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00:30Hello, everybody. It is Monday, August the 11th,
00:33and we are ready for another summer week of Countdowns
00:36as we sink our teeth into 15 rounds of letters and numbers.
00:41And look over there, our tiger of the dictionary, Susie Dent,
00:44and just hammering away, trying to keep up.
00:47So our special guest this week, Dr. Rand, saying,
00:49and never in at the deep end when it comes to the numbers
00:52is our Rachel Riley.
00:55Now, it is with excitement and relief mixed together
00:59that tonight on ITV is the last night of Rachel's shark show,
01:03which for me, Rach, with every show, as these sharks get bigger,
01:07I'm, like, cold sweat by the end of the episode.
01:09Do you know what I mean?
01:10Well, tonight is the proper one.
01:12It's what we've been building for.
01:13So how many weeks ago, I didn't have a paddy.
01:15I'd only been diving for, you know, a matter of minutes in my life.
01:19And tonight, they're going to try and get us in the water
01:21with wild tiger sharks.
01:24And tiger sharks are part of the top three.
01:25So there's bull sharks, tiger sharks and great whites.
01:27Yeah.
01:28And tiger sharks have been known.
01:30They've been found with full suits of armour in their stomachs,
01:33a full chicken coop.
01:35I mean, they are the scavengers of the sea.
01:38They will swallow anything.
01:39And they're kind of four metres long plus.
01:42So, you know, this is a big one.
01:45Would you do it, Raj?
01:46Oh, I'm not sure I could.
01:48No, no, sharks terrifying me.
01:50You're a sane human.
01:51Fun fact about sharks, though, they have to keep moving to breathe,
01:54don't they?
01:55Because the water needs to pass over their gills
01:57and they can't waft water over their own gills.
01:59So if they stop moving, they die.
02:01Yeah.
02:02I think.
02:03That's why they're great dancers.
02:04Yeah.
02:05So it was that.
02:06Our champion is Helen Ross.
02:08Two wins, 156 points.
02:10Back looking the hat trick.
02:12Which are you most proud of, right?
02:14You're passing your Chartered Institute of Bankers exam
02:17or getting a Grade 8 in your brass music.
02:21Oh, definitely the Grade 8.
02:22Oh.
02:22Definitely, yeah.
02:23What type of music do you like to play then?
02:25Old traditional stuff, northern soul, like, you know.
02:27I like swing, jazz.
02:29I've got a jazz shirt I've been waiting to rock on the programme.
02:32I haven't had a moment yet.
02:33I'll talk to Liam Wardrobe if you win today.
02:35Maybe we can wear it tomorrow and show you that.
02:38Look, no excitement whatsoever.
02:40Please welcome today's challenger,
02:42who is twice my age and twice as good-looking.
02:46Donald Elson is Countdown's oldest ever contestant.
02:50You've watched Countdown, Donald,
02:52your entire half of your life, right?
02:56Yeah.
02:57You know, every episode almost.
02:59Pretty well every episode, yes.
03:01As I say, you're exactly half my age.
03:02You were born in, what, 1929?
03:05That's right.
03:06Back in the day.
03:07And you were telling me now, fitness, obviously, you look so fit.
03:11I mean, if you'd have told me you were 65, I would have believed you.
03:14But you do the exercise bike while Countdown is on.
03:17Yeah.
03:18Does it make you better or worse at Countdown?
03:20Well, it makes me forget that I'm actually cycling.
03:25That's true.
03:26Because I concentrate on the board.
03:28I love it.
03:29We're so honoured to have you here today, and Helen as well.
03:31It's going to be a great day.
03:32Good luck to Donald and Helen.
03:36Love it. Off you go. How's bells?
03:38Hi, Rachel.
03:39Hi, Helen.
03:39Start with the consonant, please.
03:40Thank you. Start the week with N.
03:43And another.
03:45F.
03:46And a vowel.
03:48B.
03:49A consonant.
03:51L.
03:53Another consonant.
03:55N.
03:56A vowel.
03:58A.
04:00A consonant.
04:02M.
04:04Another consonant.
04:07S.
04:08And a final vowel, please.
04:11And a final E.
04:13At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:44T
04:46And that's time. Helen, how did you get on?
04:48Just a six. A six for you.
04:50And Donald? I got a five.
04:52A five. Same here. What did you get?
04:54Names. Yes. And for you, Helen?
04:56Flames. Ah, flames.
04:58There you go. Six points
05:00for you. Are you on fire as well there,
05:02Ranj? We have two sevens.
05:04Yes. Yes, we do.
05:06We do, don't we? Yeah.
05:07The first one is enamels.
05:10Enamels. There you go.
05:11Yeah, and the second is females. And females.
05:14Nice stuff. Right, okay, let's get back
05:16to it. Donald picking his first letters
05:18on the programme today.
05:20So let's see what you're going to do, sir.
05:22Consonant, please. Thank you, Donald.
05:24V. And another.
05:27D.
05:28And another, please.
05:30L. A vowel.
05:32O.
05:33One more. U.
05:36Consonant.
05:38N. Consonant.
05:40R.
05:41Vowel.
05:44E.
05:48Yeah, consonant, please.
05:50Lastly, T.
05:52And 30 seconds.
05:53N. Consonant.
05:55T.
05:56T.
05:57T.
05:57T.
05:58T.
06:07MUSIC PLAYS
06:23That's time and those letters. How many Donalds?
06:26Six. And for you, Helen?
06:27I think a seven.
06:29Thinks is just things. Donald, what's the six?
06:32Lauda.
06:33And for you, Helen?
06:35Trundle. Ooh, trundle.
06:37Yes, to move slowly and heavily.
06:39Very good. How do we go on Dictionary Corner?
06:42So, I'm usually useless at these, I'm just going to admit...
06:46It's great to have you here all week, Rad.
06:48You've got me here all week.
06:49But I actually came up with a seven. Yes.
06:52And I surprised myself. Excellent.
06:54Roundle. Roundle.
06:55Yeah, and I don't know if you've got one of these.
06:57It's like a decorative medallion. Love it.
07:00Right, here we go again.
07:01It's time to get numbers.
07:03First of the week, Helen.
07:04I'll go for two large and a small, please.
07:07Thank you, Helen.
07:08First one of the week.
07:09Two big and four not.
07:11And they are two, five, ten, eight.
07:16And the large one's 50 and 25.
07:19And with them, you need to make 791.
07:23791. Numbers up.
07:25Do stuff.
07:27In the...
07:53The big and seven of them.
07:55And that's time. OK, difficult enough. 7-9-1, Helen.
07:597-90.
08:007-90. So one away from that. Donald?
08:04No.
08:05No. Debby got one that. Off you go, Helen.
08:07So two times eight is 16.
08:09Yep.
08:10Times by 50 is 800.
08:12It is.
08:12And then subtract the ten.
08:15One away.
08:16Yeah. How do we get closer, though?
08:18A couple of ways.
08:19One of them, ten plus five is 15.
08:22Times by 50 is 750.
08:26Add the 25, 7-75.
08:28And then eight times two is 16.
08:30And add it on 7-9-1.
08:31Nice one.
08:34We'll be back after this break with this teaser.
08:37Mega Flint. Mega Flint.
08:40Thoughts of soft fruit existed in your imagination.
08:44Thoughts of soft fruit existed in your imagination.
09:09That's how we get to figmental, figmental.
09:12Right, let's put the brains in gear again.
09:15Donald, it's your letters round again.
09:17We'll start with a consonant, please.
09:19Thank you, Donald.
09:20A vowel.
09:21And a vowel.
09:21A consonant.
09:25T.
09:26Continent.
09:28P.
09:29Vowel.
09:31E.
09:33Continent.
09:36D.
09:37Continent.
09:39Y.
09:40Vowel.
09:42I.
09:46Vowel.
09:48Lastly.
09:49E.
09:50All right.
09:51Let's play.
09:51Vowel.
09:52Vowel.
09:55Vowel.
09:56Vowel.
10:21OK, Donald, how many?
10:23Seven.
10:24Seven.
10:24And for you, Helen?
10:25I'm going to try seven as well.
10:27Donald?
10:28Parties.
10:29I knew you would get that word.
10:30I knew you'd get that word, you are a party animal.
10:33Helen?
10:34Pirated.
10:35Yes, absolutely fine, anagrams for each other.
10:38Partied and pirated, seven points, Donald on the board.
10:41Anything else?
10:42We have one more slightly medical one, I'm glad to say.
10:45Dietry.
10:46Yes.
10:46Another seven.
10:47You'd be good, you know, all the doctor words in your head always helps.
10:51Although I also came up with parties, so I'm glad we're on the same wavelength.
10:54That's another thing doctors know.
10:56You know what I'm talking about.
10:58Right, let's get back to those letters, Helen.
11:00Start with the consonant, please.
11:02Thank you, Helen.
11:02S.
11:04And another.
11:05T.
11:06And a vowel.
11:07Vowel.
11:09I.
11:10And another.
11:12U.
11:13Another vowel, please.
11:15A.
11:16A consonant.
11:18G.
11:19Another consonant.
11:21R.
11:23Another consonant, please.
11:26H.
11:28And a final consonant.
11:31Final P.
11:33Start the clock.
11:34.
12:04All right.
12:05Helen.
12:06I'll stick with a six.
12:08OK.
12:08And for you, Donald?
12:09A five.
12:10And a five.
12:11What have you got there?
12:12Parts.
12:13And let's go to our six.
12:15Graphs.
12:15Graphs.
12:16And let's go to dictionary quarter.
12:17Yeah, absolutely fine.
12:19And we could go a little bit further.
12:20We have a seven, firstly.
12:23That's guitars.
12:24Yes.
12:25And we have an eight.
12:26Oh.
12:27Uprights.
12:28Uprights.
12:29Pianos, for example.
12:30Yes.
12:31And so it's very musical because harpist is there as well.
12:34Very nice.
12:35You've got guitars, harpist and uprights.
12:37Yeah.
12:37If only someone played a musical instrument at a high level,
12:39they never would have spotted one of those words.
12:43Back to the numbers for the second time today,
12:46but first time that Donald gets to choose.
12:49Two large and four small, please.
12:50Thank you, Donald.
12:51Two from the top.
12:52Four not once more.
12:53And this time your little ones are one, eight, seven and one.
12:58Always trouble, often trouble.
13:00And the large ones 50 and 100.
13:02And this time the target 490.
13:05Four nine zero.
13:06Number's up.
13:06One more.
13:09One more.
13:11One more.
13:19One more.
13:21One more.
13:25One more.
13:26One more.
13:27One more.
13:28One more.
13:29One more.
13:30One more.
13:31One more.
13:32One more.
13:32One more.
13:33One more.
13:34One more.
13:35One more.
13:35One more.
13:36One more.
13:36four nine zero was the target Donald four nine three three away Helen four
13:44nine three oh four nine three as well for seven points each Donald off you go
13:48first eight plus one plus one is ten yeah times fifty five hundred five
13:56hundred minus a seven minus seven four nine three three away well done gonna be
14:01the same way in it the same way there you go excellent there you go so four nine
14:07zero well it looks like it's gonna be easy doesn't it but with the ones it can
14:11make it harder but I found one way if you say seven minus the two ones for five
14:16and then 100 plus eight hundred and eight times it together for 540 and take
14:22away the 50 for nice nice right let's chat around you for the first time this
14:29week now I love this conversation because we all come from such a
14:33different educational background but you got your first GCSE at eight years old
14:40what on earth possessed you it sounds really impressive but it's actually not
14:45unfortunately it was a bit of an exit strategy so I grew up in an Indian
14:51household English is my second language so I grew up speaking Punjabi which is the
14:55language of my family and my parents made us go to school on a Sunday to learn to
15:01read and write and speak Punjabi but I had an agreement with my parents that as
15:05soon as I got my GCSE I could finish and I didn't have to go to school on Sunday
15:09anymore so as a kid yeah you weren't going out on a Sunday were mates or you weren't
15:13seeing friends you weren't able to play at the park I mean it was still quite
15:16sociable which is nice my cousins went I had friends there and stuff like that but um
15:20so in my parents size they had childcare organized for like the foreseeable right
15:25for the next eight nine ten years so I said right okay that's a challenge I
15:31accept and I took my GCSE at the age of eight and I passed I got a C I think
15:38it
15:38was and I remember taking it in to my school my junior school and remember it we
15:42had assemblies where people would get like their grade certificates for music and
15:46swimming certificates and I was never good at that kind of stuff I never got any
15:50badges or anything so I took my GCSE certificate in and said to the head
15:53master do you mind doing that thing that you do in assemblies and he had and he
15:57almost fell off his chair and said do you know what this is and I hadn't got a clue
16:01I hadn't got a clue but um I have a GCSE at the age of eight brilliant stuff eight
16:06years old fantastic thank you so much
16:11all right Helen let's get back to this your letters okay so we'll start with the
16:15consonant please thank you Helen T and another L and another one place P and a
16:24vowel O another vowel E and another vowel I a consonant R another consonant N
16:38and a final consonant please a final S and 30 seconds
16:48so
17:00so
17:02so
17:02so
17:16All right, Helen?
17:18A seven.
17:19A seven from you.
17:20And Donald?
17:20Eight.
17:21An eight, OK.
17:22What have you got there, Helen?
17:23Politer.
17:25Politer.
17:25And Donald, what have you spotted?
17:27Pointers.
17:28Excellent.
17:28Well done.
17:29Well done.
17:30Pointers.
17:31We don't need any of those after coming up with that.
17:34Dictionary corner.
17:35Well, we've got a slightly medical one, I'm glad to say.
17:38Proteins.
17:39Proteins.
17:39Excellent.
17:40And a building one that I came up with.
17:42Yeah.
17:43I never usually get these.
17:45Repoints.
17:46I've been doing a bit of that.
17:48Well, repoints, you've just taken Donald's ER and moved it.
17:50I don't care about that.
17:51I know.
17:52I heard within three seconds, I've got an eight.
17:54Yeah.
17:56But proteins.
17:57Proteins.
17:58Excellent stuff.
17:59Excellent stuff.
17:59Right.
18:00OK, look at this.
18:01It is game on.
18:0240 plays 22.
18:04Next letters round and Donald, you're choosing.
18:06Consonant, please.
18:08Thank you, Donald.
18:09R.
18:09And another.
18:11Z.
18:12And one more, please.
18:14T.
18:16Vowel.
18:17O.
18:18And another.
18:19A.
18:22Yeah, another one.
18:23E.
18:25Consonant.
18:26N.
18:28Consonant.
18:29L.
18:31L.
18:32And a vowel.
18:33And lastly, O.
18:36And let's do it.
18:37O.
18:38Bye.
18:52We'll see you next time.
18:53Bye.
18:53Bye.
18:55Bye.
18:57Bye.
18:59Bye.
19:00Bye.
19:02Bye.
19:07All right, Donald?
19:08Seven.
19:09And Helen?
19:10Just a five.
19:11Just a five. What's the five?
19:13Taser.
19:14Oh, he's on a roll. What's the seven, Donald?
19:16Looters.
19:17We don't have an S, unfortunately, Donald.
19:21Oh, I'm so sorry.
19:23And you can't spell taser with a Z, unfortunately.
19:25You need an S.
19:26So it's as you were.
19:27We sort of stay exactly where.
19:28But of course, looter, there for six.
19:31But was there a seven?
19:32There was a seven.
19:34An Autolan.
19:35An Autolan.
19:36Shall we guess what that is?
19:38Autolan.
19:39O-R-T-O.
19:40Not the car.
19:42Some type of duvet.
19:44I'm going bird.
19:45It's a small Eurasian songbird.
19:47Rachel remembers this.
19:49Formerly eaten as a delicacy.
19:51So let's forget that part.
19:52Right, really fun round.
19:53Let's get back to those numbers.
19:55And Helen, third round means it's champion's choice.
19:58I'll go for one large and five small, please, Rachel.
20:00Thank you, Helen.
20:01And switching to just one from the top.
20:03And this time, the five little ones are ten, four, eight, seven and one.
20:10And the big one, 25.
20:12And your target?
20:14378.
20:15Three seven it.
20:16Numbers up.
20:17One, two.
20:20One, two.
20:20Stop.
20:20Two.
20:25One.
20:463-7-8, our third target of this Monday afternoon, Helen.
20:51Yes, we've got 3-7-8.
20:51Nice. And Donald?
20:53No.
20:54And for you then, Helen?
20:558 plus 7 is 15.
20:57Yep.
20:58Times by the 25 to get 3-7-5.
21:01Yep.
21:01And then add 3 on.
21:03Sorry, beg your pardon.
21:044 minus 1.
21:05Yep, 4 minus 1 for the 3.
21:08Lovely.
21:08Nice one.
21:11The numbers make a big difference today, isn't it?
21:14Still a long way to go when we come back,
21:16and this Tea Time teaser is heady woes.
21:19Heady woes.
21:20You spot Hank, it must be something in your make-up.
21:23You spot Hank.
21:25It must be something in your make-up.
21:42There's your answer then.
21:43It is eye shadow.
21:44But just to explain it, you spot Hank,
21:46because it's a reference to Hank Marvin from the shadows.
21:49And, of course, the make-up is self-explanatory.
21:52Well, only Helen or Donald will be going to make-up tomorrow
21:55for Tuesday's countdown, and it's not decided yet.
21:59Six rounds to go.
22:00Donald's playing catch-up, and it's your letter, sir.
22:02I will start with a consonant, please.
22:05Thank you, Donald.
22:06W.
22:06And another one.
22:08D.
22:10And another one.
22:12M.
22:13Vowel, please.
22:15E.
22:32And the last one.
22:36E.
22:37Good luck.
22:37E.
23:09Donald. Six. Six from you and Helen. I've got an eight. Oh, she's spotted something, Donald. Cozied. And for you,
23:18Helen. Comedies. Oh, nice, really nice spot. Very nice spot. Yeah, well done.
23:23You also have a seven. Medicos. Yeah, medical students. There you go, all right, but eight takes the points. Well
23:30done, Helen, as we get more letters from you. A consonant, please. Thank you, Helen. K. And another.
23:38V. A vowel. U. Another vowel. I. A consonant. M. Another consonant. N. Another consonant, please. S. A vowel.
24:02B. And a consonant. And lastly, H. All right, let's play.
24:40Helen. I'll risk a seven. Risk a seven. Donald. Five. It might count, Donald. She says it's a risk. What's
24:46the five? Minus. Minus. And for you, Helen.
24:49Honkies. No. I did look that up and it's hankies only, I'm afraid. No honkies.
24:55All right, excellent. See, Donald will be crestfallen. You got the points. Ranj, what did you spot, your big honk?
25:00We have a seven. Yes. Opposite of exhumes, inhumes. Inhumes. Yes, berries. Why do we use exhum but we don't
25:08use inhum? Yeah.
25:09I guess it's quite a technical term, isn't it? Yeah. You would just, you would probably nowadays, just because that's
25:14French. Yeah.
25:15We'd nowadays stick with the old English. Yeah. And it's just not sexy to say, inhumed treasure.
25:20You know? Very good point. Right, let's stay in dictionary corner because I feel like that was the perfect little
25:26limber up for our first Origins Awards.
25:28Well, thanks to Patricia Sadler, who's kicking off the week. And Patricia says,
25:35Watching a very old comedy recently, the expression in the rudest of health was used.
25:39It seemed a very strange thing to say about somebody's good health, that it's rude. And I was just wondering
25:44where it came from and why.
25:47And if you look at old school books or old hymnals, you might have a laugh if you're a child
25:53at phrases like rude dwellings.
25:55You might think, what is rude about them? But actually, that sense of rude was very different to the one
26:02today.
26:02So today, obviously, it's something that is slightly embarrassing or offensive, but that's quite a recent development.
26:08If you go back to the original, and even up until the 1960s, rude just meant rough, sort of rough
26:14and ready, not so much the bad mannered, which is the direction that it went in later.
26:19It came to us via Old French, but from Latin ultimately. And rudest meant uncultivated.
26:25And it was one of many, many words that have grown up around people who live in the country.
26:30So it was applied particularly to country folk who traditionally have been considered to be a bit boorish, a little
26:37bit, you know, just kind of unsophisticated.
26:42So it's where we get bumpkin from, a country bumpkin.
26:45It's from a Dutch word meaning a sort of barrelled person.
26:48So they were making a joke about their appearance.
26:50You have a yokel, a green woodpecker in dialect, but the idea is that they were green and naive and
26:57so on and so on.
26:58And even peasant actually began meaning someone who lived in the country.
27:01It was as simple as that. A heathen was somebody who lived on the heath.
27:03But it all took on that sort of negative quality, if you like.
27:07And that was the way that rude went as well, from that idea of being roughly made to impolite.
27:11But there is one positive sense, and Patricia has found it, rude health, where it means robust and vigorous in
27:18a really basic, fundamental way.
27:19Love it. Thank you.
27:20What a conversation, Patricia. Thank you for the email.
27:25Four rounds to go. Donald, you're picking these letters, sir.
27:28Consonant, please. Thank you, Donald.
27:30G. And another.
27:32R. One more.
27:35D. Vowel.
27:39O. And another, please.
27:41E.
27:44Consonant.
27:45M.
27:47Consonant.
27:48F. Vowel.
27:51I.
27:53Vowel, please.
27:54Try U.
27:56All right.
27:58Countdown.
27:59MUSIC PLAYS
28:29It's a tricky old round.
28:30Donald. I've got five. And for you, Helen? I've got six. A six. The five, Donald? Gord. And the six?
28:38Morg. Morg. Very nice. Well spotted. Off the back of Inhumed. And we go to Morg. What's going on this
28:45after? It's all got a bit sinister. Dextry Corner? We have a seven. Yes. Fire dog. A fire dog? Yes.
28:53Oh, it sounds like a terrible drink, you know, from your student days, doesn't it? Wow. Yeah. And it's,
28:59nor is it a lovely pooch that loves to warm itself by the fire. This is one of a pair
29:03of decorative metal supports for wood burning in a fireplace. So it's what your wood is resting on. It's called
29:09a fire dog. There's one name for it, yeah.
29:11That's fantastic. Wonderful. 64-27. Three rounds to go. Helen, last letters. I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel. Thank
29:21you, Helen. T. And another, please.
29:23B. A vowel? A. Another vowel? E. A consonant? S. A vowel? A. A consonant? N. Another consonant? L. And
29:44a final consonant. A final R. And last time around.
30:17Music by David Christian.
30:20Helen?
30:21A seven.
30:22And for you, Donald?
30:24Six.
30:24And a six.
30:25It's always that one letter frustrating.
30:27Donald?
30:28About.
30:29Yeah, good word.
30:30Well found.
30:31And Helen?
30:31Stabler.
30:32Yes, it is absolutely specified in the dictionary,
30:35so no problem with that one.
30:36You didn't spot it, though.
30:37I didn't spot it.
30:38I didn't spot stabler.
30:38No, we didn't have that one, actually.
30:40We were feeling quite pleased with a couple of eights.
30:43That was madly checking.
30:45Nice.
30:45What are they?
30:46Quite unusual.
30:47One is Antbez.
30:49Antbez.
30:50Antbez.
30:50So, like, small, big.
30:52How does this work?
30:53They're aardvarks.
30:55That makes sense.
30:56Yeah.
30:57Wow.
30:57Antbez.
30:58And rat vein, rat poison.
31:00We won't like that, because we love rats.
31:02I know about that one.
31:03But antbez is just another word today.
31:05It's been a real journey, hasn't it, in the rounds?
31:07Really good fun.
31:08Right, OK, let's get back to the numbers for the final time today,
31:11which means our Donald will be choosing them.
31:14Two large, four small, please.
31:16Thank you, Donald.
31:17Two and four to finish off our day with the numbers.
31:21And the four little ones.
31:22One, five, nine, and two.
31:26And the big ones, 25 and 50.
31:29And with them, you need to make 758.
31:32Seven, five, eight.
31:34Last numbers.
31:34Two and four, six, six, six, seven, and two.
31:40And let's go.
31:43Bye.
31:44Bye.
31:45Bye.
31:47Bye.
31:50Bye.
32:00Bye.
32:00Bye.
32:02Bye.
32:02Bye.
32:04Bye.
32:06758 was the target we were looking for.
32:08Donald? 750.
32:10Helen? No, it's too far away.
32:11Too far away. Off you go with 750, please, Donald.
32:1625 plus 50, 75.
32:19It is.
32:209 plus 1 is 10.
32:23Multiply them. Multiply them together, 750.
32:26All right. I don't know whether you want to kick yourself this late on
32:29in the programme, but off you go, Rach.
32:30Well, start the same way. 25 plus 50 is 75.
32:35But instead of 9 plus 1, 2 times 5 for 10 gives you 750 again,
32:40but you have a 9 and a 1 left over for 758.
32:43Yeah.
32:47Don't worry, though, five points for Donald.
32:50Great stuff, and we are not done yet.
32:53Right, let's get your fingers on those buzzers
32:55as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:30And time is up.
33:33A blank drawn.
33:34Oh, Susie Dent has this one, the denticles.
33:36Well, Rach and I have been mouthing at each other this long.
33:39Is this a word? But it is. Overhasty.
33:41Let's have a look. Yeah.
33:45I think we should definitely use that more.
33:47Don't be overhasty.
33:49It's very cheeky indeed.
33:50Right, we're done.
33:51We know that Helen's our brilliant champion.
33:53I'll get that shirt out for you tomorrow, OK?
33:55A promise is a promise.
33:57Donald, how is that here compared to at home?
33:59Well, it's easier, though.
34:01Yeah.
34:02It definitely is.
34:03Yeah.
34:03Thank you very much.
34:07Ryan, Susie, what a day.
34:09See you tomorrow.
34:10See you then.
34:10And, Rachel, I know you said no spoilers about the shark programme,
34:13ITV1 tonight, last episode, big climax.
34:16But it is live.
34:17And I know you said not to say.
34:19It is live, so just in case,
34:20because you might be in tonight with Tiger Sharks,
34:23if Dr Tom Crawford can keep his phone on,
34:25because you would agree with me,
34:26the show must go well.
34:27Yeah, I'm flying straight back to the Bahamas
34:29as soon as this one finishes.
34:30Fingers crossed everything's OK.
34:32We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:35You can count on us.
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