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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon, welcome to Countdown Studio.
00:33Am I one of those people who immediately rips open his post when he gets home,
00:37or do I leave it sitting around for a while?
00:39Well, I've got to tell you, actually, that I rip it open very quickly.
00:42First of all, she puts all of my post in a drawer, very organised.
00:48And when I open the drawer, I take it out and I rip it all open,
00:51particularly those lovely little envelopes from Glasgow,
00:55which contain cheques from the premium bond people.
01:00Fantastic.
01:00They're always too small, though, aren't they?
01:02They're never more than 25 quid.
01:05Yeah, exactly.
01:06Anyway, spare a thought, my notes say, for Helen McCrory.
01:11She is not one to rip open her post.
01:13And in fact, she's a naughty, lazy girl, because she leaves it lying around
01:16until one day she received, or her agent actually, received a call from the Cabinet Office saying,
01:24we're surprised not to have heard from Miss McCrory to say whether or not she's prepared to accept the OBE
01:32that was mentioned in our letter of six weeks ago.
01:36And today is the last day for accepting, because if we don't hear from her,
01:41we're shredding it, throwing it away, and we'll never invite her again.
01:45And the agent said, I'll be right back to you.
01:47So there we are.
01:48So let there be a lesson, Rachel.
01:49Always open your post.
01:50You never know.
01:51There may be a damehood lurking in there somewhere.
01:53Well, I heard she thought it was a parking ticket, so she just put it to one side and thought,
01:57I'd forget about it, but it was actually an OBE request.
02:00So even if they look bad, I guess you should open them.
02:02Exactly.
02:03It looks like a bill.
02:04Exactly.
02:04It looks like fan mail from...
02:07Oh, you've had some weird fan mail in the post.
02:09Well, they come in the parcel post, actually.
02:11The parcel post.
02:12You should always open it.
02:13I suppose so.
02:14They come here sometimes.
02:16We won't go into it.
02:16I know, I've seen the adapted underwear.
02:18We won't go into it.
02:21And they were red net.
02:25Do you wear them?
02:26I gave them to one of the ladies in the gallery, and we didn't see it for three days.
02:33Anyway, who's with us?
02:35Two new contestants.
02:36Patrick Hopkins, a history student at the University of Manchester, originally from Clacton-on-Sea,
02:41who's a darts player.
02:42How do you get on?
02:43Not too badly.
02:44You play for Manchester, Ben?
02:45I do, for the university, yes.
02:47Fantastic.
02:47I checked out 130 against Loughborough.
02:49That was my proudest moment playing darts thus far.
02:53But you've scored a couple of 180s.
02:55I have, yes.
02:56That's brilliant.
02:56Well done.
02:57Thank you very much.
02:57All right.
02:58Well, you're joined, Patrick, by Jonathan Bizelle.
03:01Not related to Lethal, are you?
03:03No.
03:03It's felt different, yeah.
03:05Open university student studying from economics and politics from Hornchurch.
03:09Somebody else from Essex.
03:10There's nothing wrong with Essex.
03:11You like to travel and you document your trips by taking lots of photographs.
03:16Yeah, I like putting it on my Instagram and stuff, yeah.
03:19Do you?
03:19Yeah.
03:20All right.
03:20Where was your most recent trip?
03:22I went to Germany on my own, Berlin.
03:24Berlin, I thought was fantastic.
03:25I took, I think I may have mentioned this before, a five-hour walking tour around Berlin.
03:31And it was all about the Third Reich.
03:34It was fantastically interesting, actually.
03:36There we are.
03:37So welcome, Jonathan and Patrick.
03:39Good luck to you both.
03:40And let's have a big round of applause.
03:48And over in the corner, of course, Susie and Helen.
03:52Welcome back, Helen.
03:54More stories from you.
03:55How are you feeling?
03:55More stories a little later.
03:56Yes, I'm collecting stories for you.
03:58We had a great game yesterday, didn't we, with that Michael?
04:01You set the bar very high, gentlemen, it has to be said.
04:04That's true.
04:04Let's see.
04:05Now, Patrick, let us go.
04:08Hello.
04:08Hi, Patrick.
04:09Can I start with a consonant, please?
04:11We can start with Q.
04:14And another.
04:16R.
04:17And a vowel, please.
04:19O.
04:20And another.
04:22E.
04:23And a consonant, please.
04:26D.
04:27And another, please.
04:29L.
04:30And another.
04:32S.
04:34And a vowel.
04:37O.
04:39And another consonant, please.
04:42And the last one, T.
04:45And here's the countdown clock.
04:47Let's do it again.
04:49Let's do it again.
04:50Let's do it again.
04:51All right.
04:52Let's do it again.
05:16Make it again.
05:16Patrick?
05:18Seven.
05:19Jonathan?
05:20Seven.
05:21Patrick?
05:22Looters.
05:23And?
05:23I've got the same thing.
05:25Looters.
05:26Yes.
05:27Now, Helen and Susie.
05:30I think it was a round of sevens, really, wasn't it?
05:32Lots of sevens in there.
05:33I think we found roosted and stalled.
05:36Yes.
05:37Yep.
05:38Retools.
05:38Quite a few sevens, don't it?
05:40OK.
05:41Well then, guys, seven apiece.
05:42And Jonathan, your letters game.
05:45Hi, Rachel.
05:45Hi, Jonathan.
05:46Could I get a consonant, please?
05:48Start with D.
05:49And another.
05:51S.
05:52And one more, please.
05:54R.
05:55A vowel.
05:56I.
05:57A vowel.
05:59A.
06:00A consonant.
06:02P.
06:03Another one.
06:06C.
06:06A vowel.
06:08And a final consonant, please.
06:09I.
06:10And a final D.
06:13Stand by.
06:13yan known as ever.
06:15I.
06:15I.
06:26I.
06:26I.
06:27I.
06:27I.
06:33I.
06:37I.
06:37I.
06:37I.
06:37I.
06:38Yes, Jonathan.
06:46Just a five.
06:46A five, Patrick.
06:48A six.
06:49So, Jonathan.
06:50No, cards.
06:52Patrick.
06:53Rapids.
06:54Rapids.
06:55And over in the corner, Helen and Susie.
06:57Well, there is a word, diapiers, for seven.
07:01I know it's a word.
07:02I'm not quite sure what it means.
07:04Yeah, sounds like diapers, but it's this IRS.
07:06They are, it's a geological term for domed rock formations.
07:12Thirteen plays, seven.
07:14Patrick in the lead.
07:14Patrick, numbers for you.
07:16One for the top and five others, please.
07:19Thank you, Patrick.
07:20One large five, little to kick us off.
07:23And this selection is one, nine, one, ten, nine, and fifty.
07:32And the target, 335.
07:34Three, three, five.
07:36One large, five.
07:37One large, five.
07:38One large, five.
07:39One large, five.
07:40One large, five.
07:41One large, five.
07:42One large, five.
07:43One large, five.
07:44One large, five.
07:45One large, five.
07:46One large, five.
07:47One large, five.
07:48One large, five.
07:49One large, five.
07:50One large, five.
07:51One large, five.
07:52One large, five.
07:53One large, five.
07:54One large, five.
07:55One large, five.
07:56One large, five.
07:57One large, five.
07:58One large, five.
07:59One large, five.
08:00One large, five.
08:01One large, five.
08:02One large, five.
08:03One large, five.
08:04Patrick, 3.40.
08:09Five away. Jonathan?
08:10No, I didn't get anything.
08:12No? No.
08:13Patrick?
08:149 minus 1 minus 1.
08:169 minus the two 1s is 7.
08:19Times by 50, the 3.50.
08:21Yep.
08:21And minus the 10.
08:23Yep, 3.40, five away.
08:26So, 3.35. Rachel, help us out.
08:29Well, I can get you to 3.36, but this one's impossible.
08:33All right, 20 plays, 7. Patrick on 20.
08:36As we turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is I had clean.
08:40And the clue, I had a clean shirt on until I spilt this down my front at lunchtime.
08:46I had a clean shirt on until I spilt this down my front at lunchtime.
09:03Welcome back.
09:09I left you with a clue.
09:10I had a clean shirt on until I spilt this down my front at lunchtime.
09:17Apparently, I spilt enchilada all down my shirt.
09:21Enchilada?
09:22Where does this come from?
09:23Enchilada.
09:24It's a staple of Mexican food, Nick.
09:28And it's tortilla served with chilli sauce and a filling of meat or cheese.
09:31And it's Latin American Spanish.
09:33From to season with chilli.
09:36Enchilada.
09:37OK.
09:38Thank you for that.
09:39I didn't spill it down my shirt anyway.
09:4120 plays, 7.
09:42Patrick on 20.
09:44And it's Jonathan's letters game.
09:46Consonant plays.
09:47Thank you, Jonathan.
09:48B.
09:49Another one.
09:50M.
09:52And another.
09:54N.
09:55And a vowel.
09:56E.
09:57Another one.
09:59U.
10:00Consonant.
10:02L.
10:03A vowel.
10:05I.
10:06A vowel, please.
10:09O.
10:09And a final consonant.
10:10And a final F.
10:13Stand by.
10:20Jonathan.
10:46Six not written down.
10:48And Patrick?
10:48Just a four.
10:50Your four?
10:51Foil.
10:52Foil.
10:53And Jonathan?
10:54Mobile.
10:55Mobile.
10:57Can we do better?
10:58Well, I think there were quite a few sixes hiding.
11:00Foible was a good one.
11:01But there was a cheeky eight hiding in there.
11:05Nabilium.
11:06Nabilium.
11:07Yes.
11:08It's a radioactive metal.
11:10It's a chemical element of atomic number 102.
11:12Oh, thank goodness for that.
11:15Nabilium.
11:17102, eh?
11:1820 plays 13.
11:20Patrick just seven points in the lead.
11:21Patrick, letters game for you.
11:24Consonant, please.
11:25Wait till.
11:26Thank you, Patrick.
11:27N.
11:28And a vowel.
11:29E.
11:30E.
11:31And a consonant.
11:33J.
11:34And another.
11:36S.
11:37And a vowel.
11:38E.
11:40And another vowel, please.
11:43O.
11:44And a consonant.
11:46T.
11:48And another.
11:50L.
11:50And a final consonant, please.
11:55And a final M.
11:57Stand by.
11:58e.
12:25E.
12:26E.
12:26E.
12:27Patrick, just a six.
12:31Jonathan, a six.
12:32Patrick, stolen.
12:34And melons.
12:36Can we get beyond the six?
12:38Well, I've equaled the six with Solemn,
12:40but I think you can get beyond, can't you?
12:41No, you can't.
12:43Until six is two, Jostle, Lemons, six is all the way.
12:47Couldn't get beyond the melons?
12:48No.
12:49Never mind.
12:50Try harder.
12:5126 plays 19.
12:53And now, Jonathan, it's your numbers game.
12:55One large, five small plays.
12:56Thank you, Jonathan.
12:58One from the top row again.
12:59Five more little ones, and hopefully a possible one.
13:01This round is eight, seven, four.
13:05Another four, one.
13:08And 75.
13:10And the target, 412.
13:13Four, one, two.
13:26Jonathan.
13:45Didn't get anything again.
13:47And Patrick?
13:48I think I've got 413.
13:50Let's try it.
13:52So you've got 4 plus 1 equals 5.
13:544 plus 1 is 5.
13:55Times a 75.
13:573, 7, 5.
13:59Oh, no.
14:00I haven't got it, sorry.
14:01Oh.
14:02Bad luck.
14:03But I bet Rachel has.
14:04412, Rachel?
14:05Yes, you could have said 4 times 7, 28, plus 75 is 103, and times by the other four.
14:16Well done.
14:17412.
14:18That's the way.
14:18Fantastic.
14:21So 26 till against Jonathan's 19 close-run thing as we turn to Helen.
14:26Helen, you do a lot of reports for the one show.
14:29Anything standing out in the last few weeks?
14:31I think the nice thing, Nick, is that I do a lot of current affairs reporting for them.
14:35So I feel that every time I go on a story, I learn something new.
14:39And recently I did a story about animal cruelty.
14:41And I just found it quite surprising and shocking to learn that every 27 seconds somebody picks up the phone for help to the RSPCA.
14:52So that means in the short time that we've been on air today, they've probably had 40 calls already for help.
14:58And they get 1.15 million a year.
15:01So that's just the RSPCA.
15:02I mean, one of hundreds of welfare charities.
15:04So it's just the tip of the iceberg.
15:05But their inspectors look into 140,000 cases of abuse and neglect every year.
15:12Yet only one in 100 of those leads to prosecution.
15:16So it really is just the tip of the iceberg.
15:18And people say that the penalties aren't stiff enough.
15:21So if you neglected your pet or you were found guilty of the worst form of cruelty or abuse to an animal,
15:29the stiffest penalty is six months in jail or a £20,000 fine.
15:34So a lot of people in the animal world feel that that's not a strong enough deterrent.
15:38And there are calls at the minute to have an offenders register, I suppose, a little bit along the lines of the sex offenders register,
15:45where if you've been found guilty of abuse or cruelty to an animal or neglect, then your name will be written down.
15:51And it will be seen by people whose job it is to place animals in loving homes.
15:56There are 600,000 signatures to DEFRA at the moment to try and get Europe to have this register, the first one of its kind in Britain.
16:05They do exist in places like America.
16:07But I think that the one show is good for things like that.
16:09I think, you know, we get to do some unusual stories.
16:12I mean, culturally, we're quite good with that.
16:14My brother lives in Spain.
16:15And to his amazement, he lives right up in the mountains somewhere, and a neighbour or somebody in the village had a dog tied to a piece, something by a piece of string.
16:26One bloke on his way home from work every day used to give it a kick.
16:31Unbelievable.
16:32Until my brother put his top to it.
16:34Just sort of extraordinarily casual cruelty.
16:37Yes.
16:37Amazing, isn't it?
16:38Yeah, it's quite frightening, isn't it?
16:39Yeah.
16:39Awful.
16:4026 plays 19.
16:41Patrick on 26.
16:43Patrick's letters game now.
16:45OK, a consonant, please.
16:47Thank you, Patrick.
16:48H.
16:49And another.
16:50G.
16:51And another.
16:53M.
16:55And a vowel, please.
16:56U.
16:58And another.
16:59A.
17:01And another.
17:02E.
17:04And a consonant, please.
17:06T.
17:08And another.
17:10N.
17:12And a vowel.
17:14And lastly, A.
17:16Stand by.
17:17And a vowel.
17:18And a vowel.
17:19And a vowel.
17:19And a vowel.
17:20And a vowel.
17:20And a vowel.
17:20And a vowel.
17:21And a vowel.
17:21And a vowel.
17:22And a vowel.
17:22And a vowel.
17:22And a vowel.
17:23And a vowel.
17:23And a vowel.
17:23And a vowel.
17:23And a vowel.
17:23And a vowel.
17:24And a vowel.
17:24And a vowel.
17:24And a vowel.
17:24And a vowel.
17:24And a vowel.
17:25And a vowel.
17:26And a vowel.
17:26And a vowel.
17:27And a vowel.
17:27And a vowel.
17:27And a vowel.
17:28And a vowel.
17:28And a vowel.
17:29And a vowel.
17:29And a vowel.
17:30And a vowel.
17:31And a vowel.
17:31And a vowel.
17:32And a vowel.
17:32And a vowel.
17:48Patrick.
17:49A five, I think.
17:51Yes, Jonathan.
17:51A six.
17:52And a six.
17:53Patrick.
17:54I've got gamut.
17:55Johnson.
17:56Magnet.
17:57And magnet.
17:58Yeah, that's absolutely fine.
17:59And how are you spelling gamut?
18:01G-A-M-E-T.
18:03Oh, it's gamut with a U-T, I'm afraid.
18:05I was thinking of the three.
18:07What else could we have, I wonder?
18:09You could have a couple of sevens in there.
18:11Magnate.
18:12Yes.
18:13For seven.
18:13And mutagen.
18:15Yeah, mutagen.
18:16An agent that causes genetic mutation.
18:19Well, well.
18:2126 to 25.
18:23Johnson just snapping at your heels, Patrick.
18:25And it's the snapper whose letters game it is now.
18:29Johnson.
18:31A consonant, please.
18:32Thank you, Jonathan.
18:34W.
18:35And another.
18:37P.
18:38And another.
18:40S.
18:41Bow.
18:43U.
18:44Another.
18:44O.
18:46Another.
18:48E.
18:49A consonant.
18:50C.
18:51And another.
18:53R.
18:54And a consonant, please.
18:56And lastly.
18:57F.
18:58Stand by.
18:59All right.
19:07I'll see you next time.
19:20Bye.
19:21Bye.
19:21Bye.
19:22Thanks for this Evan.
19:22Bye.
19:24Bye.
19:24Bye.
19:24Bye.
19:27Bye.
19:27Bye.
19:27Bye.
19:28Bye.
19:28Jonathan.
19:31A risky six.
19:33A six, Patrick.
19:34A safe five.
19:35And your five?
19:36Pros.
19:37Now then, Jonathan.
19:38A super, like S-O-U-P-E-R.
19:42P super is there, but not super when it's saying, I'm afraid.
19:46Sorry.
19:47Bad luck.
19:48Bad luck.
19:50Now, Helen and Susie.
19:52It's a good little eight hiding in there.
19:54Pre-focus.
19:56Oh, yeah, pre-focus.
19:58Yeah.
19:59Light bulbs in cars, for example, are pre-focused because they're automatically adjusted.
20:05That'll do.
20:06Pre-focus.
20:07Well done.
20:08So, 31.
20:09Patrick maintains his lead.
20:1031 to Jonathan's 25.
20:12Patrick, it's your numbers game.
20:15One for the top, please.
20:16Same again.
20:17Thank you, Patrick.
20:17One large and five little.
20:20And this time, your five little ones are nine, two, one, eight, six.
20:27And the last one, 100.
20:29And this target, 376.
20:32Three, seven, six.
20:34One large and ten.
20:36Three, five.
20:41Three, seven, six.
20:43Hey, shit.
20:43Sorry.
20:44Yeah, fuck.
20:45Bye.
20:46All right.
20:51Bye.
20:53Bye.
20:54Bye.
20:55Bye.
20:57Bye.
20:57Bye.
20:58Bye.
20:59Bye.
20:59Bye.
21:00Bye.
21:00Bye.
21:00Bye.
21:01Bye.
21:02Bye.
21:02Bye.
21:03Patrick.
21:06Um, three, seven, nine.
21:08Jonathan.
21:09Three, six, nine.
21:10Three, six, nine.
21:11Patrick.
21:12Um, so six minus two.
21:14Six minus two is four.
21:16And 100 minus one.
21:1799.
21:19Uh, four times 99.
21:21It's 396.
21:22Minus eight, minus nine.
21:24And then eight and then nine, 17.
21:26Um, to take away for three, seven, uh, seven.
21:31Um, no, three, seven, nine.
21:34Sorry, that's what you said, isn't it?
21:35Three, seven, nine.
21:36Ignore me.
21:36Well done.
21:37Well done.
21:38All right.
21:38Ignore me.
21:39But three, seven, six, after all that.
21:41Yes.
21:42Three, seven, six?
21:43Um, it was more straightforward.
21:44If you say 100 minus six, 94.
21:48Um, eight divided by two is four.
21:51Times them together.
21:52And there it is.
21:57There it is, sitting there, looking at you.
21:5938 to 25.
22:01Patrick in the lead as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is Sid's sponge.
22:06And the clue, Sid had a fondness for sponge cake, hence he was known for this.
22:11Sid had a fondness for sponge cake, hence he was known for this.
22:16He was known for his...
22:28Well, welcome back.
22:33Welcome back.
22:34I left with the clue.
22:35Sid had a fondness for sponge cake, hence he was known for this.
22:39He was known for his...
22:41Poginous.
22:44Poginous.
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23:0138 to 25, and it's Jonathan's Letters game.
23:05Yes, Jonathan.
23:06Go ahead, start with a consonant, please.
23:07Thank you, Jonathan.
23:08Z.
23:09Oh, and another.
23:12R.
23:13And another.
23:15X.
23:16A vowel, please.
23:19A.
23:20And another.
23:22E.
23:23And a vowel, please.
23:26A.
23:26A consonant.
23:28R.
23:29Another.
23:31P.
23:33And a consonant, please.
23:35And lastly, T.
23:37And here's the Countdown clock.
23:39The Countdown clock.
24:09uh jonathan uh i'll go for a six i'll try six a six and i'll try for six as well
24:19mm-hmm jonathan parter and patrick parter there we go are we happy with that yes uh usually it's
24:28in combination so you might talk about a six-parter if you're talking about a tv series
24:32for example okay that's absolutely fine pre-tax you could have maybe yes actually that's a nice one
24:39what else have we got um oh it's got a hyphen in it nick come off sorry sorry to steal it's not when
24:47the revenue writes to me they don't put the hyphen into it i wish they did what what have you got
24:53at parter as well yeah i think we all got the same there nothing else uh expat is there you want to
24:58five expat and now patrick it's your letters game a consonant please thank you patrick v and another
25:05l and a vowel please a and another i and a third e and a consonant d and another s
25:24and another r um and a vowel please and the last one o stand by
25:36so
25:48Well, Patrick, a seven.
26:10Yes, John.
26:11A seven as well.
26:12Patrick, redials.
26:14And?
26:14Drivers.
26:15Drivers.
26:16Oh, only one art.
26:19Yeah.
26:20In the drives, but not drivers.
26:22Sorry.
26:22Bad luck.
26:23Helen.
26:24Oh, there's a nine.
26:25Valorised.
26:27To valorise something.
26:28Yes, give validity to it.
26:30OK.
26:31Very good.
26:34Well done indeed.
26:35Well done, Helen.
26:36Valorised.
26:37So 51 to 31, 20-point lead.
26:39And it's Susie we turn to for her origins of words.
26:42What have you for us today?
26:45Well, I'm going to talk about something that I don't think I've ever known you to use,
26:50but that I know Rachel uses a lot.
26:53And that's emojis.
26:55I don't think I've ever seen an emoji in a message.
26:56No, you'll not see me with one of those.
26:58No.
26:59OK.
27:00Well, love them or hate them, they look to be around to stay.
27:04And they are the fastest moving language in the world at the moment.
27:07So back in 2015, Oxford University Press, this dictionary we use obviously, created a bit of a social media storm when they made an emoji their word of the year.
27:17It was the face crying with laughter.
27:20Some people loved it.
27:21Some people hated it.
27:22But it is a valid language.
27:25If you want to look at it in terms of a pictorial language, you could take it all the way back to hieroglyphs, et cetera.
27:31So you could see it as a natural extension of something that we have been doing since antiquity.
27:35But they're pictograms anyway, used in electronic communications, digital icons, if you like, used to express an emotion or an idea.
27:45The etymology is quite simple, but may possibly surprise some of us, because most of us would know it's a borrowing from Japanese.
27:53It sounds Japanese.
27:54But the origin has nothing to do with emotion, as the emo might suggest.
27:59In fact, it's a compound of e, which in Japanese means a picture, and emoji, which simply means a letter or a character.
28:08In other words, an emoji is a word or words created by picture.
28:13And it sounds possibly nicer than pictograph, which means pretty much exactly the same thing.
28:17And so the similarity to emoticon, which is when we convey an emotion through keyboard characters rather than actual images, is entirely coincidental.
28:26That one is emotion and icon, so that's a simple method of blending.
28:32But it can cross language barriers, obviously, which is probably why it is growing at the pace that it is.
28:37So I think you need to embrace them, Nick, because they're the sign of the future.
28:40Yeah, I don't want to be a stick in the mud.
28:42Thank you so much.
28:4651 plays 31.
28:48And Jonathan, it's your letters game.
28:50Yes, Jonathan.
28:51Consonant, please.
28:52Thank you, Jonathan.
28:54V.
28:55And another.
28:56L.
28:58And again.
29:00H.
29:01And a vowel, please.
29:03A.
29:03And another.
29:05E.
29:06And another.
29:08A.
29:08A consonant, please.
29:10Y.
29:12A consonant, please.
29:15N.
29:15And a final consonant, please.
29:19And a final R.
29:21Stand by.
29:22And a HC public.
29:23And another.
29:24A consonant, please.
29:26And a final Patreon.
29:26And a Christian.
29:27CoribleAy.
29:28And a second one.
29:28Very well.
29:31You could hear it.
29:32You could hear it than anything.
29:33Now.
29:34And alot.
29:35So next one.
29:37And a vowel, please.
29:37And a vowel.
29:38And a vowel.
29:39And a vowel.
29:41And a vowel.
29:41And a vowel.
29:41And so.
29:42And a vowel.
29:42And a vowel.
29:43And a vowel.
29:45And a vowel.
29:46And a vowel.
29:47Yes, Jonathan?
29:55Just a five.
29:56A five. Patrick?
29:57And a five.
29:59Jonathan?
29:59Heavy.
30:00And?
30:01Heavy.
30:02Heavy.
30:03He ain't heavy.
30:04And Helen?
30:05I got heavy, so I only managed a five.
30:08A couple of sixes nearly is there,
30:11and also vernal relating to the springtime.
30:13Indeed.
30:14Vernal.
30:15Fifty-six, thirty-six.
30:17Patrick, final letters game.
30:19Make the most of it.
30:20A consonant, please.
30:21Thank you, Patrick.
30:22B.
30:23And another.
30:25R.
30:26And another.
30:28N.
30:30And a vowel.
30:31I.
30:32And another.
30:34O.
30:35And another.
30:37E.
30:39And a consonant, please.
30:42T.
30:43And another.
30:44M.
30:47And a vowel.
30:48And the last one.
30:50O.
30:52And here's the countdown clock.
30:53And a vowel.
30:55And a vowel.
30:55And a vowel.
30:56And a vowel.
30:56And a vowel.
30:57And a vowel.
30:57And a vowel.
30:58And a vowel.
30:58And a vowel.
30:59And a vowel.
30:59And a vowel.
30:59And a vowel.
30:59And a vowel.
31:00And a vowel.
31:00And a vowel.
31:00And a vowel.
31:01And a vowel.
31:01And a vowel.
31:01And a vowel.
31:02And a vowel.
31:02And a vowel.
31:03And a vowel.
31:03And a vowel.
31:03And a vowel.
31:04And a vowel.
31:04And a vowel.
31:05And a vowel.
31:05And a vowel.
31:06And a vowel.
31:07And a vowel.
31:07And a vowel.
31:08And a vowel.
31:08And a vowel.
31:09And a vowel.
31:09And a vowel.
31:10and a vowel.
31:11And a vowel.
31:24Well, Patrick.
31:26Six.
31:27Jonathan.
31:27Just a four.
31:28And that four.
31:29In two.
31:31Patrick.
31:32Bonnet.
31:33Helen.
31:34I couldn't do better than six.
31:35We found bornite.
31:38B-O-R-N-I-T-E.
31:40Yeah, that's seven, actually.
31:41What's a seven?
31:42I did do better than I thought.
31:43Well done.
31:44Have a tick for that.
31:45Yeah.
31:46That's a brittle, reddish-brown, crystalline mineral.
31:50Indeed.
31:50And there's also Tune, the Canadian $2 coin, for six.
31:54Thanks.
31:55All right.
31:5662 to 36.
31:58Final numbers game.
32:00Good luck, Jonathan.
32:01One large, five small, please.
32:02Thank you, Jonathan.
32:03Again, one from the top row and five little ones.
32:06And for the final time today, your numbers are three, eight, three, six, one, and 100.
32:15And the target, 908.
32:19908.
32:20Yes, Jonathan.
32:50Yeah, 908.
32:52And?
32:52908.
32:53So, Jonathan.
32:55Yeah, six plus three.
32:56Nine.
32:57Times 100.
32:58900, yeah.
32:58There we go.
32:59Patrick.
33:00All right.
33:02So, Patrick on 72.
33:03Jonathan, 46.
33:05Final round.
33:06Conundrum time.
33:07Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers.
33:09Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
33:12Patrick.
33:25Porcupine.
33:27Porcupine.
33:27Porcupine.
33:27Let's see whether you're right.
33:29Let's see whether you're right.
33:30Here he comes.
33:31Here he comes.
33:31Bristling porcupine.
33:32Well done.
33:33Well done.
33:37Good score, Patrick.
33:3882.
33:39Well done.
33:40Well done.
33:41Well done, Jonathan.
33:42Jonathan Bizzell.
33:44Congratulations.
33:4446.
33:45Not a bad score at all.
33:46Thanks for coming.
33:47You take that goodie bag back to Hornchurch with you.
33:51And good luck with the studies.
33:53All right.
33:54We shall see you tomorrow, young man.
33:55Well done indeed.
33:56How old are you?
33:5721.
33:5821.
33:58Wow, that's a good score.
33:5982.
34:00Brilliant.
34:01Well done.
34:02See you tomorrow.
34:03See you both tomorrow?
34:04We will be back tomorrow.
34:05I've got socks his age.
34:09Sorry.
34:12Am I back tomorrow?
34:13That's very funny.
34:14We'll see you both back tomorrow.
34:16Susie and Helen and Rachel too, of course.
34:19See you tomorrow.
34:20Same time.
34:21Same place.
34:21You be sure of it.
34:22A very good afternoon to you all.
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