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00:30Hello, everybody. It's time to saddle up for another country
00:34with the greatest TV quiz show on Earth.
00:37Rachel Riley's here. We're celebrating National Horse Day.
00:40Are we? Yeah, I know what you're thinking. Are you?
00:42I know what you're thinking. Nay, but it is.
00:45Only in America, not here.
00:47But a good excuse to pick up favourite animals.
00:50What's yours? I couldn't just pick just one.
00:52You have to. That's the challenge.
00:54Probably out of everything I've seen, probably orangutans.
00:58Orangutans. Orangutans are amazing.
01:01They're not the closest primate to us genetically,
01:03but they're the closest in the way they behave.
01:05I think they spend about six years rearing just one animal.
01:08And they're just so human and so beautiful
01:11and so intelligent when you look at them.
01:13Mine's penguins. Yeah.
01:14The way they walk, the way they live, the way they love.
01:19You know when they're all together, very communal,
01:22we often see these huge communes of penguins.
01:25When they're in the water together,
01:27they're called a raft of penguins.
01:29And the perfect word for them when they're on land is a waddle.
01:32They're a waddle of penguins.
01:33What other animal wears a tuxedo?
01:36A skunk. That's true.
01:37But who's going to pick skunk as their favourite animal?
01:40I'll stop talking about penguins now.
01:42Our Queen of the Countdown jungle is back.
01:45We've missed you so much, Susie. Yay!
01:47APPLAUSE
01:49And alongside you is a very special Dictionary Corner debutante
01:53who's been getting her claws into words for her whole life.
01:57Vic Hope is back.
01:58APPLAUSE
02:00Just very quickly, what's it like meeting your hero?
02:04Very special. Very special.
02:07I like getting your word of the day off Twitter
02:09and then spreading it around.
02:10OK, interesting. Put back 20% in the intensity there.
02:13If you're going to be her friend, just put it back a little bit.
02:15Just put it back a bit.
02:17Tell you someone else who's going to have to put back 20%
02:19in his intensity if he's ever going to get beaten.
02:22Peter Burke, from Donegal, lives in London these days.
02:25Three wins so far, two with century-plus scores.
02:29Welcome back, my friend. Thanks very much.
02:31We know each other well now, we don't have to go,
02:33oh, what do you do?
02:34What about your favourite animal?
02:36I like goats.
02:38Wow!
02:39And I also like capybaras as well, they're very cool.
02:42Fantastic. OK, we're only allowed one.
02:44Goats was your first answer. I'll say goats.
02:47Stop trying to be cool, Peter, it's goats.
02:49Well, you've been the goat of Countdown for three days.
02:51Let's see how you get on today.
02:53You're up against Ruth Agnew from Warrington,
02:57grew up in Cambridgeshire. How are you doing?
02:58Good, thank you.
02:59Now, forget animals, because I love a singer on this show.
03:03Tell me a little bit about that.
03:04Well, I sing with the Rock Choir, which is a national choir,
03:08which has got local choirs all around the country.
03:10So I sing with my local rock choir.
03:12And it's just something that I really, really love doing.
03:15It's a community choir, so there's no auditions,
03:17you don't have to read music, it's just a lot of fun.
03:19And we enjoy singing and we make people happy singing as well.
03:21When you say rock choir, do you mean you sing rock and roll, rock songs?
03:24Some of the time.
03:26What's your favourite to sing?
03:27Well, we sing a beautiful song called Something Inside So Strong.
03:31And that's been my favourite.
03:32It's been a bit of an anthem for rock choir over the years.
03:34Well, you're going to need to summon that strength against Peter today.
03:37Ruth and Peter.
03:40Right, let's get cracking. Peter Moundellis.
03:43Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:44Afternoon, Peter.
03:45Consonant, please.
03:46Start today with V.
03:49And another.
03:51R.
03:52And a third.
03:54L.
03:55And a vowel.
03:57U.
03:59And another.
04:01A.
04:02And a third.
04:04I.
04:05A consonant.
04:07S.
04:09A vowel.
04:12E.
04:13And a final consonant, please.
04:15And a final N.
04:17At the Holdman in the Studio, let's play Countdown.
04:21ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
04:23ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
04:49Time is up. Chump?
04:51Just a six. And Ruth?
04:53Just a five. What's the five?
04:54Viola.
04:55And what's the six, Peter?
04:57Silver.
04:58Well, we head over to Dictionary Corner,
05:00where we now have balance again.
05:02You know how my brain works, Susie.
05:04I've been tormented with you not being here.
05:06Thank you. And I just want to straightaway prove why it's so important
05:09to have Susie in Dictionary Corner.
05:11Susie, what do you have for the first round?
05:13Well, we had Unravels for eight, but there is a nine there as well.
05:17She would have made... I can see you've spotted Universal.
05:20Yes!
05:21APPLAUSE
05:24What a team we have in Dictionary Corner today.
05:26Right, there you go. Blockbuster start.
05:29There was a nine there.
05:30If you got that at home, give yourself 18 points.
05:33You're 12 ahead of Peter, but in the score that counts, he's got the six.
05:36As Ruth picks her first letters...
05:39I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
05:40Thank you, Ruth.
05:41L.
05:42And a vowel?
05:43I.
05:45And a consonant?
05:46D.
05:47Another consonant?
05:49G.
05:51And a vowel?
05:52U.
05:54And a consonant?
05:56N.
05:57And a vowel?
05:59E.
06:00A consonant?
06:02M.
06:04And a final consonant, please?
06:06Final, G.
06:0830 seconds.
06:21ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
06:39Ruth?
06:40A seven.
06:41Very good. Peter?
06:42Seven as well.
06:43Great. What have you got, Ruth?
06:44Gluing.
06:45Yes, that'll stick.
06:46And Peter?
06:47Mingled.
06:48Mingled.
06:49VH1, you got anything else?
06:51Yeah, for eight, deluging.
06:55Deluging. Is that...?
06:56Yeah, overwhelming with a huge flood, so it's there as a verb as well.
06:59Brilliant stuff for eight.
07:01Ruth's on the board with seven.
07:03We move the numbers and you're picking first, Peter.
07:06Six small, please.
07:07Yay! Six little ones again.
07:09Thank you, Peter.
07:10And for the first time today, the numbers are...
07:20And the target...
07:21932!
07:23932, numbers up.
07:25ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
07:49ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
07:56Thanks for that, Peter. What have you got?
07:58923.
08:00Nine away. Ruth?
08:01I haven't got anything.
08:03Listen, 923 is quite an effort. Let's have it.
08:05So, four times five times six.
08:09Four times five is 20, times six is 120.
08:13And take away the other five.
08:15Take away the other five, 115.
08:17Multiply that by eight.
08:19Times by eight for 920.
08:22And add the three.
08:23And, yay, crept in there, 923.
08:26Very good indeed. 932.
08:28Was it possible?
08:29It was. Wow.
08:31With five times eight is 40.
08:35Add six for 46, times that by the second five for 230.
08:41Add the three for 233 and times it by four.
08:45932.
08:47APPLAUSE
08:49Some of your best work, Riley. Some of your best work.
08:52Our first Tea Time teaser of the day is tin spore.
08:56Tin spore.
08:57Bits of advice about dogs.
08:59Bits of advice about dogs.
09:01MUSIC
09:09APPLAUSE
09:16Welcome back. It's Tuesday afternoon, the Countdown.
09:18Given our animal theme, this was the perfect Tea Time teaser.
09:21Bits of advice about dogs.
09:23Tin spore becomes pointers.
09:26And let me point you in the direction of our challenger,
09:28Ruth, who's picking the next letters.
09:30Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:32Thank you, Ruth.
09:33Y. And a vowel.
09:36A. And another vowel.
09:39I. And a consonant.
09:41T. And another consonant.
09:44J. And a vowel.
09:48E. And another consonant.
09:51G. And a consonant.
09:55F. And another consonant, please.
10:00And lastly, D.
10:02Thanks, Rachel.
10:18MUSIC
10:34Our time is up, Ruth.
10:35Six.
10:36And Peter? Six as well.
10:37OK, what have you got, Ruth?
10:39Gaiety. Beautiful word.
10:40And Peter? Gaiety as well.
10:42There you go. Susie and Vic, anything better?
10:46Yeah, we could push it to one further, couldn't we?
10:48We could. We could push it to seven with fidgety.
10:51Fidgety. Yeah. Fidgety.
10:53There you go. Beautiful word.
10:54But you can be fidgety in such a stressful way.
10:57You can be fidgety in the hop when your cat sits down.
10:59So excited about the day.
11:01So many meanings to it.
11:02I love it. Fidgety for seven.
11:05It's 24 plays 13,
11:08as we get more letters now from the brilliant Peter Burke.
11:11Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Peter.
11:13R. And another.
11:17M. And a third.
11:20S. A vowel.
11:23A. And another.
11:25E. And a third.
11:28O. Consonants.
11:31T. A vowel.
11:35U. And a final consonant, please.
11:38And a final N. Here we go.
11:46ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
12:11Peter? Seven.
12:12And, Ruth? Seven.
12:14The seven is, Peter? Maestro.
12:16And what have you got, Ruth? Saunter.
12:18One of my favourite words in the whole dictionary.
12:20And, Peter, you should have saw that,
12:22cos I always count that as an Irish word. Saunter.
12:25Let's walk on over to the dictionary corner.
12:27It's going to shine my halo here.
12:29I don't think I can be beaten.
12:31Remounts. Parade.
12:33Very good. There you go.
12:34Excellent. Well, I really hate to do this to you.
12:37Oh, come on, Susie!
12:39We can get a nine out of this one.
12:41We've been quite lucky with the letters today.
12:43So, do you want to go for it, Vic?
12:45Yeah. The word is neuromast.
12:48I need it explained before any round of applause.
12:50Yeah, totally get that. OK, so these are receptor organs
12:53that you will find in fish and some other vertebrates.
12:57And they've got hundreds or thousands of sensory hair cells,
12:59so along the head and the body.
13:02Another animal face.
13:03APPLAUSE
13:0631 plus 20. And, Ruth, you're in charge of the numbers.
13:09I'm sorry, Rachel, it's not your favourite,
13:10but would you mind, I'll have one large number
13:13and any other... If it's you, Ruth, go on, then.
13:16One large, five little, and hopefully an interesting one.
13:19Let's see the numbers.
13:21A 3, 7, 6, 10, 7.
13:25And the big one, 100.
13:27And the target, 797.
13:30797. Numbers up.
13:43MUSIC CONTINUES
14:02797, Ruth.
14:04797. Bang on. Peter?
14:06Yep, 797. Good. Off you go, Ruth.
14:087 minus 6 is 1.
14:10Yep. Add to the other 7 is 8.
14:14Yep. Times 100.
14:15800. Minus 3.
14:17And that's why I don't like one large.
14:19LAUGHTER
14:20Very good. Peter?
14:21Exactly the same, yeah. Exactly the same.
14:23APPLAUSE
14:26Well done. There you go. Ten point seats.
14:28As we take a little breather, we head over to Dictionary Corner.
14:30A delightful chat yesterday about your love of the words, Vic Hope.
14:34But, you know, all that animal stuff at the start was just for you,
14:38because I love your favourite animal. Let's talk about it.
14:41Giraffes. Yes. Oh, I just think nature's ballerinas.
14:46They're so beautiful.
14:48And it's the fact that they defy gravity
14:51with every pump of blood from their heart to their head.
14:55It shouldn't work, but it does.
14:56And I, too, understand what it's like to have a big gap
14:59between your head and your heart.
15:00So they've developed this wall of muscle around their hearts
15:03to make it possible.
15:04And I love the fact that scientists haven't even agreed
15:08on loads of things about them.
15:09They haven't quite agreed on how many species or subspecies.
15:12And in some languages, the word for giraffe is still the same
15:15as unicorn, because they're so mystical and magical.
15:17Also, when they fight, I don't know if you've ever seen
15:20any footage of this, it's called necking,
15:22which, in Newcastle, means something very different.
15:24It's that snogging.
15:26And I think my favourite thing is the giraffe of Camelopardalis
15:29is their real name, because they used to think
15:32that they were a camel crossed with a leopard.
15:34Yes. Yeah. Beautiful. They're just great.
15:36Listen, they're right up my list.
15:37They don't beat penguins, but they're right up my list.
15:40Thanks for sticking your neck out for us.
15:42CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
15:45Right, well, Peter's got his neck in front.
15:4741 plays 30.
15:49Still very, very close.
15:50So let's get some more letters.
15:52Peter, it's on you.
15:53Consonant, please, Rachel.
15:54Thank you, Peter.
15:55G.
15:56And another.
15:58K.
15:59And a third.
16:01R.
16:02A vowel.
16:04I.
16:05And another.
16:07E.
16:08And a third.
16:09A.
16:10A consonant.
16:12L.
16:14A vowel.
16:16I.
16:18And a final consonant, please.
16:20A final T.
16:22Half a minute.
16:37MUSIC CONTINUES
16:53Pens down. Peter?
16:54Seven.
16:55And Ruth?
16:56Only six. Yeah.
16:57Like the rest of us, what have we got?
16:59Gator.
17:00And Peter?
17:01Talkier.
17:02Oh! Let's check with Dan De Cleese.
17:04Absolutely fine, yeah. Talky, talkier, talkiest.
17:06Containing a great deal of dialogue.
17:08Anything else in there, Vic Hope?
17:10Well, we can stick with the animal theme for seven
17:13and go for rat-like.
17:14Oh, brilliant, for seven. Yeah.
17:16Horrible word, though. It is, isn't it?
17:18It's always all rat-like.
17:19There you go. I'm glad you didn't get that, Peter.
17:21Talkier was well better.
17:23Brilliant for seven.
17:24More letters now.
17:26Ruth Agnew.
17:27Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:30N.
17:31And a vowel.
17:33O.
17:34And a consonant.
17:36W.
17:37And another.
17:39T.
17:41And a vowel.
17:43I.
17:44And a consonant.
17:46X.
17:48And a vowel.
17:50A.
17:51And a consonant.
17:54P.
17:55And another vowel, please.
17:57Lastly, O.
17:59Here we go.
18:06MUSIC
18:31How did you get on, Ruth? Six.
18:33Peter? A six.
18:34Ruth? Potion.
18:35Peter? Potion as well, same word.
18:37There you go.
18:38Double potions here from our contestants today.
18:42Susie and Vic, anything else in Dictionary Corner?
18:45We're potion as well.
18:46Let's get more numbers now from Peter Burke.
18:50I'm going to mix up. I'm going to try three large and three small.
18:53I like your style.
18:54Even more, three large, three little.
18:56Change things up.
18:58This time, the little ones are four, one, three.
19:01And the big ones, 50, 75 and 100.
19:06And the target to reach, 736.
19:08736, numbers up.
19:35MUSIC
19:39How did you get on, Peter?
19:41I have 737 not written down.
19:44One away. What about you, Ruth? I'm not within ten.
19:46No, I heard a big sigh about 25 seconds in.
19:48HE CHUCKLES
19:50Off you go, Peter.
19:51100 plus 75.
19:53Yeah, 175.
19:54And then take away the three.
19:56Yeah, 172.
19:57And multiply that by four.
19:59Times by four for 688.
20:02Oh...
20:05Sorry, I think I've gone wrong, have I? You have, indeed.
20:07Sorry, sorry, I have, yeah. You haven't!
20:09Peter! Yeah, but the pause, we have to...
20:11Oh, no, he has, but he hasn't.
20:13I mean, if you could have just carried on, added to 50...
20:15Oh, sorry, yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:17I mean, I'm just rubbing salt into the wound now.
20:19And take the one. You would have got to one away.
20:21And that's actually the best you could have done with this one.
20:24So, bad luck, Peter.
20:25Well, can we just... No applause for Peter, all applause for Richard.
20:28APPLAUSE
20:31That's what you get for changing it up.
20:34Let's take a break. He needs to recover from that.
20:37The second Tea Time teaser, no bigots, if only.
20:41No bigots.
20:42Dear The Singer, it's encouraging.
20:44Dear The Singer, it's encouraging.
20:46MUSIC
20:54APPLAUSE
21:01Welcome back. A very clever Tea Time teaser.
21:04No bigots.
21:05Dear The Singer, it's encouraging.
21:06Boo-sting.
21:07R. Boo-sting.
21:09The red light's back on for the final part of Countdown.
21:12And it's Ruth, who's hanging in there on Peter's coattails,
21:16picking up nine more letters.
21:18Consonant, please, Rachel.
21:19Thank you, Ruth. R.
21:21And a vowel.
21:23E.
21:24Consonant.
21:26T. And another.
21:28M.
21:30And another.
21:32R.
21:33And a vowel.
21:34A.
21:36And another vowel.
21:38E.
21:40A consonant.
21:42L.
21:43And a final consonant, please.
21:45A final P.
21:47Start the clock.
22:03MUSIC
22:18Possibilities, Ruth?
22:20Seven, I think.
22:21Peter? Seven.
22:22I don't like the, I think, there, Ruth.
22:24You're going to have to tell me the word.
22:26Replate. To replate.
22:27Sounds about right. Peter?
22:29Trample.
22:30Oh! Right, both count?
22:32Both count, yep. You can replate it.
22:34That's absolutely fine.
22:36Trample also in there,
22:37but I can tell where Colin was going with this.
22:39Yeah, this is one of those ones where frustration is going to kick in.
22:43Take it away, Vic Hope.
22:44Trampler.
22:46Let's put that R in the end.
22:47So, if you can trample,
22:50and if you can be a trampler,
22:52can you not re-trample?
22:53No. People think, well, why say it if it's wrong?
22:55It's very important, because we all play along at home.
22:58Of course. I play along at home.
22:59And I would give myself re-trample, you know?
23:02So, I'm actually being a spoiled sport.
23:04Because at home, I'm like, I'll just have that 18 points.
23:07Thank you very much. No need to look it up.
23:09Peter, now more letters.
23:10Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:12Thank you, Peter.
23:13H.
23:14And another.
23:16S.
23:17And a third.
23:18T.
23:20Vowel.
23:21I.
23:22And another.
23:24O.
23:25And a third.
23:28I.
23:29Hmm, consonant.
23:31R.
23:33A vowel.
23:36A.
23:38And another consonant, please.
23:39And lastly, P.
23:42Let's play Kite Dive.
24:02MUSIC CONTINUES
24:13Time is up, Peter.
24:15Six.
24:16Ruth? Six.
24:17OK. Peter?
24:19Parish.
24:20Yes, Parish will be there. Ruth?
24:21Also Parish.
24:22There you go.
24:23Great minds, Dictionary Corner, Susie and Vic.
24:26How are we looking?
24:28So, for eight,
24:30we've got Aphorist.
24:32Come on, enlighten me.
24:34OK, it's someone who is a great deliverer of aphorisms or aphorisms,
24:39and those are small, witty remarks.
24:41So, Oscar Wilde, famously, a brilliant aphorist.
24:44APPLAUSE
24:47So, it's somebody who quips, basically.
24:49Exactly. A master quipper.
24:50A master quipper.
24:52It's a nicer way of putting it.
24:54I'm so glad you're back.
24:55So, take us on another journey, please.
24:57Well, it's lovely to be home, I have to say.
24:59I'm going to keep up with the animal theme,
25:02because you didn't ask me what my favourite animal was,
25:04and I think it would be the fox.
25:07So, I'm with Chris Packham here.
25:09Foxes are just absolutely beautiful creatures.
25:11And, you know the adjective foxy,
25:14normally used for an attractive woman.
25:17It's interesting, because fox, definitely, obviously the male fox,
25:20a vixen is the female fox,
25:21so it's quite unusual for foxy to be then transferred
25:24to the sort of opposite gender, if you like, the opposite sex.
25:27But it's because vixen was already taken for a bad-tempered shrewish.
25:31Sorry, why did you look at me when you said that?
25:34I thought I wasn't involving you here.
25:36No, no, there was something in that, subconsciously.
25:39But, yeah, so vixen was already taken, which seems very mean,
25:43and so they use the sort of male form.
25:45Anyway, that's the fox, it comes from the German fuchs,
25:47which means exactly the same thing.
25:50But you mentioned the penguin, famously one of,
25:53probably two very familiar Welsh words in the dictionary.
25:55There's corgi, and there's also penguin, meaning white head,
25:58because Welsh sailors who were fishing around Newfoundland
26:03actually discovered the white orcs, but also the penguins,
26:07because they look very similar.
26:08They applied the name that they'd given to the great orc
26:11to the penguin as well, both very similar in habitat, et cetera.
26:15Bear is a lovely one,
26:16because it's one of the oldest euphemisms in the world.
26:18It means the brown one,
26:19because people didn't want to actually say the word of the animal
26:23or name it in case it would appear.
26:25It was considered so ferocious and savage.
26:28Again? Seriously? I'm so sorry.
26:31This is not deliberate.
26:33Capybara, I can look at you here.
26:35Capybara means a grass-eater in Tupi,
26:39so Native American language.
26:41Dog, one of the biggest mysteries in the etymology,
26:44the entire etymology of English, really,
26:46because we have no idea where it came from.
26:47It just appeared and replaced the German hund or hound.
26:51Just came out of nowhere and has stayed with us ever since.
26:54And orangutan, which you also mentioned,
26:57was the person of the forest, man of the forest,
27:00and that's from Malay.
27:01So, all these stories, and I should just say also,
27:04you mentioned, Vic, about the camel leopard for the giraffe.
27:09Ostriches were called megastruthos in Greek, a large sparrow.
27:14So, obviously, at these times,
27:15people weren't familiar with these animals at all,
27:17so they reached for familiar names
27:19and then kind of applied them to things
27:20that looked a little bit like that.
27:22And then it was called a struthocamelos, a sparrow camel,
27:26and finally, they settled on ostrich.
27:28But, yeah, lovely stories packed behind animal names.
27:31APPLAUSE
27:33That's why she's the best in the book.
27:35It's a great, lovely book, Susan. Thank you.
27:36Right, it's Ruth on the hunt for some much-needed points
27:39at this stage. Let's get some letters.
27:41Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ruth.
27:43N. And a vowel.
27:46O. And a consonant.
27:49T. And a vowel.
27:52E. And a consonant.
27:55L. And another.
27:58S. And a vowel.
28:01A. And a consonant.
28:05N. And a final vowel, please.
28:08Looks fairly decent. A final E.
28:1130 seconds.
28:19ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
28:42Right, Ruth, how do you get on? Six.
28:44And Peter? Eight.
28:46What do you get, Ruth? Stolen.
28:48Stolen. And Peter's about to steal a point.
28:50Neonates. Neonates.
28:52That's top draw, count down. It certainly is.
28:55APPLAUSE
28:57Susie, any better? That's a brilliant eight.
28:59We can have etalons, which is another great countdown word for seven,
29:02reflecting light plates used in physics.
29:04But that is absolutely brilliant. Well done.
29:0675 to play as 49.
29:08Three rounds left to play.
29:10Peter, it's your letters.
29:12Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Peter.
29:14C. And another.
29:18And a third.
29:21A vowel.
29:24And another.
29:27And a third.
29:30A consonant.
29:33A vowel.
29:36And a consonant, please.
29:39Another promising one, a final.
29:42Last letters.
29:44ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
29:48ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
30:13OK, Peter.
30:15Just a seven. And Ruth?
30:17Eight. Wonderful.
30:19Peter? Carries. And Ruth?
30:21Creators.
30:23Creators from Ruth.
30:25Can Dictionary Corner create anything better or match it?
30:28Well, we can match it with rotaries.
30:31Rotaries, very good. Yeah. Well, look at that.
30:33Because you need to be within the magic 20 points
30:36with two rounds left to stand a chance.
30:38And the good news is, Ruth, you get to control these numbers.
30:41What are you going to do? One large one, please, Rachel.
30:44You're not gambling for the teapot!
30:46No, sorry.
30:48I mean, you can lead a host of water.
30:50One large and five little. You need a challenge.
30:52You need a challenge that Peter's going to miss, to be in with a shot.
30:55Right, final numbers of the day.
30:57Three, ten, ten, six.
31:00Another three in the large one, 100.
31:02And the target, ooh, 677.
31:05Let's see. 677. Numbers up.
31:08ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
31:15ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
31:38Ruth?
31:40676.
31:42Peter? 678.
31:44And one away the other way.
31:46OK, Ruth, let's just make sure you've got the seven points.
31:49OK, ten times three is 30.
31:53Ten times three, 30.
31:56100 minus the 30.
32:0170. Minus three.
32:03Minus the three, 67, the second three.
32:05Times ten. Times the second ten.
32:08Wow. 670. And add the six.
32:10You've got it there. Yeah, one away, well done.
32:12Right, now, here we go. Peter, you're one the other side.
32:15Yeah, so I did 100 plus ten plus three.
32:18110 and three.
32:20And then multiply by six.
32:22Yeah, that gets you to one the other way.
32:24There you go. So, Rachel?
32:27You will have to leave this one with me.
32:29Yeah, a really tricky one large.
32:32Yeah, Ruth, let's get your finger on the buzzer.
32:34Let's do the same for Peter.
32:36You've stopped him getting 100, so he was on a hat-trick of those.
32:39So that's some achievement.
32:41But let's see who gets the final ten points as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:10MUSIC CONTINUES
33:16Well, listen, let's reveal it.
33:18If you got this at home, you've bested everybody in the Countdown studio.
33:22Colbeck becomes...
33:25..Blockaded! Yes!
33:27Let's clap, people at home.
33:29You got it. Well done to you.
33:31The last two rounds have stumped us all.
33:33We'll be seeing Peter again.
33:35You keep on singing at the top of your voice, Ruth.
33:37Lovely to have you.
33:38It's been great to be here. Thanks, Colin.
33:40Really good fun today. Really enjoyed it. Peter, we'll see you again tomorrow.
33:43As we will, the giraffe lover over there.
33:45Yes, looking forward to it. Wonderful.
33:48Rachel?
33:49I found one way, eventually.
33:51Ten plus three is 13,
33:53times six is 78,
33:56times the second ten is 780,
33:59and then take away the 100 and the second three.
34:01Yes.
34:02APPLAUSE
34:05And that is it from an absolute beast of a show today.
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