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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34And here we are sitting in Salford, just a stone's throw away from the great city of Manchester.
00:40And I was very interested to read, very recently actually, Rachel, in the Guardian newspaper,
00:45a survey, a Reader's Travel Awards, talking about their favourite UK cities and foreign cities.
00:53So I was particularly interested to see what favourite UK cities are within Ireland, Manchester.
01:02You may be surprised, you may not be, but the favourite UK city in third place came Edinburgh.
01:08And in second place, Bath.
01:11Right.
01:13Hold tight.
01:13First place, Newcastle upon time.
01:17So clearly that says a great deal about the Manchester Guardian readership.
01:21But there we are indeed.
01:23And overseas, you may be interested to know that Singapore came third.
01:27Second?
01:29Er, New York?
01:30No.
01:31Tokyo.
01:32Oh, OK.
01:32Where I've never been, my fancy Tokyo.
01:34I'd love to, yeah.
01:35And the win of Venice.
01:36Oh, beautiful.
01:37No surprises there.
01:37I went last year, it was gorgeous.
01:38Isn't it great?
01:40Absolutely lovely, yeah, like a film set.
01:42Overseas, I'm being a bit boring here.
01:43I just think Paris is a great town.
01:45Oh, OK.
01:46Not done too much in Paris.
01:47I like Cannes, though.
01:49At the south of France, somewhere a bit warmer.
01:51Right time of year.
01:52Where people are a bit warmer.
01:53Yeah.
01:53Hmm.
01:54Indeed.
01:54Let's see whether young Neil Stephenson's going to be hot today.
01:58He's been very good up until now.
02:00He's got three wins.
02:01Going for four today.
02:02Well done, Neil.
02:03You did extremely well.
02:04You were held pretty tight until the latter stages, and then off you went.
02:09Yeah, it's going to get him.
02:09Boring away.
02:10Let's see whether Tracy Mills, a housewife from Stockport, can hold you back today.
02:15Big Manchester United fan.
02:17That'll please, Rachel.
02:18But on your first driving course, you crashed.
02:22My husband was teaching me in an automatic car, and I forgot to press the pedal.
02:27So he had to press the handbrake in time.
02:29Otherwise, I'd have crashed into some poor woman's walk.
02:32Oh, dear.
02:33No, you always get a professional teacher.
02:35Yeah.
02:36Because you'll fall out if you're with your husband.
02:39Well, we'll have a nice row afterwards.
02:40Right there.
02:41Oh, did you?
02:41Well, that's not good.
02:42Yeah.
02:43Let's have a big round of applause for the non-driver, Tracy, and Neil Stephenson, after
02:47his fourth win today.
02:54And in the corner, of course, Susie, joined once again by Tim Warnicott, who I guess is
03:00one of the great experts on antiques and all things old, and a great entertainer, too.
03:06So welcome back, Tim.
03:07Welcome back.
03:08Thank you very much.
03:08But now let's get down to business.
03:10Neil takes away on the letters game.
03:12Rachel.
03:13Hi, Neil.
03:13Have a consonant, please.
03:14Start today with L.
03:17And another one.
03:19S.
03:20And another.
03:21M.
03:23And a vowel, please.
03:25A.
03:25And another one.
03:27E.
03:28And another vowel.
03:30I.
03:33Consonant, please.
03:35G.
03:37Another consonant.
03:39N.
03:39And a final vowel.
03:42And a final O.
03:44And here's the countdown clock.
03:46A.
03:48A.
03:48A.
03:49A.
04:17Yes, Neil?
04:19Eight.
04:21And Tracey?
04:22Eight.
04:23So, Neil?
04:24Two Nails.
04:26Tracey?
04:26Semolina.
04:28Semolina.
04:29Very good.
04:30Fantastic.
04:30Well done.
04:32Good start there, Tracey.
04:34But watch out, he's trouble.
04:37Now, what have we got in the corner, Tim?
04:39Susie?
04:39It's been another ill over here.
04:40So we might go for ailments.
04:42Yes, why not?
04:43Ailments.
04:44Susie?
04:45Just to be different, you can turn it round into aliments, which means food or nourishment,
04:49but in Scottish law, that's also alimony or maintenance.
04:53Is that right?
04:54Yes.
04:55Aliments.
04:56Aliments, yeah.
04:58Alimentaire.
04:58Now then, eight points for B's.
05:00Tracey, let us go.
05:02Hi, Rachel.
05:02Hi, Tracey.
05:03May I have a consonant, please?
05:04You may, thank you.
05:05Start with G.
05:06Another one.
05:08M.
05:09Another one.
05:11R.
05:12Vowel, please.
05:14A.
05:15Another vowel.
05:16E.
05:18Another vowel.
05:19U.
05:20A consonant.
05:22D.
05:23A consonant.
05:25L.
05:26And finish with a final consonant.
05:29And finish with H.
05:31Stand by.
05:32T.
05:33T.
05:33T.
05:35T.
05:35Tリ
05:36T.
05:36T.
05:36T.
05:55MUSIC
06:03Tracey.
06:04Seven.
06:04Seven.
06:05Neil.
06:05Seven, not and done.
06:07So, Neil.
06:08Laughed.
06:09Laughed.
06:10Same word.
06:11All right.
06:11Well done.
06:12Show that.
06:13And in the corner, any more laughter?
06:15Laughed about the only seven that I could find.
06:18Might well be something else, though.
06:19Very well.
06:20Very well.
06:21All right, 15 apiece, and it's numbers time.
06:24So, Neil, Rachel awaits your pleasure.
06:28You got it?
06:29For a large piece.
06:29All the top row, thank you, Neil.
06:31And two little ones.
06:33And for the first time today, the small numbers are two and one.
06:36Oh, this could be tricky.
06:38The large ones, 100, 50, 25 and 75.
06:43And the target, oh, a bit of a test.
06:46985.
06:47985.
06:47885.
06:48Fire.
06:591095.
07:12dieå…‰.
07:151095.
07:161095.
07:161095.
07:161095.
07:19Yes, Neil?
07:20990, not written down.
07:23And?
07:23Nothing.
07:24And nothing.
07:25Right, so, Neil.
07:2775 plus 50 is 125.
07:3075 plus 50 is 125.
07:324 by 25.
07:34Over 25 is 5.
07:35Times 2 is 10.
07:37Times 2 is 10.
07:38100 minus 1.
07:39100 minus 1 for the 99.
07:42Yep, 5 away.
07:445 away, quite a gap.
07:46How tricky is that, Rachel?
07:489, 8, 5.
07:49Impossible.
07:50You could have got to 2 away, but that was ridiculously hard.
07:52So you didn't do too badly, then?
07:53No, very good.
07:54Very, very good.
07:55Thank you, Rachel.
07:5622 plays.
07:57Tracey's 15 as we go into a tea-time teaser, which is Giant Log.
08:02And the clue, is Gloria full of smug satisfaction?
08:06Is Gloria full of smug satisfaction?
08:25Welcome back.
08:26I left her with a clue.
08:26Is Gloria full of smug satisfaction?
08:29And the answer is gloating.
08:32She was gloating.
08:3322 plays.
08:34Tracey's 15.
08:35Tracey, you're back on.
08:36Letters go.
08:36Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:38Thank you, Tracey.
08:39R.
08:39And another one.
08:42D.
08:43Another one.
08:45P.
08:46Vowel, please.
08:48O.
08:49Another vowel.
08:51A.
08:52Another vowel.
08:53I.
08:54Consonants.
08:56T.
08:58Consonants.
09:00S.
09:01And a final vowel, please.
09:04And a final E.
09:06Sound by.
09:06S.
09:07S.
09:08S.
09:09S.
09:10S.
09:10S.
09:14S.
09:15S.
09:16S.
09:19S.
09:23S.
09:24S.
09:25S.
09:35S.
09:37Yes, Tracy?
09:39Eight.
09:40And eight?
09:41Eight.
09:41Two eights, Tracy?
09:42Parotides.
09:43Thank you, Neil.
09:45Dioptase.
09:46Dioptase, absolutely brilliant, yes.
09:48Just to tell you what parotides is first, they are the salivary glands.
09:52And dioptase is a rare mineral occurring as emerald green or blue green crystal.
09:57Sounds very beautiful.
09:59Very rare.
10:00Yeah.
10:00Almost as rare as the word a paradist.
10:03Yes.
10:04Which is?
10:06There for eight.
10:07Yes.
10:07Word.
10:08Very good.
10:09A paradist, what does that mean?
10:10Somebody who parodies something, so.
10:13Oh, okay.
10:13Yeah.
10:14Susie?
10:15Dopiest for seven, if you prefer.
10:17Yeah, I can get that one.
10:1930 plays, 23 snakes in the audience.
10:22And Neil is back.
10:24Consonant, please.
10:25Thank you, Neil.
10:26R.
10:27And another?
10:30W.
10:31Another consonant?
10:32N.
10:33And one more, please.
10:34Yes.
10:35P.
10:37Vowel.
10:39O.
10:40Another.
10:41E.
10:43Another one.
10:44I.
10:46Another one.
10:48A.
10:49And a consonant, please.
10:51And the last one, L.
10:53Stand by.
10:57And a consonant, please.
11:09I'll see you next time.
11:09Bye-bye.
11:09Bye-bye.
11:09Bye-bye.
11:09Bye-bye.
11:11Bye-bye.
11:17Bye-bye.
11:20Bye-bye.
11:24Yes, Neil?
11:25Uh, seven.
11:27Seven, Tracy?
11:28Seven.
11:29Neil?
11:30Praline.
11:31And Tracy?
11:32Aileron.
11:34Very good, our old friend the Aileron.
11:36Aircraft's wing, absolutely.
11:37Mm-hmm.
11:38It's good, isn't it?
11:38And what else have we got there?
11:40Tim?
11:40Proline.
11:42Yes, proline.
11:43A bit more unusual, termed from biochemistry, it's an amino acid which you'll find in most
11:47proteins, including collagen, which of course is part of the skin.
11:51Very good.
11:52And it's numbers time.
11:54Tracy, would you take us away on a numbers game?
11:57Could I have one from the top and any other five of your choice, please?
12:01Thank you, Tracy.
12:02One from the top and five other ones.
12:04And let's try for a possible one this time.
12:06Right, these numbers are four, nine, one, three, another one, and 50.
12:14And the target, 832.
12:16832.
12:17832.
12:18832.
12:19832.
12:49832.
12:50832.
12:51832.
12:51Neal.
12:52832.
12:52Thank you, Tracy.
12:54Right, 50 plus 1 plus 1.
12:5650 plus 1 plus 1.
12:5852.
12:599 plus 3 plus 4 is 16.
13:02And 52, 16 should give you 832.
13:04They do indeed.
13:05Well done.
13:06Neal.
13:11Well done.
13:12Neatly done.
13:13Very neatly done.
13:1447 plays up.
13:1640.
13:16But now it's time to talk to Tim.
13:19And tell us a tale of the antiques trail.
13:21Well, of course, the marvellous thing about the auction business, and I worked in it at
13:27Sotheby's for 25 years, is that it is littered with stories that relate to objects and people.
13:33So you have to imagine a scene.
13:35You're an old-age pensioner.
13:37You're selling your property to move into a retirement home in Bournemouth.
13:41And you need every single penny out of the sale of your bungalow in Worthing, because it's going to fund
13:46your retirement for the rest of your living days.
13:48And you can't find anybody to buy your bungalow.
13:50And eventually a beastly man comes along and makes an offer, which is way below what you really want.
13:54So when you move out, you decide to unscrew absolutely everything from that bungalow.
13:58You take out the lavatory holder, all the light bulbs, you unscrew everything that is unscrewable from that house.
14:05And when you're walking out of the back door, you remind your husband that there is that ornament that's in
14:11the middle of the goldfish pond in the middle of the garden.
14:14And he says, but it's concreted in, this thing.
14:16She says, never mind.
14:17Hack it out.
14:18We're going to take it with us, along with everything else.
14:21And that ornament, that bronze thing, covered in guano, which had been in their bungalow in the garden for 40
14:29years in Worthing,
14:30pictures up at Sotheby's, and an awfully nice man there in a suit says it's worth £1,000 to £1
14:35,500.
14:35And the woman says, marvellous, sell it.
14:38It's £1,000 that that nasty man that bought our house in Worthing will not have.
14:42Anyway, it goes to be catalogued, and a senior cataloguer comes along and says, oh, my Lord, that isn't a
14:5019th century Italian tourist market piece.
14:54That is a genuine piece of 17th century sculpture.
14:58And it's not worth £1,000 to £1,500.
15:01It's worth £6,000 to £800,000.
15:04You have the telephone call to the retirement home in Bournemouth, and it goes something like,
15:09that statue that you said you would sell for £1,000 to £1,500, we've thought about it again, and
15:15it might be worth £6,000 to £800,000.
15:18The guys in Bournemouth are very excited.
15:20And when it came to the auction itself, which I was at in London, there is a certain buzz sometimes
15:26when something rare is about to come up.
15:28And this figure, which was by a Flemish sculptor called Adrian de Vries, was unrecognised and unknown, and when it
15:36was sold, it did remarkably well.
15:38Would you like to know what it made?
15:40Please.
15:40£6.2 million.
15:42No!
15:43Yes.
15:44So you imagine the next telephone call to the Bournemouth retirement home, which went along the lines of, you don't
15:50get £600,000, you get £6 million.
15:53And as the elderly couple were presented with a capital gains tax bill of several million pounds, they decided that
16:01they'd go and live in Monte Carlo, which is where they retired to us.
16:05Brilliant story. What a great story. Lovely.
16:13Wow. Isn't it heartening to hear such a thing?
16:16Well, it's a wonderful thing, isn't it?
16:18Absolutely.
16:19It works out that way.
16:19I think they sold their bungalow for a couple of hundred thousand pounds, so that was pretty good going.
16:24Excellent. What a lovely story.
16:25There we are.
16:2647 to 40.
16:27Neil in the lead, and Neil's back with the letters game.
16:31Comment, please.
16:32Thank you, Neil.
16:33Q.
16:34And another one.
16:37S.
16:38Another one.
16:40N.
16:41And another one.
16:43C.
16:44A vowel, please.
16:46O.
16:47Another one.
16:48I.
16:49Uh, consonant.
16:52B.
16:53Another vowel.
16:56E.
16:57And the consonant, please.
16:59And the last one.
17:00R.
17:02Stand by.
17:02And the consonant, please.
17:04And the consonant, please.
17:05And the consonant, please.
17:23And the consonant, please.
17:23And the consonant, please.
17:23And the consonant, please.
17:23And the consonant, please.
17:23And the consonant, please.
17:23And the consonant, please.
17:24And the consonant, please.
17:24And the consonant, please.
17:26And the consonant, please.
17:30And the consonant, please.
17:34Yes, Neil.
17:35Er, try seven.
17:37And Tracy?
17:38Six.
17:39And your six?
17:41Er, senior.
17:43Yes.
17:44Neil, coiners.
17:46You happy, Susie?
17:47Yes, talk about coiners of new words quite a lot in the lexicography profession.
17:51So, yeah, very, very good.
17:52Very good.
17:5354, please.
17:5440.
17:55Tracy, letters.
17:57Er, can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
17:58Thank you, Tracy.
18:00C.
18:00Another one?
18:02S.
18:04Er, another one?
18:06M.
18:07Er, vowel, please.
18:10I.
18:11Number vowel.
18:12O.
18:14Er, number vowel.
18:15A.
18:17Er, consonant.
18:19V.
18:20Consonant.
18:22T.
18:24And a final vowel, please.
18:26And a final E.
18:28Countdown.
18:29I.
18:30I.
18:45I.
19:00Tracey?
19:01Seven.
19:01Seven, Neil?
19:02Seven.
19:03Tracey?
19:04Avocets.
19:05Avocets and?
19:06Atomize.
19:08Atomize.
19:09Very nice.
19:10Remind me about an avocet.
19:12Is it a small animal?
19:14It's a wading bird.
19:15A wading bird, right.
19:17Suzy?
19:18A couple more sevens.
19:19There's somatic, which means relating to the body as opposed to the mind,
19:22and psychosomatic obviously brings mind and body together.
19:26And vicomte, which is V-I-C-O-M-T-E, French nobleman, equivalent to our vicomte.
19:33Yeah.
19:34Yeah.
19:34Yeah.
19:35Nice.
19:36Vicomte.
19:3661 plays 47, and here we are with the numbers again.
19:40Let's see how Neil gets on this time.
19:42Neil.
19:43Four likes, please.
19:43Same as usual, thank you, Neil.
19:45Four large, and hopefully a possible four large for this round.
19:49The two small ones are four and seven.
19:52And the large, 50-25, 175.
19:57And the target, 135.
20:00One, three, five.
20:02One, three, three, five.
20:32Yes, Neil?
20:33Just 136.
20:36136.
20:36Tracy?
20:37136.
20:38Both of you.
20:39Neil?
20:39I haven't really done, so...
20:41100 plus 50.
20:43100 plus 50, 150.
20:4575 over 25 is 3.
20:47Yep.
20:48And take away that and the 7 and the 4.
20:52So all of those for 14 to take away and one above.
20:55136.
20:56Thank you, Tracy.
20:58Slightly different.
20:58I did 100 plus 25.
21:01125.
21:02Plus 4 plus 7 is 136.
21:05Yep, it is.
21:07So is 135 so difficult?
21:10No, quite a few ways.
21:12You could have said 75 plus 50 is 125 divided by 25 is 5.
21:19Times by the 7, 435.
21:21And add on 100, 135.
21:24There we go.
21:25Thank you, Rachel.
21:28Straight to it.
21:29Straight to it.
21:30Let's have a tea time teaser.
21:32He came in.
21:33And the clue?
21:34He came inside to cool down because this was so hot.
21:38He came inside to cool down because this was so hot.
21:58Welcome back.
21:59I left with the clue.
22:00He came inside to cool down because this was so hot.
22:04What was so hot?
22:05The chiminea.
22:07Help me out on this.
22:08What is it?
22:09Chimneys?
22:09What is it?
22:09Yes.
22:10Freestanding fireplace or an oven.
22:12And it's one of those ones with those bulbous bodies.
22:15It sort of tapers up.
22:16It looks a bit like a periscope.
22:18It's Spanish.
22:19They are Spanish for chimney.
22:22Related to chiminea, we were just saying, and our chimney, obviously.
22:26OK.
22:2668 to 54.
22:28And Tracy, letters game?
22:30Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:31Thank you, Tracy.
22:32S.
22:33Another one.
22:35K.
22:37Another one.
22:39S.
22:41Vowel, please.
22:42A.
22:43Another vowel.
22:46E.
22:47Another vowel.
22:49A.
22:51A consonant.
22:52R.
22:54Another one.
22:56T.
22:58And a final consonant, please.
23:00And a final L.
23:02And here's the countdown clock.
23:35Yes, Tracy.
23:36Seven.
23:37Seven.
23:37Neil.
23:38Eight.
23:39So, Tracy.
23:40Gators.
23:41Gators and?
23:42Stalkers.
23:44Stalkers.
23:45Very, very good.
23:46Stalkers?
23:46Yes.
23:47OK.
23:48Don't want one of those.
23:49Very, very good.
23:50Yeah.
23:50What else have we got there, Tim?
23:52Artless.
23:53Artless, yes, indeed.
23:56Artless Susie?
23:57We could have talkers as well as stalkers.
23:59Yeah.
23:59And that would give you a seven.
24:01Talkers and stalkers, yeah.
24:03Very good.
24:03It's 76 to 54, and now Neil's back with his letters game.
24:09Neil.
24:10Consonant, please.
24:11Thank you, Neil.
24:11S.
24:12Another one.
24:14T.
24:15Another one.
24:18X.
24:19Let's have a vowel, please.
24:21O.
24:22And another one.
24:23U.
24:24And another one.
24:26E.
24:28And another one.
24:30A.
24:32Another one, please.
24:35E.
24:36And a consonant, please.
24:36And lastly, G.
24:39Stand by.
24:40And another one.
25:08Bye-bye.
25:12Yes, Neil?
25:13Seven.
25:14Tracey?
25:15Neil?
25:16Outages.
25:17Outages and?
25:18Outages also.
25:19Lights went out there.
25:21Outages, the American expression for power cut.
25:25Is that right?
25:25Yes, absolutely right.
25:26What else have we got there, Tim?
25:28Goatees.
25:29Goatees.
25:30Yeah, for your little...
25:31OK, just one apiece, I suppose, really.
25:33There we go.
25:3483 to 61, Neil's in charge.
25:36Now then, Susie, what have you got for us today?
25:40Well, I mentioned yesterday, Nick,
25:41that I've been reading this great book on the vocabulary of war
25:44by Philip Gooden and Peter Lewis.
25:46I'm going to talk about code words today
25:47because during World War II,
25:49code words were used by the Germans to catch out allied spies.
25:54So just as Germans find it very hard to say the word squirrel,
25:58which was our code word quite often,
26:00the German word for the same animal takes a bit of learning
26:03and it's Eichhörnchen.
26:06Which you have to just really move your lips in certain ways to do that.
26:10But Winston Churchill had very firm views
26:12on what military operations should be called,
26:14the code words that were chosen for them.
26:16He liked names from the figures of antiquity,
26:20Greek mythology, Roman mythology,
26:23constellations, stars, that kind of thing.
26:24So we had Juno, gold, sword,
26:27and for the Normandy landings, overlord, famously.
26:30But a knowledge of those subjects that Churchill liked for the code names
26:34actually proved quite useful for people at Bletchley Park,
26:39the experts who were decoding German information.
26:43And one of the ones they were trying to crack
26:45was a codename called Freyergerät,
26:47which meant the Freyer apparatus.
26:49And an expert at Bletchley remembered that the goddess Freyer's
26:52most prized possession was a necklace.
26:55And so he was able to work out that the German name
26:57might mean a chain of radar installations.
27:01So he cracked that.
27:02And there was another operation called Woltan,
27:04or Woltan, sorry,
27:05which referred to the myth that the god had only one eye.
27:09And as it turned out,
27:10the Germans were referring to a system
27:11which sent a light beam across the air,
27:14and a bomber could fly just above that target,
27:16that single beam.
27:18So a controller at a radar station
27:19could work out exactly how far the bomber was from his target.
27:23But thanks to that knowledge of Roman and Greek mythology
27:25that Churchill advocated,
27:26they were able to crack the code.
27:28That's very clever.
27:29Very clever. Very good.
27:33Thank you very much.
27:34So there we are.
27:36There we are.
27:3683 plays 61.
27:38Neil's there, all right.
27:39And now it's Tracy's letters game.
27:42A consonant, please, Rachel.
27:43Thank you, Tracy.
27:44R.
27:45And another one.
27:47P.
27:48And another one.
27:50V.
27:52Vowel, please.
27:53A.
27:54Another vowel.
27:56U.
27:57A, another vowel.
27:58Vowel.
27:58I.
28:00Uh, another vowel.
28:03O.
28:04A consonant.
28:06R.
28:08And a final consonant, please.
28:12And a final S.
28:14Stand by.
28:16A consonant.
28:17A consonant.
28:30A consonant.
28:30A consonant.
28:31A consonant.
28:32A consonant.
28:33A consonant.
28:33A consonant.
28:33A consonant.
28:46Yes, Tracy.
28:47I'm going to go for an eight.
28:48An eight.
28:49Neil.
28:49Just seven.
28:50And your seven?
28:52Saviour.
28:53Now, Tracy.
28:54Pave yours.
28:55Yes, well done, Tracy.
28:57You can spell it I-O-R-S-O-I-O-U-R-S, but they're paving stones.
29:00Very, very good.
29:04Thank you, Neil.
29:0583 plays 69.
29:07And final letters game for Neil.
29:10Consonant, please.
29:11Thank you, Neil.
29:12T.
29:13Another one.
29:15N.
29:16And another.
29:18G.
29:20Vowel, please.
29:22I.
29:23Another vowel.
29:25E.
29:26And another vowel.
29:28U.
29:30And consonant.
29:31F.
29:33Another consonant.
29:35R.
29:37And a vowel, please.
29:40And the last one.
29:42A.
29:43And here's the countdown clock.
29:45A.
29:46A.
30:14PETA
30:15Yes, Neil?
30:17Eight.
30:18And eight?
30:19Nine.
30:21Right.
30:23Yes, Neil?
30:24If you think.
30:25Tracy?
30:26Featuring.
30:28Well done.
30:28Excellent.
30:30Good for you, young ladies.
30:34Good for you.
30:36We're coming up on the rails there.
30:38Now, what have we got over there?
30:39Tim?
30:39How about figurant?
30:41It's the female of figurant was at the end.
30:44And it's actually a sophisticated word for an extra in a film or a play.
30:48Brilliant.
30:49But the applause really goes to Tracy on that one.
30:53So, final numbers game.
30:55Tracy?
30:55One from the top.
30:56And any other five, please, Rachel?
30:58Thank you, Tracy.
30:58Good comeback.
30:59One large and five little ones.
31:01But we know how good Neil is at the conundrum.
31:03So, here is the last numbers game for you.
31:05We have seven, eight, two, another eight, six, and the large one, 25.
31:12And the target, 859.
31:14Eight, five, nine.
31:46Tracy?
31:47Eight, five, eight.
31:48One away.
31:49Neil?
31:50Eight, five, eight.
31:52I haven't written it down.
31:53You haven't?
31:53No.
31:54Neil?
31:55Go ahead.
31:56So, eight minus two is six.
31:59Eight minus two, six.
32:01Times six is 36.
32:0336, yep.
32:05Times 25.
32:06Times 25 is 900.
32:09Add eight.
32:09And add...
32:11Add...
32:12Oh, yeah.
32:13Add eight.
32:13Add eight, yes.
32:15908.
32:18That's not the right sum, is it?
32:22Is that what you said?
32:23Yes, it is.
32:25Never mind.
32:26Sorry.
32:27Do we now turn to you, Tracy?
32:31Yep.
32:31Seven, six is a 42.
32:33Seven, six is 42.
32:35Take eight is 34.
32:37Uh-huh.
32:3834, 25 is a 850.
32:40Eight hundred and fifty.
32:41And add the eight.
32:42And no crucial conundrum.
32:43Well done.
32:44Well done, indeed.
32:46Well done.
32:49You've moved 11 points clear.
32:5194, two when he was...
32:5383.
32:55But...
32:56Eight, five, nine.
32:57Um, a tricky one, but you could have said 25 times 6 is 150.
33:04Minus 8 is 142.
33:06And then the other 8 minus 2 is 6.
33:09Times them together for 852.
33:14And add the 7.
33:15Eight, five, nine.
33:16Well done.
33:17Well done, Rachel.
33:19That is very good.
33:22So as we go to the final, uh, round, conundrum round, uh...
33:27Neil 83, Tracy 94, fingers on buzzers.
33:30Let's reveal today's Countdown conundrum.
33:37Tracy?
33:38Consulted.
33:40Said with confidence.
33:41Let's see whether you're right.
33:43Ah, well done.
33:46Well done.
33:53Tracy Mills, you look very pleased with yourself.
33:56I am, yes.
33:56What?
33:57I am.
33:57Excellent stuff.
33:58And your husband's in the audience.
33:59He is.
34:00Excellent.
34:00Well, he'll be very proud of you.
34:01That was terrific.
34:02Because you were sort of lagging behind for a long time.
34:06I was, yes.
34:06Behind a very, very good player in Neil Stephenson.
34:09Neil, thank you very much for coming.
34:10Get a teapot, too.
34:11As well as your, uh, goodie bag.
34:14So, there we go.
34:15Travel safely and get back to business, yeah?
34:17Tracy Mills, well done.
34:19See you tomorrow.
34:20Yeah, thank you.
34:21See you tomorrow.
34:21Wonderful stuff.
34:22See you tomorrow, you two over there.
34:23Susie and Tim, Monica.
34:25See you tomorrow.
34:26We'll see you tomorrow, Rachel.
34:27See you tomorrow.
34:27And we'll see you all tomorrow.
34:28Same time, same place.
34:29You'll be sure of it.
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