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00:30Hello everybody, welcome to Countdown on January the 25th and as the light turns to dark, the people particularly in Scotland will be celebrating the life and work of the great poet Robbie Burns. It's Burns Night tonight. So without further ado, let's say hello to my wee sleeket car and timorous beastie. I think I've just called you a mouse but let's move beyond that. I'll take it, I like it. Rachel Riley, how are you today? Happy Burns Night. Happy Burns Night. Did you bring your drams?
00:58Yeah, listen, we love it, don't we? We love it. I do love a bit of Burns Night. We've got to be honest, right? The poetry's fantastic but we're in it for the food really. Well, yeah, I mean, vegan haggis, can't beat it. It's actually really nice. A bit of whisky, neat some tatties.
01:12Yeah, sign me up. Food's lovely. Also tonight, all across the UK, you'll find loads of, loads of Kayleigh nights. The Kayleigh dance we've talked about before, we love that.
01:23Yeah, I mean, the baby, we spent her second birthday in Scotland and she'd been three times by the time she was two. We love it up there. Love a Kayleigh, love a bit of whisky, love a haggis, just love the scenery, beauty and it's about celebrating Scotland today.
01:35Yeah, let's fling on over to Dixon Recorn and introduce our perfect partnership this week, Susie Dent, joined by John Colshaw.
01:42APPLAUSE
01:45How's the various Scottish accents when you flick through them?
01:48Oh, it's just such a tuneful and passionate, straight away you think of Billy.
01:54You know, the eyes with the idea and transmitting them to the audience like that.
02:00Just irresistible, irresistible.
02:02It's a big, big day today for Mark Finnerty from Urian County Down, who not only is one win away from becoming our second octo champ of the season,
02:11but you've managed a ton plus every single win so far. It'd be a disaster if it went wrong now.
02:18I still think I'm in a dream and none of this is really happening, so at some point I'm hoping to wake up.
02:23So, that'll not be a disaster.
02:25Brilliant. Well listen, this is real life Mark, one win away from becoming an octo champ.
02:29Matthew Cox from Bourneville is hoping to stop you. How you doing Matthew?
02:33Yeah, I'm very well, thank you Colin.
02:35Good to tell you've walked into a storm here.
02:37I've just heard.
02:38Well listen, if it was about obstacle courses in the mud, you'd win.
02:42Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:43For sure. You're an alpha wolf, tell me about that.
02:46Yeah, well a wolf run is something that's run over 10k through forests and over water and obstacles.
02:54And so if you do four of those in one year, so basically all four seasons, then you get an alpha wolf medal and t-shirt.
03:02Well listen, let's see if you're left howling at the moon today.
03:04Good luck to you Matthew and good luck to Mark.
03:09Alright Mark, let's have it.
03:11Afternoon Rachel.
03:12Afternoon again Mark.
03:13Could I start with a consonant please?
03:14You could start with R.
03:16And another one.
03:17G.
03:18And a third.
03:19F.
03:20And a vowel.
03:21O.
03:22And a vowel.
03:23E.
03:24And another one.
03:25O.
03:26And a consonant.
03:27L.
03:28And another consonant.
03:29L.
03:30And another consonant.
03:31D.
03:32And a final consonant please.
03:33And a final R.
03:34At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:41O.
03:42O.
03:43O.
03:44And a consonant.
03:45O.
03:46O.
03:47And a consonant.
03:48L.
03:49An enduring 혼 Do.
03:50As marché.
03:51And a vowel.
03:53D 들어.
03:54In other hang width.
03:55It should be lovely.
03:56Indeed by decision.
03:57It should go.
03:58It should be the stehen, PO.
03:59We're trying to change the capacitance here.
04:00Anyway.
04:01It should be Tiny, Pripyatness before there.
04:02It should be beautiful, but it should be helpful.
04:04To be able to change and look at it, audience.
04:05Some homemade flavor release Héclimers after the호�
04:16Mark? Seven. Yeah. Matthew? The six. The six is? Golfer. Golfers there. Yes, six has just fallen out of that, weren't they? So many. What seven did you see? Floored. And floored. Well spotted. Amazing. Well done. Maybe the only seven there. Let's find out. No, we didn't. There were no others who showed up out of that tricky little array there.
04:40Well, he's floored everybody so far that he's met and he always gets off the great start, Matthew. So let's see if we can nip that in the bud and get more letters from you. Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Matthew. G. And another. M. And a vowel. A. And another vowel. E. And a consonant. S. And a consonant, please. M.
05:10And a vowel. I. And a consonant. H. And I'll go for one more vowel. Lastly, A. And 30 seconds.
05:40Matthew, how'd you get on? Another six. A six from you. And Mark? Six. Nice one. Matthew?
06:03M. Miasma. Miasma. And Mark? Yep. Same word. Miasma. Same word. Both times. So we'll be all right with that, Suze?
06:13Absolutely, yes. An unpleasant, oppressive atmosphere. Miasma can be a smell as well.
06:18What was there above six? Er, another, a couple of other sixes. Er, images. Yeah. Er, geisha. For a few more sixes, but not into the seven realm.
06:27And that's six points each as we get our first numbers round of the day. Mark?
06:31Er, just one from the top, please, Rachel. One from the top. And five little. And the first numbers of today's contest are seven, eight, one, five, two, and the large one, 50.
06:45And the target, 581. 581. Numbers up.
07:20581. First numbers round of the day. Mark?
07:24Er, 583. Two away. Matthew?
07:27576. Ah, five the other way. So Mark, just pipping you. Let's have it.
07:33Er, seven plus five is 12. 7 plus five, 12.
07:36I'm 50, 600. Yeah.
07:38Two hits are 16, plus one is 17. And take it away.
07:43Yep, two away.
07:45Rachel Riley, take me to 581 or lose me forever.
07:48Well, 50 plus eight is 58. There we go. You've spotted it.
07:53Two times five is ten. Times them together for 580 and add on the one.
07:58581. Yeah.
07:59APPLAUSE
08:01Let's get our first Tea Town teaser of the day.
08:04Racy Tune. Racy Tune. Not one in a million. This plant is one in 100.
08:09Not one in a million. This plant is one in 100.
08:13Susie, from Racy Tune, we get to century or centauri.
08:23Centauri.
08:24Yes, it is a herbaceous plant of the gentian family.
08:28And it is named after the centaur because its medicinal properties were said to have been discovered by the centaur Chiron in mythology.
08:41There you go. Thank you, Susie. Thank you, Susie.
08:43Matthew, let's get straight back to your letters.
08:56Can I get a consonant, please? Thank you, Matthew.
08:59P. And another.
09:01R. And a vowel.
09:04E. And another.
09:07I. And a consonant, please.
09:10H. And another consonant, please.
09:14S. And a vowel.
09:17A. And a consonant, please.
09:26And a final, D.
09:27Thanks, Rich.
09:28And a consonant, please.
09:43Matthew?
09:59A seven.
10:01A seven from you?
10:02And Mark?
10:03Eight.
10:03Well done.
10:04Matthew, the seven?
10:05Sandia.
10:06You had big hope there, didn't you?
10:07Let's find out.
10:09Mark?
10:09Sprained.
10:10And sprained.
10:12Yes.
10:12Very good.
10:13Well done.
10:17Nice letters, these.
10:18The H left over from sprained.
10:20Can we fit it in anywhere for a nine?
10:23Another eight across here.
10:25Pinheads.
10:26Hey!
10:27Yes.
10:28Heads are pins or fools.
10:30Yes, it's a very old insult, pinheads.
10:33Yeah.
10:33All right, more letters.
10:34Pinhead, off you go.
10:35Could I have a consonant, please?
10:37Get your own back later, Mark.
10:38Get your own back later.
10:40R.
10:41And another one, please.
10:42S.
10:44And a third.
10:46R.
10:47And a vowel, please.
10:49I.
10:50And another.
10:52O.
10:53And another.
10:54E.
10:55And a consonant.
10:58L.
10:59And a consonant.
11:01Z.
11:02And a vowel, please.
11:05A final A.
11:07Half a minute.
11:07And a vowel, please.
11:08And a vowel, please.
11:08And a vowel, please.
11:09And a vowel, please.
11:09And a vowel, please.
11:10And a vowel, please.
11:10And a vowel, please.
11:10And a vowel, please.
11:11And a vowel, please.
11:12And a vowel, please.
11:12And a vowel, please.
11:12And a vowel, please.
11:13And a vowel, please.
11:13And a vowel, please.
11:13And a vowel, please.
11:14And a vowel, please.
11:14And a vowel, please.
11:14And a vowel, please.
11:15And a vowel, please.
11:15And a vowel, please.
11:16And a vowel, please.
11:16And a vowel, please.
11:16And a vowel, please.
11:17And a vowel, please.
11:17And a vowel, please.
11:18And a vowel, please.
11:18And a vowel, please.
11:19Mark, let's go for a nine.
11:40He's going for the maximum.
11:42My goodness me.
11:43Matthew.
11:44Just a seven.
11:45Not just a seven, let me tell you.
11:47Well, it is when there's a nine.
11:49I'm not sure about this nine.
11:51What's the seven?
11:52It's one of the first ones I've ever known.
11:54Probably lorries.
11:55Lorries is there to go alongside her truckles, Susie.
11:58Yep.
11:58Right, Mark.
12:00Oralizers.
12:01Oralizers.
12:02Ah, not what I thought you were going to go for.
12:06No.
12:07It is not there, I'm afraid.
12:11So there you go.
12:11The lorries does score the seven points.
12:14That's why Matthew Cox is very happy indeed.
12:16But you said, not the one I thought you were going to go for.
12:20So what is there one?
12:21No.
12:22Well, we had an eight and it leaves an R left over.
12:25So I was wondering if that's what Mark was going to go for.
12:28We had Solarise.
12:30Solariser.
12:31Which is to change the darkness of part of an image by overexposing it to light.
12:35And you cannot have Solariser.
12:37Okay.
12:37So there was an eight, but no nine that we could spot.
12:40What an eventful round.
12:41Loved it.
12:42Loved it.
12:43Let's get back to the numbers then.
12:44Matthew, you're choosing.
12:46Two from the top, please, Rachel.
12:47No sudden moves.
12:49No big gambles early on.
12:50Two large, four little.
12:51See how this plays out.
12:53The selection is six, nine, two, five, 125.
13:00And the target, 837.
13:03837.
13:04Numbers up.
13:04The selection is six, nine, two, five, six, six, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
13:34Time's up. 837. Matthew.
13:38No, I've completely lost it, sorry.
13:40Mark. 837.
13:42And in about three seconds.
13:44So, just sort straight away.
13:46Off you go.
13:48100 minus 5.
13:51Minus 2. 93.
13:52Times 9. That's all there was to it.
13:55Magic.
13:58John Cushot, let's pretend we all got that.
14:00Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That easy.
14:03That easy.
14:0338 players, 13.
14:05And John, look, every time you come on,
14:07I'm always badgering you to do impressions.
14:09And there's so much more that you're into.
14:11Tell us about something away from the impressions,
14:14away from the comedy, away from the acting that you love.
14:17Well, interesting, that word a few rounds ago, solarise.
14:21I do rather like to chase solar eclipses.
14:24Really?
14:25Wherever they occur in the world.
14:26I always try to get to where they'll be visible.
14:30And recently, well, last October,
14:33I went across to New Mexico, to Roswell,
14:37UFO County.
14:39Boy, do they go on about that over there.
14:41But this is where the annular eclipse happened to be.
14:46Annular as in, not every year, but as in annulus, isn't it?
14:49Ring shape.
14:50Yeah, that's it.
14:51Yeah.
14:51Because an annular eclipse happens when the moon has hit its furthest point from us.
14:57So it doesn't quite fully cover the sun to give a full total solar eclipse.
15:03So you get the ring of fire eclipse.
15:06And I remember eventually, because the weather was looking a wee bit cloudy in Roswell,
15:11even though it was in the right place,
15:13taking a trip, a three-hour drive to Albuquerque.
15:16And the strange thing about them is there's only 9% of the sun left visible.
15:23Just a tiny little ring.
15:25When you see it through your solar binoculars or eclipse viewers, it is the ring of fire.
15:30But yet, to the outside world, the daylight looks exactly the same.
15:35Yeah.
15:36It's astonishing how little of the sunlight can create the same image of day.
15:42It's a little bit darker, a little bit more washed out,
15:46as though the light has had thinners added to it or a grey filter.
15:50Yeah.
15:51But it's very, very mystical.
15:52You're on fire, sir.
15:56Right, let's get back to it.
15:58And it's letters time for Mark Finnerty.
16:01I'll start with the continent, please, Rachel.
16:03Thank you, Mark.
16:04D.
16:04And another one?
16:07S.
16:08And another?
16:09W.
16:11And a vowel?
16:13I.
16:13And another?
16:14A.
16:15And another?
16:17E.
16:18And a consonant?
16:20C.
16:22And another consonant?
16:24S.
16:26And a final consonant, please.
16:29And a final G.
16:31Start the clock.
16:34D.
16:36For more information, please.
16:36And the selenium.
16:38And a second舷.
16:39And a
16:57That is time.
17:05Mr. Finnerty.
17:06Seven.
17:06Seven from you.
17:07Mr. Cox?
17:08I think seven as well, yeah.
17:09Just think.
17:10Have you written it down?
17:11Yeah, I've written it down, yeah.
17:12Good man.
17:13Mark?
17:14Cagiest.
17:15Cagiest.
17:15And Matthew?
17:16Same one.
17:17There you go.
17:18You were cagey about it.
17:19You were doubting it.
17:19But you were bang right.
17:20Seven points each.
17:22Cagiest there for seven.
17:23John Colshaw, Suzy Dent.
17:24Anything better?
17:25Yeah, we had...
17:26Cagiest across here.
17:28Nothing to top that.
17:30OK, let's go on then.
17:31Nine more letters.
17:32Let's see what it brings, Matthew.
17:34I'll start with a vowel this time, please, Rachel.
17:37Thank you, Matthew.
17:38I.
17:39And another one.
17:41U.
17:41And a consonant, please.
17:44L.
17:45And another.
17:46C.
17:47And another.
17:48T.
17:50And another.
17:51L.
17:53And a vowel, please.
17:55E.
17:56Consonant, please.
17:57M.
17:59And a final vowel.
18:00And a final O.
18:03And here we go.
18:04Let's do it.
18:05And I will see you.
18:05See you until we went and watched it.
18:06Let's do it.
18:06MUSIC PLAYS
18:36No, just a five. Tricky, this. Mark? Six.
18:40Not so tricky for him, was it?
18:43Matthew, what's a five?
18:44A cutie. Oh, very nice.
18:47And Mark? Motile.
18:49Motile. Yes, used of cells, gametes, sperm.
18:53It means capable of movement.
18:54Excellent. Did you get that, John?
18:56Well, Susie did.
18:57So you did? No, then.
19:00Same here. Did you get any other sixes?
19:02Oh, millet. Millet.
19:05Millet, yeah.
19:07M-I-L-L-E-T.
19:09Millet, the grain, but that's it. Six for us.
19:12And that's it. Tricky round, Dat.
19:13Tricky round. What a champion he is, eh?
19:16Hats off to him for spotting that.
19:18Let's get our third numbers round, Mark.
19:20Oh, let's go for six small, please, Rachel.
19:22Yeah, why not? Let's have a little bit of fun.
19:24Six little ones coming up.
19:26And for this round, they are two, four, eight, five, six, and another four.
19:35And the target to reach?
19:37Oh, 649.
19:39649. Numbers up.
19:40What a champion.
19:41What a champion.
19:42249. Numbers up.
19:44Bye.
19:44What a champion.
19:44Bye.
19:47Bye.
19:48Cross- valve.
19:48The idea.
19:496 years old.
19:50The idea.
19:50The plan.
19:513, bigструмент.
19:53The idea.
19:53And the entire franchise.
19:55414.
19:56The idea.
19:57The plan.
19:57415.
19:58The idea.
19:59And the law.
20:00And the owner.
20:01The idea.
20:01The idea.
20:01Six four nine. How'd you get on mark? Six four four. Yeah, it was your fault. Five away. Matthew. Six four nine. You're going for it. Okay. Let's have a go. Let's have a go. Five times four. Five times four is twenty.
20:26What's that? Times six. I think I'm afraid you're out of time. I'm sorry. I'm lucky. I've been overruled. Mark, off you go. Two times six is twelve. Two sixes are twelve. Plus four is sixteen. Yep. Times five is eighty. Times eight is six forty. It is. Add the final four. And add the remaining four. Six four four. Five away. Six four nine then. Rachel.
20:55Well, you can get two. One either way. But this one was impossible. So, yep. Seven points. Good effort. Whatever you saw, Matthew, you didn't see. I lost my mind. Seven points for our champion as we get our second tea time teaser, which is Pet Flora. Pet Flora. Fear and disappointment with the computer speed. Fear and disappointment with the computer speed.
21:17Hello again. Fear and disappointment with the computer speed. That's a teraflop. I know about terabytes from, you know, computer space. Yes.
21:43I've never heard of a teraflop. Same principle. It's a unit of computing speed. So, it's a million million floating point operations per second. And that tera means trillion. Yeah.
21:56It comes from the Greek meaning monster because it's so big. Nice. Teraflop.
22:00All right. Six rounds to go in today's countdown. Mark really is within touching distance now, becoming an octo-champ. Matthew, the turnaround begins now, or not? Let's try.
22:10Can I get a vowel, please, Rachel? Thank you, Matthew.
22:13And a consonant. And another consonant.
22:15And another consonant, please. S. And a vowel. E. And another vowel, please. O. And a consonant. T. And another consonant. D. And a final vowel, please.
22:39And a final E. Let's play.
23:09S. And a vowel, please.
23:13Matthew? Five. Five from Matthew. And Mark? Seven.
23:17OK. Spotted a seven in there. Matthew, what's the five?
23:20A stovid.
23:21What have you got, Mark?
23:22The votes.
23:23Very good indeed. The stovid is six, and he declared five.
23:27So, Matthew, my goodness me.
23:29I don't know what's going on.
23:30Yeah. Another great seven, though.
23:31Yeah, very good indeed.
23:32One more seven. Steamed, you could have had.
23:35Nice. Steaming into a healthy lead now.
23:3865 against 20.
23:40Just keep in mind, of course, a century every time, Mark.
23:43So, it'd be great to see you do that again today as we get more letters from you.
23:47A consonant, please, Rachel.
23:49Thank you, Mark.
23:50N.
23:51And a second.
23:54T.
23:55And another.
23:57S.
23:58And a vowel.
24:00U.
24:00And another vowel.
24:02E.
24:03And another.
24:05A.
24:06And a consonant.
24:08D.
24:09And another consonant.
24:11R.
24:14And a vowel, please.
24:18Lastly, U.
24:19Kind of.
24:20.
24:29.
24:33.
24:36.
24:37.
24:37.
24:39.
24:40.
24:43Mark, how many?
24:52Seven.
24:53And Matthew?
24:54I'm going to say five.
24:55I think it might be five.
24:57That'll be a good start.
24:58What is it?
24:59Stand.
25:00Yes, it is.
25:01And the seven?
25:02Unrated.
25:03And unrated?
25:05Yeah, absolutely fine.
25:06Very good.
25:08Another seven points on to your score.
25:11How did you get on, John Culshaw?
25:12Some rather lovely eights.
25:14It was a very productive set of letters.
25:16Unrusted.
25:17Perhaps my favourite of the run, transued.
25:20Transued, yes.
25:21Transued.
25:21It means, well, again, not lovely,
25:24but it's all about a fluid that is discharged gradually
25:28through pores in a membrane.
25:30There you go.
25:31Nice.
25:31You choose some weird words to attach yourself to.
25:34The lovely sound belies what they actually are.
25:38Let's stay in Dictionary Corner and we've got our origins of words.
25:41Yes, in celebration of Burns' night tonight.
25:43In fact, Robert Burns contributed many words to the English language,
25:47as you might expect.
25:49He was one of the first to give us blether, for example.
25:52To blether is to talk absolute nonsense.
25:55Eldritch, which is this wonderful adjective meaning really uncanny or weird,
26:00which I love.
26:01And also gauzy, G-A-W-S-I-E, something large and jolly.
26:07And he used it to refer to a dog's wagging tail, which I think is lovely.
26:12But it also gives me an excuse to revisit some of my favourite words
26:16in the dictionaries of the Scots language, which you can find online,
26:19free to have a look at.
26:20They're absolutely brilliant.
26:21There is the kagalaf, for example, which I love.
26:26Now, this is what you might experience if you go for the ice bath technique.
26:32It's the shock of cold water, the kagalaf.
26:34And part of the reason I love Scots is that it is so pithy.
26:37So it manages to express something which is fairly kind of involved
26:42or complicated in a single word.
26:44Not least to tartle, which I mention all the time.
26:47To tartle is to hesitate whilst introducing someone
26:50because you've completely forgotten their name.
26:51And then when it comes to snow, Scots famously has more words
26:55and a greater vocabulary than the Inuits,
26:57who are always credited with the greatest lexicon of snow.
27:01And I'll give you two of my favourite.
27:03To Feeful, in Scots, is to snow really lightly
27:07and it's a bit of a sort of foretaste of snow to come.
27:10And then a Flindrikin is a single snowflake.
27:14Again, often comes down before you can expect the others.
27:17Perfect for today. Perfect for Burns Night.
27:20Thank you, Susie.
27:23Lighting the mood for that now.
27:25Right, 72 plays 20.
27:27Four rounds left.
27:29The coronation of Mark Finnerty as an octochamp
27:31is almost upon us.
27:33Matthew, let's make his last four rounds of NFL.
27:36Off we go.
27:36Consonant, please.
27:37Thank you, Matthew.
27:39N.
27:40And a vowel.
27:42E.
27:43And a consonant.
27:45S.
27:46And a vowel.
27:48I.
27:50And a consonant, please.
27:52C.
27:52And another one.
27:54N.
27:56And a vowel, please.
27:59E.
27:59Another consonant, please.
28:03P.
28:06And I'll finish with another vowel, please.
28:09Finish with U.
28:11And good luck.
28:12E.
28:14好.
28:16END
28:36END
28:38UNIVERSY의
28:39END
28:40Matthew?
28:44Six.
28:45And Mark?
28:46Seven, not written down.
28:47Not written down.
28:48The six written down is?
28:50Unpins.
28:51Unpins.
28:52Ah, we'll check that for you.
28:53And Mark, what did you not write down?
28:55Pennies.
28:55Oh, my goodness.
28:57Yeah, unpins is in, but pennies takes it very good indeed.
29:00Seems so simple when you pull out pennies from those letters.
29:04John Culshaw?
29:05Incense was there for another seven.
29:07Yeah.
29:07Well, the nice.
29:08Well, pennies, right on the money for Mark.
29:1179 plays 20.
29:13And the final letters round you're choosing, Mark.
29:16A consonant, please, Rachel.
29:18Thank you, Mark.
29:19B.
29:20And another one.
29:22T.
29:23And another.
29:25J.
29:26And a vowel.
29:29E.
29:30And another vowel.
29:31O.
29:32And a third.
29:34E.
29:35And a consonant.
29:36D.
29:38And another consonant.
29:40T.
29:41And a final vowel, please.
29:44Final O.
29:46Last letters.
29:47I.
29:55I.
29:56Hold on.
29:57λη.
29:58I.
30:07And a sont.
30:09Hello.
30:09And a Email.
30:10THEY CONFER
30:18Mark?
30:19Six.
30:20Six from you. And Matthew?
30:22Yeah, six as well.
30:23What's the word, Mark?
30:24Er...booted.
30:25Yes, there's loads of sixes. Matthew?
30:27Yeah, jotted.
30:28Jotted and booted.
30:30And let's head over to Dictionary Corner.
30:33Continuing, the boot theme, booty, was there.
30:36Yes.
30:37I was wondering if you could start with the double T,
30:39one step further, but you can't, so just sixes.
30:41Er...85 players, 26.
30:44We know that we have a second OctoChamp of this series.
30:47Two rounds to go, though, and, er...
30:49Mark hasn't quite hit the heights of the century so far,
30:52so a bit of work to do, and final numbers is yours, Matthew.
30:55Er...just one from the top this time, please, Rachel.
30:58Just one large and five little to finish the day.
31:01And this final selection is three, five, three, four,
31:08seven and the large one, 25.
31:11And the final target, 711.
31:13711.
31:14Last numbers.
31:15One, two, three.
31:16One.
31:17Two, three, four.
31:18Todo 정 Зем vill没有.
31:21True predictor kurka aliga.
31:22No, no.
31:23Tony係 Raw visempresa—
31:307-11 the target Matthew 7-11 nice one and mark 7-11 off you go Matthew 25 times 4
31:54100 times 7 700 and then add the rest of them 3 3 5 gives you 7-11 well done nice to go the same way mark
32:02no I'm hoping this is right now 7 times 25 is 175 yeah plus 5 is 180 180 times 4 is 720 it is
32:16and 3 times 3 is 9 to take away another way another 10 points well done
32:20some would say unnecessary but it doesn't matter as long as you get there you get the points okay
32:28mark's got 95 it will be his last round of his countdown reign but we know we're going to see
32:34him again in the end of season finals what a stint it has been for our man from Newry we finish with
32:40this countdown conundrum let's get your finger on the buzzer Matthew let's see if you can stop him
32:45as we reveal today's countdown conundrum
32:47mark
33:13Mark?
33:14Fingertip.
33:15Fingertip.
33:16Let's have a look!
33:18Yes!
33:23It's your magic fingertips that have managed to get you eight centuries on the bounce.
33:28What a champion you've been.
33:30Not just an octo-champ, but you go in at the moment.
33:32876 are number one seed for the series so far.
33:36Matthew, you ran into a great opponent.
33:38I hope you enjoyed the experience.
33:39Yeah, I did.
33:40Thank you very much.
33:41Nice to have you.
33:42APPLAUSE
33:45Always love when we get an octo-champ, John, but then a bit sad
33:47because we're saying goodbye to them.
33:49We'll meet two new friends tomorrow.
33:51Yes, absolutely.
33:52Great to have a ringside seat at your fantastic run
33:55and a great account this round, too.
33:58Fantastic, fantastic.
34:00Good stuff.
34:01Susie, happy days.
34:02Yeah, very happy.
34:03See you tomorrow.
34:04We need a nickname, I think, Mark Finnerty.
34:06I know it's early, but, I mean, what a score that is.
34:09Like, 876.
34:11Do you think he deserves a Countdown nickname?
34:13I was just thinking how long ago your two-win-finity-and-beyond pun was.
34:16The greatest line in the series so far.
34:19Two-win-finity-and-beyond.
34:20And he didn't like it, did he?
34:21That's when I stopped liking him.
34:23We'll call him Buzz.
34:24What about that?
34:25He looks thrilled.
34:26Don't even answer.
34:28You have no choice.
34:29You have no choice.
34:30We'll see him later on.
34:31End of series.
34:32Two new challengers tomorrow on Countdown.
34:34We'll all be here.
34:35You can count on us.
34:36Buzz off.
34:37You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:42You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:50Bye.
34:51Bye.
34:52Bye.
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