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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to Countdown Studio.
00:33Now, we all want to be healthy, but the big thing is how do we keep our brain healthy?
00:38Something that's been exercising and what's left of my brain, Rachel, for quite a long time.
00:42Apparently, according to recent research, there are a number of things that we can do.
00:46Any exercise, even regular walking, it says in this report, can help grow more brain cells.
00:53They're responsible, of course, for memory.
00:55Eating purple foods, apparently, terribly good because apparently they induce more oxygen into the brain.
01:00So perhaps the best way is to learn new skills.
01:04And I've only done it once in my life.
01:06It was back in March and I was very proud of myself.
01:08I cut a hedge.
01:10So that was physical exercise and also mental exercise.
01:13I had to have very, very straight lines.
01:17And the beloved said, that's absolutely marvellous.
01:20What a beautiful job you've done.
01:21I said, well, thank you.
01:23So you're a good bush trimmer.
01:27And then she said, but you're a fool.
01:30Everybody knows you should never cut box before Derby Day.
01:33So there we are.
01:36So there we are.
01:37Got me to thinking, that was my new skill.
01:40What about you?
01:40Have you learnt anything?
01:41How's your Russian coming on?
01:43Can you get your tongue around it yet?
01:51Yeah, no, it's good.
01:53It's good.
01:53I'm really enjoying it.
01:54It's coming on?
01:54I learnt a new word.
01:55And I kind of, I have to have techniques to remember things before they're kind of ingrained.
02:00So there's the word, who dodges Nick?
02:02And I think of who dodges Nick?
02:04And it's artists.
02:05So I've got this mental image of artists running all the way past you and all various things.
02:09But you can converse now, not obviously with Pasha, but with his friends and so forth.
02:14You can hold a conversation?
02:14Yeah, yeah, we had a conversation.
02:15It was interesting.
02:16The first year I met them, I didn't know a word.
02:18The second year I could say things.
02:19But it's no box trimming.
02:24I look forward to doing it next year again.
02:27Now, hoping out with us, we've got Andrew Fenton, our reigning champion.
02:30Won all his games last week.
02:31Well done.
02:32Enjoys playing golf.
02:33What's your handicap there, Andrew?
02:34My clubs, pretty much.
02:37Do you have a number that you might be able to put in?
02:3920?
02:4020, yes.
02:40OK.
02:41All right.
02:42I get by.
02:42I don't play as often as I'd like to, but I get by.
02:44Well done.
02:45All right.
02:45You're joined today by Matt Whelan, a retail assistant from Taunton in Somerset.
02:49Loves his football.
02:50Plays for three football teams.
02:52The research department has dug deep, and they tell me that you can name every country in
02:57the world and identify its nation, or indeed its national flag.
03:02Very good.
03:03Tell us about the Uzbekistan national flag, for instance.
03:07I think that's green and blue, and if you've got a white star, it's got like a triangle
03:13on the end of it.
03:13It joins in the middle.
03:15Pretty sure that's Uzbekistan.
03:16I've no idea.
03:17I think so, yeah.
03:18Let's have a big round of applause for Matt and Andrew.
03:23Matt and Andrew.
03:26And over in the corner, Susie, of course.
03:29And in all the years that Countdown's been running, this indeed is a special day, a blessed
03:34day, because today we are joined by the wonderful Alison Stedman.
03:39And all we need is an actress.
03:44It's a real pleasure to have you here.
03:46Pleasure to be here.
03:47All right.
03:47We'll talk to you a little bit later, but now we're going to ask Andrew to take us away
03:51on a merry jig.
03:54Or even a letters game, if you want.
03:55All right, then.
03:56Go on, then.
03:56OK.
03:57Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:58Afternoon, Andrew.
03:59Can I start with the consonant, please?
04:01Start the week with S.
04:03And another, please.
04:06And a consonant, please.
04:29And the last one, H.
04:31And here's the countdown clock.
05:02And here's the countdown clock.
05:03Andrew?
05:04Seven.
05:05Seven.
05:06Matt?
05:06Seven also.
05:07Andrew?
05:08Swirled.
05:09Swirled?
05:10Swirled.
05:11Matt?
05:11Derails.
05:13Yep, derails.
05:14Good as a swirled.
05:15Very good start.
05:16Very good.
05:17And what has the corner got for us?
05:19Alison and Susie?
05:20Well, we've got wailers.
05:23Yes.
05:24And we've got heralds.
05:26Both seven letters.
05:28Very good.
05:29Heralds.
05:30Yeah.
05:31Lovely.
05:33Seven apiece.
05:34And Matt?
05:35Letters game, Matt.
05:35Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:36Good afternoon, Matt.
05:37Can I have a consonant, please?
05:39Start with N.
05:41And another?
05:43F.
05:44And another?
05:46M.
05:47And a vowel?
05:49A.
05:50And a consonant?
05:52T.
05:54And a vowel?
05:55E.
05:57And a consonant?
05:59B.
06:00And a vowel?
06:02A.
06:03And another vowel, please.
06:05And the last one?
06:06I.
06:07Stand by.
06:08And a vowel, please.
06:39Matt?
06:40A five.
06:41A five.
06:42Andrew?
06:43A seven.
06:44Matt?
06:45A bait.
06:46A bait and?
06:48Ambient.
06:49Yes.
06:50Ambient.
06:51Very good.
06:52Ambient.
06:53Can we match it, I wonder?
06:55Well, yes, we had ambient and we've also got animate.
06:59Very good.
07:00Animate.
07:01Susie, anything else?
07:02No, that was it.
07:03We're stuck on the sevens.
07:03Good enough.
07:04Good enough.
07:05Fourteen plays, Matt.
07:06Seven.
07:06And we move now to the numbers.
07:09Andrew?
07:09All faithful, please.
07:11Two from the top and four from anywhere else.
07:13Thank you, Andrew.
07:13Thank you very much.
07:14Two large four.
07:15Little and the first one of the week is ten, seven, six, one.
07:21And the large one, 75 and 25.
07:23And the target, 871.
07:26Eight, seven, one.
07:27Eight, nine, eight, nine, ten, run.
07:34And all of the people here are all triggered.
07:36And let me see them.
07:36How's the hatch?
07:40Bye.
07:42Shouldown.
07:42Bye.
07:48Bye.
07:58Andrew.
07:598, 7, 0.
08:00Yes, Matt.
08:02No, no one here.
08:03No? Let's hear from Andrew, then. One away.
08:0675 plus 7.
08:0882.
08:09Plus 6.
08:1088.
08:11Minus 1.
08:1287.
08:13Times 10.
08:14Times 10. One away.
08:15Very good, but not quite there, was it?
08:18Where's that missing one, Rachel?
08:20Well, if you say 25 plus 75, minus 7 minus 6 is 87.
08:26And then you can times it by 10, 8, 70, and add the 1.
08:308, 7, 1.
08:31So neat.
08:32Well done, Rachel.
08:33Well done.
08:35So 21 plays 7, Matt on 7, as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:40which is Beth Girl.
08:42And the clue, Beth is a lovely girl, but her husband definitely wasn't.
08:46Beth was a lovely girl, but her husband definitely wasn't.
09:07A warm welcome back.
09:08I left you with a clue.
09:09Beth was a lovely girl, but her husband definitely wasn't,
09:12because he was a blighter.
09:14Blighter.
09:15Where did that come from?
09:16Because he blighted their love.
09:18Where did blighter come from?
09:19Yeah, well, blight, we don't know the exact origin of it,
09:22but it originally meant an inflammation of the skin,
09:25so never anything particularly nice.
09:26And a blighter was somebody who originally was really irritating
09:29in the same way, so somebody who really rubbed it up the wrong way.
09:32What a usual terrible blighter.
09:35There we go.
09:35But don't let's spend too much time on it.
09:3721 plays 7, Andrew on 21, and it's Matt's letters game.
09:41Matt.
09:42Can I have a consonant, please?
09:43Thank you, Matt.
09:45G.
09:46And another?
09:48D.
09:49And another?
09:52M.
09:52And a vowel, please.
09:54I.
09:55And a consonant?
09:58T.
09:59And a vowel?
10:00E.
10:01And a consonant?
10:03T.
10:04And a vowel?
10:07A.
10:08And a consonant, please.
10:10And the last one?
10:11F.
10:12Stand by.
10:14Stand by.
10:44Matt.
10:45A six.
10:46A six.
10:47Andrew.
10:48I'll stick with a safe six.
10:50Matt.
10:50Imaged.
10:52Now there, Mr. Fenton.
10:53Fidget.
10:54Fidget.
10:57Fidget.
10:59Fattied.
10:59Fattied.
11:00I don't think we will find that there.
11:02Right decision, Andrew.
11:03Not there.
11:04Good.
11:04Yeah.
11:05All right.
11:05What is there, Alison?
11:07Well, we got fidget.
11:09Yes.
11:09Six.
11:09And we also got matted.
11:11M-A-T-T-E-D.
11:1327 plays 13.
11:16Andrew.
11:17Start with a consonant, please.
11:19Thank you, Andrew.
11:20G.
11:20And a vowel.
11:23U.
11:24Consonant.
11:27S.
11:28Vowel.
11:30O.
11:31Consonant, please.
11:33Z.
11:34And a better one?
11:36B.
11:37Vowel.
11:39I.
11:41Consonant.
11:43M.
11:44And a final consonant, please.
11:47And a final T.
11:49Countdown.
12:21Andrew.
12:23Slightly risky six.
12:25Mad.
12:26Um, say five.
12:28And what would that be?
12:29Obits.
12:30Obits.
12:31Yes, Andrew?
12:32Uh, gizmos.
12:33G-I-Z-M-O-S.
12:36Yes, they're in the dictionary.
12:37Gadgets.
12:38So, when you can't recall the name of a gadget, but like Thingamie Bob, you call them a gizmo.
12:42A gizmo.
12:43Yes.
12:43All right.
12:44What could we, uh, what did we discover, Alison and Susie?
12:48Alison?
12:49Uh, submit.
12:50Yes.
12:51And what's this gum?
12:52Gumbo's.
12:53Gumbo's.
12:54Yes.
12:54Gumbo is, uh, in Cajun cooking, really delicious, uh, thick soups, often with okra or seafood,
13:01uh, chicken, that kind of stuff.
13:03Um, with rice.
13:04Very delicious.
13:04Ooh, jumbo gumbo.
13:06Lovely.
13:0733 plays 13.
13:08And, Matt, it's your numbers game.
13:10OK, one from the top, please, Rachel.
13:12Thank you, Matt.
13:13One large and five little ones.
13:15And this time around, your little ones are six, three, nine, two, and five.
13:23And the big one, 50.
13:25And the target, 610.
13:276-1-0.
13:58Yeah.
13:59Thank you, Matt.
14:01Uh, 610.
14:02610 indeed, Andrew.
14:04610.
14:04All right, Matt.
14:05Um, nine plus three is 12.
14:07Yep.
14:08Times 50 for 600.
14:09600.
14:10Two times five is 10.
14:12It is indeed.
14:12And add on.
14:13610.
14:14Lovely.
14:14Andrew?
14:15Exactly the same way.
14:16There we go.
14:17Yep.
14:18OK.
14:18All right, well done.
14:21So, 43 plays, Matt, 23, as we turn to Alison's statement.
14:27Alison, a Liverpool girl.
14:30And, uh, when a certain fab four began to be noticed, what happened?
14:35Well, I was growing up in Liverpool in the 60s.
14:39I mean, it was an amazing time, you can imagine.
14:42It was exciting.
14:43New things were happening.
14:45And suddenly, we heard about this place called the Cavern.
14:49And my mother heard about the Cavern, this underground club, which was dark and nobody knew anything about it.
14:57And she said to me, if I hear you've been down to that cavern, there will be trouble.
15:04And I used to say, Mum, we're not going to the cavern.
15:07We're going shopping.
15:08And we used to go into town.
15:10We used to go to lunchtime sessions, never in the evening, because I wasn't allowed out.
15:14And I was only just 16.
15:16But it was so exciting.
15:17So, we went down to the Cavern at lunchtime sessions.
15:20And the Beatles were playing.
15:22And I'm not just saying this, but they were amazing.
15:25Even then, they weren't famous.
15:27Nobody knew.
15:28They were a Liverpool band.
15:29It was so exciting.
15:30We were thrilled to bits.
15:32We followed them down the street after the session.
15:35We wanted their autograph.
15:37We followed them into the post office in town.
15:41And they were filling in some forms, I suspect, to get their passports to go to Germany.
15:46Because it was just before they became very famous.
15:50And I went up to Paul and I said, please, please, can I have your autograph?
15:54And he said, oh, sure, love, yeah.
15:55What's your name?
15:57So, I said, Alison.
15:58And he just put, to Alison, love from Paul.
16:01And handed it back.
16:03And then he said, hang on a minute, give us that back.
16:05So, he took it back.
16:07And he put Beatles in brackets underneath.
16:10He didn't put McCartney.
16:11He was so unused to signing autographs.
16:13Handed it me back.
16:15And then he said, I thought, I better put the Beatles.
16:17Because in the future, somebody's going to look at that and say, who are the L's?
16:21Paul?
16:23What a good story.
16:25What a good story.
16:27Very good.
16:28Brilliant.
16:29But just very quickly, John Lennon was sitting, writing.
16:32And I said, oh, can I have his autograph, too?
16:35And he said, hey, sign this for the girl.
16:37And gave it to him.
16:38And John didn't even look up.
16:39He just took his pen and went, John Lennon.
16:41And handed it like that.
16:43Didn't even look.
16:44And Paul said to me, I'll take no notice.
16:46He's always like that.
16:48Very good.
16:50Because I've seen the photographs.
16:51They used to queue outside the cabin at lunchtime.
16:54And Cilla Black was probably in the check-in.
16:57You left your coat.
16:59Yes, yes, yes.
16:59Fantastic.
17:00And it was all kind of, you know, there was no alcohol.
17:03It was just coffee.
17:04And it was just the most amazing time in my life.
17:08Absolutely.
17:08And so it's a great place.
17:09Great stuff.
17:10Thank you, Alison.
17:11Wonderful stuff.
17:11Now, let's get back to the tough old business of Countdown here.
17:16Andrew, it's a letters game.
17:18A consonant, please.
17:19Thank you, Andrew.
17:20R.
17:21And a vowel.
17:23A.
17:25Consonant.
17:27S.
17:28And a vowel.
17:30E.
17:31Consonant.
17:33N.
17:34Consonant.
17:36S.
17:37Another consonant.
17:39R.
17:40A vowel.
17:43A.
17:44And a consonant to finish, please.
17:46And lastly, Y.
17:48Stand by.
18:02MUSIC PLAYS
18:19Well, Andrew?
18:20That's six.
18:22And Matt?
18:23Risky seven.
18:24Andrew?
18:25Arrays.
18:26A-double-R-A-Y-S.
18:28Thank you, Matt.
18:29Snarers?
18:31Well, risked.
18:32It's in, yes.
18:32Excellent.
18:33Very, very good.
18:35Excellent.
18:36It's 13 out of 43, but let's turn to the corner and see what we've got over there.
18:39Alison and Susie?
18:41Well, we've got arrays, but also yearns.
18:45It's a good word, isn't it?
18:46It is a good word.
18:46It sounds like it, too.
18:48It does.
18:48It's a yearning.
18:49Yeah.
18:50I was just looking at snare as well, because we were well beaten there.
18:55But snare is from a Viking word, but it related to a harp string.
18:59So the first snare was a harp string.
19:01That idea of a wire, for example, came later.
19:04Thank you very much, Susie.
19:06Now then, Matt, it's your letters game.
19:08Can I have a consonant, please?
19:09Thank you, Matt.
19:11T.
19:12And another.
19:14And another.
19:16And another.
19:17T.
19:18And a vowel.
19:20U.
19:22And a consonant.
19:24X.
19:25And a vowel.
19:27I.
19:28And a consonant.
19:30P.
19:31And a vowel.
19:33E.
19:34And a consonant, please.
19:36And lastly, C.
19:39Stand by.
19:40And a vowel.
20:00And a vowel.
20:01And a vowel.
20:01And a vowel.
20:01And a vowel.
20:01And a vowel.
20:01and a vowel.
20:01And a vowel.
20:09Well, Matt.
20:10A six.
20:11A six.
20:12Andrew?
20:13Eight.
20:14Right.
20:15Matt?
20:16Priced.
20:18And Andrew?
20:18Pictured.
20:20Pictured.
20:20Excellent.
20:21Well done.
20:22Well done.
20:25A good eight.
20:27Can the corner match it, I wonder?
20:29Well, we got pictured.
20:30Yes.
20:31And also depict.
20:33To depict something.
20:34All right.
20:3551 plays 30.
20:36And it's numbers for Andrew.
20:39Andrew Fenton.
20:40Old Faithful, please.
20:41Thank you, Andrew.
20:44Two large, four little.
20:45And this time the four little ones are ten, nine, eight and five.
20:51And a large one, 75 and 50.
20:54And the target, 571.
20:57Five, seven, one.
20:58Eins, two small group.
21:01Five, six, four little.
21:12I'll see you.
21:13Take care.
21:14Bye.
21:15Bye.
21:15Bye.
21:21Bye.
21:23Bye.
21:24Bye.
21:28Yes, Andrew?
21:295, 7, 1.
21:30And Matt?
21:315, 7, 1.
21:32Thank you, Andrew.
21:3410 times 50 is 500.
21:37Yep.
21:37Plus 75.
21:385, 7, 5.
21:399 minus 5 is 4.
21:41It is indeed.
21:42Take it away.
21:43Well done.
21:435, 7, 1.
21:44Matt?
21:4550 times 10 is 500.
21:47Yep.
21:4875 take 5 is 70.
21:50So, yeah, 75 minus 5.
21:52And then 9 take 8 is 1.
21:544 of the 71.
21:55And then add on to 500.
21:57Yep.
21:58Well done.
21:59OK.
22:03So, 61 plays 40.
22:05Andrew in the lead as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is RTH.
22:10And the clue, very talkative about noisy teeth, perhaps.
22:13Very talkative about noisy teeth, perhaps.
22:16And the answer is chattery.
22:40Chattery.
22:41Now, 61 to Matt's 40.
22:43Andrew in the lead.
22:44Matt, what are we going to do about this?
22:46Can I have a consonant, please?
22:47Thank you, Matt.
22:48N.
22:49And another.
22:51Countdown.
22:52And a third.
22:55N.
22:55And a consonant.
22:58S.
22:58And a vowel.
23:00A.
23:01And another.
23:01O
23:03And a consonant
23:04T
23:06And a vowel
23:07O
23:09And another vowel please
23:11And lastly I
23:13Countdown
23:45Matt
23:46A seven
23:47A seven
23:48Andrew
23:48And seven for me
23:50Matt
23:50A stoning
23:51Thank you
23:53Stoning also
23:54There we go
23:55Yep
23:56Can we match or beat it I wonder
23:59What does the corner say
24:01Anoints
24:02Yes
24:02Seven
24:03And nations
24:04Nations
24:06Very good
24:06Susie anything else
24:08One more seven
24:09Agonist
24:10Which meant in old
24:12Greek and classical plays
24:14Protagonist
24:15It was the same thing
24:15All related to agony
24:18Which was the display of mental anguish
24:20And suffering
24:21Right
24:21Thank you for that
24:22You're welcome
24:24Thank you
24:25Sixth J plays
24:26Forty seven
24:26And Andrew
24:28Letters go
24:28A consonant please
24:29Thank you Andrew
24:30L
24:31And another one please
24:33R
24:35And another
24:36N
24:39And a vowel
24:40O
24:41A vowel
24:43A
24:44Vowel
24:45I
24:47Consonant
24:48S
24:50Consonant
24:51B
24:53And a vowel
24:55And lastly
24:57E
24:57Stand by
24:59Byân
25:06another one please If
25:07is In
25:20another one please Letters
25:26go And another
25:27one please See A
25:28спрос If theDOH
25:31Andrew?
25:32Eight.
25:32An eight, Matt?
25:34Eight as well.
25:35Yes, Andrew?
25:36Ailerons.
25:37Ailerons, our old friend.
25:39Matt?
25:39Personal.
25:42Very good, yes, excellent.
25:43Very good.
25:49Anything else?
25:49Well, we got personal and also polarised.
25:53Very good.
25:54Yes, polarised opinions.
25:5676, 55, and now, now, Alison.
25:59We're in for a treat.
26:00Oh.
26:01Because it's time for Susie's Origins of Words.
26:04It's a delight.
26:05Right.
26:06Enjoy.
26:06I will.
26:09Well, I had a nice email from Mrs Audrey Jones,
26:12who's a regular viewer,
26:13who asked about the origin of three sheets to the wind.
26:18Why, when we're drunk, do we say we're three sheets to the wind?
26:21No surprises.
26:22It's born on the high seas.
26:24It was born on the high seas, so it has a nautical origin.
26:27And it's really suggesting that the drinker is top-heavy
26:30from having imbibed a little too much.
26:33It harks back to the days of sailing ships
26:34when it was the rope or the chain attached to the lower corners of a sail,
26:38and it was used to alter its direction.
26:41So, as I say, the idea is that there was just too many sails at the top,
26:44and hence he'd been drinking too much.
26:46But it's interesting because almost from its earliest use,
26:50the number three was often cited as the sort of level of drunkenness,
26:57if you like.
26:57It was used in lots of expressions about just how drunk you were.
27:00So a three-martini lunch, which sounds absolutely wonderful,
27:03was an incredibly rich and lavish lunch.
27:05It was one that you will probably totter away from rather than stride off.
27:10So it's a bit surprising when you think about one over the eight,
27:13because eight was a bit of an anomaly when it comes to numbers in drunkenness.
27:17But the idea was that there was a presumption, really,
27:21that the average moderate man could safely drink eight glasses of beer,
27:27which suggests, of course, that people could actually drink a lot
27:31in the olden days without getting drunk.
27:33But, in fact, it goes back to beer that was very, very much watered down,
27:37small beer, as it was called.
27:38It was even offered to children, much safer than drinking water in those days,
27:43and ale was the drink of choice.
27:45So if you had more than eight glasses of beer,
27:47you would definitely be one over the eight,
27:49and you would have had a look a bit too much.
27:51But that's probably my favourite one,
27:53the idea that drinking eight glasses would actually leave you in perfect condition.
27:57But, yes, go back to Three Sheets to the Wind,
28:00born on the high seas and has remained there ever since.
28:02Excellent stuff. Well done.
28:07Thanks, Susie. Well done.
28:10Now, what should we do?
28:11Matt, how about letters again?
28:13Yeah.
28:13Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:14Thank you, Matt.
28:16N.
28:17And another.
28:19N.
28:20And a third.
28:22T.
28:23And a vowel.
28:25U.
28:26And a consonant.
28:29S.
28:30And a vowel.
28:32O.
28:32A consonant.
28:35V.
28:36A vowel.
28:39A.
28:40And a consonant, please.
28:42And lastly, D.
28:44Stand by.
28:45I'll see you next time.
28:56Bye.
28:57Bye.
28:57Bye.
28:58Bye.
29:00Bye.
29:02Bye.
29:03Bye.
29:16Matt.
29:16Seven.
29:17A seven.
29:18Andrew?
29:19Just five on that one.
29:21A five?
29:21Yep.
29:22And that five?
29:22Sound.
29:23Yes, Matt.
29:24Astound.
29:26Well done, Matt.
29:27Excellent.
29:27Astound.
29:27Well done.
29:28Very good.
29:29Well done.
29:30And in the corner, Alison.
29:31Well, that was it.
29:32Astound.
29:33Astound.
29:34We're all astounded.
29:35Yeah.
29:35I think Andrew's kicking himself slightly.
29:38Yep.
29:39Never mind.
29:3976 plays up.
29:4162.
29:41You've got a bit of a cushion there as we turn back to you for the final letters game.
29:45Andrew?
29:47Consonant, please.
29:48Thank you, Andrew.
29:49R.
29:50Consonant.
29:52W.
29:53Consonant.
29:55S.
29:56And vowel?
29:57U.
29:58Vowel.
30:00I.
30:01And vowel.
30:02U.
30:04Consonant.
30:06H.
30:08Consonant.
30:10G.
30:11And consonant.
30:13And lastly, R.
30:16And here's the countdown clock.
30:49andrew five not written down mm-hmm matt uh five as well andrew gurus gurus gurus matt uh where's
31:00w-h-i-r-s yes it's absolutely fine you might kick yourself because you can actually have two
31:06r's in there i haven't written down though no you can it can be either uh which will give you
31:10a six
31:11but yeah both absolutely well done all right and in the corner alice yeah was that yes with with two
31:17r's well done sorry to say and susie anything else that was our best it was really tough one
31:23worrying around well done eddie one plays 67 final numbers game matt thank you i have one from top
31:30again please just want the one not going to gamble uh just a one please one large five little always
31:35have to ask thank you matt the final one of the day is five seven one four ten and the
31:45large one 50
31:46and the target 365 365
31:50so
32:06so
32:07so
32:07so
32:11so
32:21Yes, Matt?
32:223, 6, 5.
32:24And Andrew, 2.
32:253, 6, 5.
32:26Thank you, Matt.
32:27I did 50 times 7.
32:2950 times 7, 350.
32:30And add to 10, the 4 and the 1.
32:32Yep, 3, 6, 5.
32:33Nice and straightforward.
32:34Andrew?
32:35Pretty much the same, just added the 5 at the end instead of the 4 and the 1.
32:37Lovely.
32:38There we go.
32:39All right.
32:40APPLAUSE
32:42So, score standing 91, 277.
32:45Andrew on 91.
32:46We turn to the final round.
32:48Gentlemen, you know the way it's done.
32:50Fingers on buzzers.
32:51Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:56BELL RINGS
32:59Andrew?
33:00Unpopular.
33:02Unpopular.
33:03Let's see whether you're right.
33:04You're so good at this.
33:06Well done.
33:07101.
33:08APPLAUSE
33:10Well done, Andrew Fenton.
33:12101.
33:13And that's six under your belt, then.
33:17Good performance.
33:17Well done.
33:18I'll come back to you in a second.
33:19Matt, bad luck.
33:21You came up against a tremendous player, actually.
33:23You did very well at 77.
33:25That's a good score.
33:25Respectable.
33:26Very respectable.
33:27Back to taunting with you.
33:28What a lovely part of the world, too.
33:29Very peaceful, yeah.
33:30Fantastic.
33:31Fantastic.
33:32And good luck with all the football.
33:33Thank you very much.
33:34And you're flag collecting to take this goodie bag.
33:37Brilliant.
33:38All right.
33:38Have a good journey home.
33:39Thank you very much.
33:40Thank you for coming.
33:41And we shall see Andrew tomorrow when he's after number seven.
33:45Wow.
33:46Nice to break three figures.
33:47Be careful, Andrew.
33:48I'm doing my best.
33:49See you tomorrow.
33:50We shall see the corner tomorrow, too, of course.
33:53Alison, you join us again tomorrow, please.
33:55I will.
33:56All right.
33:56And Susie, too, of course.
33:58See you then.
33:58All right.
33:58See you both then.
34:00So Andrew's doing strongly, isn't he?
34:02Doing well?
34:02Doing very well.
34:03Nerves of steel.
34:03Good maths as well.
34:04I'm not having much to do.
34:05He's been...
34:06Go home.
34:06I'm getting bored.
34:07I want some maths to do.
34:09Two left.
34:10Throughout his reign, he's...
34:12That's his strong suit, isn't it?
34:14Very solid.
34:14He's got a good poker face on him as well.
34:16Good, yeah.
34:17And good at conundrums.
34:18He's a player.
34:19See you tomorrow.
34:20See how Andrew does then.
34:22Same time, same place.
34:22You'll be sure of it.
34:23A very good afternoon.
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