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00:30Hello everybody, Tuesday afternoon and hopefully Countdown will be an oasis of calm for you, just away from whatever today is thrown at you. It's just all about the letters and numbers, it's that simple. Thank you very much for tuning in. Never take it for granted. Hello Rachel Riley. Hello Colin Murray.
00:46There's no elephant in the room today apart from the fact that it's Save the Elephant Day today. Now I don't know your take in this, but I wonder is there really a more glorious beast in the world?
00:58The largest living land animal and also with the largest brain as well. Sensational, sensational beasts, aren't they?
01:06Yeah, they're gorgeous. They capture the imagination of all children as well, don't they? Everyone knows elephant. We saw them actually, well I've been liking to see them in the wild in Africa and in Sri Lanka and India and actually took the kids to Vietnam recently and they got to feed one in captivity, but in a really nice place where they look after them and they rescue other animals that otherwise wouldn't have anywhere to go.
01:26So it's nice. I think you've got to encourage the younger generation and seeing them up close is, you know, just something about them. They're just majestic.
01:33Absolutely. We'll talk more about elephants later and we'll not call anybody Dumbo at any stage. Let's get over to Dixonry Corner, our G in the D, Susie Dent. Always an absolute pleasure.
01:45And he takes us all the way from JLS to JCB.
01:49JD Gill.
01:52And we're getting to know a new champion as well. Just the one win on the board, but that gets the teapot for Steve Draper from Liverpool. How you doing, mate?
02:01I'm doing okay, thank you.
02:03Every contestant, when they apply, they send a little picture and yours is proudly holding your grandkid. And I know there's more than one. Tell us a bit about them because I know they're your joy.
02:13I have seven grandchildren. Four of them actually are Gallaher's. The father's from Ireland, County Sligo. And then I've got two near Warrington and one from my youngest daughter. They live just round the corner.
02:30Yeah.
02:31I see them a lot.
02:33The reason why you say, oh, by the way, they're Gallaher's is because not only did you beat a Gallaher yesterday, but you face a Gallaher today.
02:39And I said to Annie from Coventry, I said, is it Gallaher or Gallagher? And Annie said, you better pronounce it Gallaher or my dad will not be happy. So, Mr. Gallaher. I got that right. Annie, lovely to have you in the show.
02:52Hiya. Good to be here.
02:54Good to have you. And so many things we could talk about. First class honours degree in biological and chemical sciences. But as always, I pick out the nonsensical thing.
03:01Well, you tell me what you did on a first date. So remember, first date. Hello. Nice to meet you. What you did?
03:08Me and my now husband.
03:10OK, that's OK.
03:11Yeah. We on our first date, we booked a trip to America together.
03:16You booked a holiday on the first date. How long until marriage then?
03:19So we've been married two years now. So that was about 2018.
03:24Wow. That's a bit of a whirlwind.
03:26Yeah.
03:26Oh, very good. Very good indeed. All right. Well, listen, Annie, best of luck to you today.
03:30You're a challenger. Take it on Steve. Good luck to both of you.
03:36From first dates to first letters, Steve, off you go.
03:39Thank you very much, Rachel. I'll go for a consonant.
03:42Thank you, Steve. Go for N.
03:45Another consonant.
03:47R.
03:48A vowel.
03:51I.
03:52Another vowel.
03:53E.
03:55Consonant.
03:57C.
03:58Another consonant.
04:01S.
04:04Another consonant.
04:06G.
04:09A vowel.
04:12I.
04:13And another consonant.
04:15And lastly, F.
04:17At the home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:30MUSIC PLAYS
04:49Time's up. Steve? Seven. Seven from you. And Annie?
04:52Seven. Seven-two, yes. Steve?
04:55Cringes. Cringes and Annie? Fringes.
04:58Fringes and cringes. This is lovely.
05:01And, yeah, JB, what are you going to add in there?
05:05Fingers. Another seven. Nice. OK, seven points each.
05:09Annie, it's your letters. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Annie.
05:12Can I start with a consonant, please? You can indeed start with S.
05:15And another, please. R. And another, please.
05:20P. And a vowel, please. A. And another vowel, please.
05:27O. And a consonant, please. N. And another consonant. L.
05:40And a final vowel, please. A promising one. A final I.
05:45Yes, indeed. 30 seconds.
05:47MUSIC PLAYS
05:50MUSIC PLAYS
05:52ANNIE
05:57ANNIE
06:02ANNIE
06:06Annie.
06:20Seven.
06:20Yeah, and Steve?
06:21Seven.
06:22Very good. Annie.
06:24Planar.
06:24And Steve?
06:25Praline.
06:26Yeah, there you go.
06:27I'd say praline.
06:28Which one's right?
06:29I would say praline, but I think you can probably pronounce it either way.
06:32It's an eponym, actually.
06:33You could have put the S on there, Steve.
06:35There was an S.
06:35Sorry to rub it in.
06:36Oh, Steve.
06:38Yeah, very good, both.
06:39Yeah.
06:39And planar, of course, AI.
06:41AI.
06:41Just in case anyone's thinking we've miscounted.
06:44Right, Jay, we can add to that, I think.
06:46We can.
06:46We've got two eights, personal.
06:48Yeah.
06:49And polarise.
06:50Very good, indeed.
06:51Polarise and personal.
06:5214 points each.
06:53Well done, Annie.
06:54You've settled in really well.
06:55As we move on to those numbers, first of the day, Steve.
06:59I'll have one large one and the rest small ones.
07:01Thank you, Steve.
07:02One big five, little start.
07:03The day off with the numbers, and they are three, nine, eight, five, one.
07:11And the large one, 50.
07:13And the target, 864.
07:16864.
07:174 numbers up.
07:47That's all I'm giving you, Steve.
07:50864.
07:51Well done. Annie?
07:52864.
07:53Well done. Both written down?
07:55Yeah.
07:55Excellent. Off you go, Steve.
07:579 plus 8 times 50.
07:5917 times 50, 850.
08:03Plus 3 times 5 minus 1.
08:073 times 5, 15 minus 1, 14.
08:10864. Lovely.
08:11It gets you there, Annie.
08:12Same way.
08:16Well done.
08:17APPLAUSE
08:18That means we are even-stevens on 24 points each.
08:23Lovely. Let's get our first tea-time teaser of this Tuesday afternoon.
08:26Quit rice. Quit rice.
08:29I'll give you my opinion on what you've done.
08:31I'll give you my opinion on what you've done.
08:32Welcome back. I'll give you my opinion on what you've done.
08:51I won't, actually.
08:52But if I did, it would be a critique.
08:54A critique.
08:55There you go.
08:55Everyone has an opinion.
08:5624-point seats as we move back to the letters in today's show.
09:00Our challenger giving our champion, Steve, a real run for his money.
09:03Here we go.
09:04Off we go again, Mrs Gallagher.
09:06Can I start with a consonant, please?
09:08Thank you, Annie.
09:08And a final vowel, please.
09:33And a final, you.
09:35Thanks, Rich.
10:07Annie.
10:08A six.
10:09And Steve?
10:10Six.
10:10And a six as well.
10:11We cannot split you.
10:12Annie.
10:13Stoned.
10:14Stoned.
10:14And Steve?
10:15Daunt.
10:16Daunts.
10:17Yes.
10:18And stoned.
10:20Anything else, JB?
10:21We've got seven.
10:22Sutan.
10:23Sutan.
10:24What's that pray tale, Susie?
10:25It is a Roman Catholic priest's cassock.
10:28All right.
10:28Just that one seven then.
10:31Let's see if we can separate you.
10:32Steve.
10:33Rachel, I'll have a consonant.
10:35Thank you, Steve.
10:37W.
10:38Another consonant.
10:40H.
10:41Vowel.
10:43I.
10:44Another vowel.
10:46E.
10:48Consonant.
10:49M.
10:51Another consonant.
10:52L.
10:55A vowel.
10:57I.
10:59Consonant.
11:01R.
11:03I'll have another consonant.
11:07And a final V.
11:08Start the clock.
11:10Start the clock.
11:10Start the clock.
11:12Time's up, Steve.
11:12I'll have another consonant.
11:13I'll have another consonant.
11:13Now I'll have another consonant.
11:14I'll have another consonant.
11:15MUSIC PLAYS
11:41Time's up, Steve.
11:42Six.
11:43Six from you, Annie.
11:44Just a five.
11:45Just a five.
11:46So first bit of daylight possibly for a champion.
11:48Annie, the five.
11:49Whirl.
11:50And the six to tick the points.
11:52I had Wyler.
11:53A while away at the time.
11:54Oh, a while away at the time.
11:57It's not fair, Steve, I'm afraid.
11:59We have a Whaler but not a Wyler.
12:01Sorry.
12:02So we do have daylight but it's the other way.
12:04Annie's five points in the lead.
12:06Was there a sixer, Darai even said, even better?
12:09There were two sixes.
12:10Viral.
12:11Yes.
12:12And Lymia.
12:14Yes, Lymia.
12:15A very dark.
12:16You're very uncertain.
12:18I know.
12:18Rote that down, yeah.
12:19Soil, for example, can be Lymia the next, yeah.
12:23Absolutely.
12:23Right, there you go.
12:24Annie, you were so downtrodden there when you declared five.
12:28But that's countdown for you.
12:29You've got the points and you're picking these numbers.
12:32Could I get one large and the rest small, please, Rachel?
12:35You can indeed.
12:36One from the top row, five from the other ones.
12:39And your five little ones are four, two, ten, one, and six.
12:45And the big one, 25.
12:47And you need to reach 199.
12:49199.
12:50199.
12:51Numbers up.
12:51You're welcome.
12:53etti.
12:53No.
12:54That's Lorraine.
12:54No.
12:55Fair.
12:56No.
12:57No.
12:57No.
12:57No.
12:57No.
12:58No.
12:59All righty, all righty, Annie?
13:23One nine nine.
13:24Yeah, Steve?
13:25One nine nine.
13:26Probably the same way as well.
13:27Annie?
13:28Erm, six add two for eight.
13:29Yep.
13:30Time's up by 25 for 200 and take off the one as straight forward as it's going to get.
13:36Go ahead, Steve.
13:37Yeah.
13:38Well done.
13:39APPLAUSE
13:42Excellent, ten points all round.
13:44At the moment, Annie, our challenger, will be delighted with her performance
13:48because she's five points ahead of Steve, our champion.
13:51As we break, as always, about this time of every show,
13:53to have a good chat with our dictionary corner guest.
13:56And look, don't take this the wrong way, JB Gill.
13:58Everyone's like, oh, you're in JLS, you sold over 10 million albums, you play in the O2.
14:04I care about all that.
14:05How do you become a farmer?
14:06That's what I want to know, because I love that, and you know, I love the fact that you've
14:10taken such a jump to something else.
14:11So tell me how that happened.
14:14I was in Croydon, which is where I went to secondary school.
14:16My family is still there.
14:17So I left home, as you do, and moved to where we are now.
14:22And it's just, it's not actually too far away from Croydon.
14:26And it was probably just coming towards the end of our first stint, if I want to call it
14:31in JLS, and I was working out what I'm going to do next, as simple as that.
14:36And we've got about 15 acres of farmland.
14:39So what have you got there?
14:40What are you doing?
14:41Is it dairy?
14:42Is it...
14:43What is it?
14:44Crops?
14:45Predominantly livestock.
14:46We do have a smaller orchard, so we do have cherry trees, apple trees, pear trees.
14:50Of course, being in Kent, we're in good country for that.
14:54But we have, as I say, predominantly livestock, so Tamworth pigs and Kelly bronze turkeys.
14:58Wonderful stuff.
14:59Thank you, Nick.
15:00APPLAUSE
15:02OK, Annie, that five-point lead's still there for you.
15:06Steve's going to try and shut that down straight away.
15:08Off you go.
15:09Thank you, Rachel.
15:10I'll start with the consonant.
15:12Thank you, Steve.
15:13D.
15:14Another consonant.
15:16N.
15:18Vowel.
15:19E.
15:20Vowel.
15:21O.
15:22A consonant.
15:24D.
15:25Another consonant.
15:27S.
15:29A vowel.
15:31E.
15:33A consonant.
15:35T.
15:37And a vowel.
15:39Lastly, U.
15:41Half a minute.
15:42A vowel.
15:44A vowel.
15:45A vowel.
15:45A vowel.
15:46A vowel.
15:46A vowel.
15:47A vowel.
15:47A vowel.
15:48A vowel.
15:48A vowel.
15:48A vowel.
15:49A vowel.
15:49A vowel.
15:49A vowel.
15:49A vowel.
15:49A vowel.
15:50A vowel.
15:50A vowel.
15:51A vowel.
15:51A vowel.
15:52A vowel.
15:52A vowel.
15:52A vowel.
15:53A vowel.
15:53A vowel.
15:53A vowel.
15:53A vowel.
15:54A vowel.
15:54A vowel.
15:55A vowel.
15:56A vowel.
15:56A vowel.
15:56A vowel.
15:57A vowel.
15:57A vowel.
15:57A vowel.
15:57A vowel.
15:58A vowel.
15:58A vowel.
15:58A vowel.
15:59A vowel.
16:00A vowel.
16:00A vowel.
16:01A vowel.
16:01Steve, dodgy seven. OK, and Annie? Seven.
16:17What's your seven, Steve, that's dodgy?
16:19Outsend. Outsend. Annie?
16:22Denotes. Denotes.
16:24No, outsend, I'm afraid. Outspend would be there,
16:28but not outsend. Outsend is in, sadly, in the past tense,
16:33but not in its infinitive state. I'm sorry about that.
16:37What did you spot in there, Jay?
16:39We've got Annie's seven denoted and also denudes.
16:43What's that?
16:43To denude is to strip something, so if you're stripping assets
16:46from a company, you are denuding it.
16:48OK, thank you very much. 12 points of difference now,
16:51and Annie, you're up. Can I have a consonant, please?
16:54Thank you, Annie. Y.
16:56And another one.
16:58T.
16:59I have a vowel, please.
17:00O.
17:01And another one.
17:02U.
17:03And another one.
17:04A.
17:05And a consonant, please.
17:06B.
17:07And a consonant.
17:08G.
17:09And a final vowel, please.
17:11A final U.
17:12Start the clock.
17:13CLOCK
17:14CLOCK
17:15CLOCK
17:16CLOCK
17:17CLOCK
17:18CLOCK
17:19CLOCK
17:20CLOCK
17:21CLOCK
17:22CLOCK
17:23CLOCK
17:24CLOCK
17:25CLOCK
17:26CLOCK
17:27CLOCK
17:28CLOCK
17:29CLOCK
17:39CLOCK
17:40CLOCK
17:42CLOCK
17:43CLOCK
17:44MUSIC PLAYS
17:55Annie? Six. Steve? Six. Yes, there you go. Annie?
18:00Bounty? Yeah, and Steve? I got bounty as well.
18:03There you go. Excellent stuff. Six points each.
18:07Let's head over to a mutinous dictionary corner. How did you get on?
18:11We got a good seven.
18:12A buoyant. A buoyant is there. OK.
18:16As we were, then, back to the numbers.
18:19And, Steve, you're looking at a big performance here.
18:22What are you going to do? One large and the rest small.
18:25Still not gambling. Going for the steady eddy route.
18:28Let's see if it works. One large, five, little.
18:31And the five small ones. Six. Five.
18:34Ten. Four. Six.
18:36And the large one, 50. And the target to reach...
18:39151. Ah, 151. Numbers up.
18:42A huge difference.
18:44I will go away.
18:45Every minute.
18:45Aוח, 152.
18:45In the world.
18:46H
19:01And the other one.
19:02Here we go.
19:03Time's up, Penns. Down, Steve.
19:14No, I didn't get it.
19:15Missed it, Annie.
19:16Just 150.
19:17OK, off you go for seven points.
19:19So, six over six for one.
19:22And then four, take away that one for three.
19:24Time's up by 50.
19:25150, one away, yep.
19:28It's one of those, because you go for the 350s,
19:31and then you realise it's a bit more tricky,
19:32but it ain't that tricky.
19:33You're going to be kicking yourselves.
19:34Off you go, Rach.
19:35Well, there are a few ways to do it.
19:36One, you could have said 50 times six is 300.
19:41The second six minus four is two.
19:43Add that on for 302.
19:45And then 10 divided by five gives you another two,
19:48and divide them.
19:49Well done, that way, yeah.
19:52Many ways to go.
19:53That is a very clever way to do it.
19:5665 plays 46 after that round, so very significant indeed,
20:00with Annie picking up the seven points.
20:02As you get your second Tea Time teaser of today,
20:05it's Kim's Grin, as in the name Kim,
20:08so K-I-M-S, Kim's Grin.
20:10Kim's Grin has a look of smugness about it.
20:12Kim's Grin has a look of smugness about it.
20:15Hello again.
20:31Kim's Grin, well, she was smirking, wasn't she?
20:33She was smirking.
20:35At the moment, Annie could have the last laugh.
20:37She could be our new champion,
20:39but just 19 points and a whole six rounds to go.
20:42So still game on.
20:43Annie, your letters.
20:45Can I get a consonant, please?
20:46Thank you, Annie.
20:47T.
20:48And another, please.
20:51S.
20:52And another one.
20:54M.
20:55And a vowel.
20:57A.
20:58And another one.
20:59E.
21:00And another vowel.
21:02A.
21:03And a consonant, please.
21:05S.
21:06Another consonant.
21:08T.
21:09And a vowel, please.
21:11And final O.
21:12Let's play.
21:14Let's play.
21:14Let's play.
21:14Let's play.
21:17Let's play.
21:22prevention.
21:27M.O.D A CORON.
21:27And another word.
21:28Let's play.
21:29Let's play.
21:31They know.
21:32They know.
21:33They know.
21:37THEY CONFER
21:45Annie?
21:46Erm, I'll stick with six.
21:48Steve, six as well.
21:50All right, off you go, Annie, what's the word?
21:52Steams.
21:53And, Steve, what did you have?
21:54I had steams.
21:56Excellent, thank you.
21:58Over to Dixonry Corner.
22:00We've got an eight, stowmates.
22:02Stowmates is there.
22:04Yes, that's a term from botany,
22:06which is all to do with tiny pores in the epidermis
22:09or the skin of a leaf or the stem of a plant
22:12and it allows really important gases to come and go.
22:14All right, Steve, deep breaths and we go again.
22:16Rachel, I have a consonant.
22:18Thank you, Steve.
22:19Q.
22:20Erm, another one.
22:22K.
22:23Erm, a vowel.
22:25E.
22:26A vowel.
22:27U.
22:29Erm, consonant.
22:32T.
22:33A consonant.
22:35R.
22:36A vowel.
22:37A.
22:38Erm, and I have, erm, another consonant.
22:41D.
22:42Oh, it's another one.
22:43Erm, I'll have a vowel.
22:44And a bonus.
22:45E.
22:46Excellent.
22:47Kind time.
22:48Kind time.
22:49B.
22:50Oh, it's another one.
22:51Erm, I'll have a vowel.
22:52And a bonus.
22:53E.
22:54E.
22:55E.
22:56E.
22:57E.
22:58E.
22:59E.
23:00E.
23:01E.
23:02E.
23:03E.
23:04E.
23:05E.
23:06E.
23:07E.
23:08E.
23:09E.
23:10E.
23:11E.
23:12E.
23:13E.
23:14E.
23:15E.
23:16How many, Steve?
23:27Seven.
23:28Annie?
23:29Seven.
23:29There you go.
23:30Steve, what have you got?
23:31Equated.
23:32Equated.
23:33Is it the same, Annie?
23:34The same, equated.
23:35Let's have a look.
23:36Nice.
23:37Four rounds still to go.
23:40Fairly much in the balance as we get our origins of words for today.
23:44Are we sticking to the emails?
23:46Well, I decided to go off track a little bit,
23:49because we have a WhatsApp group, don't we, the three of us?
23:53And you pointed out that you were going to be talking about elephants,
23:55so I'm going to talk elephants.
23:57Excellent.
23:57And you might think that we get the word elephant
24:00from an African or an Indian language,
24:02but actually it came to us from Greek, believe it or not,
24:06and they had elephas, which meant both ivory, actually, and elephant.
24:10So you can see how valuable ivory was even thought to be,
24:14even back then.
24:15When it came over into English,
24:17as so often with the names of creatures,
24:19we only have really vague notions of what these animals were.
24:22We never encountered them, obviously.
24:24So it kind of became an oliphant.
24:25It became an elk for a while.
24:28There was another word, an oliphand,
24:30which actually meant a camel, but it didn't matter,
24:32because they just didn't really know what it looked like.
24:34And then eventually it settled upon elephant.
24:36And also you asked about the elephant in the room,
24:39which is another phrase where elephants crop up a lot these days.
24:44Looking into the origin of this, it's quite interesting,
24:46because there's lots of fables and stories from the past
24:48involving elephants in the room,
24:51either in a real way or in a sort of figurative way, if you like.
24:55So in 1814, one of Russia's most popular,
24:59fabulous writers of fable called Ivan Krylov,
25:02I've taken advice from Rachel on that pronunciation.
25:04He wrote a fable that tells of a man who goes to a museum,
25:08he spots loads of things, makes notes of loads of things,
25:10but he fails to notice the elephant.
25:13And then there are lots of sort of similar stories
25:15where people sort of fail to notice what was a very real elephant.
25:18But the first figurative use that we have of it is from 1959.
25:22So it's been a theme for a very, very long time,
25:25and then, of course, came into business jargon,
25:27where it has stuck and now crept into mainstream usage.
25:30Lovely. Great day to do it. Thank you.
25:32APPLAUSE
25:33Four more rounds to go.
25:3519 points in it.
25:37Are we going to have a new champion?
25:38Let's find out if Annie can hold her nerve.
25:40Your letters.
25:42Can I have a consonant, please?
25:44Thank you, Annie.
25:45G.
25:46And another one.
25:48R.
25:49And another one.
25:52L.
25:53And a vowel, please.
25:54I.
25:56And another vowel.
25:57E.
25:58And another.
26:00O.
26:00And a consonant.
26:03H.
26:05And a consonant.
26:06V.
26:08And a final...
26:10Vowel, please.
26:12And a final E.
26:14And good luck, everybody.
26:15Vowel, please.
26:38Vowel, please.
26:40That's it. Annie? Six. Six from you. And Steve? Six.
26:51OK. Annie? Holier. Holier. And Steve? Revile. Revile and holier.
26:58No problems at all with that. But what can dictionary corners throw up?
27:03We got sixes as well. Grieve. Yeah. And grovel. Yeah.
27:07What about... Oh, hold on. Hold on a second. Hold the front page.
27:12Let's check it. Overline? Yeah, yeah. Overline.
27:15Pretty sure it's in the dictionary. It is. Well done.
27:18Yes. Well done. Look at that. Fantastic.
27:24Very good. Seven. Love when that happens. Love when that happens.
27:26Right. 84.65. It feels like we've had that 19-point gap for quite a while now
27:32as you keep matching each other. Three more rounds to go.
27:34Steve, you're picking the last letters.
27:36Thank you very much, Rachel. I'll go with the consonant.
27:39Thank you, Steve. D.
27:42Another consonant. T.
27:45Vowel. O. Vowel. A.
27:51A consonant. R. Another consonant. T.
27:57And a consonant. And a final. N. And last letters.
28:29MUSIC PLAYS
28:42Steve? Six. Six from you. Annie? Six. Six as well.
28:45Look at this again. Right, the six. Tarted. Tarted.
28:50And Annie? Tarted. Have a little look there.
28:53Yes. Excellent. Tarted.
28:58What is actually the official meaning of that word, Susie?
29:01Well, you can tart something up, can't you,
29:03by trying to make it look a little bit more attractive.
29:06So it's all about trying to improve the appearance of something.
29:08Can we get above us eggs? We can.
29:10If we were blowing it up, we'd use a detonator. Detonator.
29:13That's... That's nine.
29:15Hold on. Hold on, JB.
29:18You don't just casually drop that in without building up to it.
29:21That's your first maximum. Yes. There we go.
29:24APPLAUSE
29:26Quite literally, boom. Brilliant.
29:29That'll get you 18 points at home if you manage to spot detonator.
29:33Fantastic.
29:35Right, numbers then. Annie, you're choosing them.
29:39You just have to at least match Steve and you'll be a new champion.
29:42Let's go. Can I have two large and the rest small, please?
29:45You can. Two large, four small, four the teapot.
29:48Final numbers of the day.
29:49Four.
29:50Ten.
29:51One.
29:52Six.
29:53And the large two.
29:54One hundred and twenty-five.
29:56And the target.
29:57One hundred and eighty-two.
29:59One-eight-two.
30:00Last numbers.
30:01One hundred and eighty-two.
30:02пол typical komunitas.
30:03Two.
30:04Two big two.
30:05Two big two.
30:06One big four.
30:07One gigselfies.
30:08Two big weg.
30:10Five, five, five, five.
30:11Two bigES.
30:12Thirty ACisser.
30:13Two big stars.
30:14Two big stars.
30:15Four.
30:16The World.
30:17One big stars.
30:18Three big stars.
30:19Three big stars.
30:20Two big stars.
30:21One big stars.
30:22Two big stars.
30:23Two big stars.
30:24Two big stars.
30:25Family stars.
30:26One-eight-two is the target. Annie?
30:34Um, one-eight-three.
30:35A chance, Steve?
30:36I think I've got one-eight-two.
30:38Oh, this we get is their crucial guy.
30:40Down conundrum, off you go.
30:42I've got, um, a hundred plus three times 25.
30:47How did you get your three?
30:49Oh, sorry, four... Oh, no, sorry, I've...
30:52Oh, Steve, I tell you what, though, it was great while it lasted, wasn't it?
30:56It was good, our hearts were in our mouths.
30:58Annie, you were one away for seven points to seal the deal.
31:03Um, a hundred plus 25 times four.
31:06Plus 25 times four for 200.
31:08Minus ten, minus one, minus six.
31:10Ten, six and one.
31:12Yes, one above and that is the teapot.
31:15Well done.
31:16APPLAUSE
31:16Proper drama there.
31:19Right, Rach, one-eight-two.
31:21Yes, ten minus one is nine.
31:24One hundred minus nine is 91.
31:27And then six minus four is two.
31:29And times them together, one-eight-two.
31:31Bingo.
31:32APPLAUSE
31:32Wow, Steve, listen, admirable.
31:36You've had a really battle-tale.
31:38You've taken a couple of risks exactly where you should have taken the risks
31:41that just haven't managed to come off.
31:43So, the outgoing champion looking to get that conundrum at the end.
31:47Annie will be changing seats after this.
31:50But here we go.
31:50Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
31:52MUSIC PLAYS
31:54Time is...
32:23Time is up.
32:25Eddie Salt has fooled everybody.
32:29Well, I tell you what, seeing as she's just cleaned up today,
32:32she would have scored 150 if she was a contestant.
32:35Rachel?
32:35And if you hadn't have asked me, I'd give you the deadliest look.
32:37Oh, let's have a look.
32:39What a catch.
32:40What a catch.
32:41APPLAUSE
32:41APPLAUSE
32:42Oh, well done.
32:44Well, listen, let's say goodbye to Steve.
32:47You get the teapot.
32:48You're missing your grandchildren anyway.
32:50He's so like, you know, it's a good time to be going home.
32:53And just such a lovely couple of days with you.
32:55Thank you for being here, mate.
32:56Thank you very much.
32:57Lovely.
32:57I really enjoyed it.
32:58Yes, I really enjoyed it.
32:59It's been very relaxed with you here and it's been very relaxed today.
33:02Annie's our new champion.
33:03Well done to you, Annie.
33:04And you come with no ego and you've just very quietly scored 97 there, by the way.
33:10Really quietly with room to go.
33:12So I think we've got quite a player on our hands.
33:15JB, SD, see you tomorrow.
33:18Definitely.
33:18Excellent.
33:19And then save the elephant day, as I said.
33:20I don't want to go without talking about this very, very quickly.
33:23Because we both love elephants.
33:25There's 150,000 muscle units in their trunk.
33:29It holds up to eight litres of water.
33:32And they use it as a snorkel, right, as they swim.
33:35Can you explain to me how an animal that weighs up to 6,000 kilograms swims?
33:44Have you heard of the blue whale?
33:46But it's not a whale, it's an elephant.
33:49A whale doesn't have feet and tusks and is that shape.
33:54And it manages to swim.
33:56I just think they're amazing.
33:57I think we're going to need a long class to explain all of that to you, Colin.
34:01Yeah, there you go.
34:02Always work to the slowest person in the room, which is always me on countdown.
34:05But we'll all be here on time tomorrow.
34:08Rachel, Susie and I, you can count on us.
34:11You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:16You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:20APPLAUSE
34:35And we'll see you next time.
34:38Thank you, Colin.
34:40Thank you, Colin.