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Such a shame we never saw more of Rachel Allenby and her matching blouses… you probably already have noticed how the purple chair matches her top; makes her look almost invisible from the neck down! :3💜

At Last, Roger Cook in Dictionary Corner!

Seasoner for 8 (English UK dictionary)

In the round with BATTIER, I got an obscure 6, TABRET, or another name for tambourine.

tHEY MISSED WIRETAPS AGAIN

Stewart Scott is the same man from Tipping Point, The Chase, Countdown and Perfection

For the numbers you could also go this way which is 5x75=375+100+8=483 then 50/25 is 2 and add it on

Love the easy numbers

2 Scottishs in the house

At the start of the letters game Carol is not saying thanks or thank you

Wasn't the 7 letter word, QUINTAL in the selection?

I thought that RELODGED would be a bona fide word

6:51 What?! Tweenies on Countdown??!!

des oconnor was brilliant hosting countdown. so much better then ann Robinson. she is rubbish

Can get to 994 by saying: 75 + 50 = 125 125 ÷ 25 = 5 100 x 5 = 500 500 - 3 = 497 497 x 2 = 594

He pretty much had the answer in the numbers: 7 x 75 = 525 (8 / 2) x 3 = 12 525 - 12 = 513

I got the numbers eventually way past the bell though: 25 x 4 = 100 - 5 = 95 x 9 = 855 - 8 = 847

I was able to get to 989: 75x25=1875, 1875+100=1975, 1975+ 3=1978, 1978/2=989.

75-7=68 68x10=680 (3+1)x4=16 680+16=696

miss this countdown. boring now

miss you des r.i.p

Susie must have been on maternity leave this episode.

Have you got Countdown Season 37 Countdown the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Finals and Final Championship of Champions 10 episodes 1 2 and 4 Season 39 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Finals and Final Season 40 episode 2424 2425 2427 2428 2429 and 2430 Season 41 episode 2671 the 1st 2n 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals Season 42 episode 2680 and 2681 Season 43 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Finals and Final Season 44 episode 2913 2914 1915 1916 2917 2918 2919 and 2920 Season 46 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Finals and Final Season 47 episode 3153 3154 3155 3156 3157 3158 3159 and 3160 Season 48 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Final and Final Season 50 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Finals and Final Season 52 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Finals and Final Season 54 3990 3991 3992 3993 3994 3995 3996 and 3997 Season 55 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st Semi Final and Final Season 57 the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals the 1st and 2nd Semi Finals and Final please

RIP Des O’Connor

R.I.P Richard Whiteley and Des O'Connor

In the third round, 'hentai' is there for a rather explicit 6.

Also could have done for 527: 50x10=500, 4-1=3, 3x9=27, 500+27=527.

Karyn is excellent

Carol in her St Trinians outfit

noisiest is 8 surely??

Best conundrum answer ever. Hilarious

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Wow what a performance, great set of jugs on that

btw my son james is just sitting his first gcse (child development)-wish him luck

I work with lester.

Episode 4680 (and 200 eps later was on the 1st ep of Jeff & Rachel).

In the eleventh round, there's another eight which is a _Countdown_ favorite: LORINERS. Loriners (also spelled lorimers) are workers in iron who made bits, stirrups, and other small metal objects for horses. In the twelfth round, I also spotted PRESIDIO because I live in a city that used to have one, and is now the site of Presidio Park. In the last letters round, they didn't show Dictionary Corner, so they might have missed the two eights: CHROMATE and THEOCRAT. Chromate is an anion that contains chromium and oxygen. In the numbers round, I try to solve one-large games with low targets as "five-small" for an additional challenge, but here that's even easier than the solutions they came up with! 9 + 8 = 17 17 x 8 = 136

In the seventh round, there were a spate of sixes. Along with FASTEN, there was SENATE, SOFTEN, and ATONES. In the numbers round, I bet Carol was trying to find some way of making 34 that retained the 3 to subtract (34 x 25 - 3 = 847). Sadly, there's no 7 either, which would have made this a snap as the target number factors to 11^2 x 7. However, I did find a couple of solutions not already mentioned: 25 x 8 = 200 200 + 5 = 205 205 x 4 = 820 9 x 3 = 27 820 + 27 = 847 25 + 3 = 28 28 x 4 = 112 112 - 5 = 107 107 x 8 = 856 856 - 9 = 847

In the numbers round, I had two alternative solutions: 6 / 2 = 3 50 - 3 = 47 47 x 9 = 423 423 + 10 = 433 9 + 8 = 17 50 x 17 = 850 850 + 10 + 6 = 866 866 / 2 = 433 The latter is a workaround for the fact that one can't divide 50 by 2 to make 25, make 17, and keep the 8 to add on at the same time. In the sixth round, there was also NODALISE.

In the twelfth round, I also saw DAINTIES and had DETAINS for seven. In the last letters round, there was one word to stretch it to a six: TRICAR, an obsolete term (but still in the dictionary) for a three-wheeled car, like the old Reliant Robin. In the numbers round, I always try to solve one-large games with low targets as "five-small", which can be done here as follows: 8 x 7 = 56 56 + 5 = 61 61 x 3 = 183

In the seventh round, there was an eight. I first got MALATE, and that gave me the clue for MALONATE. In the numbers round, I saw Barbara's solution and also had this solution: 75 x 4 = 300 300 + 7 = 307 3 - 1 = 2 307 x 2 = 614 In the eleventh round, there were at least two eights. One is REALTORS, the American term for estate agents, which Susie usually points out when it comes up. That's one reason I noticed it now: I've been trained by watching this show to find the commonly occurring eight- and nine-letter words. Another was LEVATORS, the muscles that elevate a part of the body when contracted.

In the numbers round, I saw Carol's solution before the clock started, so I tried to come up with another solution and found this: 9 x 6 = 54 4 / 4 = 1 54 + 1 = 55 55 x 7 = 385 385 + 100 = 485 In the sixth round, I had DIAMANTE.

In the first round, I thought you could have "bourees", but the dictionary tells me it's a double 'r'. You can pluralize bourne, however, for BOURNES. In the second round, another seven was HOMINID.

In the eleventh round, as Bill Clinton might have said, "I got a six in that round and it was INHALE." In the twelfth round, nothing but sixes either. I had SCOURS, LISSOM, SCRIMS, and SIMULS. Simuls are simultaneous games, usually used of chess events when an expert player plays several other people at the same time. I'm a bit of a chess nut, so I've analyzed more than a few grandmaster simuls in my time. Scrims are backdrops used in theatre, which can become fully opaque when frontlit and semi-sheer when backlit. One of my favorite uses of scrims occurred in the original Broadway production of the Sondheim/Lapine musical _Sunday in the Park with George_ , where the young George, Georges Seurat's great-grandson, is encouraged to keep at art by Seurat's mistress and muse, Dot. The entire group from the painting _Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte_ comes to life to meet George, and the last thing the audience sees is the fading silhouette of Dot as George intones the marginal notes from her grammar book, "White. A blank page or canvas. His favorite. So many possibilities." In the last round, a couple more sevens are AIRDATE and AVIATED. This numbers round shows why people playing on _Countdown_ should really learn about distributing numbers into equations by addition or subtraction before multiplying. It's almost as necessary as factoring. The simplest solution to the problem is this: 50 + 3 = 53 53 x 8 = 424 9 - 8 = 1 (or 8 - 7) 424 + 1 = 425 And if you want to play a trick shot solution, you can do this: 9 x 7 = 63 8 - 3 = 5 63 + 8 = 68 68 x 50 = 3400 3400 / 8 = 425 Mathematically, this is the same as Carol's solution. Since 68 is 17 x 4 and 50 is 25 x 2, dividing by 8 makes the 4 and 2 fall away, leaving 25 x 17.

In the eighth round, another six that is my particular area of interest is the GENOME. In the ninth round, I had a "dodgy eight" in SHOUTIER. When I looked it up on the online Oxford Dictionary, it redirected me to "shouty", so I don't know if that's a "yes, it's an acceptable comparative" redirect or a "no, you idiot, here's the word you wanted" redirect. In the numbers round, I didn't even see Carol's solution. I thought the "obvious" solution was going to be this: 50 x 10 = 500 4 - 1 = 3 9 x 3 = 27 500 + 27 = 527 Because I thought that would occur to everybody, I looked for an alternative and got this as well: 50 + 9 = 59 10 - 1 = 9 59 x 9 = 531 531 - 4 = 527

In the numbers round, I saw Carol's solution early on, so I tried for a different one and found these two: 6 + 5 = 11 11 - 7 = 4 25 - 4 = 21 21 x 9 = 189 189 + 100 = 289 100 / 25 = 4 7 x 4 = 28 28 + 5 = 33 33 x 9 = 297 297 - 6 = 289 In the seventh round, there's an anagram of ANTIDOTE: TETANOID. And if you're displaying those kinds of symptoms, you definitely need one.

In round 1, there was an eight: ASSIGNEE.