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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown on Friday, June 14th.
00:34Of course, the first day of Euro 2024.
00:38And I know football fans are very, very excited about that.
00:42But I just want to remind you on Thursday of the next week,
00:44we've got finals of our own to get excited about.
00:47The top eight players from Series 89, eight octo-champs no less,
00:52will do battle from our first quarter-final Thursday of next week.
00:55And our big final is Friday the 28th of June.
00:58And we don't do dead rubbers. We don't do draws.
01:01We just do excitement all the way. It's going to be brilliant.
01:04But have you got Euros fever? Are you excited today, Rach?
01:07I mean, the whole country, we get Euros fever just until England get knocked out, don't we?
01:12Yeah, you lot do. Yeah, for sure.
01:14I mean, they've set the expectations high after the last Euros.
01:17Yeah.
01:17And we got all the way to the final.
01:18Well, I'd just like to give a big shout-out to everyone watching in the island of Ireland today.
01:23All of our Welsh viewers as well, because yet again, and we've had it a bit better, haven't we,
01:28in recent tournaments, but we're consigned to...
01:31It's the equivalent of watching Glastonbury through the fence.
01:34You know, you can see the axe on stage, but you just don't feel part of it.
01:37That's how we all feel at the moment.
01:39Sorry, Carl.
01:40Well, the Dictionary Corner, Rachel, because Susie Dent is the perfect person to watch the Euros with.
01:45Not because she knows much about football, but because she can speak almost every language
01:48of the teams that are playing our polyglot.
01:51How are you, Susie?
01:52Very well, thank you.
01:53Excellent. Got the England red on today.
01:54Yeah.
01:55And finishing off her debut week in Dictionary Corner, she'll be glued to almost every match.
01:59It's Sam Quick.
02:03Don't worry, I'll let you talk about England and the Euros later.
02:06But for now, we'll introduce our new champion, Laura Mason, who lives outside of Nottingham,
02:11originally from Kendal in Cumbria.
02:14How are you today?
02:14Yeah, I'm good, thank you.
02:15You must be absolutely delighted with your performance yesterday.
02:19Yeah, very much a surprise.
02:21But not for us, and more to come, because you blanked a couple of rounds,
02:24you didn't get the conundrum, and you nearly scored a century,
02:27so I'm expecting big things today.
02:29We'll see.
02:30You're taking on Marianne Garbutt, who not only just lives round the corner,
02:34but you've done that thing where you work where you went to school.
02:38I've kind of exaggerated a bit. Tell me about that.
02:40So I came down from Scotland in 1993 to study at the University of Salford,
02:46and got a job straight after, and I've stayed here ever since.
02:49And the job is at the University of Salford?
02:50It is.
02:51So what are you doing in there?
02:52I work in admin, so at the moment I work for Salford Business School.
02:56I'm the programme manager, so I look after a group of administrators
03:00who basically look after the life cycle of the student
03:02from entry all the way through to graduation.
03:06Is that not literally the building beside here?
03:08It is, yeah.
03:08Like, literally about 50 yards that way?
03:11Magic.
03:11Magic, it's you just popped over in the afternoon.
03:13Do they know you're not at work?
03:16Some of them do.
03:17We'll say nothing.
03:18We'll say nothing.
03:19Just slip back into the office after this, you'll get paid.
03:22Good luck, Marianne and Laura.
03:26OK, Mason, off you go.
03:28Hi, Rachel.
03:29Consonant, please.
03:31Start today with H.
03:33A consonant.
03:35N.
03:36And a vowel.
03:37O.
03:38A vowel, please.
03:40A.
03:41A consonant.
03:43D.
03:44A consonant.
03:46T.
03:47A consonant.
03:49R.
03:50A vowel, please.
03:52E.
03:52And a final vowel.
03:54And a final I.
03:57At home and in this studio for the final time this week.
04:00Let's play Countdown.
04:29Let's play Countdown.
04:31That's time, Laura.
04:32Seven.
04:33Marianne.
04:34Seven.
04:34Good start.
04:35What have we got, Laura?
04:36Trained.
04:37Marianne.
04:37Trained.
04:38Let's have a look there.
04:39Two trains.
04:41You've been typing away there, Susie.
04:42What are you plotting and planning?
04:43Yes, we're just double-checking the meaning of the maths term
04:47rather than shouting at Rachel across the studio.
04:50We have an ordinate.
04:52An ordinate is a straight line from any point drawn parallel
04:55to one coordinate axis and meeting the other.
04:57Right, seven points each.
04:59As we get our second round of letters, Marianne.
05:02Hi, Rachel.
05:02Hi, Marianne.
05:03Can I have a consonant, please?
05:04You can indeed.
05:05Start with F.
05:07And another.
05:09N.
05:10And another.
05:12S.
05:13Vowel.
05:15A.
05:16Another.
05:17E.
05:18And another.
05:20U.
05:22Consonant, please.
05:23K.
05:25Consonant.
05:26R.
05:28And a consonant to finish, please.
05:30And lastly, S.
05:31And 30 seconds.
05:32Did you ask for a وس�iff, please?
05:33Go.
05:46Go.
05:58Go.
05:59Go.
06:00Go.
06:00Go Ga.
06:01Go.
06:02Go.
06:03That's it, Marianne.
06:05I'm going to risk a seven.
06:06Going to go for it.
06:07And Laura?
06:07I've got a dodgy seven too.
06:08Marianne?
06:09Unseeks.
06:11Unseeks, it might not be.
06:13Unfakes.
06:14Susie, a bit of work for you to do early in the programme?
06:17Yes, and I'm not sure if this is a good thing,
06:19but there is no unfake and there is no unseeks,
06:22so neither of those are in, I'm sorry.
06:23I really had little expectation they were in there.
06:26They were almost as bad as my nine.
06:28Snake furs.
06:30Give it a snake's aunt, furry, don't even dare look it up, Susie.
06:34No, I'm not, but I'm looking at one that I think you probably
06:37would have also wondered about.
06:39Funkers.
06:40Yes, I've got it here.
06:41I thought so.
06:42That was such a common word.
06:43And it's in the dictionary.
06:44Yes.
06:45So the definition is not what you might expect.
06:47It's a coward, so somebody who funks at the last minute.
06:50OK, nice.
06:52Let's get to the numbers, and Laura?
06:54Two large, please.
06:56Thank you, Laura.
06:56Two from the top row and four from the other lot.
06:59And the first numbers of the day are five, ten, three, two.
07:05And the large ones, 75 and 50.
07:08And the target, 585.
07:11585.
07:12Numbers up.
07:12Fake music.
07:14Musique.
07:15...
07:425-8-5
07:47I think I've got 5-8-5
07:48I think you do as well, off you go
07:5010 times 50 is 500
07:525 times 2 is 10
07:56plus 75
07:58and add that to the 500
07:595-8-5, lovely
08:01APPLAUSE
08:03Another challenger in the lead this week
08:05going into our first break
08:06and the tea time teaser is blame one
08:08blame one
08:10it's ground to put on the ground
08:12to help underground
08:14it's ground to put on the ground
08:16to help underground
08:25APPLAUSE
08:33Welcome back
08:34difficult clue this
08:35it's ground to put on the ground
08:37to help underground
08:39and the answer is bone meal
08:41so Susie Dent
08:42what is bone meal?
08:43well the nice bit is that it's a fertiliser
08:45so it's one of the many garden fertilisers
08:48you can get
08:48not so nice is that it's ground bones
08:50there you go
08:51yeah
08:52any particular bones or
08:53I don't know
08:54I'm guessing animal bones
08:56hopefully
08:57I'm guessing you're right
09:00but I don't like to think of any of it
09:01let's get back to the game
09:03and Marianne you're picking the letters
09:05can I have a consonant please Rachel?
09:06you can do
09:07you can do
09:07you can do
09:07you can do
09:08L
09:08and another
09:11V
09:12and another
09:13T
09:15a vowel
09:16A
09:17and another
09:19A
09:20and a third please
09:21I
09:22a consonant
09:23D
09:25and another
09:26R
09:28and a final consonant please
09:30and a final S
09:32there it is right
09:33pick sorry the bones of that
09:34T
09:35A
09:35T
09:35A
09:35A
09:37A
09:38A
09:40B
09:40A
09:41B
09:41B
09:41A
09:51B
09:56A
10:02A
10:03A
10:05Time's up, Marianne.
10:07Seven.
10:07And Laura.
10:08Seven.
10:09Right, what have we got, Marianne?
10:10Details.
10:11Details, and Laura.
10:12I've got details as well.
10:14There you go, devil is in the details.
10:16Anything else?
10:18Red tails.
10:19Is that one word?
10:20Yes, we had that quite recently.
10:21So, a bird, quite a few breeds of birds that have red tails,
10:25goldfish as well, or other fish.
10:27So that was there for an eight, and lardiest.
10:30Yeah, lardiest is there too.
10:31Red tails and lardiest.
10:33Right, just ten points in it, as we get more letters from Laura.
10:37A consonant, please.
10:38Thank you, Laura.
10:39P.
10:40A consonant.
10:42L.
10:43A consonant.
10:45C.
10:46And a vowel.
10:47E.
10:48A vowel.
10:50O.
10:51Another vowel.
10:53I.
10:54A consonant.
10:56T.
10:57A consonant.
10:58G.
10:59A final consonant, please.
11:01And a final N.
11:03And here we go.
11:05MUSIC PLAYS
11:23All right, that is two of us, and we'll see you next time.
11:23MUSIC PLAYS
11:24All right, that is two of us, and we'll see you next time.
11:32MUSIC PLAYS
11:35All right, that is time.
11:37Laura.
11:38A seven.
11:39Seven for Laura.
11:40Marianne?
11:40Just a six.
11:41The six is?
11:42Police.
11:42And the seven to close that gap.
11:45Plotting.
11:45Plotting.
11:46What's one T?
11:47No, I have to have two, I'm afraid.
11:49I'm sorry, Laura.
11:50There's a lot of risky sevens with the ING, so let's find out what's in there.
11:54I didn't get any for this one.
11:56Well, there is an eight, if you know about your subatomic particles.
12:00Nope.
12:01Particularly a lepton.
12:03So a leptonic is there, and that is related to a lepton.
12:06A subatomic particle, such as an electron, neutrino, etc.,
12:09which does not take part in a strong interaction.
12:12All right.
12:13Marianne, it's your numbers.
12:15Can I have an inverted T, please, Rachel?
12:17You can indeed.
12:18One large and five little coming up.
12:21And for the second time today, the number selection is four, two, two, one, seven,
12:28and the large one, twenty-five.
12:30And the target, 614.
12:33614, numbers up.
12:34714, numbers up.
12:36814, numbers up.
12:45815, numbers up.
12:45315, numbers up.
12:48714, numbers up.
12:55813, numbers up.
12:57715, numbers down.
12:58215, numbers up.
13:028 vast to 8.
13:046-1-4. Marianne.
13:086-1-2.
13:09Two away. Laura.
13:116-1-4. Off you go.
13:1325 times 4.
13:1425 by 4, 100.
13:16Plus the two, 402.
13:18102.
13:197 minus 1 gives you 6.
13:21Yep. Times them together for 6-1-2 and add the other two.
13:25Well done. 6-1-4.
13:26Yeah.
13:28We're back within six.
13:30What a contest we have this Friday afternoon
13:33as we head over to Dictionary Corner.
13:35And as I said, Sam Quick, you know, you get a green light
13:38just like your top to talk about the Euros, which begins tonight.
13:42It's Marianne Scotland taking on the host Germany.
13:46But am I wrong in thinking that you chose hockey over football?
13:51You were brilliant at football.
13:52Yeah, I played football before hockey.
13:54I got to my brother and an older brother.
13:57And every day after school, I played footy in the garden.
14:00If it was too waterlogged, we'd go and play on the road.
14:01So it was very much part of life.
14:04And then I started playing hockey when I was 14.
14:06I joined the club.
14:07So go back to football, when I played with the boys' team,
14:11I actually got kicked out because no girls played back then.
14:15And there was a lot of complaints within the local league saying,
14:17well, the boys can't play against a girl.
14:19They don't want to tackle her.
14:20They think they're going to injure her.
14:21So the local league, you know, kicked me out.
14:23I'm a mum and the coach at the time.
14:25Went down to London, appealed it with the FA,
14:28who then sent someone up north and said, no, Sam can play until she's 11.
14:32And I think I made it back for the last two games of that season.
14:35And then I joined a girls' team.
14:38And there was only two on the Wirral back then.
14:39Whereas now, you look across the playing field,
14:42there's tons of girls and tons of girls' football teams, which is fab.
14:46And I joined Tramia Rovers, where I played until I was about 17.
14:49Brilliant.
14:49And I had to pick between the two.
14:50Yeah, a lot of the biggest clubs got rid of their female teams this century.
14:54And, you know, we're almost shamed into bringing them back.
14:56I know there's a lot of support now, but lest we forget it wasn't long ago
15:00they didn't have them and they weren't interested in having them.
15:03But the Lionesses have done, of course, but the Lions haven't.
15:05Yeah.
15:06But what's your levels of optimism going into this tournament?
15:09I think Denmark, England, top two.
15:12And I believe if people play to their current world rankings,
15:17I think England would potentially get France in a semi-final.
15:21Yeah.
15:22And then the final will be England, Spain.
15:23But that's just, if they play, not that I've looked at it or anything,
15:26but if they play to their world ranking, I think England, Spain,
15:30that would be a decent Euro final, wouldn't it?
15:32Who knows? We've had Denmark have won the Euros.
15:35Czech Republic have won the Euros.
15:36Why not Scotland? It begins tonight.
15:38You never know. You have to dream. That's what it's all about.
15:41APPLAUSE
15:43Thank you to Sam. Six points in it. Back to the game.
15:46And Laura.
15:47A consonant, please.
15:48Thank you, Laura.
15:49T.
15:50A consonant, J.
15:52A consonant, H.
15:55A vowel, E.
15:57A vowel, A.
15:59A vowel, O.
16:02A consonant, M.
16:04A consonant, B.
16:07And A consonant, please.
16:10Lastly, T.
16:11And start that clock.
16:12A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant,
16:29A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant,
16:29A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant,
16:29A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant,
16:29A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant,
16:29A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant,
16:30A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant,
16:33A consonant, A consonant, A consonant, A consonant
16:42That is time, Laura.
16:45A five.
16:46And Marianne.
16:47Just a four.
16:47Just a four.
16:48You see, we stopped.
16:49We had a chat about football.
16:50You've lost focus.
16:52Marianne.
16:53Toom.
16:53Toom.
16:54And for your five.
16:56A bathe.
16:57Baze.
16:58And we will head over to dictionary corner for, I'm hoping, a little bit better.
17:01Only just, though, with a single seven.
17:04Mm.
17:04Jet boat.
17:05A jet boat.
17:06Is that just another name for a speed boat, is it?
17:09Yeah, absolutely.
17:10Yeah.
17:10Just one point in it, then.
17:12More letters now from Marianne.
17:13Can I have a consonant, please?
17:15Thank you, Marianne.
17:16G.
17:17And another.
17:19M.
17:20And another.
17:22R.
17:23A vowel.
17:24A.
17:25And another.
17:26O.
17:27And another.
17:29U.
17:30A consonant.
17:32G.
17:33Another.
17:36S.
17:37Can I have a vowel, please?
17:39And lastly, I.
17:41And here we go.
17:43All right.
17:44And.
17:57What a classic.
17:58It's a marriage.
17:58Yeah.
17:59And.
18:01It's.
18:06I doing.
18:07It's, it's not.
18:08And so.
18:08Not that.ivers
18:09.good.
18:09And so.
18:09WI. Oh,
18:10Yeah. Yeah. I
18:13Marianne? A seven. Well done. And Laura? A seven too. You don't look hugely confident. Have you written it down?
18:18Yeah.
18:19OK, that look is not confident. Marianne? Mousier. Mousier, yeah. And Laura? Muggier. Muggier, yeah.
18:26Yes, you look very worried, but it is specified, so very good. Was there anything above sevens? Yes, it was
18:32an eight.
18:33Yeah, and I suppose you could say this with weather as well, couldn't you? Yeah, yes. Smuggier. Smuggier.
18:39Smuggier. Yeah, I should have spotted that if Muggier was there. Smuggier.
18:43Right, it stays the same as we get our third numbers round of this Friday afternoon. Laura?
18:48Three large, please. Three large, yep. Still nip and tuck between you two.
18:52Need to do something here. Let's see if we have a challenge.
18:56Three little ones. Three, nine and six. And the big ones.
19:00Fifty, seventy-five and twenty-five. And the target?
19:04Seven hundred and forty. Seven four zero. Numbers up.
19:23Seven four zero.
19:38Seven four zero. Laura?
19:40Seven four four.
19:41Seven four four. Just four away, Marianne?
19:44Seven four one.
19:45And just one away for seven points. Off you go.
19:48Nine times seventy-five. Six, seven, five.
19:52Plus fifty, plus twenty-five.
19:55Seven fifty.
19:56Take away the six and the three. Yep.
19:59One away. Seven four one. Nice. And take us to seven four zero.
20:02Well, lots of ways to get one away, but this was impossible.
20:05Yeah, all divisible by three and not, so.
20:07Nice. So seven points the most you could muster, and Marianne managed to do that.
20:11All right, last Tea Time teaser of the week is user hail. User hail.
20:17You go to hail a taxi, but it's actually a truck.
20:20You go to hail a taxi, but it's actually a truck.
20:38Welcome back. You go to hail a taxi, but it's actually a truck.
20:41Your user hail becomes hauliers.
20:44Hauliers.
20:45Well, listen, Marianne is trucking so far.
20:47Let's get back to the game, and it is your letters.
20:49Thank you. Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
20:51Thank you, Marianne.
20:53J.
20:53And another.
20:56S.
20:57And another.
20:59L.
21:00Can I have another, please?
21:02T.
21:03A vowel.
21:05A.
21:06And another.
21:08I.
21:09And another.
21:10A.
21:11A consonant.
21:13D.
21:15And a final consonant, please.
21:17A final P.
21:19Decent letters.
21:20Let's go.
21:21Let's go.
21:21A consonant.
21:50AFI.
21:51A final consonant.
21:51Marianne. A seven. Well done. Laura. Seven. Well done. What have we got? Pledges. Pledges. Despite. And despite. Very nice.
22:01Nice. Well done to both of you. Keeps the scores ticking over, keeps it really close. Sam Crick, what did
22:07you see? Yeah, another seven. Epistle. And that's it. Epistle is a letter. Well, there is an eight, which is
22:14probably known to medics, pledgets. So pledges, but with a T in there as well.
22:19A small wad of lint or other soft materials, a pledget used to strop up a wound. Not what you
22:25find on your belly button then. Little pledget. Eight points in it. And more letters. Laura. Consonant, please. Thank you,
22:35Laura. W. Consonant. S. Another consonant, please. T. A vowel. U. A vowel. A. A vowel.
22:48O. A consonant. Z. A consonant. N. And a vowel, please. And lastly. An E. Let's do it.
23:01A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
23:18A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
23:18A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
23:18A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
23:18A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
23:18A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
23:20A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
23:25A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel
23:33Laura five and Marianne five yes
23:36She's you're stuck in the same groove now the five wages on the five swung
23:42Swung and wages that's swing on over the dictionary corner because they've earned their money today
23:47What do we have? Yeah another six sticking on the wound theme? Yeah previous round causes
23:55Very good. Yes. Can we not have a wound theme? Can we then make it not a theme?
24:00Yeah, is it more of a coincidence wagons wagons is theirs right and gowans which are pretty yellow flowers
24:09Still in the crucial countdown conundrum territory with four rounds left. We love it
24:15Let's get a final origins of words of this week Susie Dent. I'm very sorry to stick with the medical
24:19theme
24:20Yeah, but it's not gory as such
24:24But an email from Tom Murphy who says there must be some etymological
24:28Connection between influenza and influence, but I can't imagine what it can be
24:34Can I shed any light on it is what Tom is asking me and he's right. They are siblings
24:40Wow influenza means influence in Italian and it is all about Italy because in 1743
24:48they saw an outbreak of a really severe respiratory infection and the English minister to Tuscany at the time so
24:58Horace Mann
24:58wrote of Rome where he was saying everybody's ill of the influenza and many die and the epidemic then spread
25:06throughout Europe and
25:07Influenza became the general term for this type of contagious infection and of course influence became flu and we all
25:15know that but why?
25:16Influence well influence if you go back to its origin
25:19Had a general sense of a flowing matter it goes back to a latin word fluere meaning to flow
25:25So it's an inflow and they probably weren't completely sure what was causing this respiratory disease at the time and
25:33an influence particularly
25:35Was used to describe a kind of flowing in of an ethereal fluid that then affected human destiny
25:42So you have to remember this was a time when the stars were also supposed to affect our fate
25:47So they knew that it was some kind of flowing in but didn't quite probably know what it was
25:53But influenza and influence both have that same route of something flowing in and you can find sort of similar
25:59Misplaced beliefs if you like but ones that were very established at the time in malaria
26:03Which it also goes back to Rome and it comes from the medieval Italian words
26:09Malaria bad air because it was thought that around Rome there were some very swampy boggy marshy areas and
26:15it was thought that malaria flowed in from this from these swamps and it was the bad air that caused
26:21this disease of
26:22Course it was mosquitoes that populated these swampy areas as we now know but they thought it was the air
26:27So influence and influenza and malaria will have very similar themes behind them. There you go
26:33I would never have thought there was a connection between influence and and the common flu so that's fantastic. Thank
26:38you
26:41Okay, we're all set four rounds left to play this week on countdown
26:45This looks like a nail-biter to finish the week
26:48Just the eight points in it and Marianne you've got your nose in front this challenger your letters. Thank you.
26:54Can I have a consonant, please?
26:55Thank you, Marianne s and another
26:59D and another
27:00T
27:02T
27:02Can I have a vowel?
27:04I
27:04And another
27:05A consonant
27:10B
27:11Another
27:13R
27:15And a final consonant, please
27:17Final D
27:18Kind So
27:20We
27:21So
27:47We
27:51Oh, goodness me. Marianne?
27:53A seven. Yes. And Laura? An eight.
27:56An eight. Big moment. Marianne, the seven.
28:00Tardies. Tardies, a proper Scottish word, that.
28:02Bet you wish you had one right now.
28:04With Laura getting an eight, what is it?
28:06Debiters. Debiters, Susie.
28:08Yeah, I thought debiter, like creditor, but it hasn't got an I,
28:11it's just a debtor. So, no can do. Sorry.
28:14What a moment. Oh, goodness me.
28:17I mean, it's weird, I've been gutted for you as well.
28:20Marianne, have you had to come up with it and it wasn't in?
28:22As it was the toddies. Well, we raise our glass to you.
28:25You get the points. What was in that dictionary of yours over there?
28:29Oh, yes, you said that with a hiss.
28:31Well, we did have one eight, didn't we?
28:32Yeah, you got the eight, wasn't it?
28:35Disrobed. Disrobed.
28:36It's a very old-fashioned word, isn't it? Disrobed.
28:39Disrobed, yeah. I think official vestments in religious ceremonies.
28:42Disrobed.
28:43Excellent. 15 points to gap now. Three rounds to go.
28:46Laura, it's your letters, you're in control.
28:48A consonant, please. Thank you, Laura.
28:50R. A consonant.
28:53W. Another consonant.
28:55S. A vowel.
28:57A. Another vowel.
28:59E. And another vowel, please.
29:02U. A consonant.
29:04P. A consonant.
29:06C. And final consonant, please.
29:11Final N.
29:12Last letters.
29:13A consonant.
29:24Maybe H raison.
29:26H oneself.
29:26B好像…
29:28A donor.
29:30A battle in a sounds program.
29:30A sólo vowel.
29:37A logs.
29:39A forecast.
29:40A requirement.
29:41A coast.
29:43A adverse потр coupon.
29:44Laura?
29:45A seven, not written down.
29:46And Marianne?
29:47A seven.
29:48And you wrote yours down?
29:49Yes.
29:49You don't get any extra points from that, just checking.
29:51Laura?
29:51Francis.
29:52Francis and Marianne?
29:53Yeah, same words.
29:54The R and E's, yeah, for sure?
29:56LAUGHTER
29:58OK, seven points each to Dictionary Corner, to Sam, to Suze.
30:02What can we add?
30:03Again, people are going to be rolling their eyes
30:05with my love for Call of Duty, respawn.
30:08So on the game, you respawn.
30:10Respawn, and that's in the dictionary?
30:11Yeah, absolutely, and in the gaming sense.
30:13Yeah, you've come back to life.
30:14Can I take her respawn and re-pawns?
30:18Yeah, absolutely, to go back to the pawn shop,
30:21pawn something again, absolutely.
30:22Good.
30:23Loads of words in there, let's concentrate on what matters.
30:26Two rounds left, maximum of 20 points, 15 points in it.
30:29Big numbers round, Marianne, and your choosing.
30:32Can I have one from the top and any other five, please?
30:35So you want me to find something as easy as possible?
30:37Yes, please.
30:38Laura wants the opposite.
30:39Right, let's see, final numbers of the week.
30:41Four, six, seven, five, three, and 100.
30:48And the target, 837.
30:50837, last numbers.
30:54One, two, three, and 10.
30:57One, two, three, and one.
30:58One, two, three, and three, and one.
31:15One, two, three, and the door.
31:20How do you end up?
31:238-3-7, Marianne.
31:258-3-4.
31:26A chance then, 8-3-7?
31:28I've lost it.
31:29You've lost it?
31:30OK, so we already have a new champion,
31:32but we'd better have a lap of honour and get yourself seven points.
31:355 plus 3 is 8 times 100.
31:39800.
31:404 times 7 is 28, plus 6.
31:43Add them together, 8-3-4.
31:458-3-4, 3 below.
31:47And, Rachel, I'd just hit the button,
31:48you were already metaphorically leaning on the lamppost,
31:51so I know you have it.
31:52Well, this one is divisible by...
31:547.
31:559!
31:57If you take your 7 and take it away from the 100 for 93,
32:01and then you can say 6 plus 3 is 9 and times them together.
32:048-3-7.
32:059.
32:09Oh, brilliant.
32:10You know what I'm going to say to you, Rachel?
32:11TMT.
32:12TMT this week.
32:13Too many teapots.
32:14Too many teapots.
32:15We can't afford this.
32:16Different champion every day.
32:17Can't believe it.
32:19Marianne, you've got your teapot already,
32:21but we'll save the official congratulations for one more round.
32:24Laura's taken hers home with her this weekend,
32:26but we have the small matter of 10 more points.
32:29So, fingers on the buzzers, please.
32:30And let's reveal this Friday afternoon,
32:32Countdown Conundrum.
32:54Go on, Laura.
32:55Under soil.
32:56What a way to go out.
32:57Let's have a look.
32:58Yes.
33:01You can put your bone meal on that under soil.
33:05Well done.
33:05It closes the gap a little bit.
33:07Laura, what a delight to have you.
33:09You beat someone who I thought might have won eight.
33:12You've now only won one.
33:13So, what a great standard it is.
33:15And all, by the way, female contestants,
33:17which we're getting more and more applications from female contestants.
33:20Keep them coming in, please,
33:22to countdown at channel4.com.
33:24Enjoy yourself?
33:25Yeah, it's been great.
33:26Good stuff.
33:27And listen, Marianne,
33:27you're going to have to bunk off work on Monday at least again.
33:30Is that okay?
33:31We'll see what we can do.
33:32We'll see you here.
33:33Good luck to Scotland tonight.
33:35Good start for Scotland, eh,
33:36if that's a sign.
33:37Germany, be worried.
33:39And Sam,
33:40it's been great to have you in Dictionary Corner for the first time.
33:42Yeah, I've enjoyed every minute.
33:43Thank you for having me.
33:44And Susie and I invited to your house tonight for the football.
33:47Yeah, as long as you bring a dish.
33:49Always.
33:49Yeah, bring a dish.
33:50No dish, let me tell you that.
33:52We're all done,
33:53but next week we serve up an absolute treat.
33:55Rachel, am I going crazy?
33:57But it feels...
33:57Yeah, I am.
33:58Yeah, but the Series 89,
34:01we started with an octo champ
34:02that started to win in Series 88 at the end.
34:05So it hit the ground running.
34:06We have eight octo champs battling it out for the title.
34:09It just feels special.
34:11It feels really special and quite hard to call.
34:13Yeah, six more sleeps, Colin.
34:15You won't have to call it.
34:16You can watch.
34:16You'll be here.
34:17You have a front row seat.
34:18Yeah, and Marianne hopes
34:19that she'll have four wins under her belt by then
34:23and she can be the first octo champ of Series 90.
34:26Big week next week.
34:27Join us on Monday.
34:28It'll all kick off then for us.
34:29Rachel, Susie and I will be waiting for you.
34:32You can count on us.
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