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00:17Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34I hope you had a lovely weekend.
00:35Perhaps we even indulge in a little alfresco dining.
00:38It's that time of year, of course.
00:39The barbecues have long been dusted off and wheeled out and fired up
00:44and perhaps people head off for a picnic in the country.
00:48Or looking for a restaurant with an outside table.
00:52I love that, actually.
00:53As long as the traffic isn't pouring past outside.
00:56But there we are.
00:57Do I like it?
00:58I've always poured scorn on the humble barbecue
01:00because I always think if you've got a perfectly good kitchen,
01:02why would you bother?
01:03And in fact, we do have a barbecue.
01:05I do enjoy it.
01:07As long as somebody else does the cooking.
01:09But I know you.
01:11You love your barbecue, don't you?
01:13Oh, you take it for granted when you're abroad, don't you?
01:15They've got all the restaurants have got outdoor space.
01:18It's gorgeous.
01:18But in England, I mean, especially this summer,
01:20it's been rubbish, hasn't it?
01:21Barely had a chance.
01:22All right.
01:23Now then, who have we got with us?
01:25Annie Humphries is back.
01:26Won her first game last Friday with a great win.
01:2997 points, Annie.
01:30You were terrific.
01:32Can you make it two wins today, I wonder?
01:34Let's see.
01:34First of all, you've got to get past Zach Brown,
01:37sports coach from Darwin in Lancashire.
01:40Represented Great Britain in a football tournament
01:41for young people with diabetes.
01:43And you're a diabetic, I think.
01:44I am, yeah.
01:45And you led the team in a match in Geneva.
01:49That's right.
01:49Fantastic.
01:50Ah, wonderful.
01:51Well, good for you.
01:52And Granny Doris, Grandma, she's 92,
01:55and she's a big Countdown fan,
01:57and I hope that she'll be watching you
01:59and applauding you today.
02:00She certainly will, yeah.
02:01Is she good?
02:02Does she play along?
02:02Yeah, she's good, yeah.
02:04Excellent.
02:04Excellent.
02:05Well, let's have a big round of applause
02:07for Zach, Granny Doris, and Annie Humphries.
02:10Welcome back, Annie.
02:16And over in the corner, of course, Susie.
02:18And once again, the wonderful Giles Brandreth.
02:21Such a good player of this great game.
02:24Well, but not a good barbecue person.
02:26I had another go this weekend,
02:28and still the hamburgers tasted richly of paraffin.
02:32Mmm.
02:34Yeah.
02:35You be careful.
02:36All right.
02:36Let's get down to business here, shall we?
02:38Annie, will you start for us?
02:41Good afternoon, Rachel.
02:43Good afternoon, Annie.
02:43May I start with some interesting interviews?
02:46Start this week with H.
02:50Consonant, please.
02:52D.
02:53Thou, please.
02:55O.
02:56Thou.
02:58E.
03:00Consonant.
03:02S.
03:03Consonant.
03:05M.
03:07Thou.
03:08A.
03:11Thou.
03:13I.
03:16Consonant, please.
03:18And lastly, W.
03:20And here comes the countdown clock.
03:53Annie?
03:54Seven.
03:55A seven.
03:56And Zach?
03:57Six.
03:58And a six.
04:00Shamed.
04:01And Annie?
04:02Modos.
04:04Well done.
04:05Modos, excellent.
04:06Very good seven.
04:07Yep.
04:07Giles?
04:08Well, I've tried a few sixes.
04:11Shadow, Washed and Homies.
04:13Is Homies still there?
04:14Yes.
04:15That's a good old countdown word, that one, isn't it?
04:16Yes, Homies.
04:18Is your buddies, or your group, or your gang, your homies?
04:22My homies.
04:23It's in Americanism, is it again?
04:24It is, yes.
04:24Yeah, but we couldn't do better than Meadows, could we?
04:27No.
04:27But I suppose we'd mashed up the letters.
04:30Mashed is there as well.
04:31It is.
04:32Well done.
04:33All right.
04:33So, seven points to Annie, and it's Zach's letters game.
04:36Zach?
04:37Hi, Rachel.
04:38Hi, Zach.
04:38Consonant, please.
04:40Start with L.
04:42Consonant?
04:44B.
04:45And another?
04:47D.
04:48One more?
04:50N.
04:51Vowel, please.
04:53U.
04:54Another?
04:55A.
04:56Another?
04:58I.
05:00Another, please.
05:02E.
05:03And a final consonant.
05:04And a final L.
05:06Stand by.
05:07And a final consonant.
05:11And a final consonant.
05:38Zach?
05:39Seven.
05:40A seven.
05:40Annie?
05:41Seven.
05:42Zach?
05:43Bullied.
05:45Now then.
05:46Bullied.
05:47Well done.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Any advances, Giles, Susie?
05:52I've got an alternative seven, but I can't do better than that.
05:57I saw the word blind, made me think about things that happen around the face,
06:01and then I thought of the ears.
06:02Audible.
06:03Very good.
06:04So I saw audible, but nothing better than bullied.
06:07Very good.
06:08All right.
06:09Seven plays 14.
06:11Annie on 14, and it's Annie's numbers game.
06:13Now then, Annie.
06:15Rachel, may I have one from the top, please?
06:17You may.
06:18And five little ones.
06:19Thank you, Annie.
06:20One from the top five little ones.
06:21And the first numbers game of the week is...
06:24Ten.
06:25One.
06:26Five.
06:27Eight.
06:28Seven.
06:29And one hundred.
06:31And the target, one hundred and forty-two.
06:33One for two.
07:04Yes, Annie?
07:06One for two.
07:07And Zach?
07:08One for two.
07:09Annie?
07:10Ten times five.
07:12Ten times five, fifty.
07:14Plus a hundred.
07:15One hundred and fifty.
07:17Minus eight.
07:17Yeah, one for two.
07:18Another simple one.
07:20Thank you, Zach.
07:21Just slightly different.
07:22Five plus one is six.
07:23Yeah.
07:24Times seven is forty-two.
07:25It is.
07:26And add the hundred.
07:27One for two.
07:28Lovely.
07:31Twenty-four plays Zach's seventeen as we go into our first Tea Time Teaser, which is
07:38Sist Boot.
07:40And the clue, Geoffrey decides not to attend any more cricket matches.
07:44Geoffrey decides not to attend any more cricket matches.
08:04Welcome back.
08:05I left you with the clue, Geoffrey decides not to attend any more cricket matches.
08:09In fact, he's decided to boycott them.
08:12Boycotts is the word.
08:14Named after Captain Boycott, who is a sort of Anglo-Brit, basically.
08:19Landowner in the west of Ireland?
08:21In Ireland, yes.
08:22So it's the Irish Land League, who were campaigning for lower rents and basic reform for tenants,
08:30et cetera.
08:30Yeah.
08:30And one of their key tactics, apparently, was to ostracise people, and that's what they
08:34did to Captain Charles Boycott.
08:36Yes.
08:36They refused to have any dealings with him whatsoever.
08:38He couldn't make any money.
08:40And so boycott was born from there.
08:41He was boycotting.
08:42Newspapers loved it.
08:43Indeed they did.
08:44All right.
08:45Well done.
08:46And now it's twenty-four to seventeen in Annie's favour, and it's Zach's Letters Game.
08:50Zach.
08:51Consonant, please, Rachel.
08:53Thank you, Zach.
08:54P.
08:55A consonant.
08:57J.
08:58Vowel.
09:00U.
09:01Another vowel, please.
09:03A.
09:04Consonant.
09:06F.
09:07A consonant.
09:09S.
09:11A vowel.
09:12E.
09:14Another vowel.
09:16I.
09:18And consonant, please.
09:19And the last one.
09:20E.
09:22Counter.
09:53Yes, Zach?
09:55Just a five.
09:57And five.
09:58Two fives, Zach?
10:00Jumps.
10:01And?
10:01Of course.
10:05What can we make of it, Giles?
10:07Can you get beyond?
10:08I got sepia, but it's no better than the five-letter words here.
10:11Is it any better than that?
10:12No, just fives for me.
10:14Japes, there's jaspe as well with an accent,
10:18which means randomly mottled or variegated like jasper.
10:21But you couldn't have that, because it's got an acute accent on it.
10:23We're allowed accents.
10:24You're allowed accents now?
10:25Oh, good grief.
10:2729 plays 22, and Annie, it's your letters game.
10:31Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:32Thank you, Annie.
10:33T.
10:34Consonant, S.
10:39Consonant, N.
10:43Vowel, O.
10:46Vowel, A.
10:49Consonant, R.
10:54Vowel, E.
10:57Vowel, I.
11:03Vowel, please.
11:05And the last one.
11:06You.
11:08Countdown.
11:10Vowel.
11:11Vowel, a.
11:13Vowel, a.
11:14Vowel, a.
11:36MUSIC PLAYS
11:40Annie.
11:41Eight.
11:42An eight? Well done.
11:43Zach?
11:44Seven.
11:44Your seven?
11:45Estonia.
11:47Annie Humphreys.
11:49Rain outs.
11:51Let's see what Susie says.
11:52Yes, we have rain outs a lot, don't we, on the programme.
11:56Absolutely fine, yes.
11:57Rain outs?
11:57You're not going to like this.
11:59I'm not going to like this.
11:59Is there another one that used to have hyphens?
12:01No.
12:01When things are rained off, they're rain outs?
12:03They are rain outs.
12:04Not in my time.
12:05Rain out?
12:06Yes.
12:06Well, if Annie's wants rain out and you say it's allowed, we must go along with it.
12:09But what was wrong with urinates?
12:14Well done.
12:15I tend to agree with you, actually, Giles.
12:17Rain out.
12:1937 plays 22.
12:21And, Zach, it's your numbers game.
12:22One large and five small, please, Rachel.
12:24Thank you, Zach.
12:26One big one, five little ones coming up.
12:28And for this round, the little ones are two, five, three, another two, ten, and the big
12:36one, 50.
12:37And the target, small again, 116.
12:41116.
12:42116.
12:54116.
12:54126.
12:54159.
13:13Zach?
13:141-1-6.
13:151-1-6. Annie?
13:161-1-6.
13:17I have no doubt about it.
13:19Zach?
13:19OK, 50 plus 5 plus 3 is 58.
13:23Plus 5 plus 3, yep.
13:24And times it by 2.
13:25Oh, they're too easy lately.
13:271-1-6, yep.
13:28Another one.
13:28There we go.
13:29Yep.
13:30Well done.
13:31Well done.
13:3647 plays 32 as we turn to Giles.
13:38Giles, is it true that you still hold the record for the longest ever after-dinner speech?
13:43Well, I'm not entirely sure.
13:45I think I may for the longest ever uninterrupted after-dinner speech.
13:49Many years ago, to raise money for a medical charity, I was asked to break a record in
13:55the Guinness Book of Records by speaking non-stop for a number of hours.
13:59And I did it once as a competition with Nicholas Parsons many years ago now in the, well, it
14:05was in the 1970s.
14:06And we were asked to be in adjacent rooms, hotel rooms in London, to speak non-stop for
14:1211 hours without hesitation, deviation or repetition.
14:16It was to echo the programme just a minute.
14:19And we thought, well, we could do this, 11 hours, non-stop speaking, that'll be easy.
14:23And then they said, but you can't leave the room and it will be through the night.
14:27We thought, what time do we begin?
14:28They said, 9 p.m.
14:29And we thought, I'm going to sit down at 8 a.m.
14:31It's a long time to go, you know, through the night.
14:34Nicholas was of riper years.
14:35I'd only just had children.
14:37You know, you've just had children, you often want to go to the loo in the night.
14:40So we thought, what are we going to do?
14:41And they said, don't worry, we're a medical charity.
14:43We can get you kitted out with an appliance.
14:45What?
14:46Yes, exactly.
14:47This could be useful to you.
14:48So we went to a medical supplier near Harley Street and were each kitted out with an appliance,
14:53which we wore under our dinner seats.
14:54And we turned up on the night in question and began making our speech at 9 p.m., quite confident.
15:00But at about 2 in the morning, I felt the need, the call of nature came.
15:04And I thought, what am I going to do?
15:05I'm wearing the appliance, but I feel a bit awkward about this.
15:08But nonetheless, I let go.
15:09And it was at that moment that I realized that the appliance had slipped its moorings.
15:14No!
15:15Yes!
15:16And there was a cry of anguish from the adjacent room at the self-same moment.
15:20And it turned out that Nicholas's appliance had slipped its moorings as well.
15:25So it was a very confusing evening.
15:27But I have to tell you, the one interesting fact about all this is if you do manage to,
15:31as it were, not go to the loo for so many hours.
15:34And eventually, the next time I did it, I did it on my own.
15:36I couldn't bear to share the record with Nicholas.
15:38I did it for 12 and a half hours without going to the loo, without wearing an appliance.
15:42And I managed to get through the night without going to the loo.
15:45And then I found I couldn't go to the loo for about 12 and a half days.
15:50No, really?
15:51Well, that's brilliant.
15:5212 and a half hours.
15:53That's some effort, actually.
15:55Fantastic.
15:56Well done.
15:59Well done.
16:00All right.
16:02So, 47 plays 32.
16:04Annie's in the lead, and it's Annie's letters game again.
16:07Annie.
16:08Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:09Thank you, Annie.
16:11F.
16:14Consonant.
16:16Consonant.
16:19G.
16:21Consonant.
16:23L.
16:24Vowel.
16:25O.
16:27Vowel.
16:28I.
16:30Consonant.
16:32T.
16:33Vowel.
16:36E.
16:38Consonant.
16:39And lastly, R.
16:42Done by.
16:59MUSIC CONTINUES
17:15Yes, Annie?
17:17Seven.
17:19Zach?
17:19Eight.
17:22Annie?
17:23Flouriest.
17:25Zach?
17:26Glorious.
17:28Glorious.
17:30Somebody who has glory.
17:32No, you couldn't, because you can't be Gloria, can you?
17:35No, you can't.
17:35Well, you could be Gloria, but...
17:37Glorious is there, Zach, but not Glorious, I'm afraid.
17:40Sorry.
17:42I'm going to offer an eight, if I may.
17:45Froglet.
17:46Froglets are plural.
17:47A small frog is a froglet, and that's great.
17:51You've got the S on it for eight, yeah?
17:52Yeah, exactly.
17:53Froglet is there.
17:54A froglet.
17:55All right.
17:5654 plays, 32.
17:57And, Zach, it's your letters game now.
17:59Zach?
18:00Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:01Thank you, Zach.
18:02W.
18:03Vowel.
18:05O.
18:06Vowel.
18:08A.
18:09Consonant.
18:11S.
18:12Vowel.
18:14I.
18:14Another vowel, please.
18:17E.
18:18Consonant.
18:20D.
18:21Consonant.
18:23R.
18:25And another consonant, please.
18:26And lastly, T.
18:29Count time.
19:02Jack?
19:03Eight.
19:04Annie?
19:05Eight.
19:06Zach?
19:07Wordiest.
19:08Now then, Annie?
19:10Asteroid.
19:12Both excellent.
19:13Eight.
19:14Very, very good.
19:14Excellent indeed.
19:15Yeah.
19:16What can the corner do?
19:17Can you tease anything else out?
19:19We can tease something else out.
19:21We saw wordiest, rowdiest, asteroid.
19:23They're familiar words.
19:24I saw the word weird.
19:25Does it become weirdos?
19:27Weirdos.
19:27Weirdos.
19:28Yeah.
19:29Very good.
19:31Well done.
19:32Weirdos indeed.
19:33And now, Annie, it's your numbers game, with a score standing at 62 in your favour to 40.
19:39I'm afraid you may have one from the top, please, and five little ones.
19:43You may, thank you, only one large, five little, and hopefully something more tricky than what
19:47we've been having lately.
19:48We'll see.
19:49These five small ones are five, eight, one, nine, another nine, and a large on 100, and
19:58the target, five hundred and seventy-two.
20:00Five-seven-two.
20:30We'll see you next time.
20:32Annie?
20:34572.
20:35Zach?
20:37574.
20:39Annie?
20:405 times 100.
20:425 times 100, 500.
20:458 times 9.
20:4772.
20:49Look at that.
20:51Zach?
20:52Well done, Annie, well done indeed.
20:55Fantastic.
20:5672 to 40.
20:58Strong lead as we turn to our second tea time teaser,
21:00which is odd space.
21:02And the clue, bring your paella to life
21:04by throwing in a few of these.
21:06Bring your paella to life
21:08by throwing in a few of these.
21:26Welcome back.
21:27I left you with a clue.
21:28Bring your paella to life
21:30by throwing in a few of these.
21:32By throwing in a couple of decapods.
21:36Susie?
21:38They're crustaceans
21:39and the order is called decapoda
21:41and it's basically any crustacean
21:43that has five pairs of walking legs.
21:45So crab or shrimp or lobster.
21:47Got it.
21:48That kind of thing.
21:49A decapod.
21:49Yep.
21:51All right.
21:51Now, 72.
21:53Good score playing Zach's 40.
21:56Zach.
21:56Wow.
21:58Careful.
21:59Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:00Thank you, Zach.
22:02P.
22:03And another, please.
22:05N.
22:06And another.
22:08T.
22:09A vowel.
22:10O.
22:12Another vowel.
22:13A.
22:15Consonant.
22:16S.
22:18Another consonant.
22:20V.
22:21A vowel.
22:23U.
22:26And a final consonant, please.
22:28And the last one.
22:29L.
22:30Countdown.
22:31A vowel.
22:33A vowel.
22:36A vowel.
22:40A vowel.
22:43A vowel.
22:46A vowel.
22:46A vowel.
22:46A vowel.
22:46A vowel.
22:46A vowel.
22:46A vowel.
22:49A vowel.
23:02Yes, Zach?
23:03A six.
23:04A six. Annie?
23:06Seven.
23:07And a seven.
23:08Zach?
23:09Postal.
23:11Annie Humphries?
23:13Outspang.
23:14Well done, Annie.
23:16Yeah, excellent.
23:16It is to unharness an animal from a wagon, or it's also a place for grazing or camping along a
23:22wagon journey along the way.
23:25To outspan?
23:25Yes.
23:26Really? Well done.
23:2879 to 40, my word. Annie, you're charging on, and now it's your letters game.
23:35Rachel, may I have a consonant, please?
23:37Thank you, Annie.
23:38T?
23:39Consonant.
23:41N?
23:44Consonant.
23:45S?
23:46Vowel.
23:48E?
23:50Vowel.
23:51O?
23:53Vowel.
23:55U?
23:57A consonant.
23:59R?
24:01Consonant.
24:03V?
24:04A vowel.
24:05And the last one.
24:07I?
24:09Countdown.
24:10Vowel.
24:11Vowel.
24:13Vowel.
24:14Vowel.
24:23Vowel.
24:28Vowel.
24:29Vowel.
24:30Vowel.
24:31Vowel.
24:32Vowel.
24:32Vowel.
24:33Vowel.
24:33Vowel.
24:34Vowel.
24:35Vowel.
24:35Vowel.
24:36Vowel.
24:36Vowel.
24:37Vowel.
24:38Vowel.
24:39Vowel.
24:42Annie?
24:44Eight.
24:45An eight.
24:46Zach?
24:46Seven.
24:47You're seven.
24:48Stornier again.
24:51Routines.
24:52Routines?
24:53Yep.
24:54Powerful stuff, Annie.
24:55Well done.
24:56Can we make another eight there, chaps?
24:58I think we can make possibly a couple of them.
25:01Souvenir?
25:02Very good.
25:02That's good.
25:03Yes.
25:03And there is a word, a medical word, that is venturi.
25:07But I don't know whether it can be pluralised, in which case that would be a good one.
25:12Excellent.
25:12Yep.
25:12You can pluralise it.
25:14What does it mean?
25:15It's actually...
25:15It's to do with the vent?
25:16Vents?
25:16Yeah.
25:17It's a piece of narrow tube between wider sections for measuring flow rate or exerting suction.
25:22And I think it's used more.
25:24Nick might know because he's an engineer.
25:26It's used in engines, a venturi.
25:28Is it?
25:28I don't know if you've ever used one.
25:29It's a carburetor.
25:31It's a carburetor.
25:32Annie knows all about it.
25:33Oh, well done.
25:34Yeah.
25:3587.
25:35Look at this to 40.
25:37And it's Susie's Origins of Words up next.
25:40Susie.
25:41I was going to talk about, actually, adjectives that are words that are used of women.
25:46And many, many over time, most of them are flipped so that what used to be quite positive
25:50has now become negative.
25:52But charming is one that has actually become very positive and started off very differently.
25:56Because in 14th century England, if you were a woman and you were called charming,
26:01you probably had some horrible punishment in store, whether it was the torture chamber
26:05or trial by ordeal, particularly if you were thought to be a witch.
26:09In other words, you were thought to have magic, supernatural powers that would be used for
26:15evil rather than for good.
26:17It goes back to the French charme, but ultimately to the Latin word carmen, which was a song.
26:22And the idea is that they could sing these songs of these ritualistic songs of magic or something
26:27that was supposed to lure people in a little bit like the siren said to be to live on the
26:33rock of the Lorelei by the banks of the Rhine and lure sailors to their death.
26:37So charms flipped over time.
26:41A lucky charm, of course, was something that was going to ward off such evil.
26:44And eventually it came to mean somebody who had magical but quite wonderful powers as opposed
26:49to evil ones.
26:51And very quickly, coquette.
26:52If we call somebody a bit coquettish, not particularly complimentary today.
26:57I was actually first used of men and used of somebody who sort of behaved in a strutting,
27:03you know, like a game cock, if you like, strutting away, very boastful, if you like.
27:08So it didn't start off particularly nicely.
27:11And there's a wonderful description of a woman who was a frisking and flipperous minx.
27:16It was one of the first records of a woman as a coquette.
27:19And finally, a courtesan ended up meaning a prostitute, but actually started off as a
27:23woman who behaved in an extremely courtly way.
27:26She was somebody who inhabited the court, followed all the etiquette.
27:29But then, of course, it moved to mean a mistress of the court and then eventually to a harlot.
27:35A word, incidentally, that was also first applied to men.
27:39Really?
27:44Thank you, Susie.
27:46Very good.
27:4787 to 40.
27:48And it's Zach's letters game.
27:51Zach.
27:52Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:53Thank you, Zach.
27:54G.
27:55Another consonant.
27:57S.
27:58And another.
27:59T.
28:01Vowel, please.
28:03E.
28:04Another vowel.
28:05E.
28:06And another vowel, please.
28:08U.
28:10Consonant.
28:11D.
28:13Another consonant.
28:15Y.
28:16And a final consonant, please.
28:18And a final N.
28:20Countdown.
28:21One, two, three, four, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
28:34five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
28:35five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
28:35five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
28:35five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
28:35five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five
28:54Yes, Zach?
28:55A six.
28:56A six. Annie?
28:57A six.
28:59Zach?
29:00Gusted.
29:02Smudge.
29:04Smudge?
29:05Good word.
29:06It is a good word.
29:06Smudge, yeah.
29:07Smudge and gusted?
29:09Would you allow gusted, as in a gusty wind?
29:11Yes.
29:12Something was gusted.
29:13I saw gusted, and I put an E in there, and thought, I've stayed as a guest.
29:18Have I been guested?
29:19I mean, people who are guesting are guests.
29:21Absolutely, yes.
29:22You've been guested?
29:23You can guest on a TV show, for example.
29:24I've guested on the show a few times.
29:26I'm honored to be back.
29:27Thank you for having me, Nick.
29:29It was our pleasure.
29:3293 to 46.
29:33Annie, you're 93.
29:35And the last letters came.
29:37Goes to her.
29:38Annie.
29:39Consonant, please.
29:40Thank you, Annie.
29:41T.
29:42Consonant.
29:44D.
29:45Consonant.
29:47Q.
29:49Vowel.
29:51A.
29:53A vowel.
29:54O.
29:56A vowel.
29:58E.
30:00Consonant.
30:02L.
30:05Consonant.
30:05G.
30:07G.
30:09And finally, A.
30:12Stand by.
30:14Stand by.
30:28Stand by.
30:45Annie.
30:46Seven.
30:48Seven and Zach?
30:49Seven.
30:50Annie.
30:51Gloated.
30:52Gloated and?
30:53Glotted, Sam.
30:54There we go.
30:55Very good.
30:56Yep, nice one.
30:57I can't do better than that.
30:59In fact, my two offerings are only six-letter words.
31:02I mean, legato, a musical phrase, and gelato, the Italian for ice cream, which probably
31:07has slipped into our language as well.
31:08Certainly has.
31:09So, an anagram of legato is gelato, but neither of those is as good as gloated, so they may
31:14well gloat.
31:16Well done.
31:16Well, indeed.
31:17All right.
31:19100 points to Annie.
31:21Fantastic.
31:22Zach on 53 as we move into the final.
31:25Numbers game, Zach.
31:26Take it away.
31:27All right, Rachel, I've got two large, four small this time.
31:30Thank you, Zach.
31:31Two big, four little for the final one of the day.
31:33And these little ones for you are two, eight, three, and one.
31:38And the big two, 75, and 100.
31:42And the target, 436.
31:45Four, three, six.
31:48And the little ones for the final ice cream.
31:49And the big three, six.
31:55One, two, six.
31:55One, two, six.
32:03And the large one, three, six.
32:09You're the best.
32:09One, two, seven.
32:12One, two, seven.
32:15The vast one.
32:16One, two, seven, seven.
32:17Yes, Zach?
32:194, 3, 4.
32:20Not written down.
32:224, 3, 4.
32:23Annie?
32:244, 3, 2.
32:254, 3, 2.
32:28Zach?
32:29OK, 3 plus 2 is 5.
32:313 plus 2, 5.
32:33Times 100.
32:34Times 100, 500.
32:36Take 75.
32:374, 2, 5.
32:38And then add on the 8 and the 1.
32:40And then you haven't used either of those.
32:424, 4, 3, 4, 2 away.
32:44Well done.
32:44Well done, Zach.
32:45Well done.
32:46But not quite what we asked for.
32:494, 3, 6.
32:51Rachel?
32:51Yeah, a couple of ways for this one.
32:53You could have said 75 plus 1 is 76.
32:57Times by 3 is 228.
33:00Add the 8 for 236.
33:03And then 2 times 100 is 200 to add on for 436.
33:08Oh, well done.
33:09Well done, Rachel.
33:12So there we are.
33:13100 points to Annie.
33:15Zach on 60 as we go into the final round.
33:18Fingers on buzzers, please.
33:20Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:42Yes, Zach?
33:44Skewering.
33:44Let's see whether you're right.
33:48Skewering.
33:49Well done.
33:50Well done.
33:54Two good contestants.
33:55Zach on 70.
33:56Good score.
33:57Annie on 100.
33:59Zach, it's back to Darwin with your goodie bag and our very, very best wishes to you.
34:05Terrific stuff.
34:05Meanwhile, Annie Humphries, we shall see you tomorrow.
34:08Well done.
34:09Well done.
34:10And we shall see you both tomorrow.
34:12Charles and Susie.
34:13We'll be here.
34:14Yeah.
34:15See you tomorrow.
34:16And Rachel.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17I'll be back.
34:17Same time, same place.
34:18You be sure of it.
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