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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. It's that time of the day again.
00:34We get our pens and pencils out, we sharpen our mathematic skills
00:38and we run the rule over a whole host of letters and words.
00:42Rachel Riley, welcome back.
00:44It's World Stationery Day today.
00:47Of course it is.
00:48Is it OK for adults to own pencil cases?
00:51In my work, some people bring in pencil cases.
00:54I don't have one. Do you still have one?
00:56I haven't got one, but I think it's fine. It's OK.
00:58Yeah, I mean, if it's, you know, fluffy and covered in glitter
01:01then you might give it a strange look, but each to their own.
01:04When you were at school, different generations, of course,
01:07but our pencil case was, like, where you marked your identity,
01:10who you fancied, you'd write in tip X, hopefully they'll see it,
01:14the band that you liked, the football team that you supported.
01:17Did you do that?
01:18I had someone's name etched into my scientific calculator.
01:22LAUGHTER
01:23Which probably won't surprise you at all.
01:25That's brilliant. I love that.
01:27I've got some...outstanding stationery...
01:31I can't even say it with a straight face.
01:33I've got two stationery facts for you.
01:35OK.
01:36First one is, before rubbers were invented,
01:39does anyone want to have a guess
01:41at what they used to use to rub out pencil?
01:44Elastic bands.
01:45Elastic bands. Gabby Logan, wrong.
01:47Leaves.
01:49Leaves, Rachel Riley, wrong.
01:52Susie?
01:53Someone tell us. Candle wax.
01:55Stale bread.
01:57Fascinating.
01:59If you ever make a mistake during Countdown,
02:02you don't have a rubber in the end of your pencil,
02:04just head to the kitchen, right?
02:06There you go, you can get rid of it and fix your scores.
02:08And this one I can't believe.
02:10Pencils can write underwater.
02:14Hmm.
02:15Right.
02:16LAUGHTER
02:17It's true!
02:20Did you say these were your amazing stationery facts?
02:23Yeah, they are.
02:24Everyone up and down the country is going to be writing this down
02:26and not rubbing it out with a bit of bread
02:28and then telling their friends.
02:29What would you write on, though?
02:31Correct, Gabby, correct.
02:33I was just waiting on somebody to say it.
02:35How did they know?
02:36Yeah.
02:37I mean, did they write on the bottom of the pool?
02:39You know, like, you can't...
02:41Cos the paper gets wet.
02:42You've spent way too much time on this.
02:44You really need to get out more, Colin.
02:46I didn't sleep a wink last night
02:48thinking about how did somebody work this out?
02:51What a day to be alive.
02:52On those bombshells, let's head to Dictionary Corner,
02:55where our G of the D sits, as always, poised in stationery.
02:59And to help her highlight the longest words of them all,
03:02the brilliant Gabby Logan.
03:03Thank you very much.
03:06Now, similarities between our champion and challenger,
03:09cos Ian and George have both been on before.
03:11They've both won three times, but, of course, Ian's added one
03:15as he beat our Gerry yesterday.
03:17Welcome back, mate.
03:19You're both also...
03:20I don't know whether you're a thrill-seeker,
03:22but you seem to court danger.
03:24What's been your most dangerous moment?
03:26I did a cable car ride in Venezuela,
03:29which, to be fair, wasn't the most dangerous bit
03:32or the scariest bit.
03:33It was the getting to the top, up very winding roads.
03:37And was it the narrow pass where you look down and you see...
03:40You didn't look down.
03:41You don't look down.
03:42You don't look down, you don't look up.
03:44That's the easiest thing to do.
03:46Yeah, I have been there on holidays,
03:48and you just have to trust in greater forces.
03:52And George Anderson, who's born in the Isle of Man,
03:56lives in Northampton.
03:58I know you're a fitness freak.
03:59You'll put us all to shame.
04:01But you're a man who likes a bit of danger, aren't you?
04:04Well, many years ago,
04:06I went on a black run down the ski slope on the first day,
04:10which is not a good idea anyway.
04:12George, had you skied before?
04:13I had skied before, but not that much.
04:15But also, I was taking part of school children,
04:18so it wasn't very responsible.
04:20I basically tore my ligaments, ripped my cartilage,
04:24and basically it did affect my rugby career, basically.
04:28Yeah, so it was... Yeah.
04:30Not good.
04:31Not a good decision.
04:32Not a good decision, no.
04:33But we know you're a risk-taker,
04:35and we know that Ian is a risk-taker,
04:37so expect a lot of... I think I might have a seven.
04:40I'm going to go for a risky eight.
04:41It's going to be a good show.
04:42Ian, George, let's start at the top.
04:44We'll go away to the bottom. Good luck.
04:46APPLAUSE
04:48Mr Laird, our new champion, let's get some letters.
04:51Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
04:53Thank you, Ian. Start today with L.
04:55And another one.
04:57M.
04:58And a third.
05:00S.
05:01A fourth.
05:03T.
05:04A vowel.
05:06E.
05:07Another one.
05:08I.
05:09A third one.
05:11A.
05:13A consonant.
05:15S.
05:17And a final consonant, please.
05:19And a final F.
05:21At home in the studio and underwater, let's play Countdown.
05:44CLOCK TICKS
05:55That's time, Ian.
05:57I'll risk an eight.
05:58Go on, I say, I told you.
06:00George.
06:01And, typical fashion, eight as well.
06:03Risky as well.
06:04Might be the same word, then, Ian.
06:06Flamiest.
06:07Flamiest it is.
06:08There you go.
06:10Don't go completely gung-ho and try flamiests.
06:14But flamiest?
06:15Yes, flamiest.
06:17Used particularly of Internet messages,
06:19sort of trolling, nasty, invective.
06:22So not a nice word, but excellent for Countdown.
06:24Can we just say it means a lovely big bonfire, you know?
06:28All toasting marshmallows.
06:30How would you use it? Can you put it in a sentence?
06:32I got the flamiest message yesterday, for example.
06:34Right.
06:35There you go.
06:36Well, it counts.
06:378.8.
06:38There you go.
06:39Great start.
06:40Caution to the win.
06:43George, your letter, Smith.
06:44Consonant, please.
06:45Thank you, George.
06:46Y.
06:48And another.
06:50B.
06:51And another.
06:53G.
06:54And another.
06:56D.
06:57A vowel, please.
06:59E.
07:01And another.
07:02I.
07:05And another.
07:07A.
07:10Consonant, please.
07:12R.
07:14And a final...
07:18..vowel, please.
07:20A final E.
07:2230 seconds.
07:36ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
07:53That's time, George.
07:55Just six, I'm afraid.
07:56And Ian?
07:57Yeah, just a six.
07:58Yeah, what have we got, George?
07:59Rebate.
08:00And Ian?
08:01Bereath.
08:02All over the dictionary corner, sixes all round.
08:04Anything else?
08:05Six, I'm afraid.
08:06Gayety.
08:07Yes, that's nice.
08:08Beautiful.
08:09Bargy, with a double E, which is a bargekeeper.
08:12But just sixes.
08:14Loads of sixes.
08:1514 points each.
08:17So that's two rounds in, and the champion and challenger
08:19got the longest words that we could find.
08:21This is going to be some show.
08:23Let's get the first numbers, all important.
08:25And, champion, you're choosing.
08:27Three from the top and any other three, please, Rachel.
08:30Thank you, Ian.
08:31Three large, three little.
08:33Here are the numbers of the day.
08:355, 6, 7, 50, 25 and 100.
08:41And the target to reach...
08:43Oh, 999.
08:45Here we go, 999.
09:03MUSIC PLAYS
09:16The highest target possible, and count down.
09:18999, Ian.
09:20999.
09:21And, George?
09:221,000.
09:231 away.
09:24Ian, off you go.
09:2550 over 25 is 2.
09:2750 over 25, yep, 2.
09:29Times by 5, times by 100.
09:321,000.
09:33And then 7 minus 6 is 1, and take it off.
09:35You can't say it quick enough. Yep, 999, well done.
09:38APPLAUSE
09:41Good work, well done.
09:43No need to sound the sirens yet on that 999, though.
09:46Early days, George, don't worry.
09:48First Tea Time teaser, orbit day, orbit day.
09:52An X could mark the spot where this is.
09:54An X could mark the spot where this is.
09:57MUSIC PLAYS
10:03APPLAUSE
10:12Welcome back. Orbit day.
10:14An X could mark the spot where this is, Susie.
10:16It's abditory.
10:17Yes.
10:19Yes, it comes from a Latin word meaning a hiding place or storeroom,
10:22so it is a safe repository for valuables or somewhere to hide things.
10:26Thank you, Dendiclees.
10:2724 plays 14.
10:29And, George, you're picking the letters.
10:31Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:33Thank you, George. P.
10:35And another, please.
10:37W.
10:38And another.
10:40T.
10:41One more, please.
10:43D.
10:44Vowel, please.
10:46A.
10:47And another vowel.
10:49E.
10:50And another.
10:51I.
10:53A consonant, please.
10:56T.
10:57And another consonant.
10:59Lastly, S.
11:01Thank you, Rich.
11:30MUSIC STOPS
11:33Talk to me, George.
11:35Seven.
11:36Ah, well done. And Ian?
11:37Seven.
11:38Yes. George, what's the word?
11:39Wasted with an I.
11:41Wasted with an I as in high-waisted jeans.
11:44And Ian?
11:45Swatted.
11:46And swatted. Swatted and wasted.
11:48Right, lovely.
11:49These two on the word so far, absolutely inseparable.
11:53Can you give us anything better?
11:55No, we can't.
11:56We've got patties, which we've already had this week, haven't we?
11:59We've had some patties, I think.
12:01Ian, let's keep going. Letters.
12:03Consonant, please, Rachel.
12:05Thank you, Ian. G.
12:07And another one.
12:09L.
12:10And a third.
12:11R.
12:12And a fourth.
12:14N.
12:15And a vowel.
12:17U.
12:18Another vowel.
12:19O.
12:20Another vowel.
12:21E.
12:22Consonants.
12:24G.
12:26And a final consonant, please.
12:28A final N.
12:30Half a minute.
12:56MUSIC
13:01Ian?
13:02Seven.
13:03George?
13:04Seven.
13:05I'm not surprised.
13:06Ian, what's the word?
13:07Lounger.
13:08Yes, and I think George has the same.
13:09Lounger.
13:10And the only question I have to ask is, is there anything better?
13:12No.
13:13We had exactly that.
13:14What a class this is.
13:16What a class this is.
13:17Just the numbers round separates Ian and George,
13:20a champion with a ten-point lead.
13:22But, George, you get to pick these ones.
13:24Just one large, please.
13:26No big risks taken in this round.
13:28One large.
13:29No, I've seen how good he is.
13:31Five little.
13:32Well, let's see again.
13:33Five little ones.
13:34Two.
13:35Seven.
13:36Five.
13:37Ten.
13:38Seven.
13:39And the big one, 50.
13:40And the target, 410.
13:43410.
13:44Numbers up.
13:45MUSIC
13:54MUSIC
14:15410.
14:16Nice round number, George.
14:18410.
14:19Yes, and Ian?
14:20410.
14:21There you go.
14:22Off you go, George.
14:237.
14:2443.
14:25Minus 2.
14:2641.
14:27Times 10.
14:28Simple.
14:29410.
14:30And what about yourself, Ian?
14:31Exactly the same.
14:32There you go.
14:33APPLAUSE
14:36Nice battle ensuing as we break for the first time
14:39and head over to Dictionary Corner.
14:41Gabby, we've been talking mainly about sport the last two days,
14:44but I have said there's so much more to talk to you about.
14:47I've actually been on your podcast at Midpoint
14:49and I rarely do anything, but I really enjoyed it.
14:52It's a really interesting conversation.
14:54Tell me a bit about it.
14:55So it was born out of a moment, I suppose...
14:57Is there an opposite to Eureka, where you walk past...
15:00I walked past a mirror and suddenly realised
15:02that I wasn't the 18- to 25-year-old person inside that I felt,
15:05and I kind of had this moment of, oh, my gosh, I'm kind of middle-aged.
15:09I was 46 at the time and I thought about doing something about that
15:12in terms of, you know, writing or talking about it.
15:14And then lockdown happened and I had time to create a podcast
15:18that is called The Midpoint,
15:19and the idea was that my guests would be between 38 and 54,
15:22which is what the Socio and Economic Research Council says is midlife.
15:26But I've decided to kind of fudge the edges slightly
15:29because one day Richard Madeley came on and he's in his 60s.
15:32And you're saying that 38 is technically...
15:34Yes, which makes people shiver when I say that.
15:37Madeley.
15:38Because there's a certain person around here
15:40who always ridicules me for being middle-aged
15:42and calls me Uncle Colin and all sorts.
15:44How old are they?
15:45I just don't know, actually, because I never ask.
15:49Are you middle-aged? No.
15:52It's common. It's common.
15:54I'll be middle-aged for a decade. It's a state of mind.
15:56It's a state of mind.
15:57And, actually, I think it's a state of life and a stage of life,
16:00which is really... There's a lot to celebrate.
16:02I always have a saying, which is,
16:03you're only as old as the game show you feed.
16:06That's what I say.
16:07Thank you, Gabby.
16:11Ian, let's get back to business.
16:13Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:14Thank you, Ian.
16:15T.
16:16And another one.
16:18M.
16:19A third.
16:21L.
16:22A fourth.
16:24P.
16:25A fifth.
16:27T.
16:28A vowel.
16:30U.
16:32Another vowel.
16:33E.
16:34Another vowel.
16:36A.
16:38And a final consonant, please.
16:39And a final B.
16:41OK, here we go again.
16:46MUSIC PLAYS
17:13Ian.
17:14A very risky eighth.
17:16I don't think I know what that is.
17:17George?
17:18Safe six.
17:21George wants those six points.
17:22What's safe?
17:23Tumble.
17:24Yeah. Risky?
17:25Puttable.
17:26Puttable.
17:27We'd use it.
17:28I've heard it.
17:29Gabby, you probably said it, but is it in that dictionary?
17:33It's not, I'm afraid.
17:35I'm so sorry.
17:36Neither puttable or puttable, however you want to pronounce it,
17:39it's not in. I'm sorry.
17:40What is?
17:41Was there an eight?
17:42No, not for us.
17:43We just had a seven mutable, changeable, but nothing else.
17:46Very good. Look at that.
17:47George has managed to claw back six of those ten points
17:50and you're picking these letters.
17:52Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:53Thank you, George.
17:54F.
17:55And another.
17:57H.
17:58And another.
18:00S.
18:01And another.
18:03R.
18:05A vowel, please.
18:07E.
18:08And another.
18:10A.
18:11A.
18:13Another vowel, please.
18:15I.
18:17A consonant, please.
18:19P.
18:21And another consonant, please.
18:24Lastly, L.
18:25Start the clock.
18:41MUSIC PLAYS
18:57How do you get on, George?
18:58Just six, I'm afraid.
18:59Not bad. Iain?
19:00Eight.
19:02Look at that, George. What's the six?
19:04Fisher.
19:05Don't think this one's going to be safe. Iain?
19:07Flashier.
19:08Well, it is flashier to come up with that, let me tell you.
19:10APPLAUSE
19:15It's a strange word.
19:16I see that as quite a negative word.
19:18I'd never use it in a positive way.
19:20Oh, he's lovely, I mean, he's really...
19:22He's flashier than everybody else.
19:24So we see it just more as being a bit braggadocious, don't we?
19:26Well, we are going to be a bit flashier, aren't we?
19:28We are, yeah.
19:29No.
19:30Don't say it.
19:31It's a nine.
19:32What is it?
19:33Pearlfish.
19:34LAUGHTER
19:35A pearlfish, pray tell.
19:36Isn't that gorgeous?
19:37It's a long slender fish
19:38and it tends to live inside the shelves of mollusks
19:41or the body cavities of sea cucumbers.
19:44There you go.
19:45APPLAUSE
19:48And Iain extends that lead again.
19:50Let's get some numbers now.
19:52And it's your turn, Mr Laird.
19:54Six more, please, Rachel.
19:55Six more.
19:56I like these random selections.
19:59And potentially another challenge.
20:01Let's see.
20:02Three, seven, ten, one, five.
20:06Five.
20:07And another three.
20:08And the target?
20:09187.
20:11187, numbers up.
20:36MUSIC
20:43The low target of 187.
20:45Iain?
20:46187.
20:47Yeah, and George?
20:48No.
20:49Missed it.
20:50OK, big moment.
20:51Iain?
20:52Five threes of 15.
20:5315.
20:54Plus the other three is 18.
20:55Yep.
20:56Multiplied by ten and add the seven.
20:58187.
21:00Lovely.
21:01APPLAUSE
21:03The numbers so key today as we head into the second Tea Time teaser.
21:07I scan the.
21:09I scan the.
21:11I scan the newspaper while sitting on these.
21:13I scan the newspaper while sitting on these.
21:16MUSIC
21:25APPLAUSE
21:33Welcome back.
21:34The Tea Time teaser was I scan the.
21:36I scan the newspaper while sitting on these.
21:39And that is shanties.
21:40Not as in sea shanties.
21:41C-H-A-N-T-I-E-S.
21:44Susie?
21:45Yes, chamber pots.
21:47Typically ones made of porcelain.
21:50It's a slang word for the loo, in other words.
21:52Going for a chant.
21:53From when?
21:55I think we're talking 18th century
21:57and it's a shortening of chantilly, which made the porcelain.
22:01Chantilly lace.
22:02Yes, exactly, in France.
22:04So, yeah, there you go.
22:05Nice little journey.
22:06Yeah.
22:07Let's get back to the game.
22:08George, still close enough.
22:10Let's have some letters.
22:12Consonant, please.
22:13It's a new spin on chantilly cream as well.
22:15Right.
22:16R.
22:17And another.
22:19S.
22:20And another, please.
22:22R.
22:23Another consonant, please.
22:25T.
22:26One more, please.
22:28M.
22:30One more, please.
22:32A.
22:33And another.
22:35U.
22:36And another.
22:38I.
22:39And one more, please.
22:40And lastly, U.
22:43Start the clock.
23:01CLOCK TICKS
23:15Yuck.
23:16George?
23:17Just five, I'm afraid.
23:18Ian?
23:19Just five.
23:20Yeah, what have we got, George?
23:21Stare.
23:22Stare.
23:23Trams.
23:24Trams and stare.
23:25Well, listen, I'll give you a round of applause if you can beat five.
23:28Yes, we can.
23:30We have atriums.
23:31Oh, my goodness me.
23:33Yes, it can be atria, just in case you're wondering,
23:35but atriums also.
23:37And matsuri?
23:38Yes, matsuri, Japanese word for a solemn festival
23:41celebrated at Shinto shrines in Japan.
23:44APPLAUSE
23:47Wonderful.
23:48More letters and it's U in Laird.
23:50Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:52Thank you, Ian.
23:53S.
23:54And another.
23:55H.
23:56A vowel.
23:58O.
23:59Another vowel.
24:01E.
24:02A consonant.
24:04M.
24:06A vowel.
24:08U.
24:09Consonant.
24:11M.
24:13A consonant.
24:15R.
24:16And a final vowel, please.
24:18A final A.
24:20Kaidai.
24:21BELL RINGS
24:29MUSIC CONTINUES
24:52How many do you manage, Ian?
24:54I'll try an eighth.
24:55And George?
24:56I'll stay with seven.
24:57Seven is?
24:58Maneuers.
24:59Maneuers.
25:00Horsemen.
25:01Very good indeed, yeah, in the dictionary.
25:04From maneuers to horsemen.
25:06Brilliant.
25:07Couldn't have worked better.
25:10There's no way you're getting a round of applause here.
25:13Surely not another nine.
25:14No.
25:15Another eight, though.
25:16Yes.
25:17Housemen.
25:18Uni, graduated doctor.
25:19Lovely.
25:20Housemen, horsemen, sensational stuff.
25:22What a champion we have on our hands here.
25:24Another eight points in the bag.
25:26Four rounds left to go,
25:27but not until we get some more origins of words.
25:29Susie?
25:30Well, I'm staying with pubs.
25:31Been on the pub theme, so, as you rightly said, Colin,
25:34it's a pub word crawl, or a word crawl, at least.
25:38And I mentioned that there are lots of wonderfully unusual ones
25:42up and down the country,
25:43and I think lots of us are used to the puns,
25:46the nobody in, et cetera, et cetera,
25:49and slug and lettuce, some of the sort of silly ones as well.
25:53But sometimes they do have these lovely stories behind them,
25:56and I mentioned on day one, I think I was talking about the nag's head
25:59and how it might go back to smugglers looking for signs
26:03from horsemen literally mounted on the cliffs.
26:06Another really curious pub sign is the swan with two necks,
26:10if you've ever seen that one.
26:12And it actually originated as the swan with two nicks,
26:15and it was all about the nicking of swans' beaks to show ownership.
26:19Traditionally, the monarchy would own a swan,
26:22and the tradition performed with swan upping every year,
26:25but when the swan didn't belong to the monarch,
26:27for whatever reason, it was nicked.
26:29So, the swan with two necks became...
26:31Nicks became the swan with two necks,
26:33hence the very strange pictures that you might see.
26:35There is the drunken duck.
26:37I mentioned that the other day as well.
26:39That's in Ambleside.
26:40I think a few, again, up and down the land.
26:42Lovely story attached to that one,
26:44which is that the innkeeper, she was going outside,
26:49and she found a lot of ducks around the pub.
26:51Pond had sadly died.
26:53Brought them in for plucking, she was going to serve them for dinner,
26:56and suddenly they were revived,
26:58and she realised that the source of the problem
27:00was a beer cask that had a leak in it,
27:02and the ducks were, in fact, completely inebriated.
27:05So, that's a lovely story as well.
27:07So, lots of lovely ones, and they've all got a tale behind them,
27:10and they've all got a sort of local legend as well.
27:12But as I say, any Campdown viewers who've got
27:14a particularly savoury wine near them, I'd love to hear it.
27:18Right, four more rounds left, and, George, you're up.
27:22Vowel, please.
27:23Thank you, George. O.
27:25And another, please.
27:27A.
27:28And one more, please.
27:30O.
27:31One more, please.
27:33A.
27:34Oh, wow.
27:35Big O to consonant, please.
27:37M.
27:38And another.
27:39S.
27:40One more, please.
27:42T.
27:43Vowel, please.
27:46Oh, another O.
27:47Oh, wow.
27:51And another vowel, please.
27:52Actually, I'm going to overrule with another consonant.
27:55We need four.
27:56This never happens, but I'm giving you a C.
27:58Good luck.
28:16MUSIC PLAYS
28:30It's all your fault, George. How many?
28:32I'll stick with five. Yeah.
28:33Ian? Yeah, five.
28:35George? Coast. Yeah.
28:36Coats. Yeah, I know you did that.
28:38You just did that to be awkward, Ian.
28:40Coats and coast, which I think 99% of the nation have.
28:45Can you reach for anything else?
28:47I can manage a six.
28:49Just with cantos.
28:51Canto is a section into which long poems are divided.
28:54Very good.
28:55For six.
28:5684 plays 54 with three rounds left.
28:59Let's relax and enjoy each one of them, Ian.
29:01Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:03Thank you, Ian.
29:04L.
29:05Another one.
29:07T.
29:08And another.
29:09Z.
29:11And another.
29:13J.
29:14And another one.
29:16G.
29:18A vowel.
29:20U.
29:22Another vowel.
29:24E.
29:25Another vowel.
29:27A.
29:29And a final consonant, please.
29:32A final N.
29:34Countdown.
29:36MUSIC PLAYS
29:45MUSIC CONTINUES
30:06How did you get on, Ian? Six.
30:08Yeah, well done, George. Six.
30:10Lovely. Jungle. Jungle.
30:12Jungle and jungle. Over to Dictionary Corner.
30:15Sixes all round. Anything else?
30:17No advance, I'm afraid, on six.
30:19Sorry, you've got eluent. Yes.
30:21It's obviously a six as well. Yes.
30:23A fluid used to elute a substance.
30:25That's all about washing it with a solvent.
30:27Very good. Let's do one more numbers round.
30:29George Anderson. One large, please.
30:31One large and a big sigh.
30:33It's almost over. One large, five little. Nearly over.
30:36Final numbers game.
30:37Let's hope for something interesting for a change.
30:40Seven. One.
30:42Two. Seven.
30:44100.
30:45And the final target for you, 669.
30:48669. Last numbers.
30:50MUSIC PLAYS
31:10MUSIC CONTINUES
31:20That'll do. 669, George.
31:22669. Well done, Ian. 669.
31:24Yeah, off you go, George.
31:26100 x 7 is 700.
31:28700.
31:307 x 4 is 28.
31:32Yep.
31:34And then we've got 2 plus 1.
31:372 and 1.
31:3928. Yep. 669.
31:41Well done. Well done. Same way, Ian?
31:43Yeah, exactly the same. There you go.
31:45APPLAUSE
31:47And our champion brings up another ton after 118 yesterday.
31:51Sensational stuff.
31:53And he can add to that.
31:55As can George, 80 would be spectacular, by the way,
31:57as a losing score.
31:58Let's get the fingers on the buzzers
32:00as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:03MUSIC PLAYS
32:06BUZZ
32:07George. Fields, is it?
32:09Let's have a look.
32:11It's not! Oh.
32:13MUSIC CONTINUES
32:15BUZZ
32:33BUZZ
32:35Got it. Flittered?
32:37Yeah, we're all thinking flittered. Let's have a look.
32:40It is!
32:42APPLAUSE
32:44We can flitter and we can flatter,
32:46but we can also flitter.
32:48If I'm flittering, what am I doing?
32:50Yes, you're moving quickly and gently.
32:52There you go. Which is exactly what Ian's doing.
32:55110 is his final score.
32:57Sensational stuff.
32:59Two back-to-back centuries
33:01to kick off your second reign on Countdown.
33:03George, not to be a second time for you, mate.
33:05Not for me, no.
33:07What was more scurry, going down that black ski run
33:09or taking on Ian Laird?
33:11I'm not sure. Probably the ski run.
33:13Just about. I think so.
33:15Well, thank you very, very much.
33:17Sensational stuff, Ian. We'll see you again tomorrow.
33:20Expect a century from me now.
33:22Anything else, failure as far as I'm concerned.
33:24And that's us. The rest of your day is downhill from here.
33:27Thanks for being here, Gabby and Susie.
33:30We'll see you tomorrow.
33:31And I know, obviously, a fun game for someone in their middle age.
33:34Yeah. It's addressing the colour of snooker balls.
33:36You spotted it. I spotted it. You were in your black jumper today.
33:39Look, look, look. Green, blue, pink, black.
33:41Ah!
33:42So, basically, this is last Monday.
33:44We talked about the World Snooker Championships
33:47being on the crucible, and I was trying to sneak it in.
33:49I was going to do it on social media.
33:51I went white, red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.
33:55I can get nothing past you for the next year.
33:57And then you're middle-aged.
33:59Yeah, so tomorrow, I dress like a snooker queue.
34:02And then, like Susie most days, a snooker referee.
34:06Yeah, I'll do that. I'll definitely do that.
34:08Lovely. Well spotted. Can't get nothing past her.
34:10We'll be back here tomorrow.
34:12Worm, whatever, you can count on us.
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