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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio
00:34and a very exciting week ahead.
00:36A very exciting week.
00:38It's Countdown Series 71, finals week.
00:41And we've got some great competitors, so stick with us.
00:45And as the excitement builds here in the studio, of course,
00:48right across the country, excitement is also building
00:50because Christmas is on our doorsteps
00:52and the kids are in their final week, Rachel, final week.
00:55And, of course, it's all about dressing up and learning lines
00:58for the school play, belting out carol services, carols at the carol service.
01:03And I cast my mind back all those years, 60 years, maybe more,
01:07and I remember dressing up as a hedgehog.
01:09I'm not sure why I was a hedgehog.
01:11And then, of course, as I got older and Christmas loomed,
01:14my only thought was to get the hell out of that cold castle
01:19where I was educated and get home.
01:21So that was the pre-eminent thought.
01:24What about you? What Christmas memories do you bring to us?
01:27It was great the week before Christmas because you don't do any work.
01:30I remember at senior school, in Latin, we'd just watch Ben-Hur or Spartacus over and over.
01:34In French, it would be a French film.
01:36And in maths, you'd play Countdown. It was brilliant.
01:39Luxury. No, they always sort of beat us quite hard before Christmas
01:43so that we'd sort of, you know, remember when we came back in January.
01:46Is that where you got your love of hedgehogs from?
01:48Dressing up like a hedgehog being beaten?
01:50Possibly. This is it, Rachel.
01:52We've got Lawrence Killenberry. Remember Lawrence?
01:55Student from Belfast, studying actuarial sciences at Heriot-Watt.
01:59OctoChamp, 794 points. Am I right?
02:03Over eight games to become our sixth highest scorers. Well done.
02:07And you're joined by Patricia Pay,
02:09a retired assistant land registrar from Dunsford in Devon,
02:12our third highest scorer, with 857 points.
02:18So let's have a big round of applause for these two quarter-finalists,
02:22Lawrence and Patricia.
02:25APPLAUSE
02:28And over in the corner, of course, the wonderful Susie joins us as ever.
02:33And for the first time, for the first time at Countdown,
02:36we welcome David Baddiel.
02:39Hello, Nick.
02:41Comedian, presenter, football fan, writer, four novels under your belt,
02:45I think, and your recently published book is a kids' book, is that right?
02:49Yes, here it is. The Parent Agency.
02:51Here it is. And as you can see, it's been very cleverly disguised
02:54as a kids' cracker, so people will rush along and buy it.
02:58Yes, this is my first kids' book,
03:00and the key to writing a kids' book is not using too many long words,
03:03which is why I've come on Countdown.
03:05All right, now then, Lawrence, will you take us away on this letters game?
03:09Hi, Rachel. Hi, Lawrence.
03:11Can I start with a vowel, please? Thank you.
03:13Start the week with O.
03:15And a consonant.
03:17L.
03:18And another.
03:20R.
03:22And another.
03:24N.
03:26And a vowel.
03:28E.
03:29And another.
03:31U.
03:32And a consonant.
03:34S.
03:36And another.
03:38P.
03:40And a final consonant, please.
03:42And a final C.
03:44And here comes the Countdown clock.
03:52CLOCK TICKS
04:16Yes, Lawrence? I think I have an eight.
04:18And Tricia?
04:20I've got an eight but not written down.
04:22And what would that eight be, Tricia?
04:24Crumples, Nick. Yes, Lawrence?
04:26Same words. All right.
04:28And in the corner, Susie and David?
04:31We have couples, don't we? Yes, we do.
04:33Which I think is seven, but you also came up with couplers.
04:37Yeah, you can put the R on.
04:39A coupler is a thing that connects two things, exactly as it sounds.
04:42You can get one in music, in an organ.
04:45You can get an acoustic coupler, which is a sort of modem,
04:48which transfers or transmits sounds.
04:51And railway carriages, too. Exactly.
04:54Very good. All right.
04:56Eight apiece. Now then, Tricia.
04:58Hello, Rachel. Hi, Tricia.
05:00Thank you. Start with D.
05:02And a second.
05:04N.
05:06And a third.
05:08S.
05:10And a vowel, please.
05:12A.
05:14And a second.
05:16E.
05:18And one more.
05:20I.
05:22And a consonant, please.
05:24Y.
05:26And another consonant.
05:28P.
05:32And another consonant, please.
05:34And the last one, M.
05:36Stand by.
05:46CLOCK TICKS
06:08Tricia. A seven.
06:10A seven. Yes, Lawrence. Seven.
06:12Tricia.
06:14Tens and dumpins.
06:16Dumpins, yes. Very good. Happy enough? Very happy.
06:18Yeah. David.
06:20Well, we have dynamise,
06:22which sounds like a very dynamic word.
06:24Yes, but... Which it is.
06:26No, it is. It's a good word. There's no but.
06:28It is to make dynamic.
06:30To make something dynamic, you dynamise it.
06:32Dynamise me. Yeah. Anything else?
06:34Median's there for seven.
06:36Median. Thank you very much. All right.
06:38So, 15 apiece. Numbers time. Lawrence.
06:40Could I have six from the bottom row, please?
06:42You can, indeed. Thank you, Lawrence.
06:44Right, let's see if this game separates you two.
06:46Six little ones.
06:48And the first numbers game of this quarterfinal
06:50is six, seven, four,
06:52another seven,
06:54nine and one.
06:56And the target, 217.
06:58217.
07:00CLOCK TICKS
07:12CLOCK TICKS
07:30Lawrence.
07:32217. Tricia.
07:34217, not written down very well.
07:36Shall we hear from you then, Tricia?
07:38OK. Four sevens are 28.
07:40Four sevens 28.
07:42Nine minus six is three.
07:44Yep.
07:46And times by seven.
07:48Troy, add the two together.
07:5031, yeah, and then times by the other seven. Perfect.
07:52217. And Lawrence.
07:54Four times six.
07:56Four times six, 24.
07:58Plus seven. Plus seven, yeah.
08:00And the other seven. Well done.
08:02217. Well done.
08:0425 points apiece.
08:06APPLAUSE
08:10All even here. So let's have a teatime teaser.
08:12Why not? She's trim.
08:14And the clue, Mr Burns tears his assistant to pieces.
08:17Mr Burns tears his assistant to pieces.
08:20CLOCK TICKS
08:28APPLAUSE
08:30APPLAUSE
08:34Welcome back.
08:36Left with the clue, Mr Burns tears his assistant to pieces.
08:39And the answer is smithers.
08:42Susie, is that related to smithereens and things?
08:45Yeah, interchangeable means exactly the same thing.
08:48So in small pieces.
08:50David's been educating me on the Simpsons.
08:52I think Nick's a tiny bit like Mr Burns.
08:54LAUGHTER
08:56I've heard that before. Thank you so much.
08:58Tricia, another letter's came for you.
09:01Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tricia.
09:03T
09:05And a second.
09:07S
09:08And a third.
09:10P
09:11And a vowel.
09:13A
09:14And a second.
09:15E
09:16And another.
09:17A
09:19And a consonant, please.
09:21V
09:23And another.
09:25T
09:27And a vowel, please.
09:28And the last one.
09:30O
09:31Stand by.
09:57MUSIC
10:03Yes, Tricia.
10:04Eight.
10:05And eight, Lawrence?
10:07Just seven.
10:08And your seven?
10:09Teapots.
10:10Now then, Tricia.
10:11Apostate.
10:13Absolutely brilliant.
10:14It's a person, and I'm sure Tricia will know this,
10:16a person who renounces religious or political belief or principle.
10:19Very, very well done.
10:20APPLAUSE
10:23Now, then, what else have we got over there, David?
10:25We didn't have anything as good as apostate.
10:27We had toast and teapots, because essentially we were hungry.
10:30That was the best we could come up with.
10:32And I think you had avast as well,
10:34which is the kind of thing that pirates shout, I think.
10:37Yes, I just like it. It's a word. 25.
10:39All right.
10:40So, Tricia's leapt into a lead.
10:4233 points to Lawrence's, 25.
10:44So, Lawrence, what are you going to do about it?
10:46Consonant, please.
10:47Thank you, Lawrence.
10:48R
10:49And another.
10:51Q
10:52And another.
10:54S
10:55And a vowel.
10:57I
10:58And another.
10:59U
11:00And another.
11:01O
11:02And a consonant.
11:05T
11:06And another.
11:09L
11:11And a final consonant.
11:14And a final F.
11:16Countdown.
11:24CLOCK TICKS
11:48Well, Lawrence?
11:49A seven.
11:50A seven. Tricia?
11:51I'll try an eight.
11:53Lawrence?
11:54Florist.
11:55And Tricia?
11:56Flouters.
11:57A flouter.
11:58There's no E, Tricia.
11:59You'd have flouts, but not flouters.
12:01Yeah, flouters.
12:02Sorry.
12:03Yeah, no, that doesn't work, does it?
12:04No.
12:05Bad luck.
12:06So, Lawrence just one behind now, then 32 to 33.
12:09But over the corner...
12:11Well, we had one other possibility.
12:13Yes?
12:14We had tea and toast just a minute ago.
12:16Now we've got liquors.
12:18That'll be the alcoholic.
12:20Yeah, we've moved on from tea and toast.
12:23Liquors.
12:24Very good.
12:2533, as I say, to Lawrence, it's 32.
12:27And it's a numbers game for Tricia.
12:30One large, please, Rachel, and five small.
12:33Thank you, Tricia.
12:34One from the top and five little ones.
12:37And this time around the numbers are...
12:399, 7, 5, 8, 9 and 75.
12:45And the target, 493.
12:48493.
13:21Well, Tricia?
13:22No.
13:23No?
13:24No.
13:25Lawrence?
13:26493.
13:27So, Lawrence?
13:287 x 75.
13:297 x 75 are 525.
13:329 minus 5 is 4.
13:34Yep.
13:35Times 8.
13:3632.
13:37Take it away.
13:38Perfect, 493.
13:39Well done, well done.
13:42Excellent stuff.
13:43So, propels you to 42 points.
13:45Well done.
13:46Now, Tricia's still on 33.
13:48But now we turn to David.
13:49And, David, at the top of the show,
13:51we talked about your four novels and your new book.
13:55So what kicked this one off?
13:58Well, this is called The Parent Agency,
14:00and it is about a child, a boy called Barry,
14:03who's about nine, about to be ten,
14:05and who's fed up with his parents in a kind of normal way.
14:08They're tired all the time, they don't buy him enough stuff.
14:10And so he wishes for better parents
14:12and goes through the wall of his bedroom
14:14into a world where children are able to choose their own parents.
14:17From a place called The Parent Agency.
14:19But what bothers me most about it, even though I'm pleased with the book,
14:21is the idea came from my son, basically.
14:24It came from my son, Ezra, who himself is nine, nearly ten.
14:28And, to be fair, it wasn't that he was on the phone to the social services,
14:32it was that we were talking about Harry Potter.
14:34And he said, I don't know how well you know Harry Potter,
14:36but he said to me one day,
14:37Dad, why doesn't Harry run away from the Dursleys,
14:40which are the horrible muggle family that look after him
14:42when he's not at Hogwarts?
14:43Why doesn't he run away and go and find some better parents?
14:45And I said, I don't know, but that's given me an idea.
14:47And the idea came with this book.
14:49Did you get a share of the...?
14:51I bought him an iPod, actually, is what I've done.
14:53But he's an interesting chap, Ezra.
14:55He does come up with quite a lot of stuff.
14:57The other day, I'm on a diet, I don't know if you've noticed,
14:59I've lost a bit of weight.
15:00And that started that diet because we were outside, it was a sunny day,
15:03and Ezra suddenly said to me, Dad, you've got a fat shadow.
15:06And that, I felt, was a good reason to start a diet.
15:09That's an excellent line.
15:11And also, the other day, this was something I thought was very clever.
15:13We were listening to the Ghostbusters theme,
15:15and you'll know, in the Ghostbusters theme, there's a line that goes,
15:18if you're seeing things running through your head, who are you going to call?
15:22And Ezra said, a psychiatrist.
15:24Which I thought was brilliant.
15:26He's a bright boy.
15:27He's a bright boy.
15:28He's got bright parents, creative parents.
15:30Where did you get your creativity from?
15:32Were your parents...?
15:33Yeah, my parents were...
15:35My dad was a scientist and actually was very, very unkeen
15:38on me being a writer or anything like that.
15:40He wanted me to be a scientist, but I eventually went away from that.
15:42And I do think that he's a really clever bloke
15:44with a different kind of brain,
15:46and it's filtered down in a different way, hopefully, to me.
15:48Well, well done, Ezra, and I think you're very mean.
15:51I think 35% of sales and royalties...
15:53Do you want to be his agent?
15:55Absolutely, and I'll take only 15%.
15:57There we go.
15:5842 to 33.
16:00Lawrence in the lead.
16:02And, where shall we go?
16:03Lawrence, letters.
16:04Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:06Thank you, Lawrence.
16:07R
16:08And another.
16:10N
16:11And another.
16:13G
16:14And a vowel.
16:16E
16:17And another.
16:18I
16:19And another.
16:21A
16:22And a consonant.
16:25B
16:26And another.
16:28L
16:29And a final consonant.
16:33And a final S.
16:35And it's Countdown.
16:42MUSIC CONTINUES
17:08Lawrence.
17:09Eight.
17:10Trisha.
17:11Seven, not written down.
17:13So, Trisha.
17:14Regains.
17:15Regains, Lawrence.
17:16Bearings.
17:17Bearings.
17:18Very, very good.
17:19Happy enough.
17:20Excellent.
17:21David and Susie.
17:22We had bangers.
17:23Yeah.
17:24And blearing.
17:26Now, blearing was a word I wasn't sure about,
17:28but you're going to tell me what it means.
17:30Well, we talk about having bleary eyes.
17:32To blear, as a verb, is to make dim,
17:34and there's a great example here, which is,
17:36when she pursed her mouth, lipstick blearing like a squashed berry.
17:40Blearing.
17:41Well, all right, if you insist.
17:4352-33.
17:44My word, Lawrence is building a bit of a lead here.
17:47Trisha, your letters go.
17:49Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:50Thank you, Trisha.
17:51N
17:53And another.
17:55R
17:56And a third.
17:58X
18:00And a vowel.
18:02E
18:03And another.
18:04A
18:06And another.
18:07E
18:12And a consonant, please.
18:14T
18:17And another.
18:18N
18:23And another consonant, please.
18:25And lastly, S.
18:26Stand by.
18:35S
18:58Well, Trisha.
18:59Seven.
19:00A seven. Lawrence.
19:01Seven.
19:02Trisha.
19:03Tenors.
19:04Lawrence.
19:05Nearest.
19:06Yes.
19:07We're happy with those.
19:08Nothing to argue about.
19:09We had eastern.
19:10Yes.
19:11Tenors as well.
19:12And tanners.
19:14Tanners.
19:15Tanners.
19:16Tanners of leather, yes.
19:17Tanners of leather, yeah.
19:18Yeah.
19:19Very good.
19:20All right, so 57 plays 40, and once again, Lawrence, it's numbers.
19:24Could I have a T, please?
19:26You can, indeed.
19:27Three from the top, and three little ones.
19:29Thank you, Lawrence.
19:30And for this round, they are six, two, nine,
19:34and the large ones, 25, 75 and 100.
19:38And the target to reach, 247.
19:41247.
20:01MUSIC
20:14Lawrence.
20:15247.
20:16Trisha.
20:17247.
20:18Thank you, Lawrence.
20:1975 times two.
20:2075 times two, 150.
20:22Plus 100.
20:23250.
20:24Nine minus six is three.
20:26Yeah.
20:27And take it away.
20:28Perfect, 247.
20:29Plus 100, 200.
20:30Two times 100, 200.
20:32Plus 75 minus 25.
20:34Plus 75 minus 25.
20:37Yeah, and then nine minus six is three.
20:40Yeah, nine minus six is the three.
20:42Yeah.
20:43Perfect, well done.
20:44There we are.
20:4767 plays Trisha's 50 as we move swiftly into a tea time teaser,
20:52which is Cough, Son.
20:54And the clue, this is definitely a tea time teaser.
20:57This is definitely a tea time teaser.
21:00BELL
21:14Warm welcome back.
21:15I left you with the clue, this is definitely a tea time teaser
21:19because it's Souchong.
21:21Souchong. Nan and Susie, tell us a little bit more about Souchong.
21:25It's a fine black variety of China tea
21:28and it comes from the Chinese, meaning small sort,
21:31because it's so fine.
21:32Right.
21:33Normally Lapsang, Souchong.
21:35Lapsang, Souchong, correct.
21:37And Lapsang is probably in here as well,
21:39which is a variety of Souchong tea with a smoky flavour.
21:43Apparently they invented the Lapsang.
21:45Who did?
21:46Somebody.
21:47The tea drinkers of China invented it.
21:49So there are lots of Souchongs,
21:51but the popular one seems to be the Lapsang.
21:53Lapsang, Souchong.
21:54And I'm sure it's very refreshing.
21:5667 to Trisha's, 50.
21:57Trisha, you're back on with the letters game.
21:59Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:01Thank you, Trisha.
22:02R
22:03And a second.
22:05T
22:06And a third.
22:08V
22:09And a vowel.
22:11I
22:12And another.
22:13O
22:15And one more.
22:16A
22:18And a consonant.
22:20G
22:22And another one.
22:24D
22:26And a vowel, please.
22:27And the last one.
22:29O
22:30Countdown.
22:55Yes, Trisha?
22:56Six.
22:57A six.
22:58Lawrence?
22:59Just five.
23:00And your five?
23:01Ratio.
23:02Ratio. And?
23:03Toroid.
23:05Toroid.
23:07It's a figure of a toroidal shape,
23:10which is...
23:12It looks like a ring doughnut is the easiest way of describing it.
23:17Is that the scientific definition?
23:19No, it's the scientific definition.
23:22Is that the scientific definition?
23:24The scientific explanation is quite long,
23:27about a surface formed by rotating a closed curve.
23:30Thank you. We'll stick with the doughnut.
23:32Yes.
23:33I appreciate it. Anything else, David?
23:35Yes, we came up with Dirtbag.
23:37Which the younger, well, maybe the older now,
23:39people amongst you might know,
23:41there was a song called I'm Just A Teenage Dirtbag.
23:44By Wheatus.
23:45By whom?
23:46Wheatus.
23:47By Wheatus, yes.
23:48Oh, really?
23:49Yeah.
23:5067 to 56.
23:52Now then, Lawrence, letters for you.
23:55A consonant, please.
23:57Thank you, Lawrence.
23:58T.
23:59And another.
24:01F.
24:02And another.
24:04K.
24:05And a vowel.
24:07A.
24:08And another.
24:10I.
24:11And a consonant.
24:14G.
24:15And another.
24:17C.
24:18And a...
24:20And another.
24:22N.
24:23And a final consonant.
24:26I think we actually need a vowel.
24:28Oh, vowels, that's fine then, yeah.
24:30Thank you, Lawrence. E.
24:31Countdown.
24:48MUSIC PLAYS
25:04Yes, Lawrence?
25:05Erm, a seven.
25:07A seven, Tricia?
25:08Seven.
25:09Lawrence?
25:10Er, tacking.
25:11Mm-hm.
25:12There we are.
25:13Great.
25:14On the same track there.
25:16David?
25:17Er, well, we had tacking, we had faking...
25:20Yes.
25:21..as well, which is only a six,
25:23and intake, which is also only a six.
25:25Er, so, yeah, I'm...
25:27I think tacking is good.
25:29Tacking.
25:30Anchors away.
25:3174 to 63.
25:33And now, you'll enjoy this, David,
25:35it's Susie's Origins Of Words.
25:37Oh, I am very much looking forward to it.
25:39Just a wonderful little interlude.
25:41Susie?
25:42Well, we had Dirtbag in the previous round,
25:45but I apologise, because this show is now going to be full of insults,
25:48because I'm going to talk about a few others,
25:50and none of them apply to anybody in the studio at all.
25:52And I'm going to start with hobo,
25:54because Jack Shepard emailed in to say,
25:56where does the term hobo come from?
25:58We know that it was in the US after the Civil War,
26:02but hobos really made a name for themselves, really,
26:04after the Great Depression.
26:06And the number of train-hopping travellers in the States
26:09just grew exponentially.
26:10There was a lack of money,
26:12and it forced workers to seek jobs wherever they could.
26:16And Evan Morris, who I often talk about,
26:18has a lovely website called The Word Detective.
26:21He's done quite a lot of research into this,
26:24because the name hobo, or the term hobo,
26:26has been a mystery for a very long time.
26:28But his theory is that it actually originated with ho-boy,
26:32which was a greeting that railway or migrant workers
26:35would shout to each other across the rails.
26:38But it could also have been short for hopping boxcars,
26:41because, of course, that's what they did.
26:43Or even Hoboken in New Jersey,
26:45which in those days was one of the nation's central train crossings,
26:48if you like.
26:50So, so much for hobo.
26:52As I say, the jury's out, but I quite like the ho-boy idea.
26:55And I've mentioned before that a similar story lies behind jerk,
26:58which is another insult, of course,
27:00also related to the railways.
27:02And that goes back to when trains really began to take off
27:06as a method of transport.
27:08Towns in the American Midwest would set themselves up as water stations.
27:14So the water steam trains would stop
27:16and the engine drivers would literally jerk water into their trains.
27:20And lots and lots of these jerk water towns, as they became known,
27:23set themselves up across the Midwest.
27:25But because they were in the middle of nowhere,
27:27they became known as jerk water hicks,
27:29which over time, of course, were shortened to jerks.
27:31And that's the root of our insult today.
27:33Very good. Wonderful.
27:39I had quite an interesting little exchange with the taxi driver yesterday.
27:44He said, very oddly, he said, I had a big American in the car
27:47and as he got out, he said,
27:50thanks, homie, and I didn't know whether to hit him or not.
27:54I said, no, no, you mustn't hit them.
27:56It's got nothing to do with that.
27:58It's to do with homeboys.
28:00It's a term of endearment, I think. You needn't worry.
28:03No, it wasn't me. It was the taxi driver.
28:05I was going to say, he didn't hit this American, but anyway, there we are.
28:0874 plays Trisha's 63.
28:11Trisha, would you like another letters game?
28:13Right. Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:15Thank you, Trisha. H.
28:17And another.
28:19N.
28:20And another.
28:22T.
28:24And a vowel.
28:26I.
28:27And a second.
28:29E.
28:30And a third.
28:32A.
28:34And a consonant, please.
28:36N.
28:38And another consonant.
28:40D.
28:44And another consonant, please.
28:46And the last one, C.
28:48And the clock starts now.
29:04CLOCK TICKS
29:20Yes, Trisha?
29:21Seven.
29:22A seven, Lawrence?
29:23Yes, seven.
29:24So, Trisha?
29:25Matched.
29:26Lawrence?
29:27Chanted.
29:28Yes.
29:29Happy?
29:30Very happy.
29:31Yeah.
29:32And what have we got?
29:33I'm happy with that.
29:34I think we had median earlier today,
29:36but we've now got mediant.
29:38Mediant.
29:39It's musical term for the third note of a musical scale.
29:42Yeah.
29:43And then also we've got an eight letter, which is machined.
29:46Pretty good.
29:47Which is the verb of machine.
29:49Yes.
29:50Past participle.
29:51Exactly.
29:52Machined piece of metal, yeah.
29:53Yes.
29:54Very good.
29:55Anything else, Susie?
29:56That's it.
29:57Good enough.
29:58Machined.
29:59All right.
30:0081 plays 70, and we're...
30:02...on to the last letter scale, Lawrence.
30:05Consonant, please.
30:06Thank you, Lawrence.
30:07G.
30:08And another.
30:10N.
30:11And a vowel.
30:13U.
30:14And another.
30:15O.
30:16And a consonant.
30:18R.
30:19And another.
30:21D.
30:22And another.
30:24T.
30:25And a vowel.
30:28I.
30:30And a final consonant, please.
30:33And a final R.
30:35Stand by.
31:00Yes, Lawrence?
31:01A seven.
31:02A seven, Tricia?
31:03Seven.
31:04Lawrence?
31:05Touring.
31:06And, Tricia, are you touring too?
31:07Yes.
31:08Well done.
31:09Now, what excitement in the corner.
31:10Well, they've got touring.
31:11Very excitingly, we've gone for routing, which is basically touring,
31:12but a slightly different word.
31:13Or is that routing or routing?
31:14Either.
31:15Because some people say routing, don't they?
31:16Yeah.
31:17Yeah.
31:18Yeah.
31:19Yeah.
31:20Yeah.
31:21Yeah.
31:22Yeah.
31:23Yeah.
31:24Yeah.
31:25Yeah.
31:26Yeah.
31:27Yeah.
31:28Yeah.
31:29Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:30Yeah.
31:31Yeah.
31:32Some people say routing, don't they?
31:33Yes, particularly if you're an American.
31:34Yeah, American.
31:35Yes.
31:36But also, you go routing if you've got a router.
31:37That's true.
31:38Which is a woodworking tool.
31:39Is it?
31:40Yeah.
31:41Oh, I didn't know that.
31:42No, I'm thinking of modems, you see.
31:43I see.
31:44All right.
31:45Well, you're more up to date.
31:46Anything else?
31:47No to sevens for us.
31:48Slim.
31:49All right, there we are.
31:5088 to 77.
31:51And it's the final numbers game, Tricia.
31:54One large, five small, please, Rachel.
31:56Not time to gamble.
31:57one large? No. Thank you, Trisha. One large one, five little ones. Still all to play for, though.
32:02And for this final numbers game, they are 2, 3, 8, 4, another 8, and the large one 50.
32:11And the target, 398. 398.
32:27Yes, Trisha? 398.
32:49398, Lawrence. 398.
32:52Trisha? 8 x 50. 8 x 50 is a 400.
32:55Minus 2. Nice and easy.
32:57Thanks, Lawrence. Same way.
32:59All right, we won't struggle over that one.
33:00Very good. So, 98 plays 87 as we go into the final round, conundrum time.
33:06So, fingers on buzzers, let's play Countdown Conundrum.
33:14Trisha? Shorthand.
33:17Shorthand. Let's see whether you're right. That was so quick.
33:19Well done. Well done, Trisha.
33:28Just a point in it. Just a point in it.
33:31Look, Lawrence wins by a whisker.
33:34But, you know, well done.
33:36And you were the third highest scorer.
33:38But it's Lawrence's day today.
33:41So, we wish you all the best.
33:43Back to Dunsford.
33:45And we give you this Kryptonite to drag with you.
33:48And our very best wishes to you. Travel safely.
33:51So, well done, Lawrence. Good man.
33:53Good man. 98. Great score.
33:54You're back on Thursday for the second semi-final
33:57with Antoinette Ryan from Neenah County, Tipperary.
34:00So, it's North versus the South.
34:02You have a good, quiet time before Thursday then.
34:05Good luck to you.
34:07Susie, thank you so much.
34:09And David, great having you with us.
34:11Great having you with us. See you tomorrow.
34:13See you. See you tomorrow.
34:14Rachel, see you tomorrow.
34:16Join us tomorrow.
34:18Same time, same place, you'll be sure of it.
34:19A very good afternoon.
34:40Mr Yupik is popping around for a pint tonight.
34:43But will he be made to have it in the corner?
34:45Nigel Farage meets Gogglebox's very own Stephen Donne at 10 o'clock.
34:50Next this afternoon, though, it's Time to Deal.