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00:32Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:35Now, it was only a couple of months ago that there was a, well, not a catastrophe,
00:40but what must have seemed like a catastrophe to some people,
00:43because 30 people were stuck right up on Mont Blanc, which is 3,000 metres up,
00:48in a cable car overnight.
00:50Others had been rescued by a helicopter during the day,
00:53but they had to have an overnighter swinging in a cable car, you know,
00:57just held up by that fragile cable.
01:00Overnight, that must have been a very worrying thing,
01:03and they were brought down safely the next day, obviously.
01:05But how about you? Have you found yourself in a scary situation?
01:10Nothing like that, but being stuck, they were stuck in a cable car.
01:13I've been stuck in a suitcase before.
01:15What?
01:16It was less perilous, but it was, I didn't enjoy it.
01:19What were you doing?
01:19It was when I was small enough to fit in a suitcase,
01:21and my cousins and I and my brother were all playing,
01:24and they closed it and they shut it,
01:26and it had one of those three-digit combinations.
01:29No!
01:30And my parents had gone to the Christmas party,
01:32and my grandad was babysitting.
01:34I bet Grandpa was upset and worried.
01:37I doubt it. He was a bit of a nutter.
01:38You've met him.
01:41He was fine.
01:42He was a charming man.
01:43He was.
01:44Now then, who have we got with us, Rachel?
01:46We've got Amber Farrington is back, a teacher,
01:49really from Melbourne.
01:50That was a great recovery, a great game yesterday.
01:53And Rick had got, I think, six games, six wins,
01:57and along came Miss Farrington and took it away,
02:00took it all away.
02:01Let's see whether Dave Whittaker's going to do the same for you,
02:04because Dave's from London,
02:06a director of a company that runs school trips,
02:09a ski instructor, used to be a ski instructor.
02:11Used to be, yeah.
02:12Big fan of ski touring.
02:13That's travelling from mountain hut to mountain hut.
02:16That's good fun.
02:16That's all off-piste stuff.
02:18It is all off-piste,
02:19and the problem is most of it is uphill,
02:21or at least half of it is uphill,
02:22so it's not just the fast downhill skiing you see,
02:25but you have to do the hard work as well.
02:26Indeed.
02:27Well, let's hope this is a good experience for you.
02:29Let's have a big round of applause for Dave and Amber.
02:36And welcome back, of course, to Susie,
02:38and back for another day, Margaret Moundford.
02:41There we go.
02:42Now, you're a skier, Margaret.
02:44Yeah, well, downhill only, I'm afraid, for me.
02:46It's all downhill, really, isn't it?
02:48I think for both of us, it's all downhill.
02:49Thank you, Margaret.
02:50More for you later as we turn to Amber for a letters game.
02:54Amber.
02:55I'd like to start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
02:57Thank you, Amber.
02:58Amber.
02:59Y.
02:59And another.
03:01S.
03:02And a vowel.
03:03E.
03:04And another.
03:06I.
03:07And another.
03:08O.
03:10And a consonant.
03:11M.
03:13And a vowel.
03:15E.
03:16And consonant.
03:18P.
03:19And a consonant.
03:20And the last one.
03:21R.
03:23And here's the countdown clock.
03:25And a consonant.
03:39And a consonant.
03:40And a consonant.
03:41And a consonant.
03:42And a consonant.
03:43And a consonant.
03:43And a consonant.
03:43And a consonant.
03:43And a consonant.
03:43And a consonant.
03:44And a consonant.
03:45And a consonant.
03:46And a consonant.
03:53And a consonant.
03:56Amber.
03:57Seven.
03:58Seven and Dave.
04:00Seven.
04:01Amber.
04:01Promise.
04:02Dave.
04:03Same word, promise.
04:05There we go.
04:07Can we do better?
04:09Can we match that?
04:10Margaret, Susie?
04:11We've got a nice legal E on the end of promise,
04:14so we get promise C.
04:16Yep, and an anagram of that is reimposed.
04:19That would give you another eight.
04:20Well done.
04:21Well done, you two.
04:23All right.
04:23So it's seven apiece, and it's Dave's Letters game.
04:27Hello, Rachel.
04:28Hi, Dave.
04:29A consonant, please.
04:30Start with P.
04:32And another.
04:34M.
04:35Vowel.
04:36A.
04:37Consonant.
04:39T.
04:40Vowel.
04:42I.
04:43A consonant.
04:44B.
04:45A vowel.
04:47O.
04:48And another, please.
04:51U.
04:52And a final consonant, please.
04:53And a final D.
04:55Stand by.
04:57I.
05:28Dave.
05:29I'll try a seven.
05:30A seven.
05:31It's a five.
05:32And a five.
05:33Your five.
05:34Ambit.
05:35Ambit, Dave.
05:36Outpaid.
05:43Outpay is not there, unfortunately.
05:48No, outplay, outplay, but not outpay.
05:50I'm sorry.
05:51Bad luck.
05:52Bad luck.
05:53What can we have, Margaret?
05:55Well, we could have Utopia continuing yesterday's theme.
05:59Exactly.
06:00Well done.
06:00Utopia.
06:01Anything else?
06:02Another six.
06:03Outbid.
06:03You were outbid.
06:06Outbid.
06:06All right.
06:0712 plays.
06:08Seven.
06:08And Amber is surprised to find herself in the lead, I think, after that five.
06:1412 to seven.
06:15And now, Amber, it's your numbers again.
06:18I'll go with one large and five small.
06:20Thanks, Rachel.
06:21Number one from the top row.
06:22Five little ones coming up.
06:23And the first number selection of the day is five.
06:26Another five.
06:27Nine.
06:28Two.
06:29One.
06:30And the big one, 75.
06:32And the target, 565.
06:34Five, six, five.
07:08Yes, Amber?
07:095, 6, 7.
07:115, 6, 7.
07:13Dave?
07:14Just 5, 6, Dianne. I haven't written it down.
07:16Let's hear from Amber.
07:18I might have used one of them twice.
07:21Yes, I have. Sorry, I've made a mistake.
07:23All right, Dave?
07:26So it was 5 plus 2.
07:285 plus 2, 7.
07:297.
07:319 minus 1 is 8.
07:33Yep.
07:36I've gone horribly wrong. Sorry.
07:38All over the place.
07:38Ah.
07:39That's a draw.
07:415, 6, 5.
07:42Oh, Rachel, help us.
07:43Well, if I carry on like this
07:45and times that by the other 5 for 35
07:48and times this 8 by 75,
07:50you can say 600 minus 35 is 5, 6, 5.
07:54Well done.
07:55Well done.
07:58Thanks, Rachel.
08:00And our first two-time teaser,
08:02it's Man Gives and the clue.
08:04The man gives up eating certain things
08:06because he's adopted this.
08:08The man gives up eating certain things
08:10because he's adopted this.
08:27Welcome back.
08:28I left you with the clue.
08:29The man gives up eating certain things
08:32because he's adopted this.
08:33He's adopted veganism.
08:36He's become a vegan.
08:37A vegan, even.
08:38Vegan.
08:38A vegan.
08:39Yeah.
08:39A vegan.
08:41A vegan.
08:4312 plays 7.
08:45Amber's in the lead
08:46and it's Dave's letters game.
08:47I'll start with a consonant, please.
08:49Thank you, Dave.
08:50L.
08:51And another.
08:53C.
08:54And a vowel, please.
08:56E.
08:57And a consonant.
08:58T.
09:00A vowel.
09:01A.
09:02Consonant.
09:04R.
09:06A vowel.
09:07O.
09:08A consonant.
09:10N.
09:12And another vowel, please.
09:13And the last one.
09:15I.
09:16Counter.
09:17A vowel.
09:19A vowel.
09:26A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:33A vowel.
09:34A vowel.
09:34A vowel.
09:34A vowel.
09:34A vowel.
09:43A vowel.
09:45A vowel.
09:48Dave.
09:49An eight.
09:50An eight.
09:51Amber.
09:51Eight.
09:52Dave.
09:53Relation.
09:54And?
09:54Reaction.
09:55And reaction.
09:58Very good.
10:00Let's see whether the corner can match that.
10:04Can match it with creation.
10:05Yes.
10:06Yes.
10:07Oriental also there.
10:08And cilantro, which is the North American term for coriander.
10:12Cilantro.
10:13How useful.
10:14There we are anyway.
10:1520 plays 15 and Amber's five points ahead.
10:19And it's her letters game.
10:21I'll start with the consonant.
10:23Thanks.
10:23Thank you, Amber.
10:23P.
10:24And another consonant.
10:26S.
10:27Vowel.
10:29E.
10:30Vowel.
10:31U.
10:32Consonant.
10:34V.
10:35Consonant.
10:37T.
10:38Vowel.
10:40O.
10:41Vowel.
10:43A.
10:44And consonant.
10:45Thanks.
10:45And the last one.
10:46S.
10:48Stand by.
10:49Stand by.
10:52Amber.
10:52And the last one.
11:23All right, Dave, seven. Now then.
11:27Suavest.
11:30Most suave, Dave.
11:32Outsets.
11:33What does the corner think?
11:36Oh, Dave's not going to like me very much because there's only one T for Outset.
11:41You might have written that down sort of P, sorry.
11:44Suavest, absolutely fine, yes.
11:46The suavest presenter in the room.
11:49Which could only be outpassed by another compliment.
11:52But Outset pass.
11:54Well done. That's it?
11:56Sevens.
11:56We're done?
11:57Yes.
11:57Thank you. Thank you for that compliment.
12:0027 plays 15.
12:01And it's Dave's numbers game.
12:03Off you go.
12:04One large and five small, please, Rachel.
12:06Thank you, Dave.
12:06One from the top again.
12:07And five little ones.
12:09And this time, the little ones are five, three, one, nine, and ten.
12:16And the large one, 75.
12:18And the target, 958.
12:20Nine, five, eight.
12:22One large and five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
12:34five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
12:36five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
12:36five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
12:36five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
12:36five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
12:53Yes, Dave?
12:54959.
12:55One away. Amber?
12:57955.
12:59955. So, Dave?
13:03The 10 plus 3 minus 1.
13:0610 plus 3 minus 1 is 12.
13:08Times 75.
13:10Times 75 is 900.
13:14And then the 5 times the 10 and add the 9.
13:18You've unfortunately used that 10.
13:20I've done it again.
13:21Sorry, Dave.
13:22OK, thank you.
13:23Bad luck. Bad luck, Dave.
13:25Let's see whether Amber can crack it.
13:28I may have done the same thing, but, yeah.
13:3175 times the 9 plus the 3 is 900.
13:36So, 9 plus 3 for the 12 times 75, 900.
13:39Plus the 10 by the 5.
13:41And then, yeah, you haven't used your 10.
13:43Is 50.
13:44And then what did I declare? Did I declare 55?
13:47Yeah.
13:47Yeah, I think I've used the 5 twice.
13:50Oh, sorry.
13:52Bad luck.
13:52Sorry.
13:53Bad luck.
13:53So, it's a standstill there, 27 to 50, as we turn and throw ourselves at Rachel's feet.
13:59Rachel, 958.
14:00Well, if you say 10 plus 3 is 13, 75 minus 1, 74, times them together for 962, and then
14:119 minus 5 is 4 to take away from 9, 5, 8.
14:14That's the way it's done.
14:15Well done, Rachel.
14:18Thank you very much.
14:19So, as I say, standstill.
14:2127 to Dave's, 15 seas, Amber, just in the lead.
14:26As we turn to Margaret.
14:29And you are a traveller, Margaret.
14:30You are a traveller.
14:31Yesterday, you told us about Northumberland and Lindisfarne.
14:34And today?
14:35Well, not very far from there are a little group of islands called the Farn Islands, just off the coast.
14:41And the sea is amazingly clear there, and there's lots of grey seals.
14:45So, you go in boats and see the seals, but you could also land on two of the islands.
14:51This was in late May, bird nesting time.
14:54And they are amazing sights for seeing birds.
14:56There's puffins there, which are wonderful as they waddle about in and out of their burrows.
15:01And there's lots of eider ducks as well.
15:04And eider ducks are quite large ducks.
15:06They call them cuddy ducks rather than eider ducks after St Cuthbert, who was one of the abbots of, one
15:13of the bishops of Lindisfarne.
15:15And people used to kill these birds for food.
15:19And we get eider down from the, you can get down from the inside of the nest, but you don't
15:23have to damage the birds to do that.
15:24But Cuthbert was worried about the bird population, and he brought in laws as early as the 7th century to
15:33protect these birds.
15:35It's, it is a fantastic place to go.
15:39And it's, there is such a lot to see.
15:41And I find, perhaps it's coming from Northern Ireland, but there's huge chunks of England that I know nothing about
15:47at all, and I've never been to.
15:48So, it's about time to remedy that.
15:50I, you're not alone, you know.
15:52You're not alone, because we're all lured abroad by the sun and the exotica.
15:58But actually, you know, we should perhaps explore our own wonderful island.
16:01We have staycations.
16:03Staycation, it's called, yeah, absolutely.
16:05Thank you, Margaret.
16:05Very good.
16:07Very interesting.
16:11As we turn now, of course, standing at 27 to 15, Amber on 27.
16:16We turn to Amber for a letter scan.
16:19Thanks.
16:20I'll start with a vowel.
16:22Thank you, Amber.
16:23E.
16:23And a consonant.
16:25F.
16:26Vowel.
16:28O.
16:29Consonant.
16:31L.
16:32Consonant.
16:34S.
16:35Vowel.
16:37A.
16:38And consonant.
16:39R.
16:41And another.
16:42M.
16:43And a final vowel, thanks.
16:45And a final U.
16:48Count.
16:49My.
16:51The.
17:00One.
17:14Let's see.
17:15Thanks.
17:15I'm.
17:15I.
17:19Amber.
17:20A six.
17:22A six, Dave?
17:23Seven.
17:24And a seven.
17:24Amber.
17:25Fowler.
17:27And loafers.
17:29Loafers.
17:29Very nice.
17:30Excellent.
17:31Very good.
17:32Good.
17:32Well done.
17:33So just five behind now.
17:3522 to Amber's 27.
17:37But let's see what the corner's been up to.
17:41Funerals are there.
17:42And also,
17:44Fleurons.
17:45F-L-E-U-R-O-N-S.
17:48They are flower-shaped motifs,
17:50including the little pieces of puff pastry
17:52that you'll sometimes find decorating the edge of a pie,
17:55for example.
17:55They are Fleurons.
17:57A Fleuron.
17:58All right.
18:01Yeah.
18:02I guess that makes sense.
18:04So 27 to 22.
18:06And it's Dave's letters game.
18:09Dave?
18:10Consonant, please.
18:11Thank you, Dave.
18:12D.
18:12And another.
18:14T.
18:15And a vowel.
18:17I.
18:18Consonant.
18:20M.
18:21A vowel.
18:22O.
18:23A consonant.
18:25S.
18:26A vowel.
18:29A.
18:30Consonant.
18:31G.
18:33And a vowel, please.
18:34And the last one.
18:35E.
18:37Countdown.
18:38A vowel.
18:41A vowel.
18:42A vowel.
18:47A vowel.
18:49A vowel.
18:54A vowel.
18:54A vowel.
18:54A vowel.
18:54A vowel.
18:54A vowel.
18:54A vowel.
19:08Dave?
19:10I'll stick with a safe six.
19:12Six.
19:12And Amber?
19:13Same.
19:14Two sixes, Dave?
19:15Moated.
19:16And?
19:17Masted.
19:18There we go.
19:19Absolutely fine.
19:20Are we going to be more adventurous in the corner?
19:23Well, we've got a few eights.
19:25But there is actually a nine there.
19:29Dogmatise is there.
19:31As in dogma?
19:35That's interesting.
19:37All right.
19:37Yes.
19:37To represent an undeniable truth is to dogmatise.
19:40Well done, you two.
19:42And now it's a numbers game for Amber.
19:45I'll stick with one large and five small.
19:48Thanks, Rachel.
19:48Thank you, Amber.
19:49One big firebittle.
19:50And this time, your selection is one, three,
19:54ten, seven, five.
19:58And the big one, 100.
19:59And the target, 222.
20:02Two, two, two.
20:03Two, three, three, four, three, four, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
20:20five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
20:20five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
20:20five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
20:20five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
20:20five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five
20:36Yes, Amber.
20:39Two, two, two.
20:40Thank you, Dave.
20:41Two, two, two.
20:42Amber.
20:43So the three times minus the one, sorry, is two.
20:46Yep, times 100.
20:47200.
20:48Add the 10, add the 5, add the 7.
20:50Lovely, two, two, two.
20:51There we go.
20:52Dave.
20:53I did 100 plus 10 plus 1 is 111.
20:56It is indeed.
20:577 minus 5 is 2.
20:59Yep.
20:59I'm multiplying.
21:007 minus 5 is 2.
21:02Perfect.
21:02Two, two, two.
21:03Well done.
21:04OK.
21:06So still that same difference, 43 to 38.
21:09Dave on 38 as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is plum gash.
21:14And the clue, according to Lewis, he wanders around like a clumsy oaf.
21:19According to Lewis, he wanders around like a clumsy oaf.
21:38Welcome back.
21:39I left with the clue.
21:40According to Lewis, he wanders around like a clumsy oaf and he galumphs.
21:47He galumphs, Susie.
21:49One of my favourite words, because it was coined by Lewis Carroll, who was the first to do the portmanteau
21:55words.
21:55So those words that are blends of, you know, other words.
21:59And the other words are smashed up to create a new one.
22:02And galumph, he coined as a blend of triumph and gallop.
22:06So to galumph was actually a triumphant sort of entrance.
22:09But over time, because of its sound, it's come to mean to move in a really ponderous manner.
22:13So you galumph to the kettle in the morning, which I think suits it much, much better.
22:18But it was Lewis Carroll who coined it.
22:19Thank you, Lewis Carroll.
22:2143, place 38.
22:22As we turn to Dave for a letters game.
22:24Dave.
22:25A consonant, please.
22:27Thank you, Dave.
22:28S.
22:28And another.
22:31T.
22:31And a vowel.
22:33I.
22:34A consonant, please.
22:36N.
22:37A vowel.
22:39E.
22:40A consonant.
22:42G.
22:43A vowel.
22:45U.
22:46Consonant.
22:48R.
22:49And a final vowel, please.
22:50And a final A.
22:53Stand by.
22:55A vowel.
22:56A vowel.
23:04A vowel.
23:06A vowel.
23:11A vowel.
23:11A vowel.
23:11A vowel.
23:11A vowel.
23:11A vowel.
23:23A vowel.
23:25Yes, Dave?
23:27A risky eight.
23:30Amber?
23:30I think I have an eight.
23:32Dave?
23:34Steering, with an A in the middle.
23:36Hmm, OK. I'll check that for you.
23:38Now then. Amber?
23:40Angriest?
23:42Angriest, absolutely fine.
23:46Steering, oh, they're not spelt that way, Dave, in any meaning, I'm afraid.
23:51Not in the current dictionary. Sorry.
23:53Good luck. But angriest is certainly there.
23:55Yes, excellent.
23:56Angriest. Can we match it? Margaret, Susie?
23:59Susie can.
24:01Yes, there is a nine there. Signature.
24:04Oh, well done. Signature.
24:07Signature.
24:09Yeah, well done.
24:1151 plays, 38.
24:13Amber? Letters time.
24:15I'll have a consonant, please. Thank you, Amber.
24:17N.
24:18And a vowel.
24:20E.
24:22Consonant.
24:23T.
24:24And another.
24:26H.
24:27And a vowel.
24:29A.
24:30A vowel.
24:32O.
24:34Consonant.
24:35R.
24:36Consonant.
24:38T.
24:39And a final vowel.
24:40And a final A.
24:43Don't, don't.
24:44W.
24:46T.
24:46For more O.
24:47One,
24:48One, two, three.
24:51CRO.
24:52Two, one.
24:53One, two.
24:56And a zwei.
24:58And aijn mural.
25:11One, one, three.
25:12There.
25:13One, two, three.
25:16Yes.
25:18Dave?
25:19Just a six.
25:20A six and?
25:21Seven.
25:22And a seven.
25:23Dave?
25:25Throat.
25:26Amber?
25:27Another.
25:28And another.
25:29Yep.
25:30Well done.
25:31Well spotted.
25:32What's the corner got?
25:33We had another, another for seven.
25:37That's it?
25:38Yes.
25:38All right.
25:3958 plays 38, 20 points in it.
25:42And as we turn to Susie and her wonderful origins of words.
25:46And today, Susie?
25:47Well, I thought I'd just pick up on something we talked about very briefly.
25:51And Margaret and I have been chatting since then about dogmatize.
25:54We spell it with an S.
25:56And in the dictionary, it is spelled with a Z.
26:00And I get endless complaints from people criticizing me if I tweet, for example, if I use realize with a
26:06Z.
26:06Because they tell me it's American spelling and that that's wrong.
26:11In fact, like so many examples of, well, instances where we think English is wrong, once upon a time, it
26:19was actually thought to be correct.
26:22So realize, dogmatize, indeed, didn't start off as American spellings.
26:27In fact, most of them you can trace back to the 1500s, the 1600s.
26:31And there is a very good reason why Oxford then chose the I-Z-E spelling, not just because it's
26:36very old and it's got heritage, but also because, etymologically speaking, they think it's closer to the Greek form which
26:43lies behind so many of these words.
26:44So I-Z-O was the Greek root for many of these words, which is why Oxford, the Oxford spelling,
26:51of course, that's what I represent as well, will always go for the I-Z-E rather than the I
26:55-S-E.
26:56So you could argue that the I-Z-E actually has much sounder, if you like, heritage than the I
27:02-S-E.
27:03But, of course, still today, because it was picked up in American English and because over here we prefer the
27:08I-S-E, somehow a lot of people see it as being wrong.
27:12The only thing I would say is that there are, of course, lots of verbs where you cannot use the
27:16I-Z-E, so they're not always interchangeable in case people are looking for tips on spelling.
27:21So advertise, compromise, despise, supervise, surmise.
27:25There's a whole list of words where you can't actually swap the S for a Z.
27:29But, yeah, that's why we use it in Oxford. It's because it's closer to the Greek.
27:33Well, well, well.
27:34So the Greek wouldn't be pronounced that way.
27:36No, I'm absolutely right. My Greek is not good. No.
27:39Very good. Thanks, Izzy.
27:4258 to 38, and it's Dave's letters game. Dave.
27:47A consonant, please.
27:48Thank you, Dave.
27:49M.
27:50And another.
27:52L.
27:53And a vowel.
27:55E.
27:55A consonant.
27:57S.
27:58A vowel.
27:59I.
28:00A consonant.
28:02N.
28:03N.
28:04A vowel.
28:05O.
28:06A consonant.
28:08F.
28:09And a final vowel, please.
28:11And a final E.
28:13Toto.
28:14Toto.
28:18Toto.
28:45Yes, Dave?
28:46Six.
28:47A six amber.
28:48Seven.
28:49And a seven, Dave?
28:51Melons.
28:52Melons and?
28:54Felines.
28:55And felines.
28:56Yes, absolutely fine both.
29:00We haven't spotted feline, but yeah, there was an adjective and a noun, absolutely fine.
29:04What have we got in the corner then, Susie?
29:07There is an eight there, felonies.
29:08Felonies, so crimes.
29:10Yeah, felonies.
29:11All right.
29:1265 to 38, and it's the final letters game for today.
29:16It's Amber's letters game.
29:19I'll start with a vowel, please.
29:21Thank you, Amber.
29:22A.
29:23Consonant.
29:24R.
29:26Another.
29:27K.
29:28And a vowel.
29:30I.
29:43And the last one.
29:47Another U.
29:50Countdown.
29:51We.
29:52We.
29:56We.
29:58Two.
30:20We.
30:21We.
30:23Amber?
30:24Five.
30:25A five, can you do better?
30:27Five as well, I'm afraid.
30:27Two fives.
30:28Proud.
30:29Proud and proud as well.
30:31Both proud.
30:34Margaret?
30:35Susie?
30:36Well, we had a very similar round yesterday, I think.
30:38Proud for five was there, and also padauk, P-A-D-O-U-K,
30:44timber from a tropical tree resembling rosewood.
30:47You're welcome.
30:48All right.
30:4870 plays 43, into the final numbers game,
30:52and that's for Dave Whittaker.
30:53Dave?
30:54One large and five small again, please, Rachel.
30:56Thank you, Dave.
30:57Final one of the day.
30:58One big five little, and these five little ones are seven, six, five, three,
31:04and nine, and a big one, 75.
31:07And this last target, 803.
31:10803.
31:12Hmm.
31:13One big five...
31:16One big five.
31:16One big five.
31:31One big five.
31:33One big five, and four.
31:34One big five.
31:42Dave?
31:43804.
31:45804?
31:46And Amber?
31:47802 not written down.
31:50802.
31:52Yes, Amber?
31:53So to get the...
31:55We go 75 times the...
31:595 plus the 6.
32:0175 times 5 plus 6 for 825.
32:04Yep.
32:05And then take away the 3 times 7.
32:093, 7, 21, 804.
32:13Yeah, I declared 802, didn't I?
32:15There's one the other way.
32:16Sorry.
32:17Good luck.
32:18What has Dave got to say?
32:19That's exactly what I did for 804.
32:22That'll do.
32:24All right.
32:25Now then, 803.
32:26It was there.
32:28If you say 9 minus 7 is 2, 75 minus 2, 73,
32:34and then 6 plus 5, 4, 11, and times them together.
32:38803.
32:39There we go.
32:39Well done.
32:43So the score's standing, 70 to 50.
32:47Amber on 70, we go into the final round.
32:49So fingers on buzzers for today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:23This is a review.
33:25No. No, no, no.
33:28Who in the audience? Lots of hands. Yes, sir?
33:32Arthritic.
33:35Arthritic. Let's see whether you're right.
33:38Arthritic.
33:44Arthritic. I know how you feel.
33:48Touched by the Arthurs, as they're known.
33:5070 to 50, and so today is Amber's Day.
33:55Well done, Amber.
33:56Bad luck, Dave. Good play.
33:59But there we are.
34:00It's been happening today.
34:01It's back to London with you and your goodie bag,
34:04and good luck with your school trips, as it were.
34:06Thank you very much.
34:07All right. And we shall see Amber tomorrow.
34:10Thanks. See you then.
34:11Well done. And we'll see Margaret and Susie tomorrow.
34:14See you tomorrow.
34:16Rachel. Fantastic.
34:18You've had to work hard on the maths today.
34:20They weren't terribly good today, weren't they?
34:22You shouldn't say that.
34:23There's room for improvement, but I'd like to have something to do.
34:26Well done.
34:27Ever the diplomat.
34:28See you tomorrow.
34:28Same time.
34:29Same place.
34:30You be sure of it.
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34:55in a Last Leg US election special.
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