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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown Studio. Here we are, 1st of March. We're sort of waving farewell to winter, but of course, as soon as the spring begins to blossom, break out, loads of people head off back to the cold.
00:46Perhaps they're heading towards the Arctic Challenge today. This is a wonderful event, Rachel. I don't know whether you've come across it. It's a two-day challenge whereby participants complete a full marathon distance by cross-country skiing.
00:59It's located up in Swedish Lapland in the Abisko National Park, and it's all in aid of breast cancer, the great breast cancer charity.
01:09So people, you know, really putting themselves through their paces to help that charity. It's a wonderful thing. Wonderful thing.
01:16You've been a bit of a skier. Have you tried cross-country?
01:19Oh, no. I'm not sure what would be worse, doing a normal marathon or doing a marathon on cross-country skis.
01:26No, I think the worst bit about skiing is when you accidentally land on a catwalk and you have to get your poles and can't stand it.
01:32And all the boys, all the Russians, because they're used to it, they're from Siberia, they're just powering along and I'm kind of going one by one.
01:39It's not for me. It's a really good effort by all those people.
01:42Absolutely. But anyway, all of you out there on the Arctic Challenge, good luck to you.
01:47Now, Rachel, we've got him back again. That'll be Dinos Sferis. How are you?
01:52I'm very well. I'm just happy to be here still.
01:54Well, five great wins. Five great wins. And, you know, you really are an extraordinary player.
02:00Let's hope that, you know, you have a good day again today.
02:04Thank you very much.
02:05But your conundrums are extraordinary within a second or two. Amazing.
02:10I don't mean to put the fear of God into Darren Smith here, but welcome, Darren.
02:14Darren's a security investigator from Slough and represents Maidenhead squash team in the Berkshire League.
02:20But your job is interesting. Tell us a little bit about it.
02:23You work for a betting company and you're a security investigator. What's going on?
02:31My job basically is to investigate employee frauds and customer frauds.
02:36So in a nutshell, that's what I do. So we're a big industry dealing with a lot of money.
02:41Yeah. People are tempted to do naughty things.
02:43And it's my job to investigate them and find out what's going on.
02:47Track them down. All right. We'll see if you can track down Dinos here today.
02:51Good luck to you both. Big round of applause for Dinos and Darren.
03:00And over in the corner, Susie.
03:01Welcome, Susie, with TV personality and author, Michael Whitehall.
03:05Michael, welcome back.
03:06Now then. Dinos. Hi again, Rachel. Hi, Dinos.
03:16A consonant, please. Thank you. Start today with P.
03:19And a vowel.
03:21I.
03:22Consonant.
03:23S.
03:24Consonant.
03:26F.
03:27Vowel.
03:28O.
03:29Consonant.
03:31R.
03:32Vowel.
03:34E.
03:36Consonant.
03:38M.
03:39And a vowel.
03:40And lastly, A.
03:43And here's the countdown clock.
03:44I.
03:45And here's the countdown.
03:54I.
03:56Did you.
03:57You you?
03:58I.
04:02I.
04:05I.
04:06I.
04:07I.
04:08I.
04:10I.
04:10I.
04:11I.
04:11G-Dos?
04:16Seven.
04:17Yes, Darren?
04:18Only six.
04:19And your six is?
04:20Frames.
04:22Emporia.
04:24Very nice.
04:24Very good.
04:25Excellent.
04:26Well done.
04:27Michael and Susie?
04:28We've got a seven of promise.
04:31Yes.
04:32Yeah.
04:32And soapier as well.
04:34Soapier.
04:35Thanks for that.
04:36All right.
04:37Now then, Darren, your letters game.
04:38First one.
04:39Hi, Rachel.
04:39Hi, Darren.
04:40Consonant, please.
04:42Start with P.
04:44And a vowel.
04:45U.
04:46Consonant.
04:48N.
04:50A vowel.
04:51E.
04:53Consonant.
04:54V.
04:55And a vowel.
04:57I.
04:59Consonant.
05:00B.
05:02A vowel.
05:04O.
05:06And a consonant, please.
05:07And lastly, T.
05:08Stand by.
05:10Stand by.
05:40Darren. Only five.
05:43Five. Dinos. Seven.
05:44Darren. Pivot.
05:47Yes, Dinos. Poutine.
05:49Poutine.
05:50The Canadian dish
05:52of potatoes
05:54with gravy, etc.
05:56And cheese curds as well. Yep, very, very good.
05:59Well, well, well.
06:04Well spotted there, Dinos.
06:06Not many people would have ever
06:07heard of it.
06:08Now, Michael and Susie?
06:12Um, I had heard of it, actually.
06:14Well done.
06:16Um, bovine.
06:19Oh, yes.
06:19Bovine? Yep.
06:21As in cattle. Susie?
06:23That's there for six. Also, pointe de ballet move
06:26is there for six, but we were beaten by Poutine.
06:28So, well done. Excellent.
06:29Thank you. 14 points to Dinos.
06:31And it's Dinos we turn to for the
06:33first numbers game. Yes, sir?
06:35One large and five small, please, Rachel.
06:37Thank you, Dinos. One from the top.
06:39And five little ones.
06:40And the first numbers of the day
06:41are six,
06:43one,
06:44four,
06:45one,
06:46three,
06:47and the large one, 100.
06:49And your target.
06:50Oh, no.
06:51I'm going to sit down.
06:52One hundred and five.
06:53One zero five.
06:54One zero five.
07:13Thanks, Tinos.
07:261.05.
07:27Thanks. And Darren?
07:291.05.
07:30Without delay?
07:31Four add one.
07:33Six add one.
07:34And then three times five times seven.
07:36I'm not even listening.
07:38Darren.
07:39I just went for 100 plus four plus one.
07:42They're both valid.
07:43All right.
07:43Well then, guys.
07:4424 plays 10.
07:45And it's time for our first Tea Time teaser, which is Fluff Reek.
07:50And the clue?
07:51They had conflicting opinions and a commotion broke out.
07:54They had conflicting opinions and a commotion broke out.
08:00Welcome back.
08:14After with the clue, they had conflicting opinions and a commotion broke out by way of a kerfuffle.
08:21They had a little kerfuffle.
08:22Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant, you can email Countdown at Channel4.com to request an application form or write to us at Contestants Applications, Countdown Leads, LS3, 1, J, S.
08:39Now then, 24 plays 10.
08:42Dinos in the lead.
08:43Darren, your letters game.
08:45Consonant, please, Reg.
08:46Thank you, Darren.
08:47P.
08:48Vowel.
08:49I.
08:50Consonant.
08:52G.
08:53Vowel.
08:54A.
08:56Consonant.
08:58T.
09:00Consonant.
09:01C.
09:03Another consonant.
09:05D.
09:06Vowel.
09:08E.
09:09Another vowel, please.
09:11And the last one.
09:12I.
09:14Stand by.
09:14C.
09:15So,
09:18so,
09:20C.
09:36So,
09:37C.
09:38C.
09:39So,
09:42C.
09:42So,
09:43Darren?
09:46A six.
09:47A six, Dinos?
09:48A six, yeah.
09:49Darren?
09:50Depict.
09:51Depict and?
09:52Dacite.
09:54We had depict as well.
09:56We didn't have dacite, but it is in the dictionary.
09:58It's a term from geology for a volcanic rock containing quartz.
10:03Excellent.
10:03Anything else?
10:04That's it, Susie?
10:05Just for us, yes.
10:0730 plays, 16.
10:08Dinos, your letters game.
10:10Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:11Thank you, Dinos.
10:12Q.
10:13And a better one.
10:16R.
10:17And a vowel.
10:19U.
10:20And another vowel.
10:22A.
10:23A consonant.
10:24T.
10:26Vowel.
10:27I.
10:29Another vowel.
10:31E.
10:32Consonant.
10:34G.
10:35And a final consonant, please.
10:39Final D.
10:40Stand by.
10:41And a vowel.
10:42And a vowel.
10:42And a vowel.
10:43And a vowel.
10:43And a vowel.
10:44And a vowel.
10:44And a vowel.
10:44And a vowel.
10:44And a vowel.
10:45And a vowel.
10:46And a vowel.
10:46And a vowel.
10:46And a vowel.
10:46And a vowel.
10:46And a vowel.
10:46And a vowel.
10:47And a vowel.
10:47And a vowel.
10:47And a vowel.
10:47And a vowel.
10:48And a vowel.
10:48And a vowel.
10:48And a vowel.
10:48And a vowel.
10:49And a vowel.
10:50And a vowel.
10:50And a vowel.
10:50And a vowel.
10:50And a vowel.
10:51And a vowel.
10:52And a vowel.
10:52And a vowel.
10:52And a vowel.
10:53And a vowel.
10:54And a vowel.
10:54and a vowel.
10:55And a vowel.
11:11Dinos?
11:13Safe seven.
11:14And Darren?
11:15Risky seven.
11:16Dinos?
11:17Quirted.
11:18Darren?
11:19Quarted.
11:20I did look that up and it's not in, I'm afraid.
11:23Quart is there with the E, but that's as far as you could go.
11:27I'm sorry.
11:28Michael and Susie?
11:29We had guitar.
11:31Yeah.
11:32We also had a Gordia and we had triaged as well.
11:37Um, and I was just looking to see if you could have guitared, but you can't.
11:42So we'll leave it at that for six.
11:43Thanks for that.
11:4437 to 16.
11:46And now we turn to the numbers for Darren.
11:49Yes, Darren?
11:50One large and five small, please, Rachel.
11:52And hopefully something trickier than that last one.
11:55Don't enjoy those.
11:56Right, let's get a challenge.
11:58We have one, six, seven, six, three, and 25.
12:04And the target, 247.
12:07Two, four, seven.
12:08Two, four, seven, six, seven.
12:37Darren.
12:402, 4, 6.
12:41One away, Dinos.
12:422, 4, 7.
12:43Firmly there.
12:44Yes, sir.
12:456 minus 1 is 5.
12:47Yep.
12:47Times 3 is 15.
12:49Add 25 makes 40.
12:51Yep.
12:52Multiply by 6 is 240 and add the 7.
12:55Well done.
12:552, 4, 7.
12:56Lovely.
12:57Well done.
13:02Thus spake the maths tutor.
13:05Very good.
13:0547 to 16.
13:06Now as we turn to Michael.
13:08I always think of you as being a very careful chap.
13:10Apparently you've been falling off vehicles recently.
13:14This isn't careful, really.
13:16This is me being amenable, helpful.
13:19I mean, that is my personality.
13:22And I'm going back again to this show that I did called Travels with My Father.
13:28And we were in Romania, Transylvania.
13:33And I was asked by the director if I would go off and do a shot that went up over the hills in the sunset at the end of a day's filming.
13:47In a horse and cart with a couple of young men.
13:51Young Romanian men doing that stuff.
13:55And Jack and I, in the back of the horse and cart, he said it would just make the most fabulous end to this whole sequence.
14:05Anyway, the horse and cart was going a little faster than I'd envisage it going.
14:12The boys, the young boys were, you know, slightly boy racer, if you can be a boy racer in a horse and cart.
14:18And the speed increased quite dramatically as we got sort of almost to the brow of the hill.
14:27And then the cart, which was a very old-fashioned cart, it did that thing that Laurel and the Hardy used to have a sketch.
14:35Where the cart closed like that and they were stuck in the middle of it.
14:41That's what this one, it closed and then it opened again.
14:46By which time I'd fallen out on the road.
14:50Jack had also fallen out on the road.
14:52But, you know, Jack is 30 and I'm 78.
14:56The end result was that I had to go to the hospital because I'd done something to my wrist and I couldn't, you know.
15:04And Jack was all fine and Daddy.
15:08So that was the end of that bit of the story.
15:10But the sequel was that I did another show.
15:14Not Travels, but another show.
15:17Having said, I will never do another television show other than with Jack.
15:22I was doing it with a man called John Sargent.
15:25And we were asked to, it's kind of to do with OAPs.
15:29I don't know why they were wanting me to be part of it.
15:32But we had to test things and we had to test this invention, which was a large trunk, which had sort of wheels underneath it.
15:43And if you got very tired as a pensioner, you could sit on top of this trunk and then press some button and it roared off.
15:52I didn't get on the thing.
15:54But they then decided to go to some country house for us to go up the drive, sitting on the back of this trunk.
16:02And for once in my life, I said, no, I'm sorry.
16:06I'm not going to do this.
16:07John said, no, no, no.
16:08Well, I'll do it.
16:09So the producer said, oh, John, thank you so much.
16:12So I say, I'll walk beside you.
16:15So we walk up this thing, camera crew up there, John on this trunk, me walking along next to it, rather a touching little scene, you know, in the twilight of the day, walking along.
16:30And suddenly he presses something, because there's obviously buttons under there, and it shoots off.
16:37So he's shooting off up this driveway.
16:40I'm saying, John, John, are you all right?
16:43He says, yeah, I'll be all right.
16:44And then it veers off, and he falls flat on his face in the ditch by the side of the drive.
16:52And I go up and I say to him, John, why didn't you take my advice?
16:57And he said, I don't know why.
16:59Why do I do these things?
17:01And I said, yes, well, that's the problem with me old boys.
17:05Because we always want to do, just go one step too far.
17:09And look what happened.
17:10Look what happened.
17:11Push.
17:12APPLAUSE
17:13There we are.
17:1747 plays 16.
17:19Dinos on 47.
17:21And it's Dinos' letters game.
17:23A consonant, please, Rachel.
17:24Thank you, Dinos.
17:25W.
17:26And a vowel.
17:28A.
17:29A consonant.
17:29A consonant.
17:30C.
17:31A vowel.
17:32U.
17:34Consonant.
17:35S.
17:36A consonant.
17:38L.
17:39A vowel.
17:41A.
17:42A consonant.
17:44T.
17:45And a final consonant, please.
17:49And a final R.
17:52Stand by.
17:52OK.
17:52OK.
17:59Yes, Dinos?
18:25Er, six.
18:26Darren?
18:26Save six.
18:28And Dinos?
18:28Scalar.
18:30Darren?
18:31Tangible.
18:32Yes, absolutely fine.
18:34Scalar is a term for maths and physics, meaning a quantity has only magnitude, not direction.
18:39But both are sixes.
18:41Any more sixes?
18:42Michael?
18:42Susie?
18:43No, you've got something there, but I don't know what it is, that word.
18:46There's actual for six, but there is a seven there.
18:49Kirtles, C-U-R-T-A-L-S, which were bassoons of the late 16th to early 18th century.
18:55Thank you, Susie.
18:56Now, Darren, it's your letters game.
18:59Consonant, please, Rachel.
19:01Thank you, Darren.
19:01K.
19:02Vowel.
19:03I.
19:05Consonant.
19:06S.
19:07Vowel.
19:09O.
19:10Consonant.
19:12T.
19:13Another consonant.
19:14N.
19:16Another consonant.
19:17S.
19:19Vowel.
19:19E.
19:22And a final consonant.
19:24A final L.
19:27Stand by.
19:27E.
19:29E.
19:31D.
19:32E.
19:54E.
19:55E.
19:55E.
19:55E.
19:56E.
19:56Darren?
19:58Just six.
19:59A six and?
20:01I'll stick with a seven.
20:04Darren?
20:04Tinsel.
20:06Tinsel and?
20:07Tinkles.
20:08Tinkles.
20:09Michael?
20:10Tonsels.
20:12Yes.
20:13Yes.
20:14Tonsels, that's for another seven, but we couldn't get beyond seven.
20:17Thank you very much.
20:17So, 60 to 22, Dinos now in for a numbers game.
20:21Six more, please, Rachel.
20:23Six more.
20:24This is going to guarantee something harder than that.
20:26105.
20:27Thank you, Dinos.
20:28Let's see what we have.
20:29Ten, seven, eight, nine, five, and two.
20:35And a target, 798.
20:39798.
20:39798.
20:56798.
20:57798.
20:58798.
20:59798.
21:00798.
21:01888.
21:11798.
21:11798.
21:12798.
21:13And Darren?
21:14798.
21:15Thank you, Dinos.
21:169 add 7 is 16.
21:18Yep.
21:19Times 5 times 10 is 800.
21:2180 times 10, 800.
21:23And then subtract the 2.
21:24Lovely.
21:257, 9, 8.
21:25And Darren?
21:26A different way.
21:2710, 8 are 80.
21:29Yep.
21:305, 2 is a 10.
21:31There you are.
21:32Times the 2 together, 800.
21:34800 again.
21:34And then 9 minus 7.
21:36Lovely.
21:36Quite a few ways for this one.
21:38Very nice.
21:38Well done, guys.
21:39Well done.
21:40So 70 plays Down's 32 as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is used local.
21:50And the clue, he used a local chiropodist to help fix his sore feet.
21:55He used a local chiropodist to help fix his sore feet.
22:10Welcome back.
22:16I left you with a clue.
22:17He used a local chiropodist to help fix his sore feet, which were clearly calloused, is
22:23the answer to that.
22:24Calloused.
22:25So 70 to 32 in Dinos' favour.
22:29Darren, let us go.
22:32Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:33Thank you, Darren.
22:34Y.
22:35Vowel.
22:37I.
22:38Consonant.
22:40N.
22:41Another consonant.
22:43M.
22:44Vowel, please.
22:45O.
22:46Consonant.
22:47D.
22:49Consonant.
22:51G.
22:52Vowel.
22:54A.
22:55And consonant.
22:57And the last one, P.
22:59Stand by.
22:59Vowel.
23:18A.
23:18A.
23:19Darren.
23:31Just a six.
23:33Dinos?
23:33Eight.
23:34Darren.
23:35Doping.
23:37Yes, Dinos.
23:38Pomading.
23:39Yes, pomade is there as a verb to apply pomade to,
23:43and pomade is a scented ointment or oil for dressing the hair.
23:45Very well done.
23:46Yeah.
23:46APPLAUSE
23:48He's busy pomading his hair.
23:55An unlikely sight, I would have thought.
23:5778 to 32.
23:59Dinos, off we go.
24:01Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:02Thank you, Dinos.
24:03R.
24:04And a vowel.
24:06I.
24:07Consonant.
24:09T.
24:10And a vowel.
24:11O.
24:12Consonant.
24:13F.
24:14Vowel.
24:15E.
24:16Consonant.
24:17R.
24:19Consonant.
24:21B.
24:22And a final consonant, please.
24:25A final L.
24:27Countdown.
24:27B.
24:28B.
24:28B.
24:29B.
24:29B.
24:29B.
24:29B.
24:30B.
24:30B.
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24:31B.
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24:32B.
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24:33B.
24:33B.
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24:46B.
24:46Yes, do you know?
25:00A seven.
25:01A seven, Darren?
25:02A six.
25:03And the six would be?
25:04Toiler.
25:06Do you know?
25:06Rotifer.
25:08Yes, just looking at that, it's a term from zoology.
25:11A rotifer is a small, multi-celled freshwater organism.
25:15Wow.
25:17Michael.
25:18We've got loft here.
25:19Yes, that will give you another seven.
25:21Thank you for that.
25:2285 place 32.
25:24Susie, step forward.
25:26It's your wonderful origins of words.
25:29And today?
25:30Well, I'm going to start off explaining the difference between sympathy and empathy,
25:35because more and more in English they're being used interchangeably,
25:38and that's not quite right.
25:41It may be in the future that they will become synonymous with each other,
25:44but for the moment there is a distinction, and it's quite an important one, really.
25:49So empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
25:55Really important.
25:56And so is sympathy.
25:57Sympathy is pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
26:00So it's the opposite of schadenfreude.
26:01And there is another favourite word of mine that is also the opposite of schadenfreude,
26:07that's from historical dictionaries, and I think we should bring it back,
26:09and that's conflicity, which is the delight in someone else's pleasure,
26:13which I think is beautiful.
26:14But that's by the by.
26:15I'll go back to sympathy.
26:17And that comes from the Greek syn, S-Y-N, is how it started off,
26:22which went with, and then pathos, which means feeling.
26:26So you are, really, if you have sympathy with someone,
26:29you are suffering with another person, which, as I say, is quite beautiful.
26:33And so I thought, I know prefixes sound incredibly boring,
26:36but I thought I would just talk to you a little bit about that prefix syn,
26:39meaning with S-Y-N, sometimes spelt with an M as well,
26:42because it's given us so many different words in English.
26:45It's given us symmetry.
26:47It's given us idiosyncrasy, which is when you mix characteristics together
26:51and come up with a sort of slightly different, you know,
26:55sort of slightly anomalous, I guess, result.
26:57A symphony, again, the idea of togetherness, playing with other people.
27:02A symptom, which is when different characteristics of disease fall together.
27:07So, again, that sort of emphasis on with.
27:09Syllable, which is taking letters together.
27:13It's all about togetherness.
27:14But also symposium, and that might seem a little bit odd.
27:18Yes, you're meeting with other people, but actually it was more than that,
27:21because the first symposia were drinking parties,
27:24and the Greeks were really fond of mixing alcohol with intellectual discussion.
27:29They didn't drink during the meals, but they would talk very much afterwards.
27:33They would retire, and they'd have, if you think about Plato
27:36or any of the other big philosophers, they would have these amazingly deep discussions,
27:40but always with drink.
27:42And so symposium actually comes from the Greek meaning drinking companions,
27:46which is why if you ever need to knock off work early
27:48and need an excuse on a Friday afternoon,
27:50you can just say you're off to a symposium,
27:52when in fact you're going down the pub.
27:53APPLAUSE
27:55And remind us of the word that sharing somebody else is joy.
28:04Oh, it's just beautiful. It's confelicity.
28:06Con-foli...
28:07Con-felicity.
28:08Con-felicity, yeah.
28:09Lovely word.
28:09Not enough of it around, either.
28:12No, definitely not.
28:1385 plays 32.
28:16Darren, your letters gave.
28:18A consonant, please.
28:19Thank you, Darren.
28:20N.
28:21And a vowel.
28:23A.
28:24A consonant.
28:25T.
28:26Vowel.
28:28U.
28:29A consonant.
28:30R.
28:31A vowel.
28:33A.
28:35Consonant.
28:37Z.
28:38Another consonant.
28:41R.
28:42And a final consonant.
28:45And a final L.
28:49Standby.
28:51A veer.
28:51A.
29:02A expert.
29:03A.
29:03Kiana.
29:04M.
29:04A.
29:05A.
29:05A.
29:05A.
29:06A.
29:08A.
29:09B.
29:09A.
29:09A.
29:09B.
29:10A.
29:11A.
29:12A.
29:14A.
29:15B.
29:16A.
29:17A.
29:18A.
29:18B.
29:18A.
29:19B.
29:19Well, Darren?
29:22Just a seven.
29:24Yes.
29:25Do you know us?
29:26Possibly the same seven.
29:28Come on, Darren.
29:30Natural.
29:32And would you believe it?
29:33There we go.
29:35On a plate, as they say.
29:3692 to 39.
29:37Over in the corner, any more sevens, Michael?
29:39I got, um, natural.
29:43Would that be a...
29:44Thank you, Michael.
29:47And Susie?
29:48I wish I could find something else that would give you anything longer, but I can't.
29:52All right.
29:54Dinos, final letters game for you.
29:57A consonant, please.
29:58Thank you, Dinos.
29:59H.
30:00And a vowel.
30:01O.
30:02Consonant.
30:03H.
30:05Vowel.
30:06E.
30:07Consonant.
30:08R.
30:09Consonant.
30:11S.
30:12Vowel.
30:15A.
30:16Consonant.
30:17T.
30:19And a final consonant, please.
30:22And a final D.
30:24Stand by.
30:25Som n' british.
30:32Porque se funnists.
30:33Be good.
30:34Close to the world.
30:34Come on.
30:35Come on.
30:36And a half.
30:36Be good.
30:38Bye.
30:38Bye.
30:38Bye.
30:39Bye.
30:39Bye.
30:41Bye.
30:42Bye.
30:44Bye.
30:46Bye.
30:47Bye.
30:47Bye.
30:48Bye.
30:48Bye.
30:49Bye.
30:51Bye.
30:52Bye.
30:53Bye.
30:53Bye.
30:54Bye.
30:54Tinos.
30:58I'll try an eight.
31:00Darren.
31:00Just a seven.
31:02And that seven would be?
31:03Trashed.
31:04Trashed.
31:05Tinos.
31:06Headshot.
31:08Headshot.
31:08Yes.
31:09All one word.
31:11Excellent.
31:11Photograph of a person's face or head and shoulders.
31:13Very good.
31:14Going for a headshot.
31:16Wow.
31:20And over in the corner, Michael and Susie.
31:22Any advance on a headshot?
31:24We had a word that both you and I experienced in our youth.
31:29Susie's too young, of course.
31:31Yeah.
31:32Which is thrashed.
31:33To be thrashed?
31:35Oh, all the time.
31:37Did it do us any harm?
31:39No.
31:41Now, what shall we do?
31:42Darren, numbers game.
31:44Off we go.
31:45One large and five small, please, Rachel.
31:46Thank you, Darren.
31:47Some of these numbers and letters rounds have been playing themselves today.
31:50Let's see if I can make one you can work for.
31:52This selection is ten, nine, eight, seven, four, and a large on 75.
31:59And the target, 139.
32:02One, three, nine.
32:03One, three, nine, five, four, and a large on 75.
32:10One, three, nine, eight!
32:11MUSIC PLAYS
32:34Darren?
32:36No.
32:37What does Dinos say?
32:39139.
32:40Off we go.
32:419 add 7 is 16.
32:43Yep.
32:44Times 4 is 64.
32:46There we go.
32:47And add on the 75.
32:48Well done.
32:49139.
32:50Very neat.
32:50Well done.
32:54Well done.
32:55Up to 110.
32:56Great player.
32:58Into the final round.
32:59Fingers on buzzers.
33:01Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
33:07Dinos.
33:09Embroiled.
33:10Embroiled.
33:11You take my breath away, Dinos.
33:13Embroiled.
33:13Let's see whether you're right.
33:14I have no doubt.
33:16Fantastic.
33:17APPLAUSE
33:17Well done, Dinos.
33:26Darren.
33:27You did OK.
33:28But he sweeps all before him at the moment.
33:31Yeah, he's very good.
33:31He's an excellent player.
33:33Thank you very much indeed for coming.
33:35You take this goodie bag back to Slough.
33:38And good luck with the squash.
33:39How are you doing in the Berkshire League?
33:42We're three from the bottom, so pretty similar to today, really.
33:46Maybe.
33:47Anyway, Dinos, great stuff.
33:48120.
33:49Brilliant.
33:50Pleasure.
33:50Really brilliant.
33:51See you on Monday when you'll be chasing win seven.
33:54Fantastic.
33:55All right.
33:55Have a peaceful weekend.
33:56Michael, will you come and see us on Monday, please?
34:00I will do my very best.
34:02Good stories.
34:02We've enjoyed having you so much.
34:04Susie, have a peaceful weekend.
34:06Happy weekend, too, too.
34:06All right.
34:07He's had a good week, hasn't he?
34:09Has he ever?
34:10I mean, it's amazing.
34:11It's amazing.
34:13Let's hold our breath until Monday, shall we?
34:15See you then.
34:16Look forward to it.
34:17All right.
34:17Join us then.
34:18Same time, same place.
34:19You'll be sure of it.
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