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00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown.
00:33It's the afternoon before the first quarterfinal of Series 89 of Countdown.
00:38Eight undefeated octo-champs and every single day until next Friday,
00:43we will break a heart until we have a champion.
00:46One more regular season show to go.
00:48So this is the calm before the storm.
00:51This is the relaxation zone we're in now,
00:54which is lucky because it's World Sauntering Day today.
00:57Perfectly timed.
00:58Perfect for you.
00:59We did this last year, Rich.
01:00We took each other on a metaphorical walk and I loved it.
01:03Actually, I had a walk around Limon Cheshire this morning.
01:06Beautiful little village. Beautiful.
01:08Anyway, I'm going to take you to the Mourne Mountains
01:11and whether you want to climb to the top of Sleave Donard,
01:14it's Newcastle County Down,
01:15or whether you want to trace the River Shimna,
01:18you know, from beautiful forest to locks to mountain climbs.
01:24And, you know, for all ages, really simple walks up to really difficult ones,
01:29short and long.
01:30And the walk from Dundrum to Newcastle,
01:34which is, I think, about nine, nine kilometres-ish.
01:36Beautiful.
01:37Doesn't sound like a saunter to me.
01:38This sounds pretty hardcore.
01:39No, some of that is a trek, I have to say.
01:42Mountain climbing, sauntering.
01:44Hmm.
01:44Where's the overlap?
01:45Didn't really match.
01:46But beautiful.
01:46I love it.
01:47Takes us there in our minds as well, which is great.
01:50Right, in reality, let's saunter on over the dictionary corner.
01:53A G of the D who never rambles.
01:55She leaves that Dios.
01:57It's Susie Dent.
01:58And beside her, a man who's walked the biggest tennis arenas on the planet.
02:01It's Greg Wazetski.
02:06And Greg has had but one champion this week,
02:09and that is Phil Campbell,
02:10who's looking to make it three today
02:13and to carry it on over into Series 90.
02:16How are you today?
02:17Yeah, good, thank you.
02:18Good.
02:18Yeah.
02:18I always love chatting to you,
02:20but I want to talk about the family,
02:21because we haven't, we haven't yet.
02:22And so, so your wife is Andrea.
02:25That's right.
02:26And you've got twins, I believe.
02:28That's right, yeah.
02:29Tell us about, how old are they now?
02:3125, so one of each, Abigail and Jacob.
02:34When I was growing up,
02:35there was a lady in our street,
02:36had four at once, quads.
02:38How do you fancy that, Phil?
02:40No, two was enough at once.
02:42Two was enough, exactly.
02:43Well, talking about round our way,
02:46that's exactly where I'm going now.
02:47Back to Belfast, the lower Cheshire girl now.
02:49Caroline McElinden is with us.
02:51How are you?
02:51Very well, thank you.
02:52Good.
02:53I could talk to you about wine,
02:54I could talk to you about accountancy.
02:56There's so much we could talk about.
02:58But you're claiming that you're related
03:00to the late, great actor, Cary Grant.
03:03This we must hear.
03:05Well, my grandfather has convinced us
03:07that we were related to Cary Grant.
03:09His second or third cousin
03:12moved up to Bristol many, many years ago.
03:15And that was Cary Grant's mother,
03:19as far as I'm aware.
03:20Yes.
03:20So it's quite a distant connection,
03:23but he assures us that it is valid.
03:27Wow, I love that little connection.
03:28And Cary Grant would take us the whole show
03:30to do his story,
03:31but what an interesting life he led.
03:33Very much so.
03:34So much to talk about.
03:35So much to talk about.
03:37Excellent.
03:37All right.
03:38Good luck to you, Caroline.
03:39Good luck to Phil.
03:40Let's do a bit of count-downing.
03:44And Phil, you're choosing the first letters.
03:46Can you have a consonant, please, Rachel?
03:48Thank you, Phil.
03:49D.
03:50And another one, please.
03:52R.
03:53And another one, please.
03:55C.
03:56A vowel.
03:58A.
03:59A vowel.
04:01E.
04:02And another vowel, please.
04:04U.
04:06A consonant, please.
04:08G.
04:10A consonant, please.
04:12D.
04:13And a vowel, please.
04:16Lastly, E.
04:17At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:50Phil, another day, another doughnut. How many?
04:53Six. Six from you and Caroline? Six. Six as well.
04:57Phil? Graced. Graced. And for you, Caroline?
05:00I got graced as well. Yep.
05:02There you go. Let's head over to the dictionary corner.
05:05More than a six, please. Yes, we got two sevens, actually.
05:09We got reduced and guarded.
05:10Guarded. And guarded.
05:12OK, great start for dictionary corner.
05:14Steady start for Phil and Caroline.
05:16And you're choosing the letters.
05:18May I have a consonant, please?
05:20You may, indeed.
05:21M. And another one?
05:25G. And another one?
05:28S. And a vowel, please.
05:30I. Another vowel, please.
05:33A. A consonant.
05:37F. Another consonant.
05:39L.
05:40And a vowel, please.
05:43U.
05:44And another consonant.
05:46Lastly, S.
05:47And 30 seconds.
05:48L.
05:49In más,
05:49S.
05:50S.
05:50S.
05:51S.
06:18Caroline.
06:20Just a five.
06:21The five and Phil.
06:22Yeah, five.
06:23What's the five?
06:24Fails.
06:25Yes, and Phil?
06:27Golfs.
06:27Fails and golfs with the U, five points each.
06:30Well done, 11 points apiece.
06:32Can you make it 2-0?
06:33Did you get anything better there, Greg?
06:34No, we didn't get anything more than that.
06:36We had glass and we had flags.
06:38Yeah, make us a few fives, but nothing beyond that for us.
06:42Miserable letters, miserable.
06:44Let's get our first numbers round, Phil.
06:46Two large and four small, please.
06:48Your favourite two from the top four little ones.
06:51First one of the day is nine, two, four, ten.
06:56And the large one is 50 and 75.
06:58And you need to reach 733.
07:02733.
07:03Numbers up.
07:04beautiful, people.
07:11One, two, one.
07:19Two, three.
07:20Two, three.
07:25They get your first term.
07:32Second one is almost impossible.
07:34If it's demanding, if you take an aiming for an inch and youسing voglio, you should have no
07:347-3-3 the target. Phil? 7-3-3.
07:38And Caroline? 7-3-2.
07:40Just missed it by one, and that'll mean ten points, Phil, if you're right.
07:4375 times ten. 750.
07:46Minus nine. 7-4-1.
07:48Minus two times four. Two times four for eight.
07:51And that gets you there. 7-3-3. Lovely.
07:54APPLAUSE
07:56Very good start from Caroline. Great start by Phil.
08:00Loads to look forward to when we come back.
08:02And here's our first tea-time teaser of this Wednesday afternoon.
08:05Last show of our regular series before the first quarter-final tomorrow.
08:09And it's Red Union. Red Union.
08:12If you get this, you'll have pressing matters to attend to.
08:15If you get this, you'll have pressing matters to attend to.
08:37Unironed. Unironed.
08:39The pressing matter of more letters, please, Caroline.
08:41Right, Rachel. Could I have one consonant, please?
08:44Thank you, Caroline. B.
08:46And another.
08:48R.
08:48And another.
08:50H.
08:52And a vowel, please.
08:53O.
08:54And another.
08:55I.
08:56Consonant, please.
08:58T.
08:59Another consonant.
09:01R.
09:02Vowel, please.
09:04E.
09:05And another consonant, please.
09:08Lastly, P.
09:09Thanks, Rich.
09:10Thanks, Rich.
09:41Caroline.
09:42Five.
09:43Five.
09:44Five.
09:44And Phil.
09:45Six.
09:46Caroline, you're five.
09:47Tripe.
09:48Tripe.
09:48And Phil.
09:49Bother.
09:50And bother.
09:51Well, I was going to say, Caroline's going to kick herself for not spotting an obvious seven.
09:55You're really going to kick yourself, Phil.
09:57Oh, no.
09:57Let's head over to Greg to reveal all.
09:59Yes, you could have had brother there.
10:01Oh, that's a bother, isn't it?
10:03You just had the ER.
10:03And what else?
10:04And we had orbiter as well.
10:06My goodness me.
10:0827-11.
10:09That's the important scores on the doors as Phil gives us more letters.
10:14A consonant, please.
10:15Thank you, Phil.
10:17L.
10:18And another consonant, please.
10:21R.
10:22And another one, please.
10:24D.
10:25A vowel, please.
10:27I.
10:28And another vowel, please.
10:30E.
10:31And a third vowel, please.
10:34U.
10:35A consonant, please.
10:37N.
10:39And another consonant, please.
10:42W.
10:43And a vowel, please.
10:46Lastly, A.
10:47And half a minute.
10:48konk leaders.
10:49W....!
10:51g.
11:10Come around
11:16here. Again,
11:19Phil? Seven. Seven from Phil. And Caroline? Six. And this six. What's the six, Caroline?
11:25Winder. A winder. And Phil? Launder. And to launder. Well done, sir. Seven points for you.
11:33Over the dictionary corner? We actually managed to get an eight, which is unrailed.
11:37Nothing to do with trains, that, is it? No, it's not so much derailing. It just means not having a
11:41railing or a banister.
11:43Simple as that. Unrailed. Well spotted indeed. Well, you're not off the rails at all here, Caroline.
11:48It ebbs and flows. It's a marathon, not a sprint. And it's your numbers.
11:51Hey, we're only on the second numbers round. That's how long there is still to go.
11:55So off you go. OK, Rachel, could I have two large ones and the rest little ones, please?
12:00Thank you, Caroline. Two large, four little.
12:03Coming up, second numbers of the day.
12:06A four, two, seven and eight.
12:09And the large to this time, 125.
12:12And you need to reach 266.
12:15Two, six, six. Numbers up.
12:46Two, six, six.
12:48Six was the target here. Caroline?
12:50Er, 260.
12:52260 for you. Six away. Will it be any good, Phil?
12:54Two, six, six.
12:55Oh, it's another ten points. Go ahead, Phil.
12:58A hundred and twenty-five.
13:00One hundred and twenty-five.
13:01Plus eight.
13:02One hundred and thirty-three.
13:04And times it by two.
13:05Two hundred and sixty-six. Well done.
13:08APPLAUSE
13:10Well done, champ.
13:12Bit of a healthy lead of 33 at the moment as we cross over to Dixonry Corner to our baseline
13:17junkie, Greg Rosetsky.
13:20And listen, I promised I was going to bust your chops in Wimbledon.
13:23So I want to go one more time today because Monday we talked junior Wimbledon.
13:27Yesterday we talked your centre-court debut.
13:30And of course you got to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
13:33Can you take me on that journey and what that's like as that pressure grows and grows?
13:38Well, it's always a special moment when you make it to the second week of any major.
13:42But you also need a little bit of luck sometimes.
13:44So I was playing an American by the name of Jonathan Stark.
13:47I had a little bit of a back problem.
13:49And unfortunately my physio couldn't make it in time to fix me up before the match.
13:53So all of a sudden I found myself down two sets and a break, nearly out of the tournament.
13:58And then the gods open up, the sky starts raining, and everything stops.
14:02My physio manages to get from his practice into the locker room, adjusts my back, puts me in shape.
14:08And then I go on to win an epic match, 9-7 in the fifth set, to get through that
14:12round,
14:13which actually propelled me into the second week to make the quarter-finals.
14:16And it was interesting because this is where Tim Henman and myself were coming up at the same time.
14:20We were both in the last day of the tournament.
14:22Had we both won, we would have guaranteed a Brit in the finals.
14:26But unfortunately, both of us lost on that day.
14:28And sometimes you just need a little bit of luck to go your way.
14:32And fortunately for me, I had the luck of the rain helping me out to get through to my first
14:36quarter-finals there at Wimbledon.
14:37I'm trying to place this in terms of the date.
14:40So was that before the roof was on centre court?
14:42Yeah, that was 1997.
14:43I was only any good in the last century.
14:45That's how long ago it was.
14:47So you got through a round because of rain.
14:51But unless my mind's playing tricks on me, Tim Henman lost a semi-final at Wimbledon, did he not,
14:57against Ivan Isovich because of rain?
14:59Well, it did.
14:59I mean, sometimes it helps us and sometimes it hurts us.
15:02So Henman had just won the fourth set, Sixth Love against Goran.
15:06And then all of a sudden the rain occurred and he lost the fifth set to make the Wimbledon finals.
15:10And that was the epic year in 2001 where they had the Monday final with Isovich and with Pat Rafter
15:17there.
15:17And had Tim actually got through that one, he might have been Wimbledon champion.
15:21So sometimes everything goes against you or for you.
15:24Never rains, it pours.
15:26Thank you very much, mate.
15:30Right, let's get on with it.
15:32You're a couple of sets down, Caroline, to use the tennis terms.
15:35But it's not over yet.
15:37It's not game set match.
15:38Stranger things have happened.
15:40And Phil, in the driving seat and choosing these letters.
15:42I can have a consonant, please, Rachel.
15:45Thank you, Phil.
15:46C.
15:47And a consonant, please.
15:49N.
15:49And a third one, please.
15:52T.
15:52And a vowel.
15:54E.
15:56And another vowel, please.
15:57I.
15:58And a third vowel, please.
16:00O.
16:02A consonant, please.
16:04V.
16:06Another consonant.
16:08D.
16:09And a vowel, please.
16:12Good selection so far.
16:13A final A.
16:14And start the clock.
16:16On the counter.
16:19On the counter.
16:47Time's up. Phil? Six. Caroline? Six. Six as well.
16:52Let's get some more points on the board. Phil? Voiced. Caroline?
16:56Voiced. Well done. Six points each.
16:59Any advance on six, Greg Rosetsky? Well, I've got to give this to Susie,
17:03obviously. We got a nine-pointer. What was it? Yeah.
17:07Advection. Advection. Yeah.
17:09It is quite technical. Well, not technical, but quite detailed, this one.
17:13It's about the transfer of heat by the flow of a fluid,
17:17especially horizontally in the atmosphere or in the sea.
17:20Brilliant. Well done.
17:24And I tell you what isn't complex. If you manage to get that at home,
17:27it's double the point, so 18 for you.
17:2950 players, 17, as we move on to our next letters. And Caroline?
17:34Right. Rachel, could I have a consonant, please?
17:36Thank you, Caroline. T? Another consonant.
17:41S? Vowel.
17:43I. Another vowel.
17:46E. Consonant, please?
17:49M. Another consonant.
17:52T. Another consonant.
17:55Q. Another vowel, please?
17:58O. And a consonant, please?
18:01Lastly, R.
18:03And here we go.
18:05We'll see you.
18:05Bye.
18:34Carline,
18:35Six. Six from you. Phil? Seven.
18:39Carline, what's the six? Timers.
18:40And what's the seven you've spotted? Moistur. Moistur. Susie?
18:44Yeah, if it's a single syllable you can put the E-R at the end
18:47without it having to be in the dictionary, so it's absolutely fine.
18:50Anything else there, Greg? Motties for seven.
18:53Motties, M-O-T-T-I-E-S. Yes.
18:56So, in Scots and also regional English,
18:59Motti is a mark at which the player aims in coits, in marbles, that kind of thing.
19:05Well done, well done. 57-17, numbers, third time today.
19:09Our last show of the regular season. And Philip, your choosing.
19:12Two large and four small, please, Rachel.
19:14You don't need to ask now. Two large, four little coming up.
19:16The regular, the usual. Thank you, Phil.
19:19This time we have six, two, eight, five.
19:23And the large one, 75 and 25.
19:25And the target you need to get to? 478.
19:28478. Numbers up.
19:32505.
19:32That is a very nice.
19:33And in the background, people have been used.
19:50The target you need to get to.
19:50And in the background where you want to call me.
19:50We'll see you.
19:50The target you want to call me,
19:50The target you're looking for.
19:50The target you're in for that is a little bit.
20:014-7-8, the target, Phil.
20:034-7-5, not written down.
20:05Missed it by three, didn't write it down.
20:07Caroline? 4-7-7.
20:084-7-7, one away for seven points.
20:11Right, six-eighths are 48.
20:14Yep.
20:15Five-twos are ten. They are.
20:1848 times ten is 480.
20:20Here it is.
20:2275 divided by 25 is three.
20:25Yep. And take it away.
20:27Well done, one away, 4-7-7.
20:28Well done, and take us to 4-7-8, please.
20:31Yes, one away.
20:3275 plus five is 80.
20:35Times that by six for 480.
20:38Take away the two, 4-7-8.
20:43Two more points for Caroline.
20:45It's 57 plus 24 as you get our second T time teaser.
20:49Pretty straightforward, this one.
20:50The plane. The plane.
20:52And for those visually impaired, it's P-L-A-N-E, not A-I-N.
20:56The plane shares its name with this creature.
20:58The plane shares its name with this creature.
21:11Hello.
21:16Hello again. The plane shares its name with this creature.
21:19The plane becomes Elephant.
21:21Elephant, right.
21:22Six more rounds of the regular season left before the first quarterfinal tomorrow.
21:27Eight Octo Champs return to fight it out for the title of Series 89 champion.
21:32Caroline, it's your letters.
21:34Rachel, could I have the consonant, please?
21:37Thank you, Caroline.
21:37H.
21:38And another consonant.
21:40S.
21:41Vowel, please.
21:43U.
21:43Another vowel.
21:45A.
21:45A consonant, please.
21:47D.
21:48Another consonant.
21:50G.
21:51A vowel, please.
21:52O.
21:54A consonant, please.
21:56N.
21:57And a vowel, please.
21:58And lastly, E.
22:00Good luck.
22:01good luck.
22:10Bye-bye.
22:11Bye-bye.
22:14Good luck.
22:23Bye-bye.
22:24Bye-bye.
22:32Caroline?
22:33I have five.
22:35And for you, Phil?
22:36Seven.
22:37The five, Caroline?
22:39Goads, G-O-A-D-S.
22:41And the champions added again.
22:43Nasht.
22:44Nasht.
22:44Oh, very good.
22:45Didn't see that one.
22:46That's excellent.
22:47Well spotted.
22:48Well spotted indeed for seven.
22:49And I'm guessing by that response, we don't have anything better.
22:52Absolutely not.
22:52No, we're beating them.
22:53Well done.
22:53Well done, Phil.
22:55You're giving Dictionary Corner a run for the money.
22:58So, Caroline, no shame in not being able to quite keep up
23:01because you're part of a big club at the moment.
23:04Phil, your letters.
23:05Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:07Thank you, Phil.
23:08P.
23:08And another one, please.
23:10T.
23:11And a third one, please.
23:14R.
23:15A vowel, please.
23:16O.
23:17And another vowel, please.
23:19E.
23:20And a third vowel, please.
23:22I.
23:24Consonant, please.
23:26N.
23:27And another consonant, please.
23:29S.
23:30And a final vowel, please.
23:34A final A.
23:36Countdown.
23:36Keep going.
23:51See you next time.
23:52Bye-bye.
23:52Bye-bye.
23:59Bye-bye.
24:00MUSIC
24:07Phil. Eight. Eight from you. And Caroline. Eight.
24:11And an eight from you. Phil. Proteins. Yes, and Caroline.
24:14Proteins. Proteins.
24:17Yes. Well done. Fantastic, yeah.
24:20APPLAUSE
24:21Was it better than eight? Yes.
24:24It was a nine, obviously.
24:26Don't patronise me, hurry up, tell me!
24:29Well, we won't patronise you then.
24:32Well done, you two.
24:33APPLAUSE
24:36Well, time for our third Origins Awards of the Week. Susie.
24:39Yes. So, thanks to Susan Miller, who emailed the team
24:43and asked two questions, actually, which I can combine, hopefully,
24:48in one answer. One is, why are large biceps called guns?
24:52LAUGHTER
24:53And lastly, why do we put some elbow grease into it?
24:57LAUGHTER
24:58So, OK, so you can probably guess the guns part of things.
25:04It's simply because this is where the firepower is.
25:08So, it is all about your sort of, you know, your weaponry, I suppose,
25:11or your, you know, your ammunition, if you have very pronounced muscles.
25:17And also, gun just generally is quite an interesting word.
25:21It was originally a catapult used in medieval warfare
25:24and it would hurl rocks at the enemy.
25:26And we think it comes from a Scandinavian name, Gunnhilde.
25:30And that is because giving female personal names to weapons
25:34has been really common over the centuries.
25:36So, if you think of things like Mons Meg, which was a cannon,
25:40you can see in Edinburgh Castle, and Big Bertha,
25:43which was a really large German gun.
25:44So, not too, um, unusual there.
25:47Anyway, those are your guns.
25:49Elbow grease is the other thing that Susan asks about.
25:51This really surprised me.
25:52So, put some elbow grease into it.
25:54It sounds quite recent.
25:55Kind of things that, you know, your grandparents might say.
25:57It was actually round in the 17th century, believe it or not.
26:00Um, and it referred to the best method for polishing furniture,
26:05which is just kind of rubbing it down incredibly, um, vigorously.
26:07And so, it meant energetic labour of any kind.
26:11And that is first recorded in 1672.
26:13Fantastic. Thank you.
26:17Lovely. Right.
26:1872-32.
26:20Four more rounds to go today
26:22before we call an end to the regular season
26:25and bring back our top eight for series 89.
26:28Let's enjoy these, Caroline. Here we go.
26:30Your letters.
26:30Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
26:32Thank you, Caroline.
26:33P.
26:34And another one.
26:36F.
26:37And another one.
26:38S.
26:39And a vowel, please.
26:41E.
26:42And another vowel, please.
26:44A.
26:46And another vowel.
26:48I.
26:49And a consonant.
26:51W.
26:52Another consonant, please.
26:54G.
26:55And a vowel, please.
26:57And, lastly, U.
26:59And let's play.
27:00.
27:01Like 10.
27:01.
27:14You know what?
27:28You are always.
27:29As a person.
27:31Caroline?
27:32Four.
27:33Four for you and Phil?
27:35Five.
27:36And five.
27:36Well, that's how tricky it was.
27:37So, Caroline, you're four.
27:39Peas.
27:39Then let's go to five.
27:41Wages.
27:42Wages.
27:42And let's hopefully go to six.
27:45Just.
27:46Waspy.
27:47Waspy.
27:48Yeah, it's a corset designed to make your waist look like a wasp.
27:52Very slender.
27:53Oh, right, sort of the old thinking back to 17th century.
27:56Yeah, I think so.
27:57Pretty uncomfortable.
27:58Oh, I bet you.
27:59Let's get more letters.
28:00Phil.
28:01I'm going to start with the consonant, please, Rachel.
28:03Thank you, Phil.
28:04L.
28:05And another one.
28:07N.
28:08And a third one, please.
28:09C.
28:10And a vowel, please.
28:12I.
28:13And another vowel, please.
28:15A.
28:16And another one, please.
28:17I.
28:19A consonant, please.
28:20N.
28:23A consonant, please.
28:25T.
28:27And another consonant, please.
28:29And lastly, D.
28:32Last letters.
28:40I'll be right back.
28:41I'll see you next.
28:42I'll see you next time.
28:43Bye-bye.
28:55Bye-bye.
28:58Bye-bye.
28:59Bye-bye.
29:01Bye-bye.
29:0225,000 to one.
29:03Phil, how many? Four. Come on, Caroline. Six. Yes!
29:08Phil, how do you like that? What's your four? Just tail.
29:11And the six? Tannic. Spell? T-A-N-N-I-C.
29:16Tannic. Tannic, absolutely brilliant, resembling tannin.
29:19So tannin you will find in wines, you'll find in tea,
29:22so that's very good indeed.
29:23Well, you remember Laura yesterday got the thing connected to broth
29:27and she was a ramen fan.
29:29Well, Caroline has ambitions to become a wine master, right?
29:34One day, yes.
29:35Yes, so can you literally take a wine and tell me what it is?
29:39My family are all better than me.
29:41They are actually wine importers and they also produce their own wines,
29:45but I never actually got into the business, but I would like to someday.
29:49Oh, we're definitely getting her number, aren't we?
29:51Happy days. I'll send you a couple of bottles.
29:53Yeah, love it.
29:54Well, Tannic was just a tonic for you to pick up those six points.
29:56Anything else?
29:57Well, we got one for seven and I'm going to let you take this one over, Susan.
30:01Yes, thank you.
30:03It's a biochemical term, actinin, so A-C-T-I-N-I-N,
30:08and it's a small family, well, any of a small family of proteins
30:11and you'll find them in muscle cells in various places.
30:13No one has ever been as smooth as Greg Rosetsky,
30:17getting out of pronouncing words, by the way.
30:19I know your game.
30:20I'll just let you know all the tricky ones passing them that way.
30:24At 77, 38, last numbers.
30:27Now, Caroline, it's over as a competition,
30:29so you can be as kind or as wicked as you want to be with these.
30:33OK, I'll go for six small, please.
30:35Six small, let's have a bit of fun.
30:37Six little ones coming up, thank you, Caroline.
30:39Final numbers of the regular series.
30:42We have four, two, five, three, one, and eight.
30:48It's fairly small, let's see the target, 493.
30:51493, numbers up.
31:24493, was that a good choice, Caroline?
31:26Not bad.
31:27How did you get on? What's the number?
31:29483.
31:30483, 10 away.
31:32Phil?
31:32No, I lost it, couldn't get it.
31:33It's worked out all right.
31:35You get five points here, Caroline.
31:36You should have done this earlier.
31:37I know.
31:37Off you go.
31:39Eight fives are 40.
31:41Yes.
31:42Multiplied by four is 160.
31:46160.
31:47Multiplied by three is 480.
31:49It is.
31:51And then just add the two and the one.
31:54And add the two and the one.
31:55Yeah, well done.
31:55483, 10 away.
31:56That was brilliant.
31:57Now, 493, a big challenge for you.
31:59Well, it's a variation on a theme with a bit of jiggery-pokery.
32:03If you say eight times four is 32,
32:07add one for 33,
32:09and then the other two you times by a three and five for 15,
32:13times those together for 495,
32:16and you have two left over for 493.
32:18Brilliant.
32:19APPLAUSE
32:22Fantastic.
32:22And, Caroline, what a way to pick up the five points as well.
32:25Right, 77-43.
32:28Fingers on buzzers.
32:29Will it be a champagne finish for Caroline
32:32or a final ten points for Phil
32:34as he will be returning in Series 90, no matter what?
32:37Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundra.
33:09Phil and Caroline could not turn our wet nudists
33:13into anything at all.
33:16Rachel, what have we got?
33:17I think it's untwisted.
33:19Let's untwist it.
33:20Well done.
33:23And that is us done.
33:24Caroline, worth the journey?
33:26Oh, yeah.
33:27Yeah, definitely.
33:28I've always wanted to be on this programme.
33:30Didn't expect to get any further, but...
33:32Yeah.
33:33..it's been enjoyable.
33:34We'll raise a glass of wine to you later.
33:35Thank you, Caroline, for being here.
33:38And you'll have to wait a while.
33:39We have seven huge games to play
33:40before we even want to see your face again, Phil Campbell.
33:44Yeah, I'll see you in the next Series.
33:45See you on the other side.
33:47Yes.
33:47Series 90.
33:48Yeah.
33:49Right.
33:49Big deep breath, everybody.
33:51Greg, Susie, the fun begins tomorrow.
33:53We'll see you then.
33:54Right, see you then.
33:54Rachel, can't wait tomorrow?
33:56Yep.
33:56The finals are always exciting.
33:58We'll get through tonight.
33:59Good luck to Scotland, by the way,
34:01in the Euros against Switzerland.
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