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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now, tomorrow at about midday in South Korea, in the city of Pyeongchang,
00:38the 2018 Winter Olympics will officially begin.
00:43Wonderful stuff. 102 events and 15 sporting disciplines.
00:48And actually, some of them are really quite new to me, Rachel.
00:50I don't know about you.
00:51Figure skating, fine.
00:52Bobsleigh, fine.
00:53Ski jumping, curling, all right.
00:55But what about the new ones?
00:57Snowboard, big air.
00:59Speed skating, massed up.
01:01That's a great bunch of people careering off on their skates.
01:06Accidents beckon, I reckon.
01:08Anyway, it'll be great fun.
01:09I'd love to watch it, actually.
01:10I'd love to have been a really good skier, actually.
01:13I wasn't.
01:13No?
01:14Maybe I started too late.
01:15I didn't start until my 20s.
01:17But, you know, young kids of three and four learning, and then to be able to ski fast,
01:21wouldn't that be just the best kick ever?
01:23What about you?
01:24Come on.
01:24What's your favourite winter sport?
01:26Well, skiing.
01:26I started in my late 20s as well, and I'm still rubbish.
01:29It's good fun, but I like to pootle.
01:31I'm not into this speed.
01:33I think people are missing part of their brain that tells them they could die.
01:36No, you can come badly unstuck.
01:39Badly unstuck.
01:40Anyway, I'll tell you who hasn't become unstuck.
01:42That's Phil Davis, Rachel.
01:44He's here again, look.
01:45Won his third game yesterday, being chased all the way by Lisa Miller,
01:49and now you're off again, looking for your fourth.
01:52Yes.
01:53And, Phil, you're joined today by Alan McFetridge from Belfast.
01:57Indeed, mate.
01:57Yeah?
01:58Civil 7 from Belfast.
02:00I find this a little bit difficult to believe, but I'm prepared to stretch the imagination a bit.
02:03Okay.
02:04You were once cast as Tinkerbell in a production of Peter Pan.
02:07You don't look like a Tinkerbell to me.
02:11Personally, I think I was born for their own.
02:13I think, you know, there was...
02:15Tinkerbell.
02:15The competition was fierce, but, yeah.
02:17This was at college, was it?
02:18College, pantomime.
02:19Yeah.
02:20Every year we fundraised for very needy local charities.
02:24Good for you.
02:24Great funding, so...
02:25Lovely.
02:26Yeah.
02:26Well, good luck to you both.
02:27Let's have a big round of applause for Tinkerbell and Phil Davis.
02:31Big round of applause.
02:32APPLAUSE
02:34And Susie's over in the corner.
02:36Of course she is, as is Alexis Conran, actor, presenter and trickster.
02:40There's more to come.
02:41Yesterday's...
02:42Yesterday's has changed my life.
02:46I won't ask.
02:47All right.
02:47Anyway, more from you later on.
02:49But now it's Phil we turn to for a letters game.
02:52Yes, Phil.
02:53Good afternoon, Rachel.
02:54Good afternoon, Phil.
02:55I'll start with a consonant, please.
02:57Start today with L.
02:59And a consonant.
03:00T.
03:02And a vowel.
03:04A.
03:06A consonant.
03:08P.
03:09A consonant.
03:12R.
03:13And a vowel.
03:15O.
03:17A vowel, please.
03:19E.
03:21A consonant.
03:22S.
03:24And a final consonant, please.
03:26And a final V.
03:27And here's the countdown clock.
03:30Hmm.
03:44Okay.
03:44Hmm.
03:50Hmm.
03:51Hmm.
03:54Hmm.
04:00Yes, Phil. Seven.
04:02A seven and...
04:04Seven.
04:04Two sevens. Phil, seven?
04:06Paroles.
04:07And Alan?
04:08Platers. P-L-A-T-E-R-S.
04:11I think that should be absolutely fine.
04:14It is, Alan, yeah. Fair. Very good.
04:17And over in the corner now.
04:18There's an eight with over-salt.
04:21Very good.
04:22Over-salt.
04:23Very good.
04:27And yes, Izzy?
04:28Then we're down to portals for seven.
04:30And portals. Thank you.
04:32Now, Alan.
04:34Hi, Ari, Rachel.
04:34Hi, Alan.
04:35Can I have a consonant, please?
04:37Thank you. Start with B.
04:39And a vowel, please.
04:42I.
04:43And another.
04:45U.
04:46And a consonant.
04:48L.
04:49And another.
04:51T.
04:53And another.
04:53L.
04:56And a vowel.
04:58E.
05:00And a consonant.
05:02R.
05:03And another vowel, please.
05:07And lastly, I.
05:10Stand by.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:29And another vowel, please.
05:30And another vowel, please.
05:31And another vowel, please.
05:32And another vowel, please.
05:32And another vowel, please.
05:33And another vowel, please.
05:42Yes, Alan?
05:43Seven.
05:43A seven and?
05:45Seven.
05:46No, Alan.
05:48Rebuilt.
05:49Same word, rebuild.
05:50There we go.
05:52Any more sevens over there?
05:53We can all compare notes.
05:54No, we've got rebuilt as well.
05:56That's it.
05:56Susie?
05:57Yep, then you're down to sixes with Tiller and Butler.
06:01All right.
06:02So, 14 apiece, and it's Phil we turn to for the first numbers game.
06:06Yes, Phil?
06:06OK.
06:07Can I have one large and five small, please?
06:10You can indeed.
06:11Thank you, Phil.
06:12One from the top row, five little ones coming up.
06:14And the first numbers game of the day is eight, two, nine, five, ten.
06:21And the big one, 75.
06:23And the target, 730.
06:25Seven, three, zero.
06:26One from the top row, five, ten.
06:27Five, ten.
06:38Seven, six, ten.
06:42One, five.
06:49Five, ten.
06:51Six, five.
06:54One, five.
06:55Three, zero.
06:56Two, five, ten.
06:56One, five, ten.
06:57Yes, Phil?
06:58Yes, 7-3-0.
07:00Owen?
07:00Yeah, 7-3 on deck.
07:02And, Phil?
07:0375 minus 2 times 10.
07:05In about half a second flat.
07:07And?
07:07Same way.
07:08There we go.
07:09Very cool.
07:09So, 24 apiece as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
07:13which is Roger Down and the clue.
07:15Roger was sent down, he'd been a very naughty boy.
07:18Roger was sent down, he'd been a very naughty boy.
07:37Welcome back.
07:38I left with the clue, Roger was sent down, he'd been a very naughty boy.
07:42In fact, he was a wrongdoer.
07:45Wrongdoer.
07:4624 apiece, and it's Alan's letters game.
07:49Can I borrow a consonant, please?
07:51Thank you, Alan.
07:53V.
07:53Out of oil.
07:56I.
07:57A consonant.
07:59D.
08:00Consonant.
08:02R.
08:05Consonant.
08:07N.
08:08While.
08:10E.
08:13Consonant.
08:15D.
08:16While.
08:18A.
08:20And a consonant, please.
08:22And, lastly, N.
08:24Stand by.
08:27You have a dialogue.
08:28I.
08:28And.
08:28And.
08:34And.
08:53I.
08:56And.
08:56Yes, Alan.
08:57I'll risk a seven.
08:59And?
09:00Yeah, I've got seven.
09:01Now then, Alan.
09:02Ravined.
09:03And Phil?
09:05Invader.
09:06Yes, sonograms of each other.
09:07You certainly can be ravined, or a valley can be ravined.
09:10Very good.
09:11And in the corner, we can't bet for a seven,
09:13but there's one here I quite like.
09:15It's dandier.
09:18Dandier than the other chap.
09:19Yes.
09:20Now, 31 apiece.
09:22Phil, your letters game.
09:23OK, can I have a consonant, please?
09:25Thank you, Phil.
09:25Zed?
09:27Could I have a different consonant, please?
09:29Guaranteed.
09:30R.
09:30A vowel, please.
09:32I.
09:33A vowel.
09:35A.
09:36A vowel.
09:37E.
09:39A consonant, please.
09:42M.
09:43A consonant.
09:45D.
09:47A consonant.
09:50X.
09:51And a consonant, please.
09:54And lastly, S.
09:55Stand by.
09:58Stand by.
10:28Yes, Phil.
10:29I've got a seven, but I haven't written it down.
10:31How about Alan?
10:33Six.
10:34And your six?
10:36Dreams.
10:37Now then?
10:38Admires.
10:39And admires.
10:40Very nice.
10:41OK.
10:42So there's the break.
10:4238 to 31.
10:44But over in the corner, Alexis?
10:45Couldn't better a seven.
10:47Sidearm?
10:48Yes.
10:49A pistol, yeah?
10:50Yeah.
10:51So 38, as I say, to 31.
10:53Phil in the lead, and it's Alan's numbers game.
10:56Yes, sir?
10:56Rachel, can I have one from the top and any other five, please?
11:00You can indeed.
11:01Thank you, Alan.
11:02One large five.
11:03And this time around, they are nine, seven, another seven, another nine, eight, and 50.
11:13And the target, 253.
11:16Two five three.
11:18Two five three.
11:19MUSIC PLAYS
11:48Alan.
11:492-5-1.
11:502-5-1, Phil.
11:522-5-1.
11:53Alan.
11:547 and 7 is 14.
11:567 and 7 is 14.
11:58Take away 9 equals 5.
11:59Yep.
12:01Times the 50.
12:02Times the 50, 250.
12:03And 9 minus 8.
12:05The other 9 minus 8, it was 1 and add it all.
12:08Yep.
12:082 away.
12:09Well done.
12:09Phil?
12:10Essentially the same, except I did 9 minus 7, then 7 minus that 2 to get the 5 at the
12:15start.
12:16Now, Rachel, what do you reckon?
12:172-5-3?
12:18Just about, if you say 50 times 9 is 450, 8 times 7 is 56, add them together for 506,
12:30and
12:30then the other 9 minus the other 7 is 2, and divide it.
12:34Oh, perfect.
12:39So, Phil on 45, Alan on 38, as we turn with trepidation to Alexis.
12:47What have you got up your sleeve today?
12:49Well, I've got yet another way where you can win yourself some money and maybe get a round
12:55of drinks.
12:56Yes.
12:56So, for this, we're going to use a bottle and a 20-pound note, and I believe, Nick,
13:02you've got the same over there.
13:03I have indeed.
13:05Think of it as a little game.
13:07You put the 20-pound note on the table, and you put the bottle upside down on the 20-pound
13:12note.
13:12Oh, right.
13:13Just like that.
13:14All you have to do...
13:16Yes.
13:16...is you have to get the 20-pound note from underneath the bottle without the bottle
13:21tipping over.
13:22Yes.
13:22But you can't touch the bottle.
13:25You can only touch the note with one hand.
13:29Is this a sort of tablecloth job?
13:31Well, try it.
13:33Could somebody get hurt?
13:34No, I think you're pretty safe, and you're at a safe distance from everyone else, so we're
13:38okay.
13:39It's not the obvious one, is it?
13:41No.
13:42Well, sometimes, you know, maybe you'll surprise me.
13:45It's not possible.
13:46Well, those are the words that I love to hear.
13:49This is not possible.
13:51What I'm about to do is the wrong way.
13:53Oh!
13:56There was a split second there where I thought, I'm in trouble.
14:00Susie, do you want to have a go?
14:02Um, I always kind of want to draw towards the...
14:05You like kind of going towards the edges.
14:07Yeah, it's not going to do anything, is it?
14:09I think I know this one.
14:10Now, do you...
14:11Is it the one where you roll the edges?
14:13Now, there is a way where you can...
14:16Oh!
14:16Rachel knows this is a kind of an old way, where you would roll the 20-pound note, and
14:22it slowly pushes the bottle away from the note.
14:28However, I've got a better way of doing it, which is a nicer way of doing it, because it's
14:33more impressive.
14:34So, you put the note there.
14:37Yeah.
14:38Just one hand on the note.
14:40Ready?
14:41Yeah.
14:41Three, two, one.
14:44That's nice.
14:46That's nice.
14:50So, what's the physics in that?
14:52Well, in banging your hand...
14:54By the way, word of warning, if you're going to go and try this, you will come a cropper
14:58if you're going to do it on a marble table or a solid oak bar, because you need a tiny
15:04bit of give on the table, and once you bang and pull at the same time, the bottle jumps
15:08in the air, just that tiny fraction...
15:10That's very good.
15:11...lives you enough time to whip the note out from underneath it.
15:13But I like the rolling trick as well.
15:15A lot of people know the rolling trick, so when they go, oh, let's roll it, you go, no,
15:19you can't roll it, and then they're really stumped.
15:21That's very nice.
15:22I like that, and I like yesterday.
15:25And it's my 20-pound note.
15:27Well, it's mine now.
15:28Yeah, there we are.
15:29Very good.
15:29Well done.
15:30Have we given, Alexis, a big round of applause?
15:32I think we should give another one.
15:33I do give it a great start.
15:34Thank you again.
15:37Well done.
15:38All right.
15:39Now then, Phil, your letter's going.
15:42OK, can we start with a consonant, please?
15:44Thank you, Phil.
15:45R.
15:46And a consonant?
15:48S.
15:49A consonant, please.
15:51L.
15:53A vowel?
15:55A.
15:56A consonant?
15:57S.
15:59A vowel?
16:01E.
16:03A vowel?
16:05I.
16:07A consonant, please.
16:09P.
16:11And a final consonant, please.
16:13And a final G.
16:14Don't, don't.
16:16Don't.
16:16A vowel?
16:21A consonant, please.
16:30A%.
16:31A consonant, please.
16:32A vowel?
16:34A vowel?
16:39A consonant, please.ב
16:40muti' A松.
16:41E Swords
16:41não. Aンドy,
16:41A fountain? A
16:42Hai!
16:46Yes, Phil?
16:47Eight.
16:48And Alan?
16:49I think I've got an eight to, yeah.
16:52Yes?
16:52I'm going to go for Glacier.
16:54Alan?
16:54And I'm going to follow him, Glacier.
16:57All right.
16:57Just slide across to...
17:00OK, 53 to 46.
17:05But over in the corner, Alexis, what have we got?
17:09We didn't have anything better than that.
17:11Glacier for eight.
17:12Yep.
17:12Seven, they're Parleys, P-A-R-L-I-E-S, short for Parliamentary Trains,
17:17which in the olden days were trains that the sort of common people could afford.
17:22So less affluent people could go on a parliamentary train or a Parley.
17:27So, as I say, 53 to 46, fill in the lead.
17:29Now then, Alan, your letters game.
17:31Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:32Thank you, Alan.
17:33J.
17:34And a vowel, please.
17:36A.
17:38Consonant.
17:39B.
17:40Consonant.
17:43N.
17:44Consonant.
17:46Q.
17:48Vial, please.
17:50O.
17:52Another vowel.
17:54E.
17:56Consonant.
17:58S.
17:59And a final consonant, please.
18:03And a final G.
18:04Stand by.
18:05Second T forty-five.
18:05I.
18:06I.
18:22I.
18:23I.
18:36Alan.
18:37A risky seven.
18:39And Phil?
18:40I think I've got the same one, risky seven.
18:42Alan.
18:43Bungles with an ES.
18:45Yeah, that's what I've got.
18:46Yeah.
18:47Absolutely.
18:48Equal risk?
18:49Equal risk and equally correct.
18:51It can be OS or OES either way.
18:53Well done, guys.
18:53Very good.
18:54Well done.
18:54Well done.
18:5560 to 53.
18:56Seven points in it.
18:57And Alexis?
18:59Bungles is what we had, but I believe there's another seven.
19:01Yes, nose bag for a horse.
19:04Indeed.
19:04A nose bag.
19:04Yeah, nose bag.
19:07Now, Phil, your numbers game.
19:09Off we go.
19:10Can I have three from the top this time, please?
19:12And three from anywhere else?
19:14Changing it up.
19:15You've got me worried, Alan.
19:16Three large, three little.
19:18And for this run, they are nine, six, nine.
19:22And then the big three, 75, 50, and 25.
19:26And the target, 934.
19:29Nine, three, four.
19:30Nine, three, five, six, seven, six, seven, six, seven, six, seven, six, seven, six, seven, six, seven, seven, seven, seven,
19:41seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
19:41seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
19:41seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
19:41seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
19:41seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven
20:01Well, Phil?
20:03935.
20:04Mm-hm. Alan?
20:05I think I lost the plot. No, I'm just...
20:07No? Let's stick with Phil then. Yes, Phil?
20:11OK. 75 plus 25 is 100.
20:1475 plus 25, yep, 100.
20:17Times 9.
20:18900.
20:19Plus 50.
20:21950.
20:22Minus 9, minus 6.
20:23And the other 9. Yep, one away.
20:26Pretty good. But 934. Rachel, how tricky is that?
20:31A bit of a tricky one. Leave it with me.
20:32Certainly will.
20:3367 to 53. Fill in the lead as we turn to our second tea-time teaser,
20:38which is Adam belts.
20:40And the clue. Adam belts out the criticism to his staff,
20:43leaving them severely reprimanded.
20:46Adam belts out the criticism to his staff,
20:49leaving them severely reprimanded.
21:07Welcome back. I left with the clue.
21:09Adam belts out the criticism to his staff,
21:12leaving them severely reprimanded.
21:14They felt they had been lambasted.
21:18Lambasted.
21:19100 is the word we're looking for.
21:22Rachel.
21:23934, how was it?
21:25Yes, I found it.
21:26If you say 50 times 9 is 450.
21:3175 times 6 is also 450.
21:35Add them together for 900.
21:37Add the 25 and add the other 9.
21:39Very neat.
21:46Fabulous.
21:47So, Alan, your letters came.
21:51A consonant, please, Rachel.
21:53T.
21:55And the vowel, please.
21:57I.
21:58Consonant.
22:00N.
22:01Consonant.
22:03W.
22:04And another.
22:05P.
22:07Vial.
22:09A.
22:10Consonant.
22:12M.
22:13Vial.
22:15O.
22:17And a consonant, please.
22:19And lastly, K.
22:21Stand by.
22:53Alan.
22:54Just a five.
22:55A five? How about Phil?
22:57Yeah, I'll try a six.
22:59Sir Alan.
23:00Paint.
23:01Paint and pot man.
23:03Yes, I think pot man is fine.
23:06It certainly is.
23:07A man who serves drinks in a pub or bar.
23:09Yeah, very good.
23:10A pot man.
23:10Now, there appears to be a seven there.
23:13Yes.
23:14The word tampion.
23:16Tampion.
23:17What's that?
23:18It is a wooden stopper for the muzzle of a gun,
23:20or alternatively a plug for the top of an organ pipe.
23:24A tampion.
23:26Is that like tamping a pipe?
23:28Yes, same idea.
23:29Same deal?
23:29Exactly the same idea of plugging, yeah.
23:3173 to 53, fill in the lead and it's Phil's letters game.
23:35OK.
23:36Can I have a consonant please, Rachel?
23:38Thank you, Phil.
23:38C.
23:40A consonant please.
23:42G.
23:43A vowel.
23:45E.
23:46A consonant.
23:47D.
23:49A vowel.
23:50O.
23:52A vowel.
23:54U.
23:56A consonant.
23:57C.
23:59A consonant.
24:01R.
24:02And a consonant please.
24:04And the last one, F.
24:06Stand by.
24:07A consonant.
24:08A grocer.
24:25A translation.
24:37Well, Phil, try a seven.
24:39Alan?
24:40I'd stick with six.
24:42And that's six?
24:44Forged.
24:45Forged and occurred?
24:47How are you spelling it?
24:49With one R.
24:50O-double-C-U-R-E-D.
24:51Yeah.
24:52You definitely need the two R's.
24:54Oh, do you? OK.
24:54I'm afraid.
24:55Now, Alexis Conran.
24:57We've got rouged for six.
25:00Rouged.
25:01Yes, she rouged her cheeks.
25:03That's right.
25:03Applied rouge to it.
25:04Do people use that anymore?
25:06I talk about blushing more these days, I think.
25:08One's mother was always putting on a little bit of rouge.
25:13Anything else?
25:14No, that was our best.
25:1559 to 73.
25:18Susie, it's your origins of words, your special spot.
25:21What have you got for us today?
25:23Well, I was talking recently about how tricky English is in terms of its spelling.
25:28And there are sometimes tips to help you remember.
25:31So definite, if you remember the two I's, because it's linked to finire, the Latin meaning to finish.
25:36So definite is linked to finish, and that way you might remember the two I's.
25:41And one way to remember friend, which is another really commonly misspelled word, is to think about fiend, the I
25:48-E, because believe it or not, friend and fiend derive from pretty much the same root.
25:53And they've grown in sort of parallel courses, if you like, over the course of English.
25:58So although they developed independently from two different Germanic words, they were once very much seen as paired opposites and
26:05illiteratively paired opposites as well, if you like.
26:08So to take friend first, that entered Old English as freyond.
26:11And that comes from a Germanic verb brought by all the Germanic invading tribes, which was freyon, meaning to love.
26:19And believe it or not, that freyon is also behind free.
26:22Free once meaning beloved or dear.
26:24And we think it's because members of a household united by blood or by kinship were seen as, not only
26:31were they dear to each other, but they were free, as opposed to the slaves that they hired to wait
26:36upon them.
26:37And over time, that meaning changed to free and friend and to love.
26:42So friend in those days meant exactly the same as it does today.
26:46So a person other than a lover or a relative who you hold in affection.
26:52Fiend goes back to another Germanic word, and that was feyon.
26:55So it wasn't freyon, it was feyon.
26:56So just the R was missing, meaning to hate.
27:00And it was used very much in the form of an enemy.
27:03So a feyon was somebody who was your arch rival, if you like.
27:07In time, it came not to mean your personal arch rival, but a rival to humankind itself, in fact, to
27:12the very devil.
27:13And it's from that idea that fiend took on the idea of Satan incarnate, if you like,
27:18or to anybody who had evil intent.
27:21Foe took the place, if you like, a fiend in that sense.
27:25So it was friend or foe rather than friend or fiend.
27:28But those were two exact opposites in the olden days.
27:31Eventually fiend was applied to somebody who was a little bit devilish, if you like,
27:34or had some sort of uncommon craving, like a fiend for chocolate, for example.
27:40If you don't know whether somebody is your friend or fiend, then you can call them frenemy.
27:45Frenemy being a modern blend of friend and enemy.
27:48But that idea of the two polar opposites has been around for a while.
27:51In Samuel Johnson's dictionary, he talks about a back friend.
27:54A back friend pretty much the same as a frenemy.
27:57So he called it a friend backwards.
27:59That is an enemy in secret.
28:02Very good.
28:06Now, 73 to 59, fill on 73.
28:10Alan, your letters came.
28:12A consonant, please.
28:13Thank you, Alan.
28:14H.
28:15And a viola, please.
28:17E.
28:18Consonant.
28:20R.
28:22Consonant.
28:24S.
28:25Viol.
28:27O.
28:28Consonant.
28:30E.
28:32Consonant.
28:33T.
28:35Viol.
28:37U.
28:39And a consonant, please.
28:41And lastly, R.
28:42Stand by.
28:44Stand by.
28:45Stand by.
28:46Stand by.
28:55Stand by.
29:14Yes, Alan.
29:16Eight, which I haven't written down.
29:18An eight.
29:18And Phil?
29:19I've got an eight, yeah.
29:21So, Alan.
29:22Spriter.
29:23And Phil?
29:24Uh, posturer.
29:26Yes, you can be a posturer.
29:27Um, that's been double-checked.
29:29Very, very good.
29:30Um, you can't, unfortunately, be in a sprouter, which seems a bit unfair.
29:32That's bad luck.
29:3381 plays 59.
29:35Phil, final letters game.
29:37OK, uh, consonant, please.
29:39Thank you, Phil.
29:40M.
29:41And a consonant.
29:43N.
29:45A vowel, please.
29:47E.
29:49A consonant.
29:51T.
29:52A consonant.
29:53Y.
29:56A vowel.
29:58I.
29:59A vowel.
30:01A.
30:03A consonant, please.
30:06D.
30:07And a consonant, please.
30:09And lastly, M.
30:11Stand by.
30:12OK.
30:42Yes, Phil?
30:43Seven.
30:44And Alan?
30:45Seven.
30:46Phil?
30:47Amenity.
30:48Alan?
30:49Amenity.
30:51And over in the corner there, Alexis.
30:54We, we, we got quite a lot of sevens as well.
30:56The daytime and any time as well.
30:59Um, but there was an eight.
31:00Yes.
31:01Uh, dynamite.
31:03Dynamite.
31:04Dynamite indeed.
31:08Very good.
31:1088 to 66.
31:11And it's Alan for the numbers game.
31:13The final one of the day.
31:15Um, same again, Rachel.
31:16One from the top and any other five, please.
31:18Thank you, Alan.
31:19One big for the final of the day.
31:21And this last selection is 10, 2, 9, 3, 6.
31:28And the large one, 100.
31:31And the target, 278.
31:33To 7, 8.
31:34And the target, 72.
31:35We, we, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be right after.
31:42Bye.
31:43Bye.
31:45Bye.
31:50Bye.
32:00Bye.
32:01Bye.
32:02Bye.
32:05Yes, Alan.
32:062, 7, 8.
32:072, 7, 8 and 2, 7, 8.
32:09There we go.
32:10Alan.
32:11100 times 10.
32:13Sorry, minus 10.
32:1490.
32:15Times 3.
32:16270.
32:17Plus 6, plus 2.
32:19Lovely.
32:192, 7, 8.
32:20And Phil.
32:222 times 6 is 12.
32:24Yep.
32:25Plus 10.
32:26Plus 10, 22.
32:27Is 22.
32:28And then 3 times 100.
32:30Minus 22.
32:32300 minus 22.
32:33Perfect.
32:33Well done.
32:34Well done indeed.
32:38So, Phil just nudging 100 there on 98.
32:42Alan, 76.
32:43We go into the final round.
32:45Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers.
32:47Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
32:55Alan, fast.
32:56Yes, sir?
32:57Labyrinth.
32:58Labyrinth.
33:00Amazing.
33:01Let's see whether you're right.
33:02Yes, you are.
33:03Wow.
33:09That's brilliant, Alan.
33:10That's as fast as I've seen in a long, long time.
33:14Well done.
33:14Unfortunately.
33:15A little too late.
33:16Brilliant ending to it.
33:17But Phil takes the day.
33:19Doesn't it?
33:20Yeah.
33:20Deservedly so.
33:21Well played.
33:22Well played.
33:23You take this goodie bag back to Belfast.
33:25Good luck with your career on the stage.
33:27Good luck for the stage itself.
33:29Indeed.
33:30All right.
33:31Well done.
33:31We'll see Phil tomorrow.
33:33Well done.
33:34Well done, Phil.
33:35Good victory.
33:36And we'll see you tomorrow again, Alexis, with your beer bottles and wonderful tricks.
33:41Yes, you certainly will.
33:43The two brilliant ones.
33:44I love it.
33:45I love it.
33:46We'll see you tomorrow.
33:47I love how much you love them as well.
33:50See you tomorrow, Susie.
33:51Yes, see you then.
33:51And Rachel too, of course.
33:52I love it.
33:52He's got 500 of these tricks.
33:54It's a wonder he turns up sober every day.
33:56I never pay for drinks.
33:57Good for you.
33:57All right.
33:58We'll see you tomorrow?
33:59See you tomorrow.
33:59Of course you will.
34:00All right.
34:01Same time, same place.
34:02You be sure of it.
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