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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Tuesday afternoon.
00:34Fifteen rounds of letters and numbers ahead, as always.
00:37Thank you for tuning in. Hello, Rachel.
00:39Hello, Colin.
00:39Now, we could have talked about this any day this week.
00:41It's Dyslexia Awareness Week.
00:43It is crazy, even when you were growing up,
00:46but certainly when I was growing up,
00:47dyslexia was seen as, like, a consequence of education.
00:52That's bizarre.
00:53Thankfully, we smashed all that ignorance.
00:55I did a list of people who are dyslexic.
00:58I think a great poet and somebody who I keep trying to persuade
01:02to do Dictionary Corner, Benjamin Zephaniah, is dyslexic.
01:05And we've had dyslexic Dictionary Corner guests,
01:08and hopefully he'll come on at some stage.
01:10Cher. Cher is dyslexic.
01:12Well, there you go.
01:13It is, indeed, Dyslexia Awareness Week.
01:16Yeah, lots of creative people.
01:17I think I remember Cara Toynton talking about it once on this morning.
01:20Well, listen, let's introduce Dictionary Corner today.
01:22The foundation of Countdown, owner of the biggest dressing room,
01:26it's Susie Dent.
01:27And alongside her all this week,
01:29presenter and broadcaster, Gloria Honeyford.
01:32So, nobody's been able to better Ben Bazzard, our champion.
01:36Six wins now.
01:37Feeling fairly comfortable?
01:39I'm certainly enjoying it, Colin, very much.
01:42You're up against Joanna Neville.
01:44She's grounded at the moment, a world-class flight attendant,
01:46but for the best of reasons, how many weeks pregnant are you?
01:50It'll be 21 weeks.
01:51Have you found out whether it's male or female?
01:54Yes, it's a girl.
01:56Right, it's a girl.
01:57So, have you picked a name?
01:58She's going to be called Xena.
02:00Oh, spell that for me?
02:01With an X.
02:02X-E-N-A.
02:04Xena's a beautiful name.
02:05What's the surname?
02:07It'll be Zwart.
02:08That's my husband's last name.
02:09He's Dutch.
02:10Oh, wow.
02:11Yes.
02:11So, where are initials?
02:12X-Z.
02:13Oh, that's fantastic.
02:14That's unique.
02:15The letters that you don't want on Countdown.
02:17Well, listen, something to show young Xena
02:20when she's holding off the understander.
02:22Let's see if it'll be victory or defeat.
02:25Good luck to Joanna and Ben.
02:30You know the score by now.
02:31Let's give birth to another Countdown.
02:34Good afternoon, Rachel.
02:35Afternoon, Ben.
02:36Start with a consonant today, please.
02:38Start with T.
02:39And another.
02:41R.
02:42And another.
02:44D.
02:45And a vowel.
02:47E.
02:48And another vowel, please.
02:50U.
02:51And another vowel.
02:53I.
02:54And a consonant.
02:56X.
02:58And another consonant.
02:59T.
03:01And a final consonant, please.
03:04B.
03:05At the hall band in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:38Ben.
03:39A risky eight.
03:41Joanna.
03:41A six.
03:42Safe six, though.
03:44Let's have it.
03:44Uh, bitter.
03:45What's this eight?
03:46Tributed.
03:47Oh, I did check that.
03:49And it's just there as a noun, but not as a verb, I'm afraid.
03:52OK.
03:52Sorry, but it did occur to me as well.
03:54Was there anything better than a six?
03:56A tribute.
03:57Tribute on its own is there.
04:00And there's also bruited.
04:02This is a really old word.
04:03If you spread a rumour widely, you are bruiting it.
04:07So bruited is there for a seven.
04:09Oh, I love that.
04:10Well, listen, Joanna and Xena take an early lead.
04:13And it's your letters.
04:15Hi, Rachel.
04:16Could I start with a consonant, please?
04:18Thank you, Joanna.
04:18Start with N.
04:20And another one.
04:22G.
04:23And another one.
04:25S.
04:26I'll go for a vowel.
04:28O.
04:29Another vowel.
04:31A.
04:32One more vowel.
04:34I.
04:35And a consonant.
04:36Y.
04:38Another consonant.
04:40T.
04:41And a vowel.
04:44And a final A.
04:45On 30 seconds.
04:46On 30 seconds.
04:46On 30 seconds.
05:15How many, Joanna?
05:18Seven.
05:19Very good.
05:20Ben?
05:20Seven.
05:21Seven's all round.
05:22Joanna?
05:22Staying.
05:23Staying.
05:24And Ben?
05:24I've got the same word.
05:26Great.
05:26Yeah, it kind of felt like that's all she wrote once we found out.
05:30I'm still working on mine, but against for seven.
05:33Against for seven as well.
05:35Yeah.
05:35And gainsay.
05:36I like gainsay.
05:37Seven's all round.
05:39Numbers, then.
05:39Let's switch it up.
05:41Champ, you're picking.
05:42Three from the top, please, Rachel.
05:44Thank you, Ben.
05:45Three and three.
05:46And the first numbers of the day are eight, five, eight,
05:5250, 25 and 75.
05:56And the target for you, 144.
05:59144.
06:00Numbers up.
06:31Do you nail it, Ben?
06:32Yes, I think so.
06:33And what about you, Joanna?
06:34Yeah, 144.
06:35Very good.
06:36Off you go, Ben.
06:3775 divided by five.
06:39Yep, 15.
06:40Take away eight.
06:41Seven.
06:4225, take away seven.
06:4418.
06:45And multiply that by the other eight.
06:46Perfect.
06:47144.
06:48Might be a few more simpler ways to get there.
06:52Mine's a little less complicated.
06:53So I did 50 plus 25 plus 75.
06:57Yep, 150.
06:57150 minus a five.
06:59And then eight over eight for the one.
07:02Yep.
07:02The two ways I saw as well.
07:03Well done.
07:04One for four.
07:07All counts the same.
07:09Ten points, eight.
07:10And our challenger has a slight lead.
07:12Six points going into our first tea time teaser.
07:15Edwin Pip.
07:16Edwin Pip.
07:17Edwin flexed this a lot when singing about the war.
07:21Edwin flexed this a lot when singing about the war.
07:24Edwin Pip becomes windpipe.
07:28Edwin Pip becomes windpipe.
07:32I spent the whole break trying to work out what the connection to war is.
07:49The windpipe.
07:50Only to realise Edwin.
07:52Edwin's star.
07:53His famous song is war.
07:54Half the fun's working out the clue, not just the answer.
07:57Let's get back to the game.
07:58More letters.
07:59Joanna.
08:00I'll start with the consonant, please, Rachel.
08:02Thank you, Joanna.
08:03W.
08:04And another.
08:07D.
08:08And another.
08:09N.
08:10And a vowel.
08:14U.
08:15And another vowel.
08:17E.
08:18Another vowel.
08:20A.
08:21And a consonant.
08:24R.
08:25Another consonant.
08:27S.
08:28And one last consonant, please.
08:31Lastly, N.
08:33Thanks, Rachel.
08:40Time's up, Joanna.
09:06A seven.
09:07A seven.
09:08And Ben.
09:08I'll stick with a seven.
09:09Stick with the seven.
09:11There's a few risky ones in there, isn't there?
09:13Joanna.
09:13Wonders.
09:14Yes, wonders.
09:15And I wonder what you have.
09:16I've got the same wonders.
09:17Excellent.
09:19Seven points each.
09:20Straight forward.
09:21Yeah, there was possibilities there.
09:23Well, of course, with Susie's help, we got an eight.
09:25So it's unwarned.
09:27Yes.
09:28Unwarned.
09:28Unwarned.
09:29Probably one you wouldn't have risked, I think.
09:30No.
09:31Is that what you have, Ben?
09:32Yeah.
09:33Seven points each.
09:34And an eight in there as well.
09:36You keep your lead.
09:37But Ben, your letters.
09:39A consonant, please.
09:39Rachel.
09:40Thank you, Ben.
09:41L.
09:42And another consonant.
09:44R.
09:45And another consonant.
09:47S.
09:48And a vowel, please.
09:50O.
09:51And another vowel.
09:52E.
09:54And a third vowel.
09:55O.
09:56And a consonant.
09:57And a consonant.
09:59J.
10:00And another consonant.
10:02T.
10:04And a consonant, please.
10:07A final K.
10:08And half a minute.
10:09O.
10:10O.
10:25And a consonant.
10:27And...
10:41Seven. Joanna? Seven.
10:43Yeah, generous rounds, these. What have you got?
10:45Looters. I wonder, has Joanna got the same?
10:47The same, yeah. I'll have to see.
10:48If you can read my hand right, just here.
10:51Oh, that old trick, if you can read my hand right.
10:53You just do a squiggle and looters.
10:57Seven points each. Can we go away to games?
10:59Well, if you can look at my handwriting, it's looters.
11:03Is that it? Yes, it's very clear.
11:04I mean, change it around a little bit with retools.
11:07Yeah.
11:07To retool the plant by giving it new equipment.
11:10But seven was the best.
11:11All right, more numbers then.
11:12Joanna, your first time choosing.
11:14What are you going to do?
11:15I'll have two large, please, Rachel.
11:17Thank you, Joanna.
11:17Two large and four little ones coming up.
11:20And the second numbers of the day are four, two, seven, seven,
11:26and the large one's 50 and 75.
11:28And you need to reach 267.
11:32267, numbers up.
11:33To be continued.
11:36To be continued.
11:37To be continued.
11:39To be continued.
11:41Too large for Joanna, 267, how'd you do?
12:07263.
12:09Four away, Ben?
12:10267.
12:10267 for a big ten points to take the lead for the first time today.
12:1550, take away two.
12:1748.
12:18Multiplied by four.
12:20192.
12:21Add 75.
12:22Perfect.
12:23267.
12:27Well done, Ben.
12:28Just the four points in it.
12:30Nice close affair today as we break to have a chat with Gloria Honeyford.
12:34It's interesting when you write intros, some people you just can't say everything.
12:38You know, presenter, writer.
12:39But, of course, singer.
12:41And recently, I would do it if they asked me, but they never asked, The Masked Singer you
12:46were on.
12:46I know.
12:47I loved it.
12:48I really loved it.
12:49But, because I started to sing when I was seven, by the way, and whatever I was going
12:53to be, at whatever level, I was going to be a singer.
12:55But then broadcasting was given to me, and I'm very glad it was.
12:58But when they came to The Masked Singer, it's a huge studio.
13:03And my younger son said to me, are you sure you're going to do this?
13:06And I went, I love a challenge.
13:08And yes, I'm going to do it.
13:09I love the programme anyway.
13:10So it was the first time I'd been on a big, big stage for something like 24 years.
13:15I mean, big one.
13:16But people at home may be interested to know how you have to dress.
13:21Forget the costume for a minute on stage.
13:23But when you're driving to the studio or being driven, you have to stop about 15 minutes ahead
13:28of the studio.
13:28And you have to wear black shoes, black trousers, black top, a black sweatshirt that says,
13:35don't talk to me, and gloves.
13:37So, of course, well, you know, coming from Northern Ireland, we talk to everybody.
13:41And if they don't talk to us, we run after them until they do.
13:44So it was very strange for me not even to say thank you to the doorman.
13:47So anyway, and then you're sitting in a dressing room by yourself for quite a long time
13:53until they come to get you.
13:54But I was Snow Leopard, and Snow Leopard was so lovely.
13:58I loved the costume.
14:00And when they brought the mask to my house one Saturday morning, prior, long time before
14:04the thing, honestly, they took this beautiful mask out of the box.
14:08And I almost cried because it was just so lovely.
14:11However, at the end of the show, or the series, one of the producers said, you know, you're
14:17the oldest person to have done it.
14:19And I was thinking, tick.
14:21And then what did Dick Van Dyke do?
14:22And two weeks later, he did it at 97.
14:25Took away the crown.
14:27But isn't that amazing that he did it at that age, you know?
14:30So if they were to phone up Countdown and say, we want one of the three of them on Masked
14:35Singer, which of the three of us would you think?
14:37Well, actually, I would have the three of you together.
14:39I think you would do a great show because the costumes would be great.
14:43Yes.
14:43You could be hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
14:46We could be bros.
14:47And just like that, you know, you might win it because I don't think a threesome has
14:51ever been done.
14:52Which threesome would we be?
14:53Wilson, Phillips, Bross?
14:55Atomic Kitten.
14:56Atomic Kitten.
14:57Nailed it.
14:57We're ready.
14:58Just phone us, we'll sign up.
14:59Thank you, Gloria.
15:01APPLAUSE
15:02OK, Ben, your nose is in front for an I. More letters.
15:07A consonant, please, Rachel.
15:08Thank you, Ben.
15:09M.
15:10And another consonant.
15:12P.
15:13And another consonant.
15:15B.
15:16And a vowel, please.
15:18E.
15:19And another one.
15:20A.
15:21And another vowel, please.
15:23O.
15:24And a consonant.
15:26N.
15:27And another consonant.
15:29L.
15:30And finish with a consonant, please.
15:34And a final S.
15:36OK, start the clock.
15:37MUSIC PLAYS
15:41How'd you get on, Ben?
16:09I could try a seven.
16:09I'm going to try it, and Joanna?
16:11That's a six.
16:12Last time you tried something was wrong, remember, Joanna?
16:14And you're six counted.
16:15What have you got?
16:16Ambles.
16:17What are you trying?
16:18Bemoans.
16:19Bemoans.
16:20No worries.
16:20That one's fine.
16:21Yeah, very good.
16:22Yeah, well done to you.
16:22And Susie has a cracker.
16:24Yes.
16:24I'm going to let her actually introduce it.
16:26Yes, it sounds like it's straight out of a zombie movie.
16:29It was actually linguistics.
16:30A pleonasm.
16:32P-L-E-O-N-A-S-M.
16:34The use of more words than are necessary.
16:37So, I saw with my own eyes.
16:40So, you do that either for emphasis or because you're just putting it in superfluously.
16:44That would have got you an eight.
16:46Fantastic.
16:46More letters, Joanna.
16:48I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
16:50Thank you, Joanna.
16:50And another consonant, please.
16:59And a vowel.
17:02And a vowel.
17:04Another vowel.
17:06And a consonant.
17:12And lastly, P.
17:14Here we go.
17:20P-L-E-O-N-A-S-M.
17:45Joanna.
17:47Five.
17:48Tricky, Ryan, Ben.
17:49I've only got five, too.
17:50There you go.
17:50What are the words?
17:51Muted.
17:52Muted.
17:53Timed.
17:54Timed.
17:55Unmuted.
17:56Triguest round of the day.
17:57Did you manage to push us further?
17:59The best one I could get was tedium.
18:02Tedium.
18:03Yeah, that's a good six.
18:04And you can just about get to a seven with imputed.
18:07Oh, nice.
18:08So, particularly a crime, if you impute to somebody, you attribute it to them.
18:12Accuse them of it.
18:13Well, I expect seven off you.
18:14Gloria, six is sensational.
18:16Five's all round here.
18:17Sensational for me.
18:18Yeah.
18:19Fantastic.
18:20Really good.
18:20That would have won the round.
18:22OK, 53 plays 42.
18:25Too close to call.
18:26Back to the numbers.
18:27Ben.
18:28One from the top, please, Rachel.
18:30Thank you, Ben.
18:30One large.
18:31Five little coming up.
18:33And this selection is six, seven, three, four, three and 50.
18:41And the target?
18:42Five hundred and fifteen.
18:44Five fifteen.
18:45Five fifteen.
18:45Number's up.
18:45Five fifteen.
18:46Five fifteen.
18:46Numbers up.
18:47Five, five, five.
19:10Five hundred and fifteen.
19:105-1-5, Ben.
19:185-1-4.
19:19Joanna?
19:20Same, 5-1-4.
19:21OK, we'll let Joanna go, then.
19:23OK, so I did 7 plus 3.
19:2510.
19:26Times 50.
19:28500.
19:29And then 6 times 3.
19:306 times the other 3 is...
19:31And minus the 4.
19:3218, 14.
19:345-1-4.
19:36And mine's the same way there.
19:38Yeah.
19:385-1-5, Rich.
19:41Yeah, lots of cul-de-sacs when you try and times it by 10.
19:44But if you say 4 plus 7 is 11,
19:47then you can take 3 away from 50 for 47,
19:50times those together for 517.
19:53And you have a 6 with a second 3 to divide for 2 and 5-1-5.
20:02Yeah, that's how I did it, but the bit of paper's in the bin now,
20:04so no-one's ever going to get to see it.
20:05Here's the second tea-time teaser of the day.
20:07I love this one.
20:09C-Rumps.
20:10C-Rumps.
20:11And the C is S-E-E.
20:13Chicken.
20:14Even Diana thought they were the best.
20:16Chicken.
20:17Even Diana thought they were the best.
20:18CHICKEN.
20:19CHICKEN.
20:20Welcome back.
20:35C-Rumps become Supremes.
20:38Even Diana thought they were the best.
20:40The reference, of course, Diana Ross, which is applicable,
20:43as this show's been full of baby love.
20:45Joanna, let's get back to business, though.
20:47I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachael.
20:49Thank you, Joanna.
20:50R.
20:51And another.
20:52S.
20:53And another.
20:54G.
20:55And another.
20:56L.
20:57And a vowel.
20:58O.
20:59And another.
21:00A.
21:01And another.
21:02E.
21:03And a consonant.
21:04N.
21:05And a vowel.
21:06And a final.
21:07I.
21:08Excellent.
21:09Let's play.
21:10A.
21:11And a consonant.
21:12N.
21:13And a vowel.
21:14And a final.
21:15I.
21:16Excellent.
21:17Let's play.
21:18Excellent.
21:19Let's play.
21:20Let's play.
21:25Do you want to play?
21:30We'll see you.
21:35Good morning.
21:37We'll see you there.
21:49My goodness me Joanna a seven yes, and Ben. I'll try an eight. He's gonna risk an eight. Joanna. What's the seven?
21:57Soaring. Soaring. Soaring. Ben. Re-souling. Re-souling. Yeah, it's just resole still in. Absolutely, yes.
22:06To resole your shoes, obviously. Very good. That's fantastic. Any nines? It felt like it was flirting with a nine.
22:12Well, I hit on regional and then Susie said if you add an S to that, do you get a nine?
22:18Fantastic. Regionals. Yeah, the regionals, of course. Yeah, brilliant.
22:23APPLAUSE
22:26Yes, first nine of the week. Brilliant stuff from Susie and Gloria. Back to the letters and Ben.
22:32Start with a consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ben. S.
22:36And another consonant. N. And another one, please.
22:41Q. And a vowel.
22:44O. And another vowel.
22:46O. And another vowel.
22:48A. And another vowel.
22:51E. And a consonant.
22:55D. And another consonant.
22:59S. And a vowel, please.
23:03And lastly, O.
23:06Kind time.
23:07MUSIC PLAYS
23:08MUSIC PLAYS
23:11MUSIC PLAYS
23:13Give me a number, Ben.
23:25Six.
23:26And Joanna.
23:27Six.
23:28Yeah, that'll be good.
23:29Season.
23:30And a vowel.
23:31And a vowel.
23:32And a vowel.
23:33And a vowel.
23:34And a vowel.
23:35And a vowel.
23:36And a vowel.
23:37Season.
23:38Anodes.
23:39Happy?
23:40Very happy.
23:41Positively charged electrodes.
23:42Well, there will not be back-to-back Nines.
23:43From flow glow.
23:44Because we've got a queue.
23:45No you at all.
23:46How'd you get on?
23:47Just season.
23:48Six.
23:49That's it.
23:50Good stuff.
23:5174 plus 55.
23:52Four rounds left.
23:54A seventh win for Ben.
23:56Just season six.
23:57That's it. Good stuff.
23:5974 plus 55.
24:01Four rounds left.
24:03A seventh win for Ben.
24:04Not secured by any stretch of the imagination.
24:07But we pause for our origins of words, Suze.
24:11I'm going to talk about one of my favourite treats, really.
24:15I don't have these very often, but doughnuts.
24:17I love a good doughnut.
24:18So apologies for making everybody's mouth water.
24:21But I thought I'd talk about the history of the doughnut.
24:24Why a nut?
24:25What has this got to do with it?
24:26And there is a National Doughnut Week, actually, every year.
24:31I think it's in July.
24:32And it always seems to attract more theories as to where the doughnut comes from.
24:35And they're all very sweet, appropriately, stories.
24:38And one is that during the First World War, foot soldiers, infantrymen,
24:43were called doughboys.
24:45And this was probably because they had these very kind of globular brass buttons
24:49on their coats.
24:51And also they had white belts.
24:53And some say that pipe clay or pipe dough was used to kind of keep these belts very clean.
24:57Anyway.
24:58It is said that they went nuts for the treat whenever it was distributed by the Red Cross.
25:03That's a lovely theory, but not much evidence to back it up.
25:07Lots of other ones.
25:08Some of these same foot soldiers would be covered in white dust from sort of trekking over so much terrain.
25:13And I don't quite know where that one goes.
25:18But anyway, you get the idea.
25:20But we do know that Dutch bakers have been making these delicacies for a very long time,
25:24since the 15th century.
25:25And they were called something which maybe to our modern palates doesn't sound quite so delicious.
25:30And it wasn't until centuries later that the first mention in literature appeared.
25:44And that was from the US author Washington Irvin, who famously gave us the Knickerbocker,
25:50the story of the Knickerbocker, which I think I have covered elsewhere.
25:55And it's a lovely description.
25:56It's in his Knickerbocker's History of New York.
25:58Look, sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies
26:01or sauces full of preserved peaches and pears.
26:04But it was always sure to boast of an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough,
26:09fried in hogs fat, not sure about that bit,
26:11and cooled doughnuts or Olicooks, a delicious kind of cake,
26:15at present scarce known in this city, New York City,
26:18except in genuine Dutch families.
26:21So we do know many Dutch settlers in New York, obviously,
26:24and so they brought it over.
26:27But why the nut bit?
26:28Well, it may be because the little blobs of dough looked a tiny bit like tiny nuts,
26:34maybe wrinkly walnuts on the tray.
26:36But there are also old doughnut recipes where nuts were placed in the middle of the dough.
26:41So rather than have that kind of slightly doughy, undercooked middle,
26:46they actually would be nuts.
26:47And, of course, nowadays it's just a hole,
26:49so you don't get that undercooked bit.
26:51But it's just a lovely story, and I had no idea that they were so old.
26:54Over 500 years old, the doughnut.
27:01OK, 74, 55, with the 10 points at the end.
27:04That's still a cliffhanger, Joanna.
27:06So keep the faith, and let's go.
27:08I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
27:10Thank you, Joanna.
27:10And finally, P.
27:26Good luck.
27:40Good luck.
28:02Pressure in this round. How do you get on, Joanna?
28:14A five.
28:15And Ben?
28:16I will try a seven.
28:18Joanna?
28:19I'm feeling the pressure. A tiger.
28:21A tiger's there. No apologies for that. Ben?
28:24Writer?
28:25Yep, absolutely fine. More correct.
28:28I know it sounds very odd, but we are allowed the comparatives of words with a single syllable.
28:34Complicated countdown rule, but...
28:35It sounds wrong, but it's writer.
28:37Yes.
28:37OK.
28:38He was writer than me.
28:39He was definitely writer than you.
28:41Although it feels like he was wronger.
28:43Is wronger in there? Can we be wronger?
28:45Yeah, single syllable.
28:46OK.
28:47That's odd, though, isn't it?
28:49It does. Very odd.
28:50Forget writer, forget wronger. Anything longer?
28:52I'll try a seven. I know it's not longer, but anyway, upright.
28:56Upright.
28:56Upright is excellent, and if you don't like writer, you definitely won't like hurtier.
29:01So if you can be writer, and if you can be upright, can you not be more upright?
29:07Can you not be upright-er?
29:09If it's not specified, no, because it's more than one syllable, and I doubt that...
29:16No.
29:16No.
29:16Well, you could have built the suspense up a little bit more.
29:18That's all I'm saying.
29:19Good to try, Colin.
29:21Thank you, Gloria. Thank you.
29:24Last letters round. Ben?
29:26A consonant, please, Rachel.
29:28Thank you, Ben.
29:29W.
29:30And another consonant.
29:32R.
29:33And another consonant.
29:35L.
29:35And a vowel.
29:37O.
29:38And another vowel, please.
29:39E.
29:40And a third vowel.
29:42I.
29:43And a consonant.
29:45T.
29:46And another consonant.
29:48G.
29:49And a consonant, please.
29:53Lastly, S.
29:54Last letters.
29:55And a consonant.
29:56And a consonant.
29:57And a consonant.
29:57And a consonant.
29:58And a consonant.
29:58And a consonant.
29:58And a consonant.
29:59And a consonant.
29:59And a consonant.
30:00And a consonant.
30:00And a consonant.
30:01And a consonant.
30:01And a consonant.
30:01And a consonant.
30:01And a consonant.
30:02And a consonant.
30:02And a consonant.
30:02And a consonant.
30:02And a consonant.
30:02And a consonant.
30:03And a consonant.
30:03And a consonant.
30:03And a consonant.
30:04And a consonant.
30:04And a consonant.
30:05And a consonant.
30:05And a consonant.
30:05And a consonant.
30:06And a consonant.
30:06And a consonant.
30:07And a consonant.
30:08And a consonant.
30:08And a consonant.
30:09And a consonant.
30:09And a consonant.
30:10And a consonant.
30:10And a consonant.
30:25Ben?
30:28I haven't gone for one yet, so I'm going to go for a nine.
30:31I'm going to go for a nine. Joanna?
30:32I'm going to try a nine as well.
30:33Try the nine too. Will it be the same word, Ben?
30:36Growliest.
30:37Yes. Joanna?
30:38That is the same word.
30:39Same word, just we believe you.
30:42Absolutely.
30:43But Ben doubted you, so we just had to check that.
30:45Is it in the dictionary?
30:46It is.
30:47Yes.
30:48Well done.
30:53What a moment that is.
30:54Joanna, you know, to get a maximum and count down is just,
30:58that's one to tell the grandkids about, let alone Zena.
31:00That was on the bucket list.
31:02Oh, done.
31:03It does mean the gap's too big now to close it with just 20 points left,
31:06but 73 is sensational.
31:09And Ben, you're on for your best score yet.
31:1199 already, two rounds to go, and it's numbers with Joanna.
31:15I'll do two large again, please.
31:17Thank you, Joanna.
31:18Two from the top four not to finish the day off.
31:21Final selection is 4, 8, 1, 7, 75 and 25.
31:29And the target, 689.
31:32689.
31:33Last numbers.
31:33Thank you very much.
32:016, 8, 9, Joanna?
32:05Er, no.
32:07And Ben?
32:076, 8, 9.
32:08Off you go.
32:098 add 1.
32:108 plus 1, 9.
32:12Multiply by the 75.
32:146, 7, 5.
32:1625, take away the 7, take away the 4.
32:21Is 14.
32:22And add that on.
32:23Perfect. 6, 8, 9.
32:27And that brings Ben Bazzard on the cusp of his seventh week.
32:31A win, one away from OctoChamp to 1-0-9.
32:35Your highest score so far, 1-10.
32:37Not being cruel, Joanna, but wouldn't be great to stop him, eh?
32:41It would.
32:42Yes, let's do it.
32:43Fingers on the buzzers.
32:44It's not crucial, but it's very important.
32:46Let's reveal this Tuesday afternoon's Countdown Conundrum.
33:00He's there.
33:01Dispersed.
33:02He's asking me.
33:03Let's have a look.
33:04Yes.
33:09Oh, he's getting better and better, isn't he?
33:101-19 for Ben.
33:13You know what?
33:14Come to think of it, was that your first nine as well today?
33:16It was my first nine, Colin.
33:18I'm very happy.
33:19And very well done, Joanna, for getting it as well.
33:21Yeah.
33:22Really, really good from you.
33:23What a score.
33:2473 and a maximum in there.
33:26So, listen, we always say something to tell the kids about.
33:29Imagine showing this back to young Xena.
33:30Yeah.
33:31She was here as well.
33:33That'll be great.
33:33Lovely to have you.
33:34Thanks for being here.
33:36Gloria, Susie, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:37See you.
33:38Rachel, Joanna's first.
33:41You've got two daughters.
33:43What's your number one piece of advice to finish?
33:46I think the best advice I ever had was, you know,
33:48sleep when the baby sleeps, shower when the baby showers,
33:50and do the housework when the baby does the housework.
33:53Nice.
33:53Can't go wrong.
33:54Thanks, Rachel.
33:55Sage advice.
33:56Thank you very much, Rachel.
33:57We'll all be back here tomorrow.
33:58You can count on us.
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