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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to our midweek countdown, the third show of five. Count them. Five countdowns, Monday to Friday. Thank you so much for tuning in. Well, Dulles all said three was a magic number, but every number is magic when Rachel Riley is with you. How are you today? I'm very well. It's a day for me. You've not mentioned it yet. Yes, it is. It's National Numeracy Day. What's it all about?
00:54It's all about talking about numbers and numeracy in a positive light or just getting it out there, having the conversation. And we try and get people doing the National Numeracy Challenge where you can go online and you can test your math skills.
01:04Yes. Because 50% of adults are at the level you'd expect of an 11-year-old. And it's about going and realising that you can improve your numeracy if you want to. And there's got loads of helpful tips and it's all free.
01:15And there's loads of benefits to it just for you and your kids and the economy and everybody, really.
01:20I absolutely will. Fantastic day. And of course, every day we celebrate the numbers here. So always a chance to get better. Ten past two, Monday to Friday on Channel 4.
01:29Well, let's head to Dictionary Corner. Forget numbers. She deals strictly in words. It's our Susie Dent. And alongside her all this week, it's FA Cup final week, but we have a former footballer in Dictionary Corner who's just as happy in the front row of a gig than he is in the front row of a football stand.
01:46Pat Nevin!
01:49I never really hear anything out of your mouth during the numbers round. So are you a little afraid of them or do you OK at them?
01:56No, I'm quite the reverse. And when I was younger, I had quite a talent. You know, I could really just rhyme off any numbers and multiplications of high numbers and things like that.
02:06But I didn't practice. Practice might not be perfect, but it will certainly make you much, much better. So I come on this show and I practice when I'm on here.
02:15Please, can I show you something? Is this all right? Is this OK?
02:19Pat comes in with his times tables. I don't think this is allowed for contestants necessarily, but this is how much he plays the numbers.
02:26I don't think it's allowed for a Dictionary Corner.
02:28No, but the point being, when you've got someone who is fabulous at numbers and someone else who's fabulous at numbers, we never get a look in.
02:38Yeah.
02:38So I just do it for my own fun.
02:40You're right. And listen, let's get to Arthur Page, our five-time champion, 602 points.
02:45Count them already on the board. But yeah, every day we're on our phones.
02:49We get practice all the time with words. We even get them predicted for us.
02:53So we're sharp in that front. Do you practice the maths in Countdown?
02:57I do, yeah. So there's like an app for it online where it basically simulates lots of numbers games and you just bang them out every evening.
03:05Yeah.
03:06It does help.
03:07And it sticks there. And it sticks. Oh, you're some pup.
03:09Listen, I love you. We get to know, we always start with, you know, job or school or whatever.
03:16And then if you win five and then you're on for six times, we get to the really small things.
03:19Tell us about your budgies.
03:21Yeah.
03:21So at home we have two very lovely budgies, a male and a female. The male one, blue, absolutely beautiful. He's called Peter. And we've also got a yellow bird, also beautiful, called Layla.
03:35Layla.
03:35Yeah.
03:36Now, I'm guessing named after the Eric Clapton song, but that's maybe a bit before your time.
03:42No, weirdly enough, my mother's friend named them. I mean, just kind of, the name just kind of stuck.
03:48Stuck there.
03:49Yeah.
03:49That's excellent. Well, listen, you are the cream of the crop so far, but Beck Kennedy Escott is hoping to foil you today.
03:57Now, you're originally from Liverpool.
03:58Yeah.
03:58You took to the high seas and escaped to the Wirral. And you work for a homeless charity, so tell me all about that.
04:05Yeah, I work for Save the Family in Chester, who house and support homeless families.
04:10Yeah.
04:11Give them the support to get back, kind of, out on their own, really.
04:15That's not nine to five, is it? That's just, that's a job you take home with, yeah?
04:20Yeah. Yeah.
04:20Oh, wonderful. Well, keep up the good work. Today you can just concentrate on yourself. Beck, Arthur, best of luck.
04:27APPLAUSE
04:27Here we go, Arthur.
04:32Hi again, Rachel.
04:33Hi again, Arthur.
04:33May I start with a consonant, please?
04:35You may indeed start with B.
04:37And another.
04:39Why?
04:40Uh, one more.
04:42R.
04:44Vowel, please.
04:45O.
04:46Another.
04:48U.
04:49Another.
04:51I.
04:52A consonant.
04:54S.
04:56One more.
04:58G.
04:59And another vowel, please.
05:02And lastly, E.
05:04At home and in the studio.
05:07Let's play Countdown.
05:08Let's do it.
05:29ARTHA
05:387.
05:397 from you. Bec?
05:40I have a 6.
05:41The 6 is...?
05:42Busier.
05:43The 7...?
05:44Er, broiges.
05:45Oof.
05:46How are you spelling that?
05:47B-R-O-I-G-E-S.
05:50OK. These are bitter disputes or feuds.
05:54I had not heard of that one before. Very good. So, B-R-O-I-G-E-S.
05:58Beautiful. And I don't want to call it a brogues, but have you got anything else?
06:01Mm-hm.
06:02We've got brogues. I was trying to get your gobier.
06:05You've tried to get gobier in so many times, but there's only one D in this one.
06:11But, no, that buries that one.
06:13Buries as well.
06:14Buries, great. Bec?
06:15Hi, Rachel.
06:16Hi, Bec.
06:17Can I have a consonant, please?
06:19You can indeed. Start with R.
06:21And another?
06:23N.
06:24And a vowel?
06:26A.
06:27A.
06:28And another vowel?
06:29I.
06:30And a consonant?
06:32W.
06:33Another?
06:34S.
06:35Another vowel?
06:36U.
06:37Another vowel?
06:38A.
06:39And a final consonant, please.
06:40And a final M.
06:4130 seconds.
06:42A.
06:43Another vowel?
06:44Another vowel?
06:45A.
06:46And a final consonant, please.
06:48And a final M.
06:49And a final M.
06:5030 seconds.
06:51A.
06:52A.
06:53A.
06:54A.
06:55A.
06:56A.
06:57W.
06:58Bec.
07:23Just a five.
07:24Arthur.
07:25Seven.
07:25And a seven.
07:26The five, Bec.
07:27Swarm.
07:28Swarm.
07:29What are we getting for seven here?
07:31Weiruas.
07:33This is another word.
07:35Could you spell it for me?
07:36W-A-I-R-U-A-S.
07:39Yep.
07:40They are in, as you probably knew.
07:42So, Weiruas, exactly right.
07:45From New Zealand English.
07:46The spirit or the soul of something.
07:48It's beautiful.
07:51Well done.
07:52Anything else?
07:53We had a much simpler seven over here.
07:55Marina's.
07:56Love it.
07:56On we go.
07:58Let's get numbers on National Numeracy Day.
08:02Arthur, you're choosing.
08:03Two from the top, please.
08:05Two from the top and four not.
08:07Thank you, Arthur.
08:08And the first numbers of the day are three, three, six, six.
08:14And the big one, 75 and 50.
08:16That could be tricky.
08:17Let's see.
08:18The target, 438.
08:19Four, three, eight.
08:20Numbers up.
08:50Four, three, eight is the target. Arthur?
08:53Yeah, four, three, eight.
08:55And Beck?
08:55Four, three, eight.
08:56Well done. Arthur?
08:5775 times six.
08:59450.
09:00Minus a sixth, three, and the other three.
09:03Thankfully it was divisible by six, which saved our skin. Yep.
09:06And Beck?
09:07I did three times three is nine.
09:10Times 50 is 450.
09:13Six plus six is 12. Take it away.
09:15Perfect. Same result. Well done.
09:18Well done. You're on the board, Beck.
09:20That's where it's at. Well done.
09:22Let's get our first tea time teaser of the day.
09:24It's Roman Cot. Roman Cot.
09:27No discussions to be had.
09:29It's all down to one person.
09:30No discussions to be had.
09:32It's all down to one person.
09:33Welcome back.
09:50No discussions to be had.
09:51It's all down to one person, and that one person is a monocrat.
09:55A monocrat.
09:56OK, Beck got on the board just before the break.
09:59Brilliant.
10:00And you're choosing these letters.
10:01Can I have another consonant?
10:03Thank you, Beck.
10:04G.
10:05A vowel.
10:06E.
10:08Another vowel.
10:10A.
10:12A consonant.
10:13R.
10:15Another consonant.
10:17T.
10:18A vowel.
10:20E.
10:21Another vowel.
10:23O.
10:25A consonant.
10:26D.
10:28And a final consonant.
10:29And a final G.
10:32Thank you, Rachel.
10:32MUSIC
10:34That's time.
11:03Bec.
11:04I have a six.
11:05Arthur.
11:06Eight.
11:07Bec.
11:08Geared.
11:09Geared.
11:10Gear yourself up for this.
11:11Derogate.
11:12Derogate.
11:13Yes, this is extremely good.
11:15It's to detract from, if something derogates from an argument,
11:18it detracts from it, so very good indeed.
11:20APPLAUSE
11:23So I had tagged?
11:24Yes.
11:25But you can add...
11:26Retagged.
11:27Retagged for eight.
11:28Retagged will give you an eight, yeah.
11:3032.10 as we get more letters from Arthur.
11:33A consonant, please.
11:34Thank you, Arthur.
11:35S.
11:36And another.
11:38D.
11:39Vowel.
11:41A.
11:42One more.
11:43E.
11:44Consonant.
11:45M.
11:46Another.
11:47D.
11:48Vowel.
11:49U.
11:50Er...
11:51Another vowel.
11:52A.
11:53And another vowel, please.
11:55And lastly...
11:56O.
11:57And half a minute.
11:59And half a minute.
12:02And half a minute.
12:04I'll take a moment.
12:32ARTHUR
12:356
12:36And Bec?
12:376
12:38Arthur
12:39Moused
12:40Moused
12:41Same word
12:44Moused, in the dictionary, if you're moused, what is it?
12:47A cat mouses, so a cat is basically chase, yeah, will chase mice.
12:52So it's there as a verb.
12:53OK, excellent.
12:54I can give you another kind of almost an animal, Medusa.
12:58Mmm, jellyfish.
12:59Exactly, is it jellyfish?
13:01I didn't know that until I was stung by about 100 of them off the coast of,
13:05I think it was Menorca.
13:07Good round, Bec. Points on the board in the letters.
13:11That's brilliant.
13:12But we're back at the numbers.
13:13You're picking.
13:14Can I have one large, please?
13:16You can indeed.
13:17Back to the numbers on National Numeracy Day.
13:19And these five little ones are 9, 2, 8, 10 and 4,
13:26and the large on 100.
13:27And the target to reach 277.
13:30277, numbers up.
13:32It's the front heading old in Newcastle.
13:34I'll see you next time.
13:35Come on.
13:36If I am happy.
13:37alliancesons can add sally.
13:38In this flow, pretty much,
13:39a lot of
13:59a little bit of a wave.
14:01277 is the target, Bec.
14:05276.
14:06One away. Arthur?
14:08278.
14:09One the other way. Love when that happens. Bec.
14:12So we've got 100 times 2.
14:14200.
14:158 times 9.
14:1672.
14:17Add the 4 and then...
14:21276. One below.
14:23And Arthur?
14:244 times 8 times 9.
14:274 times 8.
14:2832 times 9 is 288.
14:32Minus the 10.
14:33And 278.
14:35One the other way.
14:36Where should we start with this one, Rich?
14:38Well, it's going to be one of those...
14:39The first thing will give you the clue.
14:41100 divided by 4 is 25.
14:45And then 10 minus 8 is 2.
14:47Plus 9 is 11.
14:49Times those two for 275.
14:52With a handy 2 left over. 277.
14:54APPLAUSE
14:5645-23.
14:587 more points for Arthur and Bec.
15:00As we chat with Pat Nevin on this FA Cup at week.
15:03And the weekend's growing close.
15:05You know, no matter who you support, we all remember the underdog, don't we?
15:09So, you know, in recent times, Leicester, of course, winning the FA Cup was so emotional and fantastic.
15:14But it's actually Coventry's run in this FA Cup that brought back memories of 87 for me.
15:20And then beating Spurs 3-2 in injury time.
15:23What's the point?
15:24Gary Mab at OG.
15:25You remember even the goal scorers.
15:27And it's something got to do with your era as well, the age you are when they're happening.
15:32So that's what I wanted to look at today, you know, my sort of era.
15:36So, 1872.
15:37The very first winners of the FA Cup. Anyone know the name?
15:43Oh, do you know what? I can't remember the such, but I know they won for a long time.
15:47And it's not the Wanderers, it's Wanderers, the first one.
15:52Now, the great thing about that one, I've studied it a little bit, the team that played against them, you didn't have substitutes in those days, but the team that played against them had two captains in the team, which is very unusual.
16:02Why? Well, they were the Royal Engineers.
16:04They had two captains and nine lieutenants in their team, so it was like an unusual thing to do with that, but one of the great people of that time was Lord Kinnaird.
16:15Yeah. And Lord Kinnaird played, he actually played in nine FA Cup finals from the first one onwards, and he has a great story.
16:23He won five, and until 2010, no one else had equaled his record. And I can see you thinking there, do you know?
16:33Is it Ashley Cole?
16:35It is Ashley Cole, well done. You deserve a round of applause for that one.
16:38And so, but Lord Kinnaird did more than that, and he did some fantastic things, not only scoring the goals, et cetera, but he actually changed the way you thought about the game.
16:48So he played centre forward and scored in the final, but he also scored in OG when he was playing in goal in another cup final.
16:56So an incredible man who became a banker, who set up a little company, who then became another little company called Barclays, and they done OK.
17:05Oh, wow.
17:05What an incredible story that this man has got.
17:08Love it. Thank you, Pat.
17:12Arthur and Beck, then. That's the only cup final we care about right now, and we'll get back to it with letters and Arthur.
17:18Consonant, please.
17:19Thank you, Arthur.
17:20N.
17:21And a vowel.
17:24I.
17:25Consonant.
17:26T.
17:28And another.
17:30N.
17:31Vowel.
17:32E.
17:33And another.
17:34U.
17:35Another.
17:38E.
17:39Consonant.
17:41T.
17:42Uh, vowel, please.
17:44And lastly, O.
17:47And here we go again.
17:48We'll be right back now.
18:01We'll be right back now too.
18:13R, sir?
18:19Seven.
18:20Beck?
18:20Six.
18:21Yeah, I think six is great.
18:23With those letters, what's the six?
18:24Tenet.
18:25What's the seven?
18:26Tontine.
18:28Tontine, Susie, pray tell.
18:29Yes, I do know this one and annoyingly didn't find it,
18:33but it's a financial term for an annuity shared by subscribers
18:36to a common fund.
18:38So, very good.
18:39And just to say, tenet is five, sadly, so just one in.
18:43Pat?
18:43I was actually on the board of the pension scheme
18:46when I was PFH admin with the union.
18:48So, on the board of the pension scheme.
18:51And I've never heard the word Tontine.
18:53And I was on the board.
18:55So, it's incredible.
18:56These words are coming from a different land.
18:58Yeah, absolutely.
18:59Beck, you're doing very well, considering.
19:02And we get more letters now.
19:05Can I have a consonant, please?
19:06Thank you, Beck.
19:07Z.
19:08And another.
19:10R.
19:12Vowel.
19:13E.
19:14And another.
19:15I.
19:17Consonant.
19:18S.
19:19And another.
19:21P.
19:22And another.
19:24H.
19:25Vowel.
19:27E.
19:28And another.
19:29And lastly, A.
19:32Kindine.
19:32We say it.
19:41We say it.
19:45Thanks.
19:45Also, let's do this.
19:46We say that.
19:47And another.
19:47Take it.
19:50This avez thing.
19:50And another.
19:51What?
19:51You say it.
19:52You say it's generally beautiful.
19:52And another.
19:54I'm listening to you.
19:55House Lubin.
19:55I'm nostalgic.
19:55Once you know.
19:56Okay.
19:57So, let's do this.
19:58We say it.
20:00Bec?
20:04Six.
20:04Six and Arthur?
20:06Seven.
20:06Seven, OK.
20:07Bec?
20:08Sphere.
20:09Arthur?
20:10Reshape.
20:11Reshape.
20:12Wonderful for seven.
20:13Absolutely, yep, in the dictionary.
20:15That's a really good one.
20:16Let's start from scratch.
20:17What have you got, Pat?
20:18I don't know if I'm going to get away with this one.
20:20You're going to have to look up harpies.
20:22Yeah, absolutely fine.
20:23In Greek mythology, so they are monsters with a woman's head and body
20:28and a bird's wing, such as...
20:29Odysseus, harpies.
20:31Exactly.
20:31Lovely.
20:32At 59, at 23, third numbers round of the day.
20:36What are you going to do, Arthur, because you don't stick to the one thing?
20:39I think I'll take too large this time.
20:41Too large.
20:42You never know what you're going to say.
20:43You definitely don't have your usual.
20:44This time you can have four little, which are five, six, two and two,
20:51and the large one's 25 and 50.
20:54And the target to reach 972.
20:57Oh, big one.
20:57Nine, seven, two.
20:58Numbers up.
20:59Nine, seven, eight, eight.
21:01Three, two.
21:03Five, seven, nine, seven, eight.
21:05Yeah.
21:07Woo-hoo-do-do.
21:08Mm-hmm.
21:09MUSIC PLAYS
21:299-7-2 is the big target, Arthur.
21:329-7-3.
21:33One away. Bec?
21:34No. I haven't got it.
21:35There we go. Seven points for you, Mr Page.
21:38Er, 50-6-5.
21:4050-6-5, 39.
21:43Times 25.
21:45Times by 25, 9-7-5.
21:47And take the two.
21:48And take the two, 9-7-3, one above.
21:50Well, on National Numeracy Day,
21:52I employed every trick you've taught me and I was still one away.
21:56Well, it's divisible by 6 and by 12,
21:58and you can get there either way.
22:00If you say 50 plus 25 is 75,
22:04add 6 is 81,
22:06and then 2 times 5 is 10,
22:08add the second two is 12,
22:10and times them together, 9-7-2.
22:13APPLAUSE
22:15Thank you, Rich.
22:16Second tea time teaser of today is Bold Leaf.
22:19Bold Leaf.
22:20You can fit the bad poker hand into the car boot.
22:23You can fit the bad poker hand into the car boot.
22:35APPLAUSE
22:36Hello again, you can fit the bad poker hand into the car boot.
22:46It was foldable. Foldable.
22:48Well, the ace in our pack has been Arthur Page,
22:50going for a sixth win today.
22:5266 points, 23 to Bec, which is a sensational effort so far.
22:57And you're on the letters.
22:59Consonant, please.
23:00Thank you, Bec.
23:01N.
23:02And another.
23:03T.
23:04And another.
23:06C.
23:07And a vowel.
23:09E.
23:10And another.
23:12A.
23:13And another.
23:14E.
23:15And one more.
23:16I.
23:17A consonant.
23:18F.
23:19And another consonant.
23:20And lastly, B.
23:21Let's play.
23:22B.
23:23B.
23:24B.
23:25And another consonant.
23:26B.
23:27This is B.
23:28B.
23:29And another consonant...
23:31And lastly B.
23:32Let's play.
23:33.
23:35.
23:48First.
23:51All right, Bec.
23:59Just a five.
24:00Horser.
24:01I'll stick with a six, then.
24:02Bec.
24:04Oh, no, I've put it that one.
24:05Don't worry.
24:06Six.
24:07Entice.
24:08Entice.
24:08Pat, little chance, maybe a rare glimmer.
24:11Well, I'm going for fiancée.
24:13That's there for seven.
24:14And also betaine, which is a compound that you'll find in many plant juices,
24:20which is beat.
24:21Nice.
24:22Lovely.
24:22Lovely.
24:23Let's keep it going.
24:24Arthur, your letters.
24:25Thanks.
24:26Vowel, please.
24:27Thank you, Arthur.
24:28E.
24:29And another.
24:31I.
24:31One more.
24:33A.
24:33Consonant.
24:35R.
24:36And again.
24:38S.
24:39Another.
24:41P.
24:43One more.
24:45S.
24:47Vowel, please.
24:49O.
24:50And consonant.
24:52And lastly, L.
24:54And kind down.
24:55We'll see you next time.
24:56We'll see you next time.
24:56We'll see you next time.
24:57We'll see you next time.
24:57We'll see you next time.
24:57We'll see you next time.
24:58We'll see you next time.
24:58We'll see you next time.
24:59We'll see you next time.
24:59We'll see you next time.
25:00We'll see you next time.
25:00We'll see you next time.
25:00We'll see you next time.
25:01We'll see you next time.
25:01We'll see you next time.
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25:02We'll see you next time.
25:02We'll see you next time.
25:03We'll see you next time.
25:03We'll see you next time.
25:04We'll see you next time.
25:04We'll see you next time.
25:05We'll see you next time.
25:05We'll see you next time.
25:06MUSIC PLAYS
25:25Arthur? Nine.
25:27A nine out of those. And, Bec?
25:29An eight. What's the eight? Spoilers.
25:32Spoilers and spoiler alert.
25:34Polarises. Polarises.
25:36Well done.
25:40Great work, Arthur. Polarised, spotted for that.
25:43Spoilers is brilliant as well, Bec.
25:45What a round it is. Can we add anything in?
25:46That's exactly what we had.
25:48All done as we stay in Dictionary Corner for our origins of words.
25:53Well, I got slightly carried away because I was talking about
25:56the big ship sails on the Ali Ali O yesterday
25:58and I thought I'd just do one more nursery rhyme
26:02because they are always fascinating.
26:03And one that I hadn't really looked into before was Rockabye Baby,
26:08which is such an old traditional lullaby, really.
26:12And it first appeared in print in around 1765, but as with all nursery rhymes,
26:18it was probably around for much, much longer before then.
26:21But the footnote to the verse, where it was first included in Mother Goose's melody,
26:26it's just, it reads,
26:28this may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious who climb so high
26:33that they generally fall at last.
26:35Because, of course, it is rather strange.
26:38And we know that nursery rhymes can be very, very dark,
26:41you know, the ones that we sing to our children.
26:42So it tells of a baby rocking in the branches of a tree
26:45and then falling to the ground when a branch snaps.
26:49So not particularly happy on the face of it.
26:52So it might indeed have been some sort of parable, if you like,
26:57of what may happen if you reach too high.
27:00As always, there's a kind of political interpretation of this
27:04and many seem to be political allegories.
27:06And one idea is that the baby in question
27:09is the son of King James II of England.
27:12And there was a rumour that he was another man's child
27:16and that he was smuggled into the birthing room
27:19just to ensure a Roman Catholic heir.
27:22This was one of the rumours, supposedly, at the time.
27:25And so the rhyme might mean that the wind was the Protestant forces
27:28blowing in from the Netherlands
27:29and the doomed craigsaw was the house of Stuart.
27:32You will always find many, many interpretations like these.
27:35And, hey, you make such a great point of how dark they are.
27:38I was just making a note during that, you know.
27:40There's rarely a nursery rhyme from our generation
27:43that doesn't end in someone getting hurt or dying.
27:45Yes.
27:45I mean, Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty.
27:48Jack and Jill.
27:48Jack and Jill.
27:49What about There Was an Old Woman?
27:51That's like a horror movie.
27:52Yes.
27:53Maybe Baby Shark isn't that bad after all.
27:55Excellent.
27:59Four rounds did go.
28:00Are you ready, Bec, for another?
28:01Yep.
28:02Good.
28:02Have a consonant, please.
28:04Thank you, Bec.
28:05V.
28:06And another?
28:08T.
28:09And a vowel?
28:11E.
28:12And another?
28:13I.
28:14And another?
28:16A.
28:17And a consonant?
28:19G.
28:20And another?
28:22C.
28:23And one more?
28:25L.
28:26And another vowel?
28:27And finish.
28:29U.
28:30And good luck.
28:31And good luck.
28:31E.
29:02Bec. Just a five. And Arthur? Seven. A seven there. The five, Bec. Ballet. And the seven? Vulgate. Vulgate. V-U-L-gate. Yes, used primarily when we talk about the Bible, if it was written in the vernacular, so in sort of common speech, and it is there with a small v, common or colloquial speech. Anything else? No, we were... We had victual, or vittle, as it's pronounced, food nourishment, but no better than seven. We'll get back to it with more letters from Arthur.
29:31A consonant, please. Thank you, Arthur. R. And a vowel. E. Consonant. D. Consonant. S. A vowel. O. And another.
29:47I. One more. E. Consonant. K. And another consonant, please. And lastly, P. And last letters.
30:01I. Consonant. K. And another.
30:28Fon letters these. Arthur?
30:33Seven. And Bec?
30:35Six. The six is?
30:37Spiker. Yeah, seven.
30:39O-rides. How are you spelling that, Arthur?
30:42Um, O-R-E-I-D-E-S.
30:45Yes, absolutely brilliant.
30:47They are decorative, or they were decorative golden yellow alloys
30:50of copper with zinc and other constituents.
30:52Goodness me. Well done to you. Well done.
30:54Anything else?
30:55Do you normally get a really sophisticated word like that
30:58that we've never heard of again?
30:59And then you come up with porkies.
31:03Two more rounds to go today.
31:05Bec, let's enjoy them and get more numbers.
31:07Can I have one large, please?
31:08You can indeed. Final numbers today.
31:10One large, five not.
31:12And the little numbers are ten, four, ten, two, and five.
31:18And the large one's 75.
31:20And you need to reach 127.
31:23One, two, seven. Numbers up.
31:28One, two, seven. Bec.
31:56One, two, five.
31:56One, two, five. Just two away, Arthur?
31:59Yeah, one, two, seven.
32:00Off you go.
32:0175 minus four.
32:0275 minus four, 71.
32:04Times by two.
32:05Times two, 142.
32:08And take the ten and the five.
32:09Ten and the five, that will do.
32:11One, two, seven.
32:12That much.
32:12So, 1.14 on the board for Arthur.
32:17And after missing his first three conundrums, you're now on a hat-trick, aren't you?
32:22So, there you go.
32:22It'll be three all if you manage to get this.
32:24Bec, you can stop him.
32:26No doubt about it.
32:27Get the finger on the buzzer.
32:29Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:31The rest of the time to bec.
32:42That's incorrect.
32:43Oh, Bec, there was all sorts of words that were nearly there.
33:13But I think all three of you managed to get it, so.
33:17I think that she kind of a very happy with, desperate.
33:21Desperate, which is what we are, praying against Arthur.
33:23Let's have a look.
33:25Yes.
33:26Well done, everyone.
33:29Well done, you three, but not us three.
33:30We don't get any of those applause at all.
33:32Right, Bec, have you enjoyed the day?
33:34I have, thank you.
33:35You kind of know, because you've been watching along,
33:37so you know what's going to happen, you know, with Arthur.
33:39So, it makes it, in a way, perversely quite enjoyable, doesn't it?
33:44Arthur, well done to you.
33:45That's six in the bag.
33:47You know, we said on Monday about this week,
33:49it would be really, really special.
33:50Another century, so you get your sleep, you build up your energy.
33:53We'll see you back here tomorrow.
33:54Yeah, see you tomorrow.
33:54Excellent. Thank you.
33:55Pat, Susie, see you tomorrow?
33:56Yeah, see you then.
33:57National Numeracy Day,
33:59and you've got the whole afternoon and evening to enjoy it.
34:01Yeah, and you go off and you do the challenge
34:02and report back to me tomorrow.
34:04I wouldn't dare turn up tomorrow,
34:05having not done that challenge.
34:07You should have a look at it.
34:09Nothing to be afraid of at all.
34:10We'll be back tomorrow with the words and the numbers.
34:13You can count on us.
34:15You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:19You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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