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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio, where the tension is palpable.
00:36And why is that, you ask? Because it's the start of Countdown Series 75 finals.
00:42And what we've got here are eight contestants who, over the next seven days, will battle it out.
00:47There'll only be one winner. He'll be the winner supreme. He'll be the champ of Series 75.
00:52And it will be he who lifts the great Richard Whiteley Memorial.
00:57Why do I say he? Because sadly, the wonderful, wonderful Annie Humphreys, who is our highest scoring lady octo champ,
01:07can't be with us this time.
01:09But we very much hope that she'll visit our studios and take part once again.
01:13She was a fabulous, a fabulous contestant. There we are.
01:17So we've got eight finalists, including five octo champs, to play for the Richard Whiteley Memorial.
01:22Now then, Rachel, you're a competitive girl. What was your favourite, most exciting competition that you were involved in?
01:32Not that I was involved in it. I've witnessed, I'll tell you about that, because my friends, some of them
01:36are more competitive than me.
01:37And I was a bridesmaid three times this year. One of the hen-doos I organised, the girls organised two
01:42butlers, basically boys that spend all their time in the gym, muscles everywhere.
01:46And it was a surprise for our bride. And halfway through the night, as she had a couple of drinks,
01:50she challenged them to a press-up competition.
01:54Because she's that competitive, she hands down beat one of them. And the other one, it was iffy, yeah. She's
02:00got abs, that friend.
02:01I won't name her, because she's a teacher. She'll embarrass her in front of her students.
02:04Friends you keep. And they're even more competitive than you.
02:07She's so competitive, yes.
02:09Terrifying.
02:09Yes.
02:10Can't beat Caris.
02:11Let's see who our competitors are today.
02:13We've got Martin Hurst, insurance document writer from Asheville in Surrey.
02:18Our number one seed came in OctoChamp back at the start of September and amassed an impressive 830 points.
02:25How are you feeling?
02:26Slightly nervous, but we'll see what happens.
02:29Number one champ.
02:29And that must, you know, put Tom Stevens, our number eight seed, on notice, really.
02:35Tom from Westgate-on-Seas, a music technician at a college in Margate, won five games just in November.
02:42And here he is winning his quarterfinal place.
02:46Good luck to you. How are you feeling?
02:47Thank you. A bit nervous. I think I've got a bit of a struggle today, maybe, against Martin.
02:52Every round is a different competition.
02:55It is.
02:55All right. Well, good luck to you. Let's have a big round of applause for Martin and Tom.
03:04And Susie is over in the corner, keeping everything in line over there.
03:08And since the late 60s, he's written lyrics for songs performed on some of the biggest shows and by some
03:14amazing artists and bands.
03:15It's the wonderful Tim Rice.
03:23Now, Martin, take us away.
03:27Good luck to you both.
03:28Hi, Rachel.
03:29Hi, Martin.
03:30Can I start with a vowel, please?
03:31Thank you. Start this quarterfinal with I.
03:34And another.
03:36A.
03:37And a third.
03:38U.
03:39And a consonant, please.
03:41T.
03:42And another.
03:43P.
03:44And another.
03:45M.
03:47And another.
03:48R.
03:51And another.
03:53D.
03:56And a final consonant, please.
03:59And a final.
04:00X.
04:01And here comes the countdown clock.
04:04And here take a look.iques.
04:06And here
04:33comes the countdown clock.
04:34Martin.
04:35Just six.
04:37Tom?
04:37Six.
04:38Martin?
04:39Matrix.
04:40And Tom Stevens?
04:42Armpit.
04:43Armpit, thank you.
04:45Yeah, absolutely fine for both.
04:47And Tim and Susie, what have you conjured up there?
04:49Well, following on the armpit theme, we've got putrid.
04:52Yes.
04:54And atrium.
04:56And atrium.
04:57Six apiece.
04:58Tom, let's have a letters game.
05:00Good afternoon.
05:01Start with a consonant, please.
05:03Thank you, Tom.
05:03Let's start with N.
05:05And another.
05:07L.
05:09And another.
05:10V.
05:12And a vowel.
05:14I.
05:15And another.
05:17A.
05:18And another.
05:20O.
05:22A consonant.
05:24T.
05:27A vowel.
05:29E.
05:31And a consonant, please.
05:32And the last one.
05:33P.
05:34P.
05:35Stand by.
06:06Tom.
06:07Seven.
06:09Yes, Martin.
06:10Seven.
06:11Tom.
06:12Elation.
06:13Yes.
06:15Violate.
06:16And violate.
06:17Very good.
06:18Yes.
06:19Both excellent.
06:20Two good sevens.
06:21Do we have a seven, I wonder?
06:23Tim and Susie?
06:24A pivotal.
06:25Yeah.
06:26And violent as well.
06:28And violent.
06:29Yes.
06:29Keeping up well there.
06:31Thirteen apiece, and it's Martin's numbers game now.
06:34Martin.
06:34Six more, please.
06:36Six more.
06:36We've got the champions back, going straight for the hard ones.
06:39And this first one is two, four, another four, seven, two.
06:46This could be a very hard one.
06:47And six.
06:49And the target, 740.
06:51Seven, four, zero.
06:52One, two, three, four.
06:57One, two, three.
06:58One, two, three.
07:24Martin 742 742 Tom not close enough on that one no well with Martin Hurst and Martin okay four
07:32times four four fours are 16 plus two plus two is 18 times by six times by six is 108
07:41take away
07:42the other two minus the other two which haven't used 106 times by seven yep well done 742 very
07:49good very good but not spot on 740 nope 742 was the best this one was impossible all right well
07:57done
07:57then well done Martin as we turn to our first tea time teaser the score stands at 20 to Tom's
08:0313
08:04now what's the teaser it's needs five and the clue he needs five at the back to play
08:09this formation he needs five at the back to play this formation
08:28welcome back I left with the clue he needs five at the back to play this formation
08:33and the answer is that it's a defensive formation defensive is the answer so 20 to 13 Martin in
08:41the lead and it's Tom's let us get a consonant please thank you Tom F and another T and another
08:52G
09:00and a consonant F and another S and a final consonant please and a final M stand by
09:19so
09:31so
09:33so
09:33so
09:47Tom.
09:48Try a risky eight.
09:50Martin.
09:52I will stick with a safe five.
09:55Five?
09:57Martin.
09:58Guest.
09:59Tom.
10:00I'm not holding out much hope for Muffy-ist.
10:04Oh, if only you'd stopped on the S rather than the T, because Muffy's are in, but not Muffy-ist.
10:14Muffy's are White-throats, Migratory Eurasian and North African Warblers.
10:21So that would have given you a seven.
10:23Brilliant stuff.
10:25Right.
10:2525 to Martin.
10:27Tom on 13.
10:28And it's Martin's Letters game.
10:30Kerber Vell, please.
10:31Thank you, Martin.
10:33I.
10:34And another.
10:35A.
10:36And a third.
10:37O.
10:38And a consonant.
10:40T.
10:41And another.
10:43R.
10:44And another.
10:46L.
10:47And another.
10:49Y.
10:50And another.
10:52Another R.
10:55And a final consonant, please.
10:59And a final B.
11:01Stand by.
11:17And a final consonant, please.
11:18And a final consonant, please.
11:19And a final consonant, please.
11:19And a final consonant, please.
11:20And a final consonant, please.
11:20And a final consonant, please.
11:21And a final consonant, please.
11:22And a final consonant, please.
11:22And a final consonant, please.
11:22And a final consonant, please.
11:23And a final consonant, please.
11:23And a final consonant, please.
11:24And a final consonant, please.
11:30And a final consonant, please.
11:32Martin.
11:33Six.
11:35Six, Tom?
11:36Just a five.
11:37A five?
11:37Yeah.
11:38Your five?
11:38Trail.
11:39Trail and Taylor.
11:42And Taylor.
11:43Oh, wow.
11:45Yes.
11:46And anything else in the corner?
11:48A couple more sevens.
11:50Orality, which is the quality of being verbally communicated.
11:54And orbital is also there for seven.
11:5731 plays.
11:5813, Tom.
11:59It's numbers time.
12:00Just one from the sock, please.
12:01Thank you, Tom.
12:02One large and five little this time.
12:05And these five small ones are two, nine, two, eight, and nine.
12:12And the large one, 50.
12:14And your target, 625.
12:17Six to five.
12:19Six to five.
12:21Six to five.
12:22Six to five.
12:31Six to five.
12:49Go on.
12:50Just 618.
12:52618.
12:53Now then, Martin?
12:54625.
12:56Let's go, Martin.
12:57OK, 8 times 2.
12:588 times 2 is 16.
13:00Plus 9.
13:00Plus 9 is 25.
13:02Times by 50.
13:03Times by 50 is 1250.
13:06And divide by 2.
13:07Perfect.
13:08Well done.
13:08There's the trick.
13:09625.
13:09Well done.
13:10625.
13:11Good man.
13:13Which has given you a bit of a lead at the moment.
13:1641 to Tom's 13.
13:17As we turn to Tim.
13:19And Tim, you're passionate about your cricket.
13:22How's it been this year?
13:23Well, the sands of time are marching on if they can do that.
13:29I have played a few times this year.
13:31But I may have bowled my last over.
13:33May have held my last catch.
13:36Might not have scored my last run.
13:38Because the one thing I can still do is get in the way of the ball.
13:42But I founded my cricket team in 1973.
13:47And it's been a great success.
13:49I mean, we don't win every game.
13:51But it's been great fun and a very good way to see friends every week.
13:54And we've been on tours.
13:57We've played cricket in North Carolina, in Berlin, in Estonia, St. Petersburg.
14:03And we beat Estonia, actually.
14:04We beat the national team.
14:06And they were rated 181 in the world.
14:08So we think heartaches my team are therefore 180 in the world.
14:12And it's just been something that's really such a wonderful contrast to other things I do.
14:18So it's a break.
14:20My son's quite a good cricketer.
14:22And he is a member of some sort of loose-knit travelling thing.
14:26And he was horrified to play and found that the other side had brought in some fast South African bowler
14:34who took it all very seriously.
14:36Shocking.
14:37Shocking.
14:37And actually, my son said he was getting dangerous because they didn't have the helmets and everything.
14:43And he hit him on the toe.
14:45He was furious.
14:47We used to play Harold Pinter's Eleven, the great playwright.
14:50And he was quite keen on winning, Harold was.
14:53And he sometimes fielded one or two players who we thought were a little bit good for us.
14:59And I think in 20-odd years, we only beat him twice.
15:02And once he fielded the New Zealand captain who had only just retired.
15:08And we weren't too happy about that.
15:10Not quite the spirit, is it?
15:12Not cricket, actually.
15:14Well, yes.
15:15He's gone now, so we can say it.
15:16Well, Harold was a great opponent.
15:18Yeah, quite.
15:20All right, thank you very much.
15:23A great competitor, by the sound of it.
15:26All right.
15:27Thank you very much for that.
15:28And Martin.
15:29Now then, let's have a letters game, shall we?
15:32Can I have a vowel, please?
15:34Thank you, Martin.
15:35U.
15:35And another.
15:37A.
15:38And a third.
15:39E.
15:40And a consonant.
15:42S.
15:43And another.
15:45C.
15:46And another.
15:47D.
15:49And another.
15:50G.
15:52And another.
15:54R.
15:57And a final consonant, please.
16:01And a final S.
16:03Stand by.
16:04A.
16:05A.
16:05A.
16:18A.
16:32A.
16:35Yes, Martin?
16:36Eight.
16:36And eight, Tom?
16:37Just a six.
16:38And that's six?
16:39Guards.
16:40Guards and crusades.
16:43Wow, crusades.
16:44Very good.
16:50Very good.
16:50That's as good as we can get, I'm afraid.
16:52Yep, that's it?
16:53Yep.
16:53Yep.
16:54Quite a few sevens there.
16:55Sugared, my favourite.
16:56All right.
16:56Sugared.
16:57Well done.
16:58All right, 49 plays 13, and we move to Tom and his letters game.
17:02Tom?
17:02Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:03Thank you, Tom.
17:05K.
17:05And another?
17:07T.
17:09And another?
17:11N.
17:12A vowel?
17:14O.
17:15And another?
17:17E.
17:19A consonant?
17:21D.
17:23A vowel?
17:25I.
17:27A consonant?
17:29Q.
17:30And another consonant, please.
17:33And lastly, S.
17:35Stand by.
17:36A consonant, please.
17:38A afterwards, I'll see you next time.
17:46Bye.
17:47Bye.
17:49Bye.
17:52Bye.
17:57Bye.
17:59Bye.
18:01Bye.
18:02Bye.
18:02Bye.
18:04Bye.
18:07Yes, Tom?
18:08A seven.
18:09A seven?
18:10Seven.
18:11Two sevens, Tom?
18:12Stonked.
18:13Stonked.
18:14And Martin?
18:15Kindest.
18:16And kindest.
18:17Yes, very nice.
18:19Any more sevens?
18:20No, we got stonked.
18:22I thought stinked might be still legal as opposed to stank,
18:29but apparently stinked is not in there.
18:31No, not there.
18:32And stonked to bombard with concentrated artillery fire
18:36is possibly, from the elements of the artillery term,
18:40standard regimental concentration.
18:43Thank you for that.
18:44I'll look out for those.
18:46Be careful.
18:47Stonked.
18:4856 plays 20.
18:49Martin, it's your numbers game.
18:51One large, please.
18:52Thank you, Martin.
18:53One from the top and five not from the top.
18:55And for this round, the five small ones are seven, ten,
18:59another ten, five, and one, and the big one, 50.
19:04And the target, 167.
19:07One, six, seven.
19:08Thanks, Martin.
19:41Yes, Martin.
19:42167.
19:44Tom?
19:45Yeah, 167.
19:46And Martin?
19:4810 plus 5 plus 1.
19:4916.
19:50Times 10.
19:51The other 10, 160.
19:53That's 7.
19:53167, lovely.
19:55And Tom?
19:56Yeah, exactly the same.
19:57There we go.
19:59Very good.
20:02So, 66 plays 30 as we go into our second tea time teaser, which is a long hump.
20:10And the clue, after a long hump around the fields, he's ready for his lunch.
20:14After a long hump around the fields, he's ready for his lunch.
20:35And the clue, after a long hump around the fields, he's ready for his lunch.
20:40Who is?
20:40He's why the ploughman is.
20:42He's going to have a ploughman's lunch.
20:44Now, 66 to 30.
20:46Martin in the lead as we turn to Tom for a letters game.
20:49Tom?
20:49Consonant, please.
20:50Thank you, Tom.
20:52R.
20:53And another one.
20:53N.
20:56A vowel.
20:58U.
20:59And another.
21:00E.
21:02A consonant.
21:04S.
21:05And another.
21:07L.
21:07Vowel.
21:09A vowel.
21:11I.
21:13A consonant.
21:15M.
21:17And a final vowel, please.
21:19And a final E.
21:22Countdown.
21:23A vowel.
21:24A vowel.
21:39A vowel.
21:40A vowel.
21:40A vowel.
21:40A vowel.
21:41A vowel.
21:54Yes, Tom?
21:55Just a six.
21:56A six.
21:57Martin?
21:58Seven.
21:59Tom?
21:59Muesli.
22:01Muesli and re-lines?
22:03Re-lines.
22:05Er, re-lines, yes, to replace the lining of, that's in, re-line.
22:09Why not?
22:10Why not, indeed.
22:12And Tim and Susie, what contribution have we got?
22:14Er, we have merlins, and merlins, nothing to do with wizards, they're small dark falcons
22:20that hunt small birds, and you'll find them in Eurasia and North America.
22:23Lovely.
22:2473 to 30, and it's Martin's letters game.
22:27Martin?
22:28Can I have a vowel, please?
22:29Thank you, Martin.
22:30O.
22:31And another?
22:33A.
22:33And a third?
22:35U.
22:36And a consonant?
22:38L.
22:39And another?
22:40G.
22:42And another?
22:43M.
22:45And another?
22:47C.
22:50And another?
22:52J.
22:54And a final consonant, please.
22:58And a final R.
23:00And the clock starts now.
23:02C.
23:03выглядит.
23:30And a half.
23:33Martin?
23:34Seven.
23:35A seven, Tom?
23:36Just a five.
23:37And that five?
23:38Coral.
23:39Coral, thank you.
23:40Yes?
23:40Glamour.
23:42Glamour.
23:43Excellent.
23:44Very, very good.
23:45Glamour.
23:46Now, in the corner?
23:48Well, the only one that equals glamour, jocular.
23:52Yes.
23:54The word, actually, jocular.
23:55But we don't have an eight, I don't think.
23:56No, we don't.
23:57We stopped at seven.
23:59Jocular.
23:59Yes.
23:59All right, eight minutes, 30, and it's Susie and her wonderful origins of words that
24:05will now occupy our thoughts for the next few minutes.
24:08Yes, Susie?
24:09Well, we talked about Ploughman's Lunchmen together with the teaser, and it's nice to think that
24:15traditionally Ploughmen would eat hunks of bread with cheese and pickled onions and pickle.
24:21In fact, the earliest reference that the OED has of it is 1956, and everyone hopes that
24:27we will find earlier records, but it didn't seem to be the traditional Ploughman's Lunch.
24:31Certainly, they would eat what they called nuncheon, which was a sort of noon luncheon,
24:36if you like, and they would certainly have bread and cheese, but not in the form that
24:41we know it today.
24:42What they might have had, because it was a staple for quite a while, is honey.
24:47And so I was going to talk a little bit about honey and how it crops up in English.
24:51The most obvious one, perhaps, is the honeymoon, which is such a beautiful-sounding word.
24:57And, of course, it's attached to all sorts of romantic things.
25:00People go off on honeymoon, obviously, when they get married.
25:03It is quite cynical in its formation.
25:07The original allusion was to love that wanes as steadily as the moon.
25:12And not only that, but moon and month are sisters, linguistically, and, indeed, in terms
25:18of science.
25:19And it implies a time of golden sweetness that may not last even more than a month, which
25:24is a bit sad.
25:25But moving on to other honey items.
25:28Melissa.
25:29The name Melissa means honeybee, which we think is quite nice.
25:33Moose, the moose that you eat and the moose that you put on your hair, perhaps, goes back
25:38to a Latin word that meant mixed with honey.
25:41So it was originally an edible thing.
25:42So perhaps not so nice if you tried to put honey on your hair, obviously.
25:47Mellifluous, surely one of the most beautiful words in the English language, literally means
25:51flowing like honey.
25:52So if you have a mellifluous voice, as Tim obviously does, that's how it sounds, as if
25:56honey is flowing through your voice, which I love.
26:00I like to hear that.
26:04And finally, not so nice, mildew.
26:06That translates literally, if you think of the French miel, meaning honey, as honey
26:11dew, because of that sticky stuff that's exuded by aphids.
26:14And mildew was compared to that.
26:17But I'll end with mellifluous, because I think it's such a beautiful word.
26:20And just one of the many examples of honey flowing throughout the English language.
26:24Perfect.
26:25Well done.
26:26Lovely.
26:27Lovely.
26:30Thank you, Susie.
26:31Perfect.
26:32Agee plays 30.
26:34And Tom.
26:35Letters go.
26:36Consonant, please.
26:38Thank you, Tom.
26:39T.
26:40And another.
26:41D.
26:42And another.
26:44N.
26:46A vowel.
26:48E.
26:49And another.
26:51A.
26:53And another.
26:56E.
26:56A consonant.
27:01A consonant.
27:02A consonant.
27:03A consonant.
27:04A consonant.
27:05And a vowel, please.
27:07And the last one.
27:09U.
27:10Stand by.
27:12A consonant.
27:14A consonant.
27:24A consonant.
27:28A consonant.
27:28A consonant.
27:28A consonant.
27:29A consonant.
27:29A consonant.
27:29A consonant.
27:29A consonant.
27:29A consonant.
27:42Yes, Tom?
27:43I'll try an eight.
27:44An eight, and Martin?
27:46I'll try an eight as well.
27:47Tom?
27:48Unparted?
27:50Parented.
27:51And parented?
27:55Unparted was the surprise to me there,
27:57because that is in, not parted, divided, or separated.
27:59That's very good.
28:01And parented is certainly there.
28:03We hear about parenting a lot.
28:05So both very, very good eights.
28:06Well done.
28:07All right.
28:11Any other eights or sevens?
28:14No.
28:15Well, we have denature, actually.
28:16To denature, quite a Shakespearean word,
28:19to remove the innate qualities from something.
28:21All right.
28:2288, please.
28:2238.
28:23And we turn to Martin for a letters game.
28:26Martin?
28:26Can I have a vowel, please?
28:27Thank you, Martin.
28:29E.
28:29And another?
28:30O.
28:31And a third?
28:32U.
28:33And a consonant, please?
28:36S.
28:37And another?
28:38N.
28:40And another?
28:41W.
28:43And another?
28:44S.
28:46And another?
28:48H.
28:49And a final consonant, please.
28:54And a final R.
28:57Stand by.
29:29Yes, Martin?
29:31I'll stick with a safe seven.
29:33Tom?
29:34Er, same.
29:35Seven.
29:36Yes.
29:36Worsens.
29:37And Tom?
29:38Showers.
29:39And showers.
29:40Yes.
29:41Yes.
29:43Now, Tim and Susie.
29:45Well, Susie's come up with an extraordinary word, which I haven't heard before, but...
29:51Er, it's un-horses.
29:54So, to un-horse somebody is to drag them or cause them to fall from a horse.
29:58Er, but very often it's used figuratively, so, um, to un-horse the radicals or, er, to un-horse the
30:06monarchy, for example.
30:07So, to remove somebody from power, er, in some way.
30:10But un-horses would give you an eight.
30:12Very good.
30:13Oh, no.
30:1695 plays, 45, and it's Tom's numbers game.
30:19Tom?
30:20I think it'll be my last one, so let's go four from the top.
30:22Why not?
30:23Thank you, Tom.
30:24Four large ones and two little ones.
30:26And this time they are eight and six, and then the four large, 25, 100, 50, and 75.
30:35And the last target, 820.
30:38Eight to zero.
31:10Yes, Tom?
31:11819.
31:13819, and Martin?
31:15Er, 819, not written down.
31:16Let's hear from you then, Martin.
31:18OK.
31:19Eight times 100.
31:20Eight times 100, 800.
31:22And 25 minus six.
31:24Is the 19, yep.
31:27There we go.
31:28And Tom?
31:28Same way.
31:29Same way.
31:29You happy?
31:30Yep.
31:30All right.
31:31So, Martin on 102, and Tom on 52.
31:34But let's see whether this 820 is possible.
31:38Rachel?
31:39You have to leave it with me.
31:40I'll certainly do that.
31:41I'll find out.
31:42102 to 52 as we go into the final round.
31:44Therefore, fingers on buzzers.
31:46You know the score.
31:47Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
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32:19My word, our two seeded players can't crack it,
32:22but can anybody in the audience?
32:24Yes, madam?
32:26Cornbread.
32:28Cornbread.
32:29Let's see whether you're right.
32:31Fantastic.
32:37Look at that.
32:39Somebody in the audience has got it.
32:41Very good.
32:42So, Tom, eight seed,
32:45but you're up against the number one city here,
32:47and that's sort of the way it worked out, I'm afraid.
32:50Good start, good finish,
32:51but it's showing back the middle for me, I think.
32:52A little bit soggy in the middle.
32:54Great opponent, though.
32:55Yeah.
32:55Really well played.
32:56Well, you're a good player, too,
32:57and that's why you're going back to Westgate on sea,
32:59clutching under your arm
33:01an almost priceless piece of kryptonite
33:04with our very best wishes.
33:06Thank you very much.
33:07Finalists, that's not bad.
33:08Not bad at all.
33:09And we shall see you, young man,
33:12on Wednesday in one of the first semis.
33:17Cool.
33:17All right.
33:18You have a restful time.
33:19Well done.
33:20Cracking score, 102.
33:21Well done.
33:22All right.
33:22And we shall see the corner,
33:24Tim and Susie,
33:25tomorrow for our next quarterfinal.
33:28You shall.
33:29All right.
33:30Now then, Rachel Riley.
33:32What's all this about?
33:33820?
33:33Well, this one hurt the brain a little bit,
33:35but you can say 8 times 100 is 800,
33:40and then 75 times 6 is 450.
33:44Add 50 for 500 and divide that by 25,
33:47and you get 20.
33:48And you can add up for 820.
33:49Look at you.
33:50Brilliant.
33:51Well done.
33:53Well done, Rachel.
33:56Perfect.
33:56Going to have a lie down now.
33:58Indeed.
33:59We'll see you tomorrow.
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