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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to Countdown Studio.
00:33Now, today is the 18th of July, the birth date of a very inspirational man.
00:39And since 2010, it has been officially recognised as Nelson Mandela Day.
00:45And because Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity for 67 years,
00:49we're encouraged to spend 67 minutes, just 67 minutes of our own time,
00:55helping others, whether it's volunteering or at a nursing home, perhaps.
01:00Donating clothes or actually just spending time with somebody who very rarely has anybody to speak to.
01:06That's what this is all about, Nelson Mandela Day.
01:09Who else, I thought, would be inspirational? I thought Gandhi, yes.
01:13And then I asked our audience.
01:15You know that you've got a lot of fans in the audience today from the maths faculty at Durham University.
01:19And I said to them, who do you think is inspirational?
01:23And they came back with some great people.
01:25Malala, they came back with the Dalai Lama, and Martin Luther King, who would be a favourite of mine.
01:30So thank you, Durham, over in the corner there.
01:33What, um, who would you think, who would you pick as the most inspirational person?
01:39Well, I just, well, on the Nelson Mandela theme, I think Eddie Izzard, what he's done this year, absolutely incredible.
01:44Yes.
01:44It was 27 marathons in 27 days for the 27 years Nelson Mandela spent in prison.
01:49Yeah, yeah.
01:49And did you see any of the documentary, or did you follow any of his progress?
01:53I saw him stumbling along.
01:54How he does that, I don't know.
01:55I know.
01:57And day after day, and with so many medical emergencies, and then having to pick up two marathons here, and in the sweltering heat, and sunburn, and kidneys shutting down, and all sorts.
02:06He's a good guy, isn't he?
02:07He's a fantastic job, yeah.
02:08Very inspirational.
02:09He's a good, good guy.
02:10Yeah.
02:11Good guy.
02:12Lots of money raised.
02:12Whether he's wearing his make-up or not, I don't care.
02:15And he had his nails done for the whole thing.
02:17Beautiful.
02:18Of course he did.
02:19Yeah, God bless Eddie, he's a good man.
02:20All right.
02:21Who have we got with us?
02:22Stephen Fuller's back, our reigning champ, now with four wins under his belt.
02:25Another crucial conundrum, halfway to getting there.
02:29Well done.
02:30Well done, Stephen.
02:31You're joined today by David Huzzy Yeo, a retired IT project manager from Sheffield, who loves his architecture, Victorian and Georgian, but mostly you love the cathedrals and churches of the country, and you've visited most of them, apparently.
02:45Yeah, since I retired four years ago, I've had the opportunity to go around Scotland, Wales, and England, seeing all the major cathedrals.
02:53I haven't done them all yet.
02:54Beautiful things, yeah.
02:57Welcome.
02:58Welcome, David.
02:59And welcome, Stephen.
03:00Let's have a big round of applause for our contestants today.
03:03And, of course, Susie, as ever, is over in the corner, joined once again by Chris Packham, that wonderful wildlife expert.
03:17Brilliant.
03:18Now then, Stephen, let's have a letters game, shall we?
03:21Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:22Afternoon, Stephen.
03:23I'll have a consonant, please.
03:24Start the week with H.
03:26And another.
03:28And another.
03:29P.
03:31And another.
03:34T.
03:35And another.
03:38R.
03:40And a fifth.
03:42F.
03:44And a vowel.
03:47Q.
03:48And another.
03:51I.
03:52And another.
03:57O.
03:59And another.
04:00And the last one.
04:02E.
04:03And here's the countdown clock.
04:05A.
04:14And another.
04:15MUSIC PLAYS
04:36Stephen?
04:37A seven.
04:38A seven. Dave?
04:39A six.
04:40And your six?
04:41A pouter.
04:43A pouter, Stephen.
04:45Poutier.
04:46Can you be poutier?
04:47You can be poutier than the next person.
04:49Very good.
04:50Very good.
04:51Her mouth was poutier than Samantha's.
04:54Why not?
04:55Anything else?
04:56Chris?
04:58Pother.
04:59Pother.
05:00Stop making such a pother.
05:02It's like a fuss or commotion.
05:05All right.
05:05So it's seven points to Stephen, and it's Dave's letters game.
05:09Dave?
05:09Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:10Afternoon, Dave.
05:11Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:13Start with D.
05:15Another, please.
05:18S.
05:19A third.
05:21L.
05:22A fourth.
05:24T.
05:25A fifth.
05:27K.
05:29A vowel, please.
05:31A.
05:32Another vowel.
05:33I.
05:34Another vowel.
05:38A.
05:39Finish off with the final vowel, please.
05:41And finish with U.
05:44Stand by.
05:45A vowel.
05:46A vowel.
05:47A vowel.
05:47A vowel.
05:48A vowel.
05:48A vowel.
05:48A vowel.
05:48A vowel.
05:48A vowel.
05:49A vowel.
05:49A vowel.
05:50A vowel.
05:50A vowel.
05:50A vowel.
05:50A vowel.
05:50A vowel.
05:51A vowel.
05:51A vowel.
05:51A vowel.
05:51A vowel.
05:52A vowel.
05:52A vowel.
05:52A vowel.
05:52A vowel.
05:53A vowel.
05:54A vowel.
05:54A vowel.
05:54A vowel.
05:55A vowel.
05:56A vowel.
05:56A vowel.
05:57A vowel.
05:58A vowel.
05:58A vowel.
05:59A vowel.
05:59A vowel.
06:00A vowel.
06:00A vowel.
06:01A vowel.
06:02A vowel.
06:03A vowel.
06:04Yes, Dave?
06:17Er, six.
06:18A six, Stephen?
06:19Six.
06:20Dave?
06:21Audits.
06:22Audits and?
06:24You're both auditing.
06:27What does the corner think?
06:29Adults for six.
06:30Adults.
06:31And dualist.
06:32A dualist, yeah.
06:33Dualist.
06:34A dualist for seven.
06:34Not somebody who enters a duel.
06:37No.
06:38It's D-U-A-L-I-S-T, which is someone who subscribes to the religious doctrine that the universe
06:43is made up of opposed powers of good and evil.
06:46That's a dualist.
06:47That's a dualist.
06:48That's a dualist.
06:48Yeah, thank you very much.
06:49All right, 13 plays six, and it's Stephen's numbers game.
06:53Thank you, Nick.
06:54I'll try two large, please, Rachel.
06:56Two large this time.
06:57Thank you, Stephen.
06:58Four little ones for the first numbers game of this week, and they are eight.
07:02Six, three, ten, three.
07:06And the large one, 75 and 25.
07:09And the target, 692.
07:11Six, nine, two.
07:12Six, nine, ten first.
07:13Six, two.
07:17Six, ten, three.
07:22Okay.
07:23Stephen, 6.90.
07:466.90.
07:48Dave?
07:48Yes, 6.90.
07:496.90.
07:50So, Stephen?
07:51Uh, 75 minus the two threes.
07:55Minus the two threes, 69.
07:57Times 10.
07:58Times 10, 6.90.
07:59Two away.
08:00Thank you, Dave.
08:01Uh, 75 times the 10.
08:0575 times 10, 7.50.
08:07Yeah, 3 plus 3.
08:083 plus 3, 6.
08:10And I've used the 10 twice.
08:11Ah.
08:13Bad luck.
08:14Bad luck.
08:15We're with you, Rachel.
08:166.92.
08:17Um, yes.
08:19One way you could have said 75 plus 25, 100.
08:2510 minus 3, 7.
08:27Times them together for 700 and take away the 8.
08:30There we go.
08:31There we go.
08:32Thank you, Rachel.
08:34There we go.
08:35So, 20 page 6, as we turn to the Tea Time Teaser, it's He's Heard.
08:41And a clue.
08:42He's heard the same tired old songs on the radio over and over again.
08:46He's heard the same tired old songs on the radio over and over again.
08:50Welcome back.
09:07I left you with a clue.
09:08He's heard the same tired old songs on the radio over and over again.
09:13Because they've been rehashed.
09:16Rehashed.
09:18Now then, Dave, it's your letters again.
09:20Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
09:23Thank you, Dave.
09:24S.
09:24Another, please.
09:27M.
09:28A third.
09:29M.
09:30Fourth.
09:32T.
09:34Fifth.
09:36R.
09:38A vowel, please.
09:39I.
09:41Another vowel.
09:43A.
09:45Another vowel, please.
09:47O.
09:48And finish off with E.
09:52Stand by.
09:54And finish off with E.
09:54Stand by.
09:56NDTS.
10:04C.
10:07O.
10:07Does it cause we're going cat?
10:14Do it.
10:15Are we going cat?
10:15See you?
10:15Do it.
10:17Do it.
10:18Do it.
10:18Do it.
10:19Do it.
10:20Do it.
10:20Do it.
10:21Do it.
10:22Do it.
10:23Do it.
10:24Well Dave? A seven. A seven Stephen? Eight. And an eight. Dave? Minster. Yes indeed. Well done. And Stephen? Amortise. Amortise. Very good. Excellent. Very good. And what news from the corner?
10:44The news from the corner is raiments, romanise and minarets. And minarets? Well done. That'll sit sweetly with the minster. Alright Stephen, it's a letters game. Start with a consonant please Rachel. Thanks Stephen. H. And another? R. And another? W. And a vowel? U. And another? I.
11:14And another? E. And a consonant? R. And another? N. And a final consonant? And a final T. Stand by.
11:44Stephen? Just a six. A six Dave? A six as well. Yes Stephen? Winter. And Dave? Wither.
12:10Wither. Wither. Very good. And Chris? Well Susie's given me hurtier. Hurtier. Although if I said it I thought I'd be misusing a word.
12:22Yes. I don't think anyone's going to like this one but it's in. No example of the comparative here but of the hurtie part.
12:31An example is after 40 collective minutes of sleep I went to the dentist and told him that they were told him there was big hurtie pain.
12:40I've been going to go to my dentist and say I'm sorry but it's hurtier than when I last saw you.
12:46Don't bring me for it. He'd knock the tooth out wouldn't he?
12:49No. 34 to 12. Stephen's in the lead and it's Dave's numbers game.
12:53Rachel can I have one large and five small please?
12:57You can indeed thank you Dave. One large and five small coming up.
13:00And this time the five small ones are four, ten, two, seven and nine and the large one 75.
13:09And the target 685.
13:12685.
13:12685.
13:13685.
13:42Well Dave?
13:44685.
13:45685.
13:48And Stephen?
13:48Yes 685.
13:49So Dave?
13:50Nine times 75 equals 675 plus 10.
13:54Yeah. Very easy.
13:55There we go. And thank you.
13:58And it's 44 to 22 as we turn to Chris Packham.
14:01Now Chris.
14:03Today what will you tell us? What will you teach us?
14:05On birds.
14:06On birds is my theme.
14:08And we've looked at taste and we're now going to go on to vision.
14:11And it's always useful to contrast other animals with ourselves.
14:15We're better able to perceive or hope to perceive how they see the world in this instance.
14:21Now we can discern, this is staggering, but we can discern humans 10 million different colours.
14:2710 million different colours we can discern.
14:29Strangely, and as a diversion, only 30 shades of grey as it turns out.
14:34So birds can discern a great many more colours because they have tiny oil droplets in the cells of their eyes which allow them to do this.
14:43But not only can they see more colours, they can see into different parts of the spectrum.
14:47And many species of bird can look into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.
14:51And this is particularly useful if they're looking for prey which leaves signs in the ultraviolet.
14:57Or if they're blue birds and they're displaying.
15:00So we know that blue tits, 92% of our gardens have blue tits in them during the winter period.
15:04The males with the brightest blue caps which show up under the ultraviolet as a greater degree of blue if you like, are more attractive to the females.
15:14But there are two things about birds' visions which are very different than ours.
15:19And that is that the internal structure of the eye is often sculptured to the extent that, for instance, a bird like a starling has a protrusion coming from the back of its eye into the middle of the sphere.
15:32Which allows it to focus both inside its own beak where it's using its tongue to manipulate its prey.
15:40And also on infinity in the distance at the same time.
15:44Now very clearly we can't do that.
15:46The benefit to the starling is that it can concentrate on feeding whilst also looking out for predators.
15:51But there are other species of birds which don't have these anatomical protrusions.
15:56And what they have is a thing called lateralisation.
16:00Now this comes from the fact that the brain is split in two.
16:03So effectively they have one eye which does a different job to the other one.
16:08And in chickens, for instance, they use their left eye for looking out for predators, distance vision.
16:13And they use their right eye for looking close up for food.
16:18And this evolves in the, well this is caused in the late stages of the incubation of the egg.
16:24Because we find at that time the embryo turns over and shields the left eye.
16:29So less light reaches it.
16:31And as a consequence you get this lateralisation.
16:33And if you prevent that from happening, then you get chickens in this instance,
16:38which are not very good at looking out for predators, not very good at looking out for food.
16:41And they're less attractive to mates and less successful.
16:44And we find that birds who incubate their eggs in total darkness and therefore don't lateralise,
16:49are equally not as good at performing these two tasks.
16:53Amazing.
16:54I love it.
16:55Very good.
16:56So interesting.
17:0244 to 22.
17:03Stephen on 44.
17:04And it's Stephen's letters game.
17:06Thank you, Nick.
17:07Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
17:09Thank you, Stephen.
17:10G.
17:12And another.
17:14R.
17:15And a third.
17:17P.
17:18And a fourth.
17:21M.
17:21And a vowel.
17:25A.
17:26Another.
17:27E.
17:29Another.
17:31O.
17:33Another.
17:35I.
17:36And a final consonant, please.
17:39And a final T.
17:41Stand by.
17:42And a final consonant, please.
17:43And a final consonant, please.
17:43And a final consonant, please.
17:45And a final consonant, please.
17:45And a final consonant, please.
17:46And a final consonant, please.
17:47And a final consonant, please.
17:47And a final consonant, please.
17:47And a final consonant, please.
17:48And a final consonant, please.
17:48And a final consonant, please.
17:49And a final consonant, please.
17:49And a final consonant, please.
17:50And a final consonant, please.
17:51And a final consonant, please.
17:52And a final consonant, please.
17:53And a final consonant, please.
17:54And a final consonant, please.
17:55And a final consonant, please.
17:56And a final consonant, please.
17:57And a final consonant, please.
17:58And a final consonant, please.
17:59And a final consonant, please.
18:00And a final consonant, please.
18:01Stephen?
18:13Seven.
18:14A seven.
18:15Dave?
18:16I'm going to try nine.
18:18Good man.
18:20Stephen?
18:21My great.
18:22Dave, how's he going?
18:24In Portage.
18:27Well, we can have Portage, so I can see where you're going.
18:30Oh, but unfortunately, in Portage is not there.
18:34I'm sorry.
18:34Bad luck.
18:35Bad luck.
18:35Worth a risk, then.
18:37Always.
18:37Chris?
18:39Primate is in there.
18:41Good.
18:42Primate.
18:42And also epigram.
18:44And an epigram.
18:45That's seven.
18:47All right.
18:4751 plays 22, and it's Dave's letters game.
18:50Dave?
18:51Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
18:53Thank you, Dave.
18:54G.
18:55Another, please.
18:57D.
18:59Third.
19:01S.
19:02A fourth.
19:04Q.
19:05A fifth.
19:08C.
19:09Can I have a vowel, please?
19:11E.
19:13Another, please.
19:15A.
19:16A third.
19:18I.
19:19And a fourth.
19:21And the last one, E.
19:23Stand by.
19:24The rest of the day.
19:38I.
19:41Dave?
19:56Five.
19:57A five for Dave.
19:58Stephen?
19:58Six.
19:59Dave?
20:00Dices.
20:02Dices, yeah, why not?
20:04Stephen?
20:04Cadges.
20:05And cadges.
20:07Now, what of the corner?
20:08What news?
20:09Yeah, cadges.
20:10Cadge was a thing that falconers used to carry their birds about.
20:16Thanks, Chris.
20:16Now, 57 to 22.
20:18We turn to a numbers game now.
20:20It's Stephen's.
20:21Stephen's turn.
20:22Just one large, please.
20:23Thank you, Stephen.
20:24One from the top.
20:24And five more of the little ones.
20:27And this time, your numbers are six, five, nine.
20:32Another six.
20:34Another nine.
20:35And 100.
20:37And the target, 574.
20:39Five, seven, four.
21:11Stephen?
21:13Um, 572, I think.
21:16Not written down.
21:17All right.
21:18And Dave?
21:19576 written down.
21:21All right.
21:22So, Stephen?
21:23I said 100 minus 5.
21:25100 minus 5, 95.
21:28Times 6.
21:29Times 6 is 570.
21:33Um, oh, I've got it.
21:35I've got 571.
21:37Nine divided by nine.
21:39Yeah.
21:40Mmm.
21:41Let's turn to Dave then.
21:42Bad luck, Stephen.
21:43Dave, how's he?
21:44Yo, where are you?
21:46Six times 100.
21:47Six times 100, 600.
21:51Nine plus nine plus six is 24.
21:54Nine plus nine plus the other six, 24.
21:56And subtract.
21:57Yes, two away.
21:59Two away, indeed.
22:00Well done.
22:01But we really want 574.
22:04Rachel, can we get there?
22:06Um, leave it with me.
22:09I certainly will.
22:10There we are.
22:1057 plays, 29.
22:12Dave on 29.
22:13And we have our second tea time teaser, which is rich gent.
22:17And the clue.
22:17He may have been a rich gent, but his personality left me feeling nauseous.
22:22He may have been a rich gent, but his personality left me feeling nauseous.
22:27Welcome back.
22:44I left you with the clue.
22:45He may have been a rich gent, but his personality left me feeling nauseous.
22:49And the answer is, um, retching.
22:53Okay.
22:54Retching.
22:55There we go.
22:57Retching.
22:5857 to 29.
23:00Dave, it's a letters game.
23:02Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
23:04Thank you, Dave.
23:06S.
23:07Another.
23:09T.
23:10A third.
23:12S.
23:13A fourth.
23:15W.
23:17A fifth.
23:19L.
23:20A vowel.
23:22U.
23:23Another.
23:25O.
23:28Another.
23:30E.
23:31And finish off with a final vowel, please.
23:34And finish off with U.
23:36Countdown.
23:37T.
23:38T
24:03Yes, Dave.
24:09A six.
24:10A six for Dave and Stephen.
24:12Six.
24:13Dave.
24:14Lowest.
24:16Lowest and?
24:16And an anagram.
24:17Towels.
24:18And what of the corner?
24:19Chris.
24:20A couple of sevens.
24:22Towsels.
24:23Slowest.
24:24Yeah.
24:25Owlets.
24:26Owlets.
24:27Owlets.
24:28Young owls.
24:28Lovely.
24:29Now, what shall we do?
24:30Stephen?
24:31Letters game?
24:31A consonant, please, Rachel.
24:34Thank you, Stephen.
24:35T.
24:36And another.
24:38M.
24:40And a third.
24:42B.
24:44Fourth.
24:46P.
24:48Vowel, please.
24:50A.
24:51And again.
24:53I.
24:54And another one.
24:56E.
24:58And a consonant.
25:01Y.
25:03And another consonant.
25:04And lastly, T.
25:08Done by.
25:08estialness.
25:10.
25:12.
25:14.
25:18.
25:23.
25:27.
25:30.
25:31.
25:33Yes, Stephen?
25:41Six.
25:42A six.
25:43Dave?
25:44Just a five.
25:45Your five?
25:45Piety.
25:47Piety.
25:47Good word.
25:49Stephen?
25:49Patty.
25:51And in the corner?
25:53You can't spell patty that way, unfortunately.
25:56It's not like pasty, not like Cornish pasty, unfortunately, Stephen.
26:00It has to be with a Y or I-E-S in the plural.
26:03Sorry.
26:04All right.
26:04Now, what can we have?
26:06Chris and Susie?
26:08Bitmap.
26:09Bitmap.
26:09Yes.
26:10Yes, indeed.
26:11Anything else, Susie?
26:12No, piety for me, otherwise, as well.
26:13That'll do.
26:14Good word.
26:1540 points to 63.
26:16Stephen on 63, and it's Susie's origins of words now.
26:20Susie?
26:21I'm going to talk about dragons today,
26:23but dragons as they've informed and lie behind, if you like,
26:27lots of words and expressions in English.
26:30And to start with dragon, that word itself,
26:34it goes back to an ancient Greek word meaning to see clearly,
26:39and that was because serpents, because they were the earliest dragons,
26:43serpents were thought to have incredibly sharp eyesight.
26:46But dragon also lies behind Draco.
26:50Now, he was the Greek statesman.
26:52And perhaps he was very sharp-sighted, but he was certainly very cruel
26:55and dished out horrible punishments for any ancient Athenians
26:58who committed even the slightest misdemeanor,
27:01hence draconian, as we know it today.
27:03But his name meant dragon or sharp-sighted, if you go back even further.
27:08Dragoons, dragons, real dragons, or the fictional dragons,
27:11may not have killed anybody, but dragoons certainly did.
27:15And the original dragoon was a musket, a carbine,
27:18that had such fiery breath that it reminded the soldiers of a dragon.
27:23So dragons lie behind dragoons, and the cavalry soldiers who carried them.
27:27And to rankle goes back to a Greek word, draconculus,
27:31and that meant little dragon.
27:33Perhaps it was a scaly skin, perhaps it was because of the festering sore,
27:37felt so hot like that dragon's breath.
27:40But that's what it meant, a little dragon.
27:42And tarragon was a herb that was often used to cure a rankle,
27:46a sort of abscess or a sore, a festering sore,
27:49because that too was linked to a very, very old word
27:53that again meant little dragon.
27:54So dragons are everywhere in the English language,
27:57even if they don't exist for real.
27:58Well done. Thank you so much.
28:00There we go.
28:06All right. 63 to 40.
28:08It's even on 63, and it's Dave's letters game.
28:11Dave.
28:12Can I start off with a consonant, please, Rachel?
28:15Thank you, Dave.
28:16N.
28:18Another, please.
28:20F.
28:22Third.
28:24N.
28:26Fourth.
28:28R.
28:29And a fifth.
28:32J.
28:34A vowel, please.
28:35A.
28:36Another.
28:38I.
28:39Another.
28:41E.
28:44And a final vowel, please.
28:46And a final O.
28:49Stand by.
28:50And a half.
29:03A.
29:04And a half.
29:09And a half.
29:13I'm sorry.
29:13Dev? A six.
29:22A six, Stephen? Six.
29:24Dev? Joiner.
29:27Joiner and? Rejoin.
29:29There we go. Anything fresh over there?
29:32Fanner for six, but how about a dragon's inferno for seven?
29:36What could be better? Inferno. Perfect. Well done.
29:39Thank you. Susie, that's it? That was it, yes.
29:41Good enough. Good enough. Stephen?
29:44It's a letters game for you. Final one of the day.
29:47OK, I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:50Thank you, Stephen. G.
29:53And another?
29:55S.
29:56And another?
29:58P.
30:00And a vowel, please.
30:03I.
30:04And another?
30:05A.
30:07And a consonant?
30:10R.
30:10And another?
30:14S.
30:16And a vowel?
30:18U.
30:20And a final vowel, please.
30:22And a final A.
30:26Stand by.
30:27And a vowel, please.
30:28And a vowel, please.
30:29And a vowel, please.
30:29And a vowel, please.
30:30And a vowel, please.
30:30And a vowel, please.
30:31And a vowel, please.
30:31And a vowel, please.
30:32And a vowel, please.
30:33And a vowel, please.
30:33And a vowel, please.
30:33And a vowel, please.
30:34And a vowel, please.
30:34And a vowel, please.
30:35And a vowel, please.
30:35And a vowel, please.
30:36And a vowel, please.
30:36And a vowel, please.
30:37And a vowel, please.
30:38And a vowel, please.
30:39And a vowel, please.
30:40And a vowel, please.
30:41And a vowel, please.
30:42And a vowel, please.
30:43And a vowel, please.
30:44And a vowel, please.
30:45And a vowel, please.
30:46Stephen?
30:59Six.
31:00A six.
31:01Dave?
31:01Just a five.
31:02Your five?
31:03A grass.
31:05Yes.
31:06Stephen?
31:06Sugar.
31:07Z.
31:08Sugars.
31:09Sugars.
31:10Yes.
31:11Sugar, sugar.
31:12Yep.
31:13And Chris and Susie?
31:14Grasps.
31:15Yep.
31:16Grasps?
31:17Yeah, grasps.
31:17That was for six.
31:18Couldn't do better than six, Nick.
31:2075 plays.
31:2146.
31:22In we go, Dave, into the final numbers game.
31:25Let's finish off with four large, please.
31:27Why not?
31:28Thank you, Dave.
31:28Finish off with four from the top row and two of the other ones.
31:32And the final numbers game of the day is seven and one.
31:35And then the big one, 75, 50, 100, 25.
31:41And the target, 845.
31:43845.
31:445.
31:46745.
31:465.
31:465.
31:475.
31:475.
31:485.
31:50Yes, Dave.
32:168-4-7.
32:188-4-7 and...
32:208-4-7.
32:20Both of you?
32:21All right.
32:22So, Dave.
32:23OK.
32:241 plus 7 equals 8.
32:26Yep.
32:27Times 100.
32:28800.
32:28800.
32:29Plus the 50.
32:318-50.
32:3175 over 3...
32:34Sorry, 75 over 25 equals 3.
32:36Is 3, yeah.
32:36And take that away.
32:37Yep, 2 away.
32:388-4-7.
32:39There we go.
32:40And Stephen.
32:40Exactly the same.
32:41Exactly the same?
32:42All right.
32:43So, 2 away.
32:45Good, but not perfect.
32:468-4-5.
32:47I can get you one closer, but this one's actually impossible.
32:51Impossible.
32:51All right.
32:5382 plays 53 as we go into the final game.
32:57Conundrum time, gentlemen.
32:59Let's roll that countdown conundrum.
33:01Yes, Dave.
33:21Is it contrived?
33:23Let's see.
33:24Contrived.
33:26Contrived.
33:27Yes.
33:27Yes.
33:27Yes.
33:31That sort of makes it all better, doesn't it?
33:36It makes it brilliant.
33:37Yeah.
33:37Very good.
33:38Because Stephen's so good at these conundrums.
33:41So, well done.
33:42Back to Sheffield with you.
33:44And take this goodie bag.
33:46And our very best wishes.
33:48We should be welcoming Stephen Fuller back tomorrow.
33:52Well done.
33:52You've got five wins.
33:55Yep.
33:55Getting on, aren't you?
33:56Getting on very well.
33:58Thank you very much.
33:58All right.
33:59We'll see you tomorrow.
33:59Brilliant stuff.
34:00And we shall see you both tomorrow.
34:02Indeed.
34:03Susie and Chris, of course.
34:04See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:05Really well done.
34:06Yep.
34:07He's coming back.
34:08Stronger and stronger.
34:09But he blew that conundrum.
34:11How interesting.
34:11You're so mean.
34:12Maybe the strain is beginning to tell.
34:15You're awful.
34:16You're terrible.
34:16Why?
34:17Just, that's a...
34:18Mean.
34:18He just won five shows and you're rubbing in that he didn't get the conundrum.
34:22We've got to keep him up to the mark, Rachel.
34:23You're very draconian, Nick.
34:26Well, a little bit.
34:28We'll see you tomorrow.
34:28See you tomorrow.
34:29See you tomorrow.
34:29Same time, same place.
34:30You be sure of it.
34:31A very good afternoon to you.
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