Countdown | Tuesday 22nd August 2023 | Episode 8088
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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Bonnie, welcome to Countdown this Tuesday afternoon
00:35as we swim again in the murky waters of the letters and numbers.
00:3915 rounds and lurking just below the surface,
00:42a monster of the numbers, Rachel Riley. Hello.
00:45That feels like a backhanded compliment.
00:47It is. It's all themed because on this day in 565 AD,
00:51St Columba was...
00:53It was the first reported sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
00:58People go, hello, let me nerd out on you,
01:00but that phrase actually wasn't printed until 1933,
01:04as is often the way that was in the Courier,
01:07and 1934 is the famous faked photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
01:12But it's always there.
01:13Like, there's nobody, man, woman or child,
01:16that doesn't know about the fable of the Loch Ness Monster.
01:19I love it. OK, why?
01:22Well, because, like, right now you get these companies
01:25that are, like, mapping using technology to map
01:28to try and find out exactly, you know, is it a Greenland shark?
01:31Are they huge eels? Who cares?
01:34So you don't want to know if it was real or not?
01:36You'd think it was just, you know, in the bracket of unicorns.
01:38It never existed and it's just imagination,
01:40so just leave it like that.
01:41Yes, it should be like the Tooth Fairy. No.
01:43You should always look at a lake and think, you know what?
01:46Could be a dragon living in that.
01:48No, I'm with the scientists. I love that programme,
01:50is it River Monsters, where he goes and he investigates those things
01:53and sees it was this big fish with these teeth...
01:55I don't know why I like it, but I'm with the scientists.
01:57I want to know what's true.
01:58The world is just a better place for yetis and monsters and dragons,
02:02as far as I'm concerned.
02:03Agree to disagree.
02:04Well, listen, roaming dictionary corner for 31 years now...
02:08I'm on the prowl.
02:09..is our Dave the Dee, Susie Dent,
02:11and alongside her, well, a legend of Countdown folklore,
02:14back this week, Geoff Stelling!
02:16APPLAUSE
02:18Nice to have you.
02:19And listen, you might say an Octo Champ,
02:21George Baker already has six wins,
02:23got his first century up as well yesterday.
02:26I feel like I know you enough that I can ask you about your tattoos,
02:29because I spotted early, you've got...
02:31Is it from the album The Colour And The Shape?
02:33Yeah, that's the one.
02:34By the Foo Fighters on your neck?
02:36Yeah, that's it.
02:37Now, a man who tattoos the Foo Fighters on his neck doesn't stop there.
02:40Let's go below the shirt. What have we got?
02:42So we've got Metallica and Guns N' Roses over here,
02:45Led Zeppelin here, a bit of Aerosmith here as well.
02:48But it's not just about the musicians,
02:50it's more about the time in my life,
02:52and when I was listening to that band,
02:54what I was going through and how that music helped,
02:56or anything like that.
02:57George, thank you very much.
02:58Maybe a Countdown tattoo to mark this?
03:00Maybe.
03:01A little clock, a little theme tune?
03:03You're up against Will Gilchrist, who hopes you will never get that ink.
03:0625 years old, born in Buxton, living in London.
03:09How are you, sir?
03:10I'm great, thanks.
03:12I got so excited because I looked at your job
03:14and you're a cloud engineer.
03:15I thought, what a great job.
03:17Stratus, surus, cumulonimbus.
03:19But then I looked it up, I'm completely wrong.
03:22Yeah, sadly, less about changing the weather,
03:24more just using someone else's computer.
03:26George and Will, good luck.
03:30Hi, George.
03:31Hi, Rachel.
03:32Hi, George.
03:33Start a consonant, please.
03:34Thank you. Start today with L.
03:36And another one, please.
03:38C.
03:39And another.
03:40H.
03:41Another vowel, please.
03:43A.
03:44And another.
03:46O.
03:47And another.
03:49E.
03:50And a consonant, please.
03:52N.
03:53And a consonant.
03:55T.
03:56And a vowel, please.
03:58A final.
03:59A.
04:00That old man in the studio, let's play Kendo.
04:14MUSIC PLAYS
04:33George.
04:34Six.
04:35Will.
04:36Six.
04:37Well done. What's the words?
04:38Locate.
04:39Yes.
04:40Chalet.
04:41Chalet and locate. The dictionary corner.
04:43For any chemists out there, an organic compound
04:46containing an ester group as part of a ring.
04:49Mm-hm.
04:50And there was a little whispering going over to my right,
04:53and Rachel's got a great one.
04:55It's a Jewish Sabbath dish of slowly baked meat and vegetables
04:58prepared on a Friday and cooked overnight.
05:00Is it cholent?
05:01I think it's cholent.
05:02Cholent. There we go. Who knows?
05:04Right, fantastic. And a good start for you, Will.
05:07Most difficult round is your first one.
05:09Six points each, your letters.
05:10Hi, Rachel.
05:11Hi, Will.
05:12Consonant, please.
05:13Thank you. M.
05:15And a vowel.
05:17E.
05:18And a consonant, please.
05:19R.
05:20And a vowel.
05:21U.
05:22Consonant.
05:25F.
05:26And a vowel.
05:27I.
05:28And a consonant.
05:30V.
05:31And a vowel.
05:33E.
05:34And finally a consonant.
05:35Final, R.
05:36And 30 seconds.
05:38MUSIC PLAYS
05:42MUSIC CONTINUES
06:08Will?
06:09Six.
06:10George?
06:11No.
06:12Look at this. What have you got, Will?
06:13Burma.
06:14Yeah.
06:15George?
06:16Yeah.
06:17Good stuff.
06:1812 points each.
06:19Going to be a good game today, Geoff.
06:20Anything better?
06:21Nothing better.
06:22Just six is, I think, refire.
06:24Yes, refire pottery in a kiln, for example.
06:27That was our best, couldn't it have been?
06:29That's it.
06:3012 points each.
06:31First numbers of the day, George.
06:32Let's test out this math society, eh?
06:34Stick with the usual, please, Rachel.
06:36Your usual.
06:37Six of them all often does give us a test.
06:39Let's see if this one does.
06:40First numbers of the day.
06:416, 3, 9, 1, 7 and 5.
06:47And the target to reach with them, 836.
06:50836. Numbers up.
06:52MUSIC PLAYS
07:11MUSIC STOPS
07:22836. Thanks for that, George.
07:24How did you get on?
07:25No.
07:26No. Well...
07:27No, I know.
07:28No, no. No, no. Frustrating.
07:29It's worse when you think you have it,
07:31and then you've used the number twice.
07:33Rachel, 836, really?
07:35Well, I've definitely been stealing time standing here,
07:38so if you say 5 x 7 is 35,
07:42plus 9 is 44,
07:44and then 6 x 3 is 18,
07:46plus 1 is 19,
07:48and 19 x 44 should be 836.
07:50Nice.
07:51APPLAUSE
07:54World class. Thank you, Riley.
07:56Let's get our first Tea Time teaser of this Tuesday afternoon.
07:59It's Zing Area. Zing Area.
08:01You pick this up, then very quickly put it down again.
08:04You pick this up, then very quickly put it down again.
08:07APPLAUSE
08:21Welcome back.
08:22You pick this up, then very quickly put it down again.
08:25Zing Area, Susie, becomes Ragazine,
08:28which I'm assuming is just how Scooby-Doo pronounces magazine.
08:32LAUGHTER
08:34No, it's a blend of rag, as in,
08:36oh, I'm not going to read that rag, and magazine.
08:39So it's an inferior quality magazine.
08:41Right, well, we know a few of those.
08:43Let's get back to the game, get more letters. Will Gilchrist.
08:46A consonant, please.
08:47Thank you, Will.
08:48T.
08:49And another.
08:51S.
08:52And another.
08:54N.
08:55And a vowel, please.
08:57A.
08:58And another vowel.
08:59O.
09:00And another.
09:01E.
09:02And a consonant.
09:04D.
09:05And a vowel.
09:08O.
09:09And a final consonant.
09:12A final F.
09:13Thank you, Ridge.
09:32MUSIC PLAYS
09:45That'll do you. Will?
09:47Er, seven.
09:48George?
09:49Yep, seven.
09:50What a game. Go ahead, Will.
09:51Donates.
09:52Er, George?
09:53Yep, same word.
09:54Yep.
09:55Yep, perfect.
09:56Matching each other all the way, the Geoff and Susie.
09:58Yeah.
09:59Yeah, you couldn't just add one to it
10:01by sticking an O on the front.
10:03Yes, er, a dragonfly or a damselfly,
10:05so insects that are in the order Odonata.
10:08Is it pronounced Odonates?
10:10Odonates, yes.
10:11Odonates, thank you.
10:12Well done. 19 points each, more letters.
10:14Let's keep rolling, George.
10:16Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
10:18Thank you, George.
10:19M.
10:20And another.
10:21L.
10:22And another.
10:23S.
10:24And a vowel, please.
10:26I.
10:27And another.
10:28U.
10:29And another.
10:30I.
10:31And another.
10:34E.
10:35And a consonant, please.
10:36P.
10:37And a final consonant.
10:39A final G.
10:40Half a minute.
11:00MUSIC PLAYS
11:13George?
11:14Seven.
11:15Will?
11:16Six.
11:17A crack appears in Gilchrist.
11:19What is it?
11:20Simile.
11:21And the seven?
11:22Glimpse.
11:23And glimpse!
11:24Very nice, beautiful word.
11:26First glimpse of the lead for you, 26-19.
11:29Geoff?
11:30Um, a few alternatives.
11:32We were, you know, thinking about impulse, weren't we?
11:35But pugilism came to me.
11:37Very good.
11:38Yes, fighting talk.
11:39Very good.
11:4126-19.
11:42Numbers.
11:43Well, you're picking them first.
11:45Our George here.
11:46Risky George always goes six small.
11:48Let's see what the Math Society's saying.
11:50Um, I'll have an inverted T, please.
11:52An inverted T.
11:53One large and five little.
11:55Coming up, you, Will.
11:57And this time they are eight, two, ten, one, seven and 50.
12:04And the target, 963.
12:07963. Numbers up.
12:09MUSIC PLAYS
12:28MUSIC STOPS
12:40963. Well...
12:42964, not written down.
12:44Not written down and one away, George.
12:46963, not written down.
12:48Off you go.
12:4950 times 2 is 100.
12:51100.
12:52Plus 8.
12:53Plus 8.
12:54Minus 1.
12:55Minus 1.
12:567 plus 2 is 9.
12:58You've used this too!
13:00Sorry, George.
13:01Right method, wrong numbers.
13:03There you go, Will, a chance to draw a level.
13:05So, 10 add 1, add 8.
13:08What's 1 plus 8, 19?
13:10Times by 50.
13:12950.
13:13And then 7 multiplied by 2 is 14.
13:15Yes.
13:16And add 1.
13:17Yes.
13:18Yep, one away.
13:19Big seven points for Will.
13:21Amazing in the first round today.
13:23Can you get 963?
13:25Well, it was simpler than George made it.
13:2750 times 2 is 100.
13:30Simply add the 7 for 107,
13:32and then you have a 10, 1 and an 8,
13:34so you can get 9 this way, two times.
13:37Yes.
13:38For 963.
13:39APPLAUSE
13:4126.8 as we talk to Jeff Stelling today.
13:44Yesterday, we talked about your very, very beginnings
13:48as a teenager in the world of journalism.
13:52If it's not too personal a question,
13:54I'll ask you this.
13:55What next?
13:57Whoa.
13:58What next?
14:00A few weeks on the beach.
14:01Yeah.
14:02Stand a stairlift.
14:03LAUGHTER
14:04Home.
14:06It's weird.
14:07Ashes scattered at Victoria Park, of course.
14:09It's a weird place to be, isn't it?
14:11You know, because you're able to sort of leave
14:13Soccer Saturday on your own terms.
14:15You even give them that extra year.
14:17And, you know, it's supposed to...
14:20The world's your oyster now.
14:22Yeah.
14:23Well, as far as the world can be your oyster at 68 years of age,
14:28you know, people are not exactly necessarily clamouring
14:31to have, you know, an old bloke working on their show.
14:34Well, Countdown was, but apart from that.
14:37So, yeah, look, there's a lot of fun to be had out there.
14:41I think that's the emphasis now.
14:43It's got to be fun.
14:44Something will come up, Colin.
14:46It always does, because, you know, you need a bit of luck, don't you?
14:49Yeah.
14:51I've had it all the way, you know, along my career, if you like.
14:56I'll tell you, when I was 21, 22, do you remember telegrams?
15:02Yes.
15:03You know, which were sort of slightly after carrier pigeons,
15:05but before email, weren't they?
15:07So I'm out playing football one morning.
15:09I've been at a local radio station for one week
15:11and I've never been on the air.
15:13And my mum comes running across saying,
15:16And the telegram basically said, from Radio Tees,
15:19our football report has been taken.
15:21It'll go to Leeds versus Middlesbrough
15:23to cover the game this afternoon, which was fantastic.
15:26What an opportunity.
15:27End of first week.
15:28What happens?
15:29How do I get there?
15:31I haven't got a car.
15:32That sounds crazy.
15:33I haven't got a car.
15:34But I had a girlfriend who had a car.
15:36OK, so I rang her up and said, you know,
15:39do you fancy a day shopping in Leeds?
15:41Which was true, you know,
15:42but she didn't realise she was going to be doing the shopping
15:45while I was going to be doing the match reporting.
15:47And I got there and, again, you need a lot of good luck
15:50because I didn't know how to get on the ground, you know.
15:53Where do you get your ticket from?
15:55You know, there are 30,000 people out there.
15:57There were no mobile phones in those days,
15:59so you got into the stadium
16:01and I didn't know how to phone my reports back
16:05because there was an allocated telephone that you plugged in
16:09and I didn't know where that was.
16:11And the fact that some veteran reporters, you know,
16:13took some sympathy on me and helped me out.
16:16And two days later, I walked back into the Radio Tea's office
16:19where I was being employed as a news reporter
16:22and the programme controller called me into his office
16:25and said, you are no longer a news reporter.
16:28You are now a sports reporter.
16:30Yeah.
16:31So, lucky break again, you know.
16:33I need another one now if anybody's watching.
16:35Well, you never know what's coming.
16:37I will say this, total honesty, total seriousness,
16:39if you get a call from Channel 4,
16:41I will give you 20% of my money to say no.
16:43All right, now you're available.
16:45Thank you very much, Jim.
16:49OK, 26 points each.
16:51Risky George, bit of pressure for you today.
16:53I'm sure you'll handle it well. More letters.
16:55Start with a consonant, please. Thank you, George.
16:57D
16:58And another.
16:59R
17:00And another.
17:01Z
17:02And another.
17:04T
17:05And a vowel, please.
17:07I
17:08And another.
17:09E
17:10And another.
17:12U
17:13And a consonant, please.
17:15S
17:16And a final consonant, please.
17:18And a final R.
17:20Start the clock.
17:38MUSIC PLAYS
17:51George?
17:52Eight.
17:53Will?
17:54Eight.
17:55George?
17:56Sturdio.
17:57And Will?
17:58Same.
17:59There it is.
18:00Not just matching each other so many times
18:02in terms of the number of letters,
18:04but often with the words as well.
18:06A close, wrong countdown.
18:07What have we got in the dictionary corner?
18:09Same.
18:10Sturdio.
18:11As good as it gets.
18:12Good as it gets.
18:13Leaving that Z out.
18:14More letters.
18:15Will Gilchrist.
18:16A consonant, please.
18:17Thank you, Will.
18:18N
18:19And another.
18:21T
18:22And a vowel.
18:24E
18:25And another.
18:27A
18:29And another vowel.
18:31I
18:32And a consonant, please.
18:33R
18:34And another.
18:35D
18:36And another.
18:38B
18:39And a final vowel.
18:41And a final A.
18:44Half a minute.
18:45MUSIC PLAYS
19:06MUSIC STOPS
19:16Will?
19:17Seven.
19:18And how many, George?
19:19Seven.
19:20There's reigning sevens.
19:21Will?
19:22Brained.
19:23Brained.
19:24Trained.
19:25And trained.
19:26I'm sure there'll be more but anything above that.
19:28Nothing above it.
19:29We just had one nice seven.
19:30It is an interesting seven as well.
19:32It's an ant bird.
19:33An ant bird, yeah.
19:34A tropical forest of South America.
19:36An insect-eating, long-legged, short-tailed bird.
19:39Lovely.
19:40Lovely.
19:41Third numbers round of the day.
19:42Back to you, George.
19:43Usual place, right, Jo?
19:44The usual.
19:45Six little ones coming up for you, George.
19:47Let's see if this can separate you.
19:49The selection is ten, two, six, eight, five and nine.
19:56And the target...
19:57371.
19:59371. Numbers up.
20:00MUSIC PLAYS
20:05MUSIC CONTINUES
20:30Mr Baker?
20:31371.
20:32Mr Gilchrist?
20:33371.
20:34Very good indeed.
20:35Off you go, George.
20:36Five times six?
20:37Five sixes are 30.
20:38Plus eight?
20:3938.
20:40Times ten?
20:41380.
20:42Minus nine.
20:43Well done.
20:44371.
20:45And Will?
20:46Exactly the same.
20:47Nice.
20:51Half-centuries, you're up 51 points each.
20:54And if you play along at home, you're really good.
20:57Even these tea time teasers, if you nail them,
20:59well, you should come and try and do it for real in this studio.
21:02We would love to have you.
21:04It's dead simple.
21:05It just starts with an email to countdown at channel4.com.
21:08Countdown at channel4.com.
21:11And everybody is welcome.
21:13We meet a lot of contestants who say,
21:15I've watched forever and I've finally built up the nerve to enter.
21:19Well, you should definitely do that.
21:21And if you've got a family member who loves Countdown
21:23and is always bragging about how good they are, enter them.
21:26Don't tell them.
21:27Just send an email to countdown at channel4.com.
21:30Right, let's get this tea time teaser.
21:32It's Megaboney.
21:34Megaboney.
21:35Quite scary, but terrible at golf.
21:37Quite scary, but terrible at golf.
21:55Welcome back, Megaboney.
21:56Quite scary, terrible at golf.
21:58That's a bogeyman.
21:59A bogeyman.
22:00And, Geoff Stelling,
22:01you've worked with countless ex-footballers in your time,
22:04and so have I.
22:06The one thing I hate about these pundits more than anything
22:09is their obsession with golf.
22:11Do you play yourself?
22:13Yeah, and they are all brilliant, of course,
22:15because in their playing days,
22:17oh, you finished training at half past 12
22:19and you went to the golf course.
22:21Yeah, I do play myself, but I am a double bogeyman.
22:24Yes.
22:25As opposed to a bogeyman.
22:26Right, six rounds to go.
22:28We're even, Stephens.
22:29Will, you're up.
22:30A consonant, please.
22:31Thank you, Will.
22:33S.
22:34And another.
22:36R.
22:37And another.
22:39N.
22:40And a vowel.
22:42O.
22:43And another.
22:44E.
22:45And another.
22:47O.
22:48And a consonant.
22:50T.
22:51And another.
22:53C.
22:54And a vowel.
22:55And lastly, A.
22:58Let's play.
23:25MUSIC PLAYS
23:30Will?
23:31A nine.
23:32George?
23:33A very risky nine.
23:34All right, both written down, so let's do it.
23:36Will?
23:37Coronets.
23:38Coronets.
23:39George?
23:40Contarosa.
23:41Contarosa.
23:43Coronets.
23:45Er...
23:46Contarosa.
23:48Not in.
23:49And I do feel very bad about coronet,
23:51because, actually, with the King's coronation this year,
23:54there's been a lot of talk about coronating him,
23:57but it's not in the dictionary,
23:59even though it's a historical word that's been around
24:01since the 19th century, and I'm very sorry.
24:03I thought that was going to be the moment
24:05we were crowning a new champion elect, and that's not happened.
24:08Big words in there, though.
24:09Yeah, we have quite a few eights.
24:11Yeah, lots of eights.
24:12Coronets is the obvious eight.
24:15Cartoons, ancestor.
24:16Cartoons reminds me of something
24:18Rachel will tell you about at the end of the show,
24:20but, George, let's get on with the game.
24:22Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
24:23A.
24:24And another.
24:26N.
24:27And another.
24:29M.
24:30And a vowel, please.
24:33E.
24:34And another.
24:35U.
24:36And another.
24:37E.
24:38A consonant, please.
24:40G.
24:41And another.
24:43W.
24:44And a final consonant, please.
24:46A final P.
24:48Good luck.
24:53MUSIC PLAYS
25:19Time is up, George.
25:20Just the four?
25:21Just the four.
25:22Just the four.
25:23Will?
25:24I'll try a seven.
25:25Trying a seven.
25:26Who knows after the last round?
25:27George?
25:28Punt.
25:29Punt is there.
25:30Will?
25:31Umpteen.
25:32To Dictionary Corner.
25:33Umpteen is absolutely brilliant in the dictionary.
25:35Well done.
25:36APPLAUSE
25:38Our challenger in the lead.
25:39Anything else, Geoff?
25:41Not really.
25:42I mean, nutmeg was six, but umpteen was brilliant.
25:45Umpteen, very good.
25:46But we can only give you seven points for it.
25:49And that's priceless.
25:50A seven-point lead.
25:51We're going to have a little bit of daylight
25:53as we get our origins of words, Susie.
25:55Well, a bit of a theme going on in the corner here.
25:58You mentioned our lovely viewers who should write in to audition,
26:02but also please keep writing in to send me fantastic queries
26:06that get me scurrying around the dictionary.
26:08This one comes from Susie from Felixstowe.
26:11And I was talking yesterday about not a dickie bird,
26:15if you remember, and the sort of dickie...
26:17You know, our tendency to give names to animals.
26:20Obviously, we give them to pets.
26:22And Susie asks, being a massive animal lover, she says,
26:25why are we sometimes referred to a cat as a moggy
26:28and a dog as a pooch?
26:31And it's a very good question.
26:33Moggy is simply, like magpie, it is simply a version of Margaret.
26:39Lots and lots of different ones.
26:40And magpie was actually called maggoty pie for a bit
26:43because maggot in French is short for marguerite,
26:46the French form of Margaret.
26:47So it kind of all ties together.
26:49So, again, simply a matter of giving a lovely name
26:52to one of our animals.
26:53Incidentally, pussy, as in pussy cat,
26:55that is simply like the cat calls.
26:58And that gave us the name.
27:00It was onomatopoeic like so much in English.
27:02Then we have a pooch,
27:04and that word arrived in the early 20th century,
27:07and that might come from the German putzi.
27:09And that is a term of endearment that, again,
27:11is a popular name for pets.
27:13It doesn't quite have an English equivalent,
27:15but it's a lovely one.
27:17Now, we've talked before about the garden, Robin.
27:19You have one that you call Roberta in your garden,
27:24who is very cute.
27:27Robin, a version of Robert.
27:29But you might not know that parrot
27:31is actually a version of the French name Pierrot,
27:34which means little Peter, which is quite cute.
27:38Although in Britain we like to call our parrots Polly,
27:40which is a little bit confusing.
27:41And the parakeet probably takes its name from the Spanish Pedro.
27:45I love that. Thank you.
27:46APPLAUSE
27:49Four rounds to go.
27:50Will, you've got your nose in front, and it's your letters.
27:53A consonant, please.
27:55Thank you, Will.
27:56H
27:57And another, please.
27:58N
27:59And another.
28:01G
28:02And a vowel.
28:04I
28:05And another.
28:06A
28:07And another.
28:08E
28:10And a consonant.
28:12P
28:14And a consonant.
28:16G
28:17And a final vowel.
28:19And a final A.
28:22Hind eye.
28:43MUSIC
28:54Will.
28:55Seven.
28:56And George.
28:57Seven.
28:58Seven as well.
28:59What have we got, Will?
29:00Heaping.
29:01Yes, will be the same, won't it?
29:02Yep.
29:03Yep, came out in the first seven letters.
29:05Heaping.
29:06Over to Susie and Geoff.
29:09All sevens, I think, aren't there, Susie?
29:11Yes.
29:12Paging.
29:13Yeah, all of those.
29:14A gape, that takes us down to five.
29:16So heaping was the best that we could see.
29:18Yeah.
29:19George, you had, I think, one crucial countdown conundrum so far, isn't that right?
29:22Yeah, first one, first episode.
29:23Yeah, you've been sailing since then.
29:25You could be back there today, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
29:28Final letters round.
29:29You, George.
29:30Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:32Thank you, George.
29:33S
29:34And another.
29:35L
29:36And another.
29:38R
29:39And a vowel, please.
29:41E
29:42And another.
29:43I
29:44And another.
29:45U
29:46And a consonant, please.
29:48X
29:49And another.
29:51T
29:52And a final consonant, please.
29:54And a final D.
29:56Last letters.
30:11MUSIC PLAYS
30:28Talk to me, George.
30:29Try an eight.
30:30Talk to me, Will.
30:31Seven.
30:32What's the seven?
30:33Dustier.
30:34The eight, George.
30:35Diluters.
30:36Diluters.
30:37People who dilute.
30:39Well, not so much people, things, substances, solvents,
30:42but in the dictionary. Well done.
30:44Nice.
30:49Big It.
30:50Anything else for us?
30:52Well, Susie's come up with studlier,
30:54which I haven't got a clue what that means, Susie.
30:56You must have heard this before, Geoff.
30:58At youth, sexually attractive in a strongly masculine way is to be studly.
31:01Well, that is why I've never heard of it, obviously.
31:04One point in it still.
31:07On for this crucial countdown conundrum.
31:09Will, final numbers.
31:11Too large, please.
31:12Too large.
31:13Playing it cautiously.
31:14Going for that crucial conundrum.
31:16Let's see if we get there.
31:17Final numbers today.
31:1810, 9, 6, 3, 100 and 50.
31:25And the target to reach, 966.
31:28966, last numbers.
31:33MUSIC PLAYS
31:35MUSIC CONTINUES
32:02966.
32:03966.
32:04George.
32:05966.
32:06Here we go. Off you go, Will.
32:08100 multiplied by the 9.
32:10900.
32:12Add the 50 and the 10 and the 6.
32:15Yeah, it all fell out, this one.
32:16All on the conundrum.
32:18Same way.
32:22Well, here we go.
32:24Six wins so far for Foo Fighters fanatic George Baker.
32:28We have seen the best of you,
32:30but Will might be the pretender to your throne.
32:33Whoever gets this will be thinking about it forever long.
32:36Let's reveal today's crucial countdown conundrum.
32:43It's risky, George.
32:44Cluttered.
32:45Let's have a look.
32:46He's done it!
32:51Rock and roll, buddy, rock and roll.
32:54Really good.
32:55I mean, yesterday you cruised to your highest ever score.
32:57Today you had it tough from your very first note.
32:59Absolutely.
33:00I think coronates is now my new favourite non-word ever.
33:03Got away with one there.
33:04Well, you're still king of countdown
33:06and tomorrow you go for OctoChamp.
33:08Thank you, thank you.
33:09Will, did you have a good time?
33:11A brilliant time, yeah.
33:12One of those moments always makes me a little sad
33:14when we have a challenger and I'm thinking,
33:16on another day, you're going to win 3, 4, 5.
33:19Thank you, Will. Well done to you.
33:20Geoff, Susie, big day tomorrow. See you then.
33:22See you then.
33:23Hey, cartoons came out earlier.
33:25We were talking about the Loch Ness Monster,
33:27which reminds me.
33:28It might be a little bit before your time,
33:30but people in my generation would be like,
33:32oh, my goodness, the family Ness.
33:34There was a huge BBC cartoon about the Loch Ness Monster
33:38and a family who I think were called the McTouts
33:41or something like that.
33:42Do you remember it?
33:43I'm picturing a kind of dinosaur with a tartan hat
33:46and maybe some bagpipes.
33:47Yes, that was it.
33:48It wasn't clichéd at all.
33:51But there was hundreds of these.
33:53It was a bit like the Mr Men, you know.
33:55They all had names.
33:56So I remember there was Speedy Ness, which would be you.
34:00Clumsiness, which would be me.
34:02Grumpiness, which would be Susie.
34:05So they had all these characters.
34:07Brilliant.
34:08Have you got a VHS player?
34:09I'll lend it to you for the kids.
34:11Yeah, I'll have to get one.
34:12I've got it, right.
34:13That's all from us.
34:14Back in at the deep end.
34:15Same time, same place tomorrow.
34:16Susie, Rachel and I will be here.
34:18You can count on us.
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34:25You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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