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00:30Hello, everybody. It's Wednesday afternoon. It's Countdown.
00:34And if you search for us on the internet, you'll find we're one of the longest-running game shows on the planet.
00:40Hello, Rachel Riley.
00:41I think we've got the most series of a game show. We're in the Guinness Book of World Records.
00:44Yeah. Well, 25th anniversary today of the search engine we call Google.
00:48Others may prefer to search somewhere else.
00:51And every year they bring out the list of most searched for things.
00:55But actually here in the UK, over the last few years, it's changed to be very newsy.
01:00Usually it's a lot more eccentric.
01:02So obviously, going back a couple of years, by far the most searched things in the UK, when will the lockdown end?
01:09And when will I get my vaccine?
01:11And that followed into 2022, unfortunately.
01:14Russia, Ukraine, top of the list, along with World Cup, big sporting events.
01:19But it's funny how we forget about things.
01:21There was another most searched thing on that list in 2022.
01:24The only thing that wasn't serious or sporting.
01:27And it was a craze.
01:28For a while, we were all talking about it last year.
01:31And now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, but I just don't do it anymore.
01:34Can you remember what that was?
01:36Hmm.
01:38I'll give you a clue.
01:39It's roughly connected to what we do here every day.
01:42Wordle.
01:43Wordle.
01:44Wordle.
01:44I still do Wordle.
01:45You got me switched on to Quirdle.
01:48I was doing Octordle or whatever it was called.
01:52Oh, you haven't told me about this one.
01:53Yeah, I was a secacordle.
01:55Yeah, the 16.
01:56Oh, what?
01:57Yeah, the 16.
01:57Guys, you've been hanging out without me, doing word games.
02:00I feel left out.
02:03Well, anyway, listen, the Dictionary Corner.
02:05I did a quick web search in this one this morning.
02:09Are Susie and Grace Dent related?
02:12Yes.
02:12And it came up, yes, 100%.
02:14Definitely.
02:15Yeah, absolutely.
02:18And the internet has never lied to me.
02:19So I'm assuming that's true.
02:21Lovely to have you both here.
02:22It's Grace's third show of the week and it's Ben's third show as our new champion and he broke 100 yesterday.
02:31Fantastic stuff.
02:32Nice to have you back, mate.
02:33Thank you, Colin.
02:34You're up against another maths teacher today, by the way.
02:36But of course, you wanted to be in the army.
02:39Bad knee done for you.
02:40But it doesn't stop you being a daredevil.
02:42You love the parachuting, right?
02:44I did do a parachute jump before I did the knee in and I didn't love it at all.
02:50It was terrifying.
02:51It was, yeah, a static line jump where there was no one strapped to me.
02:56I just had to throw myself out of the plane and there was no pleasure until I got to the ground.
03:03But I could tick it off as saying it was something I had achieved.
03:06I love that honesty because any time I've watched a parachute jump on television, they get to the ground and they're like,
03:12Whoa, it was the most wonderful thing I've ever done.
03:14You know, it just went, that was awful.
03:15Never doing that again.
03:16It was terrifying.
03:17I get it.
03:18What's more terrifying, the static line parachute jump or your first appearance in Countdown?
03:23Similar.
03:24The heartbeat was a similar sort of rate, I think.
03:27Similar finish where you go, I'm never doing that again.
03:29Well, you're up against Jenny Best, teaches secondary school maths in central London.
03:35Hi, Jenny.
03:35Hi.
03:36Now, also, you've worked as a bingo caller.
03:38I have, yeah.
03:39So you got the job as the bingo caller.
03:41You got the job as a secondary school teacher.
03:43But there was another job that you applied for that you didn't get.
03:46Yeah.
03:47Tell me all about that.
03:48Well, she's standing over there while sitting just now.
03:51Rachel stole my job, basically.
03:53I applied to be the new Carol Vorderman, but I didn't even get an interview.
03:57They must have seen Rachel and said, no, thank you.
03:59Sorry.
04:00I did have someone working there just shredding loads of the interviews.
04:04Loads of the applications.
04:05Just, you know.
04:06That's very, I never knew it was a thing that people applied for, you know.
04:09It was that long ago.
04:11But, wow, there you go.
04:13There you go.
04:14Don't hold it against me, Jenny.
04:15I'll do.
04:17I think we made a decent choice.
04:20All right.
04:20Best of luck to you today, Jenny.
04:25And to you, Ben, as you pick our first letters.
04:28Hello, Rachel.
04:28Hi, Ben.
04:29Please, may I have a consonant?
04:32You may start today with T.
04:34And another.
04:36N.
04:37And another consonant.
04:39D.
04:41And a vowel, please.
04:43I.
04:44And a vowel.
04:46E.
04:48And another vowel.
04:50O.
04:52And a consonant.
04:55L.
04:56A consonant.
04:59C.
05:00And finish with a consonant, please.
05:02And finish with P.
05:03At home and in the studio.
05:06Let's play Kind Dad.
05:07A consonant.
05:08A consonant.
05:09And finish with a consonant.
05:15A consonant.
05:26P.
05:29How many, Ben?
05:38Seven.
05:39And Jenny?
05:40Seven.
05:41Well done.
05:41Words?
05:42Pointed.
05:43Pointed.
05:44Policed.
05:45And policed.
05:46Pointed.
05:47And police for seven points each.
05:50Susie and Grace Dent.
05:51Susie got very excited about a word for eight.
05:54I have no idea what it means.
05:56Leptonic, you said to me.
05:57Yes, leptonic.
05:58So a lepton is a subatomic particle such as an electron or a neutrino.
06:03So an eight with leptonic.
06:05I was very excited.
06:06I was one letter away from joining the Dent clan.
06:11One letter away from Colin Dent.
06:13Really disappointed.
06:15Jenny Best, let's get nine more letters.
06:18Thanks, Rachel.
06:18Can I have a consonant, please?
06:20Thanks, Jenny.
06:21B.
06:22And another.
06:24D.
06:26And another.
06:27M.
06:28And a vowel.
06:30A.
06:31And another.
06:32E.
06:33And a consonant.
06:35T.
06:36And another.
06:38N.
06:39And a vowel.
06:41O.
06:42And then a final consonant, please.
06:45A final L.
06:47On the usual 30 seconds.
06:48On the usual 30 seconds.
06:49On the usual 30 seconds.
06:49On theå°† awort.
06:51On the circumterm.
06:51Here we go.
06:58We'll see you next time.
07:00Bye.
07:01Bye.
07:02Bye.
07:02Bye-bye.
07:03Bye.
07:06Bye-bye.
07:09Bye-bye.
07:12Bye.
07:13Bye.
07:15Bye.
07:15Bye.
07:15Bye-bye.
07:16Bye.
07:17Bye-bye.
07:19Jenny?
07:20Six.
07:21Yeah, and Ben?
07:21Seven.
07:22Very good.
07:23Jenny?
07:24Blamed.
07:24What's a seven?
07:26Bloated.
07:26Oh, yeah, very good.
07:28Bloated?
07:29Yes.
07:30Bloated is very good.
07:31Excellent.
07:32What are you two thick as thieves talking about?
07:34Well, we have two sevens, which I love because you can use them in a sentence.
07:37Bloated and abdomen.
07:39Beautiful.
07:39Let's get the first numbers of the day.
07:41Ben?
07:42Could I start with three large ones today, please, Rachel?
07:45You can indeed.
07:46Thank you, Ben.
07:47Three large.
07:47Three little, and the first numbers are eight, two, ten, fifty, one hundred, twenty-five.
07:58Fresh rule round with all the maths teachers.
08:00Three hundred and ninety-nine.
08:01Three-nine-nine.
08:02Numbers up.
08:17Three-nine-nine, the target.
08:36Ben?
08:37No, sorry, I think I've gone wrong there.
08:38No worries.
08:39Jenny?
08:39Three-nine-nine.
08:40Off you go.
08:41Eight times fifty.
08:43Eight times fifty gets you to one away.
08:45And then a hundred divided by twenty-five.
08:47Is four.
08:48And then ten divided by two is five.
08:51And then a five take away four is one and take it away from the four hundred.
08:54Perfect.
08:54Three-nine-nine.
08:55More done.
08:55All right, here we go.
08:58A tea-time teaser just for our comfort food eating grace dent.
09:03It's chip mate.
09:04Chip mate.
09:05When the chips are down, we all need a mate like this.
09:08When the chips are down, we all need a mate like this.
09:11Empathic was our first tea-time teaser.
09:34Well, a slight lead at the moment for our challenger, Jenny Best.
09:38Thanks to the numbers round, and you're picking these letters.
09:41Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:43Thank you, Jenny.
09:44M.
09:45And another.
09:47N.
09:48And another, please.
09:50S.
09:52And a vowel.
09:53E.
09:54And another.
09:55I.
09:56And another.
09:57E.
09:58And a consonant.
10:00D.
10:01And another.
10:03T.
10:05And a final consonant.
10:06A final S.
10:09Thanks, Rich.
10:40Jenny, how many?
10:42Six. Ben? Eight.
10:44Eight. Jenny, the six?
10:46Missed. Missed, and you missed the eight.
10:48What is it? End times.
10:50Oh, end times. I thought it was going to be something else.
10:53Oh, very unlucky, Ben.
10:55It's two words, unfortunately.
10:57End times in some religious beliefs,
10:59the period leading up to Judgment Day,
11:01but, yeah, it's two words, sorry.
11:03Well, then, are you not allowed mind sets?
11:05Oh, mind sets. That is amazing.
11:08That is superb.
11:09Well done.
11:13A broken clock and all of that.
11:15Right, Ben, more letters?
11:17Consonant, please, Rachel.
11:19Thank you, Ben.
11:20R.
11:21And a consonant.
11:23S.
11:24And another.
11:26R.
11:27And a vowel.
11:28And a vowel, please.
11:36And a consonant.
11:40S.
11:42Another.
11:43T.
11:45And a vowel, please.
11:49And lastly, O.
11:52Half a minute.
11:53And a vowel, please.
11:54And a vowel, please.
11:54And a vowel, please.
11:55And a vowel, please.
11:55And a vowel, please.
11:56And a vowel, please.
11:56And a vowel, please.
11:57And a vowel, please.
11:58And a vowel, please.
11:58And a vowel, please.
11:59And a vowel, please.
11:59And a vowel, please.
12:00And a vowel, please.
12:00And a vowel, please.
12:01And a vowel, please.
12:01And a vowel, please.
12:02And a vowel, please.
12:02And a vowel, please.
12:03And a vowel, please.
12:03And a vowel, please.
12:04And a vowel, please.
12:04And a vowel, please.
12:05And a vowel, please.
12:06And a vowel, please.
12:06And a vowel, please.
12:07And a vowel, please.
12:08And a vowel, please.
12:08Righty-o, a little bit more difficult, Ben.
12:27Seven.
12:27And Jenny?
12:29Risky eight.
12:30A risky eight.
12:31The seven?
12:32Orators.
12:33Orators.
12:34And what are you saying?
12:35Outsource.
12:37Outsource?
12:38Yes.
12:39I don't know about this one.
12:41It is in.
12:42Fantastic.
12:43To rise above or beyond is to outsoar.
12:46That's fantastic.
12:47Well done.
12:50Second numbers round of today.
12:52I feel all the pressure is on the numbers with two maths teachers.
12:55Jenny, you got the better of Ben first time around.
12:58Let's see if you can make it a double.
12:59Can I get two large, please, Rachel?
13:01You can indeed.
13:02Two from the top and four little coming up for you.
13:04And this time around, they are two, three,
13:08three, ten, six, 75, and 100.
13:13And the target, 408.
13:16408.
13:16Numbers up.
13:18Check if you can make it a double.
13:22Yeah.
13:26Yep.
13:26Yeah.
13:27Good.
13:28Mm-hmm.
13:28Another one of those a bit more tricky than maybe we thought.
13:51Jenny?
13:53406.
13:53Yeah, two away.
13:55Ben?
13:55I think 408.
13:56Oh, look at this.
13:58Redemption.
13:58Revenge.
13:59All of those words.
14:00So off we go.
14:01Ten take away three is seven.
14:02I think there may be some collective kicking.
14:05Seven.
14:0575 take away the seven.
14:0868.
14:09Times that by six.
14:10Yeah, well, 102 times four we could have done.
14:13Colin?
14:14I was still sort of basking in the glory of mindset.
14:17Oh, OK, right.
14:17Got it.
14:18Yeah, yeah.
14:19Shall we keep a separate score today for the mass teacher's numbers round?
14:22That's ten points each.
14:24That's just cruel.
14:25Well done to you, Ben.
14:27Well done.
14:27Let's take a little break from the show and talk to Grace Dent, making a sophomore appearance
14:32in Dictionary Corner.
14:33The new book is all about comfort foods.
14:36What we eat when we are alone.
14:38So there's cheese we talked about yesterday.
14:40What about today?
14:41Yesterday we discussed why cheese is like a cuddle and today I'm talking about a chapter I wrote
14:47called why does butter make everything better.
14:49I feel like, you know, as a girl from the northwest of England, for the 70s and the 80s and the 90s, we stopped eating butter in my house because there was this huge push by advertisers that butter was somehow not good for you and that what you needed to do was buy these white cartons full of things that were full of all these lovely chemicals.
15:12And that was going to make it and it would stay fresher for longer, it would improve our hearts and it would make us all into better people.
15:21And what I love is every time somebody comes to my house for the podcast, they want butter.
15:25Why do we all, we want butter, we want that back in our lives.
15:28I feel like I'm hardwired to love butter because my family, my ancestors came from a time where they didn't, they lived in the, you know, the outback Cumbria and they only had about four flavors and one of them was ham, one of them was bread, jam and butter, you know.
15:47And I think that that's in me, the idea that you can put 30 grams of butter in anything and make it better, you know, so you've got a soup or a stew or a humble piece of fish, you get a load of butter, put it in a buttery sauce.
16:04So over the course of that chapter in the book, yeah, I'm looking at that, you know, this, I think that, I think deep down we all love it.
16:11Thank you, Grace.
16:13Our challenger then, Jenny Best, leads at the moment by seven points, but that was a whopping 17 before Ben pulled it back in that last numbers round.
16:24So let's move on to the letters again, and Ben.
16:26OK, a consonant please, Rachel.
16:29Thank you, Ben.
16:30B.
16:31And another.
16:33G.
16:34And another.
16:35F.
16:36And a vowel, please.
16:38A.
16:39And another.
16:40O.
16:42And a vowel.
16:43E.
16:45And a consonant.
16:47V.
16:48Another.
16:50D.
16:51And a consonant, please.
16:53And lastly, S.
16:55Good luck, everybody.
16:56Bye.
16:56Okay.
16:57Good luck.
17:08Okay.
17:16Bye.
17:18Bye-bye.
17:20Bye-bye.
17:24Bye-bye.
17:25What do you make of that, Ben?
17:28Six. Jenny? Five.
17:30Yeah, difficult five. Beads.
17:33What's the six? Badges.
17:35Badges! We don't need no stinking badges.
17:39Nice. Six points for you.
17:42We have dosage for six.
17:46And bodega. Now, is that corner shop?
17:49Yeah, small grocery shops, particularly in New York, actually.
17:53But in Spanish-speaking countries, they're normally wine shops.
17:57OK, so that's for seven.
17:58Yeah. Nice.
17:59One point in it now.
18:02Jenny, keep your nerve. Try and stem the tide there.
18:06More letters.
18:07OK, have a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:08Thank you, Jenny.
18:10L. And another.
18:13S. And another.
18:15P. And a vowel.
18:18I. And another.
18:20O. And another, please.
18:21E. And a consonant.
18:25T. And another.
18:28R. And a final consonant.
18:31Promising selection. A final.
18:33L.
18:34Right, in half a minute.
18:35One, two, three.
18:36Morning.
19:07Jenny?
19:08Um, six.
19:09Ben?
19:11Eight.
19:11OK, so the six.
19:13Polite.
19:14And the eight.
19:16Trollies.
19:18Trollies.
19:19Yes, so not in the sense of your shopping trolley,
19:20because that's always EYS,
19:21but in the sense of your knickers,
19:23or your underpants, your trolleys.
19:26Oh, I thought it was going to connect a drink.
19:28You know?
19:29Oh, as in being trollied.
19:31Yeah.
19:31And did you struggle with that,
19:32or did you have something else written down, Jenny?
19:34Because there was a bit of a pause before you declared.
19:36I had another thing written down,
19:38but I don't think it's a real word, so...
19:40Go ahead.
19:40Rolliest.
19:42Um...
19:42Yeah.
19:44Rolliest.
19:45It describes a sea,
19:47the roughest sea that makes a ship roll.
19:49That's brilliant, but I'm sorry you didn't try it.
19:51Yeah.
19:52Abstractly.
19:53In theory, that was brilliant.
19:54Reality, you declared six.
19:56Yeah.
19:56So, eight, I'm assuming, is the best.
19:58We actually have two eights now.
19:59Yeah, exactly, yeah.
20:00Yeah.
20:01In the game, though, just the one.
20:02So, Ben's had this unanswered run of points,
20:04but, Jenny, you're only seven behind.
20:06That's how good a start you had.
20:08So, it's back to the numbers.
20:09I'm keeping a separate score.
20:10Ten each for the maths teachers.
20:12Ben, you're choosing.
20:14We'll keep it easy, please,
20:15and go one from the top this time.
20:17One from the top.
20:18Playing a cautious game there.
20:21Let's see.
20:21Five little ones.
20:23A ten.
20:25Seven.
20:26Six.
20:26Four.
20:28Six.
20:29And the large one's 75.
20:30And the target to reach?
20:32886.
20:33886.
20:34Numbers up.
20:35BELL RINGS
20:36BELL RINGS
20:37BELL RINGS
20:38BELL RINGS
20:39BELL RINGS
20:41BELL RINGS
20:42BELL RINGS
20:43BELL RINGS
20:44BELL RINGS
20:45BELL RINGS
20:46BELL RINGS
20:47Yeah, CD had six, Ben.
21:07886.
21:07Yes, and Jenny.
21:08886.
21:09Yeah, so if you go, Ben.
21:10Six add six.
21:11Six plus six.
21:12Multiply that by the 75.
21:15900.
21:15And then subtract ten and subtract four.
21:18Lovely.
21:19One way to get there?
21:20And Jenny?
21:20Yeah, the same.
21:23Nice.
21:26This Tea Time teaser, oh, my days.
21:29Eat cliff.
21:31Eat cliff.
21:33It's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home now.
21:36From the plastic surgeon.
21:38It's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home now.
21:41From the plastic surgeon.
21:42Eat cliff becomes bass lift.
22:11Heart of the dream knees up.
22:13Right, back to the game.
22:15Seven points in it.
22:17And Jenny, six rounds left.
22:19A real chance of becoming champion.
22:21Your letters.
22:22A consonant, please, Rachel.
22:23Thank you, Jenny.
22:24N.
22:25And another.
22:27H.
22:28And another.
22:30Y.
22:31And a vowel.
22:32I.
22:33And another.
22:34E.
22:35And a consonant.
22:36V.
22:38And another.
22:40N.
22:41And another.
22:43C.
22:44And a vowel.
22:46And a final A.
22:48Let's play.
22:49And a vowel.
22:50And a vowel.
22:51And a vowel.
22:51And a vowel.
22:52And a vowel.
22:52And a vowel.
22:52And a vowel.
22:53And a vowel.
22:53And a vowel.
22:54And a vowel.
22:54And a vowel.
22:55And a vowel.
22:55And a vowel.
22:55And a vowel.
22:55And a vowel.
22:55And a vowel.
22:56And a vowel.
22:56And a vowel.
22:56And a vowel.
22:57And a vowel.
22:57And a vowel.
22:57And a vowel.
22:57And a vowel.
22:58And a vowel.
22:59And a vowel.
22:59And a vowel.
22:59And a vowel.
23:00And a vowel.
23:00And a vowel.
23:01And a vowel.
23:02And a vowel.
23:02And a vowel.
23:03And a vowel.
23:03And a vowel.
23:04And a vowel.
23:04And a vowel.
23:05And a vowel.
23:19How many, Jenny? Five.
23:21And Ben? Five. Five as well. OK, Jenny?
23:25Chain. Thought that would be it, yeah?
23:27Hyena. And hyena, right.
23:30Five points each.
23:31Wouldn't risk it if it was sitting in Jenny's seat,
23:34but I'm just wondering, can you put the Y on chain?
23:36Chain-y. A bit chain-y. No.
23:39OK, well, there you go.
23:41We actually had a six with canine.
23:45Canine. Right, dog days are over.
23:47That would have got you six, but five each for you.
23:50Five each for you.
23:51So still very much in the crucial countdown,
23:53conundrum, territory.
23:55Champ, let's see if you can change that. Your letters.
23:57Consolant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ben.
23:59K. And another.
24:01R. And another.
24:04N. And a vowel.
24:07E. And another vowel.
24:10I. And a vowel.
24:13E.
24:16A. And a consonant.
24:19M. And another consonant.
24:22T. And a final consonant, please.
24:27And a final S.
24:29Can't join.
24:30Time.
24:31This was Phil Schmidt of Panner.
24:32Any language.
24:33One Mor incorrectly.
24:34The problem.
24:35But unfortunately.
24:36dearest.
24:37To plug to Google text,
24:57What'll do, Ben?
25:03Seven.
25:04And Jenny?
25:05Seven.
25:06Stinker.
25:07They're the same.
25:08Hey, stinkers.
25:11There you go.
25:13Stinkers.
25:14But they weren't, were they?
25:15They were great sevens.
25:16So was there anything else that smelled a bit better?
25:19We also had a seven, which was minster, but I prefer their word.
25:24Minster.
25:24Minster.
25:25Yes.
25:26Minster's...
25:27York Minster.
25:28Exactly.
25:29Yes, a larger, important church.
25:31OK, well done.
25:32Let's pause at this stage.
25:33Let's head to Dictionary Corner for Origins of Words.
25:36Well, yesterday I thanked Linda, lovely Linda,
25:40who'd written in with several questions
25:41that she's been gathering over the past few months.
25:45And this is another one.
25:46Linda in Devon.
25:47Linda, I don't know your surname, but thank you for all of these.
25:50Does hob, she asked, have anything to do with hell or the devil?
25:53I ask because a hob for cooking gets hot.
25:56We talk about hobgoblins and hobnails,
25:58and my grandfather used to say that wet weather played hob with his rheumatism,
26:03which is a brilliant question.
26:05I'll start with the cooking hob,
26:07because before the days of modern cookers,
26:10we essentially had a plate on a fireplace used for heating pans, etc.
26:17And hob and hub are actually siblings,
26:21and they mean a sort of central part, almost like a focus.
26:23The word focus actually is the Latin for a hearth,
26:26because it is where families used to gather to keep warm and to cook.
26:30So it is a central part of something,
26:32the circular hub, the circular plates on our ovens that we use for cooking.
26:36Now, the hob that Linda's grandfather used for his rheumatism,
26:39as she rightly guessed,
26:40is that is related to the hobgoblin that plays Mary Havoc.
26:44And this hob is actually a pet version of Robin,
26:48a.k.a. Robin Goodfellow, a.k.a. Puck.
26:51So he was a really mischievous sprite,
26:53believed to haunt the countryside,
26:55and famously appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
26:57So that hob, that robin, would get up to all sorts of mischief,
27:04including making people's bones ache, it was said, in the wet weather.
27:09So it's all about mischief-making.
27:11And finally, we come to the hobnail that Linda mentions.
27:13Well, that looks back to the first part,
27:15the sort of the iron plate very often that people would cook on,
27:19because hobnails are really sort of big nails
27:23that we use for protecting the soles of heavy boots and shoes.
27:27Actually, hobnails itself became a bit of a teasing nickname
27:30for any rustic or peasant because of the shoes they wore.
27:33It's a bit like a clodhopper, those really sort of big, big shoes.
27:37As I say, it's all about iron in this case,
27:39and the material that was used for those cooking hobs in the ovens.
27:42Love it. Thank you.
27:45Four more rounds to go, and Jenny, it's your letters.
27:49Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
27:50Thank you, Jenny.
27:51G.
27:52And another.
27:54N.
27:55And another.
27:55And another, please.
28:03And a consonant.
28:06And another.
28:08And a final vowel.
28:12A final O.
28:13Kind of.
28:14A final vowel.
28:34That's it. Jenny?
28:47Seven. Ben? Seven.
28:49Right, OK. Jenny?
28:51Fouling. Fouling.
28:53And Ben? Agonise.
28:56Agonise. Agonise is fine.
28:58Fouling is in the dictionary, but you need a U.
29:01Oh, no.
29:03Anything else in Dictionary Corner?
29:04We have actually got what I'm going to say, my word of the week.
29:07Yes. It's eight and it's finagles.
29:11Oh, yeah.
29:11When you finagle your way into something.
29:14I love it. Again, it just sounds as it is.
29:17I'm actually going to wait until Rachel puts it up just to confirm the spelling.
29:21No, you go. F-I-N-A-G-L-E-S.
29:24Finagles. Devious. Beautiful word, yes.
29:27APPLAUSE
29:28Last letters then, Ben Bazzard.
29:32Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:33Thank you, Ben.
29:35C.
29:36And another.
29:38J.
29:39And a third.
29:41N.
29:42And a vowel.
29:44A.
29:45And another.
29:47O.
29:48And another vowel, please.
29:50U.
29:51And a consonant.
29:54T.
29:54And a consonant, please.
30:03Lastly, W.
30:06Last letters.
30:07And a consonant, please.
30:08And a consonant, please.
30:08And a consonant, please.
30:08And a consonant, please.
30:09And a consonant, please.
30:10And a consonant, please.
30:10And a consonant, please.
30:11And a consonant, please.
30:12And a consonant, please.
30:12And a consonant, please.
30:12And a consonant, please.
30:13And a consonant, please.
30:13And a consonant, please.
30:14And a consonant, please.
30:14And a consonant, please.
30:14And a consonant, please.
30:15And a consonant, please.
30:15And a consonant, please.
30:16And a consonant, please.
30:16And a consonant, please.
30:17And a consonant, please.
30:17And a consonant, please.
30:18And a consonant, please.
30:18And a consonant, please.
30:19And a consonant, please.
30:19And a consonant, please.
30:20And a consonant, please.
30:20TRICKY LETTERS AND UNDER PRESSURE AS WELL.
30:40Ben?
30:41Six.
30:42Yeah, Jenny?
30:43Six.
30:44Yeah, I was thinking that.
30:45Outran.
30:46Yeah, the same.
30:47Look at that.
30:48No matter what you do, you can't outrun each other.
30:50This is destined, I think, to go to the Crucial today.
30:53What do we have?
30:54The dents?
30:55Courant for seven.
30:57Courant.
30:58Yes.
30:59Theo, you are ANT.
31:00In heraldry, this is anything that is represented as running from the French.
31:05Courir, to run.
31:06Yeah.
31:07Ben and Jenny, no idea who will be back tomorrow.
31:09Let's sort it out in the next couple of minutes.
31:11Two maths teachers.
31:13Back to the numbers.
31:14Seems fitting.
31:15Off you go.
31:16Six.
31:17Yes.
31:18You have to gamble.
31:19For the teapot.
31:20We're looking for a tricky one.
31:22Good luck, you two.
31:23The final numbers today.
31:24Three.
31:25Ten.
31:26Ten.
31:27Nine.
31:28Eight.
31:29And one.
31:30And the target to reach, 183.
31:33183.
31:34Numbers up.
31:35183.
31:36Numbers up.
31:37183.
31:38Numbers up.
31:39Two.
31:40Five.
31:42Two.
31:43One.
31:45Two.
31:46Two.
31:47Two.
31:48One.
31:49Two.
31:59Two.
32:00Two.
32:02One.
32:03Two.
32:03They are the only two people did the right?
32:05Yeah, I feel such a person.
32:06Even on national TV, even under pressure, P45, if you don't get this.
32:12Jenny?
32:13183.
32:13Yeah, Ben?
32:15183.
32:15It doesn't mean it's easy, by the way, but for them, definitely.
32:18Off you go, Jenny.
32:1810 plus 8.
32:2018.
32:21Times the other 10.
32:23180.
32:23And plus the 3.
32:24Yeah, straightforward.
32:26Sorry, Jenny.
32:26I got it the same way, Jenny.
32:28Well done.
32:31Well, Jenny, you haven't been able to best the bazaar,
32:34but you've made a really great fist of it,
32:37just missing out on that crucial Countdown Conundrum.
32:39Let's see, though, if you can pick up those 10 points at the end
32:43as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:15Ben, with half a second left.
33:19Curbation?
33:20Let's have a look.
33:22Ben, it's not.
33:23That's the bad news for you.
33:25Jenny, the good news is, put your finger on the buzzer,
33:27you've got one quarter of a second to get this,
33:30and your time restarts now.
33:34Literally just...
33:36Anybody in the studio managed to get it?
33:40Wow, it's flummoxed the Riley.
33:42That's interesting.
33:43Me too.
33:45Grace, time for a steal of glory.
33:47It's done completely.
33:48Yeah.
33:48All right, let's reveal it.
33:51Incubator.
33:53Incubator.
33:53There you go.
33:54If you've got that at home.
33:55Sensational stuff.
33:56But as it is, Ben, lower score today.
33:59Really, really tough challenger.
34:01But you'll be back tomorrow looking for your fourth win.
34:04Thank you very much.
34:04Love it.
34:05Jenny, listen, the key was,
34:06don't embarrass yourself in the maths, and you didn't.
34:08On one, I did.
34:09Listen, the other ones were good enough.
34:12Thank you, Jenny.
34:13Cheers.
34:14Right, Grace, Susie?
34:15Yes.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17See you tomorrow.
34:18There's part of me that's slightly relieved that Jenny's not staying for another show,
34:21because the ribbing I've had from upstairs, I think they all prefer you.
34:24Yeah.
34:24So...
34:25Well, you just never know.
34:26Susie and I will be back tomorrow.
34:28You can count on us.
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34:36You can also find our webpage at channel4.com.
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