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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Tuesday afternoon,
00:34where the competition is fierce but integrity never wanes.
00:38No cheating around here, Rachel Riley.
00:40Never, never, never, never.
00:41It's all played in the best possible spirit.
00:44But my question to you, as this is the anniversary in 1988
00:48of Ben Johnson being stripped of his Olympic gold medal,
00:51some would say the most infamous example of cheating,
00:54but have you ever cheated in sport or at a game?
00:58No, I don't know. I don't believe you.
01:00Well, the only time... I wouldn't say cheated. I would.
01:03But I did Paul Sinner's TV showdown,
01:06and one of the questions was,
01:07who is the other team captain on the Visconti's view,
01:10as well as Ian Hislop?
01:12And I said, Paul Merson got the point.
01:16And at the end of the round, I owned up and said,
01:18it should have been Paul Merton. I used to work with Merson.
01:21I said, S instead of the T.
01:23And they just got me to do a pick-up and say the right answers.
01:26It still haunts John Richardson, who was on the other team.
01:28I think he's still bitter about it.
01:30I've never cheated at sport or at a game, except for once.
01:34And it's always went on my mind.
01:36The first time I was in Dictionary Corner, I was in a real panic.
01:39And we used to sit a lot closer together,
01:42and I wasn't doing very well, and I was really panicking.
01:45And there was, like, five seconds left on the clock,
01:47and I looked at Susie's pad, and I got an eight-letter word off it.
01:50What was the word? I can't remember. I bet you do.
01:52I'll tell you what it was. Shameful.
01:54Shameful was the word.
01:56That'll be on your gravestone, Murray.
01:58Do you forgive me, Susie? Once cheated at Celtic...
02:00Always. You're supposed to pinch my words.
02:03That's good news for who's in Dictionary Corner today.
02:06Let's officially welcome back Susie Dent,
02:08who's going to keep us all in the straight and narrow.
02:11And with her, suitably, our Kirlene Skip, our Olympic hero.
02:15The only thing she's ever tested positive for is frostbite.
02:18Even your head.
02:21And we have someone in gold medal position.
02:24Just the one win so far. Welcome back, Tom.
02:27Thank you very much.
02:29Tell me about your sporting brags. Are you any good at anything?
02:32Well, I play badminton two times a week,
02:35but I would probably describe myself
02:37as a bit of a mediocre player, to be honest.
02:39But you play to keep fit.
02:41I do play to keep fit, but it's a good social experience as well.
02:45And I have a particular signature shot that I like to do,
02:48which is basically like a little drop shot.
02:51The Stephenson? It's called the Tom Special.
02:54That wasn't me that coined it, I must admit.
02:56I think other members of the club coined it.
02:58We'll see if they use that in the next Olympics.
03:00Who knows? I wouldn't hold your breath for that.
03:02But from now on, I'll call it that, when I ever play it.
03:05You're taking on Shaun today, another Scot on the show.
03:08Shaun Mowat from Edinburgh. Welcome to the programme.
03:10Thanks, Colin.
03:12I think you were at one of the greatest days
03:14in the history of domestic football.
03:16That's correct, yeah. Well, I'm a Hibs fan.
03:18We're not blessed with a lot of positives.
03:20I think in 30 years watching Hibs, it's probably been four good years.
03:23But after 114 years of waiting for the Scottish Cup victory,
03:27it all came good in 2016 against Rangers.
03:30So there was obviously 40,000 Hibs fans singing Sunshine on Leith.
03:34Just a beautiful moment, basically.
03:36And I say this as a Liverpool fan,
03:38I was there singing You'll Never Walk Alone in Istanbul
03:41as one reference, but I actually do think
03:44when the Hibs fans sang Sunshine on Leith that day,
03:47after 114 years,
03:49maybe the greatest sing-along of a song I've ever witnessed in football.
03:53Yeah, I mean, I'd be biased, but I'd say so.
03:55And the next day on the Sunday was arguably even better
03:58when you had 150,000 people from the top of Leith Walk
04:01going down to the stadium for the bus parade.
04:03Yeah. Just magical.
04:05Brilliant. Well, listen, we're very happy to have you here.
04:08Good luck to both of you.
04:11APPLAUSE
04:1315 rounds before we officially proclaim a winner.
04:17And you're up first, champion. Tom, your letters.
04:19Hi, Rachel. Hi, Tom. Can I start with a consonant, please?
04:22You can indeed. Start today with S.
04:24And a second.
04:26N
04:27A vowel.
04:28U
04:29Another vowel, please.
04:31O
04:32And a third.
04:34E
04:35Consonant, please.
04:37G
04:38And a second.
04:39D
04:41And another consonant, please.
04:43N
04:45And a final consonant, please.
04:47A final G.
04:48That old man in the studio. Let's play Countdown.
05:09MUSIC PLAYS
05:21Shaun?
05:22Eight.
05:23Fantastic start. Tom?
05:24Also an eight.
05:25Right, what's eight, Shaun?
05:26Dungeons.
05:27Dungeons. Same one?
05:28Yeah, same. Yep.
05:30Great start. Power of dungeons. Can you raise it a level?
05:33We got another eight, actually. Suzie?
05:35We did, yeah. Gudgeons. Freshwater fish.
05:38What a team. What a team you are.
05:40What's it like, Eve, not being Skip for once?
05:43It's actually quite nice relying on other people.
05:45Yeah. You can properly relax.
05:48OK, let's get more letters now.
05:50Shaun, your first chance to say hello to Rachel.
05:52Hi, Rachel. Hi, Shaun.
05:54Consonant, please.
05:55Thank you. Start with R.
05:57And another.
05:59L
06:00And another.
06:02B
06:03Vowel, please.
06:04A
06:05And another.
06:06E
06:07And a consonant.
06:09P
06:10And a vowel.
06:12A
06:14And a consonant.
06:16L
06:18And a vowel, please.
06:19And lastly, E.
06:2230 seconds.
06:37MUSIC PLAYS
06:53Tom?
06:54Seven.
06:55And Shaun?
06:56Just a six.
06:57The six, Shaun?
06:58Baller.
06:59Baller. Very modern word, that.
07:01And Tom?
07:02Relabel.
07:03Yes, excellent. In the dictionary. Well done.
07:05Anything else?
07:06We did. We got a parable for another seven.
07:08Beautiful. No better?
07:09No better than seven.
07:10Seven, as good as it gets, as we get our first numbers of today.
07:13And, Tom, you going to pick them?
07:15Three from the top, please, Rachel.
07:17Thank you, Tom. Three and three.
07:20And the first numbers of the day are two, nine, four.
07:24And the big ones.
07:2650, 100 and 25.
07:29And the target to reach, oh, 866.
07:32866. Numbers up.
07:34MUSIC PLAYS
08:04Shaun?
08:05866.
08:06Yes, and Tom?
08:07Likewise, 866.
08:08OK, Shaun, you take it away.
08:10100 minus four.
08:1296.
08:13Times nine.
08:14Times nine is 864.
08:16Plus two.
08:17866. Lovely.
08:19Yep, exactly the same.
08:21In the same way.
08:22APPLAUSE
08:23We've had that.
08:24We were so excited.
08:25If we had have played the National Anthem, we would have cried.
08:28Stop it!
08:29It's great when you get the numbers, though, isn't it?
08:31It is.
08:32Oh, it's the best thing.
08:33Safe True is our first teatime teaser.
08:35Safe True has a part to play in how something looks.
08:38Has a part to play in how something looks.
08:41MUSIC PLAYS
08:49APPLAUSE
08:56Safe True was our first teatime teaser.
08:58Has a part to play in how something looks.
09:01Has a part to play in how something looks.
09:03Fairly straightforward.
09:04Features.
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09:12or you can write to us at contestantapplications,
09:15Countdown, Leeds, LS3, 1JS.
09:19Really good contest today.
09:21Our challenger, Shaun, started really well.
09:23And you watched Tom yesterday.
09:24You were a little daunted, weren't you?
09:26Indeed. Very good, Clare.
09:27You've settled in now.
09:28Let's get another nine letters.
09:30K.
09:31And another.
09:33S.
09:34And another.
09:36T.
09:37And a fourth, please.
09:39P.
09:40A vowel.
09:42U.
09:43And another.
09:44E.
09:45And another.
09:47E.
09:49Consonant.
09:50T.
09:53And a vowel, please.
09:54And a final I.
09:57Thanks, Rachel.
10:00BELL
10:01BELL
10:29Jump.
10:30Seven.
10:31Challenger.
10:32Seven.
10:33What's the seven, challenger?
10:34Putties.
10:35What are you saying, champ?
10:36Not nice, sorry. Pukiest.
10:38Right, let's just check those.
10:40Pukiest OK?
10:41It is, yeah. It's strange, isn't it?
10:43It sounds like such a modern word,
10:44but actually Shakespeare gave us puke as a verb.
10:46Beautiful.
10:47So, yeah, it is in the dictionary.
10:49And putties.
10:51Putties.
10:52As in a putty in your hand.
10:55Yeah, absolutely fine.
10:56It is there as a verb as well,
10:58so you can steal something with putty, no problem with that.
11:00Even your head?
11:01Nope, no others, just those couple of sevens.
11:04Thank you, Skip.
11:05Let's get some more letters from Tom.
11:07A vowel, please, Rachel.
11:08Thank you, Tom.
11:09A.
11:10And a second.
11:11I.
11:12And a third, please.
11:14E.
11:15Consonant.
11:16S.
11:17And another.
11:19X.
11:20And another.
11:21N.
11:22A fourth, please.
11:24D.
11:25A vowel.
11:28E.
11:29And a final consonant, please.
11:32A final R.
11:34Start the clock.
11:59Talk to me, Sian.
12:01A seven.
12:02And Tom?
12:03An eight.
12:04Wow, the seven?
12:05Sandier.
12:06Sandier.
12:07And Tom?
12:08Nearside.
12:09Nearside.
12:10You don't need to look this up, that's absolutely brilliant.
12:12Absolutely fantastic.
12:13APPLAUSE
12:14Anything else in the dictionary corner?
12:17We had another eight as well.
12:18Arsenite.
12:19OK.
12:20Yes.
12:21Arsenite.
12:22Arsenite.
12:23Arsenite.
12:24Arsenite.
12:25Another eight as well.
12:26Arsenite.
12:27OK.
12:28Something to do with fire or poison?
12:30Yeah, poison.
12:31A compound of arsenic with another element.
12:33Great stuff.
12:34OK, Sian.
12:35Your first numbers, your chance to control the narrative.
12:37I'll have two large, please.
12:39You can indeed.
12:40You're not gambling?
12:41Not yet.
12:42Playing the steady game.
12:43Two large, four little.
12:44Let's see if this makes a difference to the scores.
12:46The numbers are four, five, six, five,
12:50and the large one's 150.
12:52And the target...
12:55965.
12:56965, numbers up.
13:25Sean, your body language is like a washing machine during that.
13:29I don't know whether you got it or you're completely lost.
13:32964.
13:33964, one away.
13:35So frustration was what you were saying to me.
13:37Tom?
13:38965.
13:39OK, let's hear it.
13:40OK, 100 minus 4 is 96.
13:42100 minus 4, 96.
13:4450 divided by 5 is 10.
13:46Yep.
13:47Multiply the two together for 960 and add the 5 on.
13:52And add the 5 on.
13:53Add the other 5.
13:54965, well done.
13:58Very good indeed.
14:00That stretches the lead out a bit to 25.
14:02Tom's got 50, Sean's got 25.
14:04As we cross over again to Dictionary Corner and Eve Muirhead.
14:08Yesterday, we talked about you winning Olympic gold.
14:11Today, we're going to talk about the World Championships.
14:14But it's got nothing to do with Curleen.
14:17Yeah, well, I've played in several pipe band championships.
14:21The bagpipes is something that I started with my friend Katie
14:24when I was younger.
14:25She played the side drum.
14:26And as little kids, we went along to band practice.
14:30And it's so much fun.
14:32It's such a social aspect.
14:34And I was very sad when I had to give up the band
14:37because I kind of went into the full-time curling
14:39and I couldn't practice the kind of three, four times a week
14:43that I needed to with the band.
14:44But do you know what?
14:45I still follow all the results.
14:47I can still play the pipes.
14:49I still pick them up now and again and have a go.
14:52But it's something that I do miss competing
14:55because you just get a buzz from it.
14:57And obviously, being Scottish and curling, bagpipes,
15:02play a bit of golf,
15:03you couldn't really get anything more Scottish.
15:05You are the most Scottish person I know.
15:07I know.
15:08You wouldn't know my mum's English, though, would you?
15:10No.
15:11There you go.
15:12There you go.
15:13Just check.
15:14Favourite breakfast?
15:15Square sausage.
15:17Favourite...
15:18I guess.
15:19Favourite band?
15:20Proclaimers, of course.
15:21There you go.
15:22You see, we've ticked every box.
15:23You know, the bagpipes, I think, are a real Marmite instrument.
15:27Some people cover their ears.
15:28Oh, I know.
15:29Other people open them.
15:30It sounds like when my dad's covering their ears
15:32when he used to practice.
15:33When you were practising.
15:34It's a horrible instrument to practice to get good at.
15:36Yeah.
15:37I personally love the bagpipes.
15:39What's the magic for you?
15:41What's unique about its sound for you?
15:43I don't know if there's anything unique about the sound.
15:45I think when I was younger...
15:47Well, I still am now.
15:49I am very competitive and if I do start something,
15:52I want to keep going until I'm the best at it
15:54and I think that's what happened with the pipes
15:56because I was on the chanter, like the finger part of the pipes,
16:00for about eight, nine years
16:01until you actually progress on to the pipes.
16:03Wow.
16:04So it's just more a kind of stubborn side of me, I think,
16:07that I just wanted to keep going and going until I got good at it
16:11and now I'm at a certain stage, I guess,
16:14that I can just pick them up and play.
16:16I love it.
16:17Well, listen, you've got until Friday.
16:19It's only Tuesday.
16:20If you can learn the Countdown theme tune and the bagpipes,
16:23we'll play out with it, yeah?
16:24You can stand right in the middle of the studio.
16:26How does that sound?
16:27Well, it could be a challenge, but, you know, I'll give it a go.
16:30I'm sure you will.
16:32APPLAUSE
16:34Wonderful.
16:35Right, back to Countdown, and, Tom, your letters.
16:38Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:39Thank you, Tom. W.
16:41And a vowel.
16:43U.
16:44Consonant, please.
16:46N.
16:47I.
16:48Consonant.
16:49S.
16:50Vowel.
16:51E.
16:52Consonant.
16:54R.
16:55A vowel, please.
16:57A.
16:58And a final consonant, please.
17:00And a final T.
17:02Countdown.
17:03MUSIC PLAYS
17:34Tom?
17:35Eight.
17:36Shaun?
17:37Eight.
17:38Tom, what's yours?
17:39Urinates.
17:40Urinates. Didn't see it. Shaun?
17:41Urinates as well.
17:42No, that's fine, don't worry.
17:44Oh, what a relief.
17:46Urinates.
17:47Some horrible words coming out today.
17:50It's been smut, hasn't it?
17:52Pukiest and urinates.
17:54We need to lift the level up a little bit.
17:57Do you have urine tests after curling?
17:59Do you have to do the drug test?
18:01Yeah, we do.
18:03Quite often we get drug tested.
18:05We're on a system, what you call ADAMS,
18:07so basically every day you have to give a one-hour time slot,
18:10give your overnight accommodation and they can just turn up.
18:14And there's no blood, so it's just all peeing in a pot.
18:18There you go, the glamour, as you say.
18:20Top sport.
18:21Well, urinates is fantastic.
18:23It's good as we can get, yeah.
18:25Yes, if you want a nice one there, there is saunter for seven.
18:28You know I love the word saunter.
18:31We have.
18:32OK, let's walk on, get another round now.
18:34And, Shaun, it's your letters.
18:36Consonant, please.
18:37Thank you, Shaun.
18:38F
18:39And another.
18:41W
18:42And another.
18:44C
18:45A vowel, please.
18:46E
18:47And another.
18:49A
18:50And a consonant.
18:51R
18:52And another.
18:54H
18:55And a vowel.
18:57E
19:00And a consonant, please.
19:01And lastly, N.
19:03Here we go.
19:31If any of you two have gone for wee, I'm going to kick you out of the studio.
19:35Tom?
19:36Six.
19:37Better.
19:38Shaun?
19:39Dodgy seven.
19:40OK, well, let's have the six.
19:42Fencer.
19:43And what's the dodgy seven?
19:45In reach.
19:46You had to go for it, it's that time.
19:48Let's find out.
19:49It sounds like something you would find in a historical dictionary.
19:52Oh, but it's not in this one, I'm afraid, Shaun, sorry.
19:55So it's an Olympic seven with fence.
19:58Any other sports that you were at a standard where you could have done them full time?
20:03I did play a lot of golf.
20:05I still do, actually.
20:06But, you know, a handful of golfers make it to the top,
20:09so curling was what I chose, and I don't think I made the wrong choice.
20:13Just to make us all feel better, could you tell us something you're bad at?
20:16Gymnastics.
20:17Wonderful.
20:18Can't even do a cartwheel.
20:19I'm so glad you're terrible.
20:21Right, third numbers of the day, and it's your champion, Tom.
20:24T from the top.
20:25Thank you, Tom.
20:26Too large.
20:27Four little this time around.
20:29And this selection is four, seven, one, ten, 50 and 25.
20:37And the target, 458.
20:40458, numbers up.
20:42458, numbers up.
21:13458, Tom.
21:17458.
21:18Bang on, Sean.
21:19No, 459.
21:20You've only got one, Tom. How's it done?
21:2250 and 25 is 75.
21:2450 and 25 is 75.
21:27Ten take four is six.
21:28It is.
21:29Multiply the two together for 450 and add the seven and the one on.
21:33I don't think I'm going to have much to do this week.
21:36458.
21:37Well done.
21:38APPLAUSE
21:40Right, let's take a breather.
21:41Beer Lamp is your second teatime teaser.
21:44Beer Lamp, a short introduction before a leisurely stroll.
21:47A short introduction before a leisurely stroll.
21:58APPLAUSE
22:02Welcome back.
22:03Teatime teaser was Beer Lamp, a short introduction
22:06before a leisurely stroll.
22:08We had saunter earlier, didn't we?
22:10But the answer is preamble.
22:12Preamble.
22:13Back to Countdown.
22:14This is the home straight.
22:15And, Sean, you're picking the letters.
22:17Consonant, please.
22:18Thank you, Sean.
22:19D.
22:20And another.
22:22R.
22:23And another.
22:25T.
22:26And another, please.
22:28V.
22:29And a vowel.
22:31I.
22:32And another.
22:33E.
22:34And another.
22:36I.
22:37And a consonant.
22:39Another T.
22:41And a final vowel, please.
22:43A final A.
22:45Good luck.
22:46MUSIC PLAYS
22:58MUSIC CONTINUES
23:18Sean, how did you get on, mate?
23:20Yeah, I just realised I made a mistake. I've used the R twice.
23:23No worries. Easy done. And Tom?
23:25An eight.
23:26An eight. What have you got?
23:27Vitiated.
23:28Vitiated. Absolutely fine.
23:30This is V-I-T-I-A-T-E-D.
23:32It means spoiled or impaired.
23:34Well done. That's absolutely fine.
23:36APPLAUSE
23:38That was top class, wasn't it?
23:40Totally top class, yeah.
23:42I'm just going to move on, shall I? Yes, I think we should.
23:44Let's do it. Tom, let's get more letters.
23:46A vowel, please, Rachel.
23:48Thank you, Tom. I.
23:50And a consonant.
23:52S.
23:53And a vowel.
23:55O.
23:56Consonant.
23:57G.
23:58And a second, please.
24:00M.
24:01A vowel.
24:03A.
24:04Consonant.
24:06F.
24:07Another consonant.
24:09N.
24:10And a final consonant, please.
24:12A final...
24:14C.
24:15Cardboard.
24:16MUSIC PLAYS
24:27MUSIC CONTINUES
24:46Shaun?
24:47Seven.
24:48And Tom?
24:49Also a seven.
24:50What's the seven, Tom?
24:51Foaming.
24:52And what about you, Shaun?
24:53Yeah, the same word, foaming.
24:55OK. Two foamings, seven each.
24:58Anything better from Susie Dent and or Eve Muirhead?
25:01We got an eight, actually.
25:04Cormings.
25:06Yes, about C-O-A-M-I-N-G-S.
25:08These are raised borders around the hatch of a yacht
25:11or other boat to keep out water.
25:13Fantastic. Cormings.
25:14APPLAUSE
25:16Right, 89 plays of 40, Tom's formidable, isn't he?
25:20It could be a second century for him and two wins, we shall see.
25:24But let's head over to Dictionary Corner for Origins of Words
25:27and Susie Dent, it's all yours.
25:29Oh, thank you.
25:30I'm talking about cheats.
25:32And I would just say, because I often get asked about this,
25:35I don't have an anagram finder on my computer,
25:37which lots of people think I do have when I move to the laptop.
25:40But it's a team effort, isn't it, very much,
25:42so it's not just me getting these words, I should just say.
25:45But I'm going to talk about humbugs and Jeremy Diddlers,
25:49bounce muttons, honey droppers,
25:51people who come Harry over or knights of the industry.
25:54These are all historical synonyms for cheats
25:57and people who try to get one over you.
26:00So the language of crime is really interesting
26:02and, as I often say, criminal slang
26:05was almost the first category of language
26:07to ever be collected in dictionary.
26:09So it's been around for centuries.
26:12And we have the quacks and the charlatans
26:15leading right up to the scammers and the catfishes,
26:18unfortunately, of today.
26:20But a couple of etymologies around cheating for you.
26:23I'm going to start with phoney.
26:25Famously, I think, it comes... For linguists, anyway,
26:29it comes from the Irish forney, meaning a ring.
26:32And a forney rig was quite an elaborate trick or con,
26:36which is still practised, apparently, today.
26:39A gold ring is suddenly found on the pavement by two people,
26:43one of which is the scammer and an innocent bystander,
26:46and they have a discussion about how much it's worth
26:49and, eventually, the innocent person will pay a little bit
26:53to the scammer, saying,
26:54OK, well, if you really don't mind me having it,
26:56at least let me give you some money for your trouble,
26:58and then goes off to find that it's worth about 5p.
27:01But we think that's where phoney comes from,
27:03that Irish for a ring.
27:05And a Scottish one today, which is quite strange,
27:08given that its association is with other places,
27:11as you will know, Colin, scallywag.
27:14Now, scallywag has got quite an interesting etymology to it.
27:17So it's been applied to lots and lots of different types of people.
27:21In the 19th century, actually, it was used as an insult
27:24for an anti-Confederate in the US, a native white southerner.
27:28It was a nickname for them.
27:30But is a scally...
27:32Am I right in thinking it sort of lost its sting a little bit
27:35in Liverpool?
27:36It's still used quite a lot, I think, but never the wag.
27:39No, OK, just a scally. Scally.
27:41Nothing to do with scallions, the spring onions,
27:43which come from the port of Ascalon,
27:45which was an ancient port in Palestine.
27:47And everything we think to do with the Scottish Scalloway,
27:52which is one of the Shetland Islands.
27:54And the reference, apparently,
27:56originally was to little Shetland ponies.
27:59And they were used, quite sadly, as a metaphor
28:01for something undersized or ill-fed or a little bit worthless.
28:05And so it was eventually applied to villains and cheats,
28:08which I think is very unfortunate.
28:10The wag bit, which we've talked about before,
28:12is short for waghalter,
28:14originally a name for a mischievous child.
28:17And the not-very-funny-but-very-dark-humorous idea
28:20was that they were fit for the halter or the noose
28:23because they were so mischievous.
28:25So, really complicated etymology,
28:27but I think it might go back to the Scottish island of Scalloway.
28:30Wonderful.
28:33Sean, let's get nine letters.
28:35Consonant, please.
28:36Thank you, Sean. Y.
28:38And another.
28:39M.
28:40And another.
28:42L.
28:43And a fourth, please.
28:45M.
28:46And a vowel.
28:48E.
28:49And another.
28:50O.
28:51And a third.
28:53I.
28:54And a consonant.
28:55G.
28:57And a final consonant, please.
28:59And a final J.
29:0130 seconds.
29:11MUSIC PLAYS
29:32How do you get on, Tom?
29:34A safe four.
29:36That will be safe, Sean!
29:38Just a four as well.
29:39What is it?
29:40Mime.
29:41Mime.
29:42And Tom?
29:43Mole.
29:44Mole.
29:45OK, four each.
29:46You might have to take a risk in a few words up there to get more.
29:49What have you got?
29:50Got a couple of fives.
29:51Gimme.
29:52Yeah.
29:53And also emoji.
29:54Emoji.
29:55Ah, there you go.
29:56Nice modern word.
29:57Let's get some more letters now.
29:58Our last letters round.
29:59From Tom.
30:00Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:01Thank you, Tom.
30:02C.
30:03And a second.
30:05D.
30:06And a third.
30:07T.
30:08And a vowel, please.
30:10O.
30:11And another one.
30:12E.
30:13Consonant.
30:15H.
30:16And a vowel.
30:18U.
30:20Consonant.
30:21Z.
30:22And a final consonant, please.
30:24And a final T.
30:26Last letters.
30:27MUSIC PLAYS
30:40MUSIC CONTINUES
30:58Sean.
30:59Seven.
31:00And Tom.
31:01Seven as well.
31:02Let's have a seven, Sean.
31:03Touched.
31:04Touched.
31:05And Tom.
31:06Same word.
31:07Touched.
31:08There you go.
31:09I've got touched as well at seven.
31:10I don't know if you've got any more.
31:11Me too.
31:12I literally didn't find anything else at all.
31:13That'll do us.
31:14We'll leave it at that.
31:15And the tonnes up for Tom.
31:16100 plays out of 51
31:17as we head into our last numbers round.
31:19And as it's over as a competition, Sean,
31:21you can have as much fun as you want.
31:23Four large.
31:24Four large.
31:25Why not?
31:26You're only here once.
31:27Let's have some fun.
31:28Countdown style.
31:29Two little ones.
31:30Six.
31:31And five.
31:32And the big four.
31:3325.
31:3475.
31:3560.
31:3670.
31:3770.
31:3875.
31:3950.
31:40100.
31:41The target to reach.
31:42Very, very small.
31:43113.
31:44113.
31:45Numbers up.
32:08113.
32:09Tom?
32:10Yeah, 113.
32:11And Sean?
32:12113.
32:13Go ahead, Sean.
32:14100 plus five plus six is 111.
32:1550 over 25 is two, and add that as well.
32:16Yeah, lots of ways for this one.
32:17Easy by four large standards.
32:18And Tom, same way?
32:19Effectively the same, yeah.
32:20It's interesting, that effectively the same.
32:21If it's kind of one number out,
32:22it would be a bit more difficult.
32:23But it's not.
32:24It's not.
32:25It's not.
32:26It's not.
32:27It's not.
32:28It's not.
32:29It's not.
32:30It's not.
32:31It's not.
32:32It's not.
32:33It's not.
32:34It's not.
32:35It's not.
32:36It's not.
32:37Either way, if it's one number out,
32:38it really annoys Rachel, doesn't it?
32:39You don't need to tell me, we'll accept that.
32:42Mathematically equivalent.
32:43Mathematically equivalent is very important in this show.
32:44110 plays 61.
32:49Let's get your fingers on the buzzers.
32:51Another mammoth score for Tom, but 61, really good
32:55for a challenger.
32:56Could be 71, as we revealed today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:58BUZZER
33:00Go on, Tom.
33:01Braveness.
33:02Let's have a look.
33:03If you're right, braveness.
33:04Of course.
33:05We'll go with braveness,
33:06And Tom, lightning strikes, 120 yesterday, 120 today, that's fantastic.
33:15Thank you very much.
33:16Well done to you, we'll see you again back here tomorrow.
33:18Cheers.
33:19Sean, it was all too fleeting, but at least he didn't get 114 for that Hibs memory, right?
33:24Absolutely, superb player.
33:26Yeah, it's been really good to have you about, well done.
33:28Thanks very much, Tom.
33:29Safe trip back home.
33:30If you hang about to Friday eve, we'll give you a lift.
33:32LAUGHTER
33:34We'll see you tomorrow, you're going absolutely nowhere.
33:36Thanks, Eve, thanks, Susie.
33:38And an honour is Sean, he had that amazing moment singing the Proclaimers in Sunshine and Leith.
33:43That came second in the Scotsman's poll of the greatest Scottish songs ever.
33:48OK.
33:49Either have a guess at what was number one, or just what would you have at number one?
33:53I was in Aberdeen earlier this year and there was a full band playing You Take the High Road, I Take the Low Road.
33:58And at the end of it, a young girl came on and played the bagpipes for the finale
34:02and the whole room just was electric, that was brilliant.
34:05So I'd use that one.
34:06Wonderful song.
34:07Runrag, Loch Lomond.
34:08And Runrag really underrated some stunning tunes.
34:11Every River is absolutely...
34:13I advise everyone to listen to Every River by Runrag today.
34:16The Scotsman said, Digging Blue and Dignity, which is hard to argue with.
34:20Great song.
34:21That's our final note for today.
34:23But Susie, Rachel and I will get our rocks off again tomorrow.
34:26The Encounters On Us.
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