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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown on Tuesday, May the 13th.
00:35No points for second place as we turn and burn through 15 rounds of letters and numbers.
00:41And hey, she can be my wingwoman any time.
00:44It is our Susie Dent and riding shotgun alongside her all this week, Richie Anderson.
00:49And wait, let's hope she hasn't lost that loving feeling.
00:52It's Rachel Riley. How are you today?
00:54Never lost it, Colin.
00:55It's Top Gun Day.
00:56And it's about using quotes from Top Gun in everyday life, which is just beautiful.
01:04What a thing to do.
01:05You just bring a smile to people's faces.
01:07It's one of the most quotable films, I think, of all time.
01:09What comes into your head?
01:11You know, you say every day at the supermarket, coffee shop, take me to bed or lose me forever.
01:16Show me the way home, honey.
01:17That's the reply you always got to give to that.
01:20Of course, that's the great goose line when he's playing great balls of fire on the piano.
01:25What a scene.
01:26What about you, Susie?
01:28Hit me with a Top Gun quote.
01:30It's got to be, son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.
01:35Absolutely brilliant.
01:36But get ready for the bombshell here because we're going below the flight deck.
01:40Will you hear what Ritchie said just before we rolled the titles?
01:44I'm sorry.
01:45I've never seen Top Gun.
01:47Get out.
01:47No, don't do that.
01:49But I feel like I can contribute.
01:50So I don't have a quote, obviously, because I've never seen it.
01:52But I've got a fact.
01:54So, John Travolta was initially first choice for Maverick.
01:58Oh, wow.
01:59But they pulled out at the last minute because he'd be too expensive.
02:01That's right.
02:02So I've contributed there.
02:03Yeah.
02:04Let's just introduce our champion, Chris Bayliss.
02:08How are you?
02:08Very well, thank you.
02:09How are you?
02:09Yeah, good.
02:10You felt the need for speed every single day.
02:1230 seconds around.
02:14Four wins.
02:15You've got the taste for it now.
02:17I didn't want to tell you I haven't seen Top Gun either, actually.
02:19But I wasn't sure what to tell you.
02:21I'll just say this.
02:22Come on, Rachel Evans.
02:23Come on, Rachel Evans, who joins us as a challenger today.
02:26How are you?
02:27I'm all right, thank you.
02:28I haven't seen Top Gun either.
02:31You've got to do better.
02:32I haven't made a standard.
02:33It needs to go up.
02:34You're in a rock choir.
02:36I want to know all about this.
02:38Yes.
02:39Well, rock choir is a national organisation, but there's rock choirs all over the country.
02:42Really?
02:43Yeah.
02:44So I'm in Weatherby Rock Choir, which is near where I live.
02:47It's great fun.
02:48We have weekly rehearsals and we learn just various rock songs.
02:52And then we perform our songs at various different events, spring fairs, charity events like the Race for Life.
03:00We perform at Ripon Cathedral regularly, which is great fun.
03:05It's just very friendly and sociable and it's really good for your mental health singing.
03:09So, yeah, I love it.
03:10Do you do great balls of fire?
03:12I haven't done that one, no.
03:13If you'd watched Top Gun, you would have.
03:15Oh, well.
03:16That was a classic.
03:17Well, listen, you know the mission.
03:19Good luck to you both.
03:20APPLAUSE
03:21Champion, you are clear for takeoff.
03:24Hi, Rachel.
03:25Start with a consonant, please.
03:26Thank you, Chris.
03:27Start today with S.
03:29And another one.
03:31M.
03:32And a vowel.
03:33A.
03:34And a vowel.
03:36E.
03:36A consonant.
03:38T.
03:39Consonant.
03:41M.
03:42A vowel.
03:43I.
03:45A consonant.
03:46D.
03:48And a vowel to finish, please.
03:51Final U.
03:52At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:54MUSIC PLAYS
03:55MUSIC PLAYS
04:25Chris, a seven. And for you, Rachel?
04:28I've got a seven. Yes.
04:30Chris, detains. And for you, Rachel?
04:33Stained. And stained, up in the dictionary corner.
04:36Very good indeed. Yeah. Can you add to that, Richie?
04:38See, I had a slow start, but, Susie, I know you got an eight.
04:41There is an eight there, yeah. Medians.
04:43Bit of a countdown favourite.
04:45They are... Well, a mediant is the third note
04:48of the diatonic scale in music.
04:50Excellent. Hollywood start for you. Well done.
04:52Seven points each. Back to the letters.
04:55And Rachel. Hi, Rachel. Could I have a consonant, please?
04:57You can indeed. N.
05:00And a vowel?
05:02E.
05:04And a consonant?
05:06R.
05:08And a vowel?
05:10O.
05:11And a consonant?
05:14S.
05:16Another consonant?
05:18P.
05:21A vowel?
05:23E.
05:25And another consonant?
05:27R.
05:30And a final consonant?
05:33A final T.
05:34Brilliant. Start the clock.
05:35A vowel?
05:54R.
05:55And a vowel?
05:59Absolutely.
05:59I'm new.
06:01A vowel?
06:01A vowel?
06:01A Someone.
06:02A vowel?
06:03And a vowel?
06:03A resolve?
06:03R quietly?
06:04RACHEL
06:07I've got a seven.
06:09And for you, Chris?
06:10Yeah, seven as well.
06:11RACHEL
06:12Porters
06:13And for you, Chris?
06:15Reopens
06:15And reopens.
06:16Very nice indeed.
06:17Anything else, Richie?
06:18I'm finally off the mark with a seven.
06:20Present.
06:20Yes, well done.
06:22Yeah.
06:23And openers, if you twist around, reopens.
06:26But nothing more than a seven.
06:27Nice.
06:2714 points each.
06:29Let's switch to the numbers for the first time today.
06:32That's Chris's strongest point.
06:34I'd say, so let's go.
06:35Four large, please.
06:37Thank you, Chris.
06:38Definitely going to challenge us four from the top row
06:40and two small numbers.
06:41And the first one of the day is three, four,
06:45150, 25, and 75.
06:49With target to make 906.
06:52906.
06:53Numbers up.
06:53And the first one is three, four.
07:02And the third one is three, four.
07:04See you later.
07:06And the third one is three.
07:08Here you go.
07:109.06, Chris.
07:269.03.
07:28And for you, Rachel, any closer?
07:299.04.
07:30That'd be for seven points. Off you go.
07:3275 over 25.
07:35Is three.
07:36Times three.
07:37Nine.
07:38Times 100.
07:39900.
07:40Plus four.
07:41Two away. Well done.
07:42Well done.
07:43There you go.
07:43You got your seven points in the bank.
07:45How do we get to ten?
07:46A few ways.
07:47One of them, four times three is 12.
07:50Times 75 is 900.
07:53And then 100 plus 50, all divided by 25, gives you the six.
07:589.06.
07:58Nice.
08:01As we get the first teaser of the day, it's Bison Paul.
08:06Bison Paul.
08:07P-O-L-L.
08:08The cutlery invoice should lead you to the bird.
08:12The cutlery invoice should lead you to the bird.
08:14Welcome back.
08:31The cutlery invoice is the spoonbill.
08:33The spoonbill, but it's a bird of what type, Susie?
08:37It's beautiful.
08:38It's a very tall wading bird and it's got a very long bill with a sort of flat end, hence the name.
08:43Excellent.
08:44All right.
08:44Well, listen, our Iceman, our champion, Chris, is on 14 points.
08:49And it's actually our maverick, our challenger, Rachel, who's in the lead on 21.
08:53And, Rachel, you're choosing these letters.
08:55Can I have a vowel, please?
08:56Thank you, Rachel.
08:58I.
09:00And another.
09:01A.
09:03And another.
09:05I.
09:07And the consonant, please.
09:09C.
09:10And lastly, T.
09:34On 30 Seconds.
09:36T.
09:45On 30 Seconds.
09:49T.
09:49Rachel?
10:08Just a six.
10:09Ooh, and for you, Chris?
10:11I'll try a seven.
10:13All right. A little bit risky, it seems.
10:15Rachel, what's a six?
10:16Acidic.
10:17And what are you going for?
10:18Inacted.
10:18Inacted.
10:20So you are spelling it with the I, rather than enacted.
10:24Inacted is not there.
10:25It has to be enacted, I'm afraid, Chris. Sorry.
10:27Unlucky there.
10:28To dictionary corner, what did you find that is in that dictionary?
10:31We've got a couple of eights, actually, didn't we?
10:33And one of them gave me a bit of trauma,
10:34taking me back to my first failed driving test.
10:37Indicate.
10:38Yes.
10:39Very important. Simple.
10:41No sympathy for you.
10:43And there is an eight.
10:44Hopefully this didn't happen, too, on your driving test.
10:46Accident.
10:47Oh, my goodness.
10:48Goodness me.
10:49Right.
10:50There you go.
10:50Rachel extends her lead as we get back to it.
10:53And Chris, you're choosing these letters.
10:55A consonant, please.
10:56Thank you, Chris.
10:57W.
10:58And another.
11:00R.
11:01And a third.
11:01And a vowel to finish.
11:20Lastly, O.
11:22Let's do it.
11:23Let's do it.
11:47THEY CONFER
11:53Chris, how many? Six.
11:55Six under a bit of pressure, Rachel. Six.
11:58And six as well, Chris. Vala.
12:00And for you, Rachel... Same word, Vala.
12:02Give me a little goose at it. Yep. Excellent stuff.
12:05And over the dictionary corner, so six is not a chance for Richie
12:08to push ahead here. Yeah, just six is over here as well, wasn't it?
12:11Yes, definitely. Vulgar. Yes.
12:14A vowel is a nice one, and a vowel to a vowel something,
12:18but no more than six. Nice, all right, no worries as well.
12:20We'll keep it simple, we'll get back to those numbers.
12:23And, Rachel, it's your first time choosing.
12:25Let's see if you're a four-large kind of person.
12:28Rachel, could I have the Sean Lock special, please?
12:31Too large? You can.
12:32Oh, it's nice to remember, good old Sean.
12:35He started hating it and then he got really good,
12:37so hopefully you'll be good too.
12:38Four little ones. Six, two, nine, seven,
12:42and the large one's 50 and 25.
12:46And the target, 213.
12:482-1-3, numbers up.
12:49We'll read each other.
13:10MUSIC PLAYS
13:202-1-3 is what we're looking for. Rachel?
13:23Yes, 2-1-3. And Chris?
13:252-1-3. Yeah, no bother. Off you go, Rachel.
13:279 times 25. 2-2-5.
13:31And 6 times 2 is 12. And take it away. Well done.
13:35Chris, same way. Yeah.
13:38Well done. APPLAUSE
13:42Looking at the scores. 43 to our challenger, Rachel.
13:4530 to Chris. And looking at scores is what we're going to be doing all week.
13:49It's time to have our first Eurovision chat with Richie.
13:52And, Richie, it's semi-final one tonight.
13:55Thursday, semi-final two. Of course, that never used to be.
13:58The semi-finals weren't a thing when I was growing up in the 80s.
14:02They didn't exist. So it's just grown and grown, the Eurovision, hasn't it?
14:06This is it. There's so many countries taking part now that they have to sort the wheat from the chaff as it was.
14:10Yeah. By getting rid of some of them in the semi-finals.
14:12Thankfully, the United Kingdom doesn't compete in the semi-finals.
14:16But we do perform. It's kind of like an exhibition showcase.
14:19So we've got an automatic place in the grand final, thankfully.
14:23So you'll be doing the Radio 2 commentary in the semi-finals with Sarah Cox.
14:27So busy week for you. So tonight we'll hear you doing that.
14:30Yes. So last year was my first year commentating on Eurovision.
14:33So for the...about two or three years before that, I've been kind of like an out-and-about reporter at Eurovision.
14:38Then I got the call saying, would you like to commentate on the semi-finals?
14:41And as somebody who has loved Eurovision my whole life, it was like the dream job.
14:46So the first thing you do when you get a call like that and accept a job like that is kind of watch back previous years or listen back to previous years.
14:53And the first thing that struck me is commentary is such a difficult skill.
14:56Because, I mean, you've covered sport, but have you actually commentated before on anything?
15:00Because the skill of commentating is so difficult, kind of painting the picture, talking in the right places.
15:06So I was put in touch with John Murray, the football commentator. Yes.
15:10And I said, look, you are the best in the business.
15:12What can I do to make sure my commentary is kind of like a smidgen on yours?
15:17And he said, your commentary starts as soon as you land in the country.
15:19So last year I was in Malmö in Sweden.
15:21He said, as soon as you get off that plane, your commentary started.
15:24Talk to people when you're in cafes, when you're in shops.
15:27If you see fans there, go over, talk to them, get their story.
15:30Because they're the bits people want in the commentary.
15:32So anyone can sit there and kind of say, oh, you know, Malta have qualified for X amount of years.
15:36Next up is Lithuania. They've done X, Y and Z.
15:38But people want those little anecdotes.
15:40And it really works.
15:41So I was kind of going around Malmö, talking to people with my notepad.
15:44Kind of saying, what's your name? Where are you from?
15:45It looks a bit weird.
15:46But then I have to put it in context and say, I'm commentating.
15:48And it actually really helped.
15:50And, of course, radio is different because you have to paint the picture.
15:53You have to be able to close your eyes and think, oh, yeah.
15:55Sometimes I'll listen to a radio commentary of football and I'll watch it back.
15:59And the great commentators like John, I think, oh, yeah, that's how you described it.
16:02And now I'm seeing the pictures and that's the absolute key to it.
16:05But what's it like going from fan to working in something?
16:09Because I was all right when I started covering football when I was going to cover Bolton,
16:14going to cover Fulham on Channel 5.
16:16And then I had to cover a Liverpool game and I was in bits because it was my team.
16:21The sweat was rolling down. I'm soaked.
16:24But it is weird because you love it so much you don't want to make the mistake.
16:27Do you know, it's funny you say that because I like football too.
16:30I'm a big fan of West Brom.
16:31And then when I started at Radio 2, West Brom got in touch with me and said,
16:34do you want to be the announcer?
16:35So, you know, at the stadium when there's a goal, you say, that goal was scored by so-and-so.
16:38You read out the teams.
16:39And as a massive West Brom fan, I kind of didn't enjoy having a peek behind the curtain
16:44because those players are my heroes.
16:46So kind of working with them, I was a bit like, oh, God, it takes away the magic.
16:49But thankfully, Eurovision hasn't done that.
16:51Like, I love it.
16:52And when you go there...
16:53Has anybody here been to a Eurovision?
16:55No.
16:56It's kind of like Disneyland for Eurovision fans.
16:59But instead of, like, Mickey Mouse, we have Bucks Fizz.
17:01Like, everywhere you turn, Eurovision songs are playing,
17:04Eurovision fans are everywhere.
17:05It's incredible.
17:06And I cannot wait tonight to do the commentary.
17:09Brilliant stuff.
17:10Looking forward to all the Eurovision chats we can have this week.
17:12Thank you, Mick.
17:13APPLAUSE
17:16All right, back.
17:17Chris, you're choosing these letters.
17:19A consonant, please.
17:20Thank you, Chris.
17:21P.
17:22And another.
17:23S.
17:24And a vowel.
17:26E.
17:27A vowel.
17:28O.
17:29A consonant.
17:30F.
17:32A consonant.
17:33D.
17:34A vowel.
17:35E.
17:37A vowel.
17:38I.
17:39And a consonant to finish, please.
17:40A final L.
17:41And here we go again.
17:42E.
17:43E.
17:44E.
17:45E.
17:46E.
17:47E.
17:48E.
17:49E.
17:50E.
17:51E.
17:52E.
17:53E.
17:54E.
17:55E.
17:56E.
17:57E.
17:58E.
17:59E.
18:00E.
18:01E.
18:02E.
18:03E.
18:04E.
18:05Alright, Chris.
18:06All right, Chris.
18:18Seven.
18:19And for Rachel?
18:20Seven.
18:20Yes, and Chris?
18:22Episode.
18:23Very good, Rachel.
18:25Spoiled.
18:26We don't like people spoiling episodes.
18:29We don't like that.
18:30I was assuming you both have spoiled there,
18:32but your episodes, great spot, isn't it?
18:34It is, it's a nice one.
18:35Anything else, Richie?
18:36Seven.
18:37Oilseed?
18:38Oilseed?
18:38Yes, any of the number of seeds from crops like rape or cotton.
18:42Yeah, all that stuff, yeah.
18:44Happy days.
18:44Right, OK.
18:4513 points in a lovely game.
18:48And Rachel, with that lead, you're choosing these letters.
18:51Consonant, please.
18:52Thank you, Rachel.
18:53J.
18:56And another one?
18:58B.
19:00And another one?
19:01T.
19:03A vowel, please.
19:05O.
19:06And another one?
19:07A.
19:09And another one?
19:10E.
19:12A consonant?
19:14W.
19:16And another?
19:18D.
19:20And a final consonant?
19:22Final T.
19:24And half a minute.
19:44All right, let's be having you, Rachel.
19:56Just a six.
19:57And Chris, a chance.
19:59Same six.
19:59Six as well.
20:00OK, Rachel.
20:01Boated.
20:02And for you, Chris?
20:03Batted.
20:04Batted and boated and we're in and around that same place, aren't we?
20:08Yes.
20:08Could be quite straightforward here, couldn't it?
20:10What have you got?
20:10A six as well, jutted.
20:12Yeah.
20:13Yeah, but there is a seven there with Jet Boat.
20:15Sounds great.
20:16Sounds great.
20:17Right, OK, numbers then.
20:19Our third numbers round of the day.
20:21We know it's going to be a challenge because Chris is choosing.
20:24Four large again, please.
20:26Yeah, and never have to twist your arm to take a bit of a gamble.
20:29Definitely coming this time.
20:30Two little ones.
20:32Six and five to go with the four large.
20:3450, 75, 100 and 25.
20:38And the target you need to make with them, 340.
20:41Three, four, zero.
20:42Numbers up.
20:42Numbers up.
21:13340 is the target. Chris? 3, 4, 5, not that well written down. No, Rachel. No, I've lost it, sorry. Oh, OK, so 7 points, Chris. So 6 times 50 is 300. 6 times 50, 300.
21:31100. Oh, no, I've messed it up, sorry. So two misfires from Rachel and Chris, so to the other Rachel. You're going to have to leave it with me.
21:40Will do. Good timing. We'll get it to the other side of the break. It's Slug Puri. Slug Puri is the Tea Time Teaser.
21:48Thanks to this, they formed a great bond. Thanks to this, they formed a great bond.
21:53Hello again. Thanks to this, they formed a great bond. Slug Puri. We didn't want to think about that.
22:14It becomes superglue and putting all those numbers together to get 340. Rich?
22:19Yeah, I missed an easy one going round in circles with lots of dead ends, but you could have just said 100 plus 75 minus 5 is 170 and then 50 over 25 is 2.
22:30So well done to the thousands of people at home that got that.
22:33APPLAUSE
22:34OK, 13 points in it. I just can... Can you smell that crucial countdown conundrum today? You never know. Let's see as we get back to it.
22:45And letters from Rachel.
22:47Um, consonant, please.
22:48Thank you, Rachel.
22:50K.
22:51And another.
22:53S.
22:55And a vowel.
22:57U.
22:57And good luck.
23:53Rich?
23:54Six.
23:55And for you, Chris?
23:56Six.
23:57And six as well.
23:58Rachel?
23:59Gouges.
24:00You were worried there, weren't you, Chris?
24:01Same.
24:02Excellent.
24:03Guide your way.
24:04Anything else?
24:05Just sixes for me.
24:06Geckos?
24:07Geckos.
24:08Yeah.
24:09Excellent.
24:10So all at sixes here, no sevens from us as we get more letters now from Chris.
24:14That road's running out a little bit.
24:16Consonant, please.
24:17Thank you, Chris.
24:18S.
24:19And another.
24:20P.
24:21And a third.
24:22X.
24:23Vowel.
24:24O.
24:25Another vowel.
24:26A.
24:27Consonant.
24:28T.
24:29A vowel.
24:30E.
24:31Consonant.
24:32R.
24:33And a vowel to finish, please.
24:36To finish, I.
24:37Kind time.
24:38T.
24:39T.
24:40T.
24:41T.
24:42T.
24:43T.
24:44T.
24:47T.
24:48T.
24:49T.
24:50MUSIC PLAYS
25:15Chris? Seven, I think.
25:16And for you, Rachel? Seven.
25:18Well done. What have you got, Chris?
25:20Soapier. And for you, Rachel?
25:22Traps. Traps and
25:23soapier should be fine, I think, right?
25:26Both absolutely fine. Yeah.
25:27Soapier. You'd be soapier. Of course you could.
25:30What about you, Richie? What can you add?
25:31Well, there's a nine, but I've got to be honest, Susie did the heavy lifting.
25:35Surprise, surprise.
25:36This is great with an X, though.
25:37To get a nine is sensational stuff.
25:40Well, expiator.
25:42So, with the S at the end,
25:44expiator will give you the nine.
25:45And this is someone who wishes to make amends.
25:47Really nice. Thank you.
25:48APPLAUSE
25:49I will not hold it against Chris or Rachel for not getting that.
25:54As we stay in Dictionary Corner for Origins of Words.
25:57Susie Dent.
25:59So this is an email from Colin Smith.
26:00In the English language, Colin writes,
26:02the past tense of hang is hung, as in we re-hung the curtains.
26:06Yet when a death sentence was passed for a felon, such as a highwayman, for example,
26:11they were suspended by a rope from the gallows.
26:13They were not hung, but hanged.
26:15How does this come to be?
26:16And this is one of the few sort of archaisms, really, that are really hanging on.
26:21You know, English is evolving so quickly.
26:24And these kind of fine distinctions often go as people begin to use them in the wrong way
26:29or the non-standard way, and that overtakes the original.
26:32And in modern English, Colin's right, hang has two past tenses, two past participles,
26:38as we would say, hanged and hung.
26:40So hung is the normal one.
26:42Re-hung the curtains, as Colin says.
26:43They hung out the washing.
26:44She hung around.
26:45She hung up.
26:46That kind of thing.
26:47But hanged always and exclusively in reference to execution by hanging.
26:53And the reason behind it is quite a complex historical one,
26:56and that is really because hanged, which was, in fact, the past tense for everything,
27:01every single sense until the 16th century, was kept in legal French.
27:06Now, after the Norman conquest, French became the language of the elite,
27:11of the educated, of the literate, together with Latin.
27:14And, of course, a lot of Latin words came to us from French.
27:18English was considered to be too vulgar and not good enough,
27:21not of high enough quality to be the important language of the courts.
27:25And it wasn't until an act in the 18th century
27:27that English was allowed to be the language of the law.
27:30And even now, you will find French fossils, if you like,
27:35not just in our vocabulary but also in the way we say things.
27:38Attorney General rather than General Attorney.
27:40That's straight because of the arrangement that we have of adjectives in French.
27:44So it's hanging on still.
27:46And, as I said, I think at some point the boundary will become so blurred
27:49that hanged will become hung.
27:51But for now, it's hanging on.
27:52But for now, the hanged man, hanged, not hung.
27:55And that's a great message from Colin.
27:57And thankfully, it's still only used for historical crimes.
28:00Yes.
28:00No longer, thankfully.
28:01Absolutely.
28:02Very good.
28:02Thank you for that message.
28:03APPLAUSE
28:04All right.
28:07There we go.
28:0713 points behind.
28:09He's going to have to rise like a phoenix in these last four rounds.
28:13And, Rachel, you're in charge of these letters.
28:15A consonant, please.
28:16Thank you, Rachel.
28:17M.
28:19And a vowel.
28:21A.
28:23And a consonant.
28:24R.
28:25And a vowel.
28:28E.
28:30And a consonant.
28:32Y.
28:33And a vowel.
28:36A.
28:37And a consonant.
28:39M.
28:42And another consonant.
28:45L.
28:47And a final vowel.
28:49A final O.
28:51And an E OK.
28:52And a consonant.
28:52Our
28:57lightning.
29:01E.
29:02And a consonant.
29:04And a consonant.
29:06And a consonant.
29:07And a consonant.
29:09Android.
29:09MUSIC PLAYS
29:22Rachel? Just a six. Chris? Six.
29:26A six as well. Rachel? Miral.
29:29There's a lot of rounds like this, isn't there, Chris? Same.
29:32Yes. There's been a lot of sixes today, isn't there?
29:35We might think there's this the moment, but really difficult.
29:38Ritchie? I got a six, and the word is yammer, which I love,
29:42cos I'm from the black country, where we're called yam-yams,
29:45so it could be a spit on that. I love all that stuff.
29:48It's interesting, if you're from down the other end,
29:50if you're down Plymouth Way, you're in Janner.
29:52Yeah. And they've all got these great origins, haven't they?
29:55Yeah. Fantastic, yeah.
29:57So, yammer, yesterday, talking incessantly,
29:59you can squeeze a seven at mayoral. Mayoral?
30:02Mayoral. Mayoral. Mayoral. You're right.
30:05Mayoral. But, yeah, mayoral.
30:07Because I do associate with that sort of election night in America,
30:10the mayoral race.
30:11Yeah.
30:12OK, here we go. This race is still very much on.
30:16And last letters, Chris.
30:18Consonant, please.
30:19Thank you, Chris.
30:21N.
30:21And another.
30:23L.
30:24Vowel, please.
30:26A.
30:26And another.
30:28E.
30:29Consonant.
30:30P.
30:31Consonant.
30:32N.
30:34Vowel.
30:36A.
30:37Another vowel.
30:39O.
30:40And a consonant to finish.
30:42Lastly, S.
30:43Ah, last letters.
30:44лю's.
30:55It's the fruit of P.
30:57And another.
30:59A.
30:59Vowel.
31:02A.
31:02A.
31:03A.
31:03Chris, just six.
31:18And for you, Rachel?
31:19Six.
31:20Six.
31:20Is it that word?
31:21Let's find out.
31:22Planes?
31:23Yes, on top, Gonday, you got planes.
31:25So did you.
31:26Fantastic.
31:27Both of them up in the air.
31:29But can we go higher?
31:30You can just about squeeze a seven out of this with Nopalis.
31:33Do you remember these?
31:34These are the edible fleshy pads of the Nopal cactus.
31:36So you'll find it in Mexican cooking.
31:38That's right.
31:38That's popped up again.
31:39Nice.
31:40Let's write that one down if you're a proper countdowner.
31:43All right.
31:44Still 13 points in it.
31:47Last numbers round of the day.
31:50Chris wishes he was in charge of this, but he's not.
31:52Rachel is.
31:53Yeah, I'll have another Shawnee special, please.
31:55You can indeed write two large, four little.
31:58You're hoping for an easy one.
32:00Chris certainly isn't.
32:01Final numbers.
32:02Six, eight, one, four, one, 25 and 50.
32:09And the target to make with them, 229.
32:11Two, two, nine.
32:13Last numbers.
32:14We'll see you next time.
32:26MUSIC PLAYS
32:442, 2, 9 to tick the teapot, Rachel.
32:472, 2, 9.
32:48Oh, Chris.
32:492, 2, 9.
32:50Yes, off you go, Rachel.
32:528 plus 1.
32:549.
32:55Times 25.
32:56Just like the last one.
32:572, 2, 5.
32:58And then add the 4.
32:59That is just what you ordered.
33:012, 2, 9.
33:02Up for you, Chris.
33:03I made it far more complicated for some reason.
33:05I did 1 plus 1 is 2.
33:078 over that 2 for a 4.
33:10Times the 50.
33:12Then add the 25 and the other 4.
33:14Unfortunately, you don't get any extra points for using all the numbers.
33:17Just the 10.
33:18Well done.
33:20Yes, well, Chris, I've been your fanboy for four shows,
33:23but the code Top Gun jester's dead.
33:25We have a new champion, but we're not finished yet.
33:28It's not sundown on your countdown career.
33:31Fingers on those buttons, please.
33:33Let's reveal this countdown conundrum.
33:36Is it Skippard?
33:44Is it?
33:45It is!
33:48And that's a lovely moment.
33:49It means 101 on your debut.
33:51It's a sensational to get that century up.
33:54It was proper rock and roll, just like your choir, Rachel.
33:58So well done to you.
33:59Teapot secured.
34:00We'll see you tomorrow.
34:01Excellent.
34:02And Chris, my goodness me, just not enough to get in that top eight as well.
34:06But what a really good champion.
34:07You enjoyed yourself, yes?
34:08Yeah, I loved every minute of it.
34:09It's been great.
34:09We've loved having you.
34:10Well done, mate.
34:11What a show.
34:14So hard at the moment to become an Octo-Champ.
34:16Richie, enjoy your revision semi-final tonight.
34:19Excellent stuff.
34:20We'll be listening.
34:21We'll see you tomorrow.
34:22The show.
34:23Excellent stuff, Rachel.
34:24Well done.
34:24See you tomorrow.
34:25Top stuff, yes.
34:26It's really hot and up, isn't it, as we get towards the business end of Series 91.
34:30So many great games.
34:31Hopefully another one tomorrow.
34:32We'll be waiting for you.
34:33You can count on us.
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