Countdown recap for Thursday 15 July 2021.
Happy 15th birthday to Twitter. Anne doesn't understand why Rachel has fallen out of love with Twitter.
C1: Champion Florence Cappleman-Lynes (2 wins, 203 points.) Once got hypothermia in her swimming activities.
C2: Challenger Asad Riaz. Aged 39, from Northampton. English-as-a-foreign-language teacher. Also interested in cycle maintenance. Turns out Anne wasn't very keen on him: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/14528 ... h-language
DC: Susie Dent and Philippa Perry. Susie's outfit is on point. It's a black top with long sleeves.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: F E R A D I S A O
R02: O A E R T S A M P
R03: 4, 8, 9, 7, 5, 1. Target: 505.
TTT: PLANTYET - "He had a plant-based diet, but it was obvious his shoes were leather."
R04: G R P O O D U A M
R05: R E H E T O D A N
R06: 75, 25, 10, 1, 2, 8. Target: 387.
R07: X O G E C U T I S
R08: V W T B I A A S W
R09: 50, 100, 75, 5, 6, 3. Target: 628.
TTT: FAIRNESS - "You're probably the font of all knowledge if you get this."
R10: E A N K C U E D R
R11: H O T O R E L B L
R12: E I P T M A E R N
R13: N E L A D I R I S
R14: 50, 100, 10, 3, 4, 2. Target: 147.
R15: A R T D E C R E E (conundrum)
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Round 1: F E R A D I S A O
Florence: RAISED (6)
Asad: FARSIDE (7) (try)
DC: AFORESAID (18)
Score: 0–7 (max 18, jos 18)
Darren-o-meter: 1/1 (100%)
Asad's FARSIDE is initially rejected but Susie reverses her decision, seeing a meaning in the dictionary as one word. I don't like it, but I'll have to go along with it. Anyway, there is a nine there which is spotted by Dictionary Corner.
Round 2: O A E R T S A M P
Florence: MASTER (6)
Asad: STAMPER (7)
DC: SEAPORT (7) MAESTRO (7) TAMPERS (7) sportma
OT: PTEROMAS (8)
Score: 0–14 (max 26, jos 25)
Darren-o-meter: 2/2 (100%)
Florence is yet to get off the mark as she fails to see a seven, although everyone misses the eight.
Round 3: 4, 8, 9, 7, 5, 1. Target: 505.
Florence: 508. (not written down) ((7 + 4) × 9 + 1) × 5 + 8 (7)
Asad: -
RR: 505. (9 × 8 + 7 × 4 + 1) × 5 (10)
Score: 7–14 (max 36, jos 35)
I assume that Florence was, like Rachel and myself, looking for 101 times 5. I did what Florence did, whilst Rachel shows us how to make 101.
Teatime teaser: PLANTYET -> PATENTLY
Round 4: G R P O O D U A M
Florence: POORGA (6) (try)
Asad: GROUP (5)
DC: GOPURAM (7)
OT: GUMDROP (7)
Score: 13–14 (max 43, jos 42)
Darren-o-meter: 2/3 (67%)
POORGA - Susie defines it but she might as well have been speaking Greek, because I failed to comprehend a single word of that definition.
Round 5: R E H E T O D A N
Florence: redonate (try)
Asad: ANOTHER (7) (not written down)
DC: HEADNOTE (8)
OT: ADHERENT (8) DETHRONE (8) NEATHERD (8) NOTEHEAD (8)
Score: 13–21 (max 51, jos 50)
Darren-o-meter: 2/4 (50%)
Turns out you can only donate once. Who knew? Asad's not written down 7 extends the lead out.
Round 6: 75, 25, 10, 1, 2, 8. Target: 387.
Florence: 387. (75 − 25) × 8 − 10 − 1 − 2 (10)
Asad: 384. (not written down)
Score: 23–21 (max 61, jos 60)
Poor miss here from Asad. Florence regains the lead.
Philippa not only studies people, she also studies cattle. They don't come into her consulting room, apparently. There is a wild herd that has not been touched by humans for 800 years, they've merely been fenced in.
Round 7: X O G E C U T I S
Florence: EXOTIC (6) (stick with - Susie speculates she rejected EXOTICS)
Asad: CUTIES (6)
DC: EXOTICS (7) COEXIST (7)
Score: 29–27 (max 68, jos 67)
Darren-o-meter: 2/5 (40%)
Florence is not asked for what she rejected - Susie speculates (presumably correctly?) that she was thinking of putting the S on. And indeed she could have done.
Round 8: V W T B I A A S W
Florence: AWAITS (6)
Asad: AWAITS (6) (I think)
DC: WASABI (6)
OT: ABATIS (6) SATIVA (6)
Score: 35–33 (max 74, jos 73)
Darren-o-meter: 2/6 (33%)
Sixes all around here as Asad "thinks" he has AWAITS.
Round 9: 50, 100, 75, 5, 6, 3. Target: 628.
Florence: 628. 100 × 6 + 75 − 50 + 3 (10)
Asad: 630. (not written down)
Score: 45–33 (max 84, jos 83)
Oh dear.
Teatime teaser: FAIRNESS -> SANSERIF
My dad moans about this word (should be two words) and this clue. What does knowledge have to do with it?
Round 10: E A N K C U E D R
Florence: CRANKED (7) (stick with)
Asad: CRANKED (7) (stick with)
DC: CANKERED (8)
OT: UNRECKED (8)
Score: 52–40 (max 92, jos 91)
Darren-o-meter: 2/7 (29%)
Bring. Back. Asking. What. Were. You. Thinking. Of. Both contestants show off their papers to each others.
Sam FINALLY gets a shout-out, and Florence tells us that Sam learned to read through Countdown. I won't laugh, because my Mum tells me that's how I learnt my alphabet too.
Round 11: H O T O R E L B L
Florence: BROTHEL (7)
Asad: HOOTER (6)
DC: BOLTHOLE (8) BLOOTER (7)
OT: BOTEROLL (8)
Score: 59–40 (max 100, jos 99)
Darren-o-meter: 2/8 (25%)
Florence extends her lead, although there were two eights in there.
Susie has an email from Beth Goodwin, asking about the cockles of the heart. It's a medical term, or at least that's what I think she said. It was all technobabble!
Round 12: E I P T M A E R N
Florence: PRIMATE (7)
Asad: PRIMATE (7)
DC: PETERMAN (8)
OT: APERIENT (8) ARMENITE (8) IMPERATE (8) IMPERENT (8) PENTAMER (8) PERMEANT (8) PREMIATE (8)
Score: 66–47 (max 108, jos 107)
Darren-o-meter: 2/9 (22%)
Anne says she should have known PETERMAN. Susie comments Anne wasn't alive in the 18th century.
Round 13: N E L A D I R I S
Florence: SLANDER (7)
Asad: LANDERS (7)
DC: AIRLINES (8) ISLANDER (8)
OT: LAIRDIES (8)
Score: 73–54 (max 116, jos 115)
Darren-o-meter: 2/10 (20%)
A carbon copy of the last round.
Round 14: 50, 100, 10, 3, 4, 2. Target: 147.
Florence: 147. 100 + 50 − 3 (10)
Asad: 147. 100 + 50 − 3 (10)
Score: 83–64 (max 126, jos 125)
Upon the target reveal, Rachel goes "oh, sorry". And she's right, this is an Ariana. As we haven't had one for a while, an Ariana is a term for a stupidly easy numbers round, as in Ariana Grande's song "thank u, next". It gets Florence over the line.
Round 15: A R T D E C R E E
Florence buzzes on 3 seconds to say RECREATED which is correct.
Final Score: 93–64 (max 136, jos 135)
Florence adds another 10 points to her collection to finish on 93 and wins by 29 points. That makes it three wins, and only five more to go!
Again, F1 Qualifying tomorrow (because of this stupid new sprint system) so join us again for Countdown on Monday. Goodbye.
Further summaries are at:
http://cdb.apterous.org/series.php?series=84