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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio on the eve of the final of the greatest countdown competition ever.
00:41And whoever wins tomorrow will be the ultimate all-time world's greatest countdown champion.
00:48So today we've got two great semi-finalists, one of whom tomorrow will meet Jack Hurst.
00:56Gentlemen, yes, indeed.
00:58And now there follows one of the strangest links I've ever been asked to deliver.
01:03Allow me to reach for my script, which says it was on this very day, last year, that scientists studying fossils found in New Zealand discovered two new species of penguin.
01:14They were prehistoric and they were known as Kairuku Waitaki and Kairuku Grebnefi.
01:22And they stood out, wait for it, four feet tall, even bigger than your cats.
01:28I don't think it's that strange a link, though.
01:31You've got penguins.
01:31I love penguins.
01:32They mate for life.
01:34I don't think it's quite sweet.
01:35And then the mum obviously lays the egg, then the dad looks after it.
01:37The mum goes off swimming around and she comes back.
01:41And I don't want to sound offensive to penguins, but I can't tell them apart, but somehow she does.
01:45But it's a bit like us and our ex-champions, you know, go away for periods of time and always find their way back to us.
01:52They do indeed.
01:53Amazing endurance, just like our contestants as well.
01:56Anyway, there we are.
01:56So your back, lads, how's it been?
01:58Yes?
01:59Let's see how it's going to be.
02:01One of you is going to meet Jack Hurst tomorrow.
02:05And between Jack Hurst and one of you, there will come a champion.
02:09Now then, who have we got?
02:10We've got John O'Neill.
02:12Lives in Raynham, London.
02:14Semi-finalist back in 2005.
02:16A catastrophe risk analyst.
02:18And in the semi-final, after ending Jack Worsley's unbeaten record on a crucial conundrum with a score of 122.
02:27Brilliant.
02:27The only person left in the competition who isn't a math student from Cambridge.
02:31At Cambridge, yeah.
02:32I'm well aware of that.
02:34Brilliant stuff.
02:35And you are meeting today Connor Travers, and you may not know this, but you both auditioned for Countdown on the same day back in 2004.
02:45Yeah, we did work that out, actually.
02:46And look, we've known each other ever since.
02:48But we didn't know each other at the time, so...
02:50Yeah, extraordinary.
02:51It's kind of like fate.
02:52Indeed.
02:53And what about Connor?
02:54Youngest ever series winner, age just 14, now at St. John's College, Cambridge.
02:59Studying maths, as we hinted at, you beat Kirk Bevins with another perfect maximum game.
03:06A score of 119 out of 119.
03:08Record is now 19 wins from 20 games.
03:12So you've tasted defeat once.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Let's see how you can advance today.
03:16Huge round of applause for these two bright guys, John and Connor.
03:26John and Connor.
03:28Wonderful.
03:28I'm really looking forward to today.
03:30Susie, how are you?
03:33Very tense.
03:34Braced for this one?
03:35I am very braced, yes.
03:37Fortunately, you've got sitting next to you, somebody who is always so relaxed and is a joy to be with it.
03:44None other than Jenny Eclair, a stand-up comic, as we know, author, actress, and a general sort of polymath, because she's shown tremendous skill this week.
03:54Last week, yeah, pulling out some beautiful words, none of which actually won, but they were interesting.
04:01Let's get this game underway.
04:03Come along.
04:04John, off you go.
04:06All right, Rachel.
04:06Hi again, John.
04:07I know you're going for me because you don't want a Cambridge person to win it.
04:10Oh, yeah.
04:10I won't tell him, though.
04:11I'm relying on you to help me.
04:13Can I start with a vowel, please?
04:15I'll pick you something special.
04:16Thanks.
04:16Right, we'll start with O.
04:18A vowel.
04:20E.
04:21A vowel.
04:22A.
04:23A consonant.
04:25N.
04:26A consonant.
04:28B.
04:29A consonant.
04:30A consonant, please.
04:39T.
04:41And a consonant, please.
04:44And the final C.
04:46Well, here's the countdown clock.
04:48A consonant.
05:00A consonant.
05:02Now then, John, I've got an eight.
05:20Connor?
05:21Eight as well.
05:23John?
05:23Covenant.
05:24Covenant.
05:25Both Covenants?
05:26Yes.
05:26Looks like it.
05:27Yeah.
05:27Well done, Connor.
05:29Well done, Connor.
05:31Well done.
05:33And in the corner, what have Susie and Jenny got for us?
05:36Well, that's brilliant.
05:38That's a good start.
05:38We've got the truncated version of Covenant with Convent.
05:42Yes.
05:43Very good.
05:44Anything else?
05:44Yes.
05:45Bonnet for six, Canton for six, but Covenant is excellent.
05:48Covenant's very good.
05:50Very good.
05:51Right.
05:51At all, Connor?
05:53Hi, Rachel.
05:54Hi, Connor.
05:55Can I start for a consonant, please?
05:56Of course.
05:57Start with R.
05:59And another?
06:01D.
06:01And another.
06:04W.
06:04A vowel, please.
06:06E.
06:07And another.
06:08O.
06:09And another.
06:10I.
06:11A consonant.
06:13P.
06:13A consonant.
06:15G.
06:16And a final consonant, please.
06:18And the last one.
06:20F.
06:21Stand by.
06:21A consonant.
06:22A consonant.
06:23A consonant.
06:24A consonant.
06:24A consonant.
06:24A consonant.
06:25A consonant.
06:25A consonant.
06:25A consonant.
06:26A consonant.
06:26A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:27A consonant.
06:28A consonant.
06:28A consonant.
06:28A consonant.
06:29A consonant.
06:29A consonant.
06:29A consonant.
06:30A consonant.
06:30A consonant.
06:31A consonant.
06:31A consonant.
06:31A consonant.
06:31A consonant.
06:32A consonant.
06:32A consonant.
06:33A consonant.
06:33A consonant.
06:34A consonant.
06:34A consonant.
06:35A consonant.
06:35A consonant.
06:36A consonant.
06:36A consonant.
06:37A consonant.
06:38A consonant.
06:38A consonant.
06:39A consonant.
06:40A consonant.
06:40comment seven seven john also seven thank you connor uh podgea podgea how's that sound john
07:01uh i had that but i also had fire dog so i'll go for that because it's a bit nicer
07:05thank you very good yeah fire dog is one of those um supports that you get for logs in an open fire
07:12yeah what else have you got over there jenny anything interesting um not really i've got griped
07:18yes yes yes that's right it's good for six six very good anything else podgea the only seven
07:25that we can find all right well there's weirdo if you like that one nick thank you i don't 15 all
07:31now then john can i start with a vowel please thank you john a vowel e a vowel i a consonant please
07:43n a consonant s a consonant t a consonant c uh a vowel please
07:56e and a consonant please and lastly g block time
08:04so
08:13so
08:16john eight connor eight as well now then john uh um genetics genetics connor the same word same
08:44word in the corner again i don't go the distance i just got agent and obviously agencies is much
08:50better susie did get genetics uh what's this one um a cineast oh you can have it with e at the end
08:57and that's uh just a lover of cinema all right 23 all says the scoreboard connor can i have a
09:03consonant please thank you connor r and another zed and another n a vowel please
09:13consonant o and another e and another a consonant c consonant r and a final consonant please and a final g
09:30can't done
09:31you can't
09:44you
09:45Yes, Connor?
10:04That's seven.
10:05John?
10:06That's seven.
10:06It's not written down very well, so you might want to go to me first.
10:09I might want to have a chat with you then, John.
10:10A groaner.
10:11A groaner.
10:12Connor?
10:13Yeah.
10:13Two groaners over here.
10:15Groaners in the corner.
10:17Yes.
10:18Yes?
10:19Yep, that was our seven.
10:20Yep.
10:21What's this one?
10:22Garon.
10:22A garon.
10:23Yep, that's their four.
10:24Six.
10:24It's another term for a highland pony.
10:26Oh, I want a garon.
10:28Very good.
10:2930 all crashing on here, and it's the first numbers game.
10:33That'll belong to John.
10:35Can I have four from the top, please, Rachel?
10:37Four from the top.
10:37Thank you, John.
10:38They might be the maths students, but I know that you are amazing at this game.
10:42So let's see if we can show off your tricks.
10:44And for this round, the small ones are four and five, and you're four large.
10:4875, 100, 25, and 50.
10:52And the target, 391.
10:55391.
10:5640, 25, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and 50, and
11:26John? 391. Yep. And Connor? 391. OK, John. OK, 25 plus 50 is 75. 25 plus 50 is 75. Divide that by the other 75.
11:38For 1. Subtract that from 100. 100 minus 199. Multiply that by 4. 396. And then subtract the other 5.
11:46Nicely done. Very tidy. Very good. Connor? The same way. Same route. You happy, John? Well done. Well done, both of you.
11:56So, dead heat, 40 points each. But now we turn to Jenny. Now then, Jenny, which of your many skills and attributes would you like to talk about now?
12:08I'm just trying to think of whether I have any. No, I'm sort of so in awe of the people I've met this week, the contestants. Extraordinary.
12:18And I think that they're going to be mobbed on the streets. Not by girls, by academics. It's not going to be that exciting.
12:26And I just want to give you a little glimpse into that sort of world. I do remember, because I was a drama school student here, and I came back many years later, thinking I was slightly on the ladder to success.
12:39And I was on the steps of the BBC in Manchester, and an autograph hunter proffered his book, and obviously I thought, well, he wants my autograph.
12:49I duly wrote my name in large letters in his autograph book, at which point he looked at it, looked again, and went, no, I don't want that.
12:59And that's true.
13:00That's a terrible thing to happen.
13:02Wasn't it dreadful?
13:03Yeah.
13:03That's an extraordinary thing to do.
13:05Tell me this.
13:06You wrote, I think, Grumpy Old Women with, I think, Judith Holder.
13:10Yes.
13:10It was one of your big hit of a book.
13:13Who's recently made you feel grumpy?
13:15I bet that autograph hunter did.
13:17I've got over that.
13:18It was probably 30 years ago.
13:20I'd have to be a bit obsessive if I was still, you know, grumpy over that.
13:24Oh, everything on a daily basis.
13:26The grumpy thing was weird, because the biggest success of that was the stage shows, which went around the world.
13:34And we ended up having it translated into Icelandic.
13:38And that was very interesting, seeing how grumpy old women across the world have got the same jokes in common.
13:46The same.
13:46Yeah.
13:46There's one joke that was universal.
13:49It's unfortunately too rude to go into.
13:51And to be in Iceland, to see all these women laugh at the same point, it was really quite gratifying.
13:56So, international humour.
13:58Yeah, international ambassador of grumpiness.
14:01Brilliant stuff, yeah.
14:03Because Iceland, they can be very grumpy, because it's dark so often.
14:06Dark, yes.
14:06Most of the time.
14:07But they do tend to deal with it quite well.
14:10They have a very good sense of humour.
14:11There's this sort of disgusting snack.
14:13And I think one of the things that makes the Icelandics laugh the most is giving tourists this sort of fermented shark's rotting corpse.
14:22I see.
14:23Right.
14:23I'm staying away.
14:24I'm staying away.
14:25But now it's time for a tea-time teaser, which is press one.
14:30And the clue, press one if you want to reply.
14:33Press one if you want to reply.
14:35Welcome back.
14:51I left you with the clue.
14:52Press one if you want to reply.
14:54And the answer is response if you want a response.
14:57Response.
14:58Now, 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, LS 3, 1, J, S.
15:15For the all.
15:17Connor, what are you going to do about all this now?
15:20Make a breakaway.
15:21OK.
15:22Can I have a consonant, please?
15:23Thank you, Connor.
15:24S.
15:25And another.
15:27P.
15:28And another.
15:30T.
15:31Vowel, please.
15:32U.
15:33And another.
15:35E.
15:35And another.
15:37A.
15:38Consonant.
15:39L.
15:40Consonant.
15:42D.
15:44And a final consonant, please.
15:45And a final H.
15:48Stand by.
15:48And a final consonant, please.
15:49And a final consonant, please.
15:49And a final consonant, please.
15:49And a final consonant, please.
15:50And a final consonant, please.
15:50And a final consonant, please.
15:51And a final consonant, please.
15:52And a final consonant, please.
15:52And a final consonant, please.
15:53And a final consonant, please.
15:54And a final consonant, please.
15:54And a final consonant, please.
15:55And a final consonant, please.
15:56And a final consonant, please.
15:57And a final consonant, please.
15:58And a final consonant, please.
15:59And a final consonant, please.
16:00And a final consonant, please.
16:01And a final consonant, please.
16:02And a final consonant, please.
16:03And a final consonant, please.
16:04And a final consonant, please.
16:05And a final consonant, please.
16:06And a final consonant, please.
16:07Yes, Connor?
16:20Eight.
16:21An eight.
16:22John?
16:23I'm going to go crazy and go for a nine.
16:25Right.
16:26Now then, Connor?
16:28Pulsated.
16:29Pulsated.
16:30Crazy, John.
16:32Sulfated.
16:33Sulfated.
16:33Oh, John, it's there as a noun only,
16:38not as a verb or not as an adjective, I'm afraid.
16:41Sorry.
16:42Never mind.
16:43Bad luck.
16:44Brave shot.
16:45So, that puts Connor eight points ahead, 48 to 40.
16:50But in the corner, what have we got over there now?
16:53Jenny, Susie?
16:54I had sulfated as well.
16:56I didn't.
16:56No, we just were pulsating over here as well.
17:04OK.
17:05OK.
17:05Well done.
17:06So, John, off you go.
17:09Try and claw it back.
17:10Can I start with a vowel, please?
17:12Thank you, John.
17:13U.
17:15Vell.
17:16E.
17:18A vowel.
17:19O.
17:19A consonant.
17:22N.
17:23A consonant.
17:26S.
17:27A consonant.
17:29N.
17:30A consonant, please.
17:32T.
17:34A vowel, please.
17:37A.
17:39And a consonant, please.
17:41And the last one.
17:42M.
17:44Countdown.
17:44A consonant.
17:59A consonant.
18:08A consonant.
18:09Yes, John?
18:16Eight.
18:17And Connor?
18:18Eight as well.
18:19Thank you, John.
18:20Seamount?
18:21Thank you, both of you.
18:22So much.
18:23Very good.
18:24Happy enough?
18:25Yes, Mountain Under the Sea.
18:26OK.
18:27What else have we got over there?
18:29In the corner.
18:29I'm too embarrassed to admit, so I'll leave it to Susie.
18:33Another eight is Tonno, with an S at the end,
18:36and that's the back part of an open car or a convertible.
18:41Oh, yes, you have a tonneau cover.
18:43That's right.
18:43Which you sort of clipped on.
18:45That bit, yep.
18:46Yes, indeed.
18:4748 to Connors 56.
18:50Connor, your letters game.
18:53Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
18:54Thank you, Connor.
18:55F.
18:56And another.
18:58K.
18:59And another.
19:01Q.
19:02A vowel, please.
19:04I.
19:04And another.
19:06O.
19:07And another.
19:09I.
19:10Consonant.
19:11D.
19:13A vowel, please.
19:16U.
19:17And a final vowel.
19:18And a final O.
19:21And they're off.
19:22I.
19:32I.
19:33And a final vowel.
19:34And a final vowel.
19:37And a final vowel.
19:38And a final vowel.
19:38So.
19:50Yes, Connor?
19:54Just four.
19:55Four.
19:56John?
19:57Four.
19:58Connor?
19:59Food.
20:00Thank you, John.
20:01Quid?
20:02Quid.
20:03Any advances in the corner?
20:05None.
20:06Quad.
20:08Really?
20:09Yeah.
20:10Quid, quad.
20:11Nothing better.
20:12Nothing there.
20:12No, sorry.
20:14All right.
20:1552 to 68 ahead there, Connor.
20:18And John, letters game.
20:20A vowel, please.
20:21Thank you, John.
20:22A.
20:23A vowel.
20:25I.
20:26Vowel.
20:27E.
20:28A consonant.
20:30T.
20:31A consonant.
20:32S.
20:34Consonant.
20:36L.
20:37A consonant.
20:39R.
20:39A vowel, please.
20:43I.
20:44And a consonant, please.
20:47And the last one.
20:48W.
20:49Countdown.
20:50A consonant.
20:51A consonant.
20:51A consonant.
20:51A consonant.
20:51A consonant.
20:52A consonant.
20:52A consonant.
20:52A consonant.
20:53A consonant.
20:53A consonant.
20:53A consonant.
20:53A consonant.
20:53A consonant.
20:54A consonant.
20:54A consonant.
20:55A consonant.
20:55A consonant.
20:55A consonant.
20:55A consonant.
20:55A consonant.
20:56A consonant.
20:56A consonant.
20:56A consonant.
20:56A consonant.
20:56A consonant.
20:57A consonant.
20:57A consonant.
20:57A consonant.
20:58A consonant.
20:58A consonant.
20:58A consonant.
20:59A consonant.
20:59A consonant.
20:59A consonant.
21:00A consonant.
21:00A consonant.
21:01A consonant.
21:01A consonant.
21:01A consonant.
21:02A consonant.
21:03A consonant.
21:03A consonant.
21:04A consonant.
21:04A consonant.
21:05John?
21:21Eight.
21:22And Connor?
21:23Eight as all.
21:24OK, John?
21:25Lariast.
21:26Lariast.
21:27And Listeria.
21:29Listeria.
21:30Excellent.
21:31Yeah, good one.
21:31Fantastic.
21:32Listeria.
21:33And in the corner, anything exciting?
21:36A little bit nicer than Listeria is Wisteria.
21:39Yes.
21:39Which smells a lot nicer.
21:40Yeah.
21:41That's there for eight.
21:42Lariast means more conceited or...
21:44Sorry, most conceited or most cunning.
21:46Yes.
21:47Sevens, otherwise, I think.
21:49What else?
21:49Anything interesting?
21:50Realists, laities, nothing too great.
21:53Very good.
21:54I froze.
21:56Very good.
21:5768 plays 60 as we come now to an interesting and much applauded part of today's proceedings,
22:05which is Susie's Origins of Words.
22:07Susie.
22:08Well, thank you.
22:09I'm going to talk about the origin of Drop Dead Gorgeous.
22:12Terms for knockout beauties have been with us for a very, very long time.
22:15And heartthrob goes back at least a century.
22:19I sort of think about it, about the kind of Hollywood film stars, but actually it goes back
22:22a long... a lot further than that.
22:24Something that thrills the senses.
22:26You could talk about a heartthrob of a hat, for example, so not just a person.
22:30But Drop Dead Gorgeous has only been around since about 1985.
22:34And there's a piece in The Times of February of that year that is talking about Michelle
22:39Pfeiffer.
22:40Trim, smart, and drop dead gorgeous, Pfeiffer has been nibbling at stardom since her stints
22:45in Grease 2 and Scarface.
22:47This is what they said.
22:47And the phrase obviously struck a real chord, and there are many references to it in newspapers,
22:53journals, etc., and very soon after that.
22:55So that's Drop Dead Gorgeous.
22:57But Drop Dead itself, meaning excellent, had been around since about the 1960s.
23:01But of course, before then, Drop Dead had always meant something very different, demonstrating
23:06a real dislike of something or someone, as in, oh, drop dead.
23:09And that originated in the 1930s.
23:12But the reason I thought it was quite interesting to mention this is it just demonstrates how hard
23:16it is for non-native speakers to learn English, not just in spelling, but in its idioms
23:21as well, because there are very, very few of them that are that transparent.
23:23There are so many idioms, for example, that involve dead.
23:28You can talk about dead wood, a dead blow, a dead heat, for example, and they all mean
23:35something very different.
23:36So if someone says to you, and you're not a native speaker, Drop Dead Gorgeous, all I
23:40can say is don't take it the wrong way.
23:43Very good.
23:43Well done.
23:45Great stuff, Susie.
23:46Very good indeed.
23:50Now then, Connor, eight points ahead, 68 to John, 60, and it's your numbers game, Connor.
23:56Can I stick with just one large?
23:58You can, thank you, Connor.
23:59Pretty precariously with just the one round's difference there.
24:02So we'll see if this changes anything.
24:04For this numbers game, they are 3, 10, another 3, 6, 8, and 50.
24:13And your target, 522.
24:16522.
24:17622.
24:27622.
24:27722.
24:31422.
24:34522.
24:35522.
24:38522.
24:41522.
24:42Yes, Connor?
24:50522.
24:51522.
24:51John, also 522.
24:53All right, Connor?
24:5450 plus 3.
24:5650 plus 3, 53.
24:58Multiply by 10.
25:00530.
25:00And to practicate.
25:02And it changes nothing.
25:04Now then, John.
25:06I did not do that.
25:07I did.
25:0850 multiplied by 10.
25:1050 multiplied by 10, 500.
25:128 multiplied by 3.
25:138 multiplied by 3, 24.
25:16And 6 over 3.
25:18And 6 over the other 3 for the 2.
25:20And then add it and take it.
25:21Yeah.
25:22Same gap.
25:22Well done.
25:23Well done.
25:24Very good.
25:29So, still that 8 points, but now it's time for a Tea Time teaser,
25:33which is risks her.
25:36And the clue, she risks her company's good name by employing these.
25:40She risks her company's good name by employing these.
25:44Welcome back.
26:00I left you with the clue.
26:01She risks her company's good name by employing these.
26:05What is she doing?
26:05She's employing shirkers.
26:07Shirkers.
26:1078 to 70.
26:11No shirkers around here, that's for sure.
26:13John, off you go.
26:15A vowel, please.
26:16Thank you, John.
26:18O.
26:18A vowel.
26:20A.
26:21A vowel.
26:21E.
26:23A consonant.
26:24P.
26:26A consonant.
26:27B.
26:28A consonant.
26:30R.
26:31A consonant.
26:33J.
26:35A consonant.
26:37S.
26:39And a consonant, please.
26:41And the last one, P.
26:44Stand by.
26:45And the last one, P.
26:46And the last one, P.
26:46And the last one, P.
26:47And the last one, P.
26:47And the last one, P.
26:48And the last one, P.
26:49And the last one, P.
26:50And the last one, P.
26:51And the last one, P.
26:52And the last one, P.
26:53And the last one, P.
26:54And the last one, P.
26:55And the last one, P.
26:56And the last one, P.
26:57And the last one, P.
26:58And the last one, P.
26:59And the last one, P.
27:00And the last one, P.
27:01And the last one, P.
27:02And the last one, P.
27:03And the last one, P.
27:04And the last one, P.
27:05And the last one, P.
27:06And the last one, P.
27:07Yes, John, we've got a dodgy-ish seven.
27:19Thank you, Connor.
27:20Seven.
27:22Yep, John.
27:23Boppers.
27:25And Connor.
27:26Jerboas.
27:28Jerboas, yes.
27:29Are we happy with both?
27:30Yep, you can be a bopper if you like to dance.
27:33And Jerboas, excellent.
27:35You've travelled far and wide, Nick, I don't know.
27:36You might have encountered these.
27:37They're desert-dwelling rodents with very long hind legs
27:40that enable them to walk upright and perform long jumps.
27:44They're kangaroos.
27:45They sound like it.
27:46North Africa to Central Asia.
27:48How big are they?
27:49They sound very big.
27:51Big as a four-foot penguin?
27:53Their hind legs are long.
27:55Perhaps they're related to those four-foot penguins.
27:57I doubt it.
27:58I think you're really pushing your luck there.
28:02Anyway, 85 plays, 77.
28:04Now then, Connor.
28:05Can I have a consonant, please?
28:07Thank you, Connor.
28:08D.
28:09And another.
28:10L.
28:11And another.
28:13T.
28:14A vowel, please.
28:16I.
28:16And another.
28:18U.
28:19And another.
28:21A.
28:21Consonant.
28:23N.
28:24Vowel.
28:26O.
28:27And a final vowel, please.
28:28And a final.
28:30E.
28:31Don't buy him.
28:32So,
28:47we'll be back.
28:48So,
28:49we'll be back.
28:51This time is a filene udему,
28:51we'll be back.
28:54We'll be back.
28:55Connor.
29:03Eight.
29:04Thank you, John.
29:05Yeah, eight.
29:06Connor.
29:07Delation.
29:08John.
29:09Outlined.
29:10Outlined.
29:11Yep.
29:12Excellent.
29:12Straightforward enough?
29:13Very good.
29:17Very good.
29:18Anything coming close?
29:20Toenail.
29:22Toenail.
29:23Anything else?
29:25Lentoid, diluent, lots of sevens.
29:27But just to say, a delation was a long, long time ago the reporting of a crime or an offence.
29:33Excellent stuff.
29:34But there we are, 93 still ahead, 85.
29:39And John.
29:40Avel, please.
29:42Thank you, John.
29:43A.
29:44Avel.
29:45E.
29:47Avel.
29:48U.
29:49A consonant.
29:51S.
29:52A consonant.
29:53D.
29:54A consonant.
29:56R.
29:57A consonant.
29:59M.
30:01Consonant.
30:03Y.
30:04And a consonant, please.
30:06And, to finish, D.
30:09And here's the countdown clock.
30:11on to the next
30:19one.
30:20And here's the, that's right.
30:22And there's another one.
30:23And that's darle.
30:24I'll see you next time.
30:25A consonant.
30:26And I'll see you next time.
30:27John?
30:42Seven.
30:43Yes, Connor?
30:43Seven was all.
30:44All right, John.
30:46Remudas.
30:48Both of you?
30:49Same word, yeah.
30:51Yep.
30:51Very good.
30:52You happy?
30:53I'm very happy.
30:54Cross that we didn't get it over here.
30:57Um, because it's come up quite a few times on Countdown.
31:00There are herds of horses that have been saddle-broken
31:02from which ranch hands choose their mounts for the day.
31:04Very good.
31:05Anything else interesting?
31:07Anything leading up to that?
31:08Jenny?
31:08Not really.
31:09No, we've got Dreamy.
31:11Yeah, Dreamy's good.
31:12Better than Remudas.
31:14Not quite as long, unfortunately.
31:15Hundred to ninety-two.
31:17Where are we, Connor?
31:19The last numbers game of the day.
31:21Can I try six more numbers, please?
31:23You can.
31:24Thank you, Connor.
31:25Trying to get it sealed off in this round, possibly.
31:28We'll see if that works.
31:29Six little ones.
31:30For the last time today, the numbers are six, three, five, seven, eight, and nine.
31:40And the target, 258.
31:42258.
31:43We'll see you next time.
31:57We'll see you next time.
32:09Connor 258 thank you John also see five eight all right Connor and nine multiplied by six nine
32:21multiplied by six is 54 seven minus three seven minus three is four subtract that for 50 multiplied
32:29by five multiplied by five 250 and add the eight and add the eight yep nice of a game there very
32:35neat John completely different nine multiplied by eight nine multiplied by eight I think there's
32:41a lot of ways for this one seventy two multiply by three multiplied by three is 216 and then six
32:48multiplied by seven six multiplied by seven forty two and that's another way nicely done very good
32:54indeed very good indeed so 110 plays 102 what does that give us that gives us the next round and the
33:09next round is a crucial conundrum so come on chaps fingers on buzzers and let's reveal that crucial
33:15conundrum Connor is an infighter let's have a look
33:24wow I I'm see you tomorrow yes if I recover yeah brilliant stuff 120 again a great score
33:44uh to John's 102 another great score listen I can't believe I've just lost to this guy I don't know
33:50what I thought it was wonderful anyway anything for about five years so well done Connor we'll see
33:57you tomorrow yeah we just take it easy tonight then running around town chasing girls and drinking
34:02you go home safely with our thanks and your teapot and your piece of priceless kryptonite and uh with
34:09our thanks for giving you know so much enjoyment giving the audience so much enjoyment and uh travel
34:16safely
34:16brilliant stuff wasn't that breathtaking and John's been so brilliant and yet so modest
34:26I know I love it I love it yeah very good indeed have you enjoyed it it's extraordinary I would
34:34quite like the uh two finalists for tomorrow to meet up tonight go out on the town and come in
34:40tomorrow hung over to the teeth let's see what we can organize then Jenny you and I we'll take them
34:46out on the town how's that all right and we'll see you tomorrow more fun and games tomorrow Jenny
34:51thank you thank you so much we look forward to seeing you then well tomorrow's the big day then
34:56yeah it's been it's sad to lose these people it's lovely meeting members of the countdown family
34:59since before I was here such a nice bunch and I like as well how Connor's progressing as he goes
35:04on in the contest he's getting a bit smarter so I'm expecting you know morning soup for tomorrow please
35:08brilliant stuff Connor and Jack tomorrow yep yeah it's going to be a good one it will be great
35:14and so that's why you should be here tomorrow to see the countdown champion of all time
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