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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now, yesterday we talked about gap year and where people go and many, of course, will head off to the
00:40tropics.
00:41And the tropics, lush vegetation.
00:46I read an article yesterday, Rachel, apparently more and more tropical gardens are springing up in this sceptered isle.
00:55For instance, Norfolk has got tropical gardens, even the Scottish islands.
00:59Amazing.
01:00And, of course, the Great Eden Project.
01:04My blessed Catherine went and got locked in the Eden Project for a couple of days.
01:08She thought it was extraordinary.
01:09Locked in for a couple of days?
01:10Well, she sort of locked herself in.
01:12She loved it.
01:12And the thing about tropical gardens is the sort of the sweet smell of decay.
01:19Have you been to a tropical garden?
01:22Is it the sort of thing that attracts you, the smell of decay?
01:25Yes, the smell of decay.
01:26I love the smell of decay in the morning.
01:30I've been to a couple on holiday, like Hawaii, on the big island in Hawaii.
01:33It's amazing because they've got, I think it's 11 of 13 of the world's different climate zones.
01:38So on one side of the island, it's gorgeous sunshine the whole time.
01:40And you drive for maybe an hour and it's tropical rainforest and it really does pelt it down.
01:45But it's gorgeous, really nice.
01:47Well, I thought it smelled like, you know, fresh green rain and I didn't really smell the decay.
01:53Maybe I was unlucky.
01:54Did you read the story the other day about this flower that only blooms every sort of, you know, 15
01:59years or something?
02:00Yes.
02:01And it's huge.
02:02It comes out, it stinks.
02:05Yes.
02:05And it only lasts for sort of half an hour and then it dies.
02:08I've been to wherever they had one of those, but it wasn't open at the time.
02:11And was it smelly?
02:13Not at the time.
02:14No, there was just a big picture of it.
02:16Maybe it was Mauritius or somewhere like that.
02:18Yeah.
02:18And it smells of rotting meat so that it can then attract all the insects who then come in and
02:26then disappear and pollinate and do all sorts of other interesting things.
02:29I think I prefer the smell of roses, but each to their own.
02:32Yeah.
02:33Yeah.
02:33Good.
02:34Stephen Briggs is back with us.
02:36Well done, Stephen, from the sixth form college.
02:40Solihal, solid performance yesterday on your fourth win.
02:43You're doing well.
02:44But you've got to get past Ewan Crabb from Carnoustie, an accountancy graduate from Carnoustie and a big Dundee football
02:52club fan.
02:52Is that right?
02:53That's right indeed.
02:54Brilliant.
02:54And you work in a local theatre club, I think, backstage.
02:58Is that right?
02:58Yeah, I do a lot of the sound.
03:00I've done various jobs from lighting and sound.
03:03You're not looking for a career in the theatre?
03:06Erm, no.
03:07I would like to probably do something in the finance business, because I'm quite keen with the numbers, so...
03:12The accountancy in the theatre, they're sort of, you know, almost mutually exclusive, I would have thought.
03:16But good luck today.
03:18We'll ask for a big round of applause for Ewan and Stephen Briggs.
03:22APPLAUSE
03:26And in the corner, the wonderful Susie Dent, joined, of course, once again, by Gethin Jones.
03:32A lot of fun yesterday, Gethin.
03:33It was, yeah.
03:34Yeah.
03:34You have to get your eye in again, don't you?
03:36It takes a while to get going.
03:37Yes, I get going in about three minutes to the end of the programme.
03:42There we are.
03:43There we are.
03:43Now, what shall we do?
03:45Stephen, let us go in.
03:48Hello, Rachel.
03:48Hi, Stephen.
03:49Start with a consonant, please.
03:51Start today with N.
03:53And another.
03:55D.
03:56And the third.
03:58T.
04:00A vowel, please.
04:02E.
04:03And another.
04:04A.
04:05And another.
04:07I.
04:09And the consonant.
04:11Y.
04:12Another consonant.
04:15S.
04:16And a vowel to finish, please.
04:17And to finish.
04:19Oh.
04:20And here's the countdown clock.
04:22Oh.
04:52Yes, Stephen.
04:53Hate.
04:54An eight for Stephen.
04:56Ewan.
04:56I've only got a risky seven on that one.
04:58Seven.
04:58Let's try it.
04:59Erm, dynasty, if I spelt it right.
05:01And Stephen.
05:03Sedation.
05:04Sedation.
05:04I'm afraid you'd need two Ys.
05:06Two Ys.
05:07And Ewan, you're probably thinking about that.
05:08It's academic, really, with the eight, isn't it?
05:09Yeah.
05:10It is.
05:10Sedation is excellent.
05:11That's true.
05:12Now, Geffen and Susie, what have you conjured up out of that?
05:15Seven for me.
05:16Stained.
05:16Yeah.
05:17Seven for me.
05:17That's really good.
05:18Erm, and donates quite a few sevens, but sedation is the one eight that we can find.
05:22Well done.
05:22Eight points to Stephen.
05:23Ewan, your letters game.
05:26Afternoon, Rachel.
05:26Afternoon, Ewan.
05:27Can I have a consonant, please?
05:28You can indeed.
05:29Start with R.
05:31And a second.
05:33S.
05:34And a third.
05:36G.
05:37A vowel.
05:39E.
05:41Another vowel.
05:42E.
05:43And a third.
05:45O.
05:46A consonant.
05:48F.
05:49A vowel.
05:52A.
05:53And I'll finish with a consonant.
05:55And finish with G.
05:57Stand by.
05:59BELL RINGS
06:28Well, Ewan.
06:30Seven.
06:31A seven.
06:32Stephen?
06:32And seven for me, too.
06:33Ewan?
06:34Forages.
06:35Forages.
06:36And forages for me, as well.
06:38Any more foraging?
06:39Yes, we were foraging.
06:41Anything else?
06:42Geffen?
06:42Erm, I had Saga for a six, but I went with Faggers.
06:46Yes, not there.
06:47No, it's a risky seven.
06:48I love that, too.
06:50Erm, Saga is, is, um, good.
06:52It's usually spelled, um, A-R, but you can spell it with the E-R.
06:55And it's, um, a protective, uh, fireclay box that protects, um, ceramicware while it's
07:01being fired in the kiln.
07:02All right.
07:03Fifteen points to, uh, Ewan.
07:04Seven.
07:05Stephen, numbers time has come round again.
07:08Can I have one large and five small again, please?
07:10You can indeed.
07:10Thank you, Stephen.
07:11One from the top row and five from the other ones.
07:13And the first numbers game of the day is nine, one, seven, ten, four, and the big one,
07:2125.
07:23And the target, 362.
07:25Three, six, two.
07:26Three, six, two.
07:57Yeah, Stephen.
07:59I've got three, six, two, but not written down.
08:02What about you, Ewan?
08:03Three, six, one, not written down.
08:05Mm-hmm.
08:06So, Stephen.
08:08Four times ten.
08:10Is forty.
08:12Add one.
08:13Yep, forty-one.
08:14Times nine.
08:15Is three hundred and sixty-nine.
08:17Takes seven.
08:18Perfect.
08:18Three, six, two.
08:19Well done.
08:19Well done indeed.
08:21Very good.
08:22Well done, Stephen.
08:24Now then, twenty-five plays seven as we go to a tea-time teaser, which is all shops.
08:31And the clue, you can't get these in all shops, but they're always on sale.
08:35You can't get these in all shops, but they're always on sale.
08:54And the answer is shallops.
09:06Tell me a little bit about this.
09:08Great word.
09:09They are light sailing boats, or very different, large heavy boats, with one or more masts
09:16carrying fore and aft or lug sails.
09:18Hence, they're always on sale.
09:20Sometimes with guns, so sometimes they're gunships.
09:22Are they about these days?
09:23I can't visualize them.
09:25The light sailing boat sense is historical, but the heavy gun boats, unfortunately, are
09:28the ones that are still around.
09:30All right.
09:30Twenty-five plays seven.
09:32Ewan, it's letters time for you.
09:34Good luck.
09:35I'll stop with a constant, please, Rachel.
09:37Thank you, Ewan.
09:38N.
09:39A second.
09:42D.
09:43A vowel.
09:45O.
09:46And another vowel.
09:48E.
09:49A consonant.
09:52H.
09:53Another.
09:55R.
09:57A vowel.
09:59O.
10:00A consonant.
10:03T.
10:04And I will finish with a consonant.
10:08And finish with L.
10:09Stand by.
10:10I'll see you next time.
10:10Bye-bye.
10:11Bye-bye.
10:12Bye-bye.
10:13Bye-bye.
10:14Bye-bye.
10:15Bye-bye.
10:15Bye-bye.
10:15Bye-bye.
10:15Bye-bye.
10:16Bye-bye.
10:16Bye-bye.
10:18Bye-bye.
10:34Bye-bye.
10:36Bye-bye.
10:41Well, Ewan.
10:42I'll risk a seven.
10:44A seven. Stephen?
10:46I'll risk a seven too. Ewan?
10:48Thrown.
10:49Mine's the same, throned, yes. There we go.
10:52Happy enough?
10:53Absolutely, sir, as a verb, not at all risky.
10:55Can we beat it?
10:56I was with thrown until a little arm reached over and added the D.
11:01So I'm throned now, thanks to some help.
11:03Throned, well done.
11:05You can turn it round as have thorned.
11:07That would be an alternative, seven.
11:09All right. Thank you.
11:1032, please. 14.
11:12And Stephen?
11:13Can I have a consonant, please?
11:15Thanks, Stephen.
11:16T.
11:17And the second.
11:19S.
11:20And the third.
11:22G.
11:23And the vowel, please.
11:25I.
11:26And another vowel.
11:27O.
11:28A third vowel.
11:30I.
11:31A consonant.
11:33T.
11:35Another consonant.
11:37P.
11:38And a vowel to finish, please.
11:40And to finish.
11:42A.
11:43Stand by.
11:44T.
11:45T.
11:50So.
12:12T.
12:14T.
12:14T.
12:15Stephen.
12:16A six.
12:17A six, Ewan.
12:18I'm afraid I've only got a five.
12:20And that five would be?
12:22Goits.
12:23Thank you, Stephen.
12:24And patios.
12:26Patios are very good.
12:27There's no goits, I'm afraid, Ewan.
12:29Goiters, gouts, that sort of thing, but no goits.
12:32OK.
12:33What can we have?
12:34Gethin?
12:35Susie?
12:35They pop up a lot, these patios, don't they?
12:37They appear to be everywhere.
12:39Love a patio.
12:39Yeah.
12:40Susie?
12:42Just an alternative six, really, for me.
12:44A spigot, the plug that you will find in a beer barrel or a cask.
12:49That's the other thing.
12:50Thank you very much.
12:5138 to 14.
12:52Numbers time for you, Ewan.
12:55Can I have an inverted T, please?
12:57You can indeed.
12:58Thank you, Ewan.
12:58An inverted T.
12:59So one big and five little.
13:02And this time, the little ones are six, ten, four, two, and five.
13:10And the big one, 50.
13:12And the target, 158.
13:15One, five, eight.
13:15Three, three, four, three, five.
13:23.
13:46Ewan, 1-5-8 not written down.
13:49Stephen, 1-5-8 written down.
13:51So, Ewan?
13:5350 times 4 is 200.
13:55Yep.
13:565 plus 2 is 7.
13:58It is.
13:59Multiply that by the 6.
14:01For 42.
14:02And take it away.
14:021-5-8, perfect.
14:04Very good, Stephen.
14:0550, take 10.
14:0640.
14:07Times 4.
14:08160.
14:10Take away 2.
14:10Well done again.
14:111-5-8.
14:13Very good.
14:1548.
14:1648 for Stephen.
14:17Ewan on 24 as we turn to Gethin.
14:21And Gethin, I guess this is a word and numbers game.
14:26But you've all had, enjoyed, some problems with a certain word.
14:30Your name, I'm told.
14:31Yes.
14:32I have a lot of problems with my name, actually.
14:34Especially recently, because I've been spending time in America.
14:37And they really struggle with Gethin.
14:39They'll go with Declan.
14:41They'll Jeff, Jeffrey, Jonas.
14:44So, usually I just put Tom down or something like that.
14:46It's a lot easier.
14:47So, I thought, well, because I was coming on the show and Susie's a good friend and she
14:51knows her stuff, I thought I'd look into the origin of my name.
14:54And I believe there are two kind of possible origins.
14:58The first of which means dark-skinned and swarthy, of which I needed help with.
15:04So, swarthy is...
15:05Swarthy, yep.
15:06I looked this up for you.
15:07It is dark-complexioned, in a handsome, sort of rugged way.
15:11And the example given is swarthy men with gleaming teeth.
15:17So, a brush just before the show.
15:18Yeah, so there's that one.
15:19And then it comes from the old name.
15:21And I think it's from the old Welsh language Mabinogion.
15:24And it was from Grippid.
15:26Spelled G-R-I-P-I-U-D.
15:30Meaning strong, creve, and idh.
15:32U-double-D.
15:33So, in Welsh, double-D is one letter.
15:35So, it could be a new name for Griffith, or Griffith.
15:40So, I'm not really sure.
15:41But, interestingly enough, I was then just thinking about my name.
15:45And I hold four ridiculous world records.
15:47When I say ridiculous, I don't mean they're good.
15:50I mean they're quite strange.
15:51And one of them is being part of the largest gathering of people
15:54with the same surname under the same roof.
15:591,583 Joneses, all gathered together,
16:01to beat the Norbergs from Sweden,
16:04who only managed 583.
16:08I think it's good.
16:09It's a great name.
16:11Gethin.
16:12Absolutely.
16:12Well, I should say as well, my family have a lot of problems,
16:14because mine's quite easy.
16:15But my sister is Mererid.
16:17And my dad is Goronoi.
16:19Tell them not to go to America.
16:21No.
16:22They'll never get anywhere.
16:23Anyway, you've kicked off something in the States.
16:26And, you know, great success to you there.
16:29Very good.
16:2948 to 24.
16:31Stephen's in charge at the moment.
16:32Back with you, Stephen, for a letters game.
16:34Can I start with the consonant, please, Rachel?
16:36Thank you, Stephen.
16:37W.
16:37And another.
16:40L.
16:41And the third.
16:43S.
16:45And a vowel.
16:46I.
16:48Another vowel.
16:49O.
16:51Another vowel.
16:53U.
16:55And the consonant.
16:57M.
16:58Another consonant.
17:00P.
17:01And the vowel to finish, please.
17:03And to finish.
17:04I.
17:05Stand by.
17:06Bye-bye.
17:07Bye-bye.
17:09Bye-bye.
17:10Bye-bye.
17:10Bye-bye.
17:10Bye-bye.
17:10Bye-bye.
17:11Bye-bye.
17:11Bye-bye.
17:13Bye-bye.
17:15Bye-bye.
17:19Bye-bye.
17:27Bye-bye.
17:29Bye-bye.
17:31Bye-bye.
17:38Stephen?
17:39I'll risk a seven.
17:40How about you, Ewan?
17:41I've only got a five.
17:43That five?
17:44Lumps.
17:46Stephen?
17:46I'm hoping that impious is the opposite of pious.
17:50It's an excellent guess, yes.
17:51It is the antonym to pious,
17:53and it means showing a lack of respect for God or religion.
17:57Thank you very much.
17:5755, please.
17:5824.
17:59Ewan, letters time.
18:01I'll start with a vowel this time, please, Rachel.
18:03Thank you, Ewan.
18:04E.
18:05And a consonant?
18:07R.
18:09And another one?
18:10D.
18:12And a third?
18:14S.
18:15A vowel?
18:17U.
18:18And another vowel?
18:19E.
18:21A consonant?
18:23P.
18:24And another consonant?
18:27R.
18:29And I will finish with a final consonant.
18:33And a final P.
18:34Countdown.
18:37And a consonant word.
18:53And a consonant word is it?
18:53And a common växer.
18:58And a vowel?
18:59The seventh word gives a vowel.
18:59They're a foe.
18:59And a vowel.
19:00And a vowel?
19:04And a vowel means.
19:05Ewan.
19:07I'll risk an eight.
19:09Stephen.
19:10Just seven for me.
19:11Stephen.
19:12Perused.
19:13And Ewan.
19:14Suppered.
19:15Oh, Ewan, that was...
19:17Gatham and I both came up with that one, and it was positive.
19:20It was the sort of thing that I can imagine you saying, Nick.
19:23I suppered in my hotel room last night,
19:25but sadly, it's not there as a verb in the dictionary.
19:27Bad luck.
19:28What can we have?
19:30Perused is very good for seven, then you're down to six.
19:33It's prudes, that sort of thing.
19:35All right.
19:3662, 24.
19:37Stephen, numbers time.
19:39And have one large and five small, please, Rachel.
19:41Thank you, Stephen.
19:42One from the top row, and five more little ones.
19:45And for this round, the little ones are seven, two, six, nine,
19:51and one, and the big one, 50.
19:54And the target, 476.
19:57476.
20:31Ewan, also 476.
20:32So, Stephen, 50 plus two.
20:3550 plus two, 52.
20:37Times nine.
20:39Times nine is 468.
20:41And then add the seven and the one.
20:43And the seven and the one.
20:45476.
20:46Ewan?
20:4750 times nine is 450.
20:49450, yeah.
20:50Seven adds six is 13.
20:53It is.
20:54Times it by the two.
20:55426.
20:56And add that on.
20:56476 again.
21:02Let's have a tea time teaser, shall we?
21:05It's coo flaps.
21:06And the clue.
21:08Is the idiot's headgear made from paper?
21:11Is the idiot's headgear made from paper?
21:34And the answer is foolscarp.
21:38Foolscarp.
21:40Clever.
21:41Foolscarp.
21:4272 to 34.
21:44Ewan?
21:45A consonant, please, Rachel.
21:46Thank you, Ewan.
21:47R.
21:48And a second.
21:50W.
21:51And a third.
21:53B.
21:54A vowel.
21:56A.
21:56Another vowel.
21:59I.
22:00And another.
22:02U.
22:03A consonant.
22:05T.
22:06Another consonant.
22:08C.
22:10And I'll finish with a vowel.
22:12And finish with O.
22:14And here comes the clock.
22:23We'll leave.
22:48Yes, Stephen.
22:49I think I've got a six.
22:51Yes, Stephen.
22:52That's five for me.
22:52That five would be about nothing, Ewan.
22:56I think Crabbit.
22:57C-R-A-B-I-T.
22:58Yeah, great dialect word.
23:00Let's see if it's gone in.
23:01Oh, it hasn't.
23:02It's definitely around and about,
23:04but the trouble with dialect words
23:06is that they're not always captured in a dictionary.
23:09There's a great oral tradition,
23:10but not such a written one.
23:12Crabbit's one of my favourite words.
23:13Ewan, I'm sorry it's not in...
23:15Bad luck.
23:16That is bad luck.
23:16That is bad luck.
23:17Anything else?
23:18I only had a five, which was caught.
23:20Nothing in major.
23:22Well, there's an eight there,
23:23which is not particularly a nice one for animal lovers,
23:26or horse lovers, at least.
23:27It's an American term, crow bait,
23:30and it means an old horse.
23:32In other words, it's seen as nothing but
23:35carrion for the crows,
23:37which is not very nice.
23:38No.
23:3977 to 34.
23:41Stephen, letters again.
23:43Can we start with the consonant, please, Rachel?
23:44Thank you, Stephen.
23:46M.
23:47And the second.
23:49S.
23:50And the third.
23:52L.
23:54A vowel, please.
23:56A.
23:57And another.
23:58U.
24:00The third vowel.
24:02A.
24:04And a consonant.
24:07D.
24:08Another consonant.
24:10T.
24:12And a vowel to finish with, please.
24:15And the last one, E.
24:17Stand by.
24:18And a vowel.
24:20And a vowel.
24:46You iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG Tôi estrogen glorious.
24:47Yeah.ísimo
24:50Stephen, an eight, an eight, Ewan.
24:53I'll try nine.
24:55Good man.
24:57Now then, Stephen, adulates.
24:59Ewan?
25:00I stuck the M at the start and said magulates, maybe.
25:04How are you spelling that?
25:06M-A-D-U-L-A-T-E-S.
25:10Yeah, it's not that.
25:12Adulates, obviously, is into adore and heap praise on.
25:15It sounds like the sort of blend that might come up in urban slang,
25:19magulate, sort of adulate in a mad way,
25:21but it's not on the dictionary, I'm afraid, Ewan.
25:23Sorry.
25:23Bad luck, but good try.
25:25Very.
25:26Gethan and Susie.
25:27I started making words up.
25:31Sorted, slaughtered.
25:32Slaughtered.
25:33Slaughtered.
25:33We can have saluted, which will be made up the same.
25:36Yeah.
25:37Saluted, slated.
25:38Saluted.
25:38That's what I meant.
25:39No, I was struggling a little bit.
25:41And Susie?
25:42Amulets for another seven.
25:44Yeah.
25:44But certainly couldn't top adulates.
25:46Adulates.
25:47Very good.
25:48So, 85 plays 34.
25:50Susie, what have you got for us today in your magnificent, wonderful origins of words?
25:56Well, I had a really lovely letter a while ago now from John Statenbrook,
26:02who lives in Egremont in Cumbria.
26:04And he wrote,
26:06Please can you tell me where the expression, as happy as Larry, comes from?
26:09I'm rapidly approaching my 90th birthday and I've always wondered.
26:14And the earliest record we have of happy as Larry was from 1875 and it was from a writer
26:20in New Zealand who wrote, we will be as happy as Larry were it not for the rats.
26:25Sounds like something else for I'm a Celebrity.
26:27But the expression definitely began as Australian or New Zealand slang.
26:31And that, of course, is one of the most colourful varieties of English that we have.
26:36They have wonderful expressions like happy as a sick eel on a sand spit or happy as a boxing kangaroo
26:42in fog time,
26:43which means not happy at all.
26:45In other words, miserable and depressed.
26:46But happy as Larry does mean to be elated or very sort of comfortable, content and satisfied.
26:53But who was the Larry is the big question.
26:56The popular story is that he was an Australian boxer called Larry Foley
27:01and he was one of the pioneers of gloved fighting as opposed to the bare knuckle kind,
27:05although he did that as well.
27:06He was very, very successful and made a mint apparently up and down the land.
27:11And so successful was he that, in fact, he retired early, which might explain the happy bit.
27:17He retired at 32.
27:20But a more likely explanation, given that the evidence doesn't quite fit, sadly,
27:25comes from Australian and New Zealand slang again that escaped from the British shores
27:29and went over with immigrants.
27:31And that's the term larrikin, which meant mischievous street rowdy,
27:35a mischievous youth always getting into scrapes, generally living close to the edge.
27:40As I say, larrikin travelled over and that in turn comes from this dialect word Larry,
27:45meaning carefree and happy.
27:47So it's probably that word that is at the heart of happy is Larry.
27:50But I reckon Larry Foley did a little bit to popularise the term,
27:54given that he was so successful.
27:55Oh, very good.
27:56Well done.
27:59Well done.
28:01Now, 85 to 34.
28:05Ewan, penultimate letters game.
28:07Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:08Thank you, Ewan.
28:10Zed.
28:11A.
28:11We'll get a better one.
28:13S.
28:14And a third.
28:16L.
28:17And a fourth.
28:20D.
28:21And a vowel.
28:23U.
28:24And another.
28:26A.
28:27And we'll have a third.
28:30E.
28:31A consonant.
28:33M.
28:34And I'll finish with a consonant.
28:36And finish with J.
28:39Stand by.
28:39A consonant.
28:41And we'll start.
29:08Because we know there's another one.
29:11Ewan?
29:11I've only got five, I'm afraid.
29:13Not so bad, Stephen.
29:15Yes, I'll stick with the five, not written down.
29:17Right.
29:18And, Stephen.
29:20Nudes.
29:21Any nudes on your scrap of paper, Ewan?
29:24No deals.
29:25Deals.
29:26What have we got over there?
29:28Geffen?
29:28Slade.
29:29Five.
29:29Yep.
29:30And Susie?
29:31Sundae, as in ice cream sundae, one hot day.
29:34And also unsealed, break the seal of an envelope, for example, to unseal it.
29:39So those are there for six.
29:40Yeah.
29:41Ninety plays, thirty-nine.
29:42Stephen, last letters game.
29:45Another consonant, please, Rachel.
29:46Thank you, Stephen.
29:47S.
29:48And another.
29:51N.
29:52A third.
29:54D.
29:55And a vowel, please.
29:57O.
29:58Another vowel.
30:00I.
30:01A third.
30:03E.
30:05And a consonant.
30:06N.
30:07Another consonant.
30:09M.
30:13And a vowel, please.
30:14And the last one.
30:15I.
30:17Stand by.
30:19growling,
30:20What?
30:30I.
30:31And a vowel.
30:47We.
30:48movies.흑
30:49Stephen. Six. Ewan. Also a six. Thank you.
30:53Stephen. Inside. Inside. Ewan. Demons.
30:57Demons. Very good. Yes. Nothing to argue about?
31:00No. Gethin. Demons. Well done. And Susie.
31:04There is a nine there, actually, that you can unpack.
31:07Dimension is there. Dimension. Well done.
31:12A nine.
31:15Very good. 96 to 45. Ewan, final numbers game for you.
31:21Well, let's go out with style. Can I have six small numbers, please, Rachel?
31:24And what's more stylish than six? Well, thank you, Ewan.
31:26Six little ones for the final numbers game today.
31:28And they are six, three, ten, two, four, and one.
31:36Fairly small. The target, 225.
31:40225.
32:11Well, Ewan, 225.
32:14225.
32:16225 as well. Well done. All right. Ewan.
32:18Six times four is 24.
32:20Six four is 24.
32:21Minus the one is 23.
32:2323.
32:24Times by 10.
32:25230.
32:26And take away the three and the two.
32:27And the three and the two you haven't used. Well done.
32:30225.
32:31Yes, Stephen.
32:32Same for me as well.
32:33Yeah, absolutely.
32:34Well done.
32:34All right.
32:38So, well played, Ewan.
32:40But Stephen's cracked through the 100 mark.
32:43106 points.
32:44Well done.
32:44We're not finished yet.
32:46Fingers on buzzers, please.
32:48Stephen and Ewan, let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:08BELL RINGS
33:09Stephen.
33:10Hazardous.
33:11Hazardous.
33:12Looking pleased there, Stephen.
33:13Let's see whether you're right.
33:15I have little doubt.
33:17Hazardous.
33:17Well done.
33:21116 points.
33:22So, Ewan, well done.
33:2455.
33:25Not bad.
33:25This Stephen Briggs is hot stuff.
33:28He certainly is.
33:28So it's back to Carnoustie with you.
33:30With this goodie bag and our very best wishes.
33:32And good luck with your career now.
33:35Thank you very much.
33:35We shall certainly be seeing Stephen Briggs tomorrow.
33:37That's tremendous.
33:39So, five wins.
33:40Yes, thank you.
33:40Heading in the right direction, that's for sure.
33:42See you tomorrow.
33:43And see you both tomorrow.
33:44Susie and Gethin.
33:46And Rachel too, of course.
33:48I think, um...
33:50But we said that last time, didn't we?
33:52I said that yesterday.
33:53I didn't think I was going to have much to do this week.
33:55And so far, we've been proved right.
33:56Yep.
33:57But I think Stephen, good player.
34:00A good player.
34:01But as we know, somebody will come along
34:04and unexpectedly put an end to it all for him.
34:07There's something to give you a restful night's sleep, Stephen.
34:10Let's see how he gets on tomorrow.
34:12Join us there in the same time, same place.
34:15You'll be sure of it.
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