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00:30Hello, everybody. Another Friday has arrived. We're careering towards the end of the last full week of April. So pucker up and lock your lips with another 15 rounds of letters and numbers. Today is, and I do not know why, remember your first kiss day. Now, am I wrong in saying that I've never heard anyone that went, oh, yeah, that was a really pleasurable experience?
00:57I think I'm with you on that one.
00:59I can tell by the body language, don't ask me any further national TV.
01:03No, not unless you want the lawyers involved.
01:05No, it's OK, because I've got all, I'll just share all the secrets of the Countdown crew. No, I won't.
01:09But we did talk about it and nobody had a good, nobody had a good story. So I don't mind taking the bullet on this one. Roughly. I don't, I'm not going to too many details. All the names have been, who would want to admit the kiss of me, whether it was their first or last. So I won't mention any names.
01:22But mine was all awful, genuinely awful. It was at school and it was in front of the whole class in the form room and everyone was chanting, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss.
01:33And I think I actually, actually at one stage swallowed her entire head. You know, awful it was. Well, listen, I won't pry any more into your personal life when I can be prying into Susie's personal life.
01:45Yeah, yeah, onto her. Come on, Dent. Well, I was a lot older than you and remember I was at a convent and so convents used to get together with all boys schools for disco nights and it was on, well, it was just not pleasant.
01:59Can you remember yours, Les? Well, there was a game when I was a kid, I think it was called True Demand, True Demand, Kiss or Dare or something like that.
02:07Yeah, and they would spin the bottle as well. Yeah, and you, and, and if you got kiss and it was somebody, you went, oh, I've got to do this, you know.
02:13So, so it wasn't, that's a, it traumatised. Totally. Speechless.
02:20Let's get all this talk of first kiss out of the way. Welcome back, Charlotte. Hi.
02:25Now, I know I mentioned your A-levels, but I love this story because how many grade nine GCSEs have you got?
02:33Nine. Right, and how many grade eight? One.
02:36OK, this is a real, this is a real bane of your life. You tried to get it upgraded.
02:41Yep, got it remarked twice, would not have it. My friend got his remarked, four extra marks. I'm on about this all the time.
02:49I think my friends will be hearing this, just going, oh, why is she on about this again?
02:53How many points are you off having the perfect grade nines across the board?
02:58It's literally just that one mark and they would not have it.
03:01Wow. Well, I think that's good. That's good. You stick to your guns. I think, I think that's fine. It'll keep you grounded.
03:08Well, listen, I give you 10 out of 10 so far. You've been unbelievable.
03:12Broke a century for a second win. And hoping that that's it, that's all there is to the story of Charlotte Robson, is Dan Holmes. How are you, sir?
03:20I'm not too bad. Thanks to see you.
03:21I think you might have an incentive to lose because you're a huge snooker fan and it's the World Snooker Championships at the moment.
03:28So you want to get out of this studio. What makes you a big snooker fan? What do you love about it?
03:32I have just always really liked it. I've always sort of had an affinity towards it and, yeah, it's just, I've always found it really fascinating.
03:40Yeah. Favourite player?
03:42I think Mark Williams is my favourite.
03:44Well, we call him the podding machine. Let's see if you're the word machine. Good luck to Dan and Charlotte.
03:48And Charlotte, I'll keep it.
03:52Hi, Rachel. Hi, Charlotte.
03:53Can you start with a consonant, please?
03:55You can indeed. Start today with M.
03:58And another.
04:00R.
04:01And another.
04:03T.
04:04And one more, please.
04:06D.
04:07And a vowel, please.
04:09U.
04:10And another.
04:12E.
04:13And one more.
04:15U.
04:16And a consonant, please.
04:18G.
04:19And finish with a vowel, please.
04:22Finish with E.
04:24And for the last time this week, at home and in the studio, let's all play Countdown together.
04:28Whaher.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Ja.
04:30Bye.
04:31Bye.
04:32And another.
04:33Yeah.
04:33Bye.
04:36Bye.
04:40Bye.
04:41Bye.
04:45Bye.
04:47Bye.
04:47Bye.
04:48Bye.
04:49Bye.
04:52Bye.
04:56Bye.
04:56Charlotte?
04:59Lost my head a bit on that one. Four.
05:00Four. And Dan?
05:02Six.
05:03Tricky, first round. Charlotte, the four.
05:05True.
05:06And Dan, for an early lead.
05:07Merged.
05:09Merged.
05:09Very nice, indeed.
05:10Very good. We'll give you six points for that.
05:13Les, tricky start. What did you have?
05:14Yeah, I've got a four, which is duet, but can I have Mr T Dew?
05:18Mr T Dew.
05:22Second letters round, and Dan, your first time choosing them.
05:24Good luck.
05:25Afternoon, Rachel.
05:26Afternoon, Dan.
05:27I'll have a consonant, please.
05:29Thank you. Start with S.
05:30And a vowel, please.
05:32A.
05:34And a consonant.
05:36R.
05:38Another consonant.
05:40T.
05:41And a vowel, please.
05:43O.
05:45Another vowel, please.
05:47I.
05:49A consonant.
05:50G.
05:52A consonant.
05:53M.
05:54And another consonant, please.
05:58A final Y.
06:00And 30 seconds.
06:01A consonant.
06:02A consonant.
06:03A consonant.
06:03A consonant.
06:03A consonant.
06:04A consonant.
06:04A consonant.
06:04A consonant.
06:05A consonant.
06:05A consonant.
06:05A consonant.
06:05A consonant.
06:06A consonant.
06:06A consonant.
06:06A consonant.
06:07A consonant.
06:07A consonant.
06:07A consonant.
06:07A consonant.
06:08A consonant.
06:08A consonant.
06:08A consonant.
06:08A consonant.
06:08A consonant.
06:09A consonant.
06:09A consonant.
06:09A consonant.
06:09A consonant.
06:10A consonant.
06:10A consonant.
06:10A consonant.
06:11A consonant.
06:11A consonant.
06:11A consonant.
06:12A consonant.
06:12A consonant.
06:13A consonant.
06:13A consonant.
06:14A consonant.
06:15A consonant.
06:15A consonant.
06:15A consonant.
06:16A consonant.
06:16A consonant.
06:17What's the time up? Dan?
06:34Er, six. And Charlotte?
06:36Just a five. A five there. What's the five, Charlotte?
06:38Atoms. And for you, Dan?
06:40Er, orgasm. Orgasm?
06:42Yep. Absolutely fine.
06:44Anything else? There's another six there, Stormy.
06:47And there is also, I think, Trigamy, which are three wives,
06:52and that's there for seven.
06:53There you go. Trigamy for seven.
06:55Yeah. OK, let's get back to the game
06:57and get our first numbers round in Charlotte.
06:59One large and five small, please, Rachel.
07:01Thank you, Charlotte. No sudden moves, no gambles just yet.
07:05Five little ones to start us off with the numbers are six, five, nine,
07:10eight, two, and the large one, 50.
07:14And target to reach 456.
07:16Four fifty six. Numbers up.
07:18six, two, and the large one, 50.
07:18Here we go.
07:19Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
07:20And keep making the movie fit.
07:21Where are you going?
07:21And keep making the movie fit.
07:24We turn the movie fit.
07:24Oh-oh-oh-oh.
07:244-5-6, Charlotte.
07:50Yeah, 4-5-6.
07:51Yeah, and Dan?
07:524-5-6.
07:52Yeah, go ahead, Charlotte.
07:54Er, 50 times 9.
07:564-50 at 6.
07:57Lovely.
07:58Dan?
07:58Yep, exactly the same.
08:01There, yeah.
08:02Well done.
08:06Charlotte on the board, an easy 10 points as we get our first
08:09Tea Time teaser this Friday afternoon, which is Dust Mary,
08:13as in the name, M-A-R-Y, Dust Mary.
08:16Did you hear the one about the naughty hot dog?
08:18It was remanded in this.
08:20Did you hear the one about the naughty hot dog?
08:21It was remanded in this.
08:24Welcome back.
08:40Did you hear the one about the naughty hot dog?
08:42It was remanded in this.
08:44It was mustardy.
08:45Mustardy.
08:46Which I find quite funny.
08:49I think that's a funny guy.
08:50Right, anyway.
08:51Back to the game.
08:53Dan, you've got your nose in front and you're choosing these letters.
08:56Right, a consonant, please.
08:58Thank you, Dan.
08:59L.
09:01And a vowel.
09:03A.
09:05A consonant.
09:06N.
09:08Another consonant.
09:10S.
09:11A vowel, please.
09:13E.
09:14And a consonant, please.
09:15Lastly, W.
09:17Thanks, Rachel.
09:17Thanks, Rachel.
09:32Thanks, Rachel.
09:33Thanks, Rachel.
09:33Thanks, Rachel.
09:58Time's up, Dan.
10:04Seven. Seven from you and Charlotte.
10:06Yeah, just a five again. Just a five. What have you got there, Charles?
10:09Scent. Scent. And for you, Dan?
10:12Veenest. And veenest.
10:14There's no V, unfortunately.
10:16Sorry, Dan. I took that for a V.
10:18So the scent counts. Well done, Charlotte.
10:20You pick up five points there to close the gap.
10:23And there'll be other words, no doubt, from Susie and Les.
10:26Yeah, there are some sevens, aren't there?
10:28Yes, you could stick the A on for a scent if you wanted.
10:31That would give you a six. But, yeah, a couple of sevens.
10:34Stencil. And clients.
10:37Clients as well. Just remember that, Charlotte, that A,
10:40in case you lose by one point. We want you to keep that in your mind.
10:44More letters, champ.
10:45I'll start with a consonant, please. Thank you, Charlotte.
10:48N. And another.
10:50L. And another.
10:53M. And one more.
10:56D. And a vowel.
10:58S. And finish with a vowel, please.
11:09Finish with O.
11:10And let's do half a minute.
11:11We'll see you next time.
11:25Charlotte, give me number.
11:44Seven.
11:44Seven and Dan.
11:45And seven.
11:46And seven, what have we got, Charlotte?
11:47Domains.
11:48And Dan?
11:49Yep, same word.
11:50Domains.
11:52There you go.
11:53Seven points each.
11:55Risky seven.
11:56Can you have dualism?
11:57You can, yes.
11:58That's when you see two opposing things.
12:00So, possibly man and nature, that kind of thing.
12:03Very good.
12:05We could stretch to an eight with a fish of the salmon family,
12:08a salmonid.
12:09Salmonid.
12:10S-A-L-M-O-N-I-D.
12:12Thank you very much.
12:13So, seven points to difference as it stands at the moment,
12:17our second numbers round of the day.
12:20And Dan, you're going to get the shoes.
12:22Right, I'll one large and five small.
12:24Please.
12:25Same again.
12:25Thank you, Dan.
12:26One from the top.
12:27Five little ones.
12:29And for the second time today, the number selection is four,
12:32six, eight, four, and seven.
12:36And the large one, 100.
12:39And the target, 565.
12:41Five, six, five.
12:42Numbers up.
12:43Five, four, and seven, 15.
12:44One, four, and seven.
12:46One.
12:47One, two, three, and the size.
12:49People don't want to go.
12:52One, two, three, and seven.
12:53One, one, two, three.
12:57One, two, three.
13:00One, three, and seven.
13:02One, three, and two.
13:03There you go, that'll do us.
13:14The target, 5-6-5.
13:17Dan Holmes?
13:18Oh, 5-6-8.
13:19Missed it by three.
13:20Charlotte Robson?
13:21I think I've got 5-6-6 not properly written down.
13:24Doesn't matter, you're closer for seven points.
13:26Off you go.
13:27So, 100 minus 7.
13:28100 minus 7, 93.
13:31Times six.
13:32Times six is 558.
13:35And then add eight.
13:36And then add eight, yep.
13:375-6-6, one above.
13:38Well done, and with that, you draw a level 29 points apiece.
13:425-6-5.
13:44Every penny I'm worse tells me you've got this.
13:47If you say 100 minus 4 is 96,
13:52times that by 6 for 576,
13:56and then you have a second 4 plus 7 for 11 to take off.
13:595-6-5.
14:00Well done.
14:02And as we're perfectly poised,
14:05it's the perfect time to take a break
14:06and have our last chat with Les.
14:08Dennis, it's our sixth chat,
14:09because you did us the favour of picking up the extra show.
14:12Yes.
14:12We're going to talk music to a certain extent today.
14:15We are, absolutely.
14:16And I realised that over the last week,
14:18I've dropped a lot of names, none of them that Charlotte knew.
14:22And I'm sorry, Charlotte, I'm going to go back to the 80s now,
14:25so you probably don't know this name either.
14:28Sometimes, you know, in this business,
14:30you meet somebody really famous and you don't recognise them.
14:33Yeah.
14:33And it can be really embarrassing when you find out who it is.
14:37I was in the, I think it was mid-80s,
14:40with Dustin G again, the late Dustin G, my comedy partner.
14:44We were working one of the hotels, the big hotels in London.
14:47And at the band rehearsal in the afternoon,
14:50we were doing our rehearsal,
14:52and then this really cool American guy came up to me.
14:56He said,
14:56Hey, Les, could I get your autograph?
14:59Could you send me one of those glossy photographs you got of yourself?
15:02I said,
15:03Certainly.
15:04Who's it to?
15:04He said,
15:05Benny King.
15:06I went,
15:07Okay, there you go, Benny.
15:08I'll just put Benny,
15:09because, you know,
15:10I don't want to put your full name, Benny.
15:13So there you go, Benny.
15:14He went,
15:15No, Benny King.
15:16I went,
15:16Okay, well, I'll put your full name.
15:18B-E-N-N-Y King.
15:20There you go, Benny.
15:21He said,
15:21No, Benny King.
15:23And I looked at Dustin,
15:24and he looked at me like,
15:25You idiot.
15:26It was only the great Ben E. King of the drifters.
15:31Please tell me.
15:32Stand by me.
15:33Yeah, I was going to say,
15:34Please tell me that Dustin at that stage spotted him and said,
15:37Hey, Les, stand by me.
15:38He had to have said that.
15:39He looked,
15:40No, he wanted to see me squirm.
15:43He went like,
15:44You idiot.
15:44Well, he didn't say it.
15:45He said something else,
15:46but like that,
15:47I can't repeat today.
15:48But to be in that situation,
15:50But look,
15:50Benny King wanted my autograph,
15:52which was lovely.
15:53Oh, mate,
15:54Absolute joy.
15:55Thank you so much.
15:55Thank you, Rob.
15:56Thank you so much.
15:57Thank you so much.
15:57Thank you so much.
15:58Thank you so much.
15:5829 points apiece.
16:00Charlotte, you're on the letters.
16:03Consonant, please.
16:04Thank you, Charlotte.
16:05G.
16:06And another.
16:08S.
16:09And a third.
16:11V.
16:12And one more.
16:14B.
16:15And a vowel, please.
16:17S.
16:18O.
16:18And another.
16:19E.
16:20And one more.
16:21A.
16:22And a consonant, please.
16:24S.
16:25And finish with a vowel, please.
16:27Finish with E.
16:29Start the clock.
16:31R.
16:31Q.
16:32MUSIC
17:01Time's up. Charlotte. Yes, it's a five again. Five and Dan. Just a five. Yeah, difficult letters again. Charlotte. Saves. Yeah, saves and Dan. And bases. Yes, bases and saves. We're not going to argue with that, but we're hoping for maybe a six over in dictionary corner. Susie, you're typing away there. Yeah, just looking up every possible permutation, but five was the best that we could do, sadly. Brilliant. Let's get more letters. Mr Holmes. I'll have a consonant, please. Thank you, Dan. P. And a vowel, please. O.
17:31Continent. T. Another consonant. N. Vowel. A. Continent. M. Another consonant. N. Vowel, please. I. And a consonant, please. Lastly, C. Here we go again.
17:59C. Here we go.
18:30Dan, give me a number. A six. And Charlotte? Seven. Seven from you. What's the six, Dan? Poetic. Poetic. And the seven? Mention. And mention. Very good. Mention. Yeah, well spotted. That gets you seven points. Puts you into the lead, I think, for the first time today, Charlotte. What about you, Les?
18:50There was another seven there, wasn't there? Yes. Pimento. Pimento. Which you can count well with just one I, so the red sweet pepper.
18:57Good stuff. Let's get more numbers, Charlotte. Oh, I'll have one large and five small, please.
19:02Still much. Deviating from the plan. One large, five little coming up for you, Charlotte.
19:06But this time, your selection is 10, 3, 9, 9, 7 and 50. And you need to reach 247.
19:17247. Numbers up.
19:18238.
19:20247.
19:22257.
19:24249.
19:25248.
19:27257.
19:292589.
19:302689.
19:312589.
19:332689.
19:402589.
19:41Holyclock.
19:422689.
19:432789.
19:442789.
19:452689.
19:452789.
19:462-4-7. Charlotte?
19:512-50, not written down.
19:52Three away. Dan?
19:542-4-8, I believe.
19:55One away. Off you go.
19:57Nine times three is 27.
19:5927.
20:01Times seven.
20:03Times by seven is 189.
20:07And then 50...
20:11What did I do?
20:12Yeah, sorry, I think I messed up with that.
20:13No worries. Oh, my goodness.
20:15It's one of those rounds, we were all grabbing our heads.
20:17Charlotte, three away.
20:19So, nine minus seven.
20:21Nine minus seven is two.
20:22Add the three.
20:23Add the three, yep, five.
20:26And times by 50.
20:27And times 50, 2-50.
20:28Funny, isn't it?
20:29And I think, with that, the pennies drop for Colin.
20:32If you say nine minus seven is two,
20:35and you divide the ten by two, you get five.
20:38You can times it by 50 for 2-50,
20:40and save your three for the end.
20:422-4-7.
20:42Yes, well done.
20:45All right, let's get our second Tea Town teaser
20:47this Friday afternoon.
20:48Our last of the week, I ring Rod.
20:52I ring Rod.
20:53I ring Rod to invite him to the big game.
20:56I ring Rod to invite him to the big game.
21:00Welcome back.
21:16I ring Rod to invite him to the big game.
21:18The game might have been the Super Bowl,
21:20because the answer was gridiron.
21:22Gridiron.
21:23OK, 14 points to difference.
21:25Six rounds left before we break for the weekend,
21:28and we're still not entirely sure who will be champion on a Monday.
21:32Dan, you're still in this big time.
21:34Let's get letters.
21:34Right.
21:35A consonant, please.
21:37Thank you, Dan.
21:37And a vowel, please.
21:40O.
21:42A consonant.
21:43G.
21:45Another consonant.
21:47R.
21:48And a vowel, please.
21:50U.
21:52Another vowel, please.
21:55E.
21:56A consonant.
21:59F.
21:59Another consonant.
22:02T.
22:04And another consonant, please.
22:07And lastly, R.
22:08And let's play.
22:09R.
22:10R.
22:10A consonant.
22:11R.
22:11A consonant.
22:11A consonant.
22:11A consonant.
22:12A consonant.
22:12A consonant.
22:12A consonant.
22:12A consonant.
22:12A consonant.
22:13A consonant.
22:13A consonant.
22:13A consonant.
22:14A consonant.
22:14A consonant.
22:15A consonant.
22:15A consonant.
22:15A consonant.
22:15A consonant.
22:15A consonant.
22:16A consonant.
22:16A consonant.
22:16A consonant.
22:16A consonant.
22:16A consonant.
22:17A consonant.
22:17A consonant.
22:18A consonant.
22:19A consonant.
22:19A consonant.
22:20A consonant.
22:21A consonant.
22:22A consonant.
22:23A consonant.
22:24A consonant.
22:25A consonant.
22:26A consonant.
22:27A consonant.
22:28A consonant.
22:29A consonant.
22:30A consonant.
22:31A consonant.
22:32A consonant.
22:39Dan, how many? Seven.
22:42And for you, Charlotte? Yeah, I'll risk a seven as well.
22:44OK, Dan, what have you got? Forgetts.
22:46Forgetts, simple as that. And Charlotte?
22:49Ferrous. Yeah, not risky at all, consisting of iron or containing iron.
22:53Very good. Nice one. Seven points each.
22:55Well done, Dan, as well. And dictionary corner?
22:58There's a couple of eights there, there's grouters.
23:00Yes, and one that just makes me smile, four guts.
23:04Your four guts are the top part of your gut, so towards the mouth.
23:09All right. Guts is what you need on countdown.
23:11Let's get more letters from you, Charlotte.
23:14I'll start with a consonant, please. Thank you, Charlotte.
23:16N. And another.
23:19P. And another.
23:22R. And one more, please.
23:25H. And a vowel, please.
23:27O. And another.
23:29E. And another.
23:32A. And one more, please.
23:36I. And finish with a consonant, please.
23:39Finish with D.
23:40And kind of.
23:41We'll see you.
23:42Thank you, Charlotte.
24:13Charlotte. Seven. And Dan. Seven as well. Well done. Charlotte. Aproned. Yes. And Dan. Phonier. And Phonier, yeah. Spotted that one too. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Let's phone it in to Dexter Recorder. What have you got? I went to school with a guy called Doug Bradley. Thank you. Moving on. Doug Bradley played in the movie Hellraiser by another schoolmate of mine, Clyde Barker, Pinhead. No. So you have Pinhead for seven. Hold on. Your mate was Pinhead.
24:43He was Pinhead. And my other mate was Clyde Barker who wrote and directed the movie.
24:48I had nightmares just at the cover of that. Your mate. That cover with it. Oh my goodness. We were in school plays together, all of us.
24:55Oh my. Do you still know him? Still know him. Yeah. Yeah.
24:58I don't think I can meet him. Still know Clive who lives in LA now. I love that. But you've got an eight.
25:03There is an eight there, yeah. Orphaned. It's tough. Four rounds to go. Still in the mix. Still in the mix as we get our origins of words.
25:12Susie Dent. Yes. Well, thanks to Beth Carrigan from Wiltshire who wonders where the expression fill your boots comes from.
25:21In other words, just take all you want, you know, go ahead, fill your boots.
25:27And it made me think of all the other expressions in English that have boots in, some of which were surprisingly literal.
25:34And there are lots of theories as to fill your boots, just to start with this one.
25:39It may just be the simple idea of you're going to work if you're in construction or a physical labour job.
25:46You literally put on your boots and you go and fulfil your role.
25:50So much like when you fill someone's shoes when you take over their job and do it well.
25:55There's another suggestion that armies, plundering armies, some time ago, would fill their boots with loot.
26:03And make off with it.
26:06And that kind of is closer to the idea, isn't it?
26:08Fill your boots. In other words, go and get everything that you want.
26:12But it probably simply was an instruction or an exhortation, really, perhaps to a group of soldiers to go ahead, fill your boots.
26:20In other words, get going.
26:22But the reason I sort of mentioned the literal side of things, because it seems a bit silly that soldiers might go and fill their boots with loot.
26:27But actually bootlegging involving illicit liquor started in exactly that way.
26:32Smugglers would hide bottles of the illicit moonshine down the long part of their boots.
26:39And another really, well, it's not literal, but it was used in an interesting sense, is booting up a computer.
26:47Believe it or not, it started up as bootstrapping.
26:50And, you know, when you say pull up your bootstraps, you know, it's another thing of get going, pull on your boots and get moving.
26:57And that's exactly what you're doing to your computer, because you're loading a programme, you were bootstrapping it, and eventually that was shortened to booting up.
27:04That's brilliant. Thank you.
27:05You're welcome.
27:07Four rounds to go for our snooker fan.
27:10You are 14 points behind, and it's your letters, Dan.
27:13Right. Consonant, please.
27:15Thank you, Dan.
27:16And a vowel, please.
27:19E.
27:21A consonant.
27:23X.
27:24Another consonant.
27:26S.
27:28A vowel, please.
27:30A.
27:31And a consonant.
27:34W.
27:36Another consonant.
27:38L.
27:40A vowel, please.
27:43I.
27:43And...
27:45Another consonant, please.
27:49Lastly, R.
27:50Good luck, everybody.
27:51Tony.
28:22Dan?
28:23Seven.
28:24Seven from you. Charlotte?
28:25Just a five.
28:26Just a five. Charlotte, the five.
28:28Waxers.
28:29Yes, and Dan?
28:31Whalers.
28:32And the whalers.
28:33Yes, Bob Marley. Yep, they're absolutely in the dictionary.
28:36Well done.
28:37Fantastic. Anything else?
28:39I'm going to ask if you can have a six, can you be waxier?
28:42You can be waxier, or your potatoes might be.
28:44Ah, OK. Yes, that is in the dictionary.
28:46Very good, that would get you to a six.
28:48Nailers, people who nail horses, shoes, that kind of thing.
28:53Right, last letters round. Charlotte, you're choosing.
28:56Can I start with a consonant, please?
28:58Thank you, Charlotte.
28:59N.
29:00And another, please.
29:02T.
29:03And another.
29:04L.
29:05And another.
29:06N.
29:07And a vowel, please.
29:08O.
29:09And another.
29:10A.
29:11And one more.
29:12O.
29:13And a consonant, please.
29:14V.
29:15And finish with a vowel, please.
29:16And finish with E.
29:17And last letters.
29:18And the last letters.
29:25And a vowel.
29:26And this.
29:27And that Marian would smaller, please.
29:28And the vowel is of llamado.
29:30As it is.
29:31And we'll be hot.
29:32And if the vowel death pour the words, we may not be.
29:34And a vowel.
29:35Let's go to the vowel.
29:36That'll do, Charlotte?
29:58Five.
29:58Five for you.
29:59And Dan?
30:00I'll try a six.
30:01Try a six.
30:02OK, big moment.
30:03Charlotte, the five.
30:04A tone.
30:05OK, will it count?
30:06You're trying a six here.
30:07Yeah, valent.
30:09Spell it for us.
30:10V-A-L-E-N-T.
30:12Unfortunately, it is in the dictionary,
30:14but it is only there as a combining form with a hyphen,
30:17which means I can't accept it according to the rules,
30:20which feels very mean.
30:22Univalent, trivalent, that kind of thing.
30:24Wow.
30:24But not on its own.
30:25I'm so sorry.
30:26The lesser spotted hyphen.
30:28And, my goodness, what a thing.
30:30A hyphen could settle this whole episode.
30:32But let's not get ahead of ourselves one thing at a time.
30:35First of all, what did we have in Dictionary Corner?
30:37You can stretch it to an eight with a nano volt,
30:41which is one thousand millionth of a volt.
30:43Not sure what that will power up, but still.
30:45If you've got that at home, sensational.
30:47Make sure you apply the Come On Countdown.
30:49Right, we're back out of crucial countdown conundrum territory.
30:53But will that be the case?
30:54Two rounds left.
30:55The good news for you, Dan, is you can gather yourself
30:58and you're in charge of these numbers.
30:59Right, one from the second row.
31:01Yeah.
31:02One from the third.
31:03Uh-huh.
31:04And the other three from the top.
31:05Ha-ha-ha!
31:06Four large and two little.
31:08That's what you need at this stage.
31:10Yeah, let's make it interesting.
31:11The two little ones, ten and four,
31:14and then the big four, we know.
31:15One hundred, twenty-five, seventy-five and fifty.
31:19And the target, 987.
31:23Nine-eight-seven.
31:24Last numbers.
31:25Nine-eight.
31:37Nine.
31:42Nine-eight.
31:42Time's up. Dan?
31:57I've lost it, yeah.
31:58No worries, Dan. And Charlotte?
32:009-9-3, not properly written down.
32:02Yeah, six away for five points.
32:04Real tricky one. Didn't quite pay off, Dan, did it?
32:07But here we go, Charlotte.
32:08So 100 times 10.
32:11100 times 10, 1,000.
32:1375 over 25.
32:17It's three.
32:17Add that on to the four.
32:19Add it to the four for seven.
32:20And take it off the 1,000.
32:229-9-3.
32:239-8-7 then, Rachel. Is that possible?
32:27If your time sees together, you get to one away,
32:29but you have to leave it with me for spot on.
32:31My goodness me. Well, let's finish this off for the week.
32:33We've still got one more round to go.
32:35Dan, I want to see you smile and get your finger in that buzzer, OK?
32:39Here we go.
32:40And you, Charlotte.
32:41It's time for our Countdown Conundrum.
32:44We'll see you again.
32:55We'll see you in another one.
33:07Time has run out, nobody's managed to get it.
33:18Let's just reveal it for everybody at home.
33:21And it's unfliable.
33:23It was plain and simple, very, very difficult.
33:26Dan, you've been a joy to have here.
33:28Thank you so much, mate.
33:29Thank you very much.
33:30Listen, Charlotte, I don't think you quite realise.
33:32You beat a good champion, then you beat Alina yesterday,
33:36who was fantastic.
33:38Dan's a proper player as well.
33:40I mean, unbelievable your three wins so far going into the weekend.
33:44Well done to you.
33:45Thank you, they've been narrow games.
33:46Yeah, they've been great to watch, great to watch.
33:49But the hero of the week, Susie, has to be Les Dennis
33:52for doing six shows for us and picking up the Friday
33:54and entertaining us every step of the way.
33:56Thank you very much.
33:57I really love being here with you guys.
33:59It's always a joy for us.
34:00Thank you, mate.
34:03And, Rich, we're going to leave 987 hanging in the air.
34:06Yeah, I'm still half away, so I know what I'll be doing this weekend.
34:09Party time in the Riley household, Dan.
34:11All right, whatever you're doing this weekend,
34:13make sure you come back here on Monday.
34:14John Virgo is in Dictionary Corner.
34:16Rachel, Susie and I will be waiting for you.
34:19You can count on us.
34:21You can contact the programme by email
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34:26You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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