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00:30Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33And I don't know whether you saw that extraordinary story that I saw recently about the new road crossing in the Netherlands.
00:39You think, so what? They put a new road crossing in.
00:42This one, Rachel, is slightly different.
00:44It's a silly walks crossing.
00:46And apparently some council in a town near Rotterdam has got more money than cents.
00:51They've decided to commemorate the great silly walk in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
00:58You know, John Cleese doing the silly walk.
01:00And so they've installed this special silly walk crossing with signs indicating that people should really try and cross the road walking in a silly way.
01:09It sounds like somewhere that your parents could go and be the most embarrassing possible.
01:14If you're a teenager and you're anyone who's going along there trying to be funny.
01:18I mean, it should just be a big fat no, shouldn't it?
01:21Should we say net to that one?
01:23Let's do it.
01:24All right.
01:24Who's back with us?
01:25None other, Rachel, than Miss Bashake, the London lawyer.
01:30Welcome back with three great wins.
01:32Fantastic.
01:33Excellent.
01:34Pleased to hear that.
01:34You're joined by Andrew Danderley, Operations Assistant, duty manager from Kingston, works at Heathrow Airport.
01:41That's a busy old life out there, I imagine, isn't it?
01:44It can get very, very busy, yes.
01:46It's an extraordinary place.
01:47Extraordinary place.
01:48Now, you ran the Brighton Marathon last year, and now you're taking to two wheels because you're planning on the 100-mile ride.
01:56Which ride is that?
01:57What's it called?
01:58It's the Ride London.
02:00Okay.
02:00A friend of mine at work wanted to ride it for Diabetes UK, and he wanted a friend to ride it with, so that's where I came in.
02:08Okay, and do you ride around London much?
02:11I ride my bike to work every once in a while, so I can ride a bike.
02:16Have a word with Rachel at some stage, because she's darting around all over London on her bike, and she'll give you some tips, because you've got to be careful, apparently.
02:24Anyway, let's leave that till later.
02:26For now, it's a big round of applause for Andrew and Misbah.
02:30And Susie's over in the corner on this Wednesday, the 13th of February, joined, and we're delighted to welcome him back.
02:42It's that fantastic cook and hairy bike, Dave Myers.
02:45Welcome back, Dave.
02:46Thank you, mate.
02:48Because you're not, you play not a professional chef, you're just a lifelong foodie.
02:56Yes, yeah, I think a professional chef is somebody who could do, say, 100, 200 dishes a night, seven nights a week, and be perfect.
03:03I haven't got that capability.
03:05But you love it.
03:06Oh, I love it.
03:07The more you research the food world, the greater it gets, and the more meals there are to enjoy, indeed.
03:14Well, you do a great job, the two of you.
03:16The hairy bikers, bringing us wonderful food experiences.
03:20Welcome back.
03:21Now, Misbah, it's your letters game.
03:23Hi, Rachel.
03:24Hi, Misbah.
03:25Could I start with a consonant, please?
03:27Start today with R.
03:29And another?
03:31D.
03:33And a vowel?
03:34O.
03:35Another vowel?
03:37I.
03:39A third vowel?
03:41A.
03:42A consonant?
03:45R.
03:47Another consonant?
03:49F.
03:50Another consonant?
03:53W.
03:55And a final vowel, please.
03:56And a final E.
03:59And here's the countdown clock.
04:05Yes, Misbah?
04:33Um, six.
04:34A six, Andrew?
04:35A seven.
04:36And a seven, Misbah?
04:37And third?
04:38Andrew.
04:39A forward?
04:41Forward is absolutely brilliant.
04:43Yeah, very, very good.
04:44And it's me spelling third with the I.
04:45Yeah.
04:46Yeah.
04:46It is absolutely fine, yeah.
04:49The weather is faring off, is the example given here.
04:52And everything else in the corner, Dave?
04:54There's another seven, isn't there, Susie?
04:56Yeah.
04:56And that's rowdier.
04:58Rowdier.
04:58Rowdier.
04:59Do you two get quite rowdy on the road?
05:02Sain I?
05:03Oh, yes, we have been known.
05:04You look as though you could be quite rowdy.
05:06Well, once the bikes are put to bed, we have to make that quite clear.
05:09Yeah.
05:09Yeah, sometimes.
05:10We've only ever failed to present one last, you know, one last piece to camera due to
05:14rowdiness.
05:15But once in 18 years, isn't that bad, really?
05:18That's all right.
05:19Try and, you know, beat it up more frequently.
05:22Now, Andrew.
05:23Andrew D'Angeli, what have you got?
05:25Hi, Rachel.
05:26Hi, Andrew.
05:26Could I have a consonant, please?
05:28Start with N.
05:30And a vowel, please?
05:32O.
05:34Consonant, please?
05:36M.
05:37Vowel, please?
05:39E.
05:40Consonant, please?
05:42S.
05:44Vowel, please?
05:45A.
05:47Consonant, please?
05:48V.
05:50Another consonant, please?
05:53M.
05:54And a vowel.
05:56And lastly, I.
05:58Counter.
05:59Counter.
05:59ama vemos.
06:07CQRCC.
06:10CQRCC.
06:11known!
06:12S.
06:12Hè½®.
06:13CQRCC.
06:13A.
06:13CQRCC.
06:13CQRCC.
06:14love, I.
06:15CQRCC.
06:16B.
06:16B.
06:17entsprechend.
06:17by cácaco
06:19CQRCC.
06:19CQRCC.
06:19A.
06:19Dez.
06:20CQRCC.
06:20TQRCC.
06:20CQRCC.
06:21A.
06:21We.
06:21Make.
06:22CQRCC.
06:23CQRCC.
06:23CQRCC.
06:23B.
06:24Andrew?
06:30Just a five.
06:32A five, Misbah?
06:33Seven.
06:34And a seven, right.
06:35Andrew?
06:36Names?
06:38Misbah.
06:38Evasion.
06:40Evasion.
06:40Yeah, well spotted.
06:41Very, very good.
06:43Can we match that, Dave and Susie?
06:45No, just evasion, I think, is the best.
06:48Yeah.
06:48That's it?
06:49That was it.
06:50Seven apiece.
06:51And now it's time for the first numbers game, Misbah.
06:54Could I have one large and five small, please?
06:56You can, indeed.
06:57Thank you, Misbah.
06:58One from the top, five little ones.
07:00And the first one of the day is ten, three, four, three, six, and a large one, one hundred.
07:07And the target, six hundred and twenty-three.
07:10Six, two, three.
07:24Six, two, three.
07:43Misbah.
07:43Six, two, three.
07:44Yes, Andrew?
07:45Ah, six, two, two.
07:46Six, two, two.
07:47So, Misbah, off we go.
07:49Um, a hundred plus four.
07:51One hundred and four.
07:53Multiply that by six.
07:54Six hundred and twenty-four.
07:56And then three divided by three is one.
07:58And then take that away.
07:59Nicely done.
08:00Sixty-three.
08:00Well done.
08:05Thank you, Misbah.
08:06So, seventeen plays seven.
08:07Misbah, seventeen.
08:09As we turn to our first tea-time teaser, which is utter boss.
08:13And the clue, it sounds like it's the most sturdy coffee bean of them all.
08:17It sounds like it's the most sturdy coffee bean of them all.
08:21Welcome back.
08:38Welcome back.
08:39I left you with the clue.
08:40It sounds like it's the most sturdy coffee bean of them all.
08:44And the answer to that one is that it's the robustest.
08:48Robustest.
08:49All right.
08:50Seventeen to seven.
08:51Misbah in the lead.
08:52And it's Andrew's letter to the game.
08:54Andrew.
08:55Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:57Thank you, Andrew.
08:58L.
09:00And a vowel.
09:02E.
09:03And a consonant.
09:05T.
09:07And a vowel.
09:09A.
09:11And a consonant.
09:13P.
09:14And a vowel.
09:16O.
09:18And a consonant.
09:20T.
09:21And a vowel.
09:22And a vowel.
09:22And a vowel.
09:24U.
09:25And one more consonant, please.
09:27And lastly, S.
09:29Tankan.
09:30And a vowel.
09:31And a vowel.
09:31And a vowel.
09:31And a vowel.
09:32And a vowel.
09:33And a vowel.
09:33And a vowel.
09:33And a vowel.
09:35And a vowel.
09:35And a vowel.
09:35And a vowel.
09:35And a vowel.
09:36And a vowel.
09:36And a vowel.
09:36And a vowel.
09:37And a vowel.
09:37And a vowel.
09:37And a vowel.
09:37And a vowel.
09:38And a vowel.
09:38And a vowel.
09:39And a vowel.
09:39And a vowel.
09:40And a vowel.
09:40And a vowel.
09:41And a vowel.
09:41And a vowel.
09:41And a vowel.
09:42And a vowel.
09:43And a vowel.
09:43And a vowel.
09:44And a vowel.
09:44And a vowel.
09:45And a vowel.
09:45And a vowel.
09:45And a vowel.
09:45And a vowel.
10:00Andrew, a six.
10:03A six, Misbah?
10:04A seven.
10:05It's a seven, Andrew.
10:07Petals.
10:08Misbah?
10:08Teapots.
10:09Teapots, you've already got one.
10:11And in the corner, Dave and Susie?
10:13We've got a nine, postulate.
10:15Oh, perfect, postulate.
10:17Postulate, yeah, to suggest or assume the existence or fact of something
10:21as a basis for your argument,
10:22so you might postulate different scenarios for the future,
10:25that kind of thing.
10:26Perfect.
10:30All right, 24 plays seven now.
10:33Misbah on 24.
10:35Letters game for you, Misbah.
10:36Off we go.
10:37Could I have a consonant, please?
10:38Thank you, Misbah.
10:39P.
10:41And another.
10:43S.
10:44And a third.
10:46D.
10:48A vowel.
10:49O.
10:51Another vowel.
10:53I.
10:55A consonant.
10:56C.
10:58A consonant.
11:00D.
11:02A vowel.
11:05A.
11:07And a final vowel, please.
11:09And a final E.
11:11Stand by.
11:12A vowel.
11:13A vowel.
11:13A vowel.
11:14A vowel.
11:14A vowel.
11:14A vowel.
11:15A vowel.
11:15A vowel.
11:15A vowel.
11:15A vowel.
11:16A vowel.
11:16A vowel.
11:17A vowel.
11:17A vowel.
11:17A vowel.
11:17A vowel.
11:17A vowel.
11:18A vowel.
11:18A vowel.
11:19A vowel.
11:19A vowel.
11:19A vowel.
11:19A vowel.
11:19A vowel.
11:20A vowel.
11:21A vowel.
11:21A vowel.
11:21A vowel.
11:22A vowel.
11:22A vowel.
11:23A vowel.
11:23A vowel.
11:24A vowel.
11:25A vowel.
11:25A vowel.
11:26A vowel.
11:27A vowel.
11:27A vowel.
11:28A vowel.
11:29A vowel.
11:29A vowel.
11:30A vowel.
11:30A vowel.
11:31A vowel.
11:31Misbah?
11:43Six.
11:44Andrew?
11:45Seven.
11:45And a seven, Misbah?
11:47Scoped.
11:48Andrew?
11:49Paddies.
11:50Paddies.
11:50Yes, absolutely fine.
11:53Fields where rice are grown.
11:55Paddy fields, essentially.
11:57They're short for.
11:58Paddies.
11:59Is it also a temper?
12:01Fit of temper is a paddy.
12:02Is it?
12:03Yeah.
12:03And a bit of a paddy.
12:05Yes, short for paddywhack.
12:07Oh, really?
12:07That's hit, the paddy.
12:09Unfortunately, it was an Irishman giving to brawling.
12:12So, I think, yeah, a bit of a slur there.
12:15Paddywhack.
12:16Give a dog a bone.
12:18Anyway, 24 plays 14.
12:20Andrew, your numbers game.
12:23Could I have one from the top and five small ones, please?
12:26You can, indeed.
12:27Thank you, Andrew.
12:27Same again.
12:28One large and five little.
12:29And this time, the little ones are two, ten, one, five, and nine.
12:35And the large one, 25.
12:38And the target, 114.
12:40One, one, four.
12:41One, two, one, three, two.
12:51One, one, two, one, four.
12:54One, two, one, three.
12:54Andrew.
13:131-1-4.
13:14Thank you, Misbah.
13:151-1-4.
13:16Off we go.
13:17Andrew.
13:1825 times 5 is 1-2-5.
13:21Yep.
13:229 plus 2 is 11.
13:24Here it is.
13:25Tick the 11 away from the 1-2-5.
13:27Straightforward.
13:28Well done.
13:28Misbah.
13:29Yeah, the same.
13:29There we go.
13:35So, 10 points in it.
13:3734 plays.
13:3824.
13:39Misbah on 34 as we turn to Dave Myers.
13:44And any minute now, a couple of days time, you're off the hull to kick off your latest tour.
13:49But this isn't your first tour, is it?
13:51No, we've done two tours before.
13:53Oh, it's about six years since the last one.
13:56And it's odd.
13:56We're going to theatres.
13:57We're starting in Hulls so well.
13:59It'll be another Valentine's night, we sigh.
14:01But it's odd on theatre because if we were to cook for two hours, I think people would get very bored.
14:08You know, a food festival's one thing.
14:10So, we tried to make it entertaining.
14:13But the last tour, it was, we had a little bit of vaudeville in it that kind of went wrong.
14:18This one, it's like an evening round at our house.
14:21You know, it's all round two hours for a night.
14:23We will feed some people.
14:24And we have somebody who's with us, our friend Dean.
14:27He's on stage who's taking questions from the audience and basically emceeing the whole evening.
14:32But before, we did a tour about six years ago.
14:35So, and about six months before we were due to start the tour, the promoter, they phoned up and said,
14:42well, what are you going to do?
14:44And we thought, well, we're going on our summer holidays.
14:45It's not for six months.
14:46We didn't have many ideas.
14:48And Sia Zizis once said, oh, we're going to do tango dancing and escapology.
14:52And we thought nothing more about it.
14:54Came back from our holidays.
14:56So, there was a choreographer employed and somebody to teach us how to do escapology.
15:01And all of a sudden, we thought, oh, heck.
15:03So, we did something with tango dancing, which, you know, self-fulfilling prophecies,
15:09because some months later, I ended up on Strictly with Rachel.
15:12But the escapology was a different matter.
15:15And it all went very well until we hit Watford Coliseum.
15:19So, we had about 1,100 people in there.
15:22And Sia was the one who was chaining me up.
15:24And it's technique and the way you use your body and the way it's wrapped.
15:29And all I can remember is, and the idea was that I had one minute to escape before I had heart failure.
15:35So, we've got the big ticking clock, not unlike the countdown clock.
15:38I'm pretending to be struggling.
15:40And, of course, I have everything under control, except at Watford Coliseum.
15:44I couldn't get out, Nick.
15:45And I said to Sia, I said, OK, Sia, I've got the key.
15:50I can't get out.
15:52And he turned around and said, huh, you're the escapologist.
15:55And it was one of the worst moments of my life when I spent a minute when I should have had heart failure,
16:02which I think half the audience wish would hurry up and happen,
16:05as I'm trying to get out of all these chains and padlocks.
16:08But there'll be no escapology this time.
16:10Well, it sounds like a lot of fun.
16:12We'll be there.
16:13Thanks very much.
16:13A lot of fun, too, I bet.
16:21So, 34, please, 24.
16:23Misbah on, 34.
16:25And you're back.
16:26Misbah.
16:26Could I start with a consonant, please?
16:28Thank you, Misbah.
16:29B.
16:31And another.
16:32G.
16:34And a third.
16:35M.
16:37A vowel.
16:39U.
16:40Another vowel.
16:42A.
16:43A third vowel.
16:46E.
16:48A consonant.
16:50V.
16:51A vowel.
16:54O.
16:56And a final consonant, please.
16:58And a final R.
17:01Counter.
17:01A 1.
17:13A.
17:14A-
17:18A-
17:22A-
17:24A-
17:24A-
17:25A-
17:26A-
17:27A-
17:28A-
17:29A-
17:29A-
17:30A-
17:30Misbah.
17:33Just a five.
17:34A five, Andrew?
17:35Same, just a five.
17:37Two fives, Misbah.
17:38Mauve.
17:39And?
17:40Same word.
17:41Andrew's got mauve as well.
17:43Now, Dave and Susie.
17:45Um, we've got a seven.
17:47Yes.
17:47Which is embargo.
17:49Very good.
17:49Um, but thanks to Susie,
17:51managed to get two food-related ones as well.
17:54We've got gumbo on five.
17:56Yep.
17:56It's interesting.
17:57It's kind of the New Orleans version of Boio Beze.
18:00And Borage.
18:01Borage being?
18:03A herb.
18:03A herb.
18:05Thanks very much.
18:06Gumbo and Borage.
18:0739 to 29.
18:08Still that.
18:09Ten points in it.
18:10Andrew, your letters game.
18:12I could have a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:14Thank you, Andrew.
18:14N.
18:15And a vowel?
18:17A.
18:19And a consonant?
18:21T.
18:22And a vowel?
18:24I.
18:27And a consonant?
18:28S.
18:29And a vowel?
18:31E.
18:33And a consonant?
18:35L.
18:36And a vowel?
18:38I.
18:40And a consonant, please.
18:42And to finish, T.
18:44Stand by.
18:45Stand by.
19:15Well, Andrew, eight.
19:18Just a seven.
19:19And your seven is?
19:20Entails.
19:22Entails.
19:22Now then, Andrew, sanitise?
19:25Sanitise.
19:26You need two S's.
19:27I've got the two I's, but not the two S's, I'm afraid.
19:29Bad luck.
19:30Sorry, Andrew.
19:30Bad luck.
19:31Dave?
19:32And there's two eights.
19:34Litany's.
19:35Yes.
19:35And alienist.
19:37An alienist.
19:39Yes.
19:39It's an old term for a psychiatrist.
19:42And in the U.S. it is still a psychiatrist who assesses the compliments of a defendant in a law court.
19:52Well, well.
19:54Extraordinary.
19:55An alienist is a psychiatrist.
19:57I remember that one.
19:58Absolutely.
19:5846 to 29.
20:01Bad luck there, Andrew.
20:03And it's Misbah's numbers game.
20:05Yes, Misbah.
20:07Could I have two large and four small, please?
20:09You can indeed.
20:10Thank you, Misbah.
20:10Two large, four little.
20:11See if we can make this three from three with the numbers.
20:13This selection is seven, six, five, nine, fifty and seventy-five.
20:20And the target, three hundred and seventy.
20:23Three, seven, zero.
20:24Three, seven, zero.
20:54Misbah.
20:57Three, seven, zero.
20:58Thank you, Andrew.
20:59No, nothing.
21:00No, lost it.
21:01Too far away.
21:03Misbah.
21:03Fifty times six is three hundred.
21:06Yep.
21:07Seventy-five minus five is seventy.
21:10Well done again.
21:14Well done.
21:15Fifty-six to twenty-nine is to return to our second tea-time teaser, which is Eagle Bear.
21:21And the clue.
21:22The two creatures found each other's company very pleasant.
21:25The two creatures found each other's company very pleasant.
21:28Welcome back.
21:44I left with the clue.
21:46The two creatures found each other's company very pleasant.
21:49Indeed, it was agreeable.
21:51That's the answer.
21:51So, with the score standing, fifty-six to twenty-nine in Misbah's favour, we turn to Andrew for a letters game.
21:59Andrew.
21:59May I have a consonant, please, Rachel.
22:01Thank you, Andrew.
22:02W.
22:02And a vowel.
22:05O.
22:06And another vowel.
22:08E.
22:10And a consonant.
22:12T.
22:13And a vowel.
22:15I.
22:16And a consonant.
22:18F.
22:20And another consonant.
22:23H.
22:24And another vowel.
22:26A.
22:27And one more consonant, please.
22:30And lastly, S.
22:31Toto.
22:42Toto.
22:44Andrew?
23:04Six.
23:05Misbah?
23:05Six as well.
23:06Andrew?
23:07Fit.
23:08Now, Misbah.
23:09Swave.
23:10How do we do in the corner there? Dave, Susan?
23:12Um, another six. Oh, fish.
23:14Oh, fish.
23:16Not something that you could ever be accused of, Susie.
23:21What have you got?
23:22I just had fetish for six.
23:24Fetish?
23:24Yes.
23:24Ah, more your line of country.
23:2662 for 35.
23:28Misbah on 62, and it's Misbah's letters game.
23:32Could I start with a consonant, please?
23:33Thank you, Misbah.
23:34D.
23:36And another?
23:38R.
23:39A vowel.
23:41O.
23:42O.
23:43Another vowel.
23:44E.
23:46A consonant.
23:48L.
23:50A consonant.
23:52G.
23:54A vowel.
23:56O.
23:58A vowel.
24:00A.
24:02And final consonant, please.
24:04And a final D.
24:05Stand by.
24:06A vowel.
24:06A vowel.
24:07A vowel.
24:08A vowel.
24:08A vowel.
24:08A vowel.
24:08A vowel.
24:09A vowel.
24:09A vowel.
24:09A vowel.
24:10A vowel.
24:10A vowel.
24:10A vowel.
24:10A vowel.
24:11A vowel.
24:11A vowel.
24:11A vowel.
24:12A vowel.
24:12A vowel.
24:12A vowel.
24:12A vowel.
24:12A vowel.
24:13A vowel.
24:13A vowel.
24:13A vowel.
24:13A vowel.
24:14A vowel.
24:14A vowel.
24:14A vowel.
24:15A vowel.
24:16A vowel.
24:16A vowel.
24:16A vowel.
24:17A vowel.
24:17A vowel.
24:18A vowel.
24:19A vowel.
24:20A vowel.
24:20A vowel.
24:21A vowel.
24:21A vowel.
24:22Isabel?
24:37A six.
24:39Andrew?
24:39Six.
24:41Isabel?
24:41Loaded.
24:42And dagger?
24:44And over in the corner there, Dave and Susie?
24:46No dagger, I'm afraid.
24:48Not two Gs.
24:50Sorry.
24:51Yeah, yeah.
24:52It's so easy to do, isn't it?
24:54You see a letter and you think you see it twice.
24:56Mind you, I see most things twice.
24:59Dave?
24:59Then we've got a fishy one, Dorado.
25:03Yes.
25:03Which means dolphin.
25:06Yes.
25:07Or South American freshwater fish, golden body and red fins.
25:12Dorado.
25:12Yes.
25:13Thanks for that.
25:14All right.
25:1568 to 35.
25:16Susie, what have you for us today in your wonderful origins of words?
25:22Well, I'm a bit of a dendrophile, which means I love trees.
25:26Trees are a bit of a passion of mine.
25:28And one of my favourite trees are horse chestnut trees, which have become a bit of an icon of the British landscape, really.
25:35Not just for autumn, but something always to offer really distinctive leaves and beautiful flowers.
25:40I didn't know there was a French horse chestnut tree, which has beautiful pink flowers, as well as the traditional British white flowered version.
25:47But anyway, horse chestnut is a translation of the Latin, botanical Latin, Castania equina.
25:54Because its fruit, years ago, was said to have been a remedy for chest diseases in horses.
26:00Which is quite interesting, really, because there is a theory that actually conkers can be quite poisonous to horses.
26:04So I definitely wouldn't recommend this.
26:06But they were also used as cough remedies and to make horses' coats shine.
26:11So that was the belief, and that gave us the name horse chestnut.
26:15Its fruit, of course, which is what was fed to horses, is the conker, the wonderful conker.
26:22And the first recorded game of conkers that's believed to have taken place was on the Isle of Wight in 1848.
26:28So that's, as I say, the first recorded game.
26:30It's very likely that we have been playing this game for a very, very long time.
26:34In fact, we do know that children originally used not horse chestnut seeds, but they used snail shells.
26:40Those were the original conkers.
26:43And, in fact, the word conker may be linked to an old word, conch, which is a type of mollusk.
26:49But it was also associated with the word conquer, as in to vanquish or to win.
26:53And, in fact, the game of conkers was called conquerors for quite a long time.
26:58There's another possibility of where conkers come from, and that's simply because it's onomatopoeic,
27:02representing the sound of the sort of bash.
27:05And it's quite interesting because in no other country in the world do people play with conkers in the way that we do,
27:12drill holes through attached string and try to bash the living daylights out of our opponents' conkers.
27:17It's very, very much a British thing.
27:20There are so many regional terms for them as well.
27:22So you will find so many dialect versions of conkers, which I love.
27:26So you'll find oblionkers is one name for them, cheggies or cheesers.
27:30And, again, these go back a long, long way.
27:32So in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, you'll see a reference to cobblers, in fact,
27:37which is what they were called then.
27:39So so many different versions, and so many different versions of the game.
27:42Another one involved throwing conkers over a fence and trying to hit somebody on the head.
27:48So perhaps not so pleasant, and, again, perhaps that's the sound of someone's head being bashed in.
27:53But a wonderful game and a wonderful tree.
27:55So I just thought I would share that with you today.
27:56Thank you for that.
28:00There are lovely trees, you're right.
28:05Beautiful.
28:0568 to 35, Misbah on 68.
28:08Andrew, your letters game.
28:10Can I have a consonant, please?
28:12Thank you, Andrew.
28:13R.
28:13And a vowel.
28:16E.
28:17And a consonant.
28:19N.
28:21And a consonant.
28:23R.
28:25Another consonant.
28:27Y.
28:27And a vowel.
28:30O.
28:31Another vowel.
28:33A.
28:35Another vowel.
28:37E.
28:38And one last consonant, please.
28:41And the last one, H.
28:43Standby.
28:43And a vowel.
28:45Hangouts.
29:10The loudη country.
29:10And a vowel.
29:12Andrew, six.
29:16Misbah?
29:17I'd try a seven.
29:18Andrew?
29:19A hero.
29:20No, Misbah.
29:21Yearner.
29:22You can be a yearner.
29:24Yeah, excellent.
29:24It's a really good seven.
29:25It's a yearn.
29:26Yeah.
29:27Well done.
29:30Well done.
29:31And in the corner there, Dave, anything new?
29:33I've got yearner and ornery.
29:35I think that's the right pronunciation.
29:36Yeah, I like that word, ornery.
29:37It just means you're a bit bad-tempered, a bit of a crossword.
29:40It's an Americanism, isn't it?
29:41It is Americanism, but you'll find it in British dialect as well,
29:43so it probably originated here and then went over there.
29:45OK.
29:46Plain ornery.
29:47Yeah.
29:47Yeah.
29:48Misbah, your letters came.
29:51Could I start with a consonant, please?
29:53Thank you, Misbah.
29:54S.
29:55And another.
29:57R.
29:59A vowel.
30:00U.
30:02Another vowel.
30:04A.
30:06A consonant.
30:08B.
30:09A consonant.
30:12S.
30:14A vowel.
30:16O.
30:18Another vowel.
30:21I.
30:23And a final consonant, please.
30:25And a final Q.
30:27Stand by.
30:28A vowel.
30:30A vowel.
30:32I.
30:32A vowel.
30:40Another vowel.
30:46I.
30:46Misbah.
31:00Risky, five.
31:01Andrew?
31:02Six.
31:03And a six.
31:04Misbah.
31:04We might be making this up, but quibs?
31:06No, Andrew.
31:08Squibs.
31:09OK, I'll start with quib.
31:10Quib is a jibe, a taunt, a quip.
31:13So it's now North American, but it's sort of the same route as quibble,
31:17so that's absolutely fine.
31:19And squib, also fine, is a small firework that burns with a hissing sound
31:23before exploding, which is why we talk about damp squibs.
31:26Squibs, indeed.
31:27Yeah, we used to have them as kids.
31:28Squibs.
31:29Dave, what have you got?
31:30We've got seven isobars.
31:33Oh, yeah.
31:34Susie, anything else?
31:35No, that was our best isobars.
31:37Thank you, isobars.
31:38Perfect.
31:3875 to 41.
31:41And now, Andrew, it's the final numbers game for you.
31:44One from the top, please, and five small, please, Rachel.
31:46Thank you, Andrew.
31:47One large five, little to finish the day.
31:49And the final numbers are two, four, nine, one, six, and 50.
31:57And the final target, oh, 600.
32:01Six, zero, zero.
32:02Six, zero, zero.
32:32Andrew?
32:34Yeah, 600.
32:35I think so.
32:36Isobar?
32:37600.
32:38Andrew?
32:39Six times two is 12, and multiply by 50.
32:41I'm not going to listen.
32:41I'm just going to give you 10 points.
32:42Yep.
32:43And there we go.
32:45Yeah, the same.
32:46Thank you, Isobar.
32:47All right.
32:51So, we're going to the final round, into the conundrum round,
32:54with Andrew on 51, and Misbe on 85.
32:58Things on buzzers, chaps?
32:59Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:32Got to be hard.
33:35Two good players.
33:36A fox.
33:37Two in the audience will take this on.
33:38Now, come.
33:39Yes, the lady back there.
33:41Pithiness.
33:42Let's see whether you're right.
33:45Pithiness.
33:46Perfect.
33:47Well done.
33:49Well done.
33:51And well done, Misbe.
33:52Good score.
33:5385 there.
33:55And your fourth win.
33:56So, Andrew, who has to go back to Heathrow.
34:00Fly back to Heathrow.
34:01With a goodie bag.
34:03Thanks for coming.
34:04Played well.
34:05Thank you very much indeed.
34:06Good luck with your Ride London as well.
34:08All right.
34:09Well done.
34:09And we shall see you Misbe tomorrow.
34:10Well done.
34:11Congratulations.
34:12And we'll see Dave tomorrow too.
34:14I look forward to it very much.
34:16Not half as much as we do.
34:18And you'll be back with Susie, of course.
34:19See you both tomorrow.
34:20See you then.
34:21And Rachel, of course.
34:22See you tomorrow.
34:22See you then.
34:23All right.
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