Countdown Game Show - Number Rounds (4 October 2023)
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- Colin Murray and Rachel Riley host as contestants race against the clock to pit their wits against vowels, consonants and numbers. Gloria Hunniford joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner. Each day two contestants compete in 15 rounds of words and numbers to become the Countdown Champion.
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BACKGROUND
Countdown is the channel’s longest running show and the first show ever broadcast on Channel 4 when it launched 40 years ago, in November 1982. The original version of Channel 4's Countdown is the French television programme « Des chiffres et des lettres » (literally "numbers and letters"), where the Numbers Round is referred to as « Le compte est bon » ("the total is right"). The show debuted in 1965 as « Le mot le plus long » using letters only, and reached its present format in 1972. This year marks the shows 51st anniversary.
Playlist: • The Original Countdown...
SPIN-OFF
"8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" is hosted by Jimmy Carr, with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent assuming their Countdown roles. The formation of the crossover with "8 Out if 10 Cats" began as a series of specials, the first of which was broadcast on 2 January 2012, when Channel 4 orchestrated a special "mash-up night", merging two shows to form a special edition of the pair, as part of its 30th-anniversary celebrations eleven years ago.
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There's something about this host I love...I can't put my finger on it
That 785 has got to be the most surprisingly impossible numbers round I have ever seen. Sometimes when there's two 1's then that happens, and I'm rarely good enough to get the 4 large in reasonable time, but I really stared at that for a good while.
I love the "two 1s" games, especially on a 6 small, it makes the game very interesting :)
@@TheSpotify95 1's are useful. But annoying when you've got something like 1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 8 and a target of 976 and you can't make any number higher than 900. Those are where many of the impossible number rounds come from.
I thought that was easy. Move the 7 and 5 apart then insert the 8.
3:46 1 large games have a very high rate of success for 10 points, only beaten by the 2 large (Yes, 2 large is more likely to hit the target than 1 large), however even the 1 and 2 large are only 98-99% success!
Thank you very much for posting these.
(Pleased to see I did alright in most of the rounds!)
For the easy ones, Rachel should just pop open a can of lager and take a pull to show boredom.
I think that's usually what Joe sits with her for
To get 196, I did 25×6, for 150. Then add 50, to get 200. Finally subtract 4, to get 196.
I got the 196 question another way as well:
6 + 2 = 8 x 25 = 200
200 - 4 = 196 #
Have you also got yesterdays edition too?
Thanks!
With the conundrums, I really hate compound words like aftercare and headward.
Me too, I don't generally beat the contestants on the conundrums, but in this case I saw the f and I wondered what it might be part of and 'after' came into my head, and then I had the word on about 10 secs. Maybe just luck / instinct, but maybe there is some method that it's possible to learn.
@@easternbrown I did get the compound words regularly when I was doing the 9 letter word puzzle in the daily newspaper, but I still hate them.
I hate and slightly fear to contradict Susie, but I think headward doesn't mean going in the direction the head is facing as her hand gestures suggested, but rather sonething moving towards the head. "Put his feet feet up to help his blood flow headwards".
@kenchristie9214 I've noticed a lot of newspaper crosswords these days are using very slack (sometimes blatently wrong) definitions of words. Especially in those arrow word puzzles.
I think I got all apart from the impossible.
416= 75x6-25-7-2 or (8x2)x(25+(7-6))
416:
75 - 25 + 2 = 52
52 * 8 = 416
8 * 2 = 16
25 + 7 - 6 = 26
26 * 16 = 416
75 - 7 = 68
68 * 6 = 408
408 + 8 = 416
You can also do
75*6 =450
450 - 25 - 2 - 7 = 416
Ben Bazzard - New Octochamp
416:
75 * 6 = 450
(25-8) * 2 = 34
450-34= 416
109:
100 + 8 + 1 = 109
50 / 5 = 10
100 + 10 - 1 = 109
75 * 8 = 600
600 - 50 = 550
550 / 5 = 110
110 - 1 = 109
196:
50 - 1 = 49
49 * 4 = 196
25 * 6 = 150
150 + 50 - 4 = 196
6 + 2 = 8
25 * 8 = 200
200 - 4 = 196
2:28 416=75*6-25-7-2
Final round I had
6*4=24
50+25+24=99
99-1=98
98*2=196
109=100+8+1=100+50-8×5-1=75+8×(5-1)+100/50
0:14 100 + 8 + 1 = 109 #
75×6=450
450-25-7-2=416
416=(25+7-6)×2×8
196=4×(50-1)=(6+2)×25-4
196=2×50+4×(25-1)
I always think it's a waste when three- and four-large games have such easy targets. But another equally simple way of getting to the target in the first numbers round was:
50 / 5 = 10
10 - 1 = 9
100 + 9 = 109
And if you wanted to do something slightly fancy just to justify the three-large selection, then you could do this:
75 x 8 = 600
600 - 50 = 550
550 / 5 = 110
110 - 1 = 109
In the second numbers round, I saw Ben's solution and also had these:
75 - 7 = 68
68 x 6 = 408
408 + 8 = 416
75 x 6 = 450
25 - 8 = 17
17 x 2 = 34
450 - 34 = 416
25 - 8 - 6 = 11
75 x 11 = 825
825 + 7 = 832
832 / 2 = 416
In the third numbers round, I saw the contestants' solution for 786, but 784 was also possible:
8 x 6 = 48
48 + 1 = 49
75 / 3 = 25
25 - 9 = 16
49 x 16 = 784
75 x 9 = 675
675 - 3 = 672
8 - 1 = 7
672 x 7 = 4704
4704 / 6 = 784
In the final round, I saw both contestants' solutions.
Another way that is almost as easy is:
25 x 4 = 100
100 + 1 = 101
101 x 2 = 202
202 - 6 = 196
And I also had this way just to use all the numbers:
6 - 1 = 5
50 x 5 = 250
25 x 2 = 50
250 - 50 - 4 = 196
But it's not a very interesting target for these numbers, unfortunately.
75X8 = 600-50 = 550÷5 = 110-1 = 109
50÷5 = 10-1 = 9+100 = 109
25+7 = 32X75 = 2,400÷6 = 400 8X2 = 16+400 = 416
7-6 = 1+25 = 26X8 - 208X2 = 416
75+3 = 75 9+1 = 10X78 = 780+6 = 786 (CLOSEST)
50-1 = 49X4 = 196
50-1 = 49X2 = 98 6-4 = 2X98 = 196