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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio, Rachel.
00:35How often I'm out in the car and I get a call.
00:38Can you just pop in and pick up a bottle of milk at the supermarket?
00:43I say, all right.
00:44So I do that and then you get to the checkout and there's a queue a mile long.
00:49People have got stacks of stuff and you say, oh, no, I'm now going to have to wait forever.
00:55Forever.
00:55Some supermarkets have got the self-checkouts, which is fine, but many don't.
01:00But great news is on the way.
01:03Great news is on the way for the impatient because supermarkets are trialing completely till-free stores.
01:09And the deal is that you get something, an app on your phone and you scan everything you buy on your app.
01:16And then you present your phone at some sort of machine at the checkout.
01:20And that then triggers a transaction from your bank account to the supermarket account and off you go.
01:28Isn't that brilliant?
01:29Wouldn't have to talk to anybody.
01:31No, well, you've got sometimes you would think, wouldn't it be nice if somebody would say, oh, have you only got a bottle of milk?
01:36Why didn't you come in front of my three tons of groceries?
01:39Well, they never do anywhere.
01:41Yeah, they do.
01:41I still do that.
01:42You do that?
01:43Yeah.
01:44But also, you're trying to scan a bottle of brandy.
01:47Mm-hmm.
01:47And suddenly, an assistant arrives to just check that you're overage.
01:53Yeah, and all the other dodgy things that you buy in the supermarket, Nick.
01:57You'll be able to just pop them in your bag and go on your way.
02:00Oh, poor thought.
02:02Oh, right.
02:03I may have missed something there.
02:05I'll come back to you on that.
02:07I'll come back to you on that.
02:08Anyway, technology, you love that sort of thing.
02:11And I buy absolutely into it if it saves time.
02:13Now, Rachel, he's back.
02:16The child wonder here.
02:17Andrew Jackson, math student at Kiel.
02:20116 yesterday.
02:21Well done.
02:22The previous, 103.
02:24So you're doing very well.
02:25You're doing very well.
02:26But never get comfortable, Andrew, because somebody will sneak up and take it all away.
02:30Will that be Abby Watley, I wonder?
02:33Welcome, Abby.
02:34Maths teacher from Romsey in Hampshire, teaches in Winchester, and a good tennis player.
02:39Plays, in fact, for the Hampshire Apsley's top league, yeah?
02:43Yeah.
02:43Except we've now got a baby, little Amelia.
02:45Yeah, 10-month-old.
02:47Oh, sweet.
02:47And she's watching Mummy.
02:49Well, she wants to do a stadium tour of Old Trafford, so my husband's taken her very kindly.
02:54Oh, is that right?
02:55Well done.
02:56There's a fan over there for you.
02:59Well done.
02:59Amelia.
03:00Brilliant.
03:00Well, good luck to you.
03:02Good luck to you both.
03:02Big round of applause now for Abby and Andrew.
03:11And sitting next to the wonderful Susie Dent, we have, once again, Jenny Eclair, stand-up
03:16comic, author, actress, and everything else.
03:19Wonderful to see you back.
03:21We had some good fun yesterday.
03:26All right.
03:27Now, what should we do?
03:28Andrew?
03:29Off we go.
03:31Hi, Rachel.
03:31Hi, Andrew.
03:32Could I start with a consonant, please?
03:34We'll start today with L.
03:35And a second.
03:38N.
03:39A third.
03:41S.
03:42And a vowel, please.
03:44O.
03:45A second.
03:46I.
03:47And another vowel, please.
03:49E.
03:51A consonant.
03:52T.
03:54A consonant.
03:55F.
03:57And a final consonant, please.
03:59And a final W.
04:01And here's the countdown clock.
04:02F.
04:03And a vowel.
04:11E.
04:21E.
04:26E.
04:27E.
04:31Andrew?
04:35I'll try an eight.
04:36An eight.
04:37Abby?
04:38A five.
04:39And that five is?
04:40Lions.
04:42Flowiest.
04:43Um, the flowiest river.
04:46Um, yeah, I'm surprised by that, actually,
04:49because I'm going to be talking about something being flowing,
04:51but it's in the dictionary.
04:52Well done, Andrew.
04:52Yeah, especially with long hair or clothing,
04:54hanging or draping loosely and gracefully.
04:56Very good.
04:57Jenny?
04:58Very badly.
04:59Very bad start.
05:00Foils, as in, you know, hair foils when you have your hair bleached.
05:05Not that mine's not natural, obviously, but...
05:08Um, there is one of the eight, uh, Nick, toe lines.
05:12Another one for toe ropes.
05:13All right.
05:14Um, Abby, your letters again.
05:17Hi, Rachel.
05:17Hi, Abby.
05:18Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:20Start with R.
05:22And another?
05:24C.
05:25And a vowel?
05:27I.
05:28And another?
05:29U.
05:30And a vowel?
05:33A.
05:33And a consonant?
05:36R.
05:36And another?
05:38T.
05:39And another?
05:41R.
05:42And a final consonant, please.
05:45And a final Y.
05:46Stand by.
05:47And a consonant, please.
05:48And a consonant, please.
05:48And a consonant, please.
05:49And a consonant, please.
05:50And a consonant, please.
05:51And a consonant, please.
05:52And a consonant, please.
05:53And a consonant, please.
05:53And a consonant, please.
05:54And a consonant, please.
05:55And a consonant, please.
05:56And a consonant, please.
05:57And a consonant, please.
05:58And a consonant, please.
05:59And a consonant, please.
06:00And a consonant, please.
06:01And a consonant, please.
06:02And a consonant, please.
06:03And a consonant, please.
06:04And a consonant, please.
06:05And a consonant, please.
06:06And a consonant, please.
06:07And a consonant, please.
06:08And a consonant, please.
06:09And a consonant, please.
06:10And a consonant, please.
06:11And a consonant, please.
06:12Abby.
06:19A six.
06:21And Andrew?
06:21Just a five.
06:23Your five?
06:24Carrie.
06:25Abby.
06:25Rarity.
06:26Yeah.
06:27Well done, Abby.
06:27Very good.
06:28In the corner, Susie and Jenny.
06:31Well, I saw an imaginary E for a while and got lots of things,
06:34but then I realised there was no E, so I got rarity too.
06:38Well done.
06:39Anything else, Susie?
06:40Acuity is there as well.
06:42Acuity of vision, for example, sharpness.
06:46Eight plays six.
06:47Abby on six.
06:48Andrew?
06:48Andrew, your numbers game.
06:50Can I have one large and five small, please?
06:52You can indeed.
06:52Thank you, Andrew.
06:53One large, five, a little.
06:55And the first one of the day is six, nine, nine, four, five, and 75.
07:03And the target, 813.
07:05Eight, one, three.
07:12Eight, one, four.
07:25Eight, one, four.
07:27Eight, one, four.
07:29Eight, one, four.
07:34Eight, one, four.
07:35Eight, one, four.
07:36Eight, one, four.
07:37Eight, one, four.
07:38Andrew?
07:39Just eight, one, four.
07:40Eight, one, four.
07:41Abby?
07:42Eight, one, two.
07:43And eight, one, two.
07:45Let's go with Andrew first.
07:47Nine over nine is one.
07:48Yep.
07:5075 minus one is 74.
07:52And then six plus five.
07:54Six plus five is 11.
07:56Times them together.
07:57Yep.
07:57Eight, one, four.
07:59Abby?
08:00I did six plus five is 11.
08:03Yep.
08:03Times 75.
08:05Eight, two, five.
08:06And then nine add four is 13 and take them away.
08:09Yep.
08:10One the other way.
08:11But sitting there, juicily in the middle, is 813, Rachel?
08:16Yes.
08:17And if you say nine minus five is four, times four is 16, added to 75 is 91, times the other
08:27nine for 819, and then take away the six, you get a juicy 813.
08:32That's the way.
08:34Well done.
08:36As ever.
08:38Absolutely spot on.
08:40Always.
08:41Time for a tea time teaser.
08:43It's roll panic.
08:44And the clue.
08:45The little china doll had skin made of this.
08:48The little china doll had skin made of this.
09:07Welcome back.
09:08I left you with the clue.
09:09The little china doll had skin made of this, made of, you got it, porcelain.
09:15Porcelain.
09:16So 15 plays 13, Abby on 13.
09:19Abby, your letters go.
09:20Can I start with a consonant, please?
09:22Thank you, Abby.
09:23M.
09:24And a vowel.
09:26O.
09:27And a consonant.
09:28G.
09:29And another.
09:32J.
09:33And a vowel.
09:35A.
09:36And another.
09:38U.
09:39And a consonant.
09:41R.
09:41And another.
09:43L.
09:44And a final consonant, please.
09:46And a final Z.
09:48Stand by.
09:48We'll see you again next week.
09:52MUSIC CONTINUES
10:22ABBY
10:23GORE
10:24Now, Andrew
10:26Glamour
10:27Yes, glamour, absolutely fine, nice word
10:30Unfortunately, no GORE, ABBY, it's capitalised in the dictionary
10:33Good luck
10:34Jenny and Susie, anything?
10:35I seized up over the Z, I couldn't
10:37No, I didn't do anything
10:41One's I goes to the most difficult one
10:43And then you start thinking you're playing Scrabble
10:45And you think, I could win with Zag
10:46As in Zig and Zag
10:48No, not the same game
10:50Exactly
10:50There we are, 22 to 13
10:53Andrew, your letters game
10:54Could I start with a consonant, please?
10:56Thank you, Andrew
10:57S
10:57And another
10:59X
11:01And another
11:02B
11:04A vowel, please
11:06I
11:07A second vowel, please
11:09E
11:10And a third
11:12O
11:12A consonant
11:15F
11:16Another consonant
11:18H
11:20A third consonant
11:22And the last one
11:24M
11:25Don't
11:27Don't
11:27Is
11:27A
11:28A
11:28B
11:30A
11:45B
11:45A
11:46B
11:48A
11:48A
11:48B
11:49Andrew?
11:59Six.
12:01Abby?
12:01Six.
12:03Homies?
12:04And Abby?
12:04The same.
12:05There we go.
12:06Susie?
12:07Jenny?
12:10Well, I started this and you finished it.
12:13Yes, exactly.
12:14Boxfish, we got together.
12:15Well done.
12:16Yes.
12:17Yes, tropical marine fish with a shell of bony plates from which spines project.
12:21Oh, right.
12:23And there's also something you're not, Nick.
12:25Himbo.
12:26Himbos, in fact, in the plural.
12:28Good-looking but unintelligent men.
12:31Which part of me is...
12:32Yes, you just don't fulfil the second part.
12:38Can we run through that again?
12:40I'm not sure.
12:41I think there might be an insult lurking in there.
12:44Good-looking but unintelligent.
12:47I don't know what to make of you.
12:4828 plays 19.
12:49Andrew on 28.
12:51Abby, your numbers game.
12:53Three large and three small, please.
12:55Thank you, Abby.
12:55Three from the top and three little maths teacher versus maths student.
12:59See how this goes.
13:00The little ones are nine, seven, ten.
13:03And the big ones, one hundred, seventy-five and twenty-five.
13:06And the target, one hundred and forty-four.
13:09One, four, four.
13:10Thank you, Abby.
13:18Three him, four, four.
13:26Three him, four, five.
13:26Four, five, six, seven, five.
13:28One, three.
13:36Abby.
13:42Just 142.
13:44142. Andrew?
13:46144.
13:47Yes, Andrew?
13:4810 plus 9.
13:5010 plus 9, 19.
13:52Plus 25.
13:53Plus 25, 44.
13:56Another 100.
13:56Yeah, 144. Well done.
14:01Well done.
14:03So 38 to 19, as we turn to Jenny,
14:06now, Jenny, what have you got for us today?
14:08We're going to talk hobbies today, Nick.
14:10Yes.
14:10I've decided I've reached the hobby time of life.
14:14And I've got roses in my garden.
14:16I've never had roses before.
14:18I had an epiphany in a garden centre in Shropshire,
14:21and I bought myself several pots of roses.
14:23I sing to my roses.
14:25I say, hello, my lovely ladies,
14:26my lovely, lovely lady, every morning.
14:29And they bloom and they grow over the summer, this was.
14:32And then you remember when it was very hot over the summer.
14:34Do you remember then?
14:35The hot summer, 2018, we had the drought.
14:38Even in London, there was, you know, threat of a hosepipe ban.
14:41My daughter, who's a bit like that, said,
14:43I had to decant my bath water into watering cans to water my roses.
14:49I dutifully did this.
14:50And the next morning, when I went out to sing,
14:52hello, my lovely ladies, they were all like this.
14:54Ooh, ooh.
14:55Their faces were all, ooh, ooh.
14:57Turned away.
14:59Yeah.
14:59That was funny.
15:00I almost killed them off.
15:01Oh, really?
15:02With my bath water.
15:03So you, you had a bucket or something in the bathroom,
15:07and you were sort of scooping.
15:08Decanting.
15:09Decanting.
15:10I even do it.
15:11I said to my daughter, if you're that fussed, you have to do it.
15:14She had to decant my scuzzy bath water.
15:16But we don't have any flowers at all in the garden.
15:18Oh, no.
15:19My partner's flower-free, but I quite like, I'm allowed white roses.
15:23He won't have colour.
15:24No colour.
15:25It's a difficult man.
15:27You're the colour in his life.
15:28I am.
15:29I'm more than enough colour in his life.
15:32We'll get back to that another day.
15:35Right now, with 38 against 19, Andrew in the lead.
15:39And to now, Andrew, it's your letters game.
15:42Could I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
15:44Thank you, Andrew.
15:45P.
15:46And another.
15:48S.
15:49A third.
15:51D.
15:53A vowel, please.
15:54A.
15:55And another.
15:57I.
15:59Another vowel, please.
16:01A.
16:03A consonant.
16:05T.
16:06Another consonant.
16:09W.
16:10And a final vowel, please.
16:12And a final I.
16:13Stand by.
16:16gaming store, please.
16:17I'm feeling sad here.
16:21I...
16:32Let's get started, change in time.
16:33If you answer, yeah.
16:35It's just a strange thing.
16:36The answer.
16:37What?
16:38Is there a vowel, please?
16:39I know.
16:40We're there.
16:41You're there.
16:42You're there.
16:42Yeah.
16:43Woo!
16:43último Oderch.
16:43Andrew?
16:46A six.
16:48Abby?
16:48I'll try a six.
16:50Yes, Andrew?
16:51A weight.
16:52Now, Abby?
16:54Pitzel.
16:55Ooh, might kick yourself, Abby.
16:57I don't think that one is in.
17:01Oh, it is in, actually, but it's two words, which is really unlucky.
17:05It's a large saw with handles at the top and bottom.
17:07Anything else, Susie?
17:09There is a seven.
17:10And wappities, a slightly strange-sounding word, but they are elks, really,
17:15natives of North America, the red deer of a large race.
17:18Thank you both.
17:19Thank you very much.
17:2044 to 19.
17:21And it's Abby.
17:23Now, good luck, Abby.
17:24Letters get them.
17:25A consonant, please.
17:26Thank you, Abby.
17:27R.
17:28And another.
17:30G.
17:32Vowel.
17:34I.
17:35And another.
17:37O.
17:38And a consonant.
17:40L.
17:41Consonant.
17:42S.
17:44Vowel.
17:46O.
17:48Consonant.
17:49N.
17:51And a final consonant, please.
17:53And a final T.
17:55Stand by.
17:55Vowel.
17:56Vowel.
17:57Vowel.
17:57Vowel.
17:58Vowel.
17:58Vowel.
17:58Vowel.
17:58Vowel.
17:59Vowel.
17:59Vowel.
17:59Vowel.
17:59Vowel.
18:00Vowel.
18:00Vowel.
18:00Vowel.
18:01Vowel.
18:01Vowel.
18:01Vowel.
18:01Vowel.
18:01Vowel.
18:01Vowel.
18:02Vowel.
18:02Vowel.
18:02Vowel.
18:02Vowel.
18:02Vowel.
18:03Vowel.
18:03Vowel.
18:03Vowel.
18:03Vowel.
18:04Vowel.
18:04Vowel.
18:05Vowel.
18:05Vowel.
18:06Vowel.
18:06Vowel.
18:07Vowel.
18:25Abby, what do you think?
18:28A five.
18:29Andrew?
18:30A eight.
18:31So, Abby?
18:32Stool.
18:34And stooling?
18:36Stooling, yes.
18:38Cutting plants, for example, that's just stool them,
18:40and that's a very good eight.
18:41Our flower expert will know all about that.
18:44Now, what else have you got there?
18:46I've got nothing.
18:47I've got nothing.
18:48I've got lions, which is poor.
18:51Lions.
18:52Yeah, I'm sorry.
18:53Lovely lions.
18:53And the else, what have you got?
18:55Roosting, we'll give you another eight,
18:57and lotions are there for seven.
18:5952 plays 19.
19:01Andrew, your numbers game.
19:03Could I have one large and five small, please?
19:06Thank you, Andrew.
19:07One large, five little.
19:09And they are four, one, three, seven, five,
19:15and a large on 100.
19:17And the target, 957.
19:20957.
19:48Andrew?
19:52Um, 9, 5, 5, I think.
19:55Two away.
19:56Abby?
19:57No, I didn't guess it.
19:58Let's stick with Andrew for the moment.
20:00Yes, Andrew?
20:01So I did 100 minus 5.
20:02100 minus 5, 95.
20:04Times by the 7 plus 3.
20:067 plus 3 for 10.
20:07Times them together, 9, 50.
20:09And then just add the 4 and 1.
20:10Yep, and that gets you to 2 away.
20:129, 5, 5.
20:14Very good.
20:15But, Rachel, can you crack it for us?
20:179, 5, 7?
20:18I can, Nick.
20:19If you say 5 plus 4 is 9.
20:237 minus 1 is 6.
20:24Plus 100 for 106.
20:27Times those together for 954.
20:30And add on the 3 for 9, 5, 7.
20:32Perfect.
20:33Lovely.
20:37Wonderful.
20:38Wonderful.
20:39Time for a second tea-time teaser.
20:41Which is, her doesn't.
20:45And the clue, her hair.
20:47Doesn't look as long as it usually is.
20:50Her hair doesn't look as long as it usually is.
20:53Welcome back.
21:08I left you with the clue, her hair doesn't look as long as it usually is.
21:13That's because it's been shortened, is the answer.
21:18Shortened.
21:18So, 59 plays 19.
21:21Abby, your letters game.
21:22A consonant, please.
21:24Thank you, Abby.
21:25V.
21:26And a vowel.
21:28E.
21:29And another.
21:30E.
21:31Consonant.
21:33P.
21:34And another.
21:36M.
21:37And another.
21:39N.
21:39And a consonant, please.
21:49And a final S.
21:51Stand by.
21:52And a consonant.
21:52And a consonant, please.
21:53And a consonant, please.
21:54And a consonant, please.
21:55And a consonant, please.
21:56And a consonant.
21:57And a consonant, please.
21:57And a consonant, please.
21:58And a consonant, please.
21:58And a consonant, please.
21:58And a consonant, please.
21:58And a consonant, please.
21:58And a consonant, please.
21:59And a consonant, please.
21:59And a consonant, please.
21:59And a consonant, please.
21:59And a consonant, please.
22:00And a consonant, please.
22:00And a consonant, please.
22:01And a consonant, please.
22:01And a consonant, please.
22:02And a consonant, please.
22:02And a consonant, please.
22:03And a consonant, please.
22:03And a consonant, please.
22:04And a consonant, please.
22:04And a consonant, please.
22:05And a consonant, please.
22:06ABBY
22:246
22:256
22:26Andrew?
22:27Risky 6
22:28ABBY
22:29Sapine
22:31and
22:32Paimon
22:33Okay, so
22:36S-A-P-I-N-E
22:37Yes
22:38Not in
22:39Unfortunately
22:40I'm sorry, Abby
22:42No, not there
22:43And Paimon is good old traditional
22:45Countdown words
22:46That one certainly is
22:47Yeah
22:48Very good
22:49Well done
22:50And
22:51Jenny
22:52Jenny and Susie
22:53I saw a rogue G
22:55I keep imagining other letters now
22:57I don't know what's happening
22:58I got vapes
22:59Which is poor
23:01Well
23:02But it's modern
23:03It's modern
23:04Yes
23:05And
23:06It's
23:07You drag something out of a nasty little collection of letters really
23:09Yeah
23:10Vapes
23:11I think that's brilliant
23:12Um
23:13Yes
23:14There is
23:15Pensive
23:16And
23:17There's also pea vines I think
23:18Oh
23:19I like that word
23:20North American meadow vetch
23:22That's a pea vine
23:23Wonderful
23:2465 to 19
23:26Now then
23:27Andrew
23:28Your letters game
23:29Could I start with a consonant please
23:30Thank you Andrew
23:31R
23:32And another
23:33L
23:34A third
23:37B
23:38A vowel please
23:40U
23:41A second vowel
23:42E
23:44And a consonant
23:45N
23:47And another
23:49G
23:51A vowel
23:53U
23:54And a final consonant please
23:57And a final T
23:58Stand by
23:59Of a
24:04비밀
24:06And another
24:12C
24:14A
24:16A
24:18H
24:19Informy
24:21San Jerry
24:22Andrew?
24:31A seven.
24:32A seven.
24:32Abby?
24:33Seven.
24:34Yes?
24:35Blunter.
24:36Abby?
24:37Bungler?
24:37Yes, you can certainly be a bungler.
24:39Very good.
24:40Very good.
24:41Very good.
24:42Two good ones.
24:43And Jenny?
24:44Jenny is in.
24:45Same as Andrew.
24:46Blunter.
24:47Yep.
24:47Bungler for me too, so we matched.
24:49There we are.
24:50Yep.
24:50Close that down.
24:51From 72 to 26.
24:53Susie, it's your origins of words.
24:55Now, what have you got for us today?
24:57I have an email from Barbara Robbins.
25:00Thanks to Barbara for emailing in.
25:02She's from Stafford and she asks, why do we say good, better, best and not good, gooder,
25:07goodest?
25:09And so this is all about the comparative and the superlative.
25:11And there was a poll quite recently that discovered from its representative sample that 70% of us
25:18can't find or can't spot a comparative or a superlative in a sentence.
25:24I think that's just because of the grammatical terminology, to be honest, because I'm not sure many of us talk about comparatives and superlatives apart from on countdown.
25:31But anyway, that's what it's all about.
25:33And it's one of the many examples in which English is not straightforward.
25:39So gooder and goodest would make perfect sense as words.
25:43But as always, so many influences on English.
25:46And this is a perfect example of that.
25:48So we have to go back to the Germanic invaders we often do.
25:51And the ancient root of good was a word that also gave us gather and together because it's actually meant to bring people together.
25:59So it's a sort of unity, if you like.
26:01And because unity is a very positive thing, good came to mean pleasing and favourable, which is, of course, where it stands today.
26:08But the word had no regular comparative or superlative.
26:12Comparative meaning more, superlative meaning most, really, if you like.
26:16And it seems to have followed Latin in this.
26:19And we're not completely sure why, because Latin had three separate words as well.
26:22It had bonus meaning good, melhor meaning better, and optimus meaning best.
26:27And, of course, you can see how that thread runs through English to this day.
26:30And so the Anglo-Saxons borrowed another set of Germanic words, betterer and betest, which again goes back to a root meaning advantage.
26:39And that was B-A-T, advantage.
26:40That's given us to boot, the expression to boot.
26:43That's the only thing it survives in.
26:45To boot meaning sort of added on as an extra, as an advantage, if you like.
26:49So all of which means we might say we've been talking about boot, better, best.
26:54But we didn't.
26:55So what we did was we stuck with good and then added those two other influences on, if you like.
27:01As for bad, worse, and worst, the forms badder and baddest were actually alive and well in old English times.
27:07But they were gradually replaced in standard English by worst and worst.
27:11Again, a different influence.
27:12It goes back to a German root again, which is actually linked to war.
27:17And worst is a sausage because it's all about a sort of confusion or a jumble, just as a sausage is a worst, is a confusion of ingredients, if you like.
27:26So really, really tricky story.
27:28And so often with English history, you have to kind of wind your way through this thorny route.
27:32But hopefully we'll get there in the end.
27:33Well, it's done.
27:40Tricky country, isn't it?
27:41Yeah, it's a very tricky language.
27:43And, yeah, sorry if that was a bit complicated.
27:45Not at all.
27:46You unravelled it beautifully.
27:4872 to 26.
27:50Abby, your letters game.
27:53A consonant, please.
27:54Thank you, Abby.
27:55P.
27:56And another.
27:58D.
27:59And a vowel.
28:01A.
28:02And another.
28:04E.
28:05And a consonant.
28:07R.
28:09Consonant.
28:11S.
28:13Another consonant.
28:15T.
28:16And a vowel.
28:19A.
28:21And a final consonant, please.
28:23And a final K.
28:24Stand by.
28:25Now, we'll see you guys next time.
28:39Bye.
28:43I'm angry.
28:43I'm angry.
28:44I'm angry.
28:47I'm angry.
28:49I'm angry.
28:50Now, I'm angry.
28:50I'm angry.
28:51And a vowel.
28:52I'm angry.
28:52And a medo.
28:53I'm angry.
28:54Abby seven seven Andrew eight and an eight Abby darkest Andrew adapters yeah excellent
29:05Jenny Jenny what news eight oh I'm sure myself partakes perfect very good perfect
29:19anything else Susie just sparked otherwise for seven that's brilliant partakes I'll partake of some of
29:25that 80 to 26 Andrew your final letters game our final letters game could I start with a consonant
29:31please thank you Andrew D and a vowel U another vowel E consonant please L consonant N vowel
29:49O consonant R consonant D and a final consonant please and a final Q and the clock starts now
30:02so
30:09yes Andrew a six a six Abby seven thank you Andrew trolled
30:16yes Andrew a six a six Abby seven thank you Andrew trolled trolled and rounded um yeah excellent very
30:43very good happy Susie um no drolled I'm afraid just rolls you can't put the D on the end but
30:51very good thank you now Jenny I've got lauded as in lauded over he lauded over me yeah strangely you
31:00can put UN um on the front of that and have unloaded so somebody who hasn't been granted the status of a
31:05lord believe it or not that will give you an eight really I didn't know that very old first I should think
31:1180 place 33 into the final numbers game Abby uh two large and four small please thank you Abby two from
31:20the top four little and the last one of the day is 10 3 1 8 50 and 100 and target 326 three two six
31:32two
31:49phenomenal
31:51jack
31:54jack
31:55jack
31:55jack
31:58jack
31:59jack
32:00jack
32:00jack
32:02Abby?
32:053, 2, 8.
32:073, 2, 8.
32:08Andrew?
32:09Just 3, 2, 5, not written down.
32:11Let's hear.
32:11Let's hear, Andrew.
32:13100 plus 8.
32:14108.
32:16Times 3.
32:173, 2, 4.
32:18Add 1.
32:19Yeah.
32:20Add 1.
32:21One away.
32:22Close, but not quite perfect.
32:24Is it possible to be perfect?
32:26It is.
32:27Very close.
32:28If you say 100 minus 8 is 92, times that by 3 for 276, and add on a 50.
32:36Oh, that's perfect.
32:38Thanks, Andrew.
32:41So 87 to 33, final round.
32:44Fingers on buzzers.
32:46Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:49Andrew?
33:09Wordsmith.
33:10Wordsmith.
33:12Let's see whether you're right.
33:14Here we go.
33:14Wordsmith.
33:15Well done.
33:20Well done.
33:2197.
33:2297.
33:23So well done, Andrew.
33:24Thank you, Andrew.
33:24Six wins on your birthday as well.
33:26So happy birthday.
33:27I'll come back to you in a second.
33:28Abby, well played.
33:30You kept him under control.
33:32Kept him under 100.
33:33You did.
33:34Well, that's to your credit then.
33:37Here's a goodie bag.
33:38Back to Romsey.
33:39And back to Amelia, most importantly.
33:42Thank you very much indeed for coming.
33:44Well done.
33:44And we shall see you tomorrow.
33:46Happy birthday, as I say.
33:48And six wins.
33:49Very good stuff.
33:50Well done.
33:51Jenny?
33:52Yes.
33:52Will you come tomorrow?
33:54Well, unless I'm too hungover celebrating Andrew's birthday, obviously.
33:58Quite.
33:58How old are you, sorry?
34:0020.
34:00For heaven's sake.
34:02I know.
34:04Ties are all round.
34:06See you tomorrow, Jenny.
34:08And Susie too, of course.
34:09See you then.
34:09And Rachel?
34:10And I think Abby deserves at least a teapot, because her husband's taken her baby daughter
34:14on a tour of Old Traffin, and she's a Cardiff City fan.
34:18We'll do our best.
34:19That's got to be worth something to be able to concentrate through that.
34:21I think so.
34:22We'll do our best.
34:23In the meantime, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:25See you tomorrow.
34:25Of course we will.
34:26Same time, same place.
34:27You'll be sure of it.
34:28A very good afternoon.
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