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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown.
00:33It's Wednesday, the 18th of February.
00:36Thank you for tuning in.
00:37And let's get reacquainted with Dictionary Corner.
00:39Our J of the D, Susie Dent,
00:41joined by the brilliant Chris Packham
00:43and our lone wolf at Tread in the Boards
00:46is our Rachel Riley.
00:47And we've loved our animal theme all throughout this week.
00:50You know there's going to be a quiz.
00:52It's not that much of a surprise.
00:54But what is it about?
00:55OK, shout out to the three of you.
00:58I'm going to give you an animal.
01:00From a famous film, you've got to shout out the film.
01:04The first one's easy, but I just want to get you warmed up.
01:07Are you ready?
01:08So you're just straight in.
01:09Toto.
01:10Wizard of Oz.
01:11Everybody, apart from Chris, who just sat stoic.
01:14Nothing.
01:15Right.
01:15So now I'm going to ask you a much more difficult one.
01:18I think the key here is the second name gives it away more.
01:21OK.
01:23A dog called Bruiser Woods.
01:27Bruiser.
01:27Oh, yes.
01:29Legally Blonde.
01:29Oh, brilliant.
01:31Yes.
01:32Well done.
01:32I love those films.
01:33Well done, you.
01:34Well done.
01:35Right.
01:36I think this one might be skewed more towards Susie
01:38because she's talked about this particular thing before.
01:42Wilbur.
01:42Oh, yes.
01:44With Charlotte's Web.
01:45Yes.
01:46Well done, the pig.
01:47OK.
01:48Doing brilliantly here, Chris Parkin.
01:51So we need a decider here.
01:53First one to get it.
01:56Hedwig.
01:57Oh, Harry Potter.
01:58Harry Potter.
01:59Just in time, Rachel gets that.
02:01And, of course, the brilliant theme to Harry Potter's Hedwig's theme.
02:04Fantastic piece of music.
02:06All right.
02:06Let's head straight over to Ewan, our new champion, Mr. Crabb.
02:11Welcome back.
02:12You did brilliantly yesterday, but I have to say the nerves were there.
02:16So I'm thinking a calm you could be formidable today.
02:20Let's hope so.
02:21I feel more relaxed now that I'm in the champion's chair this time.
02:25So, but I've watched the show enough to know that a good champion
02:29can be thrown as quick as they come back into this chair.
02:32You're absolutely right.
02:33Well, it could be today.
02:34You're up against Luke Selway, who lives in East Grinstead in West Sussex.
02:38How are you doing, sir?
02:39Very well, thanks.
02:40I'm just a bit nervous, talking of nerves.
02:42I'll tell you what, I'll calm you down by talking about your pets.
02:44And we've just been having a lot of animal love this week.
02:47So a couple of dogs and then a special creature.
02:49Tell us all about them.
02:50So the two dogs are two little dogs.
02:53I never thought I'd be the kind of guy that has little dogs,
02:55but we got pushed into it mainly by my daughter.
02:59And the bearded dragon is also my daughter's.
03:01He's about six years old.
03:03He's called Dandy.
03:05And my daughter's still sort of interested in him.
03:08Brilliant.
03:09Well, listen, this is your pet project today.
03:11You've got to try and unseat the brilliant Ewan Crabbe.
03:14Good luck to both of you.
03:17Right, having said this before, off you go, champ.
03:21Afternoon, Rachel.
03:22Afternoon, Ewan.
03:23Can I start with a constant, please?
03:24You can indeed start today with R.
03:26And another.
03:28M.
03:29And another.
03:31S.
03:33A vowel.
03:35A.
03:36And another.
03:38I.
03:39And a third.
03:41E.
03:43Consonant.
03:44F.
03:47Consonant.
03:48T.
03:50And a final vowel, please.
03:53A final I.
03:54At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:28Ewan, how many?
04:29Seven.
04:29And for you, Luke?
04:30Eight.
04:31The seven is?
04:32Fairies.
04:33Fairies.
04:34What have you spotted?
04:35Ratifies.
04:37Ratifies!
04:38One start.
04:38Well done.
04:38Yeah, well done.
04:41Anything that had the ratifies?
04:43No, that was our top.
04:44We had fairest, but rather like fairies.
04:48Yeah, absolutely, indeed.
04:49Absolutely.
04:50So, let's get your letters, Luke, after that fantastic start.
04:54Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
04:55Thank you, Luke.
04:56N.
04:58A vowel.
05:00E.
05:01A consonant.
05:02S.
05:03Another consonant.
05:05D.
05:07A vowel, please.
05:09U.
05:11A consonant.
05:13L.
05:15Another vowel, please.
05:18E.
05:19A consonant.
05:21T.
05:23And a final vowel, please.
05:25A final O.
05:2730 seconds.
05:59See what Luke follows up the eight with.
06:01Go with a seven.
06:02And for you, Ewan?
06:03I have a seven as well.
06:04Seven as well.
06:05Let's get those points in the board, Luke.
06:07Denotes.
06:08And for you, Ewan?
06:09Delaus?
06:11You can Delaus.
06:12Quite an important thing to do.
06:14Yes, well done.
06:15I do it before every show, Susie.
06:17And how do we get on there, Chris?
06:20What about the lice?
06:21Come on.
06:22Someone's got a champy in the underdog.
06:25Nestled.
06:26And also toluene.
06:27And as far as I remember from my long-distant O-level chemistry,
06:33toluene was the best thing to remove chewing gum from clothing.
06:37Oh.
06:38Yeah.
06:39And you can push it to an eight with the rather lovely Ensold to endow with a soul.
06:44Well done.
06:45I was just snouted.
06:46I was snouted all over the place.
06:48Right, let's get numbers.
06:49Ewan, you're going to pick these?
06:51I'm going to go for six small.
06:53You sense a player here.
06:54Eight points behind.
06:55You're gambling earlier.
06:56I think that's a good decision.
06:57Six little ones.
06:58Let's see.
07:00Six, four, two, eight, five and nine.
07:05And the target?
07:07458.
07:08Four, five, eight.
07:09Numbers up.
07:09five, two, three, five.
07:39Six, four, five.
07:40Four, five, eight, Ewan.
07:41Four, five, eight.
07:42And for you, Luke?
07:43Yep, four, five, eight.
07:44Well done. Off you go there, Ewan.
07:45So nine times eight is 72.
07:47Nine, eight, 72.
07:49Add the five.
07:5177.
07:52Multiplied by the six.
07:54Multiplied by the six for 462.
07:57And take away the four.
07:58And you haven't used the four. Well done.
08:00Same way or different, Mr Luke?
08:02Different way. Nine times five is 45.
08:0445.
08:05Six plus four is ten.
08:07Yep.
08:08Times them together and add the eight.
08:10Four, five, eight.
08:10Ten points apiece.
08:11Nice.
08:15As we get this midweek tea time teaser,
08:18this is a nice one.
08:19A new plot.
08:20A new plot.
08:21Sounds like a pedicurist's tool,
08:23but it's all about gliding.
08:25Sounds like a pedicurist's tool,
08:27but it's all about gliding.
08:44Welcome back.
08:45Yes, nothing to do with your feet,
08:47but a toe plane.
08:48So let's jump straight back in.
08:50More letters from our flying challenger, Luke.
08:53Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:54Thank you, Luke.
08:55B.
08:55Another consonant, please.
08:58R.
08:59A vowel, please.
09:00A.
09:01A consonant.
09:03K.
09:06A vowel, please.
09:08E.
09:10Another consonant, please.
09:12P.
09:14A vowel.
09:16I.
09:17A consonant, please.
09:20A consonant, please.
09:21And a final vowel, please.
09:24A final A.
09:26Start the clock.
09:27A vowel, please.
09:58Luke, how many?
09:59A seven, not written down.
10:00And for you, Ewan?
10:01Just a dodgy six.
10:03OK, what's the dodgy six?
10:05Harky, with the I-E.
10:06And for you, Luke?
10:08Paraben.
10:09Spell that for us.
10:10P-A-R-A-B-E-N.
10:13Absolutely brilliant, yes.
10:14It's a group of compounds used as preservatives
10:16in cosmetic products, food industry, etc.
10:19Well done.
10:19Brilliant, well done to that.
10:20And can we add anything?
10:22Rapine for six.
10:24Yes.
10:24And that's us?
10:24Sounds like it's animal-related.
10:25It's the seizure of someone's property.
10:27But, yes, no-one wants a paraben, by the way,
10:29so I think that's good.
10:30Get rid of that one.
10:30Yes, Ewan, off you go.
10:32Your letters, my friend.
10:33I'll start with a vowel, please, Rachel.
10:35Thank you, Ewan.
10:35O.
10:37And a second.
10:38I.
10:39And another.
10:41U.
10:42Consonant.
10:43T.
10:45Another.
10:46G.
10:47Another.
10:49L.
10:50A vowel.
10:52O.
10:54Consonant.
10:56C.
10:58And I'll finish with a vowel.
11:00Finish with E.
11:01Good luck.
11:03KNOCK-
11:05The rest of theogue.
11:05YON-N два.
11:33Ewan, how many?
11:35Just six.
11:36And for you, Luke?
11:37Also a six.
11:38Yeah, it's not just here, it's going to get you points.
11:40Ocelot.
11:41Yeah, and for you, Luke?
11:43I've got the same.
11:43The same one.
11:44Yep.
11:45There you go, nice one, Chris.
11:47Ocelot, beautiful cats.
11:48Yeah, brilliant.
11:49Is that the longest where we can get Ocelot?
11:51We just had cooties, which takes us back to...
11:53Or cootie, takes us back to life, so let's stay with the Ocelot.
11:55We need to de-lice you then in the next break,
11:58but right now we're going to do our numbers,
12:00and Luke, you're picking them.
12:01One large, please, Rachel, and five small.
12:03Thank you, Luke.
12:03One from the top, five not, coming up.
12:06And the five small ones this time,
12:08nine, four, five, two, and six.
12:12And the large one, 100.
12:14And the target for them, 765.
12:17765, numbers up.
12:49765, Luke.
12:51765.
12:52And for you, Ewan?
12:53Just 766.
12:55766.
12:56Hit the crossbar, Luke.
12:57Big ten points, this.
12:58100 plus nine.
13:00109.
13:015 plus 2 is 7.
13:05Times them together.
13:07766.
13:08And then 6 minus 4 is 2 to add on.
13:11Haven't used any of those.
13:12Well done.
13:12Brilliant.
13:15Just like yesterday with Ewan,
13:17the challenger has the upper hand
13:19as we have our daily chat
13:20with Chris Packham.
13:22Every day's been a joy,
13:23but all I have is a question
13:25that you're going to answer,
13:26but I've actually never asked myself
13:27this question before.
13:29Should I wear camouflage
13:31to approach an animal?
13:32Let's find out.
13:33Well, yes, I mean,
13:35that's based upon the fact
13:36that we have a misconception
13:38that other animals
13:39perceive the world visually
13:41in the same way that we do.
13:44So is that the case?
13:46You know, do they see
13:48all of the colours of the spectrum?
13:50And there's often
13:51another misconception,
13:52and that is that human eyesight
13:53is not particularly good
13:55in the animal kingdom.
13:56Well, let's deal firstly
13:58with visual acuity,
13:59and we measure that
14:00in a unit called cycles per degree,
14:03but we're not going to get
14:03into the units.
14:04We'll just use it
14:06as a comparative measure.
14:07So in terms of human visual acuity,
14:09the sharpness, if you like,
14:10in the way that we perceive
14:12the world,
14:12ours is about 60 cycles per degree.
14:15Our domestic cats, 10.
14:18So the world's not as sharp
14:19for domestic cats.
14:20In some insect species,
14:21it's as low as just one.
14:23But I think it's worth considering
14:25that it's not just about
14:26the sharpness,
14:27but also the colours
14:28that we perceive.
14:30Now, humans are what we call
14:32trichromatic animals.
14:34So we and the great apes,
14:37so that's chimpanzees,
14:39gorillas, orangutans,
14:40most female South American monkeys
14:44and the marsupials
14:46see the way that we do.
14:48They see the world exactly
14:50using the colours that we have.
14:52But as far as we are aware,
14:55the rest of the mammal species
14:57are only dichromatic.
14:59They only have two types
15:01of pigments in their eye cells.
15:04The benefit of being able
15:05to see three,
15:06we think,
15:07is that it gives
15:07brightly coloured fruits
15:09a greater apparency to us.
15:11So when you're thinking
15:12about those monkeys
15:13and ourselves,
15:14when we were certainly,
15:15had a significantly
15:17sort of fructivorous part
15:18of our diet,
15:18that was good.
15:19And also the fact
15:20that we blush,
15:21because blushing in primates
15:23or flushing,
15:24you know,
15:24not just the face,
15:25but sometimes I have to say
15:26the backside of those animals
15:28is something that would also
15:30be advantageous
15:31to be able to see.
15:32Going back to those
15:33dichromatic animals,
15:34I mean,
15:34that's the most of the rest
15:35of the mammals.
15:36So our domestic pets,
15:37our domestic dogs,
15:38for instance,
15:38are dichromatic.
15:40And that means
15:41that they basically
15:42see the world
15:43as we would
15:44if we were red,
15:45green, colour blind.
15:47And then lastly,
15:48there are a whole group
15:49of species
15:50that are tetra-chromatic.
15:51So they see
15:52four different types
15:54of colour,
15:55simplistically speaking,
15:56if you like.
15:57And those include
15:58tropical reef fish
16:00and also birds,
16:03because many bird species
16:04can see the ultraviolet
16:06part of the light spectrum.
16:07And this includes species
16:08like our blue tits
16:10in the back garden.
16:11And one of the things
16:12that it allows them
16:13to perceive
16:13is the brightness,
16:15the contrast
16:16between the blue cap
16:17on their head
16:18and their white cheeks.
16:19And what we see
16:20is that the males
16:22which are the fittest
16:23and are more likely
16:24to get the mates
16:25in springtime
16:26are those
16:27with the whitest cheeks.
16:29So if you remember
16:29back to the,
16:30I don't know,
16:3170s,
16:32if you ever went
16:32into a disco
16:33and there were
16:34ultraviolet lights,
16:35it was embarrassing
16:36if you had dandruff
16:37because it would glow.
16:38But that would be
16:39advantageous to the blue tit
16:40on the villa
16:41looking for the smartest mate.
16:43Brilliant.
16:44In truth,
16:44I didn't answer your question.
16:45Do we need to wear camouflage?
16:47Well, frankly,
16:48no, not really.
16:49Because we might think
16:51we're hiding
16:52but most of the rest
16:53of the animal kingdom,
16:54certainly the birds
16:55have got pretty sharp eyesight
16:56in terms of colour
16:58and that visual acuity.
17:00And when it comes
17:00to other mammals,
17:01frankly,
17:02they're looking at
17:03a very different world
17:04than us in the first place.
17:05So there are other skills
17:06you need to employ
17:07other than going to buy
17:08camouflage clothing.
17:09Brilliant.
17:10Thank you, Chris.
17:13We're looking at the scores.
17:14It's a sight for sore eyes,
17:16isn't it?
17:16Our challenger look on 48.
17:18Ewan yesterday,
17:19who of course
17:20took the lead
17:21against our champion,
17:22John,
17:22now has it all
17:23to do with 23.
17:25So let's see
17:26how this pans out.
17:26Mr Ewan,
17:27let's get your letters.
17:28A consonant, please, Rachel.
17:30Thank you, Ewan.
17:30D.
17:31And a second.
17:33S.
17:34And a third.
17:35Y.
17:36And a vowel.
17:38I.
17:39And another.
17:40U.
17:41A third.
17:42E.
17:44Consonant.
17:45P.
17:47Erm, another vowel.
17:50O.
17:52And I'll finish
17:53with a consonant, please.
17:55Finish with C.
17:56And here we go again.
18:27Ewan.
18:28Just a six.
18:29And for you, Luke?
18:30Seven.
18:31And a seven.
18:31What have you got there, Ewan?
18:32Copies.
18:34Copies.
18:34You should have copied Luke.
18:36What have you got?
18:37Upcodes.
18:37Oh, upcodes.
18:39Yes.
18:40I didn't think it was
18:41going to be there, actually,
18:42but absolutely is
18:42to assign an inaccurate
18:44billing code
18:44to a medical procedure
18:46or treatment
18:47to increase
18:48the fee.
18:50We've learned something.
18:50We'll get that
18:51in their heads.
18:51Chris?
18:52There were coypew in there,
18:54or coypews.
18:55Yeah.
18:55South American rodents.
18:57Yeah.
18:57Once prevalent
18:58in the east of England,
18:59but now exterminated.
19:00And now exterminated, yes.
19:02And that's all we have?
19:02That's all we have.
19:04All right.
19:04Let's get back to it
19:06as we get another
19:07nine letters
19:08from you, Luke.
19:09Can I have a consonant,
19:10please, Rachel?
19:11Thank you, Luke.
19:11T.
19:13A vowel, please.
19:13A.
19:16A consonant, please.
19:18R.
19:19A vowel, please.
19:21E.
19:22A consonant.
19:24N.
19:26Another consonant.
19:28S.
19:29A vowel, please.
19:31A.
19:34Another vowel, please.
19:35A vowel, please.
19:38And a final vowel, please.
19:42Final U.
19:44Let's do it.
19:45A vowel, please.
19:47A vowel, please.
19:49A vowel, please.
19:51A vowel, please.
19:56A vowel, please.
19:58A vowel, please.
20:00A vowel, please.
20:00A vowel, please.
20:01A vowel, please.
20:03A vowel, please.
20:13A vowel, please.
20:15Luke, give me a number.
20:16I'll stick with a seven.
20:18Right, OK, and Ewan?
20:19Seven as well.
20:19Yes, what have you got there, Luke?
20:21Your favourite, saunter.
20:22I know, you were fishing for that, you,
20:24the whole way through that.
20:26And Ewan?
20:27Nature's.
20:27Yay!
20:28Well, we like to saunter through nature, don't we?
20:31You really telegraphed that one.
20:33But can you gallop on to an eight or a nine?
20:36Well, we could arsenide.
20:37Oh, my goodness, really?
20:39Are we blushing again?
20:40That's like a dodgy verb.
20:42It's a sort of arsenic.
20:44There you go.
20:46Right, no comment.
20:47Let's just get more numbers.
20:49And Ewan, my friend, you're picking these ones, of course.
20:52I've got to go four large and two small.
20:53Yeah.
20:54You're gambling.
20:54You tried six little, now we're going for the other end.
20:57All the big ones and the two little ones, nine and one.
21:01And then we know 25, 75, 150.
21:06And with them, you need to make 665.
21:10665.
21:11Numbers up.
21:12You're gambling.
21:13You're gambling.
21:30You're gambling.
21:34We're gambling.
21:35I'm going for the other end.
21:35I'm just saying, sang to you.
21:36You're gambling.
21:40You're gamblingeder.
21:41You're gambling.
21:41six six five you and six six six let's see if it's good enough Luke same for me
21:48there you go be seven points each you're going first year 75 take one 74 and
21:54times by nine yeah there you go six six six that's simple all right so fairly
21:59simple to get one away but how difficult to get it bang on they were a couple of
22:03different ways and one of them 100 minus 75 is 25 times 25 is 625 and then
22:11add the 50 and take the nine and the one there it is
22:16and with that it seconds out for another tea time teaser which is rise ding rise
22:23ding they rise from their expensive seats when the bell dings for the final round
22:28they rise from their expensive seats when the bell dings for the final round
22:48welcome back we were ringside for that tea time teaser you know Susie I can't think of a worse
22:54place knowing you so well that I could take you to ring the side of a boxing match I don't
22:59want to be
22:59ringside anyway it's anywhere circus would be my absolute nightmare yeah yeah anywhere where you are
23:06likely to get picked on or viewed or yes so put me in the back please well ringside view here
23:13every
23:13weekday afternoon for countdown that seats always for you as we get back to it our
23:18challenger Luke Selway is in the driving seat and you're choosing can I have a
23:22consonant please Rachel thank you Luke G another consonant please M a vowel I another
23:31consonant peak another consonant ah a vowel please a another vowel please oh another consonant D
23:50and a final consonant please final Q and this is kind time
24:26look just a five Ewan I've only got four I'm afraid the four trip the five radio and radio for
24:36five
24:36right we're all ears dogma for another five yes that was it that's all we've got really tough goodness
24:43me yeah let's let's put that right behind this shall we and we get on with more you and you're
24:48going to choose these a vowel please Rachel thank you and E and a consonant L and another P and
24:59another D
25:05vowel O and another vowel I consonant T and a final consonant a final S half a minute
25:22so
25:36so
25:37so
25:51Ewan?
25:52Seven.
25:53Yes, Luke, how many?
25:54Seven.
25:54And seven, two.
25:55All right, Ewan, let's get more points on the board.
25:57Piloted.
25:58And for you, Luke?
25:59Spoiled.
26:00Spoiled and piloted.
26:01Yeah, absolutely fine.
26:03Right, OK, interesting letters these.
26:04What did you come up with?
26:05Top side, beef.
26:07Thank you very much.
26:08All right, 44.81.
26:10It's quite the chasm there with four rounds left.
26:14But let's get our origins of words first.
26:16Well, a question came in from a wonderfully named Merle Harding from Surrey,
26:21who is wondering about two things.
26:24One is the expression six, seven, which I will come to,
26:28and to be at sixes and sevens.
26:32So anyone who is watching who is under the age of about 20,
26:35I think, will know about six, seven.
26:38I just read all about this.
26:39Yes.
26:40Yeah.
26:40It is an internet meme,
26:41and it's a key part of teen slang at the moment,
26:45or maybe it's probably gone by the time we're talking about this,
26:47but drive school teachers mad.
26:49It's actually been banned in some schools
26:52because it's usually accompanied by this six, seven.
26:55Whenever the number six comes up in school or seven,
26:58the kids go six, seven.
26:59Nobody quite knows what it means.
27:01Merle is wondering where it comes from,
27:03and it seems to have started with a rap song,
27:06Doot Doot by Skrilla.
27:08And it was then taken up in lots of videos about basketball players,
27:12and one was asked, how tall are you?
27:13And he said six, seven.
27:15And so it has gone on from there.
27:17It's a little bit like skibbity,
27:19which is another slightly nonsensical word that did the rounds.
27:23So I think anyone with teenagers or younger even
27:26might know about six, seven.
27:27But, yeah, it seems to have started there.
27:29Viral phenomenon, as I say, will probably be gone.
27:32You can quote me on this.
27:33It may not be, but it will probably be gone
27:35as quickly as it appeared.
27:37To be at sixes and sevens,
27:38I think most of us would recognise that,
27:40to be in a state of confusion.
27:42And there is a very popular theory
27:43that this has to do with livery companies
27:46and their order of precedence
27:47and an argument between the merchant tailors
27:49and the skinners as to who was sixth and who was seventh.
27:52But, actually, we think it has to do with gambling, with dice.
27:55So Chaucer mentions this in the Canterbury Tales.
27:58And we think it's simply a mangling of the French.
28:01Cinq et sixes.
28:03Five and six.
28:04And as is the way of these things,
28:06hyperbole kicked in.
28:07And either we misheard the French,
28:09we didn't really understand it,
28:10or we just decided to up the ante
28:12and talk about being at sixes and sevens,
28:14which, of course, is impossible with dice.
28:16And the idea is that it is, you know,
28:20to bet on these would be the height of recklessness
28:22because how often would a five or a six
28:25or a six or a seven come up?
28:27So we think that's where the modern sense of sort of
28:30sixes and sevens, confusion, disarray,
28:32maybe just being a little bit foolish, comes from.
28:34But it's had quite a history
28:36and, as I say, lots of theories attached.
28:37But six, seven, who knows where that one is going to go.
28:41Thank you, Susie.
28:44All right, here we go.
28:47Luke, your letters.
28:49Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
28:50Thank you, Luke.
28:51N.
28:52A vowel, please.
28:53A.
28:55A consonant, please.
28:56L.
28:58A vowel, please.
28:59E.
29:01Another consonant.
29:02R.
29:04Another consonant.
29:06C.
29:07A vowel, please.
29:09I.
29:11Another vowel, please.
29:13A.
29:15And another vowel, please.
29:17Lastly, O.
29:19Let's do it.
29:19You are listening to eleven.
29:23Although I'm remembering she needs,
29:32Bye-bye.
29:33Bye-bye.
29:35Bye-bye.
29:37Bye-bye.
29:43Bye-bye.
29:45Bye-bye.
29:47Bye-bye.
29:49Bye-bye.
29:51Luke, I've got an eight.
29:52An eight, well, hey, that's one way to hold your nerve.
29:55Ewan?
29:56I might as well play a very dodgy seven.
29:58Yeah, what's the seven?
30:00Cariol, C-A-R-I-O-L-E.
30:02And what is this eight, Luke?
30:05Lonithera.
30:05Susie, you're going to have to look that up for me.
30:07Yeah, no, absolutely right.
30:08So, first of all, cariol is in the dictionary.
30:10One R is a small, open, horse-drawn carriage.
30:12Yeah.
30:13So that would have been great.
30:14Lonithera is a plant in the honeysuckle family.
30:18So, we're back to nature,
30:20and I'm guessing you two are back to the drawing board after that.
30:23We are, we were.
30:24Yeah, so that's the only one we had.
30:26All right.
30:26Ewan, I think you might have a story to tell about who beat you
30:30in about three, four months from now.
30:32But, hey, let's get your final letters.
30:35Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:36Thank you, Ewan.
30:37N.
30:38And another.
30:39R.
30:40And a vowel.
30:42E.
30:43Another vowel.
30:45O.
30:46Consonant.
30:59And I'll then finish with a consonant.
31:02Finish with S.
31:04Kind of.
31:04Oops.
31:06Aquí işte.
31:17Start.
31:23It's going to beo.
31:25Bye bye.ники.
31:27All right.
31:28Bye bye.
31:28Bye bye.
31:29Bye bye.
31:30Bye bye.
31:30Bye bye.
31:32Bye bye.
31:33Bye bye.
31:34Bye bye.
31:35Oh, that's time.
31:37Last letters, Ewan Crabb.
31:39Eight.
31:39Hey, Luke Selway.
31:41Also an eight.
31:42Also an eight.
31:43Interesting.
31:43Ewan.
31:44Resonate.
31:45I've got the same.
31:46The same one.
31:47Yep.
31:47Let's get straight over to the dictionary corner.
31:50Talk to me.
31:51Storeman.
31:52A storeman?
31:53Storeman.
31:54Yes, somebody responsible for stored goods.
31:56Yes, what do you know?
31:57Just another eight.
31:58And that's our lot?
31:59That's it.
32:00All right.
32:0152 plays 97.
32:04We're still 20 points up for grabs.
32:07Luke, you're looking at a monster.
32:09First score as challenger.
32:10But let's do it.
32:11Ten points at a time.
32:13Your numbers.
32:13Can I have one large, please, Rachel?
32:15Thank you, Luke.
32:15One from the top.
32:17Five little.
32:17You want to make it as easy as possible for yourself.
32:19Let's see if you've done that.
32:21They are 10, 4, 3, 9, 1.
32:26And 25 with the target 172.
32:31172.
32:31Last numbers.
33:02172, Luke.
33:04172.
33:04And Ewan?
33:06173.
33:07173.
33:07Missed it by one.
33:08It's kind of immaterial now.
33:10We just have to enjoy these rounds, Ewan.
33:12Luke, 10 points for you.
33:13So, 10 minus 4 is 6.
33:16Yep.
33:16Plus 1 is 7.
33:17It is.
33:18Times 25.
33:20Yep.
33:21And we'll take off the three.
33:22And I leave that three to the end.
33:24172.
33:25Well done.
33:28As it stands at the moment, I can't find a weak part to Luke's game.
33:33There's absolutely nothing.
33:35So, let's see if he can take it all the way with this.
33:37The last 10 points.
33:39Ewan and Luke, fingers on the buzzers.
33:41Let's reveal our Countdown Conundrum.
33:47Ewan, come on.
33:48Coriander.
33:49Yeah.
33:50Let's do it.
33:51Yes.
33:54Not everybody's favourite, but it is with Ewan.
33:57Well done to you, sir.
33:59You take the teapot home.
34:01Thank you very much.
34:02Well done to you.
34:03And we can't talk any more Eurovision.
34:05That breaks my heart.
34:06But Luke Selway, I'm so excited to see what type of player we have here.
34:10So, back tomorrow.
34:12The only way is down.
34:13That's what I'm saying.
34:15We'll see you tomorrow, mate.
34:16Well done.
34:16Well done.
34:17Chris, Susie, enjoy your Wednesday night.
34:19Will do, you too.
34:20You too, Rich.
34:21See you tomorrow.
34:22Except we will be here.
34:24What a new champion we have on our hands.
34:26But you never know who's going to be in the challenger's chair tomorrow.
34:29Same time, same place.
34:30You can count on us.
34:32You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:37You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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