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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown on Friday, July the 7th.
00:35And listen, I know other shows say this, but we're right.
00:38Countdown viewers are the best thing since sliced bread.
00:41From your emails for origins of words, your knitting jumpers,
00:45to the general good vibes you send out every day.
00:48And, Rachel Riley, the best thing since sliced bread,
00:52a phrase that couldn't have possibly been used until 1928,
00:57because that's when Otto Rowetter, on this day,
01:01created a machine that could actually slice bread.
01:03Considering there's evidence of bread being made like 10,000 years ago.
01:07It's bizarre, isn't it?
01:08There's people alive now that were alive when sliced bread was invented.
01:14It's not something I've ever considered, but it's a very good fact of the day.
01:16Thank you, Colin.
01:17Thank you so much.
01:18Really looking forward to this Friday show and rising to the occasion,
01:22as always, is our G of the D, Susie Dent.
01:24And we welcome back a proper member of the Countdown family,
01:27Rory Bremner, who is here.
01:29That's lovely to speak to you.
01:30That's lovely.
01:32Yay.
01:32Our champion's back for only a second time, won his show with 85 points.
01:37David Edwards, we discovered, of course,
01:39that you won four lawnmowers in separate competitions and none of them work.
01:43But outside of that, part of your job is designing road signs.
01:49Tell me about that.
01:50That's fantastic.
01:51I don't generally get involved in actually designing new symbols or anything like that.
01:56I just tend to do the dirty work of telling people where to go.
01:58So it's basically trying to make drivers understand the sort of junctions they're approaching
02:06and what to do, basically.
02:08Well, today you're up against Annie Sinclair, who lives in Dunfermline in Scotland.
02:13Loads to talk to you about.
02:14I'm expecting big things in the numbers rounds because you gained a Master's in Mathematics
02:18and Data Science from the University of Stirling.
02:22You're fresh out of university.
02:23But you get married and you're crocheting with being big and knitting recently.
02:28You're crocheting your own wedding dress.
02:30How does that work?
02:32Oh, well, I crochet a lot.
02:34As soon as I'm done with work for the day, I pick up a crochet hook and I'm obsessed.
02:40So next project on my list was, well, when I got engaged, was wedding dress.
02:46Why not?
02:47So we're not getting married for over a year.
02:49So I've left myself plenty of time to make and remake it.
02:53Brilliant.
02:53I love that.
02:54I love that.
02:55Well, listen, good luck to you.
02:56Annie and David.
02:56APPLAUSE
02:57Right, David, here's the sign.
03:01Off you go.
03:02Afternoon, Rachel.
03:03Afternoon, David.
03:04Start with the consonant, please.
03:05Start today with G.
03:08And another.
03:11M.
03:12One more, please.
03:15D.
03:16And a vowel.
03:18U.
03:20Another vowel.
03:21I.
03:22I.
03:22I.
03:22I.
03:24Consonant.
03:26R.
03:28Another consonant.
03:29T.
03:30Vowel.
03:34U.
03:36And another vowel, please.
03:39A final.
03:40E.
03:41At home, man, in the studio.
03:43Let's play Countdown.
03:43MUSIC PLAYS
03:44David.
03:49MUSIC PLAYS
04:14David. Try six. And Annie? A six.
04:17And the six says David? Grimed.
04:19And Annie? Guider. Guider and Grimed, Susie Dent.
04:24Yeah. Guider is... I did check that one.
04:27It is simply a synonym for guide, so that's fine.
04:30And I'm pretty sure grime is there as a verb as well.
04:32It is, yeah, to blacken or make dirty, so both fine.
04:35Anything above that, Rory? Turgid was there. Yeah? Mm-hm.
04:39If you wanted it, but, yeah. And Guider we had as well. So, well done.
04:42Nothing above that. Well done, Annie.
04:44That's as nervous as you'll be, and you managed to get six points.
04:47So let's get your first letters right.
04:50A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Annie.
04:53OK. OK. OK. All right, Annie.
04:54OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. So let's get your first.
05:00V. A vowel please. O. And another. E. And a third. I. A consonant please. L. And a vowel. E. And a final consonant please. A final S. 30 seconds.
05:30S. 30 seconds.
06:00A seven. And David? Seven. Brilliant. What have we got? Shovels. Shovels. Shovels. Yeah. There you go. Great. We all saw shovels nobody could get away from. Or maybe you could. Rory?
06:15Yes. Shelves is there as well. For another seven. Silos was six. But yeah. 13 points each. David. First numbers round.
06:24Two large please. Rachel. Thank you David. Two large numbers and four not large numbers.
06:29And the first one of the day is two, nine, eight, four, 25 and 50. And the target to reach...
06:39Eight hundred and sixty-seven. Eight, six, seven. Numbers up.
06:42Eight hundred and sixty-seven.
06:47Eight, six, seven, eight, six, seven, eight.
06:53Seven, nine, seven, eight.
06:59Seven, nine, eight, ten.
07:01Seven, nine, four, four, five.
07:058, 6, 7. First target of today's countdown. David?
07:168, 6, 7. Not written down.
07:18No worries. And Annie?
07:198, 6, 3.
07:21OK. We may need you. David looks worried. Let's find out.
07:259 plus 8, 17.
07:289 plus 8, 17.
07:31Multiply by the 50.
07:32850.
07:33Then at the 25.
07:358, 7, 5.
07:362 times 4 was 8.
07:38No need to look worried.
07:398, 6, 7.
07:40There you go.
07:43Very good. First daylight for a champion as we get our first tea time teaser.
07:48I be let out. I be let out.
07:52Will I ever be let out of here? I think I'm trapped.
07:54Will I ever be let out of here? I think I'm trapped.
07:57Welcome back. I think we'll have to refer to Susie Dent for this one.
08:16Will I ever be let out of here? I think I'm trapped.
08:19I be out became Oubliette.
08:21Mmm. It sounds really romantic, but it's anything but.
08:24I think there's one in the Tower of London.
08:26So it's a dungeon. It's really small.
08:28And the only access is through a trap door in the ceiling.
08:30So once you're in, you're forgotten about.
08:32It goes back to the French. You forget.
08:34Beautiful. Annie, let's get more letters.
08:37A consonant, please, Rachel.
08:38Thank you, Annie.
08:40P.
08:41And another.
08:43R.
08:44And a third.
08:47T.
08:49And a vowel, please.
08:51A.
08:53And another.
08:55I.
08:56Another vowel, please.
08:59E.
09:01A consonant.
09:03M.
09:06A consonant, please.
09:08L.
09:11And a final vowel, please.
09:12And a final E.
09:15Thank you, Rachel.
09:16Thank you, Rachel.
09:16Thank you, Rachel.
09:18Thank you, Rachel.
09:20Thank you, Rachel.
09:20Thank you, Rachel.
09:21Thank you, Rachel.
09:22Thank you, Rachel.
09:22Thank you, Rachel.
09:22Thank you, Rachel.
09:23Thank you, Rachel.
09:23Thank you, Rachel.
09:23Thank you, Rachel.
09:24Thank you, Rachel.
09:24Thank you, Rachel.
09:25Thank you, Rachel.
09:25Thank you, Rachel.
09:26Thank you, Rachel.
09:26Thank you, Rachel.
09:26Thank you, Rachel.
09:27Thank you, Rachel.
09:27Thank you, Rachel.
09:28Thank you, Rachel.
09:28Thank you, Rachel.
09:29Thank you, Rachel.
09:30Thank you, Rachel.
09:31Thank you, Rachel.
09:32Thank you, Rachel.
09:33Thank you, Rachel.
09:34Thank you, Rachel.
09:35Thank you, Rachel.
09:36Thank you, Rachel.
09:37Thank you, Rachel.
09:38How do you get on, Annie?
09:48Seven.
09:49And David?
09:50Risk an eight.
09:52I'm going to risk an eight.
09:53The seven is?
09:54Planter.
09:55Planter.
09:56And David?
09:57Palm tree.
09:58Oh, it's palm tree.
10:00One word, two words are hyphenated.
10:02It's A, B or C, Susie.
10:04Well, I have to first of all just say that planter needs an N,
10:06which we don't have, unfortunately.
10:09And just to confirm you as the baddie,
10:10palm tree is two words.
10:12Yeah, it didn't feel like one word, to be honest,
10:15but you knew that, David, when you took the risk.
10:17Ten-point cushion allowed you to do that, I think.
10:20Obviously, there was a seven-letter word
10:22that came out straight away in the first seven letters.
10:26Primate.
10:27Yes, there you go.
10:28Well done.
10:28Is there any eights or none?
10:30I'm surprised you didn't get this one.
10:32And perlite.
10:33Why are you surprised I didn't get that?
10:35Because it is a mixture of ferrite and cementite.
10:38that forms distinct layers of bands
10:41in slowly cooked carbon steels.
10:43Wow.
10:44Haven't you got that in your oubliette?
10:46David, surprised we all didn't get that, eh?
10:49Let's move on.
10:50Try a consonant, please.
10:51Thank you, David.
10:53W.
10:54And another.
10:56R.
10:58Vowel, please.
11:00A.
11:00Consonant.
11:03T.
11:06Vowel.
11:08E.
11:10Consonant.
11:11D.
11:13Consonant.
11:15N.
11:18Vowel.
11:20U.
11:21And another vowel, please.
11:27And the last one.
11:28I.
11:29Half a minute.
11:30Same a minut.
11:32I.
11:32Vowel.
11:34M.
11:42Vowel.
11:43Chodi.
11:49L neo.
11:49David.
12:02Seven.
12:03And Annie?
12:04Seven as well.
12:05Seven.
12:05Good contest today, David.
12:07Trained.
12:08Yes?
12:08Trained as well.
12:09There you go.
12:10Matching each other.
12:11Bang on time.
12:13Seven points each.
12:14Anything better?
12:15Yeah, sorry, lowering the tone a bit, but urinated is there.
12:18You do what you do for the points.
12:20Okay, there you go.
12:21Is ruinated a word?
12:23Oh, yeah, I think we have to talk about ruination.
12:26So why not?
12:28Yes, it is.
12:29Excellent.
12:30Hooray, so you're ruinated or urinated.
12:31Very good.
12:32Well, we'll leave that round unrated and we'll move back to the numbers.
12:35And Annie, first time picking the maths degree needs to come into play.
12:40Too large, please, Rachel.
12:42Thank you, Annie.
12:42Too large for a little coming up.
12:44And this time around, the small numbers are four, five, oh, eight, and one, and the big
12:51two, 175.
12:54And the target to reach 438.
12:57438.
12:58Numbers up.
12:58All right.
13:15All right.
13:22All right.
13:24Annie, how did you get on?
13:31437.
13:32One away. David?
13:34438. Off you go.
13:36100 plus 8.
13:38108. Multiply by 4.
13:41432.
13:41And add the 5 and the 1.
13:43Well done. 438.
13:46Absolutely even, Stephens, on the letters so far.
13:49The numbers have made the big difference today, often the kiss.
13:53As we take a break and head over to Dictionary Corner.
13:56Rory, we were worried about you when you turned up today,
13:59cos you're always, you know, one of the nicest people.
14:02Everyone loves having you here on camera and off camera.
14:04But you've been doing a play, so we thought you might have came here,
14:08been addressing room demands and talking about the art.
14:12Impossible. Like, my favourite, yes, was it Simon Callow waiting for a taxi
14:16with a great long scarf and a fedora?
14:19He gets into the taxi and the taxi driver says,
14:21Where to, Gav? He says, The National Theatre, please.
14:24And the taxi driver goes,
14:26Where else?
14:30Yeah, so, yeah, I'm doing a play.
14:32I'm being Chris Tarrant in Quiz.
14:35OK.
14:35And you remember the story, Quiz, the coughing major, who wants to be a millionaire?
14:40Yes.
14:41I think it was 2001, when the guy, Charles Ingram, he won a million,
14:45and then they played the soundtrack back.
14:47They thought there was something a bit strange about this.
14:48There's coughs and just what he needs to have prompting.
14:52And, sure enough, it went to court.
14:55He lost the case.
14:56They decided that he'd cheated.
14:58And he was fined £15,000, had a suspended sentence.
15:02And James Graham, brilliant James Graham, wrote a play about it,
15:05which was in Chichester about six years ago.
15:07And they were bringing it back.
15:09So I got one of those emails,
15:10Would you like to play Chris Tarrant?
15:12Which is great, because I can stretch the impression.
15:16And also, he doesn't like my impression of him,
15:18which is another bonus, really.
15:19Yes.
15:20Because I like to...
15:21Because I was going, he-he, OK, so, he-he.
15:24And he always says, oh, tee-hee, Bremner, tee-hee.
15:27I don't say tee-hee.
15:29So it'll be good fun.
15:30It'll be nice to see what his reaction is.
15:33But, yeah, over a whole sort of acting again.
15:36I've done it once before.
15:37Yeah.
15:37And in about a six-week run, I acted for about one minute,
15:41when Caroline Quentin, she changed the way she delivered a line.
15:45She was a maid, I was a butler.
15:46And she said, well, you should have put it there.
15:49And I was supposed to say, well, you didn't ask me.
15:51And one night she said, well, you should have put it there.
15:54And I said, well, you didn't ask me.
15:56And I'd never done the line that way before.
15:58And I could see her face just lit up,
16:00because it was a character reacting to another character in real time.
16:03Brilliant.
16:04So I'll learn more.
16:05Well, listen, two things.
16:07Good luck with it.
16:08I hope it goes really well.
16:09And secondly, just keep your ear out during this next round.
16:12Any coughs that we hear will be investigated.
16:15We will take David or Annie to court, if need be.
16:18That teapot is priceless.
16:20Thank you, Rory.
16:24And it's David, our champion, picking the letters.
16:26Start with the consonant, please.
16:28Thank you, David.
16:28And another.
16:31D.
16:33One more.
16:35W.
16:37Vowel.
16:39O.
16:40Another vowel.
16:41E.
16:44Consonant.
16:45T.
16:48Vowel.
16:50O.
16:52And a consonant.
16:55G.
16:55And another consonant, please.
17:00Final cue.
17:01Start the clock.
17:12I'm going to have a hand.
17:12I'll be back.
17:17Bye-bye.
17:20Bye-bye.
17:29Bye-bye.
17:30Bye-bye.
17:30Bye-bye.
17:31Bye-bye.
17:31Bye-bye.
17:32Bye-bye.
17:32David.
17:33Safe six.
17:35Yeah, Annie. Six as well.
17:37Yep. David.
17:38Toodle.
17:39Toodle, as in Toodle Pip?
17:41And Annie?
17:42Looted.
17:43Yeah, looted.
17:45Ooh.
17:46Erm, I would love to say that Toodle was a safe bet,
17:50but actually it is there as Toodle Lou, Toodle Pip,
17:53but not to Toodle on its own. Tootle would be there.
17:56We like Tootle.
17:58But not Toodle on its own. I'm so sorry.
18:00That's a shame.
18:01Well, you say goodbye to six points.
18:03Ooh.
18:04There you go. Looted's going to close that gap.
18:06What else do we have, Rory?
18:07It wouldn't be good if we dwelt on that one.
18:09Dwelt is there.
18:11Glowed as well, which is six, I think.
18:14Yes.
18:15Right, 14 points in it now.
18:17Very interesting. Annie?
18:19A consonant, please, Rachel.
18:21Thank you, Annie.
18:22N.
18:23And another.
18:25P.
18:26And another, please.
18:28L.
18:29A.
18:30And a vowel.
18:31I.
18:32Another vowel.
18:33E.
18:34And a third, please.
18:35A.
18:36A consonant.
18:37D.
18:38A vowel, please.
18:39I.
18:40And a final consonant, please.
18:41A final K.
18:42Half a minute.
18:43Half a minute.
18:44Half a minute.
18:45Half a minute.
18:46Half a minute.
18:47Half a minute.
18:48Half a minute.
18:50Half a minute.
18:51Half a minute.
18:54Half a minute.
19:10MUSIC PLAYS
19:25Annie.
19:26Seven.
19:28And David.
19:29Seven.
19:30Seven. Annie, the word?
19:32Planked.
19:33Planked.
19:34And David.
19:35Planed.
19:36Planed with the A-I-N.
19:38Yeah, that's totally fine.
19:40It's to lament.
19:41It's the same route as complain.
19:44So that's absolutely fine.
19:45Planked, also good.
19:46Have a good plank.
19:47Anything else?
19:48Plinked.
19:49Plinked.
19:50I like that.
19:51Glasses can plink.
19:52So you can get plink, plank, which is one of your special things,
19:54because you can't say plank, plink, can you?
19:56No.
19:57Ablaut with duplication.
19:58Ablaut duplication.
20:00Yes.
20:01David, give me some numbers.
20:03Go three large.
20:05Why not?
20:06Mix it up a little bit.
20:07Three large.
20:08Three little.
20:09Thank you, David.
20:10And this time, your small numbers are ten, nine and five.
20:13And the big three, one hundred, seventy-five and fifty.
20:17And the target to reach 961.
20:20961.
20:21Numbers up.
20:22And then we'll And the numbers are up.
20:23Beth, gem.
20:24Tle?!
20:25Goри, go, go!
20:26Go, go!
20:29Go, go, go, go!
20:31MUSIC PLAYS
20:52That's time, David.
20:549.59.
20:55Two away. Annie?
20:579.60.
20:589.60, one away, off you go.
21:009 by 100.
21:029 by 100, 900.
21:05Plus 75.
21:07Yep.
21:08Minus 10, minus 5.
21:10That gets you to one away, 9.60.
21:12Simple as that.
21:13They get seven points and put us into crucial countdown conundrum territory.
21:18Rachel, 9.61.
21:19Yes, I found a way with 100 by 10 for 1,000.
21:25And then 75 minus 50 is 25.
21:30Take that away for 9.75.
21:32And then you have a 5 and a 9.
21:35For 9.61.
21:36Brilliant.
21:39Bang on the button.
21:40Here's your second tea time teaser.
21:41Tulip loon, as in L-double-O-N.
21:44The tulip and the loon could cease to be unless we stop this.
21:48The tulip and the loon could cease to be unless we stop this.
21:52Welcome back.
22:09Tulip loon becomes pollution.
22:10The tulip and the loon could cease to be unless we stop this.
22:15What a competition we have today.
22:17David, our champion, in 47.
22:19Annie, our challenger, on 40.
22:21Just six rounds to go.
22:22And, Annie, we're back to letters.
22:24A consonant, please, Rachel.
22:25Thank you, Annie.
22:27T.
22:28And another.
22:30N.
22:31And another.
22:33R.
22:33A vowel, please.
22:36A.
22:37And another.
22:39O.
22:40And another.
22:42E.
22:43A consonant, please.
22:46T.
22:48A consonant, please.
22:50F.
22:51And a vowel, please.
22:53And the last one.
22:55O.
22:56Let's play.
22:57A consonant, please.
23:25Hany? A six. And David?
23:30Six. The six is... Here we go.
23:32Footer. Footer.
23:34F-double-O-T-E-R, the same word.
23:37Footer, left footer, right footer... Mm-hm.
23:40Also, you have a header and a footer at the top or bottom of the page.
23:44Rory, what have we got? Notate.
23:47What's there? That's six. Yes, and you can stretch a little bit
23:50and have a notator, somebody who does the notating. Very good indeed.
23:54Six points each where it matters. Seven points still in it.
23:57Back to you, champ. Start with the consonant, please.
24:00Thank you, David. S. And another.
24:04M. Vowel.
24:07I. And a vowel.
24:10A. Consonant. D.
24:15Consonant. N.
24:19Another consonant. R.
24:24A vowel.
24:27U.
24:29And a consonant, please.
24:32A final N.
24:34Good luck.
24:36Phone главing.
24:37Even Frank Sierra.
24:38ホgan
24:46And a vowel.
24:47A vowel.
24:48If
24:50you're not adding a vowel.
24:51Positive.
24:53So people образом.
24:55Those Channel.
24:56Filthy madre.
24:57You're calling.
24:59To a vowel.
25:00You're calling.
25:01Especially off.
25:02We all have to say...
25:03THEY CONFER
25:06David? Seven.
25:08Annie? Just a six. The six is?
25:10Drain's. And David?
25:12Durian's.
25:14Susie? Yes, good countdown. Well, we haven't had it for a while.
25:17It's a tropical fruit, tastes delicious, smells awful.
25:20HE LAUGHS
25:22Now, now, now, now, Rory.
25:24Can't say fair. Durian's, yep.
25:26Good. The points to David.
25:28Let's get our origins of words.
25:31Which I feel so guilty. I was walking past your seat before we came on air
25:35and I looked down and I know it's about dares.
25:37Yes, you're right. I'm going to try and answer an email
25:39from Heather Wood from Sligo in Ireland,
25:42who wants to know if I can explain why
25:45dear has so many different meanings.
25:48That's D-E-A-R.
25:50Expensive, if something is dear.
25:53Beloved, my dear.
25:55Or, oh dear, an exclamation of something
25:58that's usually, you know, accompanying something unfortunate.
26:01And it's a great question.
26:03And it's just a lovely snapshot of how English works, really.
26:05So, if you go all the way back to Old English,
26:07with dear, spelt D-E-O-R-E,
26:11you'll find it's got lots and lots of Germanic relatives.
26:14So, it's been a while, it's been there for a while.
26:17Probably came in with the Angles and the Saxons.
26:19And it has always had those two meanings of being expensive and precious.
26:25And the whole idea is obviously of something being of high value.
26:29So, either held highly in someone's esteem or actually high value
26:33in a very sort of physical transactional sense, if you like.
26:37And it's pretty much stayed there all that time.
26:41And, actually, it kind of...
26:43Dear crops up in a nice way.
26:44So, darling means little dear.
26:46It was originally dearling, which I think is quite nice.
26:49Oh dear, Heather mentions as well.
26:51And that is short for, oh dear Lord.
26:54So, it's one of those euphemisms.
26:56And we had lots, we call them minced oaths,
26:58where, because in the Middle Ages particularly,
27:00it was highly taboo to mention the Lord's name in vain.
27:04Lots and lots of linguistic sidesteps came about.
27:07So, it's one of those, oh dear, for that as well.
27:11But, it's really interesting because it's just...
27:13It's one of those ones which actually has kept the same journey
27:16pretty much since it first evolved.
27:19And that's quite rare for English words
27:21because quite often they ebb and flow
27:22and go in lots and lots of different directions,
27:24but not this one.
27:25So, dear can be an expensive, precious,
27:28or, as we know, an exclamation for something else.
27:31Beautiful.
27:32APPLAUSE
27:35OK, 14 points and it's still a story to be told here.
27:39Keep the faith, David and Annie.
27:41Let's get more letters.
27:43Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:45Thank you, Annie.
27:46T.
27:47And another.
27:49C.
27:50And another.
27:51A.
27:52And a third.
27:53O.
27:54A consonant, please.
27:55T.
27:56A vowel.
27:57E.
27:58And another.
27:59A.
28:00And a third.
28:01O.
28:02A consonant, please.
28:03T.
28:04A vowel.
28:05E.
28:06And a consonant, please.
28:07And lastly.
28:08S.
28:09Half a minute.
28:22A vowel.
28:23A vowel.
28:24T.
28:25A vowel.
28:26A vowel.
28:27MUSIC CONTINUES
28:47Annie. Seven. David. Seventh. The sevens? Creates.
28:53Two crates. Yeah, again. Two crates. Very good indeed. Dictionary corner.
29:00We plough the fields and scatter. Scatter as well. Another seven.
29:05Yeah, lots of sevens. Toaster another one. I'm sure there's an eight there, but we didn't find it.
29:09Well done, both of you. Still close enough as we get more letters, David.
29:13Consonant place. Thank you, David. R.
29:17And a vowel. A.
29:21Another vowel. E. A consonant. J.
29:28Consonant. H.
29:31Another consonant. B.
29:36Vowel. O.
29:41Consonant. S. And a consonant, please. A final D.
29:51Loss letters.
29:52Loss letters.
29:58CLASSIC
30:05CLASSIC
30:08CLASSIC
30:09MUSIC PLAYS
30:23David?
30:24Six.
30:25Annie?
30:26Six as well.
30:27David?
30:28Boards.
30:29Boards, Annie?
30:30Bashed.
30:31And bashed.
30:32There's a few risky sevens in there, I'm sure both of you were like,
30:36should I go for that, should I not?
30:38Well, let's find out from the oracle.
30:41Susie?
30:42Well, we didn't get beyond six, so probably not.
30:46We had hoards, broads...
30:47Oh, that's a horrible round.
30:49Let's consign it to history.
30:50We'll get on their last numbers round.
30:52It's very, very simple, Annie.
30:53A cat has nine lives, you've got one left.
30:56You need the better David in this final numbers round,
30:59so let's find out what you're going to do.
31:00Two large, please.
31:02Two large, four small.
31:04Hopefully something tricky enough to force the crucial conundrum.
31:07Let's see.
31:08The last one.
31:09Three...
31:10Two...
31:11Six...
31:12Three...
31:1375...
31:14And 100.
31:16And the target?
31:17507.
31:18507.
31:19Numbers up.
31:20Here's how.
31:505-0-7 the target, Annie?
31:535-0-6.
31:55One away. David?
31:565-0-7 not written down.
31:58Off you go.
31:59100 plus 75.
32:00Yep, 1-7-5.
32:02Minus the six.
32:041-6-9.
32:05Hopefully times three.
32:06Yep, it is. 5-0-7.
32:08Yeah, hold on.
32:11Who stole away, David, but a second win for you. Congratulations.
32:15It has been the numbers have been the problem.
32:17Annie, good news for you, the last round is all about the letters.
32:20So, David, Annie, fingers on the buzzers.
32:23Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:47Both David and Annie have drawn blanks.
33:01And I think we have a full boat here in the studio.
33:04Give this one to Suze.
33:05I think we're in.
33:06I've both got this one.
33:07Hopefully localised.
33:08Localised.
33:09Let's take a look.
33:10Well done.
33:11Rachel got that as well, of course.
33:15I can't remember the last time you didn't get a Countdown Conundrum.
33:18I did not see it.
33:20Just like Annie and David.
33:22But we did see a really good competition today.
33:24So, David, you go into the weekend.
33:26You'll have two days to think about it.
33:28We'll see you back on Monday, yeah?
33:30And, Annie, best luck with everything.
33:32Your great burgeoning career, your crocheted wedding dress.
33:35Been a delight to have you.
33:38I've had a great time.
33:39Well done.
33:40Rory, Susie, we'll see you Monday.
33:41Yes, indeed.
33:42So, bread's been the theme.
33:43David, best thing since sliced bread.
33:45Will Monday's opponent be toast?
33:47Hey, funny you should say that.
33:49Rachel, French toast.
33:51Not from France.
33:52No?
33:53No.
33:54Created by someone with the surname French.
33:56Oh.
33:57Oh, there you go.
33:58So, I started to get a bit nerdy about this.
34:00French fries.
34:01Iceland.
34:02That is...
34:05Belgium.
34:06Countdown.
34:07La France.
34:08France.
34:09There you go.
34:10The origin's not always what you think.
34:11But we are toast here.
34:12We'll all be back on Monday.
34:13You can count on us.
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34:25That's a great thing.
34:26We'll be back on the countdown.
34:27We'll be right back on the countdown.