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00:00Thank you for joining us.
00:30Well, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown.
00:37She's a rowdy crowd we've got in this afternoon.
00:41Rachel, you're not going to believe this.
00:43I mean, the Japanese are very sort of inventive people,
00:46but they've now come up with something called the relative renting industry.
00:50And it's bizarre and actually, I think, rather sad.
00:54This is what it is. Basically actors you can hire to impersonate your husband, your wife, an uncle, an aunt.
01:02Anybody like a fiancé. Some chap, he thought, oh, he was a bit on his own.
01:06He had to go to a wedding, so he hired one of these to masquerade as his fiancé.
01:11Doesn't that strike you as being incredibly sad to have to do that?
01:14It's a bit weird as well. Why would you ever need that?
01:17I don't know. It's not new, I've got to tell you. It's not new.
01:21There's a brilliant book called Naples 44.
01:24And in it, this was during the war in Naples, nobody had anything.
01:27It was very, very hard times.
01:29And people would get married.
01:31And in order to give their wedding a little bit of splash, if you like,
01:35oh, a talking point, there was a chap who had a very good suit and a top hat.
01:40And he would turn up at the wedding.
01:43And people would say, or rather the host and hostess would say,
01:46ah, it's the Zio from Roma.
01:48It's the uncle from Rome.
01:50And people would say, oh, they've got an uncle in Rome and he's made all the way down.
01:53And that would sort of make them feel, you know, a little bit posh, as it were.
01:57So that was the Zio de Roma, which I thought was a lovely story.
02:01But imagine hiring, hold on a minute, think about it.
02:04I think I'll hire you as my wife for the weekend.
02:07What does that mean?
02:08I'm not up for it, Nick.
02:10No.
02:10It's very strange.
02:16But, I mean, at least I know you.
02:17So I have a few bits of information.
02:20But otherwise, you'd have to tell everyone your life story before they have to come and pretend to be your mother or your father.
02:24I think it's a bit spooky, to be absolutely honest with you.
02:26And there we are.
02:27Yeah, I'm not sure it's very British.
02:29I don't think it will translate.
02:30It's not going to work here.
02:32Unless the money's really big.
02:34Now, who have we got with us?
02:35Andrew Jackson's here on a very important day.
02:39Young Andrew, 20 years old, maths student from Kiel.
02:43Seven wins tucked safely away.
02:45Well done.
02:46Big day today.
02:47Yeah.
02:47Don't you mess it up, Andrew.
02:48And you're joined by the wonderful Archie Crane, a bookkeeper from Milnero in Lancashire, who tells me, I love this story, you once won £22,000 from an 80 pence bet.
03:02Yes, sir.
03:02Tell me how to do this.
03:04Horses, that was more luck than judgment, buddy.
03:05Go on, then.
03:06Tell me what happened.
03:07Horses there was like a huge price winner, 22 to 1 winner, 20 to 1 winner.
03:11Yeah.
03:1218 to 1 winner.
03:13Then it's like another 20 to 1 winner.
03:14Then there was a non-runner, and it actually paid 22,000.
03:16So you put the 80, this was online or in a book?
03:19Online, I guess I saw, yeah.
03:20Online.
03:20And you picked five very unlikely horses, and they all came in.
03:25Yes, sir.
03:26Fantastic.
03:27Well, good luck today.
03:28We're not giving you those odds, but good luck today, anyway.
03:32Big round of applause now for Archie and Andrew.
03:41Suzie's in the corner.
03:43And the wonderful Jenny Eclair.
03:46A wonderful Jenny Eclair.
03:51We've had some wonderful stories, and more from you a little bit later on.
03:54But now, let's get Andrew on the road to his octochamptum, or not.
03:59Off you go.
04:00Good afternoon, Rachel.
04:01Afternoon, Andrew.
04:01Could I start with a consonant, please?
04:03Start today with N.
04:05And another.
04:07R.
04:08A third, please.
04:10D.
04:11A vowel.
04:13U.
04:14Another vowel.
04:15O.
04:16And a third.
04:18I.
04:19A consonant.
04:21G.
04:23Consonant.
04:25S.
04:26Another consonant, please.
04:28And lastly, S.
04:30Stand by.
04:31Good.
04:31Good.
04:58Good.
04:59Good.
05:00andrew seven archie heaven as well yeah seven andrew souring archie i've got rousing
05:10yeah absolutely fine hmm two good sevens jenny i've got dossing might end up doing that tonight
05:18don't know dossing down anything else susie um no that was the best thank you thanks uh thanks
05:24jenny seven apiece archie off we go and hello there rachel i'll try like a consonant please
05:31thank you start with g and another please r and another please t and one more please
05:39d try a vowel please a another vowel a another vowel please e try a consonant
05:51r and one more that's a consonant please and the last one l stand by
06:01so
06:11archie six there six a six andrew and a six archie glad andrew grated yep can we beat you
06:24can we beat six jenny i can't i've got grader uh but susie's gone further um you can have grade eight
06:48actually as a verb grade eight and when you talk about gradations it's simply the verb from that
06:53thank you good date all right andrew andrew numbers i could have one larger and five small please
07:00canady thank you andrew one from the top five little and the first one of this contest is ten
07:06seven five two another two and the large one twenty five and the target four hundred and fifty four five
07:16zero
07:46Yes, Andrew?
07:49450.
07:50Archie?
07:51Yes.
07:52On the nose.
07:53And?
07:532 divided by 2.
07:552 over 2 is 1.
07:57Plus 7.
07:588.
07:58Plus 10.
07:5918.
08:00Times 25.
08:01450.
08:02And Archie?
08:04Heaven add 2 is 9.
08:06Yep.
08:07Times it by the 10 and times that by 5.
08:10Yep.
08:11450.
08:11Lovely.
08:13Well done.
08:1623 apiece.
08:18Although we've got a fight on our hands here.
08:20Let's have a tea time teaser.
08:21First of all, it's a grill menu in the clue.
08:24It sounds like the German footballer was absolutely destroying the opposition.
08:29It sounds like the German footballer was absolutely destroying the opposition.
08:33Welcome back.
08:49I left you with the clue.
08:51It sounds like the German footballer was absolutely destroying the opposition.
08:56The answer to that one is mullering or mullering.
09:01Mullering, Susie?
09:02Mullering, yes.
09:03To wreck or destroy something is to muller it or you beat an opponent comprehensively,
09:09as in the clue.
09:10To be mullered, yeah.
09:11Yep.
09:11Thank you very much.
09:1223 apiece.
09:13Archie?
09:15Doing well, Archie.
09:16Letters game.
09:16Thank you very much.
09:17I like const.
09:18Please.
09:19Thank you, Archie.
09:20Y.
09:21And one more, please.
09:23P.
09:23And one more, please.
09:26Q.
09:27And one more, please.
09:29D.
09:29Try a vowel, please.
09:31E.
09:32Try another vowel, please.
09:33O.
09:35Try one more vowel, please.
09:36E.
09:38Try a consonant.
09:39M.
09:41And five vowel, please.
09:43And the last one.
09:45O.
09:46Turn by.
09:46OK.
09:46OK.
10:09Archie.
10:20Hi, family, sir.
10:21I thought it was all.
10:22Archie?
10:22Try moped.
10:23Andrew?
10:24Moody.
10:25Susie?
10:26Yes.
10:26What do you think?
10:26Yes.
10:27Are you happy?
10:27Very happy, yes.
10:29Jenny?
10:29I've got, well, instead of moped, we could call it moped.
10:33Moped?
10:33You can have a moped.
10:34Yes.
10:34Very good.
10:35Absolutely.
10:36And the other, Susie?
10:37No, he was hoping for poemed, but not there.
10:39So just five's for us.
10:41Good on the moped.
10:42Well done.
10:4228 apiece.
10:43Andrew, your letters game.
10:46Can I start with a consonant, please?
10:47Thank you, Andrew.
10:48L.
10:49And another.
10:50K.
10:51A third.
10:53N.
10:55A vowel, please.
10:56I.
10:57And another.
10:59U.
11:01A consonant.
11:03B.
11:05Vowel.
11:05E.
11:07A consonant, please.
11:09R.
11:11And a final consonant.
11:13And a final S.
11:14Countdown.
11:15Vowel.
11:36Thanks, Mark.
11:36Andrew?
11:47Eight.
11:48Archie?
11:49Eight as well, sir.
11:50Yes, Andrew?
11:51Blinkers.
11:53And?
11:54Yep.
11:54Archie.
11:55Well done.
11:57Well done.
12:0236 apiece.
12:03We have got a fight on our hands.
12:05And you two?
12:07Same.
12:07Jenny?
12:08Yeah.
12:08Well done.
12:08Susie?
12:09Yes, blinkers.
12:10Also bunkers and lunkers.
12:13Lunkers being exceptionally large specimens of something, in particular fish.
12:16Really?
12:17Yeah.
12:19Now, Archie, how good are you with numbers?
12:22Your numbers came.
12:23Yes, sir.
12:23Three large and three small, please, Rachel.
12:26Thank you, Archie.
12:26Three and three.
12:27Let's see if this can separate you two.
12:29The three little ones are ten, nine and five.
12:33And the three large, 75, 25 and 100.
12:37And target, one, two, seven.
12:39One, two, seven.
12:41Two, seven, four, five.
12:51Two, seven, six.
12:52Archie?
13:13Yes, that's at one, two, seven.
13:16One, two, seven. Andrew?
13:17One, two, seven. Sure. Archie?
13:1925 plus 100.
13:20One, two, five.
13:22And ten over five is the two.
13:25Yeah, lovely. Simple, that one.
13:27Andrew?
13:27Same way.
13:28Not too much of a stretch for you guys.
13:35And now we turn with eager anticipation to Jenny.
13:39Well, this is a bit tense, isn't it?
13:41Are we on neck and neck with these two?
13:43Yes, we are.
13:4446 apiece.
13:45Gosh.
13:46Well, I should get a move on.
13:47We don't want the audience to want me blathering on.
13:50So I will.
13:53No, time of life.
13:55Time of life, Nick.
13:57I'm not at your time of life, obviously, but we're all at a time of life.
14:03And I've reached the cardi time of life, which is a specific time in a woman's life.
14:08It's sort of a thing that the women at home will understand.
14:11It's a sort of cardi on, cardi off, cardi inside out and back to the front.
14:15And I love my cardigans.
14:17And I sort of, what's that word where you give things characters?
14:23Oh, anthropomorphize.
14:24Yes, I anthropomorphize my cardigans.
14:27So I have, I mean, I don't give them names and sort of carry them around like babies.
14:31That'd be mad.
14:32But, you know, I've got big yellow and I've got little orange and I've got odd-button pink and all this sort of...
14:37Anyway, I lost my favourite, which is cashmere grey.
14:40And I went mad.
14:41Mad, Nick.
14:42I was running around the house.
14:44And there was a very expensive cardigan going.
14:45It was a birthday cardigan.
14:46Woo, cardigan!
14:47Woo, cardigan!
14:48And like, oh, where is it?
14:49Do you know where it was?
14:50No.
14:51Tied around my waist.
14:52LAUGHTER
14:53Time of life, kids.
14:56That's just forgetfulness around your waist.
14:58Oh, yes, yes.
14:59But it's advanced forgetfulness.
15:01How many times have you started looking for your glasses and you suddenly discover you're wearing them?
15:04Yeah.
15:05It's the same kind of thing, yeah.
15:07We're on the same boat.
15:08We're on the same leaky old boat.
15:10Not long now.
15:12Not long.
15:1446 apiece.
15:15What should we do here?
15:16Andrew, come.
15:18Let us go.
15:18I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
15:20Thank you, Andrew.
15:21H.
15:22And another.
15:24P.
15:25A third, please.
15:27T.
15:28And a vowel.
15:29A.
15:30A consonant.
15:32D.
15:33A vowel.
15:35U.
15:36And another vowel, please.
15:38I.
15:41A third vowel, please.
15:43A.
15:46And the final consonant, please.
15:49And final W.
15:50Turn by.
15:51A vowel, please.
15:52A vowel, please.
15:53A vowel, please.
15:53A vowel, please.
15:54A vowel, please.
15:54A vowel, please.
15:54A vowel, please.
15:55A vowel, please.
15:55A vowel, please.
15:56A vowel, please.
15:56A vowel, please.
15:57A vowel, please.
15:57A vowel, please.
15:57A vowel, please.
15:58A vowel, please.
15:58A vowel, please.
15:58A vowel, please.
15:58A vowel, please.
15:59A vowel, please.
15:59A vowel, please.
16:00A vowel, please.
16:00A vowel, please.
16:01A vowel, please.
16:01A vowel, please.
16:02A vowel, please.
16:02A vowel, please.
16:03A vowel, please.
16:04A vowel, please.
16:04A vowel, please.
16:05A vowel, please.
16:06A vowel, please.
16:06Andrew?
16:23Just a five.
16:24Archie?
16:25Six.
16:25Risky six.
16:26A risky six.
16:27Andrew?
16:28A weight.
16:29Archie?
16:30I'll try him haptid.
16:32H-A-P-T-I-D.
16:33Haptid, OK.
16:34OK, um, it's not there, I'm afraid, Archie, sorry.
16:38Bad luck.
16:39Sorry.
16:39Bad luck.
16:40A little bit of a breakaway, 51 to 46.
16:43What could we have had, I wonder?
16:46What do you think, Jenny?
16:47I got really stuck on this, and I just wanted to check whether WAP is actually in a word,
16:52W-A-A-P, like that.
16:55Ah, OK.
16:56I don't think so.
16:57It could be an acronym.
17:01Yes, it is an acronym.
17:02Not in, I'm afraid.
17:03No, no.
17:04Um, but you could have, um, pattya, Nick, as in, uh, chicken pattya, for example.
17:09It's a traditional palsy spicy sweet and sour dish.
17:12I see.
17:12Yeah.
17:13Thank you for that.
17:1451 to 46.
17:15Now then, Archie, letters game.
17:17Yes, sir.
17:17Consolent, please.
17:18Thank you, Archie.
17:19N.
17:20And another, please.
17:22L.
17:22And one more, please.
17:24B.
17:25And one more, please.
17:27T.
17:28Try a vowel, please.
17:29O.
17:30Try another vowel, please.
17:32I.
17:32Try a consonant.
17:35C.
17:36Try a consonant, please.
17:38V.
17:38And try a vowel, please.
17:40And the last one, U.
17:42It's going by.
17:43T.
17:53Well, Archie?
18:16Five only there.
18:17Andrew?
18:18I think maybe a six.
18:19Archie?
18:20Count.
18:21Andrew?
18:21Andrew?
18:22Can you have one bolt?
18:24Unbolt.
18:25You can.
18:26Yes.
18:27For sure you can.
18:28Yeah.
18:28Unbolt, yeah.
18:30Well done.
18:31Well done.
18:32Jenny and Susie?
18:34You can unbolt.
18:35You can uncoil.
18:36You can.
18:37Yeah.
18:37Yes.
18:38Well done.
18:3957 out of 46.
18:41And Andrew, numbers game for you.
18:44One large and five small, please.
18:46Thank you, Andrew.
18:46One large and five little.
18:49And they are ten.
18:52One, two, five.
18:55Seven and the large one, 25.
18:57And this target, 357.
19:00Three, five, seven.
19:01One, two, five, six, seven.
19:32Yes, Andrew.
19:34Three, five, seven.
19:35Archie?
19:35Yes, I haven't written it down.
19:37OK, Archie, let's start with you.
19:39Five times two is ten.
19:41Yep.
19:42Add the twenty-five.
19:46It's like, that's a thirty-five.
19:48Yep.
19:49Times it, um, that by ten.
19:53And add the remaining seven.
19:55Perfect.
19:56Fifty-seven.
19:57Perfect, well done.
19:57Well done, good man.
19:58Andrew?
19:59Five minus one.
20:01Is four.
20:02Add ten.
20:03Fourteen.
20:04Times by twenty-five.
20:05Three-fifty.
20:06And add the seven.
20:07Three-five-seven again.
20:08Lovely.
20:14OK, so we're going to read sixty-seven plays, fifty-six, Archie on fifty-six.
20:19So we turn to our second tea-time teaser, which is Use Raptor.
20:23And the clue, he wanted to use a raptor for his Jurassic project, but had to settle for
20:28this instead.
20:29He wanted to use a raptor for his Jurassic project, but had to settle for this instead.
20:34He had to settle for a pterosaur, Susie.
21:00Yes.
21:01Is that such a bad deal?
21:02Flying lizard.
21:03Well, it means winged lizard.
21:05Yeah.
21:05I wouldn't like to meet one.
21:06They're big.
21:07Yes, pretty big, I think.
21:09Jurassic and Cretaceous period.
21:10Wonderful, though.
21:12A pterosaur.
21:13Sixty-seven to fifty-six.
21:15Andrew in the lead, Archie.
21:16Now, come on, Archie.
21:19Letters go.
21:20Yes, sir.
21:20Consonant, please.
21:21Thank you, Archie.
21:22R.
21:23And one more, please.
21:25F.
21:25And one more, please.
21:27L.
21:28Try a vowel, please.
21:29E.
21:30And a vowel, please.
21:32A.
21:33And a vowel, please.
21:35E.
21:36Try a consonant, please.
21:37T.
21:38Try a consonant, please.
21:40S.
21:41And...
21:43Try a vowel, please.
21:44And lastly, I.
21:46And here's the countdown clock.
21:48We'll be taking our recorder.
21:55Upon conversation.
21:57We'll be coming back.
21:57See you next time.
21:58Bye-bye.
22:01Bye-bye.
22:02Bye-bye.
22:03Bye-bye.
22:04Bye-bye.
22:05Bye-bye.
22:07Bye-bye.
22:10Bye-bye.
22:10Bye-bye.
22:14Bye-bye.
22:15Bye-bye.
22:15Bye-bye.
22:16Bye-bye.
22:17Bye-bye.
22:17Archie?
22:20I have an eight.
22:21An eight.
22:22Andrew?
22:23I'll try an eight.
22:24Archie?
22:25Re-flate.
22:27Andrew?
22:28Leafiest.
22:30Yes, both excellent.
22:32Yes, very good.
22:38High standard.
22:39Anything else in the corner there?
22:41Jenny?
22:41Just trifles.
22:43Trifles?
22:43Trifles.
22:44Very good.
22:44Susie, anything else?
22:45There is an eight.
22:46A Scottish eight.
22:47A theory is a coward or a timid person.
22:50So you can have theories for eight.
22:52Mmm.
22:5475 to 60 for Andrew.
22:56Letters again.
22:57Could I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
22:59Thank you, Andrew.
23:00P.
23:01And another.
23:03N.
23:04A third, please.
23:06T.
23:07And a vowel.
23:09U.
23:10And another vowel.
23:12A.
23:14A third vowel.
23:15E.
23:17E.
23:19Consonant.
23:21R.
23:22Another consonant.
23:24S.
23:25And a final vowel, please.
23:29And a final O.
23:31Done by.
23:31A third vowel.
23:32A third vowel.
23:32A third vowel.
23:33A third vowel.
23:33A third vowel.
23:34A third vowel.
23:34A third vowel.
23:34A third vowel.
23:35A third vowel.
23:35A third vowel.
23:35A third vowel.
23:36A third vowel.
23:36A third vowel.
23:36A third vowel.
23:37A third vowel.
23:37A third vowel.
23:37A third vowel.
23:38A third vowel.
23:38A third vowel.
23:38A third vowel.
23:38A third vowel.
23:39A third vowel.
23:40A third vowel.
23:40A third vowel.
23:40A third vowel.
23:41A third vowel.
23:42A third vowel.
23:42A third vowel.
23:42A third vowel.
23:43A third vowel.
23:44A third vowel.
23:44A third vowel.
23:44A third vowel.
23:45A third vowel.
23:46A third vowel.
23:46A third vowel.
23:47A third vowel.
24:01Yes, Andrew?
24:04Just a seven.
24:05Archie?
24:05Heaven, like as well, like not written down.
24:08Archie, what would that be?
24:09Parents.
24:10Andrew?
24:11Punters.
24:12Absolutely fine, yeah.
24:13I've got punters.
24:14No problem with that.
24:15Well done, Jenny.
24:15Susie, anything there?
24:17There's Apterus, which is a wingless insect.
24:21Yes.
24:22And there is a nine there, actually.
24:26Responaut, a very unusual one.
24:28It's from British Medicine.
24:30R-E-S-P-O-N-A-U-T.
24:32It's a person permanently dependent upon an artificial respirator.
24:35Oh, poor Jack.
24:37Wow.
24:41So that would be sort of an iron lung.
24:43Is that what we're saying?
24:44Yes, I think so.
24:45I think it's now pretty dated, I have to say.
24:49But origin's 1960s around then.
24:51Thank goodness it's gone away.
24:5282 to 71 in the main, anyway.
24:55Archie on 71.
24:56And it's Susie we turn to now and rely on.
24:59For her wonderful origins of words.
25:02Thanks, Nick.
25:03I had an email from Paul Tony Cannon.
25:06Who I think is a supporter of Portsmouth Football Club.
25:10Because he wants to know where did the word Pompey come from.
25:12Which is, of course, the nickname for the club.
25:16It's actually been around in English for some four centuries or more.
25:19Didn't always apply to the football club, as you will have guessed.
25:21It's first use was as a nickname for a small dog, for a lap dog, really.
25:27And it was one of several.
25:29So there's an account from the Royal Navy from 1709, which talks about tame inhabitants in our island.
25:35The Caesars, the Pompeys and jowlers who can give chase for a whole day after a flying enemy.
25:40The next stage is a pretty curious one, in fact.
25:44Because in New Yorkshire, in New Yorkshire dialect, it meant a prison or a house of correction.
25:50That was a Pompey.
25:52That was in the 1880s.
25:53And just a short while after, the first use of the name for Portsmouth Football Club is recorded.
25:58The big question, of course, is why?
26:02And it's a strange one.
26:03It seems to be a form of the name of the Roman statesman and general, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known as Pompey the Great.
26:12But we don't know why.
26:14Why his name was chosen for all of these uses.
26:18But that doesn't stop lots of suggestions coming forward.
26:21One is an association with the name of a French ship called La Pompeie, which was captured by the British at Toulon and then based at Portsmouth.
26:29And there was another one, an association with the ancient column at Alexandria, which was nicknamed Pompey's Pillar, which was reportedly scaled by sailors from Portsmouth.
26:40And there are records that that existed.
26:42But there's another nice theory, and I think this is the most plausible one, because we know that the football team began as a team from the Royal Artillery.
26:48And one day it said that a unit from the RA was doing a duty, which in France would normally have been performed not by the army, but by firemen and by the fire service.
27:00So some Frenchman noticed this and it said, gave the RA the nickname Les Pompiers, which is firemen in French, and the name stuck to the team.
27:08But as you would have guessed, it's all conjecture and we're not sure at all.
27:14But it was a lovely thing to investigate, I have to say.
27:18And no one is squinnying.
27:19That was another thing I discovered, which is Portsmouth speak for complaining, because the town will greet you like an old mush.
27:25And that is Portsmouth speak or Pompey speak for a friend borrowed from Romany.
27:30Well done.
27:37Wonderful.
27:39Wonderful.
27:39Now, 82 plays 71, and you're on 82.
27:44Archie?
27:45Yes, sir.
27:45Off we go.
27:46I'll try like a vowel, please.
27:47Thank you, Archie.
27:48I.
27:51Try a vowel, please.
27:52O.
27:53Try a vowel.
27:55A.
27:56Try a consonant.
27:57W.
27:58Try a consonant.
28:00H.
28:00Try a consonant, please.
28:02P.
28:03Try a consonant, please.
28:04R.
28:05Try a consonant, please.
28:06M.
28:08And try a vowel, please.
28:10And the last one?
28:11I.
28:13Countdown.
28:14dadosderk
28:19oderpoll 4-9-1-2-2-3-2-4-3-5-3-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-4-4-48-5-4-5-4-4-5-4-5-9-4-4-4-5-4-4-5-4-5-4-5-5-1-4-5-6-6-6-6
28:33Tisnerk
28:35Archie
28:45Four only
28:47Andrew
28:47Stick with a four as well
28:49Yes Archie
28:50Harm
28:51And
28:52A whip
28:53Yes
28:54It's tough
28:54Yes it was tough this one
28:56Jenny
28:56Too tough for me sorry I've got the little ones and now I couldn't get beyond the fours
29:01How did Susie do
29:03There is a five there to whomp to strike heavily
29:06You might whomp another person
29:08Or four the exclamation four P-H-W-O-A-R
29:14Four
29:15That's five or six
29:16Yes yes four indeed
29:1986 to 75
29:20Andrew final letters game
29:23Start with a consonant please
29:25Thank you Andrew
29:26G
29:27And a vowel please
29:28I
29:30A consonant
29:31J
29:32A consonant
29:33S
29:35A third consonant
29:37F
29:39A vowel
29:40E
29:42Another vowel please
29:45O
29:47Consonant
29:49N
29:51And a final consonant please
29:53And a final T
29:55Stand by
29:57T
30:08T
30:09T
30:10T
30:12T
30:13T
30:14T
30:15T
30:16T
30:20T
30:20T
30:20T
30:21T
30:23T
30:24Yes?
30:29I think a seven.
30:30A seven. Archie?
30:32Seven, two, yes.
30:33Andrew?
30:33Jesting.
30:34Now then, jesting.
30:37Jesting.
30:39What does the corner think?
30:41What have you conspired to produce for us?
30:42Well, we've got the same, but I'm not sure whether it's spelt correctly,
30:46and you'll know.
30:47Yes, absolutely.
30:49That's the plural.
30:49It's jingoes, plural of jingo, a very zealous supporter of war,
30:56basically in pursuit of patriotism.
30:59Yeah.
30:59Yeah.
31:00Jingoistic?
31:00Yes.
31:01Jingoes.
31:02OK.
31:03Well done.
31:0493 to 82.
31:06Your numbers came.
31:08There we go.
31:08Time to gamble then, please.
31:09I'd like for it to be no large ones, please.
31:11Six little.
31:12You've got a good history of gambling.
31:13See if the lucky streak can continue.
31:15Thank you, Archie.
31:16Thank you very much.
31:16Final numbers.
31:17Six, five, three, one, nine, and eight.
31:23And the target, 626.
31:26Six to six.
31:27Five, minus.
31:36Four, five, one, one, nine, and eight.
31:48Three, two, one, nine, and eight.
31:51First of all.
31:51One, two, three, one, nine, and eight.
31:52One, two, three, two, one, nine, and eight.
31:54Three, two, one, nine, and now, one, ten-die.
31:56Archie?
31:59No.
32:00No, that's totally bummed out there.
32:02Andrew?
32:03I think I might have 630.
32:07630?
32:08Let's try.
32:096 times 5.
32:10Not written down, sorry.
32:126 times 5 is 30.
32:136 times 5 is 30.
32:159 plus 8.
32:17Plus 3.
32:199 plus 8.
32:20Plus 3.
32:20Plus 3.
32:2120.
32:22Plus 1.
32:2321.
32:24And then times them together.
32:25And times them together for, yep, 630.
32:28Well done.
32:28Well done, Andrew.
32:296 to 6.
32:30Let's get this cleared up first.
32:32Now, Rachel, can you help us on this?
32:34I got 2-1 away, Nick, so leave it with me.
32:37Certainly.
32:38Certainly I will as we go into the final round.
32:41Final round.
32:42Things on buzzers, guys.
32:43Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:51Andrew?
32:51Is it affluence?
32:53Let's see whether you're right.
32:54Here we go.
32:56Afterwards.
32:56Well done.
32:57Well done.
33:03Well done, Andrew.
33:04Brilliant.
33:05You are an octo-champ.
33:06Yes.
33:06Fantastic.
33:07And we'll see you in the finals.
33:08But I'll come to you in a second.
33:10So I want to just have a little word with Archie Crane here.
33:12You played a blinder.
33:14Nobody's tested Andrew like you tested him.
33:16Thank you very much, sir.
33:16Fantastic.
33:17Champion, he is.
33:17Exactly.
33:18Take this back to Milne Rowe.
33:19Thank you very much, sir.
33:20Again, brilliant.
33:22A great performance.
33:23Number three seed.
33:24Fantastic.
33:25All right.
33:26See you in the finals.
33:28Jenny, you played well today.
33:30Well, it's easy when you've got Susie sitting next to you like that, checking out.
33:34It's helpful, I guess.
33:35But we'll see you tomorrow as well.
33:37Yes, I hope so.
33:38Looking forward to it.
33:40And Susie too.
33:41Right, Rose.
33:41See you then.
33:41Yes.
33:42Now, Rachel, you're terrific.
33:44What have you done?
33:45I eventually found one way.
33:46Lots of dead ends with this.
33:47But if you say eight plus six is 14, times five is 70, times nine is 630, and you have
33:55a one and a three to take off.
33:57Six, two, six.
33:57Perfect.
33:58Thank you, Rachel.
34:05Never fails.
34:08Never fails.
34:09See you tomorrow.
34:10See you tomorrow.
34:10That's good work.
34:11Brilliant.
34:12Join us then.
34:13Two new contestants, same time, same place.
34:15You'll be sure of it.
34:16A very good afternoon.
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