Countdown Game Show - Number Rounds (20 January 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. Rick Edwards joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner. Each day two contestants compete in 15 rounds of words and numbers to become the Countdown Champion.
Following Countdown's 40th birthday, the show now looks to its next Champion Of Champions series - which will crown the ultimate winner from the past few years. Watch Ahmed Mohamed win the Champion of Champions Final.
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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.
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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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Ahmed is absolutely amazing at the conundrums! Didn't even take 2 seconds for him to see it, I don't know how he does it. Great win for him!
Imagine being so good at both the words and the numbers. What does he do for a living? Something where he gets to use his talents I hope.
@@travelwell6049 I believe all the top players are Apterous users.
For the first round:
25 x 50 = 1250
100 - 75 = 25
25 + 9 = 34
1250 + 34 = 1284
*1284 / 2 = 642.*
Beating Rachel always feels good, ngl. Lol.
Poor old James must still be having nightmares about not seeing the easy-to-spot "wanderer" in the second round!
4:00 Fantastic, it's two 1s! This can only end well, this can only end well indeed... :)
I love Rachel's dress!
I'm here for the numbers but I simply can't let that go uncommented. While Rachel makes even that rag look passable it is still a garish dress that should have stayed in the second hand store it was undoubtedly purchased from.
@@Bradonthe333 To each their own :)
@@expic3954 I suppose that's true, tastes differ. Reading my comment now, I do seem to come on a bit strong.
I don't know why Rachel thought it'd come down to the Numbers rounds. James even took one over Ahmed and it still came down to the buzzer round (to which Ahmed was always playing). Congratulations on the winner for such strong play.
It's interesting how different the player profiles are from France. 95% of contestants are absolute garbage in the number rounds, but then you have a few - usually the four-large enjoyers -, as well as some CZcams commenters, who pull off awesome stuff that Frenchies never do. Perhaps because our rounds are entirely random and therefore four-larges are very rare, and therefore scarcely practiced. Not to mention Rachel who fills Benedicte and Bertrand's roles at the same time in a splendid show of beauty-and-brains.
I made things way more complicated for the 171.
6-4=2
*25=50
+7=57
*3=171
For the 644, you can get to 650 using 25x26, but will only get to 645 that way. So the logical next step is to go 24x27, which gets you to 648, and this time, you are left with the needed 4.
171 using the nines: 25-7+(4/4) = 19, times (6+3)
642:
25 * 50 = 1250
100 - 75 = 25
1250 + 25 + 9 = 1284
1284 / 2 = 642
6*4=24, *7=168, +3=171 without using the 25 😁
In the first numbers round, I was pleased to see that I beat Rachel to a solution in a numbers round, because I had this solution within the 30 seconds:
50 x 25 = 1250
100 - 75 = 25
1250 + 25 + 9 = 1284
1284 / 2 = 642
In the second round, I like to solve low-target one-large problems as "five small", and here it was possible:
7 x 6 x 4 = 168
168 + 3 = 171
With the 25, you could also do a solution based on factorization (19 x 3^2 = 171):
25 - 6 = 19
7 - 4 = 3
19 x 3 x 3 = 171
In the third round, I saw James' solution for 290, but there is no other solution and no solution for 286.
In the fourth round, I also factored the target (23 x 7 x 2^2 = 644) and saw the contestants' solution, as well as these ones:
3 - 1 = 2
25 - 2 = 23
23 x 7 x 4 = 644
25 - 9 = 16
7 + 3 = 10
16 x 10 = 160
160 + 1 = 161
161 x 4 = 644
Plus this one not based on factoring:
25 - 1 = 24
24 x 9 x 3 = 648
648 - 4 = 644
171
25 x 7 = 175
175 - 4 = 171
25-3=22+1=23x7=161x4=644
171 7×25=175-4=171
644 25-3+1=23 ×4×7=644
642 25×50=1250+25+9=1284÷2=642
25-3+1=23, *7*4=644
For the first round, it is tricky. Although the target is divisible by 6, it is not possible to come up with a factoring solution.
The trick to solve the problem is using the fact that 642 = 625 + 17, as it is noticed that 17 = (25 + 9) / 2. The remaining task is to make 625, which is easy as 625 = 25 x 25 = 25 x 50 / 2. Hence, I got the same as Rachel's solution.
The second round is an easy round. in addition to the contestants' solution, it is found that the target is divisible by 3 and 9, so some factoring solutions can be obtained:
25 - 6 = 19
7 - 4 = 3
19 x 3 x 3 = 171
6 - 4 = 2
25 x 2 = 50
50 + 7 = 57
57 x 3 = 171
It is also possible to use only small numbers:
7 x 4 x 6 = 168
168 + 3 = 171
Also, another easy solution that first popped up in my mind is:
25 x 6 = 150
3 x 7 = 21
150 + 21 = 171
The third round is an impossible round. I got the same as James' solution.
The fourth round is another easy round, since it is immediately noticed that the target is divisible by 4 and 7, another factoring solution can be:
25 - 3 + 1 = 22
23 x 7 = 161
161 x 4 = 644
I prefer to think Rachel said "loads of fun" just to make sure we all knew which of Colin's bodily functions she was talking about.
(25*50+100-75+9)/2