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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Tuesday afternoon. I'm Colin Murray, and so might you be. It's a very common name. Dozens of them in the UK. I've met three personally. And over there, I mean, it's a nice name, but just as common. Rachel Riley, how are you?
00:46I always get compliments on my lovely children's square. Exactly, right? You're never far away from your namesake. But it's, I don't know why there's a day for this. It's nonsense. It's unique names day today. It's interesting, because you're famous, but you resisted that temptation of giving your kids a daft name. You know, like Saturn or Pi R squared. You went fairly normal.
01:07Like R squared. Could you imagine? They're not the most common names, but they're not too weird. I was at uni with my friend Andy, whose surname is Geek. A Geek, who studied computer science at Oxford.
01:18Really? Really? Yeah. Oh, I'm sure he loves people bringing that up. Fantastic. Right, the dictionary corner. Let's welcome, of course, our G of the D, sister to Carr and to AXA. It's Susie Dent.
01:33I'm with us all week, except no imitations. It's Rory Bremner.
01:40Ah, a bit childish starting today's show, but why not? Why not? Our champion, Isabel Sheward, she's turned up this week a bit ill, and she's battling through that illness in fine form. 87, your highest score yesterday. Five wins. Well, listen, good luck today. See if you get your sixth win.
01:56You're up against Chris Boyce today from Bournemouth and Dorset. Chris, you're a huge basketball fan, but it goes beyond just watching, right?
02:04That's correct, yes. I used to play in school, sixth form. I used to play basketball socially as well. Last year, I qualified as a referee as well, so kind of support local leagues in refereeing junior and senior games as well.
02:16Every couple of seasons, I try to go to a couple of National League games. I've also got games for the Olympics coming up as well, so, yeah.
02:23Well, listen, three points is not going to get you anywhere today, I tell you that much. Good luck to Chris and Isabel.
02:30Ready, Isabel? Let's do it.
02:32Consonant, please. Thank you, Isabel. Start today with G.
02:35And another.
02:37P.
02:38And another.
02:40S.
02:41And a fourth, please.
02:44C.
02:44A.
02:45A vowel.
02:46U.
02:47And another.
02:48E.
02:49And a third, please.
02:52A.
02:52And consonant.
02:55J.
02:55And a consonant, please.
02:57And lastly, L.
02:59At home and in the studio, let's play Kinectine.
03:02A.
03:15A.
03:15A.
03:16A.
03:16A.
03:19A.
03:20How many, Isabel?
03:33Six.
03:34And Chris?
03:34Seven.
03:35And seven from you.
03:36What's the six?
03:37Places.
03:38And what's the seven?
03:39Capsule.
03:40Capsule.
03:40Very nice.
03:41Well done.
03:44Good.
03:44You can see he's nervous.
03:46What else have you got?
03:48We've got upscale.
03:49Yes.
03:49Seven as well.
03:50And I think plagues is there, isn't there?
03:52Plagues.
03:53All the sevens then.
03:54Well done, Chris, and you're picking these letters.
03:56Afternoon, Rachel.
03:56Good morning, Chris.
03:57Start with a consonant, please.
03:59Start with W.
04:00And another one.
04:03L.
04:03And another one.
04:05N.
04:06And a vowel, please.
04:08E.
04:09And another vowel.
04:10A.
04:12And a consonant.
04:14R.
04:15And a consonant.
04:17T.
04:18And another consonant.
04:20F.
04:21And a vowel, please.
04:23And lastly, E.
04:2530 seconds.
04:25Thanks, Alex.
04:30Bye.
04:32Bye.
04:35BAYRillery.
04:36MUSIC PLAYS
04:56Chris? Six. Six for you, Isabel. Six.
05:00Chris, what's the word? Antler. And yourself? Relent.
05:03Relent and antler, dictionary corner.
05:05Yeah, very nice. Yes, well done.
05:07I was surprised, actually, because there are two sevens there.
05:09There's welfare hidden away in there,
05:12and I think there's also eternal there.
05:14Yes. Yes, it is. So that's two sevens.
05:17Good sevens from dictionary corner, but 6.8 here.
05:20And, Isabel, first numbers. One large, please.
05:23Thank you, Isabel. Your favourite pick, one from the top.
05:26Five from the rest of them.
05:28And the little ones to start are seven, ten, two, seven,
05:34and ten, and I took an extra one, so I'll just put that on back.
05:37I've only got to count. The large one, 25.
05:40And the target, 433.
05:42433. 433. Numbers up.
05:44No porous.
05:45Yeah.
05:47That 초 to pull and chasing around.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Yeah.
05:50Totally.
05:51Yeah, absolutely.
05:53Yeah.
05:56Yeah.
05:57Yeah.
05:58Yeah.
05:58Yeah.
05:59Yeah.
06:00Yeah.
06:01Yeah.
06:02Yeah.
06:04Yeah.
06:05Yeah.
06:05Yeah.
06:07Yeah.
06:08Yeah.
06:11Yeah.
06:12Yeah.
06:13Yeah.
06:13433 with the 25, Isabel.
06:17433.
06:18Well done to you. And, Chris, did you match it?
06:20433, yeah.
06:21Well done both of you. Off you go, Isabel.
06:2310 plus 7 is 17.
06:25Yep.
06:26Multiplied by the 25.
06:29425.
06:30And the 10 minus 2 is 8. Add it on.
06:34Perfect. 433.
06:36Chris, same way or different way?
06:37Same way as well.
06:38Yep.
06:39APPLAUSE
06:40There you go, at 10 points apiece in the studio.
06:46Hope you're getting on well at home as we get our first Tea Time teaser
06:49of this Tuesday afternoon, and it's End Swoop.
06:53End Swoop.
06:54It sounds a bit like this show.
06:56You get to reveal what you've got.
06:58It sounds a bit like this show.
07:00You get to reveal what you've got.
07:02End Swoop becomes Pose Down.
07:04Susie Dent, in all my years I've never heard the word before.
07:06I'm really surprised you haven't heard it, because it comes from the bodybuilding community.
07:08LAUGHTER
07:09And it's the final stage where all the competitors show off their physique.
07:12Like, when they go...
07:14Exactly that.
07:15Calm down, everybody.
07:16Calm down.
07:17Calm down.
07:18It's the final stage where all the competitors show off their physique.
07:21Like, when they go...
07:23Exactly that.
07:24Calm down, nobody.
07:25And they all that.
07:27Exactly.
07:27With the facial gestures as well, yeah.
07:28But without the clothing.
07:29I think I pull my tricep.
07:30Aw, dear.
07:31That's a pose down.
07:32Nice.
07:33And it's the final stage where all the competitors show off their physique.
07:38Like when they go...
07:40Exactly that.
07:41Calm down, everybody. Calm down.
07:43And all that.
07:46With the facial gestures as well, yeah.
07:48But without the clothing.
07:50I think I pulled my tricep.
07:51Oh, dear. That's a pose down.
07:53That's a pose down.
07:54Nice. Learn something every day.
07:56Right, no time for posing. Back to the game.
07:58Chris, you're choosing.
08:00Start with a consonant, please.
08:01Thank you, Chris.
08:02S.
08:03And another one.
08:05N.
08:06And a third.
08:08S.
08:10And a vowel, please.
08:12O.
08:12And another vowel.
08:14U.
08:15And a third vowel.
08:18I.
08:19And another consonant.
08:21V.
08:22Another consonant.
08:24M.
08:26And a final consonant as well, please.
08:29A final S.
08:30Thanks, Rich.
08:31The hopefully.
08:47And the Mutual who's 싶은genic acid.
08:48In the next COP한 survey.
08:49We'll be back to S.
08:50The tweet.
08:50And the listener, please.
08:51And the voice.
08:52And the word in the meantime.
08:52And the voice.
08:52Chris? Risky seven.
09:05And Isabel? Oh, four.
09:07That's not risky, I'm guessing.
09:10What have you got? Moss. Moss.
09:13Well, let's see if it gathers anything.
09:15Mooses. Mooses.
09:17How are you spelling that? M-O-U-S-S-E-S.
09:20There's no E. Oh, no.
09:21No E. I'm so sorry.
09:23Otherwise, yes, you could have three chocolate mooses quite happily,
09:27but not from this one.
09:29Sorry. Moss, come on.
09:31Come on, Isabel. Four points in the bag.
09:34Difficult letters, Rory.
09:35Yeah, when you said seven, I thought genius,
09:38because we couldn't find anything like that.
09:40I think sumo, was it? Sumos.
09:42Sumos. Sumo wrestlers, yeah.
09:45But that was tough. Yeah.
09:47All right, three points the gap now, Isabel.
09:49Closing up, and it's your letters.
09:50Consonant, please.
09:53Thank you, Isabel.
09:54B. And another.
09:57N. And another.
10:00G. And a fourth, please.
10:03R. And a vowel.
10:06E. And another.
10:09I. And another.
10:11E.
10:11D. And consonant, please.
10:17Lastly, N.
10:19Half a minute.
10:20Please listen to it.
10:21E. And another.
10:22A chord as it is.
10:26The Claire Tee,
10:39the river.
10:42In göster.
10:44Time's up. I wonder, I wonder, Isabel.
10:54Oh, I'll try nine.
10:56We're all wondering the same thing. Chris?
10:58Just a seven.
10:59The city's playing it safe. Here we go, the seven.
11:02Bending.
11:03Bending. Now, Isabel.
11:04I'm trying re-bending.
11:06Can you re-bend? I'm thinking pipes, re-bending a pipe, Susie.
11:10Well, back in the 18th century, they definitely thought you could re-bend something,
11:14because it's in the dictionary.
11:17Bending and regret.
11:21Nothing else, I'm assuming?
11:23No.
11:23No?
11:24Nothing else at all.
11:25Re-bending?
11:26Yeah.
11:27Nice. OK, back to the numbers. So much drama.
11:29At your first time choosing a Mr Boyce?
11:31One large five small, please.
11:33Thank you, Chris. One from the top five not.
11:36And for this round, the five smalls are eight.
11:40Two, eight, one, and four.
11:44And the large one, 50.
11:45And you need to reach 780.
11:48780. Numbers up.
11:50One-轴 going.
12:03One-轴.
12:03Two.
12:05One-轴.
12:087, 8, 0. Chris?
12:227, 8, 9.
12:24And Isabel?
12:267, 8, 0.
12:27You think you've got it? Off you go.
12:304 multiplied by 8 minus 1 is 28.
12:35Yep.
12:37Add the 50.
12:3878.
12:3978.
12:40And the 8 plus 2 is 10.
12:42With the second 8.
12:43Nicely done.
12:44Well done.
12:4848 plays 23.
12:50As we head over to Dictionary Corner, and Rory, you want to actually pick up on yesterday's origins of words.
12:56Indeed, yes.
12:57This is slightly on your patch, actually, Susie, because yesterday we were talking about sixes and sevens.
13:00Do you remember all that?
13:01And board games and the livery companies.
13:05Which made me think of, there's a wonderful, the two Ronnies joke about, on the A1, two miles from three bridges at four o'clock, five men were all at sixes and sevens due to being one over the eight, dialed 999, ordered ten cups of coffee for their elevenses.
13:18Because a mathematician is helping the police with their inquiries.
13:20We've got so many idioms with numbers in them.
13:23We talk about being dressed up to the nines, or having seven bells knocked out of you.
13:27Where I was coming in was from the French thing.
13:29When I first came on, I remember talking about, I love the French idioms.
13:32We talk about, I've got other fish to fry.
13:35The French say, I've got other cats to whip.
13:38D'autres chats à fouetter.
13:39But on the numbers game, we talk about seeing stars.
13:42And the French talk about voir trois six chandelles, to see 36 candles.
13:47There are some other ones, like, we talk about knee high to a grasshopper.
13:50They have haut comme trois pommes.
13:52It means you're three apples high.
13:54Which is really sweet.
13:56Un de ces quatre is one of these days.
13:58Se mettre en quatre, we had rebending, as well.
14:01Se mettre en quatre, to put yourself in four, means to bend over backwards.
14:05To do something.
14:06So all these little different ones with numbers.
14:09Then I got into all the idioms for dying.
14:12We have kick the bucket.
14:14The Polish say to kick the calendar.
14:17The French, again, they say you have casser sa pipe, which I love, which is to break your pipe.
14:22And there's two possible ones for that.
14:23The one is when it was, I think, during the Pony Arctic Wars,
14:27they were given for an operation, if you were being operated on, without anesthetic.
14:30And they would give you a clay pipe to bite on.
14:33Yes.
14:33And if it fell out, then you'd probably died.
14:35Or the other one was Molière, a wonderful French playwright who died in...
14:40They say he died on stage and the pipe dropped out of his mouth
14:43and a little child went,
14:44Tiens, il a cassé sa pipe.
14:45But that as well, again, like all of these things, you look them up
14:49and it may be apocryphal or not.
14:52But back to dying, popping your clogs.
14:56Is that to pawn your...
14:58Yeah, so pop, as in pop goes the weasel.
15:00Weasel and stoke coat.
15:02You pop your coat, you pawn your coat.
15:04And pop your clogs, the idea is you don't need them anymore,
15:07so you pawn them.
15:07Clogs being traditional footwear in factories.
15:10And pushing up the daisies.
15:11We are pushing up the daisies.
15:12It's interesting.
15:13The German have to view the radishes from underneath.
15:16The radishes from unten betrachten.
15:19That means to look...
15:19And the French, they have...
15:21They have manger des pissenlits par la racine.
15:25That means to eat dandelions from the root.
15:28And while we're on the subject of vegetables,
15:29we talk about, oh, he's a big cheese, a big cheese.
15:32In France, you're a big vegetable.
15:34Alors lui, il est une grosse légume.
15:37He's a big vegetable.
15:38And still on...
15:39What do we say when we smile?
15:41Cheese.
15:42Say cheese.
15:43Oh, say cheese.
15:43And the French, they say...
15:45Oustiti, oustiti, oustiti, which is a marmoset.
15:50Oh, wow.
15:51But if you say the word, of course,
15:52it puts your...
15:53In that phrase.
15:55So there you are.
15:57And one to finish on.
15:59Do you know a Black Mariah?
16:00I was asking one of the crew, actually,
16:02do you know what a Black Mariah is, obviously?
16:04Yeah, like a police wagon.
16:06And in France, they call it a panier à salade,
16:09which is basically a salad basket
16:12because I suppose, you know, back in the 18th century
16:15or the carriages where you were carted off
16:18looked like a salad basket.
16:19Yeah.
16:20So you had that.
16:21So it's just all these different fascinating foreign expressions
16:26for the idioms that we have.
16:27Love it, Roy.
16:27Thank you very much.
16:28APPLAUSE
16:29Here we go, then.
16:3248 plus 23.
16:33What a turnaround the last couple of rounds,
16:35but that's what champions do, Chris.
16:37Stick at it.
16:37Let's see what happens next.
16:38Isabel, your letters.
16:39And here we go again.
17:37Give me a number, Isabel.
17:38Seven.
17:40And Chris?
17:41Risky eight.
17:42It's time to be risky, isn't it, really?
17:44The seven, Isabel.
17:45Mine's risky.
17:46Mattia.
17:47Chris?
17:48Admitter.
17:49Admitter.
17:49Somebody who admits.
17:50OK, so Mattia is in the dictionary,
17:53but Mattia is not specified, I'm afraid,
17:55which it would need to be.
17:56You're joking.
17:58No.
17:59What drama?
18:00What drama?
18:00And, yeah, happy to say admitter in the dictionary.
18:03Well done.
18:04Look at that.
18:04What a shout that is.
18:08Eight points back.
18:09Anything else?
18:10Admitter was our only one, actually.
18:12Yeah.
18:12We have the dictionary.
18:14Well done.
18:14Well done.
18:15Right.
18:15It's all go here, isn't it?
18:16Let's not predict what's going to happen next.
18:18Let's just get more letters from Chris.
18:20Start with a consonant, please.
18:22Thank you, Chris.
18:22And another consonant.
18:25G.
18:27And a third.
18:29S.
18:30And a vowel.
18:32O.
18:33And another vowel, please.
18:35E.
18:36And a third vowel.
18:39O.
18:40And a consonant.
18:41G.
18:43And another consonant.
18:45W.
18:47And a final vowel, please.
18:49And a final U.
18:51Start the clock.
19:23How do you fare, Chris? Six.
19:26Doesn't sound too confident. Isabel? Six. Six as well. Chris?
19:31Gunges. Gunges. That's a proper 1980s word. TV was full of people being gunged.
19:38Isabel? Gouges. Less people being gouged, but definitely people being gunged.
19:43Susie and Rory? Yeah, both absolutely fine.
19:46Gunged there is a verb. Gouged, obviously. Gouged someone's eyes out were a bit brutal.
19:51But just sixes. But it was a thing.
19:55Gunging, yeah. There was always people being gunged.
19:57Yeah. But I suppose we moved on to crueler things, like, you know, eating bugs and, you know, being buried alive and stuff.
20:04No need for gunging anymore.
20:05Thankfully, yeah.
20:07You ever gunged in your time?
20:09No.
20:09No.
20:10Have you been asked to go in the jungle? Would you go in the jungle?
20:13Well, I was on the long list. You know, where they do the Zoom and they're like, nah, you're not going in.
20:18There's a long list.
20:18Yeah. I've been there. I'd think about it. I'd think about it, you know. Anything else?
20:22Nothing else?
20:23No. Gouged out.
20:24There you go. 54 players, 37, our third numbers round of this Tuesday afternoon. And you're choosing, Isabel.
20:31One large, please.
20:33Thank you, Isabel. One from the top. And five more little ones for you.
20:37This time, the selection is ten, three, six, two, two, and one hundred.
20:46And the target, 386.
20:48386 numbers up.
20:50386 numbers up.
21:20Time's up. 386. Isabel?
21:22386.
21:23Yeah, and Chris?
21:24387.
21:25Off you go, Isabel.
21:27Sorry, I've used number twice.
21:28Oh, well, thanks for admitting it nice and early, saving us that time.
21:32Chris, what a part this has been. Seven points.
21:35OK.
21:36Two times two.
21:37Two times two, four.
21:39Times a hundred.
21:41400.
21:41And then take away the ten and the three.
21:43Yeah, one away.
21:44Well done.
21:45386.
21:45And 386. Off you go, Rach.
21:47Yep, you could have said 100 times two, 200.
21:52Take away two is 198.
21:55And then six over three is another two.
21:58Times those together for 396.
22:00And take away the ten.
22:02Three, eight, six.
22:03Nice. Thank you.
22:03Well, the upshot of all of that, ten points.
22:09The difference is we head to our second teatime teaser of the day,
22:12Lemon Hut.
22:13Lemon Hut.
22:14You might carry this out to plug a leak.
22:17You might carry this out to plug a leak.
22:19Hello again.
22:36Lemon Hut.
22:36You might carry this out to plug a leak.
22:39Mole Hunt.
22:40And Susie Dent, Mole Hunt isn't as cruel a word as it sounds.
22:43No.
22:44So the leaks in question are from any organisation that keeps secrets
22:47because this is an investigation that seeks to catch informants.
22:52So people who are moles or leaks.
22:54Love it.
22:55Inspiring communities.
22:56Mole Hunt.
22:57Mole Hunt.
22:58All right, six rounds to go.
22:59Just ten points of difference.
23:01And what has been such an eventful game of countdown so far.
23:04Long may continue, Chris.
23:05Your letters.
23:06Start with a consonant, please.
23:08Thank you, Chris.
23:09F.
23:09And another consonant.
23:11H.
23:12And a third.
23:14L.
23:15And a vowel, please.
23:17A.
23:18And another vowel.
23:19I.
23:20And a consonant.
23:22T.
23:24And another consonant.
23:26M.
23:27And a vowel.
23:30A.
23:31And a final consonant, please.
23:34And a final D.
23:36Good luck.
23:39Good luck.
24:09Just a five.
24:10A five from you, Isabel.
24:11Five.
24:12Five to Chris.
24:14Admit.
24:15Admit.
24:16And are you admitting the same word?
24:17Admit.
24:18There it is.
24:19Yeah, perfect.
24:19Well done.
24:20Five points each to Susie and Rory as things get a little tense in here.
24:25Well, you could do with Alan Titchmarsh in you, Corny,
24:27because you've got Dahlia there.
24:29Dahlia, which is a lovely six.
24:31As good as it gets?
24:32As good as it gets, yeah.
24:33Right.
24:34Hard, though, to get anything better.
24:35So well done to both of you for those fives.
24:37Isabel, let's do it again.
24:38Consonant, please.
24:40Thank you, Isabel.
24:41T.
24:42And a second.
24:44R.
24:45And a third, please.
24:46C.
24:47And a vowel.
24:49U.
24:50And another vowel.
24:51I.
24:52And a third, please.
24:54U.
24:55And a fourth, please.
24:57O.
24:58And a consonant.
25:00Y.
25:01And a consonant, please.
25:02And the last one, N.
25:04Countdown.
25:05And a consonant.
25:06And a consonant.
25:06And a consonant.
25:07And a consonant.
25:07And a consonant.
25:08And a consonant.
25:08And a consonant.
25:08And a consonant.
25:09And a consonant.
25:09And a consonant.
25:10And a consonant.
25:10And a consonant.
25:10And a consonant.
25:11And a consonant.
25:11And a consonant.
25:11And a consonant.
25:11And a consonant.
25:12And a consonant.
25:12And a consonant.
25:13And a consonant.
25:13And a consonant.
25:14And a consonant.
25:14And a consonant.
25:15And a consonant.
25:15And a consonant.
25:15And a consonant.
25:16And a consonant.
25:16And a consonant.
25:17And a consonant.
25:18And a consonant.
25:18And a consonant.
25:19And a consonant.
25:19And a consonant.
25:20And a consonant.
25:20And a consonant.
25:21And a consonant.
25:21And a consonant.
25:35All right, then. Isabel. Only five. Chris. Oh, got seven. Seven.
25:41Isabel. Court. And Chris. Country. Yes. Very nice.
25:45Well spotted. Well spotted. Country, very good. Anything else?
25:49Yes. Well, there's a bit of a ruction going on now.
25:53Ruction. R-U-C-T-I-O-N. Another seven. So that's another seven.
25:58Yeah. Very good. Ruction and country, which means just three points in it.
26:02You cannot take your eyes off the game, but you will have to because we're going to break for origins of words.
26:08Susie, sixes and sevens yesterday. What about today?
26:11Yes. Today I'm going to leave you in the lurch, but I'm going to continue the theme of games because actually it does come from a game.
26:20Once again, as so often with English expressions, this one has invited its fair share of theory.
26:25So one is that this comes from a lich gate and a lich gate is one of those roofed churchyard gateways, if you like, the entrances that you will find in many old, old churches going into a cemetery.
26:39And it's the appointed place always where coffins will be left waiting for the clergyman to come along.
26:45So to be left in the lurch was to be left in that sort of limbo state was the idea.
26:51And another theory will tell you that jilted brides would be left in the lich gate when their suitors didn't turn up, the grooms didn't turn up for their wedding.
27:01But we're pretty sure that neither of those are true.
27:04And actually that the phrase originates from a French board game, which was called lurch and lurch as it became anglicized.
27:11And it's quite similar to backgammon apparently, and it was played in the 17th century.
27:15But the rules have been lost.
27:16So this is a game that we don't now play.
27:19We don't play any longer.
27:20And players would be in the lurch.
27:22They would suffer a lurch when they were left in a hopeless position where they just couldn't win the game.
27:29And the card game of cribbage apparently, I don't play cribbage, that has a lurch position as well.
27:33And players are left there when, if they don't progress halfway around the pegboard before the winner finishes, then they are left in the lurch.
27:43But what is the lurch in the first place?
27:45Well, we think it may come from a German dialect word meaning left, as in left-handed.
27:51Why?
27:52Because as any left-handers will know, left traditionally in English is associated with bad luck, with awkwardness, with clumsiness,
27:59and, in this case, with being in a losing position.
28:03Very unfair, but it's rippled throughout the centuries, this idea of left being unlucky.
28:08So we think that's where it comes from.
28:09But, yeah, in the lurch, all the way back to a board game that, sadly, we don't know how to play any more.
28:14My goodness. Wonderful. Thank you.
28:19Four rounds to go.
28:21Let's carry on then.
28:22Chris, you're picking these letters.
28:24Stava consonant, please.
28:25Thank you, Chris.
28:27L.
28:28And another consonant.
28:29B.
28:30And a third.
28:32T.
28:33And a vowel, please.
28:35I.
28:36And another vowel.
28:37E.
28:39And a third.
28:40A.
28:41And a consonant.
28:43R.
28:45And another consonant.
28:47H.
28:48And a final vowel, please.
28:50Final.
28:51U.
28:52Let's play.
28:53Each slot.
29:06Each slot.
29:06And a consonant.
29:07And a consonant.
29:08Two.
29:08It's a consonant.
29:09And a consonant.
29:09One.
29:09Two.
29:10One.
29:11kten
29:11One.
29:12Two.
29:12One.
29:12Two.
29:13Two.
29:13angels.
29:14Two.
29:15One.
29:15Two.
29:15One.
29:16Three.
29:16One.
29:17One.
29:17Four.
29:18Three.
29:18MUSIC
29:23Chris? Just a six.
29:25Six there. Isabel? Six.
29:27Six as well. Chris? Brutal.
29:29Brutal. And Isabel? Bather.
29:32A bather. And brutal.
29:34Six points each, so it's as you were.
29:37Rory, you're still writing. Put your pen down.
29:39Clock stopped ages ago. How did you get on?
29:42Yes, a couple of sevens, I think. I was just working out.
29:45So, halibut... Yeah. ..is there.
29:48But also, we were talking French earlier on today,
29:51and you could have had habitué, could you?
29:54You could, yes. So it took the extra time to write the accent on the E.
29:57So, habitué... Habitué, someone who frequents a particular place.
30:01And that's another seven, right? That's a seven as well.
30:03Very good indeed. Très magnifique.
30:06Still three points in it. Last letters round.
30:09Isabel, you're choosing the nine. Choose carefully.
30:12And a final consonant, please.
30:15Thank you, Isabel.
30:16T. And another.
30:19D. And another.
30:21R. Fowel, please.
30:24I. And another.
30:26O. And a third.
30:28E. Consonant, please.
30:30G. Consonant.
30:33Q. And a final consonant, please.
30:36And a final N.
30:38Do you have a lap?
30:39In.
30:40Last letters.
30:41THI
30:45THI
30:46MUSIC PLAYS
31:11A lot going on there. Isabel?
31:12Seven, not written down.
31:14OK, and Chris?
31:14Seven written down.
31:15Well done. Isabel?
31:17Redoing.
31:18And Chris?
31:19Eroding.
31:20Eroding and redoing.
31:21Happy enough for both?
31:22Very happy.
31:23Yep.
31:24OK, so we stay exactly as we are.
31:26Was there anything beyond the seven?
31:27I'm guessing no.
31:28No, it's just a six, goiter.
31:30Yes.
31:30That's a nice word.
31:31Yeah, you can put the D on it and be goitered.
31:33Goitered.
31:33If you're very unfortunate.
31:35But that will give you another seven.
31:36Sevens.
31:37So under this pressure, at the top of the game.
31:40Fantastic stuff.
31:41Last numbers.
31:41Big decision, Chris.
31:42Six more ones, please.
31:43Six more.
31:44Taking your life into your own hands.
31:46I like it.
31:47And the final important numbers game is eight, one, ten, four, ten, and eight.
31:57I don't really like the selection, but the target, 185.
32:00One, eight, five, last numbers.
32:33185. Under this pressure, Chris.
32:36184. Missed it by one.
32:38Isabel. 185.
32:41To win. 10 plus 8 is 18.
32:44It is. Multiplied by the other 10.
32:47180. 180. And then add the 4 and the 1.
32:51And Chris is busy kicking himself. 185. Well done!
32:54APPLAUSE
32:57What an unpredictable great programme.
32:59Shame it has to end, but end it does.
33:01Fingers on the buzzers, Isabel and Chris.
33:04It's today's, not crucial, Countdown Conundrum.
33:27Isabel. Outlasted. Let's see.
33:31APPLAUSE
33:33Isabel, well done. Sixth win for you.
33:35And Chris, you get all her love. That was sensational.
33:37I'll catch her breath here.
33:39Gave a good shot at the end.
33:40Yes!
33:41Didn't quite hit it off at the back.
33:42Happened as all those little moments as well under that pressure.
33:45Rory, Susie, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:47Yeah, see you then.
33:48And Rachel, it would be remiss of us on Unique Names Day before we go.
33:52Not to give a shout out to the following people.
33:55The American estate agent, Chip Monk.
33:58At a university, also in the USA, there is a real life doctor roller coaster.
34:04Brilliant.
34:05Yes.
34:06And more common than you think, there's a lot of people out there in the UK and the US and beyond that has the name Donald Key.
34:13So to all the Donald Keys out there, we say hello.
34:17Rachel, Susie and I back tomorrow.
34:19You can count on us.
34:21You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:26You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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