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00:20Thank you so much for watching.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:342nd of January, Happy New Year.
00:36But perhaps even more importantly, it's the start of Series 78, Countdown's 78 series.
00:42And what does 2018 hold for us, I wonder, Rachel?
00:47I'll tell you exactly a few of the important things.
00:50The World Cup, Football World Cup, FIFA's World Cup, where's it being held?
00:54Russia. That'll be exciting.
00:56And the Winter Olympics, they're kicking off in South Korea.
01:01So, a lot to go for.
01:02But I suppose we all have sort of our own special goals, do we not?
01:06And I've determined to try to come back here next year stronger and fitter than I'm at the moment.
01:13What about you? Do you have a personal aim that you want to strike out for?
01:18Oh, you mentioned Russia 2018, and I've got to get there one day.
01:21Maybe this year's my year. I'd absolutely love to.
01:24I speak enough Russian to be able to read the signs and get myself some food and a drink over
01:27there now.
01:28All right. Now, what about our contestants, Rachel?
01:32Roger Springthorpe, an HGV driver from Colville.
01:36Colville. And you won your first game in the last heat of Series 77. So, welcome back.
01:42You're joined, Roger, by Jacob Coventry-Peters, a politics student from Newcastle, originally from London, who's passionate about languages.
01:51I think you've sort of notched up six at the moment.
01:54What are they?
01:55Well, at the moment, it's Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish and English.
01:59I'm working on a seventh, which is Welsh. It's not going particularly well. It's very difficult.
02:03A politics student. What will you do when you graduate, do you think?
02:07Well, when I graduate, I would love to be an MP. That's why I started doing politics.
02:11But I don't know how hopeful I should be about that. So, I can only dream.
02:17You should be very hopeful. Six languages, seven languages even, politics graduate. It's a great start to have.
02:24Yeah. Big round of applause for our future politician, Jacob, and Roger Sprinthorpe.
02:35And over in the corner, Susie. Of course, Susie.
02:38Joined by the wonderful Richard Arnold, journalist, TV and radio presenter. Welcome back.
02:44Thank you, Nick.
02:45Good to be back.
02:49Fabulous, Richard. Now, Roger, off we go.
02:52Hi, Rachel. Can we start with a consonant, please?
02:55Thank you. Start the year with R.
02:58And the second one.
03:00T.
03:02And a third.
03:04X.
03:05Vowel, please.
03:07I.
03:08Consonant.
03:10T.
03:12Vowel.
03:14O.
03:15Consonant.
03:17M.
03:20Consonant.
03:22K.
03:23And we'll finish with a vowel, please.
03:24And finish with U.
03:27And here's the countdown clock.
03:28I.
03:30The.
03:43I.
03:46I.
03:50I.
03:52I.
03:53I.
03:54I.
03:59Now, Roger.
04:01Only a four, I'm afraid.
04:03Jacob?
04:04Just a five.
04:05And a five.
04:06Roger.
04:07Riot.
04:08Now then, a tumour.
04:11Maybe two yous.
04:12And what do you think is spelling it the American way?
04:14I'm afraid, Jacob.
04:15Exactly what I've done.
04:16I'm sorry.
04:17No.
04:18Very tough, this one.
04:19Richard and Susie, what have you conjured out of that?
04:22Working on the powders we are for 2018, aren't we, Rach?
04:25We've got the trout to go with that pout.
04:29So, pucker up.
04:32Susie?
04:33That's it.
04:33Just a five for the first one.
04:35Yeah, really tough.
04:35Early days.
04:36Now, so, Roger on four points.
04:40Jacob, your letters game.
04:41Hi, Rachel.
04:42Hi, Jacob.
04:43Could I take a consonant, please?
04:46R.
04:47And another, please?
04:49L.
04:51And another?
04:54B.
04:55And a vowel, please?
04:58E.
04:59And another?
05:01I.
05:03And another one?
05:05O.
05:07And a consonant, please?
05:10N.
05:11OK.
05:12And another consonant, please?
05:15T.
05:15And finally, a vowel.
05:19And finally, E.
05:22Stand by.
05:23I.
05:24I.
05:40I.
05:44I.
05:46I.
05:47I.
05:49I.
05:54I've got a six.
05:56A six and?
05:57Six.
05:58Jacob?
05:58Boiler.
05:59Now then, Roger.
06:01Intone.
06:03Um, we've got two...
06:05And there's only one N.
06:05One N, yes, I'm afraid.
06:08Bad luck.
06:08Sorry.
06:09That's all right.
06:09I realised it when I said it.
06:11Now.
06:12The corner.
06:13Richard?
06:14Belter.
06:15What a belter.
06:16Are we having one, Nick?
06:17I'm loving this year already.
06:19Excellent.
06:19Now, Susie?
06:21One seven that we could find.
06:22Bornite, a geological term for a brittle, reddish-brown, crystalline mineral.
06:28I like Belter better.
06:29Yeah.
06:30All right.
06:31Four plays, six.
06:32Jacob on six.
06:33Now then, Roger.
06:34First numbers game.
06:35Two large and four small, please, Rachel.
06:37Thank you, Roger.
06:38Two from the top row and four little ones.
06:41And the first one of the year is nine, seven, five, two and a large, two fifty and one hundred.
06:50And your target, seven hundred and eighty-five.
06:52Seven, eight, five.
06:54And the second one is three.
07:18And the second one, it is a grape.
07:19They are ten deles.
07:19And the second one is three, five.
07:22Once again.
07:22You get your target, seven, everyone.
07:22Have a great day.
07:23And the fourth one is five.
07:24Well, Roger.
07:26785.
07:27785.
07:28Jacob?
07:29No, nothing for me, I'm afraid.
07:31All right, let's stay with Roger for the minute.
07:33Yes, Roger?
07:35105...
07:35100 plus 5, sorry, Rachel.
07:37105.
07:37Times 7.
07:38735.
07:39And add the 50.
07:40Perfect.
07:41785.
07:41Well done.
07:43Well done.
07:46So, 14 plays Jacob 6 as we turn to our first tea-time teaser,
07:51which is car-tooted.
07:52And the clue, it sounds like the medical expert had food.
07:57To a certain degree.
07:58It sounds like the medical expert had food.
08:01To a certain degree.
08:18Welcome back.
08:19I left with the clue, it sounds like the medical expert had food.
08:22To a certain degree, he had a doctorate.
08:29Doctorate.
08:30Now, 14 plays 6.
08:32Roger on 14.
08:33Jacob, your letters again.
08:35Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:37Thank you, Jacob.
08:38C.
08:39And another one, please.
08:40H.
08:43And another?
08:46W.
08:47Could I have a vowel, please?
08:50I.
08:51And another?
08:54E.
08:55And another vowel?
08:58I.
09:00And a consonant?
09:03T.
09:04And I will have another consonant, please.
09:09C.
09:10And, um, why not go for...
09:14Yeah, I'll go for another consonant again.
09:15Why not?
09:16Last one.
09:17S.
09:18Countdown.
09:19T.
09:20T.
09:21T.
09:22T.
09:22T.
09:23T.
09:25T.
09:26T.
09:27T.
09:27T.
09:27T.
09:28T.
09:29T.
09:30T.
09:31T.
09:31T.
09:33T.
09:34T.
09:35T.
09:36T.
09:49Yes, Jacob.
09:50Seven.
09:52Seven.
09:52And Roger?
09:53Six.
09:54And that's six.
09:55Whites.
09:56Yes, Jacob.
09:58Witches.
09:59And witches.
10:00Very good.
10:01Yeah.
10:01Yeah, very nice.
10:02No.
10:03Richard and Susie.
10:06Hectics.
10:08Yes, hectic can be a noun, because its original meaning was a fever, a hectic fever.
10:13It was an old medical term for a really strong recurrent fever.
10:16So in that sense, albeit slightly dated, you can pluralise it.
10:20That would give you a seven.
10:21All right.
10:22Fourteen plays, 13.
10:23Roger, one point ahead, and it's Roger's letters game.
10:26Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
10:28Thank you, Roger.
10:29B.
10:30And another.
10:33S.
10:34And a third.
10:36L.
10:36A vowel, please.
10:39O.
10:40Second vowel.
10:42U.
10:43Um, consonant.
10:45P.
10:46And another.
10:48T.
10:49Uh, vowel, please.
10:52E.
10:54And a consonant.
10:57And the last one, N.
10:59Standby.
11:00Absolutely.
11:11I know.
11:29The last one.
11:31ROGER
11:326
11:336
11:34And Jacob
11:355
11:35Not written down
11:36That would be
11:37Pouts
11:38Pouts
11:39And Roger
11:40Blouse
11:41Absolutely fine
11:43Any advance
11:45Susie
11:451 7
11:46You could have
11:46Is a subplot
11:47That's all one word
11:48Yeah sure
11:49Subplot
11:50And blouse
11:5120 plays 13
11:53Roger in the lead
11:55Jacob
11:55It's your numbers game
11:57Character
11:57Could I have
11:581 from the top
12:00And any other 5
12:01You can indeed
12:02Thank you Jacob
12:02One large size little
12:04Coming up
12:04And for the second time today
12:05They are 9
12:078
12:081
12:093
12:104
12:11And the big one
12:1225
12:13And your target
12:14144
12:16144
12:164
12:164
12:174
12:51I'm out.
12:52Hmm.
12:54Jacob?
12:54OK, so I've got 8 plus 3 gives me 11.
12:57Yep.
12:5825 plus 11 is 36.
13:0236.
13:03And if I'm right, that times 4 is 144.
13:06And times it by 4, which, yeah, you've got.
13:09Lovely.
13:09Well done.
13:10Well done.
13:11APPLAUSE
13:14So back in the lead there, Jacob.
13:1623 now to Roger's 20s.
13:18We turn to Richard.
13:20Rich, we've chatted in the past about your role in the ABFAB movie, but it hasn't stopped
13:27there, I understand.
13:28Remember how excited I was, Nick?
13:29A fledgling movie star and I signed my first ever movie contract.
13:33And when it comes through, you get shown how much you're going to be paid in different
13:36territories.
13:37So as we speak, if ABFAB is shown into the aforementioned South Korean territory, I will
13:41get 49 pence probably.
13:42So not surprisingly, as Susie knows, I say yes to everything.
13:45So the last 12 months have seen some dizzying heights for my career, actually, Nick.
13:50One of which was two-player Smurf.
13:53LAUGHTER
13:56Yeah.
13:57And as someone who has collected Smurf ever since he was knee-high to the old grasshopper,
14:03I was thrilled to take up the offer.
14:04What they didn't expect is when I turned up at the big studio where you actually voice
14:08the Smurf, they didn't expect me to turn up with 120 of the little blue blighters that
14:12I collected from my misspent youth.
14:14So they knew I was a dedicated Smurf fan.
14:16So the role they offered me was nosy Smurf.
14:19And if you can see my overbite and my bulbous tip from there, you'll understand why.
14:22But it's basically little Smurf with binoculars who goes around the village collecting all
14:28the gossip.
14:28So a nod, perhaps, to my day job at Good Morning Britain.
14:31Yeah.
14:31So I had one line, Nick, fraught with meaning as the cliche goes, but that line was repeated
14:36four times throughout the film, and my godchildren were over the moon to see me writ large as
14:41a Smurf.
14:42And my line was...
14:45This is a true story.
14:47My line was, oh, what's going on here then?
14:50But when I voiced it for the first time, I was in the booth and they show you nosy Smurf,
14:56and the lips are moving, and I went, oh, what's going on here then?
15:00LAUGHTER
15:01So they came in with a couple of notes, Nick, and said, do you think you could take it down
15:05a notch because this is a children's film?
15:07I turned it into some kind of carry-on film.
15:10But nevertheless, there I was writ large and blue on the big screen as nosy Smurf.
15:14Didn't even make the DVD, though, Nick, because it was only for British theatres, and on the
15:18DVD they actually used the American actor or actress who clearly remains nameless.
15:23Completely forgettable compared to my performance.
15:25Any more in the offing, do you reckon?
15:27I think, given my performance in Smurfs' The Lost Village, it's probably the end of the road
15:34as far as my silver screen career is concerned at the moment.
15:38But we're waiting, aren't we, Susan?
15:39I think, I think, actually, the strength of the applause that you're about to get
15:45will reverberate all through Hollywood, and the offers will come pouring in.
15:51Come on!
15:52Big round of applause!
15:53Great!
16:01Trust me, that'll be heard in Beverly Hills.
16:04All right.
16:0523 plays 20, Jacob in the lead, and it's Roger's Letters game.
16:09Roger.
16:10Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
16:12Thank you, Roger.
16:13R.
16:14And a second one.
16:16D.
16:18A third.
16:19H.
16:21Vowel.
16:23I.
16:24Second vowel.
16:26E.
16:28Consonant.
16:29M.
16:31Another consonant.
16:33N.
16:35Vowel, please.
16:37A.
16:39And a consonant.
16:40And, lastly, D.
16:43Countdown.
16:44T.
16:46T.
16:46T.
16:46T.
16:47T.
16:48T.
16:48T.
16:50T.
16:51T.
16:52T.
16:59T.
17:02T.
17:05T.
17:06T.
17:15Yes, Roger.
17:16Seven.
17:17And Jacob?
17:18Seven or so.
17:20Roger?
17:21Hardens.
17:22Jacob?
17:23Handier.
17:25Hand is absolutely fine.
17:27Roger, what was yours?
17:27Hardens.
17:28H-A-R-D-E-N-S.
17:29There's no S, I'm afraid.
17:31I'm sorry.
17:34Bad luck.
17:35I think I'm in the wrong studio.
17:37No.
17:37Richard, Susie?
17:40We've got hard men and drained.
17:44Ten points separate our gladiators here.
17:46Twenty for Roger.
17:47Jacob on thirty.
17:48And Jacob, your letters again.
17:51Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
17:53Thank you, Jacob.
17:54Q.
17:55Oh, lovely.
17:55And a better one, please.
17:58N.
17:58N.
18:00And another, please.
18:02T.
18:04And one more, please.
18:06Y.
18:08And a vowel.
18:10I.
18:11And another.
18:14E.
18:16And another.
18:19A.
18:21And another consonant.
18:24R.
18:26And I'll go for one more vowel.
18:29And the last one.
18:30I.
18:32Stand by.
18:33And another.
18:50I'll go for one more.
18:51And another.
18:52I'll go for one more.
18:52And another.
18:52And another.
18:53And another.
18:56And another.
19:04Yes, Jacob.
19:05Six.
19:07Roger.
19:07Six.
19:09And Jacob?
19:10Retain.
19:11No, Roger.
19:12Aunty.
19:15How are you spelling that?
19:16A-U-N-T-I-E.
19:18Oh, Roger, there's no you.
19:19I am not doing well today, am I?
19:22Really bad luck.
19:24Bad luck.
19:25One wants it to be there, as it were.
19:27And then one invents it.
19:28Absolutely.
19:29Now, Richard and Susie?
19:32Inertia?
19:33Yes.
19:34Something that you're not ever guilty of.
19:36No.
19:38And?
19:39That's a good seven.
19:40There's also the famous Kintar, which you can spell with a Q, but no U.
19:44Monetary unit of Albania.
19:46Oh, yes.
19:47Yeah.
19:48All right.
19:4936 days, 20.
19:50Roger, is your numbers game?
19:52Too large, four small, please, Rachel.
19:54Thank you, Roger.
19:56Two from the top row, four.
19:58A little coming up for you.
19:59And this time around, the four smalls are five, ten, six, and two.
20:04And the large ones, 175.
20:07And this target, 238.
20:10Two, three, eight.
20:12Two, three, eight.
20:38Two, three, eight.
20:41Well, Roger.
20:43Two, three, nine.
20:45One away.
20:46Jacob, 237.
20:48How many of you?
20:50Roger?
20:51100 plus 75.
20:54175.
20:55Five times ten, add on.
20:57And then six minus two gives you the four, add them all together.
21:02And then, sorry, the last bit was...
21:05Pardon?
21:05The last part you said was...
21:07Six minus two is four.
21:08Yes.
21:09Okay.
21:10I've got it wrong.
21:10That gives you two, two, nine, I'm afraid.
21:12Yeah, I've got it wrong.
21:13Ten out.
21:13Sorry, Roger.
21:14Mm, bad luck.
21:15Bad luck, Roger.
21:17Jacob.
21:18So, I've got 100 plus 10 plus 6 for 116.
21:23Yep.
21:24If you times that by 2, you get 232.
21:27You do, indeed.
21:28And then add on the 5.
21:29Yep, for one away.
21:31Pretty good, but not quite there.
21:33What do you reckon, Rachel?
21:34Two, three, eight?
21:35Yeah, there were a few ways for this.
21:37One, you could have said 75 minus 6 is 69.
21:42Two 69s are 138, and then add on 100.
21:46Two, three, eight.
21:46That's the way.
21:51Thank you, Rachel.
21:52So, 43 plays 20.
21:54Jacob in the lead as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser,
21:57which is acts phony.
21:59And the clue, he acts like a phony to the people he wants to curry favour with.
22:04He acts like a phony to the people he wants to curry favour with.
22:25That's because he is a sycophant.
22:34So, 43 to 20, Roger on 20, and it's Jacob's letters game.
22:41Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
22:43Thank you, Jacob.
22:44S.
22:44S.
22:45And another one?
22:47L.
22:49And another, please?
22:52P.
22:53And a vowel?
22:56E.
22:57And another?
22:59I.
23:00I.
23:01And another one?
23:04Another E.
23:05And a consonant?
23:08S.
23:09And a consonant?
23:13Z.
23:13Oh, lovely.
23:15And another consonant, please.
23:18And lastly, R.
23:21Countdown.
23:21In fact, you may have got ya.
23:40I.
23:49I.
23:50I.
23:50I.
23:51You?
23:53Jacob.
23:54A seven.
23:55A seven.
23:55Roger.
23:57I'll risk a seven.
23:58Yes, Jacob.
24:00Resizes.
24:01Resizes and?
24:02Caesars.
24:04S-I-E-Z-E-R-S.
24:07Oh, Roger.
24:09I am really sorry.
24:10Caesar, somebody who caesars or captures, is in the dictionary,
24:13but it's S-E-I rather than I-E.
24:16I'm sorry.
24:17Bad luck.
24:17Just allow that.
24:19No.
24:19Over in the corner.
24:21Richard and Susie.
24:22We were pylos and peerless.
24:24We were indeed.
24:26No calves as we enter 2018.
24:29Peerless.
24:30Yes.
24:31P-I-E-R-L-E-S-S.
24:34A town without a peer.
24:36Are you sure about this?
24:38Susie?
24:39Yeah, it has that meaning, but the primary meaning is of a bridge
24:41that has no peers or supports.
24:44That kind of peer.
24:44That's where it's used, I guess.
24:45I think most often.
24:4850.
24:49My word, Jacob.
24:4950 plays 20.
24:51Roger had a bit of bad luck there.
24:53And now it's Roger's letters game.
24:56Yes, sir?
24:56Start with the consonant, please.
24:58Rachel.
24:59Thank you, Roger.
25:00S.
25:00And a second.
25:03T.
25:04A third, please.
25:06R.
25:07A vowel.
25:09A.
25:10And another, please.
25:11E.
25:13A consonant.
25:15D.
25:17A vowel.
25:19A.
25:20A consonant.
25:23R.
25:24And a final consonant.
25:27And a final F.
25:30Stand by.
25:31A consonant.
25:32To what the dot comёт.
25:34To what the dot com it is said.
25:48To the videoto.
25:50To the videoto.
25:50To.
25:51To.
25:53To.
25:55To.
25:57To.
26:01Well, Roger.
26:03Six.
26:04Six.
26:05Jacob?
26:05I've got an eight.
26:07Mmm.
26:07Roger?
26:08Stead.
26:10Now, Jacob.
26:11Redrafts.
26:12Well done.
26:13Thanks for that.
26:14Well done.
26:20And in the corner, Susie, Richard?
26:22Starred.
26:23Of course.
26:24Yeah, you'd have one more rest.
26:25Add one more R for seven.
26:27And that was it, really.
26:28Redrafts was the top that we could find.
26:30Well done.
26:30All right.
26:31So, 58 plays out 20.
26:33And Susie, we turn to you now for your wonderful origins of words.
26:38And today?
26:39Today I'm going to talk about pennies.
26:41The old coin, the penny, because it's actually found in many, many idioms in English, even
26:47though the penny, as we knew it, doesn't exist anymore.
26:50I'm going to start with the penny dropped.
26:52So, that's the moment when an idiom or a joke or some remark or argument has suddenly
26:56been understood.
26:58A little bit obvious, perhaps, this one, but it dates from the middle of the 20th century
27:01when penny slot machines were incredibly popular at fairgrounds up and down the land
27:06and, indeed, on piers and arcades, etc.
27:09They're, of course, motionless and entirely unresponsive until the penny drops inside.
27:14And similarly, a person who doesn't understand a joke or a remark made to them doesn't react
27:18until, so to speak, the penny drops in their brain.
27:22But inflation has caught up with proverbial sayings.
27:25We still use them today, but a penny for your thoughts means nothing, really, a penny,
27:29but we still use it.
27:30You'd now need at least 20p to spend a penny, obviously, in a British public loo.
27:35But, obviously, that comes from when you have those coin-operated locks on the door,
27:39operated by the heavy, really old, pre-decimal pennies.
27:43And finally, the penny is also related to the source pen that we use, simply because of
27:47the round shape.
27:49Well, well, well.
27:56Poor old penny.
27:58Shame.
27:5958 plays 20.
28:00Roger on 20.
28:01And it's Jacob's letters game now.
28:04Yes, Jacob.
28:04Can I start with a consonant again, please, Rachel?
28:06Thank you, Jacob.
28:07S.
28:08And another one?
28:11G.
28:13And another one?
28:14L.
28:17And a vowel?
28:19O.
28:20And another vowel?
28:22E.
28:24And another vowel?
28:27I.
28:29And a consonant, please.
28:31T.
28:32And another consonant?
28:35P.
28:36And finally, a vowel, please.
28:40And lastly, O.
28:43Stand by.
28:46And another cucumber.
29:06And a vowel.
29:06And a vowel.
29:06And more wasted.
29:07And a vowel.
29:15Yes, Jacob?
29:16I've got an eight.
29:17An eight. Roger?
29:18I'll try a risky eight.
29:20Good. Now, Jacob?
29:22Uh, loopiest.
29:24Loopiest and?
29:26Loopiest Jacob.
29:27Absolutely.
29:28The man.
29:29APPLAUSE
29:33Loopiest indeed.
29:35Speaking of which, Richard?
29:37I wanted gloopiest, but apparently we can't.
29:41That's bad, lad.
29:41Yeah, no, simply because it's not specified in the dictionary,
29:44but I'm sure it will be at some point.
29:46G, L, O and P together are said to be symbolic of semi-liquid matter.
29:50That's where gloopy comes from.
29:51The gloopiest of desserts, surely?
29:53Yeah, absolutely. Only a matter of time.
29:56Anything else?
29:57No, we like loopiest.
29:59That'll do, then.
30:00All right.
30:0066 to 28.
30:02Roger?
30:03Start with the consonant, please, Rachel.
30:05Thank you, Roger.
30:06S.
30:07Erm, another one, please.
30:09M.
30:10And a vowel.
30:12I.
30:14Erm, consonant, please.
30:17S.
30:19Consonant.
30:20G.
30:22Erm, a vowel, please.
30:24A.
30:25And another.
30:27U.
30:30Another vowel.
30:32O.
30:33And a consonant.
30:35And lastly, V.
30:38Counter.
30:39We'll be right back to time.
30:40Bye-bye.
30:41Bye-bye.
31:07MUSIC CONTINUES
31:10ROGER
31:11A RISKY FIVE
31:14JACOB
31:14ALSO A RISKY FIVE
31:15OK, AND ROGER
31:17GAUS
31:19AND JACOB
31:21I'VE PLURALIZED SMOG TO MAKE SMOGS
31:24OK, I'LL START WITH GAUS
31:26ABSOLUTELY FINE
31:27NOT CAPITALIZED
31:27UNIT OF MAGNETIC INDUCTION
31:29SO THAT'S VERY GOOD
31:31AND SMOGS
31:32I ALMOST MISSED THIS ONE ACTUALLY
31:33BECAUSE IT DOES SAY MATH NOWN
31:34BUT THERE IS A COUNT NOWN SENSE THERE, JACOB
31:36THE FIRE CAUSED WIDESPREAD SMOG
31:39SO DIFFERENT AREAS OF SMOG
31:41WHICH MEANS IT'S FINE
31:42NOW
31:42RICHARD
31:44AMIGOS
31:47AND SUSIE
31:48LIKE THAT ONE FOR SIX
31:49AND OTHERS A MISS FOR FIVE
31:51THANK YOU
31:52ALL RIGHT
31:52SO 66 TO 33
31:54HOW NEAT IS THAT
31:55AS WE GO TO
31:56THE FINAL NUMBERS GAME
31:58JACOB
31:59OKAY, CAN I TAKE
32:01AND PLAY IT SAFE
32:01ONE FROM THE TOP
32:02AND THEN THE OTHER FIVE
32:03PLEASE
32:03THANK YOU, JACOB
32:04ONE LARGE
32:05FIVE
32:06LITTLE FOR THE LAST ONE OF THE DAY
32:07AND HOPEFULLY SAFE
32:08THE SMALL ONES
32:09ARE
32:09ONE
32:09TWO
32:11NINE
32:12EIGHT
32:12AND SEVEN
32:13AND THE BIG ONE
32:1425
32:15AND YOUR TARGET
32:17549
32:19549
32:48549
32:51jacob uh five four nine five four nine roger five four nine similarly yep jacob okay so i've done
33:00nine plus eight plus seven should give me 24 it does yeah and if you take off two from that
33:07gives
33:07me 22 yeah multiply that by 25 for 550 you do indeed and then take off the one perfect five
33:14four nine very good and roger now i've gone wrong oh bad luck sorry bad luck so 81 good opening
33:24score
33:24there rad jacob 81 to 33 as we go into the final round now fingers on buzzers let's roll today's
33:31countdown conundrum jacob that's fast hampering hampering let's see where they are right
33:41here it comes hampering
33:43well done jacob bad luck roger but you're going home with a teapot and it came for nick exactly so
33:59we're we're very pleased to be able to give you one as well thank you so much for coming well
34:03done
34:03well done and jacob we shall see you uh tomorrow that's a cracking start 91 excellent stuff well
34:09thank you well done so we shall see uh richard yes tomorrow i look forward to breaking more of my
34:15resolutions tomorrow nick exactly and susie too brilliant we'll see you both tomorrow so not a
34:20bad opening gamble rachel what do you reckon yep we've lost our first teapot of the year but it's
34:25gone to a very worthy champion many more to go i guess we'll see you tomorrow tomorrow same time
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