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Countdown - Season 93 Episode 89
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00:30Hello, everybody. It is Thursday, the 7th of May,
00:33and our endless love affair with Countdown continues.
00:37So let's get on with today's show and let's introduce Dictionary Corner.
00:41Under pressure, as always, to deliver when it comes to the words.
00:45Our Susie Denton, the brilliant Nina Wadia.
00:47And look over there. I knew you were waiting for me.
00:50It's Rachel Riley. How are you today?
00:52Good. There's more musical references I'm sensing.
00:55Yes, specifically duets. There was three duets hidden in there.
00:59And get ready for the Rachel groan.
01:01There's a music quiz coming your way.
01:04I'm going to name two artists that recorded a duet together.
01:09You cannot shout out the answer until I say both names.
01:12That's very important.
01:14Do we shout the song? Is that the...?
01:15Yeah. Right.
01:16And that's annoying. What did they do?
01:18Here we go. Kylie and Jason.
01:21Neighbours. Especially for you.
01:27Neighbours. Especially for you.
01:28Didn't you? Well done. Yes, they did.
01:31Nina, look at that. Out of the gates.
01:34Okay. Here we go.
01:36Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.
01:38I'm in the same stream, yeah.
01:40Oh, Nina's... I think an unassailable lead.
01:42Playing for second place, Bill Medley.
01:48Never heard of it.
01:49And Jennifer Warnes.
01:51Time to find out.
01:52Three now.
01:53I'm out of time.
01:54We're a dirty dance in there.
01:56Fair enough.
01:57Take a bow.
01:57Nina, take a bow.
02:01Well, there's only one duet that matters today.
02:04That's champion and challenger.
02:06And, of course, Patrick Thompson has been absolutely sensational.
02:10And, of course, we found out yesterday he was on 10 years ago.
02:13Lost.
02:14Refused to watch Countdown for three years.
02:16And, like Rocky, got back into training.
02:19Caught that proverbial chicken.
02:21And here he is.
02:23A champion.
02:24Now, do you want some stats?
02:25Yes.
02:26Right.
02:26Because we have the great Luke Selway at the moment.
02:28008.
02:29He's on 913 points.
02:30We had him inked in as the number one seed.
02:33Well, actually, you're ahead of schedule at the moment.
02:34You've got 715 points already in six wins.
02:41So, what's your target here?
02:43We talked about yesterday about the series high of 132, is it, at the moment?
02:47Yeah.
02:47It would be nice to have some maximums available and have a big target.
02:50Well, you're up against Danny Heary today.
02:53He's from Farnham in Surrey.
02:54How are you?
02:55Yeah, good.
02:55Thank you, Colin.
02:56Good.
02:56Now, you're a student of history and you've worked at museums and all sorts of stuff.
03:01What period of history in particular are you in love with the most?
03:04So, particularly the sort of modern European era.
03:06So, I've studied a lot of different countries with that.
03:09And then going back a bit, I did a lot of, like, Tudor and Stuart era school.
03:14So, sort of, like, quite a bit of a range, but mainly the modern stuff.
03:19Well, you get to write your place in history today.
03:21Listen, you have already, just by being here, right?
03:23But let's see how you get on against the brilliant Patrick.
03:26Good luck, Patrick.
03:26Good luck, Danny.
03:29All right, Patrick, here we go again.
03:32Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:33Can I have a consonant, please?
03:34Thank you, Patrick.
03:35Start today with R.
03:36And another.
03:38T.
03:39And another.
03:40G.
03:41And another.
03:43N.
03:44And a vowel.
03:45A.
03:45And another.
03:47E.
03:48And another.
03:49A.
03:50A consonant.
03:52P.
03:54And a final vowel, please.
03:56And a final.
03:57I.
03:58At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:00A consonant.
04:01A consonant.
04:04A consonant.
04:12A consonant.
04:15A consonant.
04:17A consonant.
04:17A consonant.
04:18MUSIC PLAYS
04:31Patrick? Seven. And for you, Danny? Seven as well.
04:35Seven as well? OK, what have you got there, Patrick? Pageant.
04:38And for you, Danny? Parting.
04:40Very nice. To get over to the dictionary corner, how did you get on there?
04:42That was the same pageant.
04:44Yeah, there is an eight there with paginate.
04:47OK. Paginate for eight.
04:50Good start again, just like yesterday.
04:53Let's get more letters. Now, Danny, it's your first time picking,
04:55so let's see how we get on. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Danny.
04:57Could I have a consonant, please? You can, indeed.
05:00N. And another.
05:02M. And a third.
05:05V. Can I have a vowel, please?
05:07O. And another.
05:09I. And a third.
05:11A. And a consonant.
05:14L. And a vowel.
05:17I. And a consonant.
05:20Lastly, D.
05:2230 seconds.
05:23Now we're going to play the record today.
05:24Hello.
05:35Hello.
05:46Hello.
05:54Danny Boy?
05:55Seven again.
05:56And for you, Patrick?
05:56Seven as well.
05:57Excellent.
05:58Even Stevens, Danny?
06:00Invalid.
06:00And for you, Patrick?
06:02Mondial.
06:03Mondial, yes, relating to the world.
06:04Both very good.
06:05Excellent, yes.
06:06Football fans have that in their head a lot, don't they?
06:09For the cup, Mondial, yeah.
06:11It sticks there.
06:12Are you up for the cup with this one?
06:15I had a strange superhero in my head, Voidman.
06:18And I don't know why.
06:19Does you just go around and go, yeah, that doesn't count?
06:22Literally.
06:24Excellent.
06:26All right, numbers.
06:27Here we go.
06:29Patrick has got a hit us with a large one.
06:31Four large, please, Rachel.
06:32Thank you, Patrick.
06:33Four from the top and two little ones.
06:36And the first numbers of today's contest.
06:38Three, six, 100, 75, 25, 50.
06:44And the target, 606.
06:47606.
06:47606, numbers up.
06:49And the game and see you very far.
06:52And the big one, guys, I don't know.
07:11And what you have a whirlwind,
07:12is where you might go, yeah.
07:12And it is another kann you go, yeah.
07:18And it is something that's not fair.
07:186.06, Patrick? Yeah, 6.06. And Danny? Yeah, 6.06.
07:22Yeah, something good, Patrick? Six times 100. 600. Add the three.
07:266.03. And 75.025 with the other three.
07:29Yeah, this was an easy target for these numbers.
07:31Danny? Yeah, same way. Excellent.
07:36Bit stuff.
07:3924 points each. First time our champion Patrick has gone
07:43under the first break, not being in the lead. Go nowhere.
07:47Ziti Pear is your tea time teaser.
07:50So that's Z-I-T-I-P-E-A-R. Ziti Pear.
07:55You don't want pasta and fruit, just a couple of mussels.
07:58You don't want pasta and fruit, just a couple of mussels.
08:16Welcome back. What a difficult tea time teaser that was. I think it's pronounced trapezii, which of course is two
08:23or more trapeze artists, if you go to Cirque du Soleil or something. I'm assuming.
08:27No, two or more trapezius mussels. I think we only have two. So they are the large triangular mussels in
08:36the car, our shoulders, shoulder blades and head, etc. Triangular shaped.
08:39That's wishful thinking that they exist. Right, let's get back to it. Let's flex our muscles again here on Countdown.
08:48Danny, with your letters.
08:48Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Danny.
08:52N. And another.
08:54C. And a third.
08:56D. And a vowel.
08:59U. And another.
09:01E. And a third.
09:03O. And a consonant.
09:06L.
09:07Vowel, please.
09:10E. And a consonant.
09:11Lastly, H.
09:14Here we go.
09:15Here we go.
09:46Danny?
09:47Seven.
09:47Patrick?
09:48Seven as well.
09:49And for you, Danny?
09:50Launched.
09:50Launched, yes.
09:51And Patrick?
09:52Echelon.
09:52Yes, so literally the rung on a ladder, but if you're in the higher echelons, you're on the higher levels.
09:58Yeah, we use it in sport quite a lot. You know, that upper echelon, they're the best of the best.
10:03Yeah, absolutely.
10:04Yeah, there you go. Look, we're still at 31 points each. What can we add?
10:07We were lunching.
10:08Yeah.
10:09Up with it.
10:10Up with it.
10:11More ladders, please. Patrick.
10:13Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:14Thank you, Patrick.
10:15S.
10:16And another.
10:18N.
10:19And another.
10:21F.
10:21And another.
10:23W.
10:24And a vowel.
10:25A.
10:26And another.
10:27O.
10:28And another.
10:29E.
10:30And a consonant.
10:32X.
10:33And a final consonant, please.
10:35Final R.
10:36And let's do it.
10:38Thank you very much.
10:39Thanks, upp цен.
10:41Let's stay here for the next time.
10:41turbans
10:41scant for our entire music.
10:41Purchaser
10:42In
10:42In
11:07in
11:09Time up, pens down. Patrick?
11:11Seven. And for you, Danny? Just a six.
11:14Just a six. Here, what have you got? Waxers.
11:17Waxers for you. And, Patrick? Fauners.
11:21Waxers and fauners, Susie, are you happy?
11:23I'm happy, both in the dictionary, yes.
11:26Can you make me even happier?
11:27Well, I could go with a thin mint waffer.
11:31Waffers, wafers. That's a nice one.
11:34And there is a seven as well with four saw to see ahead of time.
11:37Excellent. OK, let's get back to the numbers.
11:39And Danny's in charge, so let's see what tactics will prevail.
11:42Could I have two large and four small, please?
11:45You can indeed. The opposite, just two large ones.
11:48And the four are the little ones,
11:50and this time they are one, three, nine, six,
11:54and the big one's 25 and 75.
11:57And the target, 725.
12:00725. Numbers up.
12:32725, Danny. Yep, 725.
12:34Yeah, you were sitting bored there for most of that, Patrick.
12:36Yep, 725. Off you go, Danny.
12:39So nine add one, it's ten.
12:41Nine plus one, ten.
12:43Times by 75.
12:45750.
12:46And then take off the 25.
12:47Yeah, lots of ways, obviously, for that one.
12:49Excellent. Patrick?
12:50Yeah, a bit different. Nine times 75.
12:52675.
12:53Three minus one is two.
12:57And times that by the 25 to add on.
12:59Lovely. Ten apiece.
13:02So look at that. Just that one round between them.
13:05Just those seven points after six rounds.
13:07Both scoring so, so highly.
13:09As we get over to Nina in Dictionary Corner for our daily chat.
13:13Hello.
13:13Where do we go from weird vegetables?
13:16More weird vegetables.
13:19That's the only way forward.
13:21I seem to have a history with these.
13:23When I did, goodness gracious me, years ago,
13:25I'd created this character.
13:27We called Mrs. I can make it at home for nothing.
13:30Okay.
13:30And I added an aubergine onto the end of it.
13:34And it was based on the fact that my mom,
13:37if we'd say, Mom, we really want to go for Italian food.
13:39We love going out for pasta.
13:40She'd go, Pasta?
13:41I can make it at home for nothing.
13:43So this woman came to me.
13:45And the reason for the aubergine,
13:46which was a catchphrase at the end was,
13:48you know, I can make anything.
13:49And she'd name two different items.
13:51And then she'd go, and a small aubergine.
13:53And that was because my dad would eat everything
13:57except aubergines.
13:59So she kept trying to cook them in different ways.
14:02She insisted that he would enjoy an aubergine cooked by her.
14:07And honestly, this theme just went on.
14:09I used to have people queuing outside when we did our live shows
14:12with aubergines for me to sign.
14:14And I'd go, but surely they're going to deteriorate.
14:18And they were like, no, we'll just put it in the freezer.
14:20There's random people in the UK with aubergines
14:23with my signature in their freezers.
14:25I love the dynamic, the real-life dynamic of that sort
14:30of older relationship, if you like.
14:32Yeah.
14:32Kind of like, you will like it.
14:34Yes.
14:34I will get them in.
14:35Did she ever manage...
14:36I suppose her trick was, what she wanted to do was go,
14:39did you like that?
14:40That was it.
14:41I mean, there's this real thing about it.
14:43I'd go, why can't you leave the man alone?
14:45He doesn't have to like this one vegetable.
14:47She took it as a slight upon her
14:49not being able to cook it properly.
14:52And she tried to hide it in different things
14:53and you just go, I can taste it.
14:56No, that's not aubergine.
14:58There's two things from that as well.
14:59We all have that moment, don't you?
15:01Where you're like, I've got to cook something.
15:02Yes.
15:02And you're just pulling stuff out of the cupboard
15:04and you're like, what is...
15:05I'm sure that doesn't go together.
15:07I'll give it a go.
15:07But we also have that one thing we put in everything.
15:10Yeah.
15:11Have you got one, Suze?
15:12Balsamic vinegar.
15:13Yes.
15:14Pretty much goes in any sauce.
15:15I love it.
15:16Same here.
15:17What about you, Rach?
15:18There's got to be chilli oil.
15:20Yes.
15:20With loads of extra chillies in it.
15:22Just make it spicy and you're good.
15:23No matter what it is, just at the end.
15:25Chilli oil.
15:27Chilli oil.
15:28I'm the same with cayenne pepper.
15:30Oh, really?
15:30And it's like, you know when you have your spice rack
15:32or your spice jars?
15:33I've got my little drawer that pulls out.
15:35I swear to goodness, some of them have been there
15:38for years on touch.
15:40I don't need...
15:40I'm never going to use that.
15:42And it's just the cayenne pepper goes up and down.
15:45I put it in everything.
15:46Oh, I'm having scrambled egg, but a cayenne pepper.
15:48It's similar with the spice, putting it in there.
15:51Brilliant, Nina.
15:51We're starting another lovely conversation.
15:54APPLAUSE
15:56All right, a bit of spice on this one today.
15:58Patrick, our champion.
15:59No surprise there at all.
16:01Sitting on a 48.
16:03But Danny Heary, I had a feeling.
16:06I felt it in the countdown gut.
16:09Sitting on 41.
16:10Fantastic game.
16:11Let's go again.
16:12Patrick, your letters.
16:13A consonant, please, Rachel.
16:14Thank you, Patrick.
16:14G.
16:16And another.
16:17P.
16:18And another.
16:19T.
16:20And another.
16:21C.
16:22And a vowel.
16:23A.
16:24And another.
16:25O.
16:26And another.
16:27E.
16:28A consonant.
16:30S.
16:31And a final...
16:34Vowel, please.
16:36Final.
16:37O.
16:37Start the clock.
16:38To the clock.
16:39To the clock.
16:43Do it.
16:43To the clock.
17:07You're gonna run in.
17:08Mom 3.
17:08Time 4.
17:08Years a whole.
17:09Patrick? Seven. And Danny? Just a five.
17:13Oh, the five is...? Coast. And for you, Patrick?
17:16Pottages. Pottages. Pottages, such a countdown word, that one.
17:19Very good. We were one letter off a scapegoat.
17:22We would have had a nine. So close, so close.
17:25What do you get, Nina? Toe caps. Oh, very nice.
17:28Toe caps for another seven. Yes, just lots of sevens.
17:32All right, come on, Danny, let's regroup and go again.
17:35Your letters, mate. Can I have a consonant, please?
17:37Thank you, Danny. R. And another.
17:40T. And a third. R. And a vowel, please.
17:45I. And another. U. And a third. I. And a consonant.
17:51N. And a vowel. O. And a consonant.
17:58Lastly, L. Half a minute.
18:00L. Half A Lets
18:02and a consonant.
18:30Oh, Danny. Just four. Yeah. Patrick? A six.
18:35And a six. He's found a six, Danny. What's the four?
18:37Lout. Let's hear what this is.
18:39Turion. T-U-R-I-O-N.
18:42Turion in some aquatic plant is a wintering bud
18:46that breaks off and remains dormant at the bottom of the water.
18:49Look at that. How specific can you get?
18:51I like the fact you looked it up just to double-check you were right in your mind with it.
18:55I don't think up to 20 points.
18:57I mean, six is as good as a maximum with those letters.
19:00What have you got, Nina? I've got tin oil.
19:03Is that in? I don't even know if that's a thing.
19:06I just made it up. Tin oil, oil, tin.
19:09No, you might get your chilli oil in a tin, but not there, sadly.
19:12There is Lutino, which is a bird, especially one of the parrot family, kept in cages.
19:19So obscure, though, for sixes is the bottom line there.
19:22So let's retreat to the numbers, and Patrick.
19:25Four lives, please, Rachel.
19:26Four large and two little ones.
19:30And for this challenge, we have three and one.
19:34And then 100, 50, 25 and 75.
19:39And the target, 279.
19:41Two, seven, nine. Numbers up.
19:43Two, seven, three, five.
19:47One, two, seven, nine.
19:47Three, four.
20:03MUSIC PLAYS
20:14Patrick? Yep, 279.
20:16And how did you get on Danny? No, I didn't.
20:18Four large every time for Patrick, off you go.
20:2150 plus 1. 51.
20:24100 divided by 25 is 4.
20:26100, yep, over 25.
20:27Times them together. 204.
20:30And add on the 75. Lovely, 279.
20:33APPLAUSE
20:35Very good indeed. He stepped on the gas, hasn't he?
20:38Our Patrick, as we get this tea time.
20:39Teas are still six rounds to go.
20:41This is a fun one.
20:43Therefore, therefore, but the there is T-H-E-I-R.
20:48And the clue is, if you get this, it's definitely big-headed.
20:51If you get this, it's definitely big-headed.
21:00MUSIC PLAYS
21:00APPLAUSE
21:08Hello again.
21:09Yes, the big head we were talking about is on your latte or cappuccino or whatever.
21:13It's frothier, for better or for worse.
21:16Right, Patrick Thompson, our champion, he's been churning out the centuries.
21:20He hasn't missed.
21:21He's going to get there again, but Danny had a great start
21:25and just needs to find that form again.
21:27Just 30 points in it and, Danny, it's your letters.
21:29Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
21:31Thank you, Danny.
21:32T.
21:33And another.
21:34M.
21:35And another.
21:37D.
21:37And a vowel.
21:39E.
21:40And another.
21:41I.
21:42And a third.
21:43E.
21:44And a fourth.
21:46A.
21:46And a consonant.
21:48R.
21:50And a vowel, please.
21:52Lastly, E.
21:55All right, let's play.
22:27THEY CONFER
22:27Danny? Seven. Seven for you. Patrick? I'll try a nine.
22:31He's going for a maximum. Yes, they're interesting letters, these.
22:34Danny? Merited. Patrick? Remediate.
22:37So there was never any doubt, really, was there?
22:39Yes, to provide a remedy for... I know.
22:42Don't try and build a tension. It's impossible with Thompson.
22:45Brilliant. APPLAUSE
22:48You said you were eyeing those maximums, it's taken a while,
22:51but there it is. Remediate.
22:55I'm really annoyed at him because I got mediate,
22:58but that's why you're sitting there.
23:01And we don't need to talk about anything else, right?
23:03We don't, no. It's the max. Well done.
23:05I think we can agree that was special.
23:08So, more letters now from Patrick,
23:10who's sitting now on 89 with five rounds still to play.
23:14Watch this space.
23:15A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Patrick.
23:18W. And another.
23:20L. And another.
23:23S. And another.
23:26H. And a vowel.
23:27A. And another.
23:29U. And another.
23:31O.
23:33A consonant. G.
23:37And a final consonant, please.
23:40Final D.
23:41Keeps us guessing.
23:42Countdown.
23:59MUSIC
24:13Patrick.
24:14Seven.
24:15Danny.
24:16Seven as well.
24:17Well done.
24:17Patrick.
24:18Goulash.
24:19Danny, let's get that score churning over.
24:21Yeah, goulash as well.
24:23Yes.
24:23Brilliant.
24:24Excellent stuff.
24:25Do you know what's good in goulash? A little aubergine.
24:30Goulash.
24:31Goulash.
24:31Goulash.
24:31Goulash.
24:31There you go.
24:32I was perplexed by the consonant at the end.
24:35Now I know why.
24:36Well done.
24:37Seven points.
24:38And can we add any other?
24:39No, you can take it down to a goulash just because it's a nice word.
24:43Which is all right to do.
24:44It's all right to do.
24:45OK.
24:4796-48.
24:48Four rounds still to play.
24:49Just a reminder, top score of the series is 132.
24:53So that is within reach as it stands at the moment for Patrick.
24:56We shall see.
24:57Origins Award, Susie.
24:59Thanks to Barbara in South Shields who heard the word bedpost come up on Countdown
25:04and she was wondering about the phrase, as a result, between you, me and the bedpost.
25:09Which is great.
25:10And there are various riffs on there.
25:13So some of us will have used between you, me and the gatepost.
25:16That's another pretty popular one.
25:19But bedpost, I think, is probably one of the earliest.
25:22And it looks back to a time when the bedroom, I mean, it still is the most private room in
25:27a house, I suppose.
25:29But even the parlour was the sort of talking room.
25:33But you would also have the drawing room, the withdrawing room where you could go and be quiet.
25:37But the bedroom was really where you would go, not just for sleeping, not just for dressing,
25:41but for significant conversation as well, for financial discussions, et cetera.
25:46You would often have lots of sort of important people gathered by a monarch's bed to sort
25:50of go through the matters of the day, et cetera.
25:53And the bed itself was one of the most valuable pieces of furniture that you would find in a house.
25:58And it was passed down often as a family heirloom.
26:00So Shakespeare famously left his wife, Anne Hathaway, his second best bed.
26:06So the best bed was kept for visitors downstairs.
26:09The second best bed was still pretty important.
26:11And he left her that.
26:13And he said in his work, the furniture, which was the curtains as well, and all the accoutrements that went
26:18with the bed.
26:18So to kind of invoke the bed post was to sort of, I guess, to refer to the fact that
26:24it was there at all really important discussions.
26:26It was there for births as well.
26:28Yeah.
26:29Arguments, confessions, you know, all sorts of things.
26:31So I think it really does reflect that.
26:34And as I say, we kind of riffed on it a little bit later.
26:37And you will also find within these four walls or you'll find the door post and things.
26:41But the bed post, I think, is really indicative of a time gone by.
26:45We all love our bedrooms.
26:46But when it was actually used for much, much more, much greater purpose, grander purposes than we would today.
26:52Is pillow talk the opposite of that?
26:55Or is that also seen as confidential?
26:57No, that's a really good.
26:58So I guess, again, it's intimate conversation.
27:00And, you know, it's kind of the opposite of mum's the word.
27:04Mum's the word because your mouth is shut.
27:07But it's the opposite of that.
27:09So it is where all these important conversations take place.
27:11And, yes, sometimes they probably leak out.
27:14Yeah, absolutely.
27:15Thank you very much.
27:17The Countdown can only afford one hotel bedroom and that's for a champion.
27:22Patrick and Danny, one of you is staying, one of you is going home.
27:25Let's do these last four rounds.
27:27Danny, your letters.
27:28Can I have a vowel, please, Rachel?
27:29Thank you, Danny.
27:31E.
27:31And another?
27:32O.
27:33And a third?
27:34A.
27:35And a consonant?
27:37T.
27:38And another?
27:39G.
27:40And another?
27:42R.
27:43And a vowel?
27:45E.
27:46And a consonant?
27:47D.
27:49And a consonant, please.
27:50Lastly, S.
27:52Good luck.
27:53Oh it's written a word.
28:24Danny? An eight, please. And, Patrick? Nine.
28:28Goodness me. And you even said, please, Danny.
28:31He's got no respect. If you please, Danny, what is the...?
28:35Restaged. Good spot. Restaged.
28:39And looking for a second maximum of today's programme
28:42and then we'll take stock if it's in there. Derogates?
28:46Yes. Yes. Right.
28:48APPLAUSE
28:50You said at the top of the show, Patrick,
28:53I just want those two maximums in the one show.
28:55I didn't think it was going to happen, and it has, the two of them.
28:58Derogates! Yes. Another for new viewers.
29:01That's 18 points. We double it. Absolutely brilliant.
29:03To derogate from something is to detract from it,
29:05to deviate from it. Yeah, very much.
29:08He did that to your fantastic eight, is exactly what he did.
29:11Right, 1-1-4, then. 1-3-2.
29:15The top score of the series so far.
29:18One round at a time.
29:19We know there's 20 points maximum in the last two rounds,
29:22but one more letters round.
29:24And, Patrick, you're choosing them.
29:26Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Patrick.
29:28P. And another.
29:30T. And another.
29:32F. And another.
29:35L. And a vowel.
29:36A vowel.
29:37O.
29:38And another.
29:39E.
29:40And another.
29:42A.
29:42And a consonant, please.
29:44S.
29:45And a final consonant, please.
29:48A final...
29:49C.
29:50Lost letters.
29:51C.
29:53To Z.
29:55To Z.
30:01To Z.
30:04To Z.
30:18MUSIC PLAYS
30:22Patrick? Eight. Disappointing. Danny? Seven.
30:26What's a seven? Locates. And the eight points?
30:29Polecats. Polecats, excellent, very nice.
30:32That's lovely. Polecats is fantastic.
30:34What are you two laughing about, unruly,
30:37back-of-the-class behaviour over there?
30:39Well, just being silly, aren't we? Yeah, we are.
30:44Sorry, you say it, cos I don't know what that is.
30:47A postface. A postface?
30:50What's a postface? It's a brief comment or note
30:53at the end of a book. A post at the end.
30:56Oh, I thought it was something with a face on a stamp or something.
30:59You've got a postface there. Excellent stuff.
31:03So 1-2-2 plays 48.
31:07So that means if Patrick can get these numbers,
31:09he will go into the conundrum tied with the top score of the series.
31:13It's up to Danny how difficult or easy he wants to make it.
31:17It's your choice. Six more, please.
31:20You're going to make him work for it. Here we go.
31:22Six little ones. Let's see if it's even possible.
31:25Final numbers today. You've got such a cheeky look on your face there, Danny.
31:293, 4, 1, 5.
31:32Another 3 and 9.
31:34Not a selection I'd have chosen.
31:36The target? Small.
31:371-7-4.
31:381-7-4.
31:39Last numbers.
31:40The target?
31:53The target?
31:55The target?
31:59The target?
32:00The target?
32:01The target?
32:02The target?
32:04The target?
32:05The target?
32:05The target?
32:07The target?
32:08The target?
32:09The target?
32:09The target?
32:10The target?
32:10The target?
32:11Farewell, didn't it? 174, Danny? Yep, 174.
32:15That's what I wanted to hear to get you over the half century.
32:17Patrick? Yep, 174.
32:19And this is going to match the top score of the series so far.
32:22Danny, off you go.
32:23Nine times five times four is 180.
32:2745 times four, 180.
32:28And then minus the two threes. Lovely. Well done.
32:32How did you go, Patrick? A little bit different. Five times four.
32:34Five fours are 20. Minus the one.
32:36Minus 119.
32:37Times that by the nine. Times that by the nine for 171.
32:42And add on the three.
32:43Ten points. Well done.
32:44Wow.
32:47So, here we go.
32:49Danny, somewhere out there, Luke Selway is watching
32:51and you don't have a bigger supporter right now.
32:54He wants you to get this so he doesn't lose the top score of the series.
32:57You've equaled it so far, Patrick.
32:59This is to get to an outstanding 1-4-2.
33:01Let's find out. Fingers on the buzzers.
33:03As we reveal this super important countdown conundrum.
33:09BELL RINGS
33:11One second. Discovery.
33:13Have a look. Amazing.
33:15APPLAUSE
33:17And what a discovery you are, Patrick.
33:20I mean, I watched the tape back from ten years ago.
33:23Dreadful!
33:26No, he could be an old-timer.
33:28But first of all, Danny, we're going to pay you all the respect,
33:30because it was guns blazing and he just found that extra gear, didn't he?
33:34Yeah, he did. Yeah, he's just too good for me.
33:36Your six small was just brilliant.
33:39LAUGHTER
33:40That was the moment of the show. Thank you very much, mate.
33:42Thank you. Thank you very much.
33:43We only got one question for you.
33:45See, you know, the President Bartlett question from the West Wing.
33:48What's next?
33:50Oh, we'll see. Tomorrow, I'd like to say, I thought Danny played brilliantly.
33:53He had me really worried in the early rounds.
33:55I had some late spots to keep me in it, but he played really well.
33:57Thank you. Well said.
33:59It's going to give me a little number to go to sleep with tonight.
34:02154. Just sleep on that.
34:04Put it under your pillow and see what happens. Love it.
34:06We'll see Patrick tomorrow.
34:07He's aiming to become an octo-champ.
34:09Nina and Susie will witness it if it happens.
34:11We will. Yeah, as will Rachel. What a show.
34:14Well, the fifth show of the week is always a challenge,
34:16because they're absolutely exhausted. Yes, yes.
34:18So, early to bed and lots of caffeine and sugar tomorrow.
34:22That's good advice from the doctor.
34:23There. Caffeine and sugar will get you three.
34:26Hopefully, you'll have a little bit of caffeine,
34:27a little cup of tea or coffee, same time, same place tomorrow.
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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