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00:00Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio. It's the 1st of September and therefore
00:10the start of organic September apparently. Now I want to talk to you about organic things.
00:16The research department has informed me that growing or choosing organic can have many many
00:22benefits and I just want to enumerate them if I may. For instance, it's not just your health
00:29either. It's the environment as well. Higher levels of animal welfare are occasioned by
00:33choosing organic material. Lower levels of pesticide, of course. No manufactured weed
00:39killers or artificial fertilisers. A natural environment and good on the wildlife. Good
00:46on the wildlife. Now, organic. Shall I tell you something, Rachel? I head straight for the
00:53organic eggs because I always remember that woman, Edwina Curry. She said that all eggs
00:58had, you know, was suffering from salmonella. Do you remember that? No. She did. Before
01:04your time. But honestly, it was such a scare thing and now it's stuck with me. What about
01:10you? I'd look for the lion stamp on you because in the same with meat and fish and things like
01:14that, you want to make sure that the animal's healthy that you're having to start with so
01:18they make sure they've had good feed and free range and all the rest of it. I don't know
01:22what the lion stamp means anymore. What does it mean? I think it's supposed to be an animal
01:26welfare stamp. I guess it's one of those things that you look for, you know to look for, but
01:29you don't quite 100% know what it is. It's been around a long time. I can't eat any of
01:34that stuff anyway. You're just rubbing it in. Well, I'm sorry. It's the organic veg. I'm
01:38sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to rub it in at all. Now, who's with us? Nikki Sarshteiner
01:45from Dublin, a barrister's here. She trailed young David Magor from Scotland until the very
01:52end. And then you threw caution to the wind. You had a big gamble on the final numbers game
01:57and won. I don't know if there was tactics so much as being a chancer, but I'll take the
02:00compliment. You're joined by Andrew Booth, a therapist, a massage therapist from Ringwood
02:06in Hampshire, who's been playing tennis for 40 years. You started as a nipper. Yeah?
02:11Yeah, I started when I was about 10 at school. Good for you. It's a great game. It is,
02:15yeah. But now, not satisfied with that, for the last two years you've been blowing away
02:20up the saxophone. Is that right? Yeah. How are you getting on? Not too bad. It's not as
02:24difficult as I thought it was going to be, but it's just getting better and playing.
02:29I can make reasonable tunes out of it, but not saying there's a great deal of finesse to
02:33it. It's a lovely instrument, isn't it? It is, yeah. Beautiful sax, yeah. Fantastic.
02:37Well, good luck to you both, Andrew and Nicky. Big round of applause for our two contestants.
02:47And the queen of a dictionary corner is over there, Susie Dent, of course, and joined once
02:52again by that wonderful Mark Bougash. Welcome back, Mark.
02:55Okay, gambler. Off you go. Let us go.
03:05Make me nervous now. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Nikki. I start with a consonant, please. Thank you.
03:09Start today with N. And a vowel. E. And another vowel.
03:16I. And a consonant. S. And another consonant. L. And another. C. And another vowel. O. And another
03:32vowel. E. And a final consonant, please. And the final Y. And here is the countdown clock.
03:40T. And another vowel.
04:10Yes, Nicky. Seven. Seven and? Six. And six. What's your six, Andrew? Clones. Nicky. Enclose. Absolutely fine. Very good. And in the corner, Mark? Licence. Yep. Licence. That's a seven. Anything else, Susie? No, that was our best. It'll do. Early points for Nicky there. Seven points. And Andrew, your letters game. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Andrew. Could I have a consonant, please?
04:38Thank you. Start with D. And the vowel. I. Consonant, please. N. Consonant. R. Vowel. A. Consonant. X. Another consonant, please. R. Vowel.
05:08E. And the final consonant, please. And a final T. Stand by.
05:13We'll see you next time.
05:43Andrew?
05:45Seven.
05:46Seven and? Seven as well.
05:49Nicky's got seven. Andrew?
05:50Retrain.
05:51Retrain and?
05:52Randier.
05:54Randier. Thank you.
05:56Anything in the corner?
05:57Well, we...
05:58Retrain, trained.
05:59Yes.
06:00Seven again.
06:01Tarried.
06:02Yes.
06:02Yeah.
06:03But nothing beyond seven, but a few sevens around.
06:05Well done.
06:05Susie?
06:06Tarried was my favourite.
06:07It'll do.
06:08Well done.
06:08All right.
06:09Fourteen poly, seven.
06:11Nicky, your numbers game.
06:13Can I have three large and three small pieces?
06:16You can, indeed.
06:17Lots of selections with you.
06:18Three large and three little.
06:19And this time around, they are three, four, ten.
06:23And the large one's 50, 75, and 100.
06:27And the target, 271.
06:30Two, seven, one.
06:31Two, seven, one.
07:02Nicky?
07:03270.
07:04270, one away.
07:05Andrew?
07:06270.
07:07Nicky?
07:08So, 100 minus 10.
07:10100 minus 10, 90.
07:11Times three.
07:12270, you've run away.
07:13Yep.
07:14Yep, there we go.
07:15And so we turn to Rachel to get us out of this muddle.
07:18271?
07:19Yes.
07:20One way you could have said 50 divided by 10 is five.
07:24Times 75 for 375.
07:27And then take away the 100 and the 4.
07:29271.
07:30Smashing.
07:30Well done, Rachel.
07:31Well done.
07:33So, 21 plays 14.
07:36Nicky in the lead at the moment as we go into our first tea time teaser, which is Lost Cause.
07:41And the clue.
07:41It's not quite a lost cause, but you could find yourself in a bit of a stew.
07:46It's not quite a lost cause, but you could find yourself in a bit of a stew.
07:51Welcome back.
08:07Welcome back.
08:09I left you with a clue.
08:10It's not quite a lost cause, but you could find yourself in a bit of a stew.
08:14And the answer to that one is that you could find yourself in a cassoulet.
08:18Cassoulet.
08:19Cassoulet.
08:19Winter dish from the south-west of France.
08:21Yes.
08:22It comes from a provencele word meaning little pan.
08:24Because that's what it's cooked in, obviously.
08:26Absolutely.
08:28For the sausages and things.
08:30Yes.
08:30Pork, goose, duck, all sorts of meat and beans.
08:34Yes.
08:34It's good in the winter.
08:3521 plays 14.
08:37What shall we do?
08:38Andrew, your letters go.
08:40Consonant, please.
08:41Thank you, Andrew.
08:43G.
08:44Another consonant, please.
08:47R.
08:49Vowel.
08:51I.
08:53Consonant, please.
08:55G.
08:58Vowel.
09:00A.
09:02Consonant.
09:04W.
09:07Consonant.
09:09T.
09:10And, uh, another consonant, please.
09:16F.
09:18And a vowel.
09:19And the last one.
09:21O.
09:22Countdown.
09:23F.
09:35T.
09:35Andrew?
09:55Four, I'm afraid.
09:56Four?
09:57Nicky?
09:57Five.
09:59Andrew?
10:00Grow.
10:01And?
10:02Graft.
10:03Yeah.
10:04Where can we go now, I wonder?
10:05Mark, Susie?
10:06We could go to a seven-letter word.
10:09Well done.
10:09Fig wart.
10:10All right, 26 plays.
10:1214.
10:13Nicky?
10:13Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:15Thank you, Nicky.
10:16L.
10:17And a second.
10:19S.
10:20And a third.
10:22Z.
10:23And a vowel.
10:24I.
10:25And another vowel.
10:27U.
10:28And another vowel.
10:30I.
10:32Consonant.
10:33T.
10:35Consonant.
10:36N.
10:38And another vowel, please.
10:39And the last one.
10:41A.
10:42Countdown.
10:43We.
10:50We'll see you next time.
11:14I'll stick with a five, I think.
11:16Yes, Andrew.
11:17Yeah, I've got a risky six, but I'll stick with a five.
11:19All right.
11:21Slant.
11:22And, Nicky?
11:22Nails.
11:23Nothing to argue about?
11:24No, not at all.
11:25What would your six have been as a matter of interest?
11:28Latins.
11:30Don't think so.
11:32I think it's always going to have a capital L.
11:35Yes, I think you made the right choice there.
11:37Well done.
11:37And in the corner, Mark?
11:39Well, nails, you could have had tails, but actually, nautili.
11:44It's a seven.
11:46Being the plural of?
11:48Of a nautilus.
11:49Nautilus, which is a mollusk with a light external spiral shell, quite beautifully coloured sometimes, I think, and short tentacles around the mouth.
11:58Well done.
11:59Thank you, Mark.
12:02So, 31 plays and 19.
12:05Nicky's still in the lead there.
12:07It's Andrew's numbers game now.
12:08Andrew.
12:09OK, Rachel, could I have one from the top, please, and five small?
12:13You can, indeed.
12:14Thank you, Andrew.
12:14One large, five little.
12:15And this time they are six, three, five, nine, two.
12:24And the big one, 25.
12:26And the target, 515.
12:27515.
12:28515.
12:29515.
12:29¶¶
12:58Andrew?
13:025.06.
13:04And?
13:055.16, I think.
13:06All right, let's turn to you, Nicky.
13:08So 6 times 3 is 18.
13:11Yes.
13:12Plus the 2.
13:1420.
13:15Is 20.
13:16And I have gone wrong.
13:17Aw.
13:18There he is.
13:19Bad luck.
13:19So, Andrew?
13:209 plus 6 plus 5.
13:2220.
13:23Is 20.
13:25Multiplied by the 25.
13:27500.
13:28For 500.
13:29And then 3 times 2 is 6.
13:31And add it on.
13:32Yep.
13:339 away.
13:34Well done.
13:34Bad luck, Nicky.
13:36But, Rachel, we turn to you now.
13:375.15?
13:38Yes, it was there.
13:39If you say 6 minus 2 is 4.
13:42Times 25 for 100.
13:45Add 3 for 103.
13:47And times that by 5.
13:48550.
13:49Oh, well done.
13:50Well done, Rachel.
13:51As ever.
13:55And we now turn to Mark.
13:56And Mark, you know, we love words on this show.
13:58In fact, you're sitting next to our beloved wordsmith there.
14:01But you like words too, I think.
14:04I like words.
14:04And I like names as well.
14:06Without words, we can't communicate.
14:08Without names, we can't be identified.
14:10And I think Nicky here might have a little bit of empathy with me on this particular one.
14:14You're nodding away.
14:15The other four of you, let's be honest, they've got simple surnames.
14:18I mean, there's no challenge there.
14:19Everyone can read them.
14:20Everyone can spell them.
14:22But if you're us, people look at, I don't know about Nicky, look at the name, and a lot of people just panic.
14:27They go to pieces.
14:28It's not very difficult.
14:29Two syllables.
14:30Pugach.
14:31It's Ukrainian.
14:32My grandfather was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant.
14:35Came here 100 years ago.
14:36A friend of mine who speaks Russian says it means toy pistol.
14:40Toy pistol.
14:41Or as another wag said, it means ineffectual weapon.
14:45That's really what it means.
14:47My children enjoy that joke, as you can imagine.
14:50But once you know how to spell it, it's very simple.
14:52But a lot of people are just terrified.
14:54If I go and pick up a pizza somewhere, the guy will say, I've got a pizza here for...
15:00Yes, it's my pizza.
15:01Just give it to me.
15:02I'll take it home.
15:03Don't worry about it.
15:04But I've collected the names that I've been called over the years.
15:08So I've had Mr. Poldark.
15:11Nice.
15:12I wish.
15:13If I was Mr. Poldark, I wouldn't be here, would I?
15:14I'd be in a lovely house overlooking the Cornish Sea.
15:17Yep.
15:17I've had Mr. Podgatch.
15:20Okay.
15:21A friend of mine calls me Podgatch the whole time because it makes him laugh so much.
15:24Yep.
15:25I've had Mr. Cowgate.
15:26Now, come on, you're not even trying anymore, are you?
15:28No.
15:28Mr. Cowgate.
15:30I've had Mr. Polcat.
15:32Well, they're...
15:33Difficult.
15:33They're quite...
15:34They're quite stroppy when they're cornered.
15:36Yeah.
15:36But the best of the lot was I was picking up a taxi one night at work, late at night.
15:42Phone rings on the desk.
15:43I pick it up.
15:43There were just three of us left.
15:45And this voice goes, I've got a taxi for...
15:47For...
15:48For...
15:48And I thought, right, this is for me.
15:49But there's only Smith and Jones over there.
15:51It's definitely for me.
15:52But I want to hear what he has to say.
15:54So he said, I've got a taxi...
15:56I've got a taxi for Pilchard.
16:01Why would you get Pilchard out of this?
16:02Well, he just got the first letter and then just panicked.
16:06Pilchard.
16:06Threw all the letters up in the air.
16:08And that was it.
16:09How funny.
16:10We're the only ones in the UK.
16:12I mean, you could...
16:12Oh, yeah, so you can look all this up now.
16:14Great to have something unusual.
16:15I like it, too, yeah.
16:17Completely original and unusual.
16:18Well done.
16:19All right.
16:21So, Nicky, off we go again on our merry trail.
16:26Let us go.
16:27Yes.
16:27Can I start with a consonant, please?
16:29Thank you, Nicky.
16:29V.
16:30And another.
16:32N.
16:34And a vowel, please.
16:36O.
16:37And a second.
16:38I.
16:39And a consonant.
16:41L.
16:42Another consonant.
16:44T.
16:45And a vowel, please.
16:48E.
16:49Another consonant.
16:51F.
16:53And a final consonant, please.
16:55And a final P.
16:57Countdown.
16:58T.
16:59Cool.
16:59Much later.
16:59Look.
17:00F.
17:25Well, Nicky?
17:30Just a five.
17:31A five. Andrew?
17:32A seven.
17:33Nicky?
17:34Flint.
17:35And?
17:35Violent.
17:36And violent.
17:38Yes, well spotted.
17:39You get violent?
17:39Violent, yeah.
17:40Violet and violent, obviously seven.
17:42Violent being six, but nothing beyond seven.
17:44No, that was our best two.
17:46Oh, well done, Andrew.
17:47Yep.
17:4731 plays.
17:4931.
17:50Andrew, your letters game.
17:52Vowel, please, Rachel.
17:54Thank you, Andrew.
17:55O.
17:56Consonant.
17:58N.
18:00Consonant.
18:02W.
18:04Consonant.
18:06J.
18:08Vowel, please.
18:09I.
18:11Consonant.
18:13R.
18:15Vowel.
18:17E.
18:21Consonant, please.
18:23D.
18:23And a final vowel, please.
18:28And a final I.
18:30And here's the countdown clock.
18:44Andrew?
19:04A six.
19:05A six.
19:06Nicky?
19:06Seven.
19:07Andrew?
19:08Joined.
19:10And?
19:10Windier?
19:11Yes.
19:12Very good.
19:12Windier.
19:13Well done.
19:14Well done.
19:14What else have we got there?
19:15For seven.
19:16Downier.
19:17For seven.
19:18Very good.
19:19Which are soft and downier.
19:20Yes.
19:21Susie?
19:21There is a legal seven there, Nick.
19:23A joinder, which is the action of bringing parties together in union.
19:27A joinder.
19:30Yes.
19:3138 to 31.
19:32And Nicky's back.
19:35Cleaning on to a little bit of a lead there, Nicky.
19:37Numbers game.
19:38Thanks.
19:39I'll change it up again and go two large, please.
19:41Thank you, Nicky.
19:42Two large ones for little ones.
19:44And this time around, they are four, ten, nine, six.
19:50And the large two, one hundred and fifty.
19:54And the target, six hundred and fifty seven.
19:56Six five seven.
19:57One hundred and fifty seven.
20:19One hundred and fifty.
20:22Nicky.
20:296, 5, 6.
20:31One away. Andrew.
20:336, 5, 9.
20:34And 6, 5, 9. Nicky.
20:36So, 9 and 4 is 13.
20:399 plus 4, 13.
20:41Times the 50.
20:42Times the 50 for 650.
20:45And add the 6.
20:46And add the 6 for one away.
20:48We have to rely on you again, Rachel.
20:506, 5, 7.
20:52Leave it with me, actually.
20:54I'll certainly do that with the score standing at 45 to 31.
20:57Nicky in the lead.
20:58And now we go for our second Tea Time teaser, which is I Cheer Bid.
21:03And the clue.
21:05The woman's right next to you while you apply this to the garden.
21:09The woman's right next to you while you apply this to the garden.
21:21Welcome back.
21:30Warm welcome back.
21:31I left her with the clue.
21:32The woman's right next to you while you apply this to the garden.
21:36Apply what?
21:37Why?
21:37Herbicide.
21:39Herbicide.
21:40Herbicide.
21:4145 plays 31.
21:43Nicky on 45.
21:44Andrew, your letter's going.
21:47OK.
21:47Vowel, please.
21:48Thank you, Andrew.
21:49E.
21:51Consonant.
21:53T.
21:55Consonant.
21:57R.
21:59Another consonant, please.
22:01S.
22:03Vowel.
22:03U.
22:09Consonant, please.
22:11P.
22:16Vowel, please.
22:17E.
22:21Consonant.
22:22M.
22:24And a final vowel, please.
22:28And a final I.
22:30Stand by.
22:33And a final vowel, please.
23:04And?
23:04An eight, I think.
23:06Andrew?
23:07Uh, primes.
23:09And?
23:09Stumpier?
23:11Um, yes.
23:13Short and thick or squat is stumpy.
23:16And stumpier is defined, is specified.
23:18Very good.
23:18Well done.
23:20APPLAUSE
23:20Stumpier, indeed.
23:25And in the corner, Mark?
23:27Emeritus.
23:29Emeritus.
23:29Well, you're Professor Emeritus, don't you?
23:31Yes.
23:31Exactly right.
23:32Very good.
23:33Eight?
23:33Give me another eight, yeah.
23:34Well done.
23:35Fifty-three to thirty-one.
23:37Nicky?
23:38Nicky, that is good.
23:40Hi, can I have a consonant, please?
23:42Thank you, Nicky.
23:43V.
23:44And a vowel?
23:46I.
23:47Another vowel?
23:49A.
23:50A consonant?
23:51S.
23:53Um, another consonant?
23:55T.
23:56A vowel?
23:56E.
23:59A consonant?
24:01M.
24:02Another consonant?
24:04H.
24:06And a final vowel, please.
24:08And a final O.
24:10Stand by.
24:11LES clouds og meditus for uks.
24:29?
24:31EAN?
24:312
24:32EAN?
24:33?
24:33EAN?
24:33One pillar?
24:33One pillar?
24:34Well done.
24:34Oh yes.
24:35I think it's rough.
24:36One pillar?
24:36Anotherücklich?
24:37In a consideration?
24:37I am a 현.
24:38Excellent mapa?
24:38We have a little bit of that.
24:38One pillar of the word is being Queensland.
24:38One pillar, please.
24:39Oh yeah.
24:40It's good.
24:40Oh yeah.
24:40Yes, Nicky.
24:43Stick with a six.
24:44Andrew.
24:45Just a five.
24:47And your five.
24:48Shave.
24:49Now.
24:49Movies.
24:51Movies.
24:52Yep.
24:53And?
24:54Atheism.
24:55Yes.
24:56There's a seven.
24:57Yep, and atomise as well.
24:59And atomise, well done.
24:59Yep.
25:00Thank you, Mark.
25:0159 plays 31.
25:03And Susie, we're back with you again for your origins of words.
25:07What have you got for us today?
25:08Uh, well, this is a story that I have told before, but it's one of the questions that
25:14I get asked most regularly by our lovely viewers, and that is, where does Byhook or Bycrook come
25:19from?
25:20And both the reason I love it is that it's invited so many different colourful stories
25:24as to its true history.
25:27The first one relates to the villages of Hookhead and nearby Crook, which are in Waterford in
25:33Ireland.
25:33And Cromwell is supposed to have said that by landing his army at one of these two places
25:40during a siege, which was in around 1649, 1650, Waterford would fall by hook or by crook,
25:48which is a colourful one and entirely plausible when you look at it.
25:51Unfortunately, the evidence doesn't fit.
25:54Another points to an English judge who served under Charles I, and Charles I tried to impose
25:59quite a hefty ship money tax, as it was called, without the consent of Parliament, which was
26:05obviously unconstitutional, but he did it anyway.
26:08And the judge is said to have refused to pass this, refused to actually enshrine it in law.
26:15And so it was said that the ship money tax would get through by hook, in other words, by force,
26:21but not by crook, not by the judge.
26:23The truth, or as close as we can get to it, lies elsewhere, and that's that around the time
26:28the saying appears, villages were granted permission by Royal Charter to collect firewood,
26:33obviously incredibly important for fuel and for warmth.
26:36And they could either gather it from the local forests, provided it lay on the ground,
26:40or it could be taken from the dead wood that was hanging from branches.
26:44And reaching such branches, of course, needed the appropriate tools,
26:47so the villagers were allowed to gather their fuel by hook, in other words, by sort of shepherd's hook,
26:52or by crook.
26:53Well done. Very good.
27:01As ever. 59 playing 31.
27:03Nicky on now, 59.
27:04Andrew, your letters game.
27:07OK, consonant, please, Rachel.
27:08Thank you, Andrew.
27:09D.
27:10Vowel, please.
27:13A.
27:15Uh, consonant, please.
27:17T.
27:20Uh, vowel.
27:22E.
27:24Uh, consonant.
27:25N.
27:27Uh, vowel.
27:29U.
27:31Uh, consonant.
27:33M.
27:36Um, consonant.
27:40R.
27:41R.
27:41R.
27:43And consonant, please.
27:46And the last one, S.
27:47Stand by.
27:48R.
27:49E.
27:49R.
27:50M.
27:50M.
27:52E.
27:52M.
27:53R.
27:54M.
27:54M.
27:54M.
27:56M.
27:57M.
27:57M.
27:57M.
27:58M.
27:58M.
28:00M.
28:00M.
28:01M.
28:01M.
28:02M.
28:02M.
28:03M.
28:04M.
28:04M.
28:06M. M.
28:08M. M.
28:09Andrew?
28:20I'll try a risky six.
28:22And Nicky?
28:23I think a seven.
28:24What sort of risk is this, Andrew?
28:26It's a word that might have come into the dictionary,
28:28so it's a bit risky from a TV.
28:30Try it.
28:31TARDIS.
28:32Well, you never know.
28:33Nicky?
28:34Unrated.
28:35Oh, there's no I, I think, in this election.
28:38I think TARDIS is in, but with a capital T.
28:41Ah.
28:42But there's no I.
28:43Oh.
28:43Sorry about that.
28:46They've got you on both counts there.
28:48Yeah.
28:48OK.
28:49And in the corner, Mark?
28:50There's an eight-letter word, maunders.
28:53Yes.
28:54Maunders.
28:54Maundering.
28:55To ramble on.
28:57Yeah.
28:57Talk in a rambling manner.
28:58Yeah, don't look at me when you say that.
29:00No, I've been to myself.
29:02Well done.
29:02All right.
29:0366 to 31.
29:05Nicky, final letters game.
29:06Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
29:09Nicky.
29:09R.
29:10And a second.
29:12R.
29:13And a third.
29:16P.
29:17A vowel, please.
29:18I.
29:19And a second one.
29:20A.
29:21And a consonant.
29:23S.
29:24Another consonant.
29:26G.
29:27A vowel.
29:29E.
29:31And a final consonant, please.
29:33And a final L.
29:35Stand by.
29:35A vowel.
29:37A vowel.
29:38A vowel.
29:38A vowel.
29:39C només on a vowel, it means the number 1 in volume.
29:41It says a vowel.
29:42C
30:05Nicky. A seven. Andrew. Five. And that five. Please. P-L-E-A-S. Please. Yes. And parries. Parries. Parries. Yes. In fencing you might parry a thrust. You might meet the thrust. Yeah. Mark. Not a lot of sevens. Grasper. Yeah. Grasper.
30:26Yeah. And there's an unusual seven there. Prisage. Prisage it should be. P-R-I-S-A-G-E. Historical term for an ancient duty levied upon imported wine. Oh really. Fantastic. 73-31. Andrew. Final numbers game. I'd like two from the top and four small please Rachel. Thank you Andrew. Two large four little to finish this day. And they are seven. One. Ten. Six. And the big two. Fifty. And seventy five.
30:56And the target to reach four hundred and fourteen. Four one four.
30:59One. Ten. Six. And the big two. Fifty. And the big two. Fifty. And the big two. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And the big one. Fifty. And
31:30Andrew.
31:314-1-6.
31:33Two away, Nicky?
31:35No, not close enough.
31:37No.
31:37Andrew?
31:387 plus 1 is 8.
31:43Multiplied by the 50.
31:44400.
31:46And another 10 and the 6.
31:4710 and the 6, 4-1-6, two away.
31:50But, Rachel, 4-1-4?
31:52Yes, if you say 75 minus 6 is 69,
31:567 minus 1 is 6, and times them together.
32:00There we are.
32:00Well done.
32:00Thank you, Rachel.
32:01Well done.
32:04Spot on, as always.
32:06So, 73 to 38.
32:08Here we go.
32:09Final round.
32:10Conundrum time.
32:11Fingers on buzzers.
32:12Here's today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:14Andrew, lifeblood.
32:31Lifeblood.
32:31Let's see whether you're right.
32:33Well done.
32:34Well done, Andrew.
32:34Well done.
32:42Not quite in time.
32:44Not quite in time.
32:45So, Nicky takes today 73 to 48.
32:48But thank you very much for coming.
32:49Not bad score at all.
32:51So, back with your goodie bag.
32:53Back to Ringwood in Hampshire.
32:54Nice part of the world.
32:55This is New Forest country.
32:56It is, yeah.
32:57Fantastic.
32:58And the New Forest ponies are running around now.
33:02The new foals, I guess.
33:03Yes.
33:03Yeah?
33:04Yeah, they're all over the place.
33:05Anyway, thank you very much for coming, Andrew.
33:07Yeah, thank you for having me.
33:07Thank you so much.
33:08And well done, Nicky.
33:10See you Monday.
33:10Yes, see you Monday.
33:11Well done, well done.
33:12Have a quiet weekend.
33:13Brilliant stuff.
33:16Mark, see you on Monday.
33:18See you Monday.
33:18All right.
33:19Talking about livestock, you used to breed pigs, which I thought was fascinating.
33:22Oh, I've got a thing for pigs.
33:24Yeah?
33:24Remember what Churchill said, dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, but pigs treat
33:28you as equals.
33:29Look you straight in the eye.
33:30Look you straight in the eye.
33:31Brilliant.
33:31We'll see you on Monday.
33:32Well done.
33:33And Susie too, of course.
33:34See you then, Nick.
33:34See you then.
33:35Have you ever held a pig, Nick?
33:36I have.
33:38Shall I tell you something?
33:39You probably haven't heard this before.
33:40They exude tremendous heat.
33:43Is that true, Mark?
33:44Little piglets are hot.
33:46Absolutely.
33:47Great.
33:48Try it.
33:49Christmas present sorted out.
33:51Try it.
33:52I will.
33:53See you on Monday.
33:54Join us then, same time, same place.
33:56You'll be very, very sure of it.
33:57Good afternoon.
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34:16So Alan Carr is still guest captain, eh?
34:18Well, he must be doing something right, as eight out of ten cats does.
34:21Countdown continues tonight at nine.
34:24And Barry's gone all French next.
34:25Hopefully that won't affect those low, low prices.
34:29Cheep, cheep, cheep.
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