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00:30Hello, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in to Countdown.
00:34Very excited about today's show.
00:36So let's get straight over to the gaffer, Rachel Riley.
00:38Hi, Rach.
00:39Hi, Colin.
00:40I often get tweets from people saying that it seems that Rachel and yourself
00:44got on very well.
00:46And the secret to that burgeoning friendship is two things we don't talk about,
00:51politics and football, right?
00:53Especially football.
00:54Right, because you're the wrong one.
00:55Not during the season, anyway.
00:56Yeah, exactly.
00:57And with it underway, I'm going to bring a conversation we were having
01:00off-air, on-air.
01:01We were just talking about going back to games this season and the things
01:05that annoy us in modern-day football.
01:07You come up with the best.
01:09Half-and-half scarves.
01:10Oh.
01:10Who would buy a half-and-a-half scarf?
01:12You go to, you know, United-Fulham on February the 12th, and forever you've
01:16got a half-and-half Fulham United.
01:19Why would you want to remember that?
01:20What I want to know, whenever I walk past the people selling them, is what they
01:23do with them the minute that that game is over.
01:26Because half the fans won't want to buy them because they've just lost.
01:29Yeah.
01:29But they just must have so much wool.
01:31Is there a, you know, a dead scarf factory where they just go and they mush them up and
01:36they make the ones for the next Wednesday?
01:37A half-and-half scarf graveyard.
01:40Just big piles of these unwanted scarves.
01:43But it is the tourism and football, because I think that's who buys it.
01:46And in the same token, people who film themselves when there's a goal scored, look at me, I'm
01:51having the greatest time.
01:53Live for the moment.
01:54They're all going in room 101.
01:55OK, well, let's get over to Dictionary Corner.
01:57Our referee of all things words, Susie Dent, and remaining neutral all week, it's the
02:03presenter and writer, Rick Edwards.
02:07Can I break it to say, there's one thing worse than the half-and-half scarf, and that
02:11is the half-and-half shirt.
02:13Oh, no.
02:14Did you ever see that?
02:15Adrian Childs wore one.
02:17It was absolutely the worst.
02:19Google it.
02:20It's abhorrent.
02:21Not only will I not Google it, but I'll be deleting Adrian Childs from my phone.
02:25At the end of this show.
02:26Well, that's a rumble brag.
02:27You've got Adrian Childs' number.
02:30You'd think I'd do better if I was bragging about who had my phone.
02:33Sorry, Adrian.
02:34Let's get over to our champion, Alan Young.
02:37Alan, you've been here before many years ago.
02:40You won three and then had to do show four with a migraine and lost.
02:44So here you are back.
02:45And yesterday, on your return, we pried into your private life.
02:49Something shocking.
02:50We found out how you proposed to your wife, Claire.
02:52I'm going to continue to do it.
02:53Four hens.
02:54Yeah, four hens.
02:56Give me the names.
02:57So we've got four.
02:58Two are Game of Thrones themed.
03:00So Henerys Targary hen, mother of hens.
03:04We've also got Bree hen of Tar.
03:07And then we've got a couple that we just named ourselves.
03:09Sherflock Holmes and Henrietta Marshall.
03:12Love that.
03:12Well, hoping to surpass you in the pecking order is our challenger today.
03:17Avni Chuhan from Leicester.
03:20And usually when we say it's a family affair on Countdown, someone will say, yeah, I played with my granddad a lot.
03:26But it's not that, actually.
03:27It's your daughter who's the biggest fan.
03:29Yeah, absolutely.
03:30So I played this in my childhood.
03:33And now my daughter, who's here with us today, Annika, a big fan of Countdown.
03:38Loves the numbers.
03:40Hey.
03:40Absolutely enjoys and has been watching it with me since she was six years old.
03:44Not, you know, you've two daughters.
03:47I do.
03:47What's Isha playing at?
03:48What's she doing when Countdown's on?
03:51Isha's not quite into Countdown yet.
03:55OK.
03:55All right.
03:56OK, well, there you go.
03:57Well, Annika's my favourite.
03:59That's all I'm going to say.
04:01Very good luck to you.
04:02It's great that Annika's here to watch, which is great.
04:05Avni and Alan, best luck to you today.
04:07Right, the first of 15 rounds.
04:12Alan, as champion, you get to pick the first letters.
04:15Hi, Rachel.
04:16Hi, Alan.
04:16Can I have a consonant, please?
04:17You can indeed start today with G.
04:20And a vowel, please.
04:22A.
04:23Consonant.
04:25N.
04:26And a vowel.
04:28E.
04:29And a consonant.
04:30J.
04:31And a vowel.
04:32O.
04:33And a consonant, please.
04:35P.
04:36Can I have another consonant?
04:39T.
04:40And a final consonant, please.
04:42A final V.
04:44At home, man, in the studio.
04:45Let's play Countdown.
05:17How'd you get on, Alan?
05:18Six for me.
05:19Avni?
05:20Just a four.
05:21Listen, terrible first letters to get.
05:24Don't worry about it.
05:24What's a four?
05:25Hunt.
05:26Hunt.
05:27And Alan?
05:28Potent.
05:29Potent for six.
05:31You don't want that in your first round.
05:33Rick, how'd you get on?
05:34Horrible.
05:35Yeah, just potent.
05:37No better than six.
05:38Novate legal term about replacing an old contract with a new one,
05:41but couldn't get beyond six.
05:43Difficult first round.
05:44Good news, Avni.
05:45You're in control now.
05:46And your first chance to say hello to Rachel.
05:48Hi, Rachel.
05:49Hi, Avni.
05:49Can I get a consonant, please?
05:51You can indeed.
05:52H.
05:53And another.
05:55S.
05:56And another.
05:58L.
06:00And a vowel, please.
06:01E.
06:02And another.
06:04A.
06:05And another, please.
06:07I.
06:08And a consonant.
06:10T.
06:12And a consonant.
06:14C.
06:15And another consonant, please.
06:19Promising selection.
06:21A final S.
06:22Good luck.
06:23S.
06:32h.
06:33And a consonant.
06:35B.
06:35With a consonant.
06:36B.
06:37To be saying facile.
06:37Now.
06:38All right.
06:38Now.
06:39Maybe.
06:39We're there.
06:39And another second.
06:40To be a fatal结cer.
06:40Avni?
06:54Six.
06:56Alan?
06:56Can I stay with a seven?
06:57Avni, the six?
06:59Scales.
07:00And seven?
07:01Chisels.
07:02Chisels, good for seven.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Bosh, possibilities over in Dictionary Corner?
07:08Well, can you pluralise elastic?
07:10No.
07:11OK, no then.
07:12That was my hope at the beginning.
07:14So, you can't have elastics.
07:16You can have elastic, because it's a mass noun.
07:18But lo and behold, Rachel Riley, take a bye.
07:22I think it's a...
07:23Is it a real word, Susie?
07:25H-less?
07:25It is a real word.
07:26It's amazing.
07:27Mid-19th century, and if your speech is H-less,
07:30you drop your H's all the time.
07:31That's absolutely brilliant.
07:32Well, I'm happy about that.
07:38I reckon you hadn't a clue what that meant.
07:40100% new.
07:42Right, numbers time.
07:44It's you, Alan.
07:45Can I stick with one large, Rachel, please?
07:46One large.
07:48Five little coming up for you, Alan.
07:49First one of this contest, and your numbers are two.
07:53One, nine, five, eight.
07:57And the large one, 75.
07:59And your target, 247.
08:01Two, four, seven.
08:03Numbers up.
08:03Two, four, seven.
08:20247, Alan.
08:36247.
08:36It's magic in the numbers. Avni.
08:39246, not written down.
08:40Don't worry about it, 247 with Alan.
08:421 plus 2.
08:431 plus 2 is 3.
08:45Times by 75.
08:47Is 225.
08:48And then I'm adding the rest on, the 8, the 9 and the 5.
08:50Yeah, well done. Good spot.
08:52247.
08:55For a great start for the champion, Avni.
08:57Don't worry, if this keeps up, I'll take his pen off him.
09:00All right?
09:00It's a long way to go.
09:02Let's get your tea time teaser.
09:03Innervet. Innervet.
09:05You can do this to yourself, but not to a wheel.
09:07You can do this to yourself, but not to a wheeler.
09:10MUSIC PLAYS
09:12Welcome back to Tea Time Teaser, Innervet.
09:27You can do this to yourself, but not to a wheel.
09:30You cannot reinvent the wheel.
09:33Right, 23 zip at the moment.
09:34Avni, don't you worry at all.
09:36Let's get nine more letters and get rolling.
09:38Can I get a consonant, please?
09:40Thank you, Avni.
09:41D.
09:42And another.
09:44N.
09:46And another.
09:48Y.
09:49One more, please.
09:51M.
09:52And a vowel.
09:54U.
09:55One more, please.
09:57A.
09:58And another.
10:00I.
10:01Can I get one more, please?
10:05Another U.
10:06And another consonant, please.
10:08Lastly, C.
10:10Thank you, Rachel.
10:11You.
10:41And our time is up. Could have done with 30 minutes there. Alan?
10:46Seven, not written down.
10:47And Avni?
10:48Just a five.
10:49What's a five?
10:50Candy.
10:51And Alan, the seven, not written down.
10:53Dynamic.
10:53Over the dictionary corner, anything better?
10:56Dynamic, nothing else.
10:57Nothing else at all. No, it's really well spotted.
11:00Dynamic is the word. Alan, absolutely fantastic.
11:0330, nil up, and it's your letters.
11:05Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
11:06Thank you, Alan.
11:08N.
11:08And a vowel.
11:10E.
11:11And a consonant.
11:13L.
11:14And another vowel.
11:16A.
11:17And a consonant.
11:19R.
11:20And a vowel.
11:21A.
11:22And a consonant, please.
11:24G.
11:25Can I have another consonant?
11:27S.
11:29And a final consonant, please.
11:31A final R.
11:33Good luck, everybody.
11:34Good luck, everybody.
11:34Good luck.
11:34Good luck, everybody.
11:39Avni.
12:06Got a risky seven.
12:07Alan.
12:08I'm going for an eight.
12:08Avni.
12:10Slanger.
12:11Slanger.
12:12And Alan for the eight.
12:14Arranges.
12:15Slanger.
12:16Yeah, I feel like slanger should be in because a rhyming slanger is in the dictionary,
12:20but slanger is not there on its own, I'm afraid.
12:23Arranges, absolutely brilliant.
12:24Well done.
12:25Well done.
12:25Great stuff.
12:28Well, I'm sure Avni could think of a few rhyming slangs for you right now, Alan.
12:3238 up.
12:33But all played in the best possible spirit.
12:36And let's see if we can turn it around.
12:37And you've got the tactics here, Avni.
12:39You can choose your first numbers.
12:41Can I get two large and what's more, please?
12:43You can indeed.
12:44Thank you, Avni.
12:45Two big, four little and ten points with your name on.
12:47This next round is two, eight, ten, one, fifty and twenty-five.
12:55And the target to reach 904.
12:58904.
12:59Numbers up.
12:59The target to reach 904.
13:01How are we?
13:04Good news.
13:05What do you got?
13:09It's hard.
13:10B200.
13:11No.
13:13No.
13:149.04, Alan.
13:32Just 9.03.
13:33One away, Avni.
13:359.03.
13:36Avni, it's all yours, go.
13:3810 plus 8 times 50.
13:4110 plus 8, 18, times 50, 900.
13:46Plus 1 plus 2.
13:47And then the 1 and the 2.
13:49Same way?
13:49Same way.
13:50Brilliant.
13:51Avni's on the board.
13:54You know what?
13:55One of those, Rachel, when it comes out, you think,
13:57this is going to be easy, close to the 900, no worries.
14:02Everybody's tearing their hair out, so how's it done?
14:05I have to say, out of the time, but while I've been standing here,
14:07if you say 50 times 2 is 100,
14:11add the 10 for 110,
14:14times that by 8 for 880,
14:17and then add on the 25 and take the 1,
14:20but I should not be allowed any points there at all.
14:26Brilliant.
14:26Brilliant stuff.
14:27Avni gets her first points on the board.
14:29Rick, we get a chance now to chat again.
14:32You're obviously from London,
14:33so therefore a Liverpooler, a Man United fan.
14:35Yeah, Liverpool.
14:36But it's not that sport you want to talk about today.
14:38No, do you know what?
14:39I'd like to talk about Lawn Bowls.
14:41And I know you'll be into this,
14:43because I used to love watching it when I was a kid,
14:46so in the sort of, you know,
14:47Tony Alcott, David Bryant days.
14:50Never played it,
14:51and then my dad recently retired,
14:54and as all retired men are supposed to,
14:57took up Lawn Bowls.
14:58So I was like, OK, I'm interested.
15:01He said,
15:02but the problem is that not enough people are playing it.
15:04His club is struggling.
15:06So I've decided I'm going to try and champion Lawn Bowls.
15:08So me and my friends have been...
15:10It is, honestly,
15:11it's fantastic.
15:12Very social.
15:14Yeah.
15:14Like, hard but not too hard.
15:16Like, you can get somewhere close to it.
15:19It's a great sport.
15:20I used to play.
15:23Any good?
15:23Well, I don't live near a green now,
15:25but I've still got my words.
15:27And there's not many sports that you can say,
15:30look,
15:30an 18-year-old can play the game with an 80-year-old.
15:34So it's cross-generational.
15:35Yeah.
15:36There's a lot of respect in it.
15:38Yeah.
15:38And it's...
15:39But I think young people look at it as not for them
15:42when, actually,
15:44it's one of the easiest sports to pick up.
15:46You can learn it very quick
15:47and you won't be terrible at it.
15:48You won't be terrible.
15:50Also, quite a lot of the clubs,
15:52they have a sort of bring-your-own policy.
15:54You can make an evening of it.
15:56You're not...
15:56You're genuinely not going to bring a hip flask
15:58on a Sunday morning to Lawn Bowls.
16:00Anything that gets you through, Colin.
16:03Now, have you had that moment as an amateur?
16:06I think we all have it at some stage.
16:07where you get your wood the wrong way around
16:09and you go into the other rink
16:11and everyone looks at you like,
16:12you idiot.
16:13Hugely embarrassing.
16:14But you've got to do it.
16:15You've got to do it once.
16:16You won't do it again.
16:18I've also had the moment,
16:18which I think everyone does,
16:20when you think to yourself,
16:21I reckon if I put the hours in,
16:23I could be a contender.
16:26And I know that isn't true, but still.
16:28But at our age,
16:29bowls might be one of the few sports left
16:31that we could become a champion at.
16:33Yeah.
16:33I mean, I think the 100 metres is out.
16:35So let's look at something real.
16:37realistic.
16:38Brilliant.
16:39Well done.
16:39Well, listen, keep it up.
16:40And good way to spend time with your dad as well.
16:43Exactly.
16:43Brilliant.
16:46OK, let's get on with the game.
16:48Alan, I think it's your letter,
16:49so let's do it.
16:50Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
16:52Thank you, Alan.
16:53T.
16:54And a vowel?
16:56E.
16:57And a consonant?
16:58Here we go.
17:19E.
17:19E.
17:20¶¶
17:49Alan, how'd you get on?
17:51Just a five.
17:52And Avni?
17:52Just a five.
17:53Five. What's your five, Avni?
17:54Ghost.
17:55Ghost and Alan?
17:56Ghost as well.
17:58There's another one.
17:59I'm expecting better than five.
18:01I'm going to be honest up front.
18:03I'm going to chance my arm here.
18:05Because we talked about it earlier this week,
18:08about ghosting and people ghosting.
18:11Can you be a ghostie?
18:13No, you can be, as we said, a ghost-er,
18:15but not a ghostie yet.
18:17Colin can't believe it.
18:18I'm not surprised.
18:19Serial ghostie.
18:20I'm not surprised that ghostie is.
18:24Maybe one day.
18:26So, come on, Susie.
18:27Anything better than five?
18:28OK, I can rescue the situation with some American songbirds
18:31of the Bunting family.
18:34Tauhees.
18:35T-O-W-H-E-E-S.
18:37It's amazing that Tauhees is in there and ghostie, isn't it?
18:39It's ridiculous.
18:40Ridiculous.
18:41Dictionary's a mess.
18:42If you did get Tauhees at home, please apply to be on Countdown
18:45because I think you're going to win eight in a row.
18:48Right, more letters now, and it comes from Avni.
18:51Can I get a consonant, please?
18:52Thank you, Avni.
18:54M.
18:54And another.
18:55R.
18:57And another.
18:59P.
19:00One more, please.
19:03N.
19:04And a vowel.
19:06U.
19:07Another, please.
19:08E.
19:09One more.
19:10I.
19:12One more, please.
19:14E.
19:14And a consonant.
19:16And lastly, T.
19:18Countdown.
19:19One more, please.
19:20One more, please.
19:21One more, please.
19:22One more, please.
19:23One more, please.
19:24One more, please.
19:25One more, please.
19:26One more, please.
19:27One more, please.
19:28One more, please.
19:29One more, please.
19:30One more, please.
19:31One more, please.
19:32One more, please.
19:33One more, please.
19:34One more, please.
19:35One more, please.
19:36One more, please.
19:37One more, please.
19:38One more, please.
19:39One more, please.
19:40One more, please.
19:41One more, please.
19:42One more, please.
19:43One more, please.
19:44One more, please.
19:45One more, please.
19:46One more, please.
19:48Time is up. Avni?
19:53Seven. Risky.
19:55Risky, OK. And Alan?
19:56Seven. OK, what's the risky seven, Avni?
20:00Minuter or minuter.
20:02And Alan?
20:03Reunite.
20:04Minuter, minuter, reunite, I'm assuming is OK.
20:08But Susie, we're on tenterhooks.
20:10Well, don't be worried about minuter.
20:12It's actually there as a minuter, so somebody who takes minutes
20:15rather than in the more minute sense,
20:17although that's totally plausible as well.
20:19Either way, it's absolutely fine.
20:20Brilliant. Did you get a minute T?
20:23No, I haven't. I've got an eight.
20:24Yes.
20:26And it's...
20:27Well, it's perineum.
20:29Medical term, Susie, all good with that?
20:30All very good indeed.
20:32Excellent. Since we come back from our first break,
20:34it's been 19 all, so Avni settling in very well indeed.
20:38But, Alan, you're hot on the numbers and it's your choice.
20:41I'd like to redeem myself in too large.
20:43Too large this time.
20:45And four little ones.
20:48And your four small numbers this time.
20:50Six, five, nine and seven.
20:53And the big two, 175.
20:56And the target to reach?
20:58743.
20:59743, numbers up.
21:00943, numbers up.
21:15That's your 30, Alan.
21:337, 4, 3.
21:34OK, and Avni?
21:367, 4, 3. Not finished writing it down yet.
21:38Well, then, you've got to finish it with Rachel immediately.
21:416 minus 5 is 1.
21:436 minus 5, 1.
21:45Plus the 9.
21:4610.
21:48Times 75.
21:49750.
21:50Minus the 7.
21:51Perfect. 7, 4, 3.
21:53Alan?
21:53And it's the same way.
21:55Slightly different order at the start, but 9 plus 6.
21:57Wow.
22:01Right, much improved from Avni.
22:04Let's give you your second tea time teaser.
22:06Get fired.
22:07Might he get fired for not sitting still?
22:10Get fired.
22:11Might he get fired for not sitting still?
22:14Fidgeter was the answer.
22:19Well, our optometrist from Leicester has finally seen the wood for the trees, making a real fist of this.
22:40And let's continue the charge with your letters.
22:44Can I get a consonant, please?
22:46You can indeed.
22:47P.
22:48And another.
22:50S.
22:52And one more.
22:54G.
22:54And a vowel, please.
22:55A.
22:57And a vowel, please.
23:11And lastly, A.
23:13Here we go.
23:14Whereabouts.
23:14See you.
23:18When you're out, please.
23:21This is a vowel, too.
23:28There's a vowel.
23:29You can't be a vowel.
23:30You can't.
23:31I feel that it's not.
23:32There's a vowel and a vowel.
23:34There's a vowel in the vowel.
23:35Then you can only two, if you ever想.
23:36There's a vowel.
23:36Then you can be strengths.
23:37And a vowel.
23:37And a vowel.
23:38Then you can get loud.
23:38Then I feel theậy.
23:39Then you can be screams like a vowel.
23:40Then you can use the vowel.
23:40Then you can be used a vowel.
23:41How did you get on, Avni?
23:45Seven.
23:46Very good. And Alan?
23:47Two's a six.
23:48What's the six?
23:49Pagers.
23:50Avni?
23:52Gaspier.
23:53Gaspier!
23:54It was the first thing I looked up, and it's not there, I'm afraid.
23:56You can't be gaspy.
23:57You can have gasper as in a cigarette, but that's it, I'm afraid.
24:02Well, listen, a lot of people at home will be in exactly the same boat with that.
24:06So that means Alan picks up the six points in that round.
24:09Rick, how did you get on?
24:10Ah, grapes.
24:11Nothing better than the six there.
24:13Wonderful. Nothing wrong with that, grapes.
24:15That's fine, isn't it?
24:16All right.
24:17Alan, pick nine for me.
24:19Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
24:20Thank you, Alan.
24:21G.
24:23And a vowel.
24:25O.
24:26And a consonant.
24:28L.
24:29And a vowel.
24:31I.
24:32And a consonant.
24:34P.
24:35And a vowel.
24:37E.
24:38And a consonant, please.
24:39R.
24:40R.
24:41And a vowel.
24:43O.
24:44And a final vowel, please.
24:48A final other O.
24:49No, can't die.
24:50A vowel.
25:01No, can't die.
25:06Alan Young.
25:22Eight.
25:23Avni Chohan.
25:24Eight as well.
25:25Fantastic. Alan.
25:27Gloopier.
25:27Gloopier. Let's see if it's the same.
25:29Same word.
25:30Gloopier.
25:31Fantastic stuff.
25:32Wonderful.
25:33How are you doing there?
25:36Eight. Beat that, Rick Edwards.
25:38No, I can't.
25:40Nice progression for me.
25:41I wrote down Loopier and then thought, hold on.
25:44Gloopier, that was it.
25:45Yeah, can't beat that.
25:46OK.
25:47Loopy for Gloopy, but we'll take a little break now.
25:50Susie, all this week, every Origins of Words,
25:54you've fashioned it out of our opening of the show.
25:58So let's see if you're going to do that again for us.
26:00Well, hopefully, football.
26:03Yeah.
26:03One of my lifetime ambitions was to meet Arsene Wenger as an Arsenal fan.
26:08I didn't quite get to meet him, but I did email him some questions
26:11and then these were put to him and he answered them.
26:14So I think that's as good as it's ever going to get.
26:16I think the main thing was that didn't break the restraining order.
26:19That's true.
26:20He was able to do that.
26:21That is true.
26:22But essentially, I was asking him about language
26:24because I was writing a book on tribal language,
26:27so the language of different groups of people,
26:29whether it's professions or those united by a hobby or a passion, etc.
26:32And also football fans and football managers.
26:36And, of course, he was speaking about the latter.
26:38And he was talking about those post-match press conferences
26:41and how no manager ever wants to say anything of any value whatsoever
26:46because it will get picked up by newspapers.
26:49It will get twisted in some way or he'll give the game away in some way.
26:52So he was talking about phrases like,
26:55we were not rewarded, we were unlucky, all the famous ones.
26:58The rest decisions didn't go our way.
26:59We fought well today.
27:01But I love the fact that he introduced himself
27:03two words into the football lexicon as well.
27:06And I love them.
27:06So he made up the adverb footballistically,
27:09which I think was brilliant, and handbrakish.
27:12As we were in a little handbrakish today
27:13because in German you do have handbrakish, a handbrak,
27:16and you do talk about that with football too.
27:18So he just borrowed it wholesale from German, which is brilliant.
27:22And then, of course, what happens is all of these phrases,
27:25whether from the managers or from the pundits,
27:27they're picked up and this new, as I say,
27:30sort of tribal language emerges, that the fans speak as well.
27:32So everything is quality and class.
27:34Your nose regularly sprinkles throughout conversation.
27:38Performances must be put in week in, week out.
27:40Because at the end of the day, to be fair,
27:43obviously football is a big ask and so on and so on.
27:46Penalties are always stonewall, all soft.
27:48And the game has many situations.
27:50We talk about things that happen at early doors.
27:54For fouls, managers might say, I didn't see it.
27:57Or it looked for all the world as.
27:59I often talk about this one particular quote,
28:03which I absolutely love.
28:04It was a letter to a newspaper editor by someone called Joey,
28:09who said,
28:09I'm sick of sports commentators saying
28:11you couldn't write a script like this.
28:13If people can write scripts, he said,
28:15about dystopian features,
28:16in which life is in fact a simulation
28:18made by sentient machines
28:20to harness humans' heat and electricity
28:22as an energy source,
28:24they can probably write ones about
28:25Gary Taylor Fletcher scoring
28:26the last-minute equaliser against it.
28:28Which is brilliant.
28:30Love it.
28:33You know, I can't believe you've ended with that,
28:35because that was exactly what I was going to say.
28:37You couldn't write it.
28:38It's one of the most ridiculous things.
28:39Sometimes you read it in a match report.
28:41Can't believe you didn't credit Arsene Wenger
28:43with I didn't see it, by the way.
28:44Well, I know, but it was picked up by others,
28:47shall we say.
28:47But, yeah, I know that was his famous line.
28:49Blind loyalty from Susie.
28:50Correct, correct, Rachel.
28:52She won't hear a bad word said about Arsene,
28:54so let's just get on with the game.
28:56Nine letters now from Avni.
28:57Can I get a consonant, please?
28:59Thank you, Avni.
29:00F.
29:02And another.
29:04M.
29:05One more.
29:07W.
29:08And another.
29:11S.
29:11A vowel, please.
29:13U.
29:14Another.
29:15E.
29:16One more.
29:18I.
29:20A consonant, please.
29:22N.
29:24And a vowel.
29:26And the last one.
29:27O.
29:2830 seconds.
29:29O.
29:3030 seconds.
29:30A vowel.
29:31A vowel.
29:3210 seconds.
29:56A vowel.
29:57A vowel.
29:58How do you get on, Alan?
30:01Just a six.
30:03A six there, Avni?
30:04Six as well.
30:04What's your six, Avni?
30:06Fusion.
30:06Fusion.
30:07And what have you got, Alan?
30:08Monies.
30:09Over the dictionary corner.
30:11I think we've got a seven.
30:12Winsome?
30:12Yes.
30:13Good word, that.
30:14Winsome.
30:14Attractive or appealing in a fresh, innocent way.
30:17A winsome smile.
30:18Yeah.
30:18There you go.
30:19Very good seven.
30:19But 6 points each for Alan and Avni.
30:23And, Alan, it's going to be your letters.
30:26Can I have a cousin, please, Rachel?
30:27Thank you, Alan.
30:28B.
30:29And a vowel?
30:31O.
30:32And a consonant, please.
30:33L.
30:34And a vowel?
30:36U.
30:37And a consonant?
30:39T.
30:39And a vowel?
30:41E.
30:42And a consonant, please.
30:44G.
30:45Can I have another consonant?
30:47M.
30:48And a final consonant, please.
30:51A final S.
30:53Good luck.
30:54The two of you.
31:01And a consonant, please.
31:02And you can just get it.
31:04That's a ver.
31:05Thanks.
31:07And a consonant and a consonant, please.
31:11See you.
31:13I'll have some grace.
31:14But we'll be fine with it.
31:15How are you?
31:16I'll have someаются content.
31:17I'll have some lira.
31:17And your last schöne and a consonant.
31:18And a consonant, please.
31:19Just any number, please.
31:20This is a hot telephone.
31:21Oh, my, one.
31:21I call it.
31:21Hillary, you know.
31:22I'll have some growers.
31:23And with time up, Alan, declare...
31:26Seven.
31:27And Avni?
31:28Just a five.
31:29Don't worry, what's a five?
31:30Smelt.
31:31Smelt.
31:31And Alan, are we sniffing out a seven?
31:33Goblets.
31:34Goblets.
31:35Well, listen, when you've got hens named after Game of Thrones,
31:38you're going to get that.
31:39Goblets for seven, Rick.
31:43Can't beat that.
31:44Tumbles?
31:46Tumbles, yeah.
31:47Tumbles.
31:47Stumble, another seven.
31:49So a few sevens, but we couldn't get beyond that.
31:51Right, let's get the numbers.
31:53Avni, our last one of today.
31:54One large, please.
31:56Thank you, Avni.
31:56Final numbers of the day.
31:58One large one.
31:59Five little numbers.
32:01And the last selection is one, five, nine, six, seven.
32:08And the large one, 50.
32:10Target to reach 484.
32:13Four, eight, four.
32:14Last numbers.
32:15Four, eight, five, nine, six, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven
32:45Avni.
32:464, 8, 7.
32:48Three away. Alan?
32:494, 8, 4. OK, let's have the 4, 8, 4,
32:52which will get you over the magic 100.
32:54OK, so I'm going to go 9 times 50.
32:569 times 50, 4, 50.
32:58And then 5 times 7.
32:5935. Add them together and then take away the one.
33:02Another good numbers round. 4, 8, 4.
33:04Brilliant.
33:08Brilliant century up for Alan.
33:10Two wins under his belt.
33:11Avni, a chance to break 50, though, against this machine.
33:14That would be absolutely fantastic.
33:16So fingers on the buzzers as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:25Alan?
33:26Bubblegum.
33:27Let's see if it sticks.
33:29Fantastic.
33:32Avni, fantastic to have you here.
33:35There was two or three rounds where even the dictionary
33:37couldn't get any better word than Alan.
33:39Very good.
33:40Now, listen, we'll hopefully have you back soon.
33:43And, of course, you can't compete for a while.
33:44But what age is Anika?
33:46She's 14.
33:47Two more years.
33:48Get her past the GCSEs.
33:50We'll see you back here.
33:51Definitely.
33:51Thank you so much for coming.
33:53We've got a real champion on her hands here.
33:58He's got some stopping, Rick, if he's not going to win it, right?
34:01I'll step in tomorrow, don't worry.
34:02Yeah.
34:03I don't know if that's a spot for the course or not, but I'm up for it.
34:06That'll definitely be a forced win then.
34:08Thank you very much, Susie.
34:09Thank you, Rick.
34:10You'll stay in Dixonry Corner tomorrow.
34:12Rachel, done?
34:13Well, I'm a big fan of the Mother of Hens as a chicken name, but I'm afraid Alan is the
34:18second best named chickens contestant we've ever had.
34:21What was the other one?
34:22Because we actually had someone who named their chickens Susie and Rachel.
34:25Oh.
34:25So you can't beat that, really, can you?
34:27That's very good.
34:27Well, on that, it's time for us to clock off.
34:29But we'll be back tomorrow.
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