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00:30Hello, everybody. It's Wednesday afternoon. Welcome to Countdown as we get ready to whiz through 15 rounds of letters and numbers, hoping to dodge any tricky numbers, hoping to avoid the calamity of the letters, and our champion and challenger both looking to scrap their way to victory.
00:49Let me introduce our team today. We have the never snooty Dr. Tom, the minx that is Susie Dent. I can say that. It's within context. And there's never any peril when it comes to Vic Hope.
01:01Even Dr. Tom could not add up the amount of nods and winks to Beano characters in that intro. The one I left out was Dennis the Menace, who today celebrates his 74th birthday as a newspaper comic strip.
01:19Now, Vic, you're so well read, but do comics grab your attention or comic strips or cartoons?
01:26I wasn't into them growing up. My little brother, Louis, was. He used to collect all the Beanos and the Dandies. And I really liked drawing, so I used to like drawing the characters from his.
01:35But I wasn't, yeah, I guess I wasn't immersed in them in the same way. I wasn't reading them. But they were great.
01:41Well, listen, let's meet, well, a real menace, if we're honest. Mark Flanagan, who's had two crucial countdown conundrums. But big credit to you for absolutely getting them.
01:52I kind of feel like it's not a bad thing to go through those close encounters because you're kind of ready for anything.
01:58Well, it's a bit nerve wracking. Well, Mark, today you're up against Neha Sood, who joins us from Fulham, originally from Chigwell in Essex.
02:08So much to talk to you about. Listen, nothing should faze you. And get this, you do the weightlifting, but you do the dead weightlifting.
02:17And you, I won't give away numbers and figures and all that, but you can deadlift Susie and myself added together.
02:24Wow. Isn't that unbelievable? That's incredible. Excellent.
02:27Well, listen, it's all about the grey matter today on Countdown. Best of luck to you, Neha and Mark.
02:35And Mark, you're going to kick us off today.
02:37Hi, Tom. Hi, Mark. Consonant, please.
02:39Is this going to be the usual?
02:42T. Consonant.
02:45D. Consonant.
02:47I think it might be. L. Consonant.
02:52F. Consonant.
02:55G. Vowel.
02:57E. Vowel.
03:02I. Vowel.
03:06O.
03:07And another vowel.
03:10U.
03:12And at home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:14I. Vowel.
03:21O.
03:24Vowel.
03:27I. Vowel.
03:28I. Vowel.
03:28Mark.
03:46Eight.
03:47Neha.
03:47I'm going to risk an eight as well.
03:49Mark.
03:50Outfield.
03:51Outfield.
03:52No worries with that baseball reference.
03:54Neha.
03:54Same.
03:55Pass it over.
03:56Home run for both of you.
03:59Home run.
04:01Right, what else did we find outside of that eight?
04:04Nothing.
04:04That was our best.
04:05So good.
04:06What a good start.
04:06Knocked it out of the park.
04:07Neha, you're picking these letters.
04:09Consonant, please.
04:11L.
04:13And another.
04:15M.
04:16And another.
04:19T.
04:20A vowel, please.
04:23E.
04:25And another.
04:26A.
04:28And another, please.
04:31E.
04:34A consonant, please.
04:36N.
04:38And another.
04:41R.
04:44And a vowel, please.
04:47And U.
04:4930 seconds.
05:12No.
05:13No.
05:13No.
05:13No.
05:14No.
05:15No.
05:15No.
05:16No.
05:17NEHA
05:22Er, six. Six for you. Mark? Seven.
05:26The six is, NEHA? Lament. Yes. Oh, Mark.
05:30No, wrong. I got it wrong. You got it wrong.
05:33Well, I feared for NEHA there, but maybe I'm wrong.
05:37Did she miss putting the ER on Lament? Yes, you can have a Lamenta.
05:41What about you, Vic? How do you get on? Yeah, Lamenta for eight,
05:44and also for eight numerates. Oh, well spotted.
05:46Good one for the show. Yeah. Very good for the show and perfect timing.
05:49First numbers of the day, I'm Mark. Just one large, please.
05:53OK. Two, three. See if you will Lament that choice.
05:59Eight, two, four, six, seven, 25.
06:06And our target is 969. 969, numbers up.
06:38MUSIC
06:42Pretty difficult. 9-6-9, Mark.
06:449-6-6. 9-6-6, three away.
06:48Neha? No, I didn't get anything close.
06:51Mark, then, three away on 9-6-6.
06:557 multiplied by 6.
06:577 times 6 will give you 42.
07:00Minus 4.
07:01Minus 4 is 38.
07:03Multiplied by 25.
07:05Times 25 will give you 9.50.
07:08Add 2 times 8.
07:10And then plus the 2 times 8 for 9-6-6.
07:15Yeah, very good indeed.
07:179-6-9 with the 25, Dr. Tom.
07:23Yeah, not yet for me either.
07:25I'm going to need more time on that one.
07:26No, I was shocked by three away.
07:28Very good indeed.
07:29Well, perfect timing.
07:30T time teaser.
07:31T as in T-E-A.
07:33Sorry.
07:34T, sorry.
07:35This place does nothing for me.
07:37I don't drink coffee.
07:38I take tea, my dear.
07:40This place does nothing for me.
07:42I don't drink coffee.
07:43I drink tea, my dear.
07:45That, my dear, is just a little sting, pardon the pun, in the tale, because it's the opening line of Englishmen in New York.
08:12The lyric, none to do with the police or stinger or anything.
08:16Roastery.
08:16A roastery where you get your coffee beans from.
08:19Right.
08:19Just the one point in it.
08:21Of course it is, because our champion is Mark Flanagan and he only does crucial countdown conundrums.
08:25Neha, your letters.
08:27Consonant, please.
08:29All right.
08:30We'll start with T.
08:32And another.
08:34S.
08:35And another.
08:38V.
08:39And a vowel.
08:42I.
08:43And another.
08:46O.
08:47And another.
08:50E.
08:51A consonant, please.
08:55R.
08:57And another.
08:59N.
09:01And another, please.
09:05And an S.
09:07Thanks, Doctor.
09:07Thank you, Doctor.
09:08Thank you, Doctor.
09:08Thank you, Doctor.
09:08Thank you, Doctor.
09:09Thank you, Doctor.
09:09Thank you, Doctor.
09:09Thank you, Doctor.
09:09Thank you, Doctor.
09:10Thank you, Doctor.
09:10Thank you, Doctor.
09:11Thank you, Doctor.
09:11Thank you, Doctor.
09:12Thank you, Doctor.
09:12Thank you, Doctor.
09:13Thank you, Doctor.
09:13Thank you, Doctor.
09:14Thank you, Doctor.
09:14Thank you, Doctor.
09:15Thank you, Doctor.
09:15Thank you, Doctor.
09:16Thank you, Doctor.
09:16Thank you, Doctor.
09:17Thank you, Doctor.
09:18Thank you, Doctor.
09:19Thank you, Doctor.
09:20Thank you, Doctor.
09:21Thank you, Doctor.
09:22Thank you, Doctor.
09:23Thank you, Doctor.
09:24Thank you, Doctor.
09:25Thank you, Doctor.
09:26It's all the time that I can give you.
09:41So, Neha, how many?
09:42I think I have a nine.
09:44And for Mark?
09:46Just eight.
09:47Just eight. We don't often hear that.
09:49What is the eight?
09:51Versions.
09:52Now, it might count because Neha's not sure.
09:54What are you going to go for?
09:55Investors.
09:56Well done. That's brilliant.
09:58Yes.
10:01Beautiful.
10:02And just like that, 18 points on the board.
10:06What's your cousin saying now?
10:07Not much, I'd imagine.
10:09Let's get over to Dixon Recorder.
10:11What have you got?
10:12Well, listen, we've had it.
10:12Yeah, we're done.
10:13Yeah, that's Neha.
10:14It's taken our glory.
10:15Stolen our thunder.
10:16So, well done.
10:17There you go.
10:17That's what you're here to do.
10:19Mark, great stuff.
10:20Let's go again.
10:21Consonant, please.
10:23N.
10:24Consonant.
10:25R.
10:27Consonant.
10:30L.
10:31Consonant.
10:34S.
10:35Consonant.
10:37L.
10:39Vowel.
10:42O.
10:43Vowel.
10:44A.
10:46Vowel.
10:50A.
10:51Vowel.
10:53And your last one is an E.
10:55And half a minute.
10:56Vowel.
11:19Vowel.
11:20There you go. Big last round. Can we match it? Mark, how many?
11:30A seven, not written down.
11:31And for Neha?
11:33I'll risk a seven.
11:34Have you written it down?
11:35Yes.
11:36Excellent stuff, Mark. What have you not written down?
11:38Loners.
11:39Yes. And for you, Neha?
11:41Alliant.
11:42How are you spelling that?
11:43A-L-L-I-O-N-S.
11:47Not there, I'm afraid, Neha.
11:49Not.
11:50Yeah, not in the dictionary, sorry.
11:52Vicko.
11:52For eight, we've got ailerons.
11:55Yes.
11:56Yes, those services on the aircraft wing that we see going up and down.
12:01Ailerons.
12:01Excellent. Good stuff. There you go.
12:03Ten points in at nine and ten points up for grabs now.
12:06So, Neha, tactics come into play.
12:08It's your numbers.
12:10Can I get one from the top and any other five, please?
12:13You sure can.
12:14Three, four and five.
12:16We've got a ten, nine, two, six, five, fifty.
12:24And our target is 150.
12:27Now it is 150.
12:28Numbers up.
12:29There we go.
12:29One, two, five.
12:30Three, four.
12:31If they're saya to...
12:32Do it again.
12:33Do it again.
12:34Right.
12:34Here we go.
12:35Bye.
12:36Bye-bye.
12:41입니다.
12:42Bye-bye.
12:42Bye.
12:45Bye-bye.
12:47Bye-bye.
12:47Bye-bye.
12:48Bye-bye.
12:49Bye-bye.
12:49Bye-bye.
12:50Bye-bye.
12:53Bye-bye.
12:54Bye-bye.
12:55Bye-bye.
12:56Bye-bye.
12:57Bye-bye.
12:57Right, let's go through the motions. Neha?
13:01150. Yeah, and for you, Mark? 150.
13:04Excellent. Off you go, Neha.
13:06Five minus two times 50.
13:08Five minus two is three times 50, yeah.
13:12And there it is. And for you, Mark.
13:14Yep, same. Same way. Yeah.
13:16Easy done.
13:17APPLAUSE
13:19So, Bec Hope, more time for us to talk after the 150.
13:23Yesterday we were talking about football, which was a lovely chat,
13:26and a pirate.
13:27Oh, yeah.
13:29I volunteer at a project in Hackney in East London
13:32called Literacy Pirates.
13:34We use the analogy of the pirate ship
13:37just because it engages the kids.
13:39So I work with primary school kids and also secondary school kids
13:41who are maybe falling behind at school for whatever reason.
13:44And we do reading and writing in a really fun way.
13:47I believe that everyone deserves to be able to get lost in books,
13:52to find themselves in books, to get creative,
13:55to fulfil their potential.
13:56And for many reasons, kids might be struggling a little bit.
14:00And it's a space where we've seen kids really, really improve.
14:04And, yeah, get so engaged and just fall in love with words,
14:07which is what we all love here.
14:09One thing I've learnt from being here five days a week with Susie
14:12is if you're dealing with words, the best place you can be
14:14is on the high seas.
14:16Because, and I was talking to a friend about this the other day,
14:19and I was saying it's remarkable how many words will come from ships,
14:24boats and the ocean.
14:25We had one this week in man rope.
14:28And there you go.
14:29We were back on a boat.
14:30And I was thinking, like, why is it?
14:32Why is it all connected to the seas?
14:34And I don't know, probably because it was a lot of exploration across the seas
14:38and a lot of things being invented to do it.
14:41And I don't know.
14:42Yeah.
14:43No, that's completely true.
14:44So, NFT, lots of our goods, like our spices and that kind of thing,
14:47come from the high seas because that's how they were transported.
14:50But also, it was such a way of life that was then captured in books
14:54and in literature.
14:55So you were being exposed to adventures on the high seas
14:57through the books that you were reading.
14:59And so those words became entrenched in the language.
15:02But not everything that is said to come from the ocean does.
15:05Yeah.
15:06But an awful lot does.
15:07Lovely chat.
15:09Thanks.
15:10Right, ten points of difference.
15:13This show's had just about everything so far.
15:16Let's continue with more letters from Mark.
15:18Vowel.
15:19Ooh.
15:20Keeping me on my toes, Mark.
15:22A.
15:23Vowel.
15:26E.
15:27Vowel.
15:30A.
15:31Consonant.
15:33M.
15:34Consonant.
15:36G.
15:37Consonant.
15:39R.
15:41Consonant.
15:43S.
15:44Vowel.
15:47I.
15:48And another vowel.
15:51And an E.
15:52And here we go again.
15:53And here we go again.
15:54And here we go again.
15:55A.
15:56And here we go again.
15:57A.
15:58And here we go again
15:59and the Twitter.
16:01Okay.
16:23How many, Mark? Six. Neha? Seven. The sixes, Mark? Images. And the seven? Mirages. Mirages. Well spotted. Now, was that what was causing the kerfuffle in Dictionary Corner? Because I could hear, like, little mice, what was going on?
16:42I was asking if we could put an R on the end of image and make imager and then images, pluralise it. Yes. But you can. You can, yay! That'll explain it. But just the same in terms of letters.
16:52Yeah, just sevens. Regimes also there. And migas. Migas are large predatory marine fish. They are indeed. What, you mean something from the ocean? Something from the ocean. There you go. There you go. More letters, please. Neha. Consonant, please. N. And another. T. And another. Q. Cool. And a vowel, please.
17:20And a vowel, please. An A. And start the clock.
17:50A vowel, please.
18:20And for you, Mark? Six. A six. The sixes, Mark? Action. Neha is on a roll. What have you got? Auction. Auction.
18:30Very good, indeed. Very good, indeed. That's brilliant.
18:32Indeed. There you go. You're going to anagram me, aren't you, right now? We are. With caution. Yes, of course. A lot of people are sitting with caution, but auction. Fantastic stuff. All right.
18:44At 32.56. Mark, our champion, under a bit of pressure here. But, of course, he's made of stern stuff. Two crucial countdown conundrums so far. And it's your numbers.
18:53Let's go for six more, please. Ooh, Mark. I like it. Two, three, four, five, six. We have a four, a seven, a four, two, six, one. And we're looking for 580.
19:13Five, eight, zero. Numbers up.
19:15One, two, three, four, five, six, one. And we're looking for 580.
19:46Mark, 580? 580, not written down. Neha? Absolutely nothing. Off you go, Mark.
19:52Six multiplied by seven. Six multiplied by seven for 42. No, didn't get it, sorry. Yeah.
20:00I can get the 10 so many ways, but I can't get the 58. Dr Tom, really tricky.
20:06Yeah, no, I'm same as you. Same as you. Yeah. It's foiled us. It's foiled us. It has, unfortunately.
20:12But you're right to take that strategy at this stage, trying to make up that ground, and many rounds left to do so when we come back.
20:19Our tea time teaser is stay wine. Stay wine, as in the stuff you drink.
20:25Finding it hard to stay awake after a few wines. Finding it hard to stay awake after a few wines.
20:30Hello again. Finding it hard to stay awake after a few wines was yawniest, yawniest.
20:50And I could do with a stiff drink after trying to get 580. But Dr Tom's nailed it.
20:55I have, I have. You were right about the 10. So let's start there. 6 plus 4 gives us 10. And then we want the 58.
21:02Yeah. So if you do 4 times 7 for 28, plus 1 gives you 29, times 2, 58.
21:10And then you've got the 10 at the top. Brilliant. Well done.
21:15Excellent. Excellent. If only that clock ticked just a little bit longer for Mark and Neha, they might have reached it.
21:21But look at this. 56 to her challenger. 32 to her champion. Little bit of a cushion. Certainly not enough.
21:28Neha, let's see if you can see this one over the line. Your letters.
21:31Consonant, please.
21:32OK. R.
21:34And another.
21:36W.
21:38And another.
21:41N.
21:43And vowel, please.
21:45O.
21:46And another.
21:47And the last one is an E.
22:10All right. Good luck, everybody.
22:42Neha.
22:43I'll risk a 7.
22:45Mark.
22:467.
22:46What have you got, Neha?
22:48Masoner.
22:49Masoner. And for you, Mark?
22:51Moaners.
22:52Yes, Moaners is there again.
22:55It is, yes. No Masoner, unfortunately. Just a Mason would be.
22:59Yeah.
22:59Yeah, somebody works with stone. Sorry about that.
23:01Yeah. How do we get on?
23:03Well, we've got an 8 in a brilliant word.
23:05Woomerers.
23:06Yes, Woomerers.
23:07So, this is brilliant.
23:08So, these are sticks that enable Aboriginal peoples to throw spears more forcibly.
23:13OK, yeah.
23:13Yeah, well, they were.
23:14It sounds like there's a but...
23:15But there is also a 9.
23:19Oarswomen.
23:20Oarswomen.
23:21Yay!
23:21Yes!
23:22Brilliant.
23:26You could say that Mark's rowing upstream a little bit, but the water's just got a little
23:30bit more calm.
23:31Just 17 points in it.
23:33Now, jump.
23:33And it's your letters.
23:35Consonant, please.
23:37P.
23:38Consonant.
23:41F.
23:42Consonant.
23:45S.
23:46Vowel.
23:49I.
23:49Vowel.
23:52A.
23:54Consonant.
23:56P.
23:57Consonant.
23:59S.
24:00Vowel.
24:01E.
24:03And another consonant.
24:05B.
24:07Excellent. Let's play Kind Dine.
24:31Mark, how many? Six.
24:42And for you, Neha? Six.
24:44Six as well. Let's get those words, Mark.
24:46Biases.
24:47And for you, Neha?
24:49Bypass. Bypass need the Y.
24:51Yeah, I'm afraid.
24:53What did you get, Vic? That was tricky.
24:55Yeah, six biases. That's it.
24:57That's all we do. All right.
24:59Four rounds to go. Origins of words, Suze?
25:01Well, I'm going to come back to words that belonged to centuries ago
25:04that we have put to New Year's.
25:05But I just want to, given that we've talked about words from the high seas
25:08and we talked about debunking myths yesterday,
25:10I'm going to debunk the most popular myth about word origins,
25:13which involves the word posh.
25:15Because the story goes, it comes from the initials Port...
25:18of Port Out Starboard Home,
25:20which is said to refer to the more desirable cabins on board steamships
25:24going between Britain and India in the 19th century.
25:27And the idea is that the wealthier passengers,
25:30if they followed Port Out Starboard Home,
25:32would be protected from the heat of the sun
25:34or would benefit from the cooling breezes
25:36and that they would have their tickets stamped with posh to indicate that.
25:40There have no tickets ever been found that have this on them, sadly.
25:43It probably goes back to a slang term for money,
25:46which makes more sense.
25:47But anyway, there's a bit of debunking to kick you off.
25:50But to go back to our theme of words that we have spectacularly repurposed,
25:55text is one of them.
25:57So we send text messages all the time.
26:00We are creating text.
26:02And it's one of my favourite etymologies
26:04because it's just such a beautiful metaphor.
26:06You have to take it all the way back to the Latin textus,
26:09which of course was to do with textiles
26:11and it was all to do with weaving and looms and joining things together.
26:16So the metaphor upon which our text messages rests, really,
26:20are about our weaving words together or spinning a yarn.
26:24We carried that through there as well.
26:26We are literally going back to those most basic things
26:28when we write our messages today.
26:31And that's probably one of my favourites.
26:33We are weaving tales as we speak with our fingers.
26:36Wonderful. Great theme this week as well, Susie. Thank you.
26:39APPLAUSE
26:42And this week has just written itself.
26:44They've just been close encounters all the way.
26:46We're here again and it's your letters.
26:48Um, consonant, please.
26:51T.
26:53And another.
26:55B.
26:57And another.
26:59C.
27:01And a vowel, please.
27:04U.
27:05And another.
27:08A.
27:09And another.
27:12E.
27:14Uh, consonant, please.
27:16G.
27:18And another.
27:21T.
27:23Um, and another, please.
27:26And your last one is an H.
27:28And good luck.
27:29This time,
27:32C.
27:34っていう HDMI hypers Stacy,
27:35verstia,
27:36we apä Lud Newton's 152.
27:38A.
27:39And another.
27:40And another looks at the clock.
27:41A.
27:42That's all 551.
27:43And another.
27:44A.
27:45It has all 473.
27:46Students,
27:48high control the clock.
27:49You gave us 12 hours a day in between.
27:51It will distract us do this.
27:52Great luck.
27:53We can see you as a jemand造yan ФWhy Han.
27:54OK, Neha, how many?
28:02Six.
28:03And for you, Mark?
28:04Six.
28:04And six as well. Neha, what you got?
28:06Court.
28:07And Mark?
28:08Court.
28:10Lovely.
28:11Was there anything else there I struggled about?
28:13For six, cubage.
28:15Yes.
28:16Cubic capacity, but that was about it.
28:18All right, so the gap remains.
28:20Eleven last letters.
28:22Mark?
28:23Er, consonant, please.
28:25P.
28:27Consonant.
28:30H.
28:31Consonant.
28:33N.
28:34Consonant.
28:37G.
28:39Consonant.
28:41W.
28:43Vowel.
28:45I.
28:47Vowel.
28:49O.
28:51Vowel.
28:52Vowel.
28:52Vowel.
28:53Vowel.
28:54E.
28:55And a consonant.
28:59And an X.
29:00All right, last letters.
29:02Vowel.
29:03Vowel.
29:04Vowel.
29:04Vowel.
29:04Vowel.
29:05Vowel.
29:05Vowel.
29:05Vowel.
29:05Vowel.
29:05Vowel.
29:06Vowel.
29:06Vowel.
29:06Vowel.
29:07Vowel.
29:07Vowel.
29:07Vowel.
29:07Vowel.
29:08Vowel.
29:08Vowel.
29:08Vowel.
29:08Vowel.
29:08Vowel.
29:08Vowel.
29:08Vowel.
29:09Vowel.
29:09Vowel.
29:09Vowel.
29:09Vowel.
29:10Vowel.
29:10Vowel.
29:10Vowel.
29:11Vowel.
29:11Vowel.
29:11Vowel.
29:12Vowel.
29:12Vowel.
29:12Vowel.
29:32And that's the 30 seconds. Mark?
29:35Seven. Neha? Six.
29:37And a six. OK, what's the six? Hoping.
29:40What's the seven? Phoenix.
29:42Brilliant. Absolutely. Excellent spoil.
29:45When you're so many points behind and you finally catch up with the word Phoenix,
29:49it's absolutely perfect. Well done.
29:54And is that all that's rising out of Dictionary Corner?
29:57Yes, it is.
29:58Right, here we go then. 58, 62.
30:01Neha, still in the lead.
30:04You would have taken this had I offered it to you at the start of this show.
30:08Four points with two rounds left for sure.
30:10And it's the last numbers and you're choosing.
30:13One from the top and any other five, please.
30:16Yeah, all right. It's a tense one to finish.
30:20OK.
30:21Nine.
30:22Nine.
30:24Two.
30:26Eight.
30:27One.
30:2975.
30:29And we're looking to calculate 787.
30:34787.
30:35Last numbers.
30:35We're looking to calculate 787.
30:36We're looking to calculate 787.
30:37We're looking to calculate 787.
30:37We're looking to calculate 787.
30:38We're looking to calculate 787.
30:38We're looking to calculate 787.
30:39We're looking to calculate 787.
30:39We're looking to calculate 787.
30:40We're looking to calculate 787.
30:41We're looking to calculate 787.
30:41We're looking to calculate 787.
30:42We're looking to calculate 787.
30:43We're looking to calculate 787.
30:44We're looking to calculate 787.
30:45We're looking to calculate 787.
30:46We're looking to calculate 787.
30:47We're looking to calculate 787.
30:48We're looking to calculate 787.
30:49We're looking to calculate 787.
30:50We're looking to calculate 787.
30:51We're looking to calculate 787.
30:52We're looking to calculate 787.
30:53The target is 7-8-7. Neha?
31:09Uh, 7-8-9.
31:11Two away. Mark Flanagan?
31:14Nothing.
31:15Oh, nothing and an intake of breath.
31:17This would be for seven points.
31:19And the teapot.
31:21So, tell Dr Tom, please.
31:23Um, 8 divided by 2 is 4.
31:268 over 2 will give you 4.
31:28Plus 75.
31:29Plus 75 gives you 79.
31:33Uh, multiplied by 9 plus 1.
31:36Times the 9 plus 1 for 10 is going to give you 790.
31:40Oh, and I've used the 1 twice.
31:42What a moment.
31:44Sorry.
31:44What a moment.
31:46OK, so 787.
31:48I've not got it either yet.
31:50Tough one.
31:51OK, well, all eyes here for this final round.
31:55On Monday, our champion, Mark, won the teapot on a crucial countdown conundrum.
32:00On Tuesday, it was a crucial countdown conundrum.
32:04Will he be once, twice, three times a champion?
32:09Neha hopes not.
32:11Fingers on the buzzers.
32:12For the third time in three shows, let's reveal the crucial countdown conundrum.
32:47Time's up.
32:48My goodness, what stress today.
32:51Oh, the luck ran out there, Mark.
32:53Unlucky.
32:54Neha is our new champion.
32:56Well done.
32:59And listen, sit up straight in your seats as we reveal the answer to the countdown conundrum.
33:04It is slight change.
33:06Fantastic.
33:07Wow.
33:07Well, Mark, I mean, from our point of view, where we have no favourites, genuinely, we'd have them back every day, wouldn't we?
33:14Because we love the epic finishes.
33:17It's just, it's only so many times.
33:19Unlucky, my friend.
33:20Back to digging out lakes.
33:24There you go.
33:25And Neha, it's so hard to win your first.
33:28My heart would have broke for you because of the numbers, especially.
33:32How are you feeling?
33:33I'm shocked.
33:34Well, the weight becomes a little bit easier every day, and we're going to move you to that champion's chair.
33:40Well done to you.
33:40Well done to you.
33:42And let's see if we get a slightly easier day tomorrow, Vic and Susie.
33:46See you then.
33:47See you then.
33:47And Dr. Tom finishes off with a 787.
33:51I'll try my best.
33:5275 plus 2 gives you 77.
33:56And then you want to multiply that by 10.
33:599 plus 1 gives you the 10.
34:01Multiply those together, and then we've got a plus 8 and a plus that final 9 to give you 787.
34:07787, yes.
34:10What a way to go out.
34:12Neha, champion tomorrow with a new challenger.
34:14Same time, same place.
34:15You can count on us.
34:17You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:22You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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