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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Monday afternoon as we buzz and bob our way through 15 rounds of letters
00:38and numbers and each time just 30 seconds to mullet over.
00:42So keep your hair on as we introduce someone who's a cut above when it comes to the numbers are
00:46Rachel Riley.
00:47How are you, Rach?
00:47I swatted a mullet in there.
00:49I was proud of the mullet.
00:50Mullets are back.
00:51Yeah.
00:52I mean, who would have thought that that abomination would be trendy again?
00:56Everything comes back, no matter how good or bad it is, you know.
00:58If I'd have kept all my clothes from when I was growing up in the 80s, I'd have like a
01:03million pounds worth.
01:04They were terrible then and terrible now.
01:07Yes, World Barber Day today.
01:09Oh, OK.
01:10I should say I always get my hair cut just before Countdown most Mondays and this was the first time
01:15in two years my barber was ill.
01:17But I want to give Lauren a shout out because it's a rare female barber in a very male-dominated
01:22industry.
01:22But when you find a good hairdresser or barber, hold on to them for dear life.
01:28You must have had...
01:29What's your worst haircut ever?
01:31Well, when I was young, maybe kind of eight or nine, I decided...
01:35Do you remember when Winona Ryder had really short hair?
01:37Yes.
01:38So I decided that was a great idea.
01:39And I went from blonde bob to the stuff underneath is kind of mousy and you realise that the sun
01:45makes your hair lighter.
01:46So I went to this, like, short brown hair and everyone thought I was a boy.
01:49I don't think I left my room for two days.
01:51What about this one now?
01:52Where is that right?
01:53Somebody joking.
01:53I'm joking.
01:54I literally sat there and said to my hairdresser, do what you want and this is what he wanted.
01:58Very nice indeed.
02:00I find out a strange fact, you know, I'm going to go a bit nerd on it on World Barber
02:04Day.
02:04I'll just leave you with this.
02:07Original barbers are from the Middle Ages, but you didn't just go to them for haircuts.
02:11They'd also pull your teeth out.
02:13You could go and say, I'll have a number, I'll have a fade, I'll have a one and a three,
02:18six on top, take my wisdom tooth out.
02:20Well, that red and white, that red is for the blood.
02:23The white is the bandage, the red is the blood.
02:26What?
02:28Well, as he's talked, we better introduce him, eh?
02:30As we head over to Dictionary Corner, well, we dread to do the show without her.
02:34It's our Susie Dent, of course, and back for his second stint ever in Dictionary Corner.
02:39I mean, he's got nothing else to do.
02:41I mean, what?
02:42Right, best-selling books, host a great quiz show, make movies with Spielberg.
02:46Literally so much time on his hands.
02:48And some call him a pariah in this industry.
02:51It's Richard Osmond.
02:52Oh, yeah.
02:54Listen, life would be going badly if I didn't have time for Countdown.
02:57I'll always make time for Countdown.
02:59Well, a little bit of, you know, beyond the mat here, behind the curtain.
03:04Recently, House of Games has moved to the same studio complex as Countdown,
03:08so we're next-door neighbours.
03:10And we share a lot of the same staff.
03:12So, it was great today for me to see how our staff and Countdown actually deal with a presenter they
03:18like.
03:19Yeah, I know.
03:20It's so weird not to hear them booing, Cole, for you, isn't it?
03:24Let's introduce our seven-time champion, Alex Cole.
03:28Today's the big day.
03:30How you doing, mate?
03:30I'm good.
03:31A bit nervous.
03:32Yeah, you do.
03:33The goal gets smaller.
03:34It really, really does for the eight.
03:36Listen, we talked about so much, but I want to talk about your grandmother,
03:39because without her, you wouldn't be here.
03:40No.
03:41So, growing up, my gran would watch Countdown religiously every day.
03:46We'd go around at the weekend.
03:47We'd play word games, me, my mum, and my gran.
03:51And we were told we were never allowed to ring her at quarter past three,
03:56because Countdown was on.
03:58So, yeah, it's nice to be able to do this, sort of, like, in memory of her.
04:03How could Sean Lincoln from Paisley even dream of trying to beat you after a story like that?
04:08How you doing, party pooper?
04:10Not bad, thank you.
04:11Good to have you here.
04:12Now, you did a thing which I think a lot of us want to do,
04:14but maybe don't take that jump.
04:16You had the job, you had the security, and you went,
04:18you know what, I want to start my own business, I'm going to do it.
04:20Tell us all about it.
04:21Yeah, I started an online anime and video game company.
04:26I've been in the video games industry for, what, 20-odd years?
04:29Wow.
04:29And I had enough of making money for everybody else.
04:32I thought, I'll do it myself.
04:33And the irony is, I don't watch anime.
04:36What?
04:36I don't watch anime.
04:38No, you're not into it.
04:39No, because Alex has never read a book in his life.
04:41Never was discussing that.
04:42And here's you with Gamer Shake, here's him with Bird Spooks,
04:45and it's all right, just taking your money.
04:46That's it, that's all it is.
04:47Let's see who's on the money today.
04:49Good luck, Sean.
04:49Alex, big day.
04:50Good luck.
04:53And off we go, first round.
04:55Hi, Rachel.
04:55Hi, Alex.
04:56I'll have a consonant to start with, please.
04:57Start of the week with H.
04:59And a vowel, please.
05:01E.
05:03And a consonant, please.
05:05T.
05:06And another vowel.
05:08O.
05:10And a consonant, please.
05:12S.
05:12And a, another consonant, please.
05:16D.
05:18And a vowel.
05:19E.
05:21And another consonant, please.
05:24S.
05:25And a final consonant, please.
05:29A final M.
05:31At home, I'm in the studio.
05:32Let's play Kinkai.
06:04Alex.
06:04A six.
06:05Six for you.
06:06Sean.
06:06Seven.
06:07Seven.
06:08The six is, Alex.
06:09Hosted.
06:10And for the challenger to take an early lead on this big Monday.
06:13Demotes.
06:14Demotes.
06:15Very good indeed.
06:15Well done.
06:16Yeah, exactly what he's trying to do to you, Alex.
06:18Richard.
06:19Yeah, we had demotes.
06:21Methods is also there for a seven.
06:23Seven-nil.
06:24Off we go, Sean.
06:25Want to start?
06:25Hi, Rachel.
06:26Hi, Sean.
06:26Can I have a consonant, please?
06:28You can indeed.
06:29L.
06:30And another.
06:32T.
06:33And another.
06:34G.
06:35A vowel, please.
06:37A.
06:38And another.
06:39I.
06:40And another.
06:44E.
06:45A consonant, please.
06:47N.
06:48And another, please.
06:49V.
06:50And finally, a vowel, please.
06:52And finally, A.
06:55Let's do it.
06:55A vowel, please.
07:26Sean.
07:27Seven.
07:27Back-to-back sevens.
07:28Alex?
07:29Eight.
07:29Ah, that's what champions do.
07:31What have you got, Sean?
07:32Vaginal.
07:33And what have you got, Alex?
07:34Valeting.
07:35Well done.
07:36Absolutely brilliant spot.
07:37Well, there you go.
07:38Eight points for you.
07:40Richard and Susie, talk to me.
07:41I came on a good day, didn't I?
07:43This is going to be an absolute cracker.
07:44One other eight.
07:46Navigate.
07:47Navigate.
07:47Is there.
07:48Navigate.
07:48Well, let's do exactly that.
07:50Navigate our way through 15 rounds as we get the numbers for the first time today.
07:56Alex?
07:56We'll go one large and five small, please.
07:59Thank you, Alex.
07:59One from the top.
08:00Five little coming up.
08:02First one of the week is five, ten, seven, six, four.
08:08And the large on 100.
08:09And the target, 742.
08:12742.
08:13Numbers up.
08:13You.
08:14How's it going?
08:28You.
08:42How are you?
08:43How's it going?
08:43Time up, Alex? 7.42. And for you, Sean? Nothing.
08:47No, the challenger's trapdoor, the first numbers round,
08:51no matter what it is. Alex? 100 plus 6. 106.
08:54Times 7. Yep. Oh, sorry, Sean.
08:57Yeah, it's OK.
08:59APPLAUSE
09:01It's happened to so, so many. Long way to go, 12 rounds to go.
09:05First tea-time teaser of the week, blast oars.
09:08Blast oars. The birds feeling well under par.
09:11The birds feeling well under par.
09:29Welcome back. The birds feeling well under par.
09:31That's Albatross, a hole in one and a par for two on a five.
09:35And I'm sure, Susie Dent, at some stage you did do an Origin Awards
09:39all about birdie, bogey, but my memory isn't what it used to be.
09:43Fine, I'll go back to them.
09:44Dig it out, just do the same thing. I will.
09:47I will. Yeah, it's a good theme.
09:48Wonderful. Let's get some letters.
09:49A consonant, please. Thank you, Sean.
09:52T. And another.
09:54K. And a vowel, please.
09:57I. And another.
09:59E. And another.
10:01I. Consonant, please.
10:05M. And another.
10:07R. One more.
10:10G. And a final consonant, please.
10:14Final S.
10:16And 30 seconds.
10:17.
10:33T.
10:48Sean? Seven. And Alex? Six.
10:51And a six from you, six, what have we got?
10:53Strike. And the seven? Murkies.
10:56Spell it? M-I-R-K-I-E-S.
10:59Erm, no murkies, I'm afraid, Sean, not there. Bad luck.
11:04Grimstaff, what have you got?
11:05Yeah, well, originally I did go for murkiest and realised I spelt it wrong
11:09and then realised another word which means pretty much exactly the same thing.
11:12It's there for eight, which is grimiest.
11:14Grimiest, nice. Down and dirty in that round.
11:1724-7 after an early skirt from our champion Alex,
11:21going for his eighths when today is on a roll.
11:24Let's go. Consonant, please, Rachel.
11:26Thank you, Alex. Y.
11:28And a vowel, please.
11:30E. And a consonant, please.
11:34N. And another consonant, please.
11:38R. And a vowel.
11:40O. And a consonant, please.
11:43C. And another consonant.
11:47L. And a consonant, please.
11:51M. And a final vowel.
11:53R. And a final E.
11:56Start the clock.
11:58orden ler, please.
12:00R. And a consonant.
12:01How about three sonic진짜.
12:01And a consonant, please.
12:09And a consonant, please.
12:09I'll see you're in your efficacy of your paper.
12:09I'll see you guys Okay.
12:09And a consonant.
12:20How about fourcha're written?
12:21It's orphanage.
12:24How about three ?
12:26How about three sonicictions?
12:27And a consonant, please.
12:27I can't tell you about theietnamese.
12:28Alex? Six. And for Sean?
12:31Rescue seven. Oh, he likes a rest, doesn't he? Alex, the six?
12:34Cloner. OK. Sean? Re-clone. Re-clone.
12:38Cloner is absolutely fine. You can't re-clone.
12:43I'm sorry, Sean. Not on your side today.
12:45All right, Richard Osman, there's only one of you, and what have you got?
12:48If there was any word you should be able to put re in front of, it's clone.
12:51Yeah. For heaven's sake. That should be in the dictionary.
12:54Yeah, I got cloner, but Susie got two lovely sixes, comely and merely.
12:59And merely. Maybe it's time for Countdown to just say if it's on the internet.
13:03No. You know, let's update. It's on the internet.
13:06Yeah, let's do that, shall we? No.
13:09Numbers, again, always easier the second time, Sean.
13:12One large and five small, please. Thank you, Sean.
13:15One from the top and five not.
13:17And the second numbers of the day.
13:19Three, four, nine, eight, ten, five, and 75.
13:26And the target, 396.
13:29Three, nine, six. Numbers up.
13:30Thank you, Sean.
14:013-9-6. How are you feeling about that, Sean?
14:053-9-6. Yes, Alex. Yeah, 3-9-6.
14:07Off we go, Sean. 5 times 75 is 3-7-5.
14:11Yep. 8 divided by 4 is 2.
14:15Add the 9, add the 10. She gave me 21 and add them together.
14:19Well done, 3-9-6. For you, Alex. Slightly differently, I did 4 plus 75.
14:2579. Times that by 5. Times that by 5 for 395.
14:29And then 9 minus 8 is 1 and add it on. Lovely. Same result.
14:333-9-6.
14:34APPLAUSE
14:36You're rolling again, Sean. Well done.
14:3840 plus 17 in our first chat of the week with Richard Osman.
14:43And so many questions about the Thursday Murder Club movie for later on in the week.
14:48But that's not what we're going to talk about today.
14:50We're going to go back to the last time you were on.
14:53Yes. Because something quite marvellous happened.
14:54Well, I love recommending books.
14:56One of the lovely things about working in the book world
14:58and going to events is people always asking what your favourite books are.
15:02And a book that I always recommend to people is a book called
15:04A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr.
15:06And if you've not read it, I think it's one of the best books in the English language.
15:09Also one of those books that everybody loves.
15:12So last time I came on, I thought, well, I'll recommend that book.
15:15So I recommended it. And the day this show went out, it went to number one in the book charts.
15:20So this is the power you have in your heart today.
15:23Well, no, it's really what it is. It's the power that book buyers have and book readers have and booksellers
15:27like Alex have.
15:28Yeah. And if you recommend a great book, and that's what booksellers are amazing at doing.
15:32People come into bookshops and they absolutely know what their customers like.
15:36And when a great book comes in, they can go, this you have to read.
15:40So I'm going to recommend a book. But I cannot think of anyone who wouldn't love this book.
15:45Yeah. And it's called The Wager. And it's by David Gran.
15:48And it's non-fiction. So it's a true story of a ship that set sail from England to South America
15:54in 1740.
15:56And essentially anything that could go wrong with this voyage went wrong.
16:00Yeah. Mutinies, shipwrecks, murder. The story is so unbelievable.
16:06It's an extraordinary true story, beautifully written.
16:09He's the guy who wrote Killers of the Flower Moon and Lost City of Z.
16:13So he's a terrific writer. And this story that he has uncovered here is absolutely wonderful.
16:19Is there a film? They are making a film, yeah. I think it's like DiCaprio.
16:22I mean, it's a proper... Yeah, it's so brilliant.
16:26It's unbelievable. Even if naval history and stuff like that is not your thing.
16:29Just the sheer human story of it.
16:31And the stuff that you would not have wanted to be part of the crew of The Wager in 1740.
16:36I'll tell you that for nothing.
16:37When you were bringing that book up, there was just authors all over the UK
16:41after what you said happened last time. Oh, no.
16:42Please let it be mine. Even Susie was gutted when you pulled up The Wager.
16:47I was gutted. It wasn't my new book. That's what I put down there.
16:50Which we have to talk about definitely later in the UK. We will do.
16:53I've got a million questions about the movie. Now I know it's a movie,
16:57we'll maybe do it tomorrow. Happy days. Thank you very much, Richard.
17:03OK, back to the games. Looking good for our seven-time champion, Alex.
17:08Looking to go right to the top shelf of Countdown
17:10and become an octo-champ today. And it's your letters.
17:13I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Alex.
17:16D. And a vowel, please.
17:19U. And a consonant, please.
17:22R. And a vowel, please.
17:24E. And a consonant, please.
17:27F. And another consonant.
17:31S. And a vowel, please.
17:34A. And a final consonant, please.
17:38A final Q.
17:43F. All right.
18:16Alex. Seven. And Sean? Six. The six is, Sean? Folds. And the seven for you? Refusal. Refusal it is. Not
18:23going to refuse that, are you? No, I'm definitely not. Very good. I was literally spending all my time trying
18:28to get the Q into a word. As soon as you've got a Q and a U, it's impossible to...
18:31You can't resist it. It's very true. I used the French spelling of flask to say flask. But squared is
18:38there as well for seven. Absolutely. Rachel got that in a second squared. That's all. That's it.
18:44You can have... If you want to use the Q, you can have a lask, which is an ill-formed
18:48diamond, but it's got a bit of your flasked in there. Just a six, though. He's got squared. Oh, yes,
18:55that's true. So we have used the Q. Yeah, it's longer. Why would he want that? I was just looking
19:00at flask. I was thinking flask. Anyway, ignore me. That's the point of the game. You've got to get longer
19:04words. My goodness me. He's been here for decades. Sean, let's go.
19:08Oh, consonant, please. Sean, W. And another. N. One more, please. C. Vowel. I. Vowel. A. One more, please.
19:25I. Consonant, please. D. Consonant. T. And final vowel, please. And a final A.
19:36And half a minute.
19:37C. Vowel.
19:39C. Vowel.
19:44C. Vowel.
20:05MUSIC CONTINUES
20:08Talk to me, Sean. Five. And Alex. Five. And five as well.
20:12Divvy, go round, Sean. A weight. A weight. And for you, Alex.
20:15Twain. To Dictionary Corner, we need an increase on five.
20:19We can do it as well. I say we.
20:22Susie's doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
20:24She's written down the word antacid.
20:27Ah, beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, useful too.
20:30Antacid, wonderful settler from Dictionary Corner.
20:3230 points in it now as we go back to the numbers third time today.
20:37Alex is getting ever closer.
20:39My last numbers. Let's go six more.
20:41Yeah, have a little bit of fun for your last one.
20:43Let your hair down, so to speak.
20:45Six little ones are five, six, six, ten.
20:51Another ten and seven.
20:53And the target? 494.
20:57494. Numbers up.
20:58All right, we'll be right back when I pass it.
21:28So, here's another one.
21:28Four nine four. Alex four nine four. Yeah Sean four nine four. Alex off you go ten times ten
21:35It's one hundred ten one hundred times that by five five hundred and take off six not much of a
21:41challenge after all four nine
21:42Four and Sean same way excellent pass it on over
21:45Ten point seats. Well done
21:49Second tea time teaser then sell socks sell socks and that's sell with a C if you're visually impaired
21:56So it's how you might describe all the casinos in Vegas. It's how you might describe all the casinos in
22:01Vegas
22:17Hello again, it's how you might describe all the casinos in Vegas
22:21Clockless clockless that's why little-known fact countdown is banned from being shown on TV screens and casinos worldwide
22:29It's 62 32. It's 30 points in it six rounds from becoming an octo champ Sean
22:35You can make up that ground keep believing. Let's get some letters
22:39Consonant please. Thank you Sean P and another
22:44G and another
22:46ah
22:48One more please
22:50N
22:51Bill
22:52I
22:53And another
22:55E
22:56And another
22:58O
23:00Consonant please
23:02L
23:04And a final consonant
23:06And a final Z
23:08Here we go
23:09Do
23:10Go
23:11uh前acco
23:11And
23:11And two
23:38Thanks for
23:40Sean?
23:41Risky seven.
23:42Yeah, and Alex?
23:43Seven.
23:44Seven, what's risky, Sean?
23:45Prizing.
23:46If it's the same word, it ain't.
23:48Eloping.
23:48Eloping.
23:49Yes, eloping, brilliant.
23:51You need two I's for prizing, unfortunately, Sean.
23:53Sorry.
23:54What did you get, Rich?
23:55Again, wanted to use the Z.
23:57Zeroing.
23:57Zeroing sounds like an American word to me.
24:00Zeroing in on something.
24:01Yeah, I will look it up, actually. I don't know if it did originally.
24:04Oh, is it not there?
24:04Oh, it's in.
24:05Oh, it's in.
24:06And I'm getting reminded of how phenomenally good Richard is at this game,
24:09because I'm just kind of looking there and I look over
24:11and he's already got seven or eight.
24:12He's got it down.
24:13Very good.
24:14With the Z as well.
24:16Yeah.
24:16Letters from Alex.
24:18Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:19Thank you, Alex.
24:20N.
24:21And a vowel, please.
24:22E.
24:24And a consonant, please.
24:26D.
24:27And a consonant, please.
24:29P.
24:30And a vowel, please.
24:32A.
24:33And another vowel, please.
24:34E.
24:36And a consonant, please.
24:38N.
24:39And a consonant.
24:40T.
24:41And a final consonant.
24:44And a final N.
24:46And kindine.
24:46A consonant voice.
25:08Dad.
25:15Does Stephen fill our budget in the room for this?
25:17Alex? Six. And Sean? Six.
25:19Six apiece, what's the word, Alex? Depend.
25:22Depend, and for you, Sean? Panned.
25:25And pan, P-A-N-N-E-D.
25:28Panned, fine, you need two Ds for depend, Alex, sorry.
25:31Alex, keep your mind in the game here, stop looking at the finishing line.
25:35Richard?
25:36A couple of sevens, one for me, one for Susie,
25:39but there are two words that people get mixed up a lot, I think,
25:41which are pennant and pendent.
25:43Yes, yes, pennant is the ensign flag on a ship.
25:46Yeah, yeah.
25:47Thank you very much, 69.38, four rounds to go.
25:52Origins of words, the first of this week.
25:55Just to say, as always, we get it wrong,
25:59or at least we think something's in Americanism, but it's not.
26:01So zeroing, 1813, Lord Cathcote was talking about zeroing in on something.
26:07He's to blame, he's to blame, OK.
26:09Yeah, but this comes from Gerald in Roscommon in Ireland, who says,
26:13My wife, Lucy, and I watch the programme every day,
26:16and I have a query around inebriation and phrases to do with those.
26:20He says, whilst I'm sure there are some not suitable for daytime TV,
26:23could you explain where the terms drunk as a skunk
26:26and three sheets to the wind originate?
26:29Which is a good question.
26:30So drunk as a skunk, first of all, first recorded from 1926 according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
26:37formed almost certainly for its rhyme, because there are no reports to date, at least, of skunks being regular drinkers.
26:45But, of course, we usually say drunk or similar as a newt, that tends to be the simile that we
26:51go for.
26:52And that's a lot older, but for the Romans, older still, it was drunk as a thrush,
26:58thanks to the sight of that particular bird feasting on fermented grapes and then tottering around the vineyard afterwards.
27:04So we've changed our comparisons a little bit.
27:07Three sheets to the wind don't be taken aback by this one, taken aback also a nautical origin,
27:13because they're not sails, these sheets.
27:17You might think that they were the sails on board a ship, but actually they're the ropes,
27:20or occasionally the chains, that fix and attach these sails.
27:24They're sort of joined by the lower corners and they hold them in place.
27:28Three sheets are loose and blowing about in the wind, then they'll flap and lurch about a little bit like
27:34a drunken sailor.
27:35And there was a sliding scale of these things.
27:37So three sheets was the falling over stage.
27:39Tipsy was just one sheet in the wind.
27:41And two sheets, a happy medium, was also called a sheet in the wind's eye.
27:47So various metaphors to do with that.
27:49But there is, I mean, there are thousands of words for being drunk in the lexicon of slang.
27:54It's one of the top subjects and, as Gerald says quite rightly, not all of them suitable for us.
28:00Yeah.
28:03Well, we'll be toasting Alex, won't we, at the end of this show?
28:05We will.
28:06We'd imagine at this stage it's almost there, four rounds to go.
28:09Sean, do your best to pull off a magnificent comeback.
28:13More letters.
28:14A. Consonant, please.
28:15Thank you, Sean.
28:16L.
28:17And another.
28:19M.
28:20And another.
28:22T.
28:23Vowel, please.
28:24A.
28:25And another.
28:27U.
28:28One more.
28:29E.
28:30Consonant, please.
28:32W.
28:33And another.
28:35D.
28:36And a final vowel, please.
28:38And a final U.
28:40And good luck.
28:41Two more mhm.
28:42Two more mhm.
28:45T worden d'entre.
29:00Taro și.
29:00Taro, o naip!
29:04Mo.
29:04Taro.
29:10Taro.
29:11Taro
29:11Taro.
29:12SEAN SIX
29:13Six from you and Alex? Six. Six too. All right, Sean.
29:17Malted. Malted. Amulet.
29:20Amulet. Dictionary corner. Lovely.
29:22Six is just for us as well. Mold as well. Mutual is there.
29:26Both of those are there for six. Couldn't find a seven, though, could we?
29:28Bucket loads of sixes. Nearly there.
29:31Nearly have our third octal champ of series 90.
29:34Let's see if it's this round. Alex. Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:37Thank you, Alex. S.
29:39And a vowel, please. I. And a consonant, please. H.
29:45And a consonant, please. T. And a vowel, please. A.
29:52And a consonant, please. C. And a consonant, please. R.
29:59And a vowel. I. And a final vowel, please.
30:05A final O.
30:07Oh, last letters.
30:35MUSIC
30:39Alex? Eight.
30:41An eight. And, Sean, unless you have a nine there...
30:44Nope, six. A six, the six is...?
30:46Quiet. And to crown you an octo-champ...
30:48Chariots. Chariots.
30:50APPLAUSE
30:53Absolutely on fire, Alex. Great stuff. Well done.
30:56We'll get to the tribute shortly. A couple of rounds still to go.
30:59Richard? Yeah, chariots on fire.
31:01There's another lovely eight-letter word, which is actorish.
31:05Actorish is in there. And, of course, if Apple made chariots,
31:08they would be eye chariots for nine. Very good indeed.
31:11Two more rounds to go. Sean, last numbers.
31:13One large and five small again, please, Rachel.
31:15Thank you, Sean. Final numbers of the day.
31:19One from the top, and the five little ones are two, seven, five,
31:25eight, nine and fifty.
31:27And the final target, 918.
31:30Nine-one-eight, last numbers.
31:50¶¶
32:00More emerge.
32:03918, Biggie, Sean. 915.
32:06915. Three away, Alex. 915.
32:08915 as well for 7.8. Go on, Sean, get you up a half century here.
32:139 times 2 is 18. Yep.
32:15Times 50 is 900. Yep. 8 plus 7.
32:19And then 8 and 7. 915, three away.
32:21Well done, mate, Alex. Yeah, same way.
32:23918, what are you doing, Rich?
32:25I think Richard's looking a bit giddy over there.
32:28Er, I've almost certainly got this wrong now.
32:2950 multiplied by 2 is 100. Yep.
32:33Stop me if I go too fast.
32:367 minus 5 is another 2.
32:39Add that to the 100. 102. Times it by 9.
32:42Ten points to Mr Osmond.
32:44APPLAUSE
32:46I'm glad you got that because you've done so bad at the letters.
32:49LAUGHTER
32:5090 plays 51. Can our latest OctoChamp, Alex Call,
32:54go out with a century? Let's find out.
32:56Finger on the buzzers.
32:58Only you, Sean, can stop them.
33:00As we reveal this Monday afternoon's Countdown Conundrum.
33:03MUSIC PLAYS
33:25Sean.
33:26Guacamole.
33:27Let's have a look.
33:30APPLAUSE
33:33Sean, you've got 61 against an OctoChamp, a newly crowned OctoChamp.
33:37I say this all the time.
33:38If you'd have been here tomorrow, two challengers, two challengers,
33:42and you could have very well been taking over teapot.
33:45So I hope that's a little bit of solace as you go back to Paisley.
33:48Thank you, mate.
33:49And, Alex, congratulations to you. Thank you.
33:51You made it.
33:51And you've made it with very little expectation, I think,
33:53when you sat there.
33:56755 points makes you the third seed.
33:58You'll definitely be back, mate.
33:59So we will get to spend Christmas together.
34:02So, well done to you.
34:03Your granny would be proud. Congratulations.
34:05Richard, Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:07See you tomorrow.
34:07You want a quick guess, Rachel, before we go, on World Barber Day?
34:11Longest hair ever.
34:13There's a Chinese woman.
34:14Erm, erm, don't go crazy here.
34:17Yeah.
34:18In feet, if you think about what, that's like three feet to your bum.
34:21Yeah.
34:21So how long do you think the longest ever was?
34:2318 foot.
34:24Oh, my goodness.
34:25It's 18 feet five inches.
34:27That's sensational.
34:28What do I win?
34:28What do I win?
34:29Imagine platinum it.
34:30No, thanks.
34:30Many people.
34:31How many people would you need?
34:32Right, back tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:34Can't wait to have you.
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