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00:30Hello everybody, welcome to Countdown this Tuesday afternoon. It is time to work, work, work, work, work as two contestants try and shine bright like a diamond and one of them will take a bye after 15 rounds of letters and numbers. And they are musical references that Rachel Riley can definitely get down with.
00:49And as they knew they were coming to Salford, they couldn't leave the house without their umbrella.
00:53Hello, hello, hello.
01:23That was four years before Rihanna, the longevity. We talked about this before. Rihanna's right up there. Love her. Absolutely love her.
01:31Well, I remember for Alicia Keys, I had her CD in my car for my 18th birthday and I remember that very well because it got nicked in the days where people used to nick your CD player and your CDs out of your car.
01:41That's how long she's been going. Wow. Well, listen, Rhi Rhi's got it going on, right? Rhi Rhi, as we call her, proper fans like me.
01:50Come on, Rhi boy, let's get this show on the road.
01:51Well, if I'm a rude boy, you're the only girl in the world can put up with me. Let's head over to Dictionary Corner. Our G of the D, you'd have won. Our guardian of the Dictionary, Susie Dent.
02:02And alongside her this week, T-side's finest, enter the dragon, Sarah Davies.
02:11Well, Michael Calder has won five so far. Huge score. Broke the century yesterday and back four more.
02:19He was telling me just before coming on air, his mates are like, you haven't won. And he's sending pictures of me and him like, let's let him know he's still here.
02:28They can't believe it. But you're up against Mark Fielding today, which he's hoping to edge your run right here.
02:34Rhi from Liverpool, cross the water onto the Wirral. How are you, Mark?
02:38I'm not too bad, fine.
02:39Good. Listen, when you're not on the ferry, you like to walk. Tell me about the Ramblers Association.
02:44What's all that about? I know of it, but it's so many walks. I've never joined it.
02:48Yeah, yeah. So I've been in the Ramblers about five or six years now. And we go on walks from the Wirral.
02:53We get coaches out to North Wales, to the Lake District. And they'll have people of all different abilities on the walk.
03:01And they'll get led, whether they do the easy walk, about five or six miles, or do the hard walk, about 15 miles.
03:07Where are you these days? Are you easy?
03:09I was like towards the top, but I'm dropping down a bit now.
03:13Join the club. I like a moderate walk.
03:14Yeah.
03:15I like a moderate. I think more than moderate in the app, I'm like, I'll just not bother with that.
03:18That's right.
03:20Well, let's see how you get on today, one step at a time. Good luck to Mark and Michael.
03:24APPLAUSE
03:26All right, Eminem, let's do it. Michael.
03:29Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:30Afternoon, Michael.
03:31May I step with a consonant, please?
03:32You may indeed start today with D.
03:35And another.
03:38T.
03:39And another.
03:41L.
03:42And a vowel.
03:44O.
03:44And another.
03:47U.
03:48And another.
03:50I.
03:52And another.
03:54A.
03:56And a consonant.
03:58R.
04:00And a final vowel, please.
04:02And a final E.
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04:23MUSIC PLAYS
04:38Michael?
04:39Seven.
04:40Seven from you, and Mark?
04:41Seven.
04:42What a good start.
04:43Michael?
04:44Reefield.
04:45Reefield.
04:46And for you, Mark?
04:47Outlier.
04:48What a start, Susie, what a start.
04:50Brilliant, yeah, very good start.
04:51What else you got there?
04:52Well, I got a six, tirade.
04:54Nice.
04:55But actually, Susie's pulled an eight out.
04:57Yeah, there is one there, idolater, somebody who worships an idol.
05:01Nice one, thank you very much.
05:02Seven points each.
05:03Mark Fielding, your first time choosing letters in your countdown career.
05:08Afternoon, Rachel.
05:09Afternoon, Mark.
05:10Can I have a constant, please?
05:11You can, indeed.
05:12H.
05:13And another.
05:15W.
05:17And another.
05:19S.
05:21And a vowel, please.
05:22A.
05:23And another.
05:24E.
05:25And another.
05:26A.
05:27And another.
05:28A.
05:29And a consonant.
05:30B.
05:31And a consonant.
05:32B.
05:33And a consonant.
05:34G.
05:35And a vowel, please.
05:36And lastly, I.
05:37And a consonant.
05:38G.
05:39And a vowel, please.
05:40And a vowel, please.
05:41And lastly, I.
05:42In 30 seconds.
05:43And a vowel, please.
05:44And a vowel, please.
05:45And lastly, I.
05:46In 30 seconds.
05:481
05:51And a vowel, may not fall.
05:531
05:54Comaxial
05:551
05:561
05:581
05:591
06:002
06:012
06:022
06:033
06:032
06:043
06:043
06:06solo
06:062
06:073
06:085
06:085
06:12Mark?
06:19I've got a seven.
06:20And what about you, Michael?
06:21Seven.
06:21Excellent. What have you got, Mark?
06:23I've got wash bag.
06:24Wash bag. And Michael?
06:26That's also what I've got.
06:28Well done.
06:29OK.
06:29Well, you're in this together. Let's find out. Susie?
06:31Yeah. Oh, one word. Excellent. Well done.
06:33Yeah, well done.
06:35All right. Do you have your wash bag as well?
06:38We had wash bag and we also got bag wash.
06:40Is bag wash there too?
06:42Bag wash. It used to be a laundry where clothes were washed,
06:45but they weren't ironed.
06:45Very nice.
06:46Yes.
06:46Good stuff. Wash bags all round.
06:48Nearly got five of a side football team here.
06:49It's great.
06:5014 points each. Going to be close today.
06:53Michael, first numbers.
06:55One large five small, please.
06:56Your favourite one from the top.
06:59Five not.
07:00Let's find something interesting, or at least try.
07:03Little ones are four.
07:04Five.
07:05Three.
07:06Nine.
07:07And another nine.
07:08And the large one, 50.
07:09You need to reach 573.
07:13573.
07:14Numbers up.
07:14Three.
07:14Two.
07:15Three.
07:15Seven.
07:15Three.
07:16One.
07:18One.
07:36Three.
07:38Five.
07:39Six.
07:40Five.
07:415, 7, 3. Michael?
07:47No, 5, 6, 6.
07:49How did you get on mark? What did you get?
07:515, 6, 4.
07:52Oh, so nine away. You've squeaked in here, champ.
07:55Nine plus three.
07:56Nine plus three, 12.
07:5850 minus four.
08:0050 minus four, 46.
08:0246 times 12.
08:04Is 552.
08:07And then add the nine and the five.
08:09And then the second nine.
08:11And the five. Yep.
08:12Well done. 5, 6, 6.
08:13OK, so 5, 7, 3. Possible?
08:18Yep. A few ways.
08:20You could have said 50 times four is 200.
08:23Take away nine.
08:25191. Times by three.
08:27Yeah, brilliant. Well done.
08:31Thank you, Rachel.
08:32First tea time teaser is used card.
08:35Used card.
08:36Tom was given help when he campaigned.
08:38Tom was given help when he campaigned.
08:41Welcome back, everybody.
08:58Tom was given help when he campaigned.
09:00Tom was Tom Cruise for Crusaded.
09:03And our top gun, Michael, looking for a sixth win today.
09:0619 points.
09:08And it isn't mission impossible for a challenger.
09:10Really good start.
09:1114 for you.
09:12And Mark, you're picking these letters.
09:14OK, thanks.
09:15Can I have a constant, please?
09:17Thank you, Mark.
09:18S.
09:18And another.
09:21N.
09:22And another.
09:24M.
09:26And a vowel, please.
09:27U.
09:29And another.
09:30A.
09:32And another.
09:34E.
09:35And a consonant.
09:38P.
09:40And another.
09:42F.
09:43And a vowel, please.
09:46And lastly, O.
09:49And here we go again.
09:50A consonant.
09:51And a vowel.
09:54All the time I can give you, Mark, how'd you get on?
10:24Six. Six for you. Very good. Michael? Five. And a five. Yes, what have you got, Michael?
10:29Mains. Yes, Mains. What six did you spot? Famous.
10:32Ah, I was expecting that to be a little bit more obscure, but it wasn't famous. Very good.
10:37Sarah, what have you got there? Oh, yeah, I've done brilliant this time.
10:39I've had no help at all from Susie. Come up with two sevens all on my own.
10:43Oh, what are they, pray tell? Spoon-warn-y. And what does that mean?
10:47It's an ice cream, obviously. Obviously, thank you.
10:49And we also got my pawnees, didn't we? Yes, I gave her that one as well.
10:53And what does that mean? A type of tree. A type of tree and a type of ice cream.
10:57Wow. Lucky that Sarah's there, Susie. It's a good job, but you've got me here today, Susie.
11:01I know, I'm so relieved. Could have been embarrassing for you.
11:03Well, listen, the upshot of that means that Mark's taken a one-point lead.
11:07So, Michael, a bit of pressure on you, a rare bit of pressure on you.
11:10Let's get more letters. May I have a consonant, please?
11:13Thank you, Michael.
11:14Final consonant, please.
11:43And a final R.
11:45Half a minute.
11:46Have a good look.
11:47Take care.
11:49MUSIC CONTINUES
12:198 not written down.
12:21An 8 not written down.
12:22And Mark?
12:23A 6.
12:24What's the 6?
12:25Details.
12:26And to retick the lead, Michael?
12:28Readyest.
12:29Readyest.
12:29You're ready to retick the lead.
12:31Well done to you.
12:32Well done.
12:32Big 8 points there.
12:35Really nice letters there.
12:37Really nice letters.
12:37What else did you spot?
12:39We had readyest.
12:40The royal we.
12:41Yes.
12:42And we also had tirades for 7.
12:45Good stuff.
12:45Second numbers round then.
12:47Mark, you're choosing.
12:48Can I have one large and five small, please?
12:51Another one large, five little, popular selection lately.
12:54And the five little ones for this round are 1, 2, 5, 10, 8.
13:02And the large one, 100.
13:04And this target are 300.
13:08Talk amongst yourselves.
13:40All right, Mark.
13:42Yes, 300.
13:43Yeah, Michael.
13:44300.
13:44Off you go, Mark.
13:468 minus 5 is 3.
13:48Times 100.
13:49300.
13:50Yeah, don't say it with such questioning.
13:52You definitely got it right.
13:53Michael, what way did you go?
13:54Yeah, 2 plus 1.
13:55Yeah.
13:55Yeah, there you go.
13:56Sorry, there has to be a bar for rounds of applause.
13:59No.
14:00It's just not happening.
14:01Well done.
14:01Everyone gets 10 points.
14:03Hurrah, that's good.
14:04Some people love the letters, hate the numbers.
14:06So those rounds are good fun.
14:07You just get your 10 points.
14:08And it makes the difficult ones all the more enjoyable when they come out.
14:12And that's more time to chat to our Sarah Davies.
14:14Feels like our Sarah already.
14:16It's only your second time on Countdown.
14:18I like that.
14:18Well, you know that whole hour thing is quite a northern hour.
14:21Like, I would always say I was so-and-so.
14:23Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
14:24I feel very at home when I was Sarah already.
14:27It's like that here.
14:27It's all very, very chilled, isn't it?
14:29So, listen, we were talking about from QVC to Strictly Come Dancing yesterday.
14:35Give me the business side of it.
14:36Give me, because you've just always had such a head for business and investment.
14:41How young did that start?
14:42What was the first kind of, you saw an idea, you backed it, it worked?
14:47So, I actually started my business,
14:49and it's still the business that I'm in today, Crafters Companion,
14:52when I was at university.
14:53Wow.
14:54Now, I'm in the craft industry,
14:56and most people in our industry started out as craft enthusiasts
15:00and turned their hobby into a business.
15:02But I didn't.
15:03So I went to university and did one of those business degrees
15:06where you do a couple of years studying,
15:07then you go and work for a year and you come back and finish your studies.
15:10And in that year that I worked,
15:12I worked for this tiny little craft company
15:14that opened my eyes to this industry that I loved.
15:16And they've got everything in the craft industry,
15:18absolutely everything.
15:19What they didn't have was enough envelopes, right?
15:22Now, if you think all these people are into making handmade cards,
15:25you make them in all different shapes and sizes,
15:27you can only get a couple of different sizes of envelopes
15:29and they're always plain white or manila.
15:31Yeah.
15:31So I invented, I was the help of my dad,
15:34my dad's an engineer,
15:35so we kind of came up with an envelope folding tool.
15:37So you can make any shape and size envelope out of any paper you want.
15:42Turns out that's exactly what the craft industry wanted.
15:45And I launched it on the TV shopping channels
15:47and we sold 30,000 in the first couple of months.
15:49Wow.
15:50And that was when I went back from my last year at uni.
15:52So I was literally, every few weeks,
15:54we would build up production.
15:57My dad's friend was a joiner in the village,
15:58he used to make them for me.
15:59I'd shoot off down to Peterborough,
16:01do a TV show, sell a few thousand,
16:03come back, build up the stocks again,
16:04back down, back on the TV, sell a few thousand more.
16:07That's sensational.
16:08Sensational.
16:09Brilliant.
16:09We'll talk a bit more tomorrow.
16:10Thank you, Sarah.
16:12APPLAUSE
16:12All right, Michael,
16:17just at seven point lead,
16:19back to the letters.
16:20May I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
16:22Thank you, Michael.
16:23T.
16:24And another.
16:26D.
16:27And another.
16:29L.
16:31And a vowel.
16:32O.
16:34And another.
16:36U.
16:37And another.
16:39E.
16:41And a consonant.
16:43S.
16:46A vowel.
16:48O.
16:50And a phanal vowel, please.
16:54A phanal U.
16:56Let's play.
16:57Let's play.
16:58Let's play.
16:58Let's play.
16:59Let's play.
16:59Let's play.
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17:27Michael?
17:29Seven.
17:30And Mark?
17:31Five.
17:32Ooh, a little five there, Mark.
17:34See, I'm judging you by such high standards, you've been so good so far.
17:37What's the five?
17:38Stole.
17:39Yeah, and what have you got over there, Michael?
17:41Outsold.
17:42Outsold.
17:43You can outsell, yeah, in the Dixiebury, well done.
17:46How'd you get on, Sarah?
17:47I got it all by myself, genuinely.
17:50No-one believes you now.
17:53Maybe I should have just been a bit more honest from the beginning of the week.
17:56Loudest.
17:57Loudest, which is a lovely seven.
18:00Yeah, that's the first seven letters out.
18:02Great stuff.
18:03Anything beyond that?
18:03Just lots of sevens, really.
18:05Towsled, tousled hair, and toodles.
18:08Toodles.
18:08You love a toodle, don't you?
18:09You love a toodle.
18:10Right.
18:11At 44.30, extended that lead slightly, no worries yet, Mark.
18:15No need to panic, more letters.
18:17Can I have a constant, please?
18:19Thank you, Mark.
18:20N.
18:21And another.
18:23L.
18:24And another.
18:25M.
18:27And a vowel, please?
18:29O.
18:30And another.
18:32A.
18:33And another.
18:35E.
18:36And a constant.
18:39Z.
18:41And a vowel.
18:43A.
18:45And a constant, please.
18:47And lastly, S.
18:49Kind of time.
18:50Good night.
18:53And that's it, Mark.
19:22A six.
19:23Six for you.
19:24And Michael.
19:24Six.
19:25Six as well.
19:26What have you got, Mark?
19:27Melons.
19:28Melons.
19:29Michael.
19:30Salmon.
19:31Salmon and melons.
19:32Won't be putting those together in a plate.
19:34Anything else from Dictionary Corner?
19:35What can you serve me up?
19:36Well, we've got Amazon.
19:38And with a small A, it's a type of parrot.
19:40Yeah.
19:40Susie's checked it for me.
19:41And sticking an S on the end.
19:42Yeah.
19:43Particular parrots from Central and South America.
19:45Nice.
19:46Lovely words.
19:46Lovely words.
19:4750.
19:4836.
19:48Ten points up for grabs now.
19:50It feels a little bit more important as Michael picks the numbers.
19:53One large five small, please.
19:55Yeah, sticking with it.
19:56Come on, let's find an interesting one.
19:57I'm determined.
19:59They've been too easy of late.
20:01This time they are four, nine, one, two, four, and 50.
20:08And the target.
20:10Mm.
20:12451.
20:14Slightly more difficult than 300.
20:15451.
20:16All right.
20:23And then we'll see you in the next one.
20:25Mm.
20:26Yes.
20:27Mm.
20:28MUSIC PLAYS
20:48Fairly easy there, Michael.
20:504-5-1. Yes, and Mark?
20:514-5-1. Off you go, Michael.
20:5350 times 9 and then plus 1.
20:55Yep. There you go, Mark.
20:57Yeah, the same.
20:59Yeah, it's me.
21:00Nice. No ink needed.
21:01We'll give you a little round of applause.
21:03Half-hard over there.
21:05Right, suck up those ten points.
21:07We'll get our second T-Tank teaser of this Tuesday afternoon.
21:10Play Raid.
21:12Play Raid.
21:13Every day is Ruby Tuesday for this Stones fan.
21:17Every day is Ruby Tuesday for this Stones fan.
21:20MUSIC PLAYS
21:27Hello again.
21:35Every day is Ruby Tuesday for this Stones fan.
21:39Lapidary.
21:40Susie, I was trying to find all sorts of Rolling Stones reference,
21:43but actually, the Stones is jewels.
21:46Yes, absolutely.
21:47Yeah.
21:47And lapidary means relating to the engraving or polishing of Stones,
21:53or when language is lapidary,
21:55it means it's elegant, it's smooth and it's concise.
21:58Nice.
21:58Nice word.
21:59Right, there you go.
22:0060-46.
22:01That 14 gap remains six rounds to go.
22:04All the play for, Mark Fielding.
22:05You're having a great debut.
22:07Let's get more letters.
22:08Can I have a consonant, please?
22:09Thank you, Mark.
22:11T.
22:11And a consonant, please.
22:40And lastly, R.
22:42Thanks, Rachel.
22:43MUSIC PLAYS
22:44MUSIC CONTINUES
22:48Mark.
22:50Six.
22:51Michael.
22:51Seven.
22:52ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
23:14Mark.
23:15A six.
23:16A Michael.
23:17A seven.
23:18A seven there from Michael.
23:20Mark, what's your six?
23:21Grunts.
23:22This will get you a bit of breathing space.
23:24Nature's.
23:25Nature's.
23:26Yeah.
23:27Well spotted.
23:28Let's head over to the dictionary corner.
23:30I know I'm going to get more sevens because one of our little favourite words is there, isn't it?
23:33Saunter.
23:34Your favourite, absolutely.
23:35Yeah, we like that.
23:36What did you see, Sarah?
23:37We got Saunter.
23:38We had Garnet.
23:40What's a Garnet?
23:41Garnet is a really red, beautiful...
23:43We had Lapidary, didn't we?
23:44It's a beautiful red jewel.
23:45Ah, OK.
23:46There you go.
23:47Seven seven sevens.
23:48The one that matters is Michael's because it gets him more than 20 points in the lead.
23:50And it's your letters.
23:51May I have a consonant, please?
23:52Thank you, Michael.
23:53G.
23:54And another.
23:55B.
23:56And another.
23:57N.
23:58And a vowel.
23:59I.
24:00Another vowel.
24:01A.
24:02Another vowel.
24:03O.
24:04A consonant.
24:05L.
24:06A vowel.
24:07I.
24:08And a final consonant, please.
24:09And a final R.
24:10Good luck.
24:11Good luck.
24:12Good luck.
24:13O.
24:14O.
24:15O.
24:16O.
24:17O.
24:18O.
24:19O.
24:20O.
24:21O.
24:22O.
24:23O.
24:24O.
24:25O.
24:26O.
24:27O.
24:28O.
24:30O.
24:31O.
24:32O.
24:33O.
24:34O.
24:35MUSIC PLAYS
24:58Michael, how many? Seven.
25:00Seven from you and Mark? Yeah, seven.
25:03Seven as well. Michael? Blaring.
25:05A blaring and Mark? Boiling.
25:08And boiling for Mark.
25:10Hold that thought for a second, Sarah, Susie.
25:12Oh, yes.
25:13You could have stuck an R in that, Mark, and had broiling.
25:17Yeah, it's not a word we use as much, though.
25:20I did think of it, but shied away from it.
25:22What else have you got there for us?
25:23My dream team at Dictionary Corner.
25:26We had original.
25:28Well, the word original. We did have the word original.
25:30Very nice, very nice.
25:32That's not eight. Excellent, excellent.
25:34A couple of bits in there, then.
25:36I must end Dictionary Corner, actually, Susie.
25:38The original, for another Origins of Words.
25:41Well, you know how I delight in insults?
25:46Or at least the dictionary delights in insults,
25:47so I hopefully don't deliver them,
25:49except I discover really old, wonderful, obscure insults
25:52in the dictionary.
25:52So I'm going to talk about one today that actually has been solved,
25:58if you like, in terms of its story,
26:00by an appeal made by the Oxford English Dictionary.
26:03And every so often they do make an appeal to the public.
26:05And almost a decade ago now,
26:08they put out an appeal to find any printed record of the word numpty,
26:12meaning a fool,
26:13dated earlier than 1985,
26:15which was the first usage that they had found.
26:17And a member of the public, Julie, went away,
26:20and they found a record from one year earlier.
26:22So it wasn't a huge, what we call, anti-dating,
26:24but it was significant.
26:26But that was then trumped a little bit later
26:28by some academics from King's College London,
26:31who, in the course of a project that they were doing,
26:33found evidence of the word numpty,
26:36which was in a spoof playbill from almost 200 years earlier.
26:40And it was this fictional farce.
26:42It was a bit of a satirical playbill, Bill.
26:45And it features one character who is named as Numpty III.
26:49Can you imagine if that was your role in a play, Numpty III?
26:52And numpty then was a cheesing term for a cuckolded husband.
26:55And we think that the chi then went into numpty to form numpty,
27:00because humpty dumpty,
27:01because it kind of rolls more easily off our tongue
27:03and we're more familiar with it.
27:05So it became numpty.
27:06But we think that's how it began.
27:09And, as I say, thanks to that appeal,
27:10we had evidence of it.
27:12And both numpty and numpty
27:14actually go all the way back to the 16th century
27:16and a term for a simpleton or fool.
27:18Yeah. Nice. Thank you.
27:24Mark, let's get more letters, please.
27:26OK. Can I have a consonant, please?
27:28Thank you, Mark.
27:29G.
27:30And another.
27:32D.
27:33And another.
27:35S.
27:37And a vowel, please.
27:39E.
27:39Let's play.
27:59I.
28:01Why?
28:01I.
28:02I.
28:02I.
28:03I.
28:08I.
28:08I.
28:09I.
28:09I.
28:09I.
28:09I.
28:10I.
28:11MUSIC PLAYS
28:30Talk to me, Mark.
28:32I've got five.
28:33Yes, and Michael?
28:34Seven.
28:34Seven for you, Mark.
28:37Needs.
28:37Yes, and what's the seven?
28:39Sneaked.
28:40Sneaked.
28:41Yes, sneaked.
28:43Sneaked.
28:44Absolutely right, yeah.
28:45Very good.
28:45Sarah, what did you see?
28:47We also had an agenda, which you can make plural into agendas for a seven.
28:51Thank you, Sarah.
28:52Agendas, very well spotted.
28:54Last letters round.
28:56Michael, it's on you.
28:57May I have a consonant, please?
28:59Thank you, Michael.
28:59T.
29:01And another one?
29:03J.
29:04And another?
29:06C.
29:08And a vowel?
29:08O.
29:11And another?
29:12I.
29:13And another?
29:15A.
29:17And a consonant?
29:18P.
29:20Another consonant?
29:22D.
29:24And a final vowel, please.
29:27A final I.
29:29Last letters.
29:30A final vowel is a vowel.
29:55MUSIC CONTINUES
30:01A bit of a struggle, I'd imagine, Michael.
30:04Six.
30:05And Mark?
30:05A five.
30:06A five is?
30:07Patio.
30:08A lot of people be sitting with fours and fives with that,
30:10so what's the champ spot?
30:12Dacoit.
30:13Let's head over to Susie.
30:15Yes, dacoit, very good.
30:16It's an armed robber, particularly in Burma.
30:19Yes.
30:20Comes up on countdown, what we used to, a lot.
30:22Yeah.
30:22Well, it's back again, thanks to Michael Calder.
30:2587 plays 53.
30:27Good chance for Michael to get back-to-back centuries then.
30:31And, of course, the sixth win is already seen.
30:33But let's enjoy the last two rounds.
30:35Mark Fielding, it's your numbers.
30:37OK.
30:38For a bit of fun, can you choose, Rachel?
30:40Well, I'm not going to go for one larger if you give me the choice.
30:42Thank you, Mark.
30:43Let's go for six little ones.
30:46At least we need to use three brain cells rather than the one and the two
30:50from the last two rounds.
30:51Right, let's have a go for a challenge.
30:52We've got five, seven, eight, five, three, ten.
30:58Thank you for the choice.
30:59Your target is 486.
31:01486.
31:02Last numbers.
31:13Thanks.
31:14MUSIC PLAYS
31:334-8-6. Stephanie, more of a challenge. Mark?
31:364-8-7. One away. And Michael?
31:394-8-5. And one the other away. Mark, off you go.
31:42OK. 5 times 8.
31:455 times 8, 40.
31:48Plus the 5 and the 3.
31:50And the second 5 and the 3 for 48.
31:52Times the 10.
31:53Times by the 10, 480.
31:56And add the 7.
31:57There we go. One away. Well done.
31:59All right. Where are we going here, Michael?
32:038 times 7.
32:048 times 7, 56.
32:06Minus 5 and 3.
32:07Minus 5, 51. Minus 3, 48.
32:10Times 10.
32:11Times 10, yep, 480.
32:13And add the 5.
32:14And the second 5 for one the other way.
32:17OK, so we just need to land somewhere in the middle of those two.
32:20Yeah, well, this is lots of factors.
32:21So, if you say 7 times 5 is 35,
32:26take away the second 5 and the 3 for 27,
32:30and then 10 plus 8 is 18,
32:32and 18 times 27 is 486.
32:35Yes.
32:35We've definitely needed the brain cells for that one.
32:41Well done.
32:424, 8, 6.
32:43The win in the bag then for Michael,
32:45but a small matter of 10 more points up for grabs.
32:48So let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:50Michael.
33:05Entitling.
33:06Let's have a look.
33:08That's correct.
33:09The ING jumped out,
33:14but it took you a bit of time to get to that.
33:16Bit difficult.
33:17104 for Michael and a sixth win.
33:20And hey, Mark,
33:21you know, I think you started well.
33:22You just faded towards the end of the walk, really, didn't you?
33:24That's it.
33:25Yeah.
33:26It's a marathon, not a sprint, this show.
33:28But you did so well.
33:29You did so well.
33:30Thank you for gracing us for your presence, mate.
33:32Thanks very much.
33:34And Michael, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:35Just two wins away.
33:37Your friends better start believing in you.
33:38Wonderful.
33:39They won't.
33:40Really good.
33:41We've got back-to-back octo-champs here on Countdown.
33:44We will see you tomorrow.
33:45Sarah, Susie, thank you very much.
33:47See you tomorrow.
33:48What did you get at the Palace?
33:50I don't think you're a Dame yet.
33:51What did you get at NBA?
33:52NBA.
33:53That's nothing on our birthday girl, Rihanna,
33:56who in December 2021 received, get this,
34:01the Order of National Hero in Barbados.
34:05She's one of the country's 11 national heroes
34:09in its entire history.
34:11Imagine being that.
34:12Yeah, that's one up from National Treasure, isn't it?
34:15Exactly.
34:15It really is.
34:16You're an official national hero.
34:18All right.
34:19We'll talk on the National Treasures.
34:20That's certainly what Countdown is.
34:21And hopefully you can watch another episode tomorrow.
34:24Rachel, Susie and I will be here waiting on you.
34:26You can count on us.
34:27You can contact the programme by email
34:30at countdown at channel4.com.
34:33You can also find our webpage
34:34at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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