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00:30Good afternoon, everybody.
00:32Welcome to the Letters and Numbers game that has stood the test of time
00:35since the very first day Channel 4 was on air.
00:39Hi, Rachel Riley.
00:40Hello, Colin Murray.
00:40I want to talk to you about the fads and the crazes of numbers and letters games.
00:45As I say, Countdown has never faded.
00:47What about Sudoku?
00:48Because today is International Sudoku Day.
00:52Has that become a staple part of our daily quiz day or is it fading?
00:58Oh, I quite like a killer Sudoku.
01:00Do you do Sudoku every day?
01:02Not every day, no, but I do do the online ones.
01:05You know, that fad, the Wordle.
01:08And then I moved on from Wordle to Nerdle.
01:09What's Nerdle?
01:11Nerdle's like the numbers version.
01:13So it's a simple arithmetic when you have to, you know, just like Wordle but with numbers.
01:17You've got to be careful.
01:18I started in Wordle and then it was like the gateway quiz.
01:22It just wasn't enough.
01:23I wasn't getting a hit and then I went to Cordle and then people were telling me to slow down a bit.
01:28Before I knew it was doing Octordle and then now every night at midnight it's pure uncut Sedicordle.
01:37Right.
01:37And I sit here now.
01:38I didn't listen to people.
01:40I'm a functioning wordaholic.
01:41I feel like we're in kind of a support group.
01:43We don't suggest rehab.
01:45We suggest indulgence.
01:46So do apply.
01:47Come on here.
01:48We're looking at Dictionary Corner.
01:50There's not a five-letter word that this person doesn't know the meaning of.
01:53Our Susie Dent.
01:57I'm back for our last time now.
01:59Brightening up Dictionary Corner all week.
02:00Nina Waddy is here.
02:03Right.
02:04A champ is back as well.
02:06I'm hoping that today adds up to a third win for him.
02:10Well listen, we know that you're a big Pet Shop Boys fan.
02:14Yeah.
02:15But this isn't your only TV programme you love.
02:17Big fascination with Doctor Who.
02:19Yeah.
02:19Right.
02:20Old Doctor Who or new Doctor Who?
02:22Pick an era.
02:23I think I started watching it when I bought it back in 2005 with Chris Vegleston.
02:28It's a big debate.
02:29It's always a debate but you'll go new.
02:31Yeah.
02:32Right.
02:32Well I think your challenger might probably go for the old Doctor Who.
02:35Rob Chapman's doing it.
02:36Hi Rob.
02:37Hi.
02:37Now you live up at West Kirby.
02:40Yep.
02:41In the Wirral.
02:41That's right.
02:43IMBU.
02:44You've had nine years retired.
02:45Absolutely.
02:46After 84 decades with BT.
02:48Mm-hmm.
02:48Yeah.
02:48What do you do, just to make me jealous, what do you do to fill the days?
02:51Well, apart from grandchildren duties, I play walking football.
02:57Nice.
02:57On a Friday with the over-60s mob.
02:59Nice.
03:00I play cricket as well on a Saturday and I'm also secretary of my local cricket club.
03:04Do you do the scoreboard at the cricket?
03:07No, I actually play.
03:09Well listen, I have to say to you, if I'm being honest Rob, you might need more than sixes and fours today if you're going to beat Joseph.
03:14Yes, I think I know what you mean, yeah.
03:15Very good, Dave.
03:16Good luck to both of you.
03:17All done in deliveries from Joseph.
03:23Uh, consonant, please.
03:24Thank you, Joseph.
03:25Start today with H.
03:27Uh, vowel.
03:29I.
03:30Consonant.
03:32C.
03:33Vow.
03:34U.
03:36Consonant.
03:37X.
03:39Vow.
03:40E.
03:41Consonant.
03:43S.
03:44Vow.
03:46A.
03:48And, lastly, M.
03:50At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:52MUSIC PLAYS
03:54Joseph.
03:57Five.
03:59And, rob.
04:04And, rob.
04:08I think I've got a six.
04:12I think I've got a six.
04:26Okay, the five, Joseph.
04:28Mixes.
04:29And, rob.
04:30Chimes.
04:30Yeah, they go for whom the bell tolls.
04:33What a start.
04:34Nina, what do you, can you go any higher for me?
04:36Unfortunately not.
04:37I did have music and then I went to chimes and that's it.
04:40Still good.
04:40Still a good one.
04:41Anything else from Susie?
04:42Nothing else at all, I'm afraid.
04:43Okay, good.
04:44Nice, clean start.
04:45Let's get some more letters and your first chance, Rob, to say hello to Rachel.
04:49Hi, Rachel.
04:50Hi, Rob.
04:50Can I have a consonant, please?
04:53We can indeed.
04:54H.
04:55And a vowel, please?
04:57E.
04:59Consonant?
05:00R.
05:02Vowel, please?
05:04A.
05:06A consonant?
05:08T.
05:09Another consonant, please?
05:11C.
05:12This one's almost playing itself.
05:14A vowel, please?
05:17I.
05:18And another vowel, please?
05:23O.
05:25And one more.
05:27Oh, sorry.
05:28And the consonant, please?
05:30A bonus D.
05:32It's always nine.
05:3330 seconds.
05:35Yes, that's it.
05:39Yes, that's it.
05:44Yes.
05:48Yes, there are lots of answers.
06:00Bye.
06:01Bye.
06:01Bye.
06:02Bye.
06:03Bye.
06:05Rob?
06:06I think I've got an eight.
06:07And Joseph?
06:08Just a seven.
06:10What's the seven, Joseph?
06:11Carotid.
06:12And let's see if it isn't it.
06:13No, it's not, because I can't count.
06:14It's a seven, and it's cartoid.
06:16So it looks like it could be seven for Joseph.
06:18Susie?
06:19Yes, carotid.
06:20Excellent.
06:21We had one more seven, didn't we, with charted?
06:23Nice.
06:24But there is an eight, which is turned from zoology,
06:27and it is chordate, C-H-O-R-D-A-T-E,
06:30and it's an animal of quite a large family or phylum,
06:35which is vertebrates together with sea squirts and lancelets.
06:40I think sea squirt is a lovely name.
06:42Right.
06:42If you've got that at home,
06:44do a lap of honour of your house before we do this numbers round.
06:48And let's get those numbers.
06:49Joseph?
06:50One large, please.
06:52One large and five little coming up for you, Joseph.
06:55And the first numbers of the day are eight, nine, six,
07:00eight, seven, 50.
07:03Could be tricky.
07:04Let's see the target.
07:06602.
07:07602.
07:08Numbers up.
07:08We'll see you next time.
07:16We'll see you next time.
07:17Rob, what are you declaring?
07:41603.
07:42603.
07:43One away.
07:43Joseph?
07:44I'll try 600, not being down.
07:46603, Rob.
07:47Go.
07:487 plus 6 is 13.
07:497 plus 6, 13.
07:51Times 50 is 650.
07:54650.
07:548, 8 to 64.
07:568, 8, 64.
07:58Take that away from 650, which is 6, 8, 4.
08:03Now I've got to go wrong.
08:04Sorry.
08:05Joseph, doors open for 600.
08:079 minus 7 is 2.
08:099 minus 7 is 2.
08:118 over 2 is 4.
08:138 over 2 is 4.
08:15Plus the other 8 is 12.
08:16Yep.
08:17Times 50.
08:19600.
08:20Yeah, two away.
08:216 or 2?
08:22I found one way with this one.
08:2450 times 6 is 300.
08:28And then 8 divided by 8 is 1.
08:31Add them for 301.
08:33901 and 9 less 7 is 2.
08:36And time for 600.
08:37Yeah.
08:4020 stuff.
08:416 or 2.
08:43Let's get our first Tea Time teaser of the day.
08:45It rusted.
08:46It rusted.
08:47It rusted away.
08:48And this was left behind.
08:49It rusted away.
08:50And this was left behind.
08:52Welcome back.
09:09First Tea Time teaser today.
09:11It rusted.
09:12It rusted away.
09:13And this was left behind.
09:16Detritus.
09:17Detritus.
09:18Picking up the pieces after part one is our challenger, Rob.
09:21Out of retirement, six points on the board.
09:24Joseph with a slight lead of 14.
09:26But, Rob, it's your letters.
09:28Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:30Thank you, Rob.
09:31T.
09:32And a vowel, please.
09:34E.
09:35Consonant.
09:37S.
09:38Vowel.
09:40I.
09:41Consonant.
09:43D.
09:44And a vowel.
09:46A.
09:48A consonant.
09:50F.
09:51A vowel, please.
09:54E.
09:55And another consonant, please.
09:58Lastly, D.
10:00Thank you, Rachel.
10:12Let's see, Rob.
10:33Eight. Seven, sorry. Seven. Seven. I'll get it right this time. Seven.
10:37Good. Seven. And Joseph.
10:38Eight.
10:39An eight. Rob, you wish that had been an eight. What's your seven?
10:44Feasted. Feasted. And feast your eyes on this.
10:48Faddiest.
10:49Yeah, very good. That's in the dictionary.
10:54Loads of lovely words in there. Loads of people with sevens, I reckon, at home.
10:58What have you got over there, Nina?
10:59A same seven. Defeats.
11:01Defeats.
11:02Yeah, very nice.
11:03Very, very good. 22 at plays six. And Joseph, you're going to pick the next letters.
11:08Thank you, Joseph. To E.
11:12Vowel.
11:13O.
11:15Consonant.
11:16D.
11:18Vowel.
11:19E.
11:20Consonant.
11:22P.
11:23Vowel.
11:25A.
11:26Consonant.
11:28S.
11:29Vowel.
11:31I.
11:33Consonant.
11:34And the last one.
11:35W.
11:3730 seconds.
12:08Joseph, how many?
12:09Seven.
12:10And Rob?
12:11Six.
12:11And a six.
12:12What's the six, Rob?
12:13Wasted.
12:13And the seven?
12:15Deposit.
12:15Lovely.
12:16Deposit for seven.
12:18Nina, why do you?
12:18Shoot.
12:19I had a deposit too.
12:22Wonderful.
12:23Susie, anything better?
12:24Yeah, there is a lovely word, actually.
12:26Well, I'm not sure the word is lovely, but what it describes is dioptase.
12:30D-I-O-P-T-A-S-E.
12:32And it's a rare mineral and it occurs as emerald green crystals.
12:36Well done.
12:37Well done.
12:38APPLAUSE
12:38Right, let's get another numbers in.
12:41Rob, your first time choosing.
12:43One from the top and five small ones, please.
12:45You're not gambling early?
12:46No, not just.
12:47No.
12:48I swear, this commitment to winning teapots is very slack at the moment.
12:52Right, you never know, you might get some points with one large.
12:55Let's see if I look.
12:55Five little ones.
12:56Four, seven, three, two, seven and 25.
13:01After some sort of challenge, the target, 203.
13:05203.
13:06Numbers up.
13:27Bye.
13:27What did you get, Rob?
13:38203.
13:38Yeah, and Joseph?
13:39203.
13:40Rob, go for your life.
13:42Two times four is eight.
13:43Two fours are eight.
13:45Times 25, 200, plus three.
13:47Not going to make up any ground this way.
13:49No.
13:49203.
13:50It's good.
13:51Same way.
13:52Same way, Rob.
13:53Thank you, Rob.
13:56Dixie, new corner time.
13:58Nina, Wadia.
13:58I've just loved talking to you all week.
14:00I've enjoyed your company on air, off air.
14:03Really good crack.
14:03We get to ask you questions now.
14:05Mine is on behalf of Joseph.
14:06Okay.
14:07He's a huge Doctor Who fan.
14:09Well, Nina Wadia has been in an episode of Doctor Who.
14:12So if you could just tell Joseph, myself, and everyone at home about that experience.
14:15Okay.
14:16So it was Matt Smith's first time as Doctor.
14:20And it was the first episode of that series.
14:23And I played Dr. Ramsden, who got eaten by an alien that came out of the vent.
14:30But it was great fun.
14:32I've got to tell you, the director of that show, he had a board on which he had pictures
14:37of every actor on that series doing a running pose.
14:41We don't know why, but all actors, just when we were wrapped, he would go,
14:44Come, come, come here.
14:46Do this.
14:46Wow.
14:46And we all did this.
14:47I love it.
14:48So he's got this board full of all these pictures, and I'd love to see them one day.
14:51Bit of Doctor Who, insider knowledge, loving that, Joseph.
14:55Susie, what's your question for Nina?
14:56Oh, my question, I'm tempted to ask about Matt Smith, because I love Matt Smith, but
14:59I want to ask instead, how do you learn scripts?
15:03Because when I have to learn a talk, it takes me forever.
15:07Well, actually, I did a show recently called How to Improve Your Memory, and I've changed
15:11my technique.
15:12So my original technique would be to literally write my lines out, the ones that I found difficult
15:16to learn.
15:17But since doing this show, I learned to do something called a memory palace.
15:21So you build your lines around a room or an area, and you associate something with that
15:28particular area of the room, and that's how you remember those lines.
15:32Rachel?
15:33Well, I'd like to ask, when you were here last time, you were talking about doing, you
15:37know, Shakespeare in the theatre, but this time you've talked about your favourite job
15:42was slapstick for kids.
15:43So who's the better audience, the Thesps or the kids?
15:47It's so different.
15:48It's just different.
15:49Your audience is different that way.
15:51I mean, I've just, I've enjoyed actually doing stuff for kids so much.
15:54I've written my second little kids' book called The Heartheads.
15:57It's coming out soon about a little family that's very loosely based on ours, with a
16:02little dog and a pigeon in the back garden.
16:05So, yeah.
16:06Great to get to know you a little bit better.
16:08Love all that memory insight.
16:09It's all about the memory in our job.
16:11It really is.
16:12Thanks, Raquel, Sarah and Nadia.
16:17Back to business.
16:18Let's get some more letters now.
16:19And it's you, Joseph.
16:20Consonant.
16:21Thank you, Joseph.
16:22D.
16:23Vowel.
16:25O.
16:26Consonant.
16:27Vowel.
16:28T.
16:29Vowel.
16:30A.
16:32Consonant.
16:33W.
16:34Vowel.
16:36U.
16:37Consonant.
16:38S.
16:39Vowel.
16:41O.
16:43Consonant.
16:44And lastly, oh dear, K.
16:4630 seconds on the dot.
16:48Vowel.
17:18Tricky one, Joseph? Just a five.
17:20And Rob? Just a four, I'm afraid.
17:22The four is? Took. Five.
17:24Stood. Nina?
17:26I got stuck on stud. I couldn't
17:28see anything after that.
17:30Not a bad thing. Well, that's terrible, because I get stuck
17:32on toads.
17:34Anything else?
17:36You put the S in front of took
17:38and have stuck. Yeah.
17:40The group of sheaves of grain that you find
17:42stood on end in a field.
17:44But there is a 6-0 without saw
17:46from out sea to surpass
17:49in vision. Ah, OK, so not
17:50out saw somebody.
17:52OK, very much.
17:54All right, let's get some more letters now.
17:56And it's you, Rob.
17:57Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Rob.
18:00N. And a vowel, please.
18:03E.
18:04Another consonant.
18:06L. And a vowel, please.
18:09O.
18:10Consonant. N.
18:13Vowel.
18:13I.
18:17Consonant.
18:18Z.
18:19Z.
18:20Er, a vowel, please.
18:24E.
18:26And another
18:28vowel, please.
18:30A final.
18:32A.
18:33Here we go.
18:33I.
18:43I.
18:46I.
18:48I.
19:00I.
19:01I.
19:01Time's up, Joseph.
19:05Five.
19:06And Rob.
19:06Five, not written down.
19:08Yeah, tricky letters so far, Rob.
19:09Yeah, alien.
19:10Alien.
19:11It's the same word.
19:12We've just been talking about Doctor Who.
19:15I can't believe you brought that up.
19:16When you know Nina's been eaten by an alien, it's a terrible memory.
19:20Listen, we know why Rob kept going for vowels at the end,
19:23because he's seen lion eyes and was trying to get it out, right?
19:26Yeah.
19:27As we all were.
19:28But was there anything beyond, you know, fives in there?
19:32No, I mean, I couldn't see any, I'll be honest, no.
19:34I couldn't.
19:35I bet you Susie might have found a six.
19:36I'm sure Susie will have.
19:38Oh, will you be on the right track with lion eyes?
19:40Because that's not there, but Leonine is lion-like.
19:44That's what we meant.
19:45Leonine, that's the one.
19:46That's what we all meant.
19:47Everyone can have seven points for that, except for Joseph and Rob.
19:51All right.
19:52Let's get some more numbers now.
19:54And, Joseph, your choice.
19:55One large, please.
19:57Just another one large selection.
19:59But let's see if we can find something interesting.
20:01Come on, numbers.
20:02For this round, we have four, two, eight, one.
20:07Four and the large one, 100.
20:09And the target to reach 303.
20:11303.
20:12303.
20:433-0-3, Joseph?
20:463-0-3 not written down.
20:47OK, and Rob?
20:483-0-2.
20:49OK, 3-0-3 not written down.
20:51Joseph?
20:51100 plus 1.
20:53That's a good start.
20:54100 plus 1, 101.
20:574 over 4 is a 1.
20:59Yep.
21:00Plus a 2.
21:014-3.
21:031 over 1 times 3.
21:04Mark, that's 3-0-3.
21:07That's the way.
21:09OK, with everywhere you went,
21:10if you got it, 10 points for you playing along at home,
21:13and you can have a go at our second Tea Time Teaser.
21:15Now, I rig that.
21:17I rig that.
21:19Nothing's getting in, nothing's getting out.
21:21Nothing's getting in, and nothing's getting out.
21:23That is airtight.
21:4759 plays 21.
21:50Champion comfortable at the moment,
21:52but not done yet,
21:53so let's get some letters from Rob.
21:55OK.
21:56A consonant, please, Rachel.
21:58Thank you, Rob.
21:59R.
22:00And a vowel, please.
22:02E.
22:03Consonant.
22:05T.
22:06Let's have another consonant, break it up.
22:08R.
22:09Another vowel, please.
22:12I.
22:13Consonant.
22:16G.
22:18Vowel, please.
22:20A.
22:22And a consonant, please.
22:26N.
22:28And another vowel, please.
22:33And the last one.
22:34U.
22:3530 seconds.
22:36music
22:40I.
22:41And an consonant, please.
22:41Rob?
23:08Just a seven.
23:09A seven there.
23:10Joseph?
23:10Eight.
23:11OK, let's go seven.
23:13Tearing, as in tearing up.
23:14Which you will be after your Joseph's eight.
23:16Oh, my mistake.
23:18Tears of happiness it's turned into.
23:21Come on, it's never over, Rob.
23:22Nina, how'd you get on?
23:24Yeah, a seven.
23:24Ingrate.
23:25Ingrate.
23:26What a lovely word.
23:27A horrible word, but a lovely word.
23:29Anything better than that, Sue?
23:30Yeah, you can actually get a nine out of this with garniture,
23:34and that's decorative accessories, but particularly vases.
23:38Very good.
23:39APPLAUSE
23:40Right, good round.
23:4459 plays 28.
23:46More letters now from Joseph.
23:48Consonant.
23:48Thank you, Joseph.
23:50L.
23:51Vow.
23:51And the final of V.
24:15Here we go.
24:29I don't know which one of you to trust here, the way you said it.
24:56Rob?
24:57Vaguely.
24:57It was very vague, the way you declared seven.
25:00And, Joseph?
25:01Suavely.
25:02Suavely?
25:02Vaguely?
25:03Both in the dictionary, yeah.
25:05I've got exactly those two.
25:06Nothing better, just a literary seven as well.
25:09Glaives, which are swords.
25:10Wonderful.
25:11Loved that.
25:12And the perfect timing to sit back and do our origins of words for this Friday last time this week, Suze.
25:18Well, this is for you, Colin, because you asked for this by special request.
25:22I'm talking about puddings.
25:23Yay!
25:24First of all, puddings actually used to be entirely savoury, so not the sweet ones we know today.
25:30And it goes back to the French boudin, which actually gives us black pudding.
25:34And apologies to say that it's actually also linked to botulist, a sausage or intestine that gives us botulism.
25:41But anyway, most puddings today, happily, are much more delicious than that.
25:45So, I'm going to start with some of the traditional ones.
25:48You mentioned spotted dick.
25:49I particularly like spotted, obviously, because of the currants.
25:53Dick was just a nickname for a pudding.
25:54You could find it in all sorts of different recipes.
25:59Roly-poly, 17th century, just a fanciful formation from roll.
26:04Nothing special about that particularly.
26:06Plum duff, which is like a suet pudding.
26:09The duff there is just dough.
26:11It's a regional variation on dough.
26:14Treacle tart, which I love.
26:16The treacle there has got a surprising history because it goes back to the Greek wild beast, theriakon.
26:22And originally, treacle was an antidote to snake venom.
26:26And because quite often with an antidote, you need to have a sugary syrup to help it go down,
26:31eventually the theriakon, eventually treacle, was transferred to the sugary syrup and not to the anti-venom, which is strange.
26:37But I'm going to finish with the one that you particularly wanted to know about, I think, which was Nickerbocker Glory.
26:41I thought you'd forgotten it.
26:42No, I haven't forgotten Nickerbocker Glory.
26:44So, first of all, Nickerbocker itself.
26:47Diedrich Nickerbocker, or Knickerbocker, to give it his proper pronunciation,
26:52was a fictional author of Washington Irving's History of New York a long time ago.
26:58And it had wonderful illustrations in there of Dutch settlers in these breeches, knee breeches.
27:03So that explains the garments that are called Nickerbocker.
27:06But we think that the Nickerbocker Glory goes back to the Nickerbocker Hotel,
27:11named after the character in Washington Irving's novel.
27:14Now, two theories as to why the hotel inspired the dish.
27:17One is that it was, in the 1900s, sort of embellished with pink and white decor everywhere.
27:25That's one theory.
27:26Nice.
27:26But I think the better one, this is in Times Square.
27:28It still stands today, by the way, in mid-Manhattan.
27:31It had various, sort of, layers to its architecture.
27:36So there was a two-storey base, ten-storey bit in the middle,
27:39and then a three-storey, sort of, roof on the top.
27:41So I think it was all about the layers in its architecture.
27:44Fantastic.
27:48Let's get some letters now, Rob.
27:50It's your choice again, my friend.
27:51OK.
27:52Start off with a consonant, please, Rachel.
27:53Thank you, Rob.
27:54N.
27:55And a vowel.
27:57E.
27:58And a consonant.
27:59B.
28:00And a vowel.
28:02A.
28:03And a consonant.
28:05B.
28:06And a vowel.
28:08E.
28:10Consonant.
28:11S.
28:12A consonant.
28:15T.
28:17And a vowel, please.
28:19And lastly, O.
28:20Here we go.
28:23Right, Joseph, how many?
28:53Six.
28:54OK, and Rob?
28:55Six not written down.
28:56OK, what's not written down?
28:57Absent.
28:58And Joseph?
28:58Beaten.
28:59Can you do better than six?
29:01Might have a seven.
29:02Come on.
29:03Don't know if it's an actual word, but when you get your bones set.
29:05Yeah, it's actually a plant, though.
29:08It's the name of a plant as well, but it is to do with setting of bones.
29:12It is a plant called the comfrey, and the root of that is ground up and used as a plaster,
29:18or at least it was, to set brick and bones.
29:20Anything else, Suze?
29:22No, we just have beanos for six.
29:23Oh, beautiful.
29:24Often a beano.
29:25Right.
29:25There you go.
29:26Just like the jolly boys item we talked about the other day.
29:3072 against 41.
29:32And, Joseph, it's your letters.
29:33And lastly, N.
30:00Last letters.
30:03Joseph?
30:32Seven.
30:33And Rob?
30:35Six.
30:36Rob, let's have the six.
30:37Meteor.
30:38Yeah, and Joseph, let's have the seven.
30:40Three men?
30:41It's a hyphen situation we find ourselves in.
30:43It's not a hyphen situation.
30:44It's not actually in, I'm afraid.
30:47Sorry.
30:48Nina?
30:49There is a seven.
30:51I'm not sure how to spell memento, if it's M-E-M or M-O-M.
30:57Oh, memento is in there.
31:00That's brilliant.
31:01Memento.
31:02I didn't see that one.
31:03That's brilliant, because I was stuck on momento, which is the plural of momentum.
31:07So, that's another seven.
31:08All right.
31:08Yeah.
31:09Very, very good.
31:09Well, let's get another numbers in.
31:11And it's you, Rob.
31:12OK.
31:13Let's have a three and three.
31:14A little bit of fun.
31:15Three and three before the weekend.
31:17Why not?
31:18Chuck them up here.
31:19See what happens.
31:20Right, we have six, three, nine.
31:24And the big one's 25, 175.
31:27And your target?
31:29497.
31:30497.
31:31Last numbers.
31:31Yeah.
31:43Yeah.
31:43Yeah.
31:45Yeah.
31:46Yeah.
31:46Yeah.
31:50Yeah.
31:50.
32:02Time's up, Rob.
32:04504.
32:05Seven away.
32:06Joseph.
32:06I'm too far away.
32:08You're too far away, Rob.
32:09More points for you, fill your boots.
32:11Could get me 50.
32:13100 plus 75.
32:16175.
32:17Plus three...
32:18I don't know.
32:19Multiplied by three.
32:20Multiplied by three for 525.
32:25Is it not supposed to be?
32:27No, it's not supposed to be.
32:28It should have been 450, but I've obviously got that wrong.
32:30So, yes, I'm out.
32:31Yeah, 150 times three, I'm afraid.
32:34Yeah, but all he has to do is take away the 25
32:36and then the 9 minus 6 gives him the three, right?
32:38Yeah, that's one way to get there.
32:39You were so close to getting there.
32:41You were so close.
32:42So close, but no banana splits.
32:43There you go.
32:44So there is that way.
32:45What way did you go?
32:46I did 100 times 6 minus 75, 25 and three.
32:50There you go.
32:514, 9, 7.
32:51It's all gone a bit crazy in here.
32:55All that talk of dessert, everyone got a fake sugar rush.
32:58It's always like this.
32:59Bit mad in a Friday afternoon.
33:02Joseph's got 72.
33:03That means three wins for the resurrection man.
33:07For Rob, well, we're going to send him back into retirement,
33:09but a really good 47.
33:11And I know the 50 is a personal target.
33:13So let's get your fingers on the buzzers
33:15as we reveal today's kind-down conundrum.
33:18Joseph.
33:33Joseph.
33:34Excursion.
33:35Let's have a look.
33:37It is.
33:37There you go.
33:42Three wins, Joseph.
33:43After all those years, that traumatic first experience,
33:47only scoring 29 points, you'll float through the weekend.
33:50Brilliant, eh?
33:51Yeah.
33:51Well done.
33:52Well done.
33:53Rob, we've got to send you back.
33:56Listen, keep up all the sport.
33:58You do more sport than I do,
33:59and I'm 22 years younger than you.
34:02And love to Jane.
34:02Are you 44 years married?
34:0444, yeah.
34:0445 this year.
34:05Absolutely.
34:06Well, you're looking great.
34:07You're absolutely great,
34:08and it's been wonderful to have you.
34:09Yeah, that's right.
34:12Had a real laugh with you.
34:13Nina, you've been the icing on my countdown cake.
34:17Stay full.
34:18Susie, you're always my cherry on top.
34:20Rachel, I've ran out.
34:22Do you enjoy a poached pair?
34:24No comment.
34:25Let's just say goodbye.
34:26Rachel, Susie, and I will be back here
34:28for five more servings of Countdown on Monday.
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