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00:30Hello everybody, another day at The Office here on Countdown and there's never a day we don't love coming to work. Thank you so much for tuning in. Never take it for granted, especially over the summer months. Hi Rachel. Hi Colin.
00:43The Office? Oh goodness me, 23 years ago today the first episode of The Office was broadcast on BBC2. It's like a UK gold show now. But apart from making you feel old, I think David Brent's right up there when it comes to the cringe comedy characters. Did you love The Office?
01:06I love all that kind of cringe stuff. It's because everyone's met someone that's like David Brent, haven't they? Everyone's seen that person in The Office that's like, let's have a sing song. And the gifs that are just to this day still going.
01:18I guess the younger generation don't know the reference point to start with, but I love all that stuff. My favourite is, do you know Nathan for you?
01:26Yes. Nathan Fielder. Oh, it's my favourite. So he kind of sends up Mary Queen of Shops. So he's the only person in on the gag that he's the most awkward person.
01:34And he goes in and he gives these businesses, these failing businesses, brilliant, genius, expert ideas. And it's just absolute perfection.
01:43There you go. Right. Let's head over to Dictionary Corner and say hello to somebody who is a friend first, a boss second and an entertainer third. It's Susie Dent.
01:53And in Dictionary Corner all this week, it's definitely not just hearsay. A lot to talk about with Mylene Klaas.
01:59Right. Well, the news is James Swinerton's halfway to becoming an octo-champ. Four wins in the bag.
02:09And James, you're up against Rachel Gallen today from Dublin, half from Donegal as well.
02:15Oh, how are you? Hi, I'm Grant. Thank you, Colin.
02:18We're both big music fans. And actually, a lot of the bands you're into, I remember, played Slain Castle.
02:23I wonder, did you get to any of them, like R.E.M.? I actually, R.E.M., I queued up overnight for tickets and I actually ended up not going to the gig because I went to Germany for the summer.
02:35What about you two? Have you managed to see them? You like the big stadium bands.
02:38I've seen you two a couple of times. My sister, Emma, has actually never missed a tour.
02:43Well, let's see if you can find what you're looking for in these letters and numbers. Good luck to Rachel and James.
02:48All right, James, off we go. Hi, Rachel. Hi, James. Consonant, please.
02:53Thank you. Start the day with N.
02:56And a vowel.
02:58A.
02:59Another vowel.
03:01E.
03:02A consonant.
03:04S.
03:05Another consonant.
03:07N.
03:08Another consonant.
03:09C.
03:10A vowel.
03:13I.
03:14Another consonant.
03:16L.
03:17And a final vowel, please.
03:19And a final E.
03:21At the home and in the studio, let's play kite down.
03:23MUSIC PLAYS
03:47All right, James.
03:55Seven.
03:56Seven to start your afternoon.
03:58Rachel?
03:58Er, six.
03:59Six for me. What's the six?
04:01Er, saline.
04:02And for you, James?
04:04Canines.
04:06Canines.
04:06Very nice indeed.
04:07Yeah.
04:08Do you find anything else there, Mylene?
04:09Yeah, we've got another seven, er, with licence.
04:12Licence.
04:13There you go.
04:14You didn't have your glasses on yesterday.
04:15I can see you now.
04:15Do you mean business today?
04:17I mean business today.
04:17Right, I've got my glasses on, the hair's tied back, I'm ready to go, Carl.
04:21Get ready for a maximum.
04:22Right, let's go again, Rachel.
04:26Can I start with a consonant, please?
04:28Thank you, Rachel.
04:28N.
04:29And a vowel, please.
04:32A.
04:32And a consonant.
04:35L.
04:36And a vowel.
04:38E.
04:40And a consonant.
04:42D.
04:43And can I have another consonant, please?
04:46T.
04:46And a vowel.
04:50I.
04:53And a consonant, please.
04:57N.
04:59And one more consonant, please.
05:03And lastly, G.
05:05And 30 seconds.
05:06Make sure you
05:30can see if you can find�� local
05:31subjectivity.
05:31Make sure you need
05:33a consonant, please.
05:34Make sure you don't have fazla pads, please.
05:35Be well, love you, love you.
05:35Thank you, Stu.
05:35Give me that for a second.
05:37All right, Rachel, how'd you get on?
05:39I got a seven.
05:40A seven for you. And James?
05:42And a seven.
05:43Yeah, so off you go, Rachel.
05:44Landing.
05:45Landing. And James?
05:46Tangled.
05:47Aye, there's a lot going on there.
05:49Tangled and landing.
05:51I don't know whether you'll give me my tan line,
05:53given that we're in mid-July.
05:56Can we have a tan line?
05:57Two words.
05:58Ridiculous.
05:59Should be one word.
06:00Anyway, what have you got, Mylene?
06:01We've got an eight, dilating.
06:03Yes, see? That's the glasses.
06:05Come on.
06:08Anything else to throw in?
06:09Well, we had...
06:10This is earlier about dilating before I go on.
06:12It is to renounce someone or to, you know,
06:15report an offence against someone.
06:17And there is a seven in Annelid,
06:18which is a segmented worm, like an earthworm.
06:21All right.
06:22Thank you very much.
06:23That's Rachel on the board.
06:2414.7 as we get our first numbers.
06:26And James?
06:27One from the top.
06:28Your favourite.
06:29One large.
06:30And five little ones by default.
06:32And for the first time today, numbers.
06:34Four, nine, ten, seven, three.
06:39And the large one, 75.
06:41And the target, 247.
06:43247.
06:44Numbers up.
06:45TELUNE
06:55takeaway
06:57is a sixth class.
06:58Two, four, nine, ten, ten
07:01in Canada.
07:02You can go here at으니까,
07:142-4-7 is the target. James?
07:182-4-7. And Rachel?
07:20Erm, I...
07:22Need an answer?
07:24Ah, that's all the time I can give you there, Rachel.
07:27Don't worry, because James has it anyway. Off you go.
07:2975 plus 4.
07:3175 plus 4, 79.
07:33Multiplied by 3.
07:34Multiplied by 3 is 237.
07:37And then add the 10.
07:382-4-7. Well done. Nice.
07:40APPLAUSE
07:42Very strong in the numbers, our champion,
07:44as we get our first tea-time teaser this Tuesday afternoon.
07:47Elk cream. Elk cream.
07:50There's something fishy going on with the clouds.
07:53There's something fishy going on with the clouds.
07:56MUSIC
08:04APPLAUSE
08:07Welcome back.
08:12So, there's something fishy going on with the clouds.
08:14Mackerel.
08:15Now, we've been talking about this all break,
08:17because, Susie, I did not know the connection
08:19between mackerel and clouds.
08:22Yeah, erm, people talk about a mackerel sky
08:25when there is lots and lots of fluffy, tiny little clouds
08:28and they look like the markings on a mackerel's back.
08:31Never heard it used before in my life.
08:33Ah.
08:34Ever.
08:3524-7 the score.
08:36Rachel, let's get more points on the board.
08:38Can I start with a consonant, please?
08:39Thank you, Rachel.
08:40T.
08:41And another consonant, please.
08:43L.
08:44And can I get a vowel?
08:49E.
08:50And another vowel, please.
08:52I.
08:53And another consonant, please.
08:56V.
08:57V.
08:58And another consonant, please.
09:03W.
09:04And can I get another vowel, please?
09:09O.
09:10And a...
09:15Another vowel, please.
09:17E.
09:19And can I get another consonant, please?
09:26And a final cue.
09:28Thank you, Rich.
09:29.
09:42.
09:44.
09:48.
09:54.
09:58OK, Rachel.
10:01She's got six there.
10:02Six. And James?
10:03Just a five.
10:04The five is?
10:04Towel.
10:05What six did you spot?
10:07Violet.
10:08Violet!
10:08Nice.
10:09Well done.
10:10Well done.
10:11There you go.
10:12Mylene?
10:12I don't have more than six.
10:15Yeah, six was pretty much there, but we did scramble to one seven.
10:20And I like it.
10:21It has an umlaut.
10:23It originates in German.
10:24And it's, well, in German it would be loovite or looviter.
10:28But it's loovite, W-E-I-T-E.
10:32And the key thing is it's a mineral that is kind of glassy, white or pale yellow.
10:38Rach, you don't have an umlaut there for me, no?
10:40You can add on the top of that.
10:41Do you still have them on capitals?
10:44No, it's fine.
10:45We can go away with them.
10:47Brilliant.
10:482413 Watt.
10:49A good start to our part two for challenger Rachel Gallen.
10:52James, then, feeling a little bit of pressure in your letters.
10:55Consonant, please.
10:56Thank you, James.
10:58And a vowel.
11:01I
11:02A vowel.
11:04A
11:05A consonant.
11:07S
11:08Another consonant.
11:10T
11:11A vowel.
11:13E
11:14Consonant.
11:16P
11:17Another consonant.
11:19T
11:20And a final vowel, please.
11:22And a final I.
11:25Half a minute.
11:26We'll hear it.
11:28Time for最 precedence.
11:29We'll hear it.
11:29We'll let it, we'll see you in the next one.
11:29We'll hear it.
11:30Good luck.
11:39Ciao.
11:39Let it be.
11:39We'll see you in the next one.
11:41tecn superficially.
11:42Come's back for wants to go.
11:42We'll hear it.
11:43And a vowel you.
11:43件úa resign kayak organization.
11:44We'll hear it.
11:45That's a vowel.
11:46They're the deux.
11:46We'll hear it anyway.
11:47We'll hear it.
11:48And the Portuguese.
11:49We'll hear it anyway.
11:49Must You have the name.
11:50Well, it's one yellow.
11:50To be a letter.
11:51Manila, you can find it.
11:52more czytale комментар özéáºt ¿sview לס EAGÓ!
11:52Det aten famuh.
11:53MUSIC
11:56James? Seven.
11:58Rachel? Same. Seven.
12:00James? Patties. Patties. I wonder if it's the same word.
12:05And it is.
12:06APPLAUSE
12:08Straight forward, seven points. These patties really jumping out
12:12their dictionary corner. We've got patties. We've also got another seven.
12:16Yes. I'm from linguistics, this time stative.
12:19And it is all to do with verbs that express a state rather than activity.
12:24So, to be rather than to run.
12:26That's where we're at.
12:2831 plays 20. Second numbers.
12:31Rachel, what's your tactics with the numbers?
12:34Can I get two large, please, and four from anywhere else?
12:37You can indeed. Thank you, Rachel. One, two, three, four little ones.
12:41And this time they are one, six, nine and seven.
12:45And the large two, 25 and 75.
12:48And the target, 404.
12:514.04, numbers up.
12:52We'll be right back next to Windows 3 over here as well.
12:54hundred billion på nearest King W athletes hold back with you.
12:55Another one was very versus multiple hills,
12:56biggest wreckage land.
12:59And this time they don't leave you very state.
13:01And this time, it's Linus here.
13:04And this time they companions.
13:06It turns out that way.
13:07Nano is very significant.
13:08It turns out to your dearsten miles perino.
13:12And this time they're going to emerge from them.
13:15We'll go see if.
13:16Yes.
13:17Well, more than us.
13:18RACHEL
13:23Rachel, did you manage 404?
13:26No, I got 400.
13:28Four away, James.
13:30407, not written down.
13:32I'll be three away and a chance to snaffle seven points.
13:3575 minus seven.
13:3775 minus seven, 68.
13:39Multiply by the six.
13:40Multiply by six is 408.
13:43Take away the one.
13:44407, three away.
13:46Well done, and take me to 404, Rich.
13:49Yes, if you say 75 plus 25 is 100,
13:53plus one is 101,
13:55and then seven plus six is 13,
13:57minus nine is four, and times them together, 404.
14:00Nice.
14:03Good stuff, James.
14:04Needed that, needed to get a bit more of a cushion.
14:06Now, 18 points in at 3820 as we cross over the dictionary corner.
14:10And yesterday, Mylene Class,
14:11we were talking about right here, right now,
14:13you playing over this summer.
14:15So I want to go back to your school days.
14:17Because I want you to tell me about...
14:20I never knew this until I was going down the Mylene Class wormhole
14:23before...
14:24Is this our first time together on Countdown?
14:26You were singing as a child
14:28on Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and Wine.
14:30When you say child, it's very generous of you.
14:33I just, just got out of college.
14:35Wow.
14:36Wow.
14:37Yeah, it was my first...
14:38Actually, I think I was just in college, actually.
14:40So, straight out of college, I went into the West End.
14:42But, yeah, Cliff Richard helped me pay off my student loan.
14:46So all these years later, have you then re-met Cliff Richard and went,
14:50Yes.
14:51By the way, I was one of the kids, one of the teenagers,
14:54on Mistletoe and Wine.
14:55What did that go like?
14:56It's really funny, because actually, as a backing vocalist,
14:59I ended up working with a lot of people.
15:01So I would be a backing vocalist for Katie Lang and Michael Crawford
15:05and Russell Watson and Robbie Williams.
15:07And then I went back in my own right, going,
15:09Oh!
15:10I'm allowed to stand at the front of the stage now.
15:12But he was so kind to me, and he was my very first foray
15:15into the world of showbiz, if you like.
15:18And they all say, you know, don't meet your idols,
15:20but you don't meet your heroes.
15:22But he was absolutely brilliant.
15:24What a gentleman.
15:25I love that there's all these records about the smiling classes
15:29on that one.
15:30You get all those little things.
15:31Yes, it's true.
15:32I used to sing on film tracks.
15:33I remember doing the Alice in Wonderland film track,
15:35where it was Kate Beckinsdale, she was playing Alice in Wonderland.
15:39So I've got all these really random recordings
15:42sort of scattered out into the ether.
15:44And I think I make 0.1p recurring every now and then from royalties.
15:49But it just shows you that, you know, as a musician,
15:52that there's never sort of like a linear route.
15:55If you can just find little different avenues,
15:58then that was, yeah, that was my student fee paid off
16:02in different instalments.
16:03I love a story like that.
16:04It's absolutely brilliant.
16:05Thank you very much, Myles.
16:06That's about it.
16:07APPLAUSE
16:09Wow.
16:1038.20, back to the game.
16:13James, you're picking some letters.
16:15Consonant, please.
16:16Thank you, James.
16:17Y.
16:18And a vowel.
16:20A.
16:21Another vowel.
16:23E.
16:24A consonant.
16:26H.
16:27Another consonant.
16:29T.
16:30A consonant.
16:32R.
16:33A consonant.
16:34R.
16:35A vowel.
16:36U.
16:37And a final consonant, please.
16:38And a final F.
16:39Right, here we go again.
16:40And a consonant.
16:41And a final consonant, please.
16:42And a final F.
16:43Right, here we go again.
16:44And a chant.
16:46Here we go, again.
16:51All right, James.
17:16Six.
17:17Rachel.
17:18Six.
17:19Six.
17:19Six.
17:20Okay.
17:20What have we got over there, James?
17:22Father.
17:22Father, yes.
17:23And Rachel?
17:24I got a hearty.
17:26Hearty, yes.
17:26Absolutely.
17:27Hail and hearty.
17:28Very good.
17:28Nice.
17:29Yeah, and the father and the further and then...
17:32You've got to take me beyond it if you can.
17:35You've got a urethra.
17:37Well, Don, how many is that?
17:38Seven.
17:38Seven urethra.
17:40Fantastic.
17:41Anything else?
17:41Yeah, that's that for a seven.
17:43Well, you can add the second R to father, have father, as in father away, further, also there
17:48for seven.
17:49Ah, it's a bit of a stomach punch, James, isn't it?
17:52It's galling, yeah.
17:54Right, six points apiece as we get more letters now from Rachel Gallen.
17:59Can I get a constant, please?
18:00Thank you, Rachel.
18:01T.
18:02And another one, please.
18:05F.
18:06And a third.
18:08M.
18:08And a vowel, please.
18:11O.
18:12And another vowel.
18:14E.
18:15And a consonant.
18:17G.
18:19And a vowel.
18:21I.
18:22And a consonant.
18:25P.
18:27And...
18:28And another consonant, please.
18:31A final M.
18:33And starting the clock.
18:34Go!
18:35And a consonant.
18:36See you if you hear this.
18:37And a즘.
18:38It's a little moreМ yüz activity.
18:39I mean, she's a part of it.
18:40Who's gonna do this?
18:43And a consonant, too.
18:46To see you.
18:47And a consonant.
18:48Simone hive.
18:49And a consonant.
18:50Tim harvest.
18:52And a consonant.
18:54So, Arthur bust into my head.
18:56One interrupt is my heart.
18:57I mean, l'm not errors.
18:58I mean, l'm not bad.
18:58Today, it's too hot.
18:59But they, it's so much cleaner.
19:00And a consonant.
19:00And another jest.
19:01Rachel?
19:06I think I have a six.
19:08Six. And James? Just a five.
19:10And the five. What's the five? Motif.
19:11You're going to put another big six out here, Rach?
19:13Tommy, T-O-M-M-I-E.
19:15OK, are you thinking as in Tommy Gunn?
19:18Yeah. Something like that? Is that with a Y or the I-E?
19:21Tommy as in a private soldier, often called Tommy Atkins,
19:26that's a capital T, unfortunately.
19:28That's either Y or I-E, but it's a capital, so we can't have that.
19:33And I think Tommy Gunn is the same reference.
19:36So James gets the five points. What can we add to that?
19:39There's another five there with tempo.
19:41You're spotting all the music words.
19:43All the music words. Is that it?
19:45That's it. Yeah.
19:46Extremely disappointed. Disappointed, let down, a little angry.
19:50Let's get more numbers then.
19:52James, third numbers round of the day.
19:54Sticking with the one from the top.
19:55Sticking with one large and five little, if it ain't broke.
20:00And this time, your five small ones,
20:02one, two, five, nine, and six,
20:06and the large on 100.
20:07And the target you need to reach, 198.
20:10There you go, 198, numbers up.
20:12And the scope of the day.
20:32MUSIC PLAYS
20:421-9-8. Nice and easy for you, James.
20:451-9-8. And, Rachel?
20:471-9-8. Right, hope none of you have been clever with this.
20:49Come on, James, get over with.
20:51100 minus 1. 99. Times 2.
20:531-9-8. That's the way to do it. Same with you, Rach.
20:56Love it. Exactly.
20:57APPLAUSE
21:00All right, 59 plays 36, with six rounds left.
21:03So this isn't a done deal yet, as we get our last tea-time teaser of the day.
21:07It's Pest Drop. Pest Drop.
21:10Got really moody when sharpening the knives.
21:13Got really moody when sharpening the knives.
21:16MUSIC PLAYS
21:25Hello again. Got really moody when sharpening the knives.
21:35Even if you got stropped, you might need an explanation.
21:37I think a barber uses a strop to sharpen, like, a blade. Is that right?
21:42Yeah, it's normally a strip of leather that's used for it.
21:46It actually goes back to a Latin word for a thong.
21:48But not related to getting stroppy.
21:50That is a shortening of obstreperous.
21:53All right, let's get back to the game.
21:54Let's get more letters from you, Rachel.
21:57Could I start with a vowel, please?
21:58Thank you, Rachel.
21:59O.
22:00And a consonant, please?
22:03C.
22:04And a vowel, please?
22:06E.
22:08A consonant.
22:10L.
22:12And another consonant, please?
22:14S.
22:16And a vowel, please?
22:19O.
22:21And a consonant.
22:24M.
22:26M.
22:27And a vowel, please?
22:30A.
22:31And another consonant, please?
22:35Lastly, D.
22:36And good luck.
22:38Good luck.
23:08That's it, Rachel. How many?
23:11I have six.
23:13Six from you. And for you, James?
23:14Six. Six as well. Let's have the words, Rach.
23:17Cooled. Cooled.
23:19And James? Just the same.
23:20Cooling off as well. All right.
23:22There you go. Six each.
23:25You going to add to this conversation or are we going to move on?
23:27Yes. We have a great one.
23:30Yeah, nice, comforted, solaced.
23:33Solaced. Give someone solace.
23:35Right. Seven for solaced. Well done if you got that at home.
23:37And more letters from James.
23:39Start with a consonant, please. Thank you, James.
23:41N. And a vowel.
23:44U. A vowel.
23:47O. A consonant.
23:50S. Another consonant.
23:52R. A vowel.
23:55A. Another vowel.
23:59I. Consonant.
24:03S. And a consonant, please.
24:05And lastly, C.
24:08All right, let's do it. Let's play.
24:09BELL RINGS
24:11BELL RINGS
24:15BELL RINGS
24:18ORCHESTRAL MUSIC CONTINUES
24:40James.
24:41Six. And Rachel? 25.
24:44Five. What's the five? Reigns. Reigns, yes. And James?
24:47Scorns. Scorns?
24:49Yeah. Very nice. It was tricky, this one.
24:52Yeah, it was indeed. It was indeed.
24:54You were looking quite smug, though. I looked over at you.
24:56About 17 seconds in, you had a smile on your face.
24:58What's going on?
24:59Oh, I don't know. I was just...
25:02Just happy to be here.
25:02My own internal dictionary was being read.
25:06Yeah, we had a seven, didn't we?
25:07We've got a seven. Suasion.
25:09Suasion? Yes. It means exactly the same as persuasion.
25:12And the reason I was smiling is there's a lovely old adjective,
25:15sucivious, which means amenable to being persuaded.
25:19Good. Thank you.
25:20Yeah.
25:2071-42. Four rounds still, two players.
25:25We got our origins of words for this Tuesday afternoon.
25:27Yeah. So, thank you again to our wonderful viewers
25:30who've been sending in so many brilliant questions
25:33about etymology, where our words and expressions come from.
25:36And this time, it is Les Powell from Leicestershire,
25:40who simply says, taking the Mickey.
25:43And he wants to know where that came from.
25:45And, of course, the obvious question is, who was Mickey?
25:48And when did he live, if he lived at all?
25:51And if he lived at all is the crunch question here,
25:54because the general consensus is that this is Cotney rhyming slang
25:59and that it involves someone called Mickey Bliss.
26:04Now, Mickey Bliss used his rhyming slang for something cruder,
26:07as you can imagine.
26:08So, taking the Mickey, taking the Mickey Bliss,
26:10you can tell what rhymes with the Bliss here.
26:13But we have no idea who this particular Mickey was.
26:17What's really interesting, though, is that taking the mic
26:22is actually found in earlier records than taking the Mickey,
26:25which is really interesting.
26:27Obviously, we talk about taking the Michael sometimes
26:30as a bit of a joke these days.
26:31So, that goes back to the 1920s.
26:34And taking the Mickey only the 1950s.
26:36And some linguists believe, I think this is a bit of a stretch,
26:39is that the mic here is short for micturition,
26:42which means urination.
26:45So, again, takes us right back to that idea.
26:48And I'm just going to finish with another possible name.
26:50You know, when we josh someone, we may also be taking the Mickey.
26:54Possibly looks back to a 19th-century comedian called Josh Billings,
26:59who was very popular in his time.
27:02If it didn't originate with him,
27:04it certainly popularised the idea of joshing or mucking about.
27:08APPLAUSE
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27:42Rachel's very happy that she did that.
27:44And she's still in this, as we get more letters.
27:46Can I get a T, please? Or a consonant, please?
27:50Consonant. We'll go with a T. Psychic.
27:54And can I get a vowel, please?
27:57A. And a consonant, please?
28:03H. And a vowel, please?
28:06E. And a consonant, please?
28:09S. And a vowel, please?
28:14O. And a consonant.
28:18R. And another consonant.
28:22And lastly, M.
28:30All right, good luck, everybody.
28:32So, let me find out.
28:34A sounding fully viktig?
28:36Okay.
28:37Even my gut, there are many more...
28:42Tanner is clear.
28:43In the comenzar, let's see.
28:44Awesome.
28:45That's it, Rachel. How many?
29:04Seven, please. And for you, James?
29:06Eight. And an eight. What's the seven, Rachel?
29:08Treason. Treason. And for you, James?
29:12Thermals. Thermals, Susie.
29:13No treason, because there's no N, unfortunately.
29:16Just an M.
29:18We just had a couple more to add.
29:19I've got a seven. I've got an ear shot.
29:21Very nice. Loathers.
29:24Not such a nice word, but it'll get you to an eight.
29:26Are halters at the top of a halter?
29:28Oh, yeah. Or horses' halters.
29:30Horses' halters. I lost sevens going on there,
29:32but with the eight, fantastic.
29:33Very good indeed. That's wise, your champion.
29:35That's wise, your champion. More letters, James.
29:37Consonant, please. Thank you, James.
29:39B. And another one.
29:43G.
29:43Vowel.
29:45A.
29:47Another vowel.
29:48U.
29:50Another vowel.
29:52E.
29:53A consonant.
29:55R.
29:56Another consonant.
29:58D.
29:59Vowel.
30:02A.
30:03And a final consonant, please.
30:05And a final G.
30:07Last letters.
30:07Vowel.
30:12Wohl.
30:12The voice of the world.
30:15MUSIC PLAYS
30:38Talk to me, James. Seven. Seven for you. And Rachel?
30:42Seven as well. Seven as well. Well done. James?
30:44Bragged. Bragged. And what are you bragging about, Rachel?
30:47So... Pass it on over there.
30:50Nice work. Well done. Reasons to brag,
30:53unless Dictionary Corner can best you. Let's find out.
30:55No, any match. We've got garaged.
30:58All right. 20 points still up for grabs, James,
31:00in and around that century as he is most days.
31:03Rachel, you're picking the last numbers.
31:05Can I get an inverted T, please? You can indeed.
31:08One from the top and five little to finish the day off, number-wise.
31:13And this final selection.
31:14One, five, nine, four, six. And the large one, 50.
31:19And the target you need to reach? 833.
31:22833.
31:23833, last numbers.
31:25Great.
31:26Voices of the
31:29That's cool.
31:29That's cool.
31:31Up, you're known old.
31:32Theulan Mattis Onyari with hisMusk gun.
31:34That's crazy.
31:35That's cool.
31:36In the past, we go.
31:37Vic, that's a very smart house.
31:39Good to me too.
31:40Good to you too.
31:41Toowment.
31:42It's all good at that.
31:43Good to you.
31:44That's cool.
31:45Good to you.
31:461998.
31:47Ta-la.
31:48Two, six.
31:49Ah, behind that tea.
31:50Nice.
31:51Oh, wow....
31:528.33, the final target. Big one, Rachel, how did you get on?
31:59I think I have it.
32:01OK, and James?
32:028.20, miles away on that one.
32:03Miles away. So, Rachel, let's see what you have there.
32:06So, 9 plus 4 is 13.
32:10Yep.
32:12And...
32:12plus 5 is 18, minus 1 is 17.
32:1817.
32:19No, I have to, um...
32:24No, that's out of time, Rachel, unfortunately.
32:26Let's go over to your namesake.
32:2850 minus 1 by 17.
32:30Yeah, you've got the right trick, but you didn't use that one there.
32:33So, what you wanted to say was 50 minus 1 is 49,
32:38and then if you say 4 times 5 is 20, 9 minus 6 is 3,
32:43take that away for 17, and you times them together for 8.33.
32:46Ah, well done.
32:47APPLAUSE
32:48Right, 86 plus 49, 10 more points up for grabs.
32:54So, fingers on the buzzers, please,
32:56as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:00MUSIC PLAYS
33:09The Countdown Conundrum's not our friend this week.
33:34Another blank from a champion, James, and our challenger, Rachel.
33:38And look at this, nobody wants to talk to me.
33:41The heads go down in shame, the whole studio has drawn a blank.
33:45So if you've got this at home, well done, let's reveal it.
33:48Oh, no!
33:50Oh, it's in an Olympic summer as well, shame on us.
33:54Badminton, badminton.
33:56Well, there you go, Rachel.
33:57Bit of a shaky start, but we've gathered a bit of pace, 49.
34:00Good score, you should be happy with that.
34:03Yeah, well done, well done to you.
34:04And James, that's five wins on the board.
34:06You need to polish up on these conundrums, my friend.
34:09They keep getting there.
34:10Come close.
34:11Close is no good on a conundrum.
34:13Let's be honest.
34:14And we'll see if it happens tomorrow.
34:16We'll see you then.
34:17Mylon and Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:18Yeah, that's it.
34:19Lovely.
34:20Enjoy the rest of your day, Rach.
34:21See you tomorrow, Carl.
34:22Excellent.
34:23Thank you so much for tuning in, Rachael, Susie and I.
34:25Back tomorrow, same time, same place.
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