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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon, good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Rachel, I was reading an article the other day about people completely missing the joke.
00:41A lot of them are online, of course. I'm going to try a couple.
00:44I know you won't miss them, but somebody watching might.
00:47For instance, what about the guy who posted,
00:49A book just fell on my head. I've only got my shelf to blame.
00:55And somebody then replied, completely missing the whole point.
00:57Well, shouldn't that be myself? And the other one, which is quite fun, I suppose.
01:02The person asked, have you heard the one about the aeroplane?
01:04Somebody replied, no.
01:06So they wrote, it would probably go straight over your head, right over your head.
01:10The responder then wrote, I'm pretty smart, by the way.
01:14Oh, dear.
01:14But there we go. There we go.
01:17Some people get it immediately, some people don't.
01:19To be quite honest with you, some of the Tea Time teasers get me a little bit foxed when they're a little bit...
01:25Yes.
01:25I do remember you and Susie having a fabulous conversation when it was a Tea Time teaser about Ricky Martin.
01:31And the answer was some kind of hut somewhere that people live in in a certain country, she bangs.
01:38And Susie and you were talking about how Ricky Martin sings about them, which I thought was lovely.
01:42But we had a tweet recently of a lady saying, I think I've found a nine-letter word that Susie missed.
01:47I was just wondering if it was in the dictionary.
01:49And she tried soulmates, with a soul spell S-O-L-E.
01:53Perfect.
01:54And our dear leader replied, are they friendly fish?
01:57And she said, I don't know, I'm just wondering if it's in the dictionary.
02:01So I like that idea of soulmates.
02:03Lovely.
02:03Who's here?
02:04Two very smart people, I think.
02:06At least one, certainly.
02:07That's Kerry Copland, full-time mum from Camberley.
02:10And survived a crucial conundrum and got her third win yesterday.
02:15When we first met, when you were coming onto the set, you were a nervous wreck.
02:20You said, oh, I don't know what I'm going to do.
02:22I said, don't worry, it's fun.
02:23Fun?
02:24You're terrifying your competitors.
02:26I don't know about that.
02:27Anyway, it's good to see you back with your three wins.
02:29Thank you so much.
02:30Now you're joined by George Needham.
02:32George is a physicist, now studying for his, or reading for his PhD at Manchester from Boston in Lancashire.
02:39Is that right?
02:39That's right.
02:39When you're not doing that, you're strumming a guitar and singing.
02:42Something like that.
02:43At open mic nights in Manchester.
02:45What sort of things are you singing?
02:46Pop music.
02:48Yeah.
02:49Disco.
02:50Yeah.
02:51What the people want.
02:52And do they like it?
02:53You'll have to ask them.
02:54Listen, I'm sure they do.
02:56Well, look, good luck to you both.
02:57Good luck to Kerry.
02:58Good luck to George.
02:59Big round of applause.
03:00Big round of applause.
03:04There we go.
03:04Suzy's over in the corner there.
03:06For the first time ever here, the chaser, known as the Dark Destroyer, it's Sean Wallace.
03:11Welcome, Sean.
03:13It's good to see you.
03:17Before we met, I thought, oh, I said to the others, well, I'm a bit nervous about all this.
03:21But actually, charming guy, you wouldn't know it to look at the picture on your book.
03:26You look absolutely terrified.
03:27Well, that's my game face.
03:28We'll have a little dig into that a little bit later on.
03:31But right now, Kerry, we're off.
03:33Let us go.
03:34OK.
03:35Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:36Good afternoon again, Kerry.
03:37Could I start with a consonant, please?
03:39Start today with K.
03:41And another.
03:43G.
03:44And another.
03:46M.
03:47And a vowel.
03:49O.
03:50And another vowel.
03:52A.
03:53Consonant.
03:55R.
03:57Consonant.
03:58T.
03:59Vowel.
04:01U.
04:03And another vowel, please.
04:04And lastly, E.
04:07And here's the countdown clock.
04:39Kerry.
04:41Six.
04:41A six, George?
04:42Seven.
04:43Yes, Kerry.
04:44Murate.
04:45George?
04:46Outrage.
04:47Did you say murate?
04:49Yes.
04:49It's muriate.
04:50Muriate.
04:51Oh, yeah.
04:52Bad luck.
04:52So no candy on that one.
04:53But outrage is excellent.
04:55Sean.
04:55Sean and Susie.
04:56I've got a six with ragu.
04:59A very tasty dish.
05:00I think you can also have outrake.
05:02Is that a word?
05:03Yes, you can.
05:04It doesn't mean to rate your garden faster than someone else.
05:07It is actually an area of open pasture leading out from enclosed fields.
05:12Thank you for that.
05:13All right.
05:14Seven points to George.
05:15George, your letters came.
05:17Afternoon, Rachel.
05:17Afternoon, George.
05:18May I have a consonant, please?
05:20N.
05:21A vowel, please.
05:23I.
05:24A consonant.
05:26V.
05:27A vowel.
05:29O.
05:29Another consonant.
05:33L.
05:35And another.
05:37R.
05:39And a vowel, please.
05:41A.
05:44Another consonant.
05:46D.
05:48And a final vowel, please.
05:50And a final E.
05:53Stand by.
05:54A vowel.
06:24Yes, George?
06:26A six.
06:27A six.
06:28Kerry?
06:28Six.
06:29George?
06:29A drivel.
06:31And?
06:31Lardon.
06:33Lardon.
06:34Yes, a little piece of bacon.
06:35Can we match or beat six?
06:37Well, I said drivel as well.
06:40You got drivel there?
06:41Yep.
06:41Susie?
06:42There was a seven there with ravelin, which is all to do with fortifications.
06:46Yeah.
06:46But there are a couple of eights.
06:47There's Overlane and also Rondeville, which is a traditional circular African dwelling.
06:53You know, with a conical factored roof, that's a Rondeville.
06:56Rondeville.
06:57Really.
06:58How interesting.
07:01All right.
07:02So, George on 13, Kerry on six.
07:04Kerry, your numbers go.
07:06Could I have one large and five small, please, Rachel?
07:08You can indeed.
07:09Thank you, Kerry.
07:09First one of the day.
07:11One large, five little, which are ten, four, six, seven, eight, and twenty-five.
07:19And the target, seven hundred and twenty-five.
07:21Seven to five.
07:23And the target, seven hundred and twenty-five.
07:46Two.
07:46Two.
07:46Yes, Kerry?
07:54725.
07:55And George?
07:56725.
07:57Kerry?
07:58I did 10 plus 6 plus 4 plus 8 minus 7.
08:0310 plus 6 plus 4 plus 8 minus the 7.
08:0821.
08:09Times 25.
08:10Oh, 525.
08:12Oh, no, sorry, I did the 8 minus 7 as the one to take off the 10, 6 and 4.
08:16So, the 19, that gets you to 475.
08:18So, I had 10 plus 6 plus 4, which is 20.
08:21Yeah.
08:22I haven't made a mistake, sorry.
08:24Sorry, Kerry.
08:25George, George, where are we?
08:26I've done 7 plus 8 plus 4 plus 10.
08:3029.
08:30Yes.
08:31Times 25.
08:32Yeah, well done.
08:33725.
08:34Well done, well done.
08:37Right, so 23 plays 6.
08:39George on 23 as we turn to our first tea time teaser, which is a real city.
08:44And the clue, it's a real problem in most cities.
08:46Children are just turning their back on reading.
08:50It's a real problem in most cities.
08:52Children are just turning their back on reading.
08:54Well, welcome back.
09:11I left with a clue.
09:11It's a real problem in most cities.
09:13Children are just turning their back on reading.
09:16And the answer to that is alliteracy.
09:19Alliteracy.
09:20An indifference to literacy, is it?
09:21Yeah, that's exactly right.
09:23So people talk about our generation not being illiterate, but illiterate.
09:26So they're just, as you say, just reluctant to read.
09:28Not that keen.
09:30Sad days.
09:32Sad days.
09:3323 to 6.
09:34Hmm, George, doing OK.
09:36And it's your letters game now, George.
09:38Consonant, please.
09:39Thank you, George.
09:40S.
09:41And another.
09:43Y.
09:43And a third.
09:46B.
09:48A vowel.
09:50I.
09:52A consonant.
09:55C.
09:56Consonant.
09:58L.
09:59A vowel.
10:01E.
10:03A vowel.
10:06U.
10:07And a final consonant, please.
10:09And a final T.
10:11Stand by.
10:12A vowel.
10:40A vowel.
10:41Yes, George?
10:44Six.
10:44Kerry?
10:45Six.
10:46George?
10:46A splice.
10:48And?
10:48Splice.
10:49Same word.
10:51Splice twice.
10:52And, Sean?
10:53I only got a seven.
10:54I got spicule.
10:55It's like a little tiny little shard.
10:57OK.
10:58Yeah.
10:58Yeah, spicule of ice, for example.
11:00There's a lovely eight there, Nick, which is piculets.
11:04And they are tiny tropical woodpeckers with short tails that you'll find in Central and South America.
11:09Well done for that.
11:11APPLAUSE
11:11Nice.
11:13So, 29 plays 12.
11:15Now, Kerry.
11:16Kerry, your letters again.
11:18A consonant, please, Rachel.
11:19Thank you, Kerry.
11:20S.
11:21And another.
11:23J.
11:24And another.
11:26T.
11:27And a vowel.
11:29O.
11:30Another vowel.
11:31E.
11:32Consonant.
11:34G.
11:36A vowel.
11:38I.
11:39Consonant.
11:41D.
11:42D.
11:43And another consonant, please.
11:45And lastly, P.
11:47Countdown.
11:47T.
11:48T.
11:49T.
11:52T.
11:52T.
11:54T.
11:54T.
11:55T.
11:56T.
12:03T.
12:05Yes, Kerry?
12:19Seven.
12:20Seven, George?
12:21Eight.
12:22And an eight.
12:22Kerry?
12:23Dopiest.
12:25And?
12:25Poggiest.
12:26Poggiest.
12:27Can be the poggiest person around, yes.
12:32Well played there, George.
12:33Well played.
12:35And Sean.
12:35Sean and Susie.
12:36I had joysted for seven.
12:39I'm trying to get to eight and possibly nine by the time I leave this show.
12:43I'm sure you will.
12:44Susie, anything else?
12:45Poggiest a single eight that we could find as well.
12:47That's it.
12:4837 plays 12.
12:51George, your numbers game.
12:53One large five small, please.
12:55Thank you, George.
12:55One from the top again.
12:56And five more small ones.
12:58And this time, your selection is one, four, eight, one, six, and 75.
13:06And the target, 958.
13:09Nine, five, eight.
13:30Yes, George?
13:42962.
13:43962, Kerry?
13:45956.
13:47956, Kerry.
13:49Good luck.
13:5075 minus 1.
13:5175 minus 1, 74.
13:54And then 8 plus 4 plus 1.
13:568 plus 4 plus the other one, 13.
13:59Multiply together for 962.
14:02And take off the 6.
14:03And take off, yeah, the 6.
14:06Yeah, well done.
14:07Well done.
14:08But 958, Rachel, can you unravel that for us?
14:11I got to 1 away, Nick, so leave it with me.
14:14Certainly will.
14:15So here we are, 37 to 19 in George's favour as we turn to Sean.
14:20And, Sean, I've had a little look at this book,
14:22and we are very pleased to see that you speak glowingly about Countdown.
14:26But we're not going to talk about this book, because you've got another one on the go.
14:30That's right.
14:30I'm writing a book called On This Day,
14:32because I've always been an aficionado so far as history is concerned.
14:37You know, everybody's sort of fascinated by my canny knack
14:40to sort of have facts and figures and dates precisely.
14:45So because we're talking about February 6th today,
14:47I thought I'd give you some historical dates which happened on this day.
14:50So in AD 60, there was the earliest date of which a day of the week was actually written down.
14:55So a graffito in Pompeii just before the eruption in 79 AD
14:59identified that particular day as Deus Solis, or Sunday.
15:04In 1819, Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles found a Singapore.
15:09Women got the vote finally in 1918.
15:13And on the earliest day, Her Majesty the Queen ascended to the throne
15:17when she found out when she was in the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
15:21And she's been reigning gloriously ever since.
15:24Indeed she has.
15:25Gosh, I remember that day, you know.
15:26I remember the newsreels.
15:28When the plane came bringing her and Prince Philip back,
15:32touched down at Heathrow, one of those big propeller-driven jobs.
15:37And she came off.
15:38And of course, wherever they travel, you know, the royal family,
15:41they have black mourning clothes.
15:43And so she came down the steps, dressed in mourning.
15:46Yeah.
15:47Amazing.
15:48And we were talking, Susie, just the other day about graffiti,
15:50about the scratching of graffiti.
15:53And there's an example.
15:54The first known scratch giving a day to Sunday.
15:58Amazing.
15:59Indeed, yeah.
15:59Brilliant stuff.
16:00Thank you so much.
16:01My pleasure.
16:01Most of the time.
16:06Thank you, Sean.
16:07And Rachel has cracked.
16:09Of course she has.
16:09She always does.
16:10Now, I tried the same way as Kerry, but if we'd have said 6 plus 8 minus 1 is 13,
16:17and then you can do 75 minus 1 again for 74,
16:21you can times them together again for 962,
16:24but you have the 4 left over.
16:25So a bit of a blonde moment there.
16:27Brilliant.
16:29Thanks, Susie.
16:32So good.
16:3337 to 19.
16:35George in the lead.
16:36Kerry, your letters came.
16:37Continent, please, Rachel.
16:38Thank you, Kerry.
16:39T.
16:40And another.
16:42R.
16:43And another.
16:45S.
16:46And a vowel.
16:47O.
16:49Another.
16:50A.
16:52Consonant.
16:53T.
16:55Vowel.
16:57I.
17:00Consonant.
17:01N.
17:03And another consonant, please.
17:06And lastly, F.
17:07Stand by.
17:08Let me show you.
17:15I.
17:17I.
17:18I.
17:20I.
17:20And another.
17:21I.
17:24I.
17:25I.
17:26I.
17:26I.
17:26I.
17:27I.
17:28I.
17:28I.
17:32I.
17:32I.
17:33Well, Kerry?
17:40A seven.
17:41A seven, George?
17:42Just a five.
17:43And that five is?
17:44Toast.
17:45Now, Kerry?
17:46Rations.
17:47Anything else, Susie?
17:48Stat in for six, and insofar, or one word, for another seven.
17:5337 now to 26.
17:56Kerry clawing back a bit there.
17:57George, your letters game.
18:00Foul, please.
18:00Thank you, George.
18:01I.
18:02E.
18:03A consonant.
18:04R.
18:06Another consonant.
18:07P.
18:09A consonant.
18:11M.
18:12A vowel.
18:14U.
18:15A vowel.
18:17E.
18:18Consonant.
18:20N.
18:21A consonant.
18:23L.
18:24And a final vowel, please.
18:27And a final O.
18:29Stand by.
18:30Later.
18:43Next Hallelujah.
18:43And a finalemun, by the way.
18:44This is the one.
18:45And this program comes in with, of course, they're out laughing.
18:45And this, of course, we're about to look at you.
18:46Here's a final lesson.
18:47First, let's go.
18:47Anotherョ diff content is available.
18:48One of the tragies.
18:50And the way.
18:51Suddenly, let's do that happen.
18:52Now, let's do it.
18:53Happy**
18:54and then you can win this lesson.
18:55We'll be right-éma insbesondere.
18:56And you can always share our rooftop 그런데.
18:57And I'll be okay.
18:57Yeah.
18:57Oh, yeah.
18:58You can do that.
18:58Well, George, just another five.
19:03Kerry?
19:04A risky six.
19:05George?
19:06Preen.
19:07Preen and?
19:08Lumpa.
19:09I was thinking about lumpa.
19:12Yes, a lumpa is a docker who unloads cargoes from fishing boats
19:17or a taxonomist, so somebody involved in classification,
19:21but either way, it's very, very good.
19:23Well, well, lumpa, well done.
19:2537 now to 32.
19:28What's the corner been up to?
19:30We managed to find a seven.
19:32We got a pluron.
19:34Pluron, Susie?
19:35Pluron, yes, the side wall of each segment of the body of an arthropod.
19:40We talk about pluracy, for example, it's all linked.
19:44Plura in Latin with the sides of the body.
19:47I see.
19:48Latin in Greek.
19:49Thank you for that.
19:5037 to 32.
19:52Kerry, now then, your numbers again.
19:55I'll have one large and five small, please, Rachel.
19:57Thank you, Kerry.
19:58One from the top again.
19:59Five little.
20:00And for this round, they are two, one, seven, ten, three,
20:06and the big one, 25.
20:08And this target, 145.
20:11One for five.
20:12And this is three, one, six, 10, nine, ten, ten, ten.
20:17Now let's go.
20:19So let's go in.
20:19MUSIC CONTINUES
20:49MUSIC CONTINUES
21:19Welcome back. Welcome back. I left you with the clue. Gladys would have been a suitable nickname for this historical character,
21:49which is an absolute definition of a chevalier. We turn to Susie.
21:53Very simple. It was a knight, so a mounted horseman, in other words. It's linked to chivalry because knights were thought to be particularly courteous when they were paying court to their loves.
22:05So, yes, it simply means a knight or a mounted fighter.
22:09Thank you for that. Thank you. 42 to 37, carry on 42. George, your letters game.
22:15A consonant, please. Thank you, George.
22:17M.
22:18And another.
22:20H.
22:21And another.
22:24S.
22:26A vowel, please.
22:27A.
22:29And another.
22:31E.
22:32And a third.
22:34A.
22:36Consonant.
22:38N.
22:40Another consonant.
22:42S.
22:43And a final consonant, please.
22:46And a final G.
22:48Stand by.
22:49için.
22:51A.
22:51A.
22:52A.
22:53B.
22:55Bir k.
22:55A.
22:58A.
22:58A.
22:59B.
23:00A.
23:00A.
23:01A.
23:02A.
23:03A.
23:03A.
23:03B.
23:03A.
23:05A.
23:05A.
23:06B.
23:08A.
23:08B.
23:09A.
23:14A.
23:14B.
23:15B.
23:15A.
23:15Yes, George?
23:20A six.
23:22Kerry?
23:23I'll try a seven.
23:24George?
23:25Shames.
23:26Shames and?
23:27This is quite risky.
23:29Ganaches.
23:32How are you spelling it?
23:33G-N-A-S-H-E-S.
23:35I like the pronunciation because that's how we would have pronounced it once upon a time.
23:38Ganaches.
23:39Yeah, absolutely fine.
23:39Ganache teeth, yeah.
23:41Ganache teeth, indeed.
23:42Yeah, well done.
23:43That's what George is doing at the moment.
23:45No, Sean and Susie.
23:47I love it when there's two S's in the words game because there's massage.
23:53Massage is there, certainly.
23:55And you've got shamans, like a witch doctor.
23:57Yep.
23:58You have.
23:59Managers as well, so a few sevens there.
24:01Well done.
24:01OK.
24:0349 plays 37.
24:04Kerry, your letters game.
24:06Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:07Thank you, Kerry.
24:08P.
24:09And another.
24:12R.
24:13And another.
24:15S.
24:15A vowel.
24:17O.
24:18And another.
24:20U.
24:21A consonant.
24:23T.
24:24A vowel.
24:26I.
24:29A consonant.
24:31N.
24:32And another consonant, please.
24:34And lastly, T.
24:36Tote down.
24:37Tote down.
24:39¶¶
25:08George?
25:10Very risky 9.
25:12Kerry?
25:137.
25:14Your 7?
25:15Out to spin.
25:17Now, George, printouts?
25:19Printouts is all one word.
25:21Well done.
25:22Wow!
25:27Oh, George, you know when to strike, don't you?
25:31You have 6 points back in the lead now, 55 to 49.
25:35Now, what other 9s have we got over lurking in the corner?
25:40At long last, I think.
25:41Go on.
25:42Out sprint?
25:43Out sprint, indeed.
25:44Excellent.
25:45Another 9.
25:45Well done.
25:49A good round, a great round.
25:51Well done.
25:5255 now to 49.
25:53Kerry on 49.
25:54Kerry, haul yourself back.
25:57And then George strikes.
25:59But, you know, you're only 6 points behind.
26:00Let's talk to Susie and her wonderful origins of words.
26:04Susie.
26:05Thanks, Nick.
26:05I had an email from Adam Beeson, who is a regular viewer.
26:10And he asked for the origin of being given the sack and being fired.
26:14I'm not sure what's happened in Adam's life recently, but hopefully he's just curious.
26:17Both phrases, in fact, are quite misty.
26:22Their stories are quite misty.
26:23We're not completely sure about them, but we've made some good guesses when it comes to their origins.
26:29And I'll start with giving someone the sack.
26:31People in employment have been given the sack since about the early 19th century.
26:35We think it comes from a French phrase, which was mettre un sack, in other words, to put in the bag.
26:40And it's said to stem from the time when workers would leave their tools in their workplace overnight.
26:45And if a master wanted to dismiss a labourer, then he would hand over his sack of tools,
26:51and it usually was a he, to show that that person shouldn't come back.
26:55But in ancient Rome, it's worth saying the sack was much more serious than losing a job.
26:59It's going to get a bit grisly here, because it meant being sewn into a sack and drowned.
27:04And that was usually for patricide, matricide, so killing a parent or a close relative.
27:09We don't think it comes from there, but certainly that kind of history is a little bit murky.
27:14What about being fired? That's something you've heard a lot in your time.
27:18Nick, you're fired.
27:19Lots of stories surrounding this one, and I'll give you an example.
27:22One of them suggests that our human ancestors obviously had to live communally,
27:27and they had to really exist in a spirit of cooperation.
27:31So it was all about shared values and shared work.
27:34Some, of course, were mavericks and didn't quite step into line.
27:37So they may have been thieves, they may have been gossips, or they may have simply been lazy,
27:41but they didn't pull their weight.
27:42What to do with such a person?
27:43Well, the story goes with when this problematic individual was away,
27:47then the rest of the group would gather there and set it on fire,
27:51as a symbol that they were ostracised, they were sent off,
27:54and obviously chances of survival in those days would have been very slim.
27:58We don't really have much evidence for that story.
28:00Perhaps that's quite a good thing.
28:01And the true story is probably much, much simpler,
28:04and that's someone is fired out of a job just as a bullet is discharged from a gun.
28:09Yeah.
28:10Well, well.
28:15There we are.
28:1655 plays 49.
28:18George on 55.
28:19And it's George we turn to.
28:21A consonant, please.
28:22Thank you, George.
28:23B.
28:25And another?
28:26D.
28:28And a third?
28:30R.
28:30A vowel, please.
28:33O.
28:34And another?
28:35A.
28:37A consonant?
28:39L.
28:41Consonant?
28:42D.
28:44Vowel?
28:46E.
28:48And a final consonant, please.
28:51And a final N.
28:53Stand by.
28:53I don't know.
28:57Money.
28:58Yes, George?
29:25A seven.
29:26A seven.
29:27Kerry?
29:27Seven.
29:28George?
29:29Broaden.
29:30And?
29:31And Broaden.
29:32Broaden.
29:34Indeed.
29:35Susie?
29:36There is an eight there, actually.
29:37Banderole.
29:38Banderole is a streamer on a knight's lance going back to Chevalier or a long, narrow flag flown on a masthead.
29:45Thank you for that.
29:48Banderole.
29:49Very good.
29:51Elegant, too, on a ship's mast.
29:5462 to 56.
29:55Kerry, final letters game.
29:57I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:59Thank you, Kerry.
30:00Z.
30:00Z.
30:00And another.
30:02C.
30:04And another.
30:05T.
30:07A vowel, please.
30:08O.
30:09And another.
30:11I.
30:12A consonant.
30:14V.
30:15A vowel.
30:17A vowel.
30:19E.
30:21Consonant.
30:23W.
30:26And another vowel, please.
30:28And lastly, A.
30:30Go down.
30:31A vowel.
30:32Am antibio.
30:32So, let's go.
30:37Hold on.
30:40A vowel.
30:41And another.
30:42I will go.
30:43You can see Z equitable.
30:45Take over.
30:46I will have.
30:55Push, can you?
30:56Kerry.
31:02Just a six.
31:03A six, George?
31:04A six, I'm not sure about.
31:06Mm-hm.
31:07Kerry.
31:08Active.
31:09And vocate.
31:11Mm, don't think it's there.
31:13I know where you're going, George, vocation and all that,
31:14but I don't think you can go backwards and create vocate.
31:19I'm sorry.
31:20Good luck.
31:21Bad luck.
31:21And over in the corner, yes?
31:23I had a wading bird called an avocet, a six.
31:26Susie, anything else?
31:27There's octave for six as well.
31:29That was our best.
31:29All right.
31:30So 62 apiece and a crucial conundrum looming.
31:34George, numbers?
31:36Two large and four small, please.
31:38Thank you, George.
31:38Let's see if you can get any advantage before that crucial conundrum.
31:41The final numbers are two, four, six, another two,
31:47and the large one's 150, all the evens.
31:50And the target, 130.
31:53One, three, zero.
31:55One, three, zero.
32:25Yes, George?
32:26One, 30.
32:27Gary?
32:28One, 30.
32:29Thanks, George.
32:30So two divided by two gives you one.
32:34Yep.
32:34Added to four is five.
32:37Times six for 30.
32:38Lovely.
32:39Add 100.
32:39130.
32:40Well done.
32:40And Kerry?
32:41I did 100 plus the 50 is 150.
32:44150.
32:45Six plus four is 10.
32:47Multiplied by the two is 20 and took that away.
32:50Perfect.
32:50Well done.
32:51Well done.
32:51Even Stevens.
32:52There you go.
32:58Two good players.
32:59Neck and neck.
33:0072 apiece.
33:00Fingers on buzzers.
33:01Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:04Kerry?
33:14Unpacking.
33:15Let's see whether you're right.
33:16You're back.
33:24You are back.
33:2782 to 72.
33:28Did George give you a run for your money?
33:31George.
33:32That was close.
33:33You've started off so well.
33:35You had her on the ropes.
33:37And then you got your nine.
33:38Yeah.
33:38And then she got crucial.
33:40That's a great game.
33:41Thank you very much indeed for coming.
33:43You go back to Manchester with your goodie bag, with our applause ringing in your ears,
33:48I think.
33:49And good luck with the music and the singing as well.
33:52You took some chances there, Kerry Copeland.
33:54I know.
33:55Didn't you?
33:56Very close.
33:56All right.
33:57Well, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:58Well done.
33:58Well done.
33:59And we'll see Sean and Susie tomorrow as well.
34:02I think we had all the game shows represented there.
34:05We've got Countdown, obviously.
34:06We've got The Chase.
34:07Yeah.
34:07And that was definitely a nod to Millionaire with Fastest Finger First, because I think
34:10both George and Kerry pressed it.
34:12Split second apart.
34:13Very good contest.
34:14Very dramatic.
34:15Excellent.
34:15Let's see what tomorrow brings.
34:17Yeah.
34:18Join us then.
34:18Same time, same place.
34:20You be sure of it.
34:20A very good afternoon.
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