two.
20:44Three.
20:44Two.
20:44Two.
20:45Two.
20:46Two.
20:47Two.
20:48We'll see you again next time.
20:48Two.
20:49Two.
20:49Three.
20:49Two.
20:50Five.
20:50Two.
20:50Two.
20:51Two.
20:51One.
20:51Two.
20:52One.
20:52Two.
20:52One.
20:53Two.
20:54Two.
20:54Two.
20:55Two.
20:55Two.
20:56Three.
20:56Two.
20:57Well, Tony?
21:01Yep, 267.
21:02Thank you, Duncan. 268.
21:05268. Tony?
21:06OK, 9 plus the 1 is 10.
21:0810.
21:096 over 2 is 3.
21:10Yep.
21:11Multiply those two together.
21:1230.
21:13By the 9 as well.
21:14By the other 9 for 270.
21:16And take off the 3.
21:17And you haven't used your 3. Lovely.
21:20Very classy. Very good.
21:22So, 51 to 42 in Tony's favour as we turn to our second tea time teaser,
21:29which is tips later.
21:30And the clue.
21:31I'll count my tips later, but chicken feed springs to mind.
21:35I'll count my tips later, but chicken feed springs to mind.
21:52Welcome back.
21:56I left you with the clue.
21:57I'll count my tips later, but chicken feed springs to mind.
22:01Clever, this.
22:02The answer is poultry-ist.
22:04Poultry-ist.
22:06Very clever.
22:0851, please.
22:0942, Tony on 51.
22:11Duncan, your letters go.
22:13Consonant, please.
22:14Thank you, Duncan.
22:15S.
22:16And a consonant.
22:19K.
22:20Vowel.
22:21I.
22:23Vowel.
22:26E.
22:27Vowel.
22:29A.
22:30Consonant.
22:32D.
22:33Consonant.
22:35L.
22:36Consonant.
22:38T.
22:40And a final consonant, please.
22:43And a final S.
22:45Countdown.
23:11duncan seven and tony just a six and you're six ladies no duncan details excellent and details
23:26mark and suzy uh one more seven suzy um yes we have talkies as in um talking films um and salties
23:37which in australia are saltwater crocodiles yeah the salties yeah be careful so tony on 51 duncan on 49
23:48and uh tony it's your letters game okay consonant please rachel thank you tony r and another g and a
23:59third t and a vowel please a and another u and a consonant m and another p and a vowel
24:14e and a final vowel please and a final a stand by
24:21so
24:28so
24:33MUSIC PLAYS
24:52Mmm. Tony?
24:54I'm going to try seven.
24:56A seven? Duncan? Seven.
24:58Tony? Tempura.
25:00Wow. Duncan? Rampage.
25:02And Rampage.
25:03Excellent. Yeah. Very good.
25:05Two good players. Now, Mark and Susie?
25:08Well, I couldn't take my eyes off Trump to start with.
25:11Oh.
25:11And then Rampage, yes. And Rampage.
25:14Susie?
25:15There's Margate as well, which is a deep-bodied greyish fish.
25:19You'll find it in warm waters.
25:21Thank you for that.
25:22So, 58 to 56.
25:24Tony's not safe yet.
25:26Only two points in it as we turn to Susie
25:28for her wonderful origins of words.
25:30I had a nice email from Rohit and Prabh here,
25:35who wanted to know where the phrase,
25:36I'm in a pickle, originated,
25:38as in a quandary or another sticky situation.
25:42And I'm wondering whether Mark will like this one,
25:44because he's been telling me off camera
25:45that he loves pickled onions.
25:47It's the sort of conversations we have in Dictionary Corner.
25:49So, you might be able to guess this one,
25:52but the earliest pickles were not the pickles that we know today
25:55that we have at the Ploughman's Lunch,
25:56but they were really spicy sauces that were poured over meat.
26:01And you'll find numerous recipes for them
26:02in 16th-century cookbooks, for example.
26:06Then it moved to mean a sort of spiced vinegar
26:10before it came to mean the kind of things
26:12that you would preserve in that vinegar today.
26:14But the word pickle comes from the Dutch piekel,
26:17P-E-K-E-L,
26:19and that simply meant something piquant.
26:21So, all related there.
26:23And later still, it came to mean
26:25the type of pickle that we might have in our ploughmans,
26:28as I say today.
26:29But you might possibly not think that in a pickle,
26:32which sounds like fairly, fairly modern slang,
26:35actually goes back to Shakespeare.
26:37He was certainly the first that we have on record to use it,
26:40and he may have popularised it, whether or not he coined it.
26:43It's in the Tempest from 1610,
26:46where someone says,
26:47How camest thou in this pickle?
26:49And Trinculo answers,
26:51I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last.
26:54So, very, very old, over four centuries old.
26:57And it's simply an allusion to being as stuck and mixed up
26:59as the stewed vegetables that make up today's pickles.
27:03As I say, no surprise there.
27:04We talk also, of course, about being in a stew,
27:07in the same kind of stick.
27:08That one is much, much later.
27:10That's in the 19th century,
27:12so Shakespeare didn't talk about being in a stew.
27:14But certainly he was the first, we think,
27:16to give us being in a right pickle.
27:18Well done.
27:23Wonderful.
27:24Thank you, Susie.
27:25So, 58-56.
27:27Tony, only two points in the lead.
27:28As we turn to Duncan.
27:30Nathan Duncan, let us go.
27:32Consonant, please.
27:33Thank you, Duncan.
27:34G.
27:36Consonant.
27:38H.
27:39Vowel.
27:41E.
27:42Vowel.
27:44E.
27:45Vowel.
27:46A.
27:48Consonant.
27:49D.
27:51Consonant.
27:53T.
27:54Consonant.
27:57N.
27:59And a final vowel, please.
28:02And a final I.
28:04Stand by.
28:05The, the.
28:29Well, Duncan?
28:37Seven.
28:38And Tony?
28:39Yep, seven.
28:40Duncan?
28:40Heating.
28:41Yes.
28:42And heading.
28:43And heading.
28:44Now, Mark and Susie?
28:47Can we imagine?
28:48Nothing more than seven.
28:49We've got heating and another seven.
28:51Negated.
28:53So, 65 plays 63.
28:55Just two points in it.
28:57Tony, final letters game.
28:58Remember, you're playing to be an octave jam.
29:01OK, no pressure, yeah.
29:02OK, a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:04Thank you, Tony.
29:05T.
29:06And another one, please.
29:09R.
29:10And a third.
29:12H.
29:13And a vowel, please.
29:15U.
29:16And another.
29:17I.
29:18And a consonant.
29:21C.
29:22And another.
29:24M.
29:25And a vowel.
29:27A.
29:28And another, please.
29:29And lastly.
29:31O.
29:33Counter.
29:33And another.
29:36I.
29:39I.
29:40I.
29:40I.
29:40I.
29:41I.
29:42I.
29:45I.
29:45Tony.
30:05Seven.
30:06And Duncan?
30:07Just a six.
30:08You're a six.
30:09Atrium.
30:10And?
30:11Chariot.
30:12Well, in the corner.
30:14A haircut for seven.
30:16Yes.
30:17And an interesting eight.
30:19Yes, to out-charm somebody.
30:22That will give you an eight.
30:23To surpass in charming or to produce more pleasure or delight than someone else.
30:27To out-charm.
30:28Oh, really?
30:31To out-charm.
30:33It's almost a weapon in that sense, isn't it?
30:35Slightly, yes.
30:36The power of seduction.
30:37Mm.
30:3972 to 63.
30:41Will Tony make it?
30:42Let's see.
30:42It's Duncan we turn to now for the last numbers game.
30:46Duncan.
30:47I have two large and four small again, please, Rachel.
30:49You can indeed.
30:51Thank you, Duncan.
30:52Two from the top four.
30:53Little.
30:53Still all to play for.
30:54But the final numbers are four, one, three, ten, fifty, and one hundred.
31:02And the target, 607.
31:05607.
31:05The final numbers are four, one, three, ten, fifty, and one, three, ten, fifty, and one, three, ten, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty
31:36Well, Duncan?
31:38607.
31:39607, Tony?
31:40Yep, 607.
31:41Duncan?
31:42100 plus 50.
31:44150.
31:45Times 4 is 600.
31:46Yep.
31:47And 10 minus 3 is the 7.
31:49It is indeed, lovely.
31:51Now, Tony?
31:52Yeah, different weight.
31:5350 over 10 is 5.
31:55Yep.
31:55Plus the 1, 6.
31:58Multiply by the 100.
31:59600.
31:59And add on the 3 and the 4.
32:00Perfect.
32:01Well done.
32:02APPLAUSE
32:05Into the final round, chaps.
32:1173 to 82.
32:15It's a conundrum, all right.
32:16It's a crucial conundrum.
32:17Fingers on buzzers.
32:19Good luck to you both.
32:20Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
32:41Bye.
32:42Bye.
32:43No. But you're an Octochamp. I'll come back to you in a second.
33:00Our Octochamp couldn't get this one, but who in the audience can?
33:03Who's going to have a shot at this? Do I see some hands?
33:06Yes, madam.
33:08Departure.
33:08Let's see whether you're right.
33:10Here we go. Departure. Well done.
33:13Well done.
33:17And well done to you, Duncan.
33:19You took him all the way up to the crucial one.
33:22But in the end, he got through. Eight wins.
33:25So you take this back to Brixham.
33:27Yep, thank you.
33:28Good luck. Good luck with the heating.
33:30Always check the flat or wherever it is that you're about to.
33:34Shall do. Thank you.
33:35Listen, travel safely. Well done.
33:38You've had a rough old time recently, haven't you?
33:40Two crucial ones.
33:43But you came through. Well done.
33:45And you came through. You're an Octochamp.
33:46Actually, you're our number one seed as well.
33:48So well done. A great pleasure having you here.
33:51We'll see you in the finals.
33:52Look after yourself.
33:53Thanks very much.
33:54We'll see you then. Well done.
33:55Well done.
33:56And we'll see you tomorrow.
33:57We've got two new contestants, Mark.
33:59We'll see you then.
34:00And Susie too, of course.
34:01Yep, see you then.
34:01Well done.
34:03Poor old Tony had a fight for it, didn't he?
34:05He did.
34:05But we did have an Octochamp once.
34:07We were talking about tattoos at the top of the show.
34:08We had one chap who had a tattoo of Octochamp with a countdown teapot on his arm.
34:13So you can now join that club.
34:15Okay.
34:15If you want to.
34:17I'll think about why I want to get done.
34:19Well, you are our number one seed at the moment.
34:21Excellent.
34:22So you can get that on there as well.
34:23Okay, all right.
34:23Well done, Rachel.
34:25See you tomorrow.
34:26See you then.
34:26Join us then.
34:27Two new contestants.
34:28Same time, same place.
34:29You be sure of it.
34:29A very good afternoon.
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