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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Wednesday afternoon.
00:35Two contestants locked in a studio.
00:37One will escape a winner at the end of 15 rounds of letters and numbers.
00:41Cannot wait. Hiya, Rich.
00:43Hey, Cole.
00:44Now, escape rooms. Talk to me.
00:46It's a bit of a relatively new phenomenon.
00:49You go out for the night, you get locked in a themed room,
00:51and you've got to work the clues out.
00:53Have you caught the bug yet?
00:55I've done one.
00:57Mm-hm.
00:572018, in Moscow.
01:00So it wasn't much of wordplay.
01:01Right.
01:02Can't remember much about it, but I got out.
01:04That's the key.
01:05That's all you've got to do, isn't it?
01:06Well, listen, the dent and I have been...
01:11I should say this, because this might sound awkward to people.
01:13We live close.
01:14Rachel does not live close to us.
01:16Not like Susie and I go, don't invite Rachel.
01:18We'd love to have you.
01:19In fact, I'd love to have you,
01:20because we might get out of one of these blooming rooms
01:22if you were there.
01:24So we've done four over the last few weeks.
01:26Pharaoh-themed.
01:27What was it, Susie?
01:28Wild West, Doctor Who.
01:30Doctor Who and Samurai.
01:33Samurai.
01:33And let's just say it's testing our friendship.
01:37Young Thea has been there.
01:38She's been the star.
01:39Go on, then.
01:40Give me your side.
01:41Well, OK.
01:42So as everybody knows who does escape rooms,
01:44the fun is trying to work it out over an hour.
01:46Yep.
01:46And what they always do is give you a last resort.
01:49Like in the Wild West, it'll be the cowbell.
01:51You ring that, and in they come.
01:53So Thea and I will try and work it out,
01:57head scratch, spend a bit of time on it.
02:00Susie looks at the puzzle.
02:01This is what Susie does.
02:02OK, I'll do this puzzle.
02:04Ring, ring, ring.
02:05How do you do this puzzle?
02:06That's not true.
02:07And Thea and I are like, it should be 30 seconds.
02:11I usually like to ring the bell when we've got four minutes left
02:14and quite a few puzzles to go.
02:17But you know we've never solved one, really.
02:19I thought we were OK.
02:19We got out of all four.
02:21We legally had to be allowed out of all four.
02:23Well, that's true.
02:24We pressed the exit button.
02:26Well, listen, no problems if you have to escape from anywhere
02:28over the next 45 minutes or so,
02:31because Susie Dent, joined by the brilliant magician,
02:33making his debut in Dexterity Corner,
02:35why on us all, is Ben Hamlin.
02:39I suppose you're not allowed in escape rooms, right?
02:41I can get... I'm allowed in.
02:43I mean, I'm just not allowed to use magic to escape out, yeah.
02:46Well, Caroline McManus, your champion,
02:48has been absolutely magic so far.
02:51And you're now five wins in.
02:54You've got better and better.
02:55You've got over 100 in your last appearance.
02:57101, if my memory serves me right,
02:59and you didn't get the conundrum.
03:00All right, happy days.
03:02We're trying to dethrone you.
03:04It's Andrew Newman, a retired solicitor
03:07who grew up in Kent, who lives in Surrey.
03:10How are you, sir?
03:11I'm very well, thank you.
03:11Good stuff. Well, you're looking very dapper,
03:13if you don't mind what you said.
03:15Now, you are fighting fit,
03:17a pickle baller,
03:19which, for people that don't know,
03:21it's small tennis, if you want to say anything.
03:23Right, if you like, yes.
03:24I'm all for this, right?
03:25What's the magic of pickleball for you?
03:28It's a very sociable game.
03:29We play doubles on a badminton-sized court.
03:32It's a bit like tennis and table tennis.
03:36It's a tennis net and the ball about the size of a tennis ball,
03:39but it's plastic with holes in.
03:40Yeah.
03:41And we have paddles, bigger than a table tennis bat,
03:44not as big as a tennis racket,
03:45and it's a great game.
03:46They're sprouting up everywhere,
03:48the pickleball, all over the place.
03:49It's a growing game.
03:50Yeah, really is.
03:51It's all over the places as well.
03:54Happy days, Andrew.
03:55Caroline, best of luck to you today.
03:59And, Caroline, to your show.
04:01Start with a consonant, please.
04:02Thank you, Caroline.
04:03Start today with P.
04:05And another, please.
04:07D.
04:08Another.
04:11M.
04:12And another.
04:14T.
04:16And a vowel, please.
04:20E.
04:21And another vowel.
04:22U.
04:24And another vowel.
04:26I.
04:28And another vowel, please.
04:31O.
04:32And a consonant, please.
04:33And a final L.
04:35About the whole mind in the studio, let's play Kanto.
04:37And a consonant, please.
04:39And a consonant, please.
04:40And a consonant, please.
04:41And a consonant, please.
04:41And a consonant, please.
04:42And a consonant, please.
04:43And a consonant, please.
04:43And a consonant, please.
04:43And a consonant, please.
04:44And a consonant, please.
04:44And a consonant, please.
04:44And a consonant, please.
04:45And a consonant, please.
04:45And a consonant, please.
04:46And a consonant, please.
04:46And a consonant, please.
04:47And a consonant, please.
04:47And a consonant, please.
04:48And a consonant, please.
04:48And a consonant, please.
04:49And a consonant, please.
04:50And a consonant, please.
04:51And a consonant, please.
04:52And a consonant, please.
04:53And a consonant, please.
04:54And a consonant, please.
04:55And a consonant, please.
04:56There you go.
05:09Caroline?
05:10Seven.
05:11And Andrew?
05:11Seven.
05:12Very good.
05:13What have we got?
05:13Imputed.
05:14Imputed.
05:15And Andrew?
05:16I've got the same.
05:17Let's have a little look that way.
05:19Bernie, you offered a flyer as well?
05:21We also had imputed as well.
05:23I couldn't beat seven.
05:25Well, there's a lovely dialect word plouted in there.
05:28P-L-O-U-T-E-D.
05:30You'll find it in Orkney.
05:32Not sure about Guernsey, but chiefly sort of Scottish and Irish English.
05:36And it means to splash about in water.
05:39Love it.
05:39A couple of sevens to start us off as we get another letters round from Andrew.
05:43Vowel, please.
05:44Thank you, Andrew.
05:45A.
05:47And a consonant.
05:49D.
05:50And another.
05:52C.
05:52Vowel, please.
05:56A.
05:57Q.
05:58A consonant.
06:00R.
06:02And another.
06:05S.
06:06And a vowel.
06:09O.
06:11And another.
06:14U.
06:16And a consonant to finish.
06:18And lastly, B.
06:19And 30 seconds.
06:20Three.
06:22And 30 seconds.
06:23Andrew, how many?
06:52Only a six, I think. A six there. And Caroline?
06:55Eight. And an eight. Wow. Andrew?
06:57Braces. Brace yourself for this. Caroused.
07:01Caroused. Excellent word, yes.
07:03APPLAUSE
07:05Anything else? Also what we had, caroused, didn't we?
07:08Yep, we did. Brocade, otherwise for seven. OK.
07:11Well, listen, as far as our experts are concerned at Dictionary Corner,
07:14Caroline's so far could not have done any better.
07:17So, Andrew, not a bad start at all, with seven points to 15.
07:21And Caroline, you're picking the numbers.
07:23I'll go with one large, please, Rachel.
07:25Thank you, Caroline. Why break the habit of a lifetime?
07:28Five little ones coming up.
07:30And the first numbers of the day are two, ten, four, nine, one.
07:36And the large one, 75.
07:38And the target, 568.
07:41Five, six, eight. Numbers up.
07:43One hundred.
07:53Five, six, eight.
07:56I don't know.
08:01Five, six, nine.
08:06Time's up, Caroline.
08:15I haven't written anything down.
08:17And Andrew.
08:18Not nowhere, I'm afraid.
08:19Wow, listen, early nerves.
08:21Today must be something in the water.
08:23Fairly straightforward, Rach.
08:25Yeah, if you know you're 75 times stable,
08:27you can say 75 minus 4, 71,
08:31and then 9 minus 1 is 8.
08:33Times them together, 5, 6, 8.
08:34APPLAUSE
08:35Thanks.
08:38Well, nerve-wracking your first numbers round, Andrew,
08:40but no damage caused there at all
08:41as we get our first Tea Time teaser,
08:43which is ten diets.
08:46Ten diets.
08:47That's just this year for me, by the way.
08:49Change the colour of the curtains in the eating areas.
08:52Change the colour of the curtains in the eating areas.
09:04APPLAUSE
09:05Well, hello to you again.
09:13The Tea Time teaser changed the colour
09:15of the curtains in the eating areas.
09:18Dinets.
09:18Dinets was the answer.
09:20Pardon my ignorance.
09:21Dinets.
09:21I mean, curtains in a diner room.
09:23Yeah, I don't think you'd hear this very often,
09:24but it's just a part of a room that you set aside for eating meals.
09:27There you go.
09:27Another Tea Time teaser to thrill and flummox
09:31as we get back to the game and Andrew.
09:33Consonant, please.
09:34Thank you, Andrew.
09:35T.
09:36And a vowel, please.
09:38I.
09:39And another.
09:41E.
09:42And a consonant, please.
09:45N.
09:45And lastly, T.
09:46Nice.
09:47Thank you, Rach.
09:49T.
09:49Nice.
09:50Thank you, Rach.
09:51Thank you, Rach.
10:14Thank you, Rach.
10:44How many, Andrew?
10:45Six.
10:46And Caroline?
10:47Seven.
10:48Seven.
10:49The six is?
10:49Invent.
10:50Invent.
10:51And let's hope you haven't invented this seven.
10:53Well, I hope not.
10:54Betting.
10:55Yes.
10:55Betting, fine.
10:56You two N's for invent, unfortunately, Andrew.
10:58Oh, so do you.
10:59But, yeah, betting, absolutely fine for seven.
11:02OK, seven, anything above a seven?
11:05Yes.
11:06We got an eight during that little vignette.
11:08Oh, wonderful.
11:09Right, 22, seven, and it's back on you, champ.
11:14And I'll start with a consonant, please.
11:16Thank you, Caroline.
11:17N.
11:19And another.
11:20S.
11:21And another.
11:24W.
11:25And another, please.
11:27B.
11:27And a vowel, please.
11:31O.
11:32And another vowel.
11:34I.
11:36And another vowel, please.
11:39A.
11:41And another vowel, please.
11:45E.
11:47And a consonant, please.
11:48And lastly, N.
11:50Half a minute.
12:21Caroline?
12:23I'm going to hope there's a seven.
12:25Andrew?
12:26I'll risk a seven.
12:27I think you might have the same word, because I was thinking the same thing.
12:30Is that...can you...?
12:31I'm hoping that bonnies...
12:33Yes, yes, the hope is there.
12:35Same word, I'm guessing.
12:36Same word.
12:37OK.
12:38The nation holds its breath.
12:40There'll be a lot of people's fun of bonnies, but don't trust it.
12:43Oh, our bonnies lie over the oceans.
12:46Yeah, absolutely fine.
12:47One's beloved is one's bonnie.
12:48And to make it a full house, that's what we got as well.
12:51Yay!
12:51Bonnies, but which is proof you can pluralise it?
12:54At 29, 14, second numbers round.
12:58And, Andrew, you're going to choose.
13:00Three large and three small, please.
13:02Yeah, there we go.
13:03Something different from the one large you've had for a while.
13:06Let's put you two to the test.
13:08Three little ones, nine, three and seven.
13:11And the big ones, 25, 50 and 75.
13:14And the target to reach, 318.
13:18318.
13:19Numbers up.
13:19a lot of people.
13:20Go.
13:20Do that.
13:23Okay.
13:24And that said, 3.18, Andrew.
13:52And you've got 3.23.
13:533.23, well, keep up the faith, that's 5 away, Caroline.
13:583.18.
13:59Yeah, the faith is all gone.
14:01Caroline.
14:047 minus 3 is 4.
14:054.
14:06Times for 75.
14:08300.
14:0950 over 25 is 2.
14:12Times for 9.
14:13And add the bits.
14:14You just needed a harder one.
14:16Ten points. Well done.
14:18APPLAUSE
14:20Well, let's take a break and head over to the dictionary corner.
14:23What a joy it has been to watch Ben ply his art every day so far this week.
14:30I'm worried that you top-loaded the week with your two most impressive tricks.
14:36Oh, thanks for that, Colin.
14:37Well, I'm glad you've been impressed because, you know, it's three days in and I haven't done
14:41a proper trick with you yet.
14:43So...
14:43Give me the apple.
14:44Get out, get out.
14:45The crossbow.
14:45Yes.
14:46It's fine.
14:46That would have been a good one for Halloween.
14:48Right.
14:48Let's do this.
14:49Um, so that's what we're going to do.
14:50I'll come over here.
14:52Absolute true story.
14:53I got into magic when I was in school.
14:55I should have been learning my maths and things like that and I'd sit in the back of the classroom
14:59and I used to, I'm not proud of this, but I used to use magic to talk to girls.
15:03Not in a weird way, but eventually, um, I came up with a few interesting tricks,
15:08which I'd like to show you.
15:09Yes.
15:09If you stand up for me, please, Colin, and just stand just here for me, please.
15:13It would be great.
15:13I'm not a cheap date.
15:14I want you to know that.
15:15Well, we'll see how we get on.
15:16So I remember the very first time I used magic to talk to a girl.
15:20Her name was Bryony Davis.
15:22She was 14.
15:23I was 13.
15:24Player.
15:26Exactly right.
15:27And what happened is we get the bus to school and eventually I came up with a trick that was
15:31guaranteed to get me a kiss.
15:33Yes.
15:34We're going to do a reenactment, you and I, Colin.
15:35Here's the deal.
15:37You're going to regret this more than me.
15:40You're going to play 14 year old Bryony.
15:41It's very simple.
15:42You're going to take a card.
15:43It doesn't matter which one it is.
15:44Take it.
15:44Which one do you want to go for?
15:45The five of hearts.
15:46Yeah.
15:46So that we know it's yours.
15:47Sweet Bryony, please.
15:48Write your name or your initials or your landline.
15:52Nice and big across there.
15:52Any students watching a landline?
15:54It's like a mobile but it's plugged into the wall.
15:56Okay.
15:57Right.
15:57So we've got the five of hearts with your signature and you've generally gone method.
16:00He's writing the word Bryony.
16:02She told me I was Bryony.
16:03Perfect.
16:03All right.
16:04Good.
16:04Five of hearts.
16:04I'm going to show it there so you can get a nice good view of that.
16:07All right.
16:08Thank you very much.
16:09This is where it gets slightly weird because what I'd like to do now, sweet Bryony, is open
16:13your mouth.
16:14Please.
16:14That's all right.
16:14Lovely.
16:15Thank you very much.
16:15This is getting slightly strange, I know.
16:16I'm going to take Bryony's card, the five of hearts.
16:18I'm going to take it just here.
16:19I'm going to pop a bend into it.
16:20I'm going to pop it just there and you're going to bite onto that for me.
16:22Perfect.
16:23So she was stood at the bus stop with a card in her mouth thinking, what is going on?
16:27So I'll join you.
16:27I'll take the nine of diamonds.
16:29I'll write my initials BH and you didn't expect this today.
16:32I know where she's gone.
16:33Yeah.
16:33I'll take BH for Ben Hanlon.
16:35I'm going to put them just on the nine of diamonds there.
16:37I'm going to get rid of the entire deck.
16:39I'm going to take just the nine of diamonds.
16:41I'm going to place that just like you are.
16:42I'm going to put that inside my mouth like so.
16:43You see, he goes like, I like how you're wiping your lips here, Colin.
16:46This is good.
16:47Now, Colin, hold your hands up.
16:50Don't move, OK?
16:51Yeah.
16:53Why are you closing your eyes, man?
16:56How am I doing it?
16:58Right.
16:59Here comes the magic, Colin.
17:02Did you feel that?
17:03Mm-hmm.
17:04Good.
17:04A tiny touch.
17:06A tiny touch, yeah?
17:07Oh.
17:07Colin, let me go.
17:08Yeah.
17:09Let me go.
17:10OK.
17:11If this has worked, if this has worked, your card...
17:17No.
17:18That's unbelievable.
17:19Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
17:21Which means that my card, have a look.
17:23That nine of diamonds is just...
17:26Look at that.
17:27Beat.
17:28Aw.
17:28APPLAUSE
17:30Come on.
17:30Thank you very much.
17:32Ben, well done.
17:33Well done.
17:35Brilliant.
17:35Thank you so much, Ben.
17:36Wild me again.
17:38Cheers, guys.
17:40Right, Caroline and Andrew, let's get back to business.
17:43No trickery from any of you as we get our next letters round from Caroline.
17:48I'll start with a consonant, please.
17:49Thank you, Caroline.
17:51S.
17:52And another, please.
17:54R.
17:55And another, please.
17:57T.
17:59And another, please.
18:01G.
18:03And a vowel, please.
18:05O.
18:05And another vowel.
18:07U.
18:08And another vowel.
18:10E.
18:12And a consonant, please.
18:15S.
18:16A consonant, please.
18:18And a final, H.
18:21There it is.
18:21Here we go.
18:22Qu'est-ce art.
18:352
18:462
18:462
18:482
18:52Caroline.
18:53Eight.
18:54Eight. And Andrew?
18:55Six only, I'm afraid.
18:56Just the six. What's the six?
18:58Gusset.
18:59And Caroline?
19:00Well, I hope a person is a shouter.
19:02Yes.
19:03That there are more than one of them.
19:04There can be more than one shouter, yeah. Very good indeed.
19:07Am I right? Gusset is one of your least favourite words, if not the?
19:10Yes. Hate that word.
19:12Right. What have we got, Ben?
19:14We've got another eight. Roughest.
19:16Roughest?
19:17Mmm.
19:18And arriving the day after Halloween, I think Rachel spotted this with one second gone on the clock.
19:24We've not only got our ghosts, but we got our ghosters.
19:26Yes.
19:27We don't like ghosters.
19:29People who end a relationship without any communication whatsoever.
19:32Yes, absolutely.
19:33Yeah.
19:34Right, 47 plays, 14.
19:36So, Andrew, let's do this.
19:38Can I have a vowel, please?
19:39Thank you, Andrew.
19:41A.
19:42And a consonant, please.
19:44M.
19:45And another.
19:47A.
19:48P.
19:49And a vowel.
19:50E.
19:51Another vowel.
19:52O.
19:53Consonant, please.
19:54D.
19:55And another consonant.
19:56W.
19:57And a vowel.
19:58I.
19:59And another consonant.
20:00And lastly, S.
20:01Start the clock.
20:02The clock.
20:03The clock.
20:04The clock.
20:05The clock.
20:06The clock.
20:07The clock.
20:08The clock.
20:09The clock.
20:10The clock.
20:11The clock.
20:12The clock.
20:13The clock.
20:14The clock.
20:15The clock.
20:16The clock.
20:17The clock.
20:19MUSIC
20:43Mr Newman? Seven.
20:45And Mrs McManus? Seven.
20:47All sevens. What have you got, Andrew?
20:48Swamped. Swamped. And Caroline?
20:50I'm in the meadows.
20:52Swamps and meadows. Nice round.
20:54Pomades as well.
20:56Nice round. Applying scented ointment to your hair.
20:58Thank you very much. 54-21.
21:00Third numbers round of the day. Caroline?
21:04I'm still going one large.
21:06I still say it's bad tactics. One large and five little.
21:09You smashed a three large. Let's see if we can get this one, though.
21:12Right, for you two, the next round.
21:14Ten, five, four, eight, 3175.
21:20And the target to reach? 737.
21:23737. Numbers up.
21:25immense.
21:27And it enjoyable for me now.
21:30I was almost.
21:33Swamp?
21:34Do it all together.
21:35Yes, I have it there.
21:36It has two rubric,
21:39but just for any worse and more together.
21:40I agree with that...
21:41Yes, I agree.
21:42If it's so embarrassing,
21:43as I have joked it,
21:44and I was ever i funzed,
21:45there's nonormal ocean.
21:46Anything...
21:47That's okay.
21:48That's too easy.
21:49That's okay,
21:50great.
21:50It's just enough.
21:51And I was almost.
21:52MUSIC
21:55737, Caroline.
21:57737.
21:58Andrew?
21:59737.
22:00Good stuff. Let's hand out those ten points. Caroline?
22:0375 times 10.
22:05750.
22:07Eight and five.
22:08Yeah, that's it.
22:10Take them away.
22:11Yes, and Andrew?
22:12It's the same.
22:14Absolutely.
22:15APPLAUSE
22:17Very straightforward as we get our second Tea Time teaser of the day.
22:20It's tick-pair, tick-pair, and the pair is not as in you eat it, but a pair of socks.
22:24P-A-I-R.
22:25It almost sounds like a bird, and it can get you flying.
22:28It almost sounds like a bird, and it can get you flying.
22:32MUSIC
22:38APPLAUSE
22:41Welcome back. It almost sounds like a boy that can get you flying.
22:51It's para-kite, which is all of a sudden ringing a few bells, Susie.
22:55Yeah, it is. We talked about this, didn't we, very recently.
22:58It is essentially what you would use for para-ascending,
23:01so it's when you are attached by a harness to essentially like a kite,
23:05and then you are towed by a speed boat, and you go up very high.
23:08Actually, was that your first show, Caroline, that came out?
23:11I can't remember.
23:12When you've won that many, Andrew, they all just blend in.
23:16Right, back to the game, Andrew. Off you go, my friend.
23:18A vowel, please, Rachel.
23:20Thank you, Andrew.
23:21U.
23:22And another.
23:23E.
23:24Consonant, please.
23:26N.
23:27And another.
23:28R.
23:29Vowel.
23:30E.
23:31Consonant.
23:32F.
23:33And again.
23:34D.
23:35And a vowel.
23:36I.
23:37And a consonant.
23:38And lastly, M.
23:39Good luck.
24:00Goodness me, Andrew.
24:01Seven.
24:02And Caroline.
24:03Seven.
24:04What have you got there, Andrew?
24:05Seven.
24:06What have you got there, Andrew?
24:07Referred.
24:08Referred.
24:09How are you spelling that?
24:10R. E. F. E. R. E. D.
24:12O.
24:22Oh, just the two A's.
24:27Unlucky, my friend.
24:28Unlucky, Caroline.
24:29I'm hoping that pottery can be unfired.
24:31Yes.
24:36Finally, having to remove what we're doing, but.
24:40Yes.
24:41It can be, yes. If it hasn't been in the kiln, it is unfired.
24:45That's really good, but, yes, referred. You need three R's for that one, so sorry.
24:49Did you get a seven or a Bob, Ben? We got a seven. Refined.
24:53Refined. Nice. Very good indeed. Very good. A lot going on in that round.
24:57As we get another letters round, under belts, Caroline,
25:01would you like to do the honours? Thank you. I'll start with a consonant, please.
25:05Thank you, Caroline. R. And another.
25:09H. And another. D.
25:13And another, please. Y. And a vowel, please.
25:17A. And another vowel. A.
25:21And another vowel. I.
25:25A consonant, please. Another R.
25:29Erm...
25:31And another consonant, please. And lastly, S.
25:35Kind time.
25:37T.
25:52Caroline?
26:08Five.
26:09Yeah, Andrew?
26:10Six.
26:11The five?
26:12Hairy.
26:13Hairy and, come on, Andrew.
26:14Radish.
26:15Oh, nice one.
26:16Radish, very good indeed.
26:18Radish is absolutely in there for a big, big six points.
26:22Well done to you.
26:23What are we saying, Ben?
26:24Well, if you'd have stuck a Y on it, you'd have got radishy.
26:27How can something be radishy?
26:28I know.
26:29You must be having a laugh.
26:31No, it's in the dictionary.
26:32What would be radishy?
26:33A radish?
26:34A sauce or a condiment might have a radishy taste to it.
26:37Fantastic.
26:38Right, let's take a break from the game then,
26:40as we head over to the dictionary corner for origins of words.
26:44We're going to talk about simple expression, quantum leap.
26:49You know, recognisable to physicists everywhere,
26:51but it turns out that for anyone who really cares about precision in language,
26:56this is going to be quite annoying,
26:57and it belongs in the same category as a meteoric rise,
27:00because, of course, meteors never rise.
27:02They fall.
27:03But we use it for something kind of quick and dramatic,
27:06and the same goes for quantum leap.
27:08And, strictly speaking, a quantum leap is actually not a large change at all,
27:14as we're implying, but a really tiny one,
27:16because, of course, quantum, it comes from the Latin quantus,
27:19meaning how much.
27:20That gave us quantity as well.
27:21And in physics, a quantum, which was a term introduced by Max Planck,
27:27the physicist, around 1900, is a really small amount of energy,
27:32so it's the minimum amount of energy that can exist in any given situation.
27:37And a quantum jump is an abrupt change of an electron or an atom
27:41from one energy state to another.
27:43And it's a tiny, tiny jump in terms of size,
27:47but it's really instantaneous and it's very dramatic,
27:50which is why we embraced it to mean something giant.
27:55A quantum leap seems to be one that is so remarkable,
27:58because it goes from one stepping stone to another one,
28:00which is very far away, a sudden major large increase.
28:04But, as I say, strictly speaking,
28:05we should never be talking about quantum leaps.
28:07Well, I don't know.
28:09I think the way that these things kind of seep into the language,
28:12they kind of change along the way,
28:14and we use hyperbole as we always do,
28:16a bit of bigging up in language.
28:17But, yeah, strictly speaking, for those...
28:19I don't want to call people pedants,
28:20because pedants were originally schoolteachers.
28:22That was the first meaning of that word.
28:25But people who really care about the accuracy of English,
28:28maybe that one is not one to use.
28:33Andrew, let's get back to the letters.
28:36Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:37Thank you, Andrew.
28:38T.
28:40And another.
28:42And a consonant.
28:51And another.
28:55And a consonant.
28:57And lastly, R.
29:00Let's play.
29:35Interesting round this, Andrew?
29:43Seven.
29:43Well done. And Caroline?
29:45Just six.
29:46The six is?
29:47Pierce.
29:47Andrew's making a mini-comeback here. What is it?
29:50Politer.
29:51Politer.
29:52Yes.
29:53Anything else in Dictionary Corner? That was impressive.
29:55Those were some slippery letters, a bit like a reptile.
30:00Seven.
30:01Another seven there.
30:02Nothing above.
30:03Last letters round, Caroline.
30:05Start with a consonant, please.
30:07Thank you, Caroline.
30:08N.
30:09And another, please.
30:11S.
30:12And another.
30:13L.
30:15And another.
30:16T.
30:17And a vowel, please.
30:19A.
30:21And another vowel.
30:22O.
30:23And another.
30:25E.
30:26And a consonant.
30:28G.
30:30And a vowel, please.
30:33Lastly, O.
30:34Lost letters.
30:35Lost letters.
31:05How'd you get on, Caroline?
31:07Just six.
31:08A six? And Andrew?
31:10Also six.
31:11OK, Caroline?
31:12Gloats.
31:13Gloats and Andrew?
31:14Saloon.
31:15And saloon.
31:16Well, you needed that, Caroline, to steady the ship.
31:19Anything else?
31:20There was an eight.
31:21I can't take credit for it, but I will say it.
31:23Tangelo's.
31:25Tangelo's.
31:25Tangelo's, brilliant, is such a countdown word.
31:28It's a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine.
31:31Tangelo.
31:32Never tried one.
31:32And we love to spot a penguin in there, don't we?
31:37Well, just for you, gen twos are in there.
31:38The gen twos in there, which is lovely.
31:4177.50.
31:42We can relax now, Andrew.
31:43You went three large last time, didn't you, in the numbers?
31:46Literally do whatever you want.
31:47Three large, three small, please.
31:48Three large.
31:49We can have a little bit of fun with the final numbers.
31:51And three little ones.
31:53And the final round, final numbers round of the day.
31:57Four, six, five.
31:59And then the big ones.
32:01One hundred, fifty, and seventy-five.
32:05And the target to reach, 654.
32:08Six, five, four.
32:09Last numbers.
32:09Six, five, four.
32:40Six, five, four, Andrew.
32:42Six, five, four.
32:43Well done.
32:43And Caroline?
32:44No, I got six, five, six.
32:47Oh, you've had a proper wobbly there.
32:49I have.
32:49Andrew?
32:50Six times a hundred.
32:51Six hundred.
32:52Plus fifty.
32:53Plus four.
32:54Six fifty.
32:54Six, five, four.
32:55APPLAUSE
32:56Hey, I tell you what, if you had picked up that last letters ride,
33:01we'd be going to a crucial conundrum here, Andrew.
33:03That's a fantastic second half you've had.
33:05Let's see if you can top it off with getting the conundrum.
33:08So fingers on the buzzers.
33:09Let's reveal this Wednesday afternoon's Countdown Conundrum.
33:12MUSIC PLAYS
33:33Caroline?
33:35I think it's a majorette.
33:37Let's have a look.
33:37APPLAUSE
33:38Six wins in the bag.
33:45Fantastic.
33:46Never had a Guernsey Octo Champ.
33:48We're two days away.
33:49And, Andrew, as I say, fantastic comeback from you.
33:53Have you had an all right day?
33:54I've had a great day.
33:55Thank you very much.
33:55Good.
33:56We looked after you.
33:57Indeed.
33:57Cops of tea and everything.
33:58Definitely.
34:00Right, there you go, Ben.
34:01More magic tomorrow.
34:02I just want to check before we go, Susie,
34:04are you coordinating outfits again?
34:05Oh, well, we emailed.
34:06Yeah, let's...
34:07We'll sort it out.
34:0841 tomorrow, eh?
34:10It seems like yesterday.
34:11Do you remember they had the 40th anniversary on the clock?
34:13We were all just starting working together.
34:15A year?
34:16Well, 41, I can do my old,
34:17we're in our prime joke.
34:19Yes.
34:19Or we can just pretend we're 40 for a couple of years either way.
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34:31You can count on us.
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