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So I’ve been working on this idea for a fic, while ignoring the harder fics that I should be writing. Shiro owns Black Lion Publishing and it was a small publishing company until they happened across a science fiction novel, “The Legend of Voltron,” which became a best seller. The author goes by the name Diego Blue, but that’s not his real name and he prefers to keep it that way. Keith, meanwhile, has recently been fired from his mechanic job for being too confrontational with the owner, so Shiro took him in as an editor because, you know, what are brothers for (”You have a college degree, Keith.
Why were you working there in the first place?” “I liked it, Shiro, until Rolo started stealing my shit.”). Keith, however, loves the book “The Legend of Voltron” and has been pestering Shiro since before he was even hired as an editor to get him in touch with “Mr. Blue,” but Shiro refuses. Diego Blue wants to remain anonymous and it’s none of Keith’s business who he is. But Keith keeps pestering him anyway. Lance Garcia McClain, meanwhile, had to move out of his apartment because of a black mold problem (“I like this apartment, Pidge!” “It’s a piece of shit, Lance, and we all know you can afford something better anyway.”), so he moves into a complex downtown where he meets his asshole neighbor, Keith Song, who is equal amounts of annoying as he is attractive and irresistible. And seeing as he doesn’t have to work, Lance has plenty of time to sit around in his new apartment and think of all the best ways to get Keith’s attention.
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Oh, and write the second book in his series that wasn’t supposed to be a series in the first place? He hadn’t even intended to write the first book? Or publish it? So that was a thing. Keith, meanwhile–despite finding his new neighbor extremely annoying and constantly having to yell at him about hacking into his wifi–happens to be using Shiro’s computer when he finds the email address for one Mr.
Without telling Shiro, he snags the email and starts messaging Mr. At first it’s all formal, but Keith finds Mr.
Blue extremely easy to talk to and soon they’re emailing all the time. Keith develops quite the crush and his interest, as well as admiration, only intensifies when the manuscript for book 2 finally arrives. Thus we find ourselves in a Klance lovesquare with fun things like email messaging, apartment pranks, and inappropriate flirting when Lance finally figures out that his editor’s colleague, who’s been emailing him, is none other than the very Keith Song that lives across the hall.
Will include Keith with his hair in a ponytail and Lance with glasses and curly hair despite his attempts to straighten it and pretend not to be the nerd he actually is. I’m kinda writing the first chapter, but I don’t know how into it I want to get. I have other fics I should work on, tbh. I mean, does anyone even want to read something like this? It’s finally revealed why Link doesn’t talk. He’s carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders and feels the need to bottle it up.
Zelda recalls finally getting him to open up and the first thing he talks to her about is that his one and only love is food.This is completely in line with the tradition of Nintendo giving really subtle characterizations to Link, with most of them just showing how much of a colossally uncool dweeb Link is. I can relate to this.Ganon’s backstory in this is “Ganon ragequits and hacks the Hyrule wifi. This kills everyone.” -Sidon is a fishman and you all need help. I’m kinkshaming this website.Mr. “I want to be scolded by women” Aonuma made the Gerudos extra scold-y and also twice your height and fucking shredded so they can absolutely trash you. I’m kinkshaming Aonuma -I liked the doggos in this game and that the encyclopedia confirms Hyrule has always had good dogs. You can’t pet them tho which is hella upsetting.Zelda’s Lullaby is as great as ever.Zelda gets great characterization!! -King Rhoam’s backstory was hidden in a diary in a secret space I happened to find and boy oh boy was that sad.Revali’s Gale is ready.
Okay so here some crazy shit that happened at my school: -one teacher got fired for having connections with ISIS.one teacher only talked about her life during class. It seemed like class was her therapy session. She had to quit teaching because she got a burn out.one teacher was a recovering drug addict and smoked a fuckton of weed.my chemistry teacher talked to me about ecstasy export and designer drugs.my classmates would buy shit like cartons of yogurt and make a mess during breaks.one guy always brought a whole leaf of bread, a knife and a jar of peanut butter to make sandwiches during class.
Every fucking day.some guys watched porn during class.my classmates would hack the beamer to let random trump pics appear during presentations from the teacher.my classmates hacked the wifi, so we wouldn’t be able to do online courses.our online course couldn’t go on, so my teacher decided to take us out for ice cream during class. Most humans in Staraways with access to good medical care can actually get lab-grown flesh limbs to replace any missing ones, which is a solution especially favored by traumatic amputees. Humans with congenital limb deficiencies are the ones usually more interested in cybernetic prosthetics, but they’re just as expensive to make as meat limbs, so you’re more likely to see people with cheap adaptive prosthetics. The fancy robo ones are controlled by a small universal wifi implant hooked to the spinal cord. (This means that, yes, you can prank your amputee friends by hacking their wifi limbs.
Shenanigans??) There are definitely communities of people with robot limbs and eyes and stuff who are very dedicated to the aesthetic and may or may not be chopping off their flesh body parts on purpose, but it’s not THAT common they’re sorta like modern extreme body mod communities. Like, I guess you could replace all your limbs with stronger robolimbs and deal with the pain of recovery and phantom limb issues and possible health complications; or you could keep your regular legs and hop in a robotic exoskeleton to roughly the same effect instead. Maybe I’m a little biased as someone who’s more into biopunk than cyberpunk but, whateveeerrr man Of the non-humans ferrets also favor labmeat limbs, but avians have garbage underfunded biological sciences so you tend to see them with fancy cybernetics more than anyone else. Centaur medical studies haven’t progressed to the limb growing stage yet, nor do they have neural hookups for cybernetics, so cheap adaptive prosthetics it is.
hello it’s yours truly. ready to die because tonight i’ll be out in the twenty degree weather freezing to death.
dying. anyway!! This should be renamed ally when she gets to college!!
But it won’t be. hoseok doesn’t know about college tbh i see hoseok being like i wanna work and not drown in debt!!. and he has the opportunity because he has this part time job that his boss said he could work full time if he doesn’t wanna go to college. hoseok is like rad!! Because his only passion is dance and everyone tells him he won’t find a job as a dance major so he’s like why waste the money?. he loves his job and it gives him time to do other things because it’s like a 11-10 shift??
So in the morning he has time still and all!! Time to dance i mean. and he’s always guaranteed one day off and one half day so it’s okay right?. but his boss. oh while his boss was like yes you can work here!!
That’s okay we love you!! His boss was always like you’re such an intelligent kid hoseok you should really do something in college don’t waste that intelligence here. and hoseok gets all teary eyed because he loves his boss and his coworkers they’re like a family too him?? And he doesn’t wanna leave them!!. but his boss is so insistent like please child you could do so much more than this. and hoseok is like but i don’t wanna do anything else but stay at the restaurant!!.
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boom light bulb. because your girl just googled majors for college. and hospitality management is one of those majors. like in this au hoseok practically grew up in the restaurant and loved them all and loved the dynamics of restaurant life from the decor to the menu to the waiters?.
so he’s like wow maybe i should do something with restaurant management!!. in high school, hoseok never went out to parties or the sports games or that kind of thing. every weekend (plus more) he could be found at the restaurant, serving tables and making hard money.
so he has a lot of his own money to pay for college!!. and plus his parents, who wanted him to go to college from the get go, are so willing to pay for his college career too, well the best they can. he’s like i’m gonna stay close to home and go to college here so i can still work part time!!. Manual die cutting press. but he applied internationally too just for the heck of it because a lot of his friends went overseas for school and they really loved it!!.
and guess what. an american college sees his profile and they’re like wow gotta have him!!. and they’re willing to pay for his entire tuition, he has to pay for room and board though. because while hoseok didn’t a lot of time at work, he got really good grades and was involved in school clubs so he looked well rounded and active in school. plus he had a lot of work and volunteer hours so he looked like the perfect student!!. he decides to go to that school despite wanting to stay close to home, because he wants to challenge himself and adventure and face new challenges and experiences!!. so yes he goes over to the grand old usa where tuition is like fifty thousand dollars.
a lot of the college au series isn’t intertwined and i gave people different roommates throughout and this one i think it’d be rad af if hoseok and my son jeongguk were roommates??. so yikes it’s happening. so hoseok gets there and he’s saying hi to everyone he meets while looking for his dorm.
and he walks on in ahd guess who’s there it’s a small bunny child. tbh jeongguk probably found out how to hack the wifi and is like illegally streaming movies through his computer. and he kinda looks up at hoseok and is all??. and hoseok just stares at him then kinda “i packed some popcorn, you want some?”. hoseok and jeongguk are good roommates, they get along really well except when jeongguk throws his clothes everywhere and like, hoseok has to clean up after him???. but they do dance team together so that’s rad because they’re usually home at the same times!!
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Of series 77 (Regular) 2 (Masters) 1 (Celebrity) 79 (overall) No. Of episodes 6,523 (as of 20 February 2017) (inc. 42 specials) 104 (Masters) 8 (Celebrity) / Production Location(s), (2013–), (2009–12), (1982–2009) Camera setup Running time 36 mins (excluding adverts) 45 mins (including, 2001–) 24 mins (excluding adverts) 30 mins (including, 1982–2001) Production company(s) (2009–) (2003–09) (1982–2005) Release Original network (1982–2010) (Wales) Picture format (2013–) (1999–) (1982–99) Original release 2 November 1982 ( 1982-11-02) – present Chronology Related shows (2012–) External links Countdown is a British involving word and number puzzles. It is produced by and broadcast on, it is currently presented by, assisted by, with regular lexicographer.
It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and 77 series have been broadcast since its debut on 2 November 1982, with over 6,500 episodes, Countdown is one of the longest-running game shows in the world, along with the original French version, (Numbers & Letters), which has been running on French television continuously since 1965. Countdown was initially recorded at for 27 years, before moving to in 2009, and then over to in in 2013. The programme was presented by for over 20 years, until his sudden death in June 2005, it was then presented by until the end of 2006, until the end of 2008, and until the end of 2011; has presented the show since 2012., the show's co-host, who had also been on the programme since it began, left the show in December 2008, at the same time as Des O'Connor. She was replaced. Cathy Hytner originally placed letters on the board for the letters games before this was taken over by Vorderman. A celebrity guest features in every programme, and provides a brief interlude midway between the two advertisement breaks, the two contestants in each episode compete in three disciplines: ten, in which the contestants attempt to make the longest word possible from nine randomly chosen letters; four, in which the contestants must use to reach a random target number from six other numbers; and the conundrum, a round in which the contestants compete to solve a nine-letter.
During the series heats, the winning contestant returns the next day until he/she either loses or retires with eight wins as an undefeated 'Octochamp.' The best eight contestants are invited back for the series finals, which are decided in format. Contestants of exceptional skill have received national media coverage, and the programme as a whole is widely recognised and parodied within British culture. Contents. History Origin Countdown is based on the French game show ( Numbers and Letters), created. The format was brought to Britain by Marcel Stellman, a Belgian record executive, who had watched the French show and believed it could be popular overseas.
Purchased the format and commissioned a series of eight shows under the title Calendar Countdown, which was to be a spin-off of their regional news programme. As the presenter of Calendar, was the natural choice to present Calendar Countdown with his daily appearances on both shows earning him the nickname 'Twice Nightly'. These shows were only broadcast in the area. — introducing the first Channel 4 episode of Countdown.
Junior Countdown Channel 4 originally planned a parallel Junior Countdown in which the contestants were children, the pilot episode was filmed on 26 November 1982, less than a month after the first adult version was broadcast. The presenter was, with in Dictionary Corner, the format mirrored that of the adult version. No further episodes were filmed, and the pilot episode was never broadcast. Brandreth, speaking on Countdown in November 2012, stated that the concept had proved disastrous, and was abandoned. Presenters Calendar Countdown was presented by, with Cathy Hytner and Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks managing the numbers and letters rounds respectively. When Countdown was commissioned for, the number of hostesses expanded further: Cathy Hytner and Beverley Isherwood selected the letters and numbers tiles respectively, and calculations in the numbers rounds were checked by Linda Barrett. Vorderman, a graduate and member of, was appointed as one of the numbers experts after responding to an advertisement in a national newspaper which asked for a young woman who would like to become a game show hostess.
Unlike almost any other game show hostess of the time, however, the advertisement also made it clear that the applicants' appearance would be less important than their talent as a mathematician. Gradually the tasks performed by the extra presenters were taken over by Carol Vorderman, whose role within the show essentially became that of co-presenter. Whiteley fell ill with in 2005, and as a result he was no longer able to record Countdown, although Whiteley made a slow recovery from his illness, he died on 26 June 2005, after a failed operation to correct a problem that had been detected in his heart.
Channel 4 took the following show off the air as a mark of respect, and the next programme was preceded by a tearful tribute from Carol Vorderman, the final five shows Whiteley had filmed (the conclusion of Series 53) were aired, after which the show was placed on hiatus before returning in October 2005, with (who had featured on Celebrity Countdown in 1998) as the main presenter. On 30 September 2006, Lynam said that he had decided to leave the programme after 2006. Lynam's departure was due to travel requirements for the demanding filming schedule, with the show recorded in and Lynam living 250 miles (400 km) away in,. Channel 4 had tried an extra programme on Saturday in early 2006 which Lynam had agreed to, subject to part of the filming schedule being moved nearer to his home. However, viewers reacted angrily to the idea of the show leaving Leeds, and when Lynam found out that a move would cause considerable disruption for many of the programme's crew, he decided to leave, on 7 November 2006, it was announced that would succeed Lynam as host. Lynam's final show as Countdown presenter was broadcast on 22 December 2006. O'Connor first presented Countdown on 2 January 2007.
The other studio mainstay is Dictionary Corner, which houses a and that week's celebrity guest (a.k.a. 'GoD' or 'Guardian of the Dictionaries'). Initially farmer and broadcaster was on hand for verification, the role of the lexicographer is to verify the words offered by the contestants (see ) and point out any longer or otherwise interesting words available. The lexicographer is aided in finding these words by the show's producers, Michael Wylie (until his death in November 2008) and Damian Eadie, the production team is insistent that no is used in this role, and that the words suggested in Dictionary Corner have been found manually.
Many lexicographers have appeared over the years, but since her debut in 1992, has become synonymous with the role, and has made over three thousand appearances, the celebrity guest, sometimes known as the 'Dictionary Dweller', also contributes words, and provides a short interlude halfway through the second section of the show. These guests have included, and, and, most regularly, providing poems, anecdotes, puzzles and magic tricks.
Alison Heard replaced Susie Dent over the winter of 2007–08, whilst Dent was on maternity leave. Dent returned to the series on 6 February 2008. It was announced in July 2008 that Des O'Connor would be stepping down as host in December 2008; in the same month, it became apparent that long-serving presenter and number-cruncher would also leave the show at the same time. On 21 November 2008, was confirmed as the new host, with Oxford graduate in the Vorderman role. Riley has since become known for her stylish outfits worn on the show, it was announced on 24 May 2011 that Stelling would be leaving the programme, and he presented his final show on 16 December 2011.
On 16 November 2011, it was announced that would be taking over as host, with his first show broadcast on 9 January 2012. Character. The studio used until 2017 after the end of a game Countdown quickly established status within British television – an image which it maintains today, despite numerous changes of rules and personnel.
The programme's audience comprises mainly students, homemakers and pensioners, owing to the 'teatime' broadcast slot and inclusive appeal of its format and presentation. Countdown has been one of Channel 4's most-watched programmes for over twenty years, but has never won a major television award. When Des Lynam became the new presenter after Whiteley's death in 2005, the show regularly drew an average 1.7 million viewers every day—which was around half a million more than in the last few years of Richard Whiteley presenting —and the Series 54 final, on 26 May 2006, attracted 2.5 million viewers. From 3–4 million viewers had watched the show daily in its previous 4:15 pm slot. The drop in viewers following the scheduling change, coupled with the show's perceived educational benefits, even caused to table a motion in the, requesting that the show be returned to its later time. Minor scheduling changes have subsequently seen the show move from 3:15 to 3:30, to 3:45 to 3:25, and 3:10, as of 2017, it is broadcast at 2:10.
In keeping with the programme's friendly nature, contestants on each episode compete not for money but for a teapot that is styled to resemble the 30-second time clock used in each round. Introduced in December 1998, the pot is custom-made and can only be obtained by winning a game on the programme. Defeated contestants receive an assortment of Countdown-themed merchandise as a parting gift.
Until 2009, the prize for the series winner was a leather-bound copy of the twenty-volume, worth 4,000, since then, the prize consists of ordinary hardback twenty-one volume dictionaries, a laptop computer and a lifetime subscription to Oxford Online. David Acton, winner of Series 31, opted for a version of the dictionaries, not wanting to accept leather-bound books owing to his strict, and he donated the monetary difference to charity. Since 2006, the series champion also receives the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy, in memory of the show's original presenter.
Though the style and colour scheme of the set have changed many times (and the show itself moved to Manchester, after more than 25 years in Leeds) the clock has always provided the centrepiece and, like the clock music composed by, is an enduring and well-recognised feature of Countdown. John Meade once commissioned Hawkshaw to revise the music for extra intensity; after hundreds of complaints from viewers, the old tune was reinstated. The original clock featured until September 2013, when it was replaced. Panorama of the 2017 set Celebrations The first episode of Countdown was repeated on 1 October 2007 on and on 2 November 2007 on Channel 4, as part of Channel 4 at 25, a season of celebratory Channel 4 programmes as it celebrated its 25th birthday. On 2 November 2007, Countdown celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and aired a special 'birthday episode', the two players were 2006 winner and 2002 winner.
However, for the rounds, guests selected the letters and numbers. Guests included, and.
A statement from the French TV network was read out on air by to commend on its success of Countdown. On 26 March 2010, congratulated Countdown for amassing 5,000 episodes. On 5 September 2014, Countdown received a Guinness World Record at the end of its 6,000th show for the longest-running television programme of its kind during the course of its 71st series. Departures of Vorderman and O'Connor On 23 July 2008, it was announced that O'Connor would be leaving the show at the end of the 59th series in December 2008 to concentrate on other projects. Announced on 25 July 2008 that Carol Vorderman would also be leaving at the end of the same series.
Vorderman had been willing to accept a 33% salary decrease in line with a 33% budget cut being imposed on the show, but felt she was 'forced' to leave after being asked to accept a 90% pay cut, her agent, John Miles, claims Vorderman had been told the show had survived the and could 'easily survive without you.' The early favourite in the betting to replace, ruled himself out. Later reports suggested and as potential hosts, although Armstrong later revealed he had refused the job., and were all linked with Vorderman's job; however, Channel 4 then began to search for a previously unknown male or female arithmetician with 'charm and charisma'.
Eventually, on 21 November 2008, after O'Connor and Vorderman had finished filming, it was confirmed that Stelling and Oxford maths graduate would join the show, with continuing as resident lexicographer. Format Countdown has occupied a tea-time broadcast slot since its inception.
Currently an episode lasts around 45 minutes including advertising breaks, during the normal series, the winner of each game returns for the next day's show. A player who wins eight games is declared an 'octochamp' and retires until the series finals, at the end of the series, the eight players with most wins (or the highest total score in the event of a tie) are invited back to compete in the series finals. They are seeded in a tournament, with the first seed playing the eighth seed, the second playing the seventh, and so on, the winner of this knockout, which culminates in the Grand Final, becomes the series champion.
Each series lasts around six months, with about 125 episodes. Approximately every four series, a Champion of Champions tournament takes place, for this, sixteen of the best players to have appeared since the previous Championship are invited back for another knockout tournament. The, former contestant Damian Eadie, decides which players to include, but typically the tournament includes the series winners and other noteworthy contestants. Series 33 was designated a 'Supreme Championship', in which 56 of the best contestants from all the previous series returned for another knockout tournament. Series 10 champion Harvey Freeman was declared Supreme Champion after beating Allan Saldanha in the final.
There are also occasional special episodes, in which past contestants return for themed matches, for example, David Acton and Kenneth Michie returned for a rematch of their Series 31 final, while brothers and former contestants Sanjay and Sandeep Mazumder played off against each other on 20 December 2004. The game is split into three sections, separated by breaks, the first section contains two letters rounds and a numbers round, the second has four letters rounds and two numbers rounds, while the last section has four letters rounds, a numbers round and a final 'Conundrum' puzzle.
With the exception of the Conundrum, the contestants swap control after every round so that each of them has control for five letters rounds and two numbers rounds. At the end of the first two sections, Hewer poses a Teatime Teaser for the viewers, giving a set of short words and a to a single word that can be anagrammed from them, the solution is revealed at the start of the next section. (Example: Given the words SAD MOODY and the clue 'We'll all be sad and moody when this arrives,' the solution would be DOOMSDAY.) When the Teatime Teaser was first introduced, the anagrams were seven letters long; they were later extended to eight, and then to nine in late 2016. Letters round The contestant in control chooses between two stacks of letter tiles, one containing and the other, and Riley reveals the top tile from that stack and places it on the board, this is done nine times, and the final grouping must contain at least three vowels and four consonants.
The contestants then have 30 seconds to form the longest single word they can, using the nine revealed letters; no letter may be used more often than it appears in the selection. The frequencies of the letters within each stack are weighted according to their, in the same manner as, for example, there are many Ns and Rs in the consonant stack, but only one Q.
The letter frequencies are altered by the producers from time to time, so any published list does not necessarily reflect the letters used in any particular programme. Both contestants write down the words they form, in case they select the same one, after time runs out, the host asks the contestants to declare their word lengths, starting with the contestant who chose the letters. The host then asks the discovered words, starting with the shorter declared length.
However, if a contestant fails to write a word in time, they must declare this fact and state their word first to prevent cheating, the contestant with the longer word scores one point per letter, or 18 points if they have used all nine. If the words are identical or of the same length, both contestants score; in the former case, the contestants must show their written word to prove that they are the same. Each round ends with Dictionary Corner revealing the longest words that can be formed from the available letters, aided by the production team. Any word which appears in the is valid, as well as accepted forms of them that may not be explicitly listed.
Examples:. Common and their plurals. and their inflections (e.g. 'escape,' 'escaped,' 'escaping'). and forms of (if the adjective is more than one syllable, the form must be explicitly listed). Plurals of foods specified as mass nouns that may be ordered in restaurants (e.g.
'pastas' as in, 'I'll have two pastas') Words that are not allowed include:. Capitalised words, including proper nouns (e.g. 'Jane' or 'London').
Hyphenated terms. Words that are never used alone (e.g. 'gefilte'; only used as part of 'gefilte fish'). of words (e.g. 'flavour' and 'signalled' are allowed, but 'flavor' and 'signaled' are not) Example: Contestant One chooses five consonants, then three vowels, then another consonant. Selection is: G Y H D N O E U R. Contestant One declares 7, while Contestant Two declares 8.
Contestant One reveals younger, but Contestant Two reveals hydrogen and scores 8 points. Contestant One does not score. Dictionary Corner notes greyhound, which would have scored 18 points for using all nine letters.
Numbers round The contestant in control chooses six of 24 shuffled face-down number tiles, arranged into two groups: 20 'small numbers' (two each of 1 through 10), and four 'large numbers' of 25, 50, 75 and 100, some special episodes replace the large numbers with 12, 37, 62 and 87. The contestant decides how many large numbers are to be used, from none to all four, after which the six tiles are randomly drawn and placed on the board.
A random three-digit target number is then generated by an electronic machine, affectionately known as 'CECIL' (which stands for Countdown's Electronic Calculator In Leeds). The contestants have 30 seconds to work out a sequence of calculations with the numbers whose final result is as close to the target number as possible, they may use only the four basic operations of, and, and do not have to use all six numbers.
A number may not be used more times than it appears on the board. Fractions are not allowed, and only positive may be obtained as a result at any stage of the calculation, as in the letters rounds, any contestant who does not write down their calculations in time must go first, and both contestants must show their work to each other if their results and calculations are identical. Only the contestant whose result is closer to the target number scores points: 10 for reaching it exactly, 7 for being 1-5 away, 5 for being 6-10 away.
Contestants score no points for being more than 10 away, or if their calculations are flawed. Both score if they reach the same result, or if their results are the same distance away. Example: Contestant One requests two large numbers and four small numbers. Selection is: 75 50 2 3 8 7. Contestant One declares 813, while Contestant Two declares 815. Contestant One is closer and so reveals: 75 + 50 – 8 = 117, and 117 × 7 – (3 × 2) = 813, which scores 7 points for being 1 away.
Contestant Two does not score. Rachel Riley notes: 50 + 8 = 58, and 7 × 2 × 58 = 812, which would have scored 10 points. In some games, there are many ways to reach the target exactly—the example target above could also be reached by 7 × (75 + 50 + 2 – 8 – 3) = 812.
Not all games are solvable, and for a few selections it is impossible even to get within 10, most commonly when a contestant picks six small numbers and the target number is quite large. There is a tactical element in selecting how many large numbers to include. One large and five small numbers is the most popular selection, despite two large numbers giving the best chance of the game being solvable exactly.
Selections with zero or four large numbers are generally considered the hardest. The 24 tiles are laid out in four rows, the topmost of which contains only the four large numbers, the contestant may specify how many tiles to draw from each row, or simply state how many large and small numbers will be used; in the latter case, the assistant draws the tiles randomly. The numbers are usually placed on the board from right to left, starting with the small ones, but have occasionally been displayed in scrambled order, on rare occasions, the contestant has declined to make any choices, in which case the assistant selects the tiles. Example: Contestant requests one from the top (large), two from the second row (small), and three more from the top (large).
Selection is (in disorder): 50 10 6 25 100 75. A special edition, broadcast on 15 March 2010, for two previous series champions, Kirk Bevins and Chris Davies, used instead of the usual four large numbers, the numbers 12, 37 and two numbers unrevealed for the duration of the show; in a further special broadcast on 16 August 2010 between the Series 59 finalists Charlie Reams and Junaid Mubeen, the other two numbers were revealed to be 62 and 87. Conundrum The final round of the game is the Countdown Conundrum, in which the contestants are shown a combination of two or three words with a total of nine letters, they have 30 seconds to form a single word using all the letters, and must buzz-in to respond (a bell for the champion, a buzzer for the challenger). Each contestant is allowed only one guess, and the first to answer correctly scores 10 points.
If neither contestant can solve it, the presenter asks whether anyone in the audience knows the answer and, if so, chooses someone to call it out. (This practice was stopped temporarily in 2009 due to difficulties with camera angles after the studio layout was changed.) The Conundrum is designed to have only one solution, but on occasion more than one valid word is found by happenstance (e.g.
REACH SORT can become both CARTHORSE and ORCHESTRA). If this happens, any of these results is accepted.
If the contestants' scores are within 10 points of each other going into this round, it is referred to as a Crucial Countdown Conundrum, since 10 points are at stake, the contestant who solves it will either win the game or force a tiebreaker. If the scores are tied after the Conundrum, additional Conundrums are played until the tie is broken. There have been several instances in which two Conundrums were used to decide the winner, but only a handful of episodes have required three. (There have also been cases when even more Conundrums have been required to provide a winner, but not all have been included in the transmitted programme.) Example: Conundrum is revealed: C H I N A L U N G. Contestant One buzzes-in and says launching. This answer is revealed to be correct, and Contestant One scores 10 points.
Evolution The rules of Countdown are derived from those of. Perhaps the biggest difference is the length of the round; DCedL's number rounds are each 45 seconds long to Countdown's 30.
DCedL also feature 'duels', in which players compete in short tasks such as mental arithmetic problems, extracting two themed words from another, or being asked to spell a word correctly. Other minor differences include a different numbers scoring system (9 points for an exact solution, or 6 points for the closest inexact solution in DCedL) and the proportion of letters to numbers rounds (10 to 4 in Countdown, 8 to 4 in DCedL). The followed significantly different rules from the current ones. Most noticeably, only eight letters were selected for each letters round. If two contestants offered a word of the same length, or an equally close solution to a numbers game, then only the contestant who made the selection for that round was awarded points. Also, only five points were given for an exact numbers solution, three for a solution within 5, and one point for the closer solution, no matter how far away. Until the end of Series 21, if the two contestants had equal scores after the first conundrum, the match was considered a draw and they both returned for the next show.
A significant change in the format occurred in September 2001, when the show was expanded from nine rounds and 30 minutes to the current fifteen rounds and 45 minutes, the older format was split into two halves, each having three letters and one numbers game, with the conundrum at the end of the second half. When the format was expanded to fifteen rounds, Richard Whiteley continued to refer jokingly to the three segments of the show as 'halves'. Under the old format, Grand Finals were specially extended shows of fourteen rounds, but now all shows use a fifteen-round format. The rules regarding which words are permitted have changed with time. Was allowed until 2002, and more unspecified inflections were assumed to be valid.
In September 2007, a new feature was added to the show in which Susie Dent explains the origin of a word or phrase which she has been researching, this Origin of Words spot currently follows the eighth letters round, almost midway through the third section of the programme. The feature was omitted during the time that Dent was absent for maternity leave, and was reinstated upon her return. When the fifteen round format was first introduced in September 2001, the composition of the rounds was different from that used by the programme today, the three sections each had five rounds, four letters rounds and one numbers round in each of the first two sections, with three letters rounds, one numbers round and the conundrum in the third section. This meant that there was a slight imbalance, whereby one contestant made the letters sections for six rounds, but had the choice of the numbers selection just once, whereas the other contestant chose letters five times and numbers twice, the dictionary corner guest's spot was immediately before the first advertising break, and Susie Dent's Origin of Words spot preceded the second numbers game shortly before the second break. The change to the present format was made on 25 March 2013, three weeks into the second section of Series 68, to comply with Channel 4's decision to increase the amount of adverts and alter the times when they occur during the programme, therefore reducing Countdown's actual show length from 36 to 35 minutes.
Notable contestants Since Countdown's debut in 1982, there have been over 6,500 televised games and 76 complete series. There have also been fourteen Champion of Champions tournaments, with the most recent starting in January 2016. Several of Countdown's most successful contestants have received national media coverage. Teenager set a record score of 146 in December 2002; in 2006, 14-year-old became the youngest series champion in the show's history, and 11-year-old Kai Laddiman became the youngest octochamp for 20 years. Conor Travers went on to win the 30th Anniversary Champion of Champions series in March 2013 with a record equalling top score of 146. At eight years old, Tanmay Dixit was the youngest player ever to appear on the show, where he achieved two wins in March 2005, he also received press attention for his offerings in the letters round, which included fannies and farted.
In April 2013, Giles Hutchings, a student at broke the record for the highest octochamp score, amassing 965 points over 8 games. He went on to win series 68, this record has since been beaten by Dylan Taylor, who achieved an octochamp score of 974 in August 2013, but he lost the Grand Final of that series. Three former contestants have returned to Countdown as part of the production team: Michael Wylie, (as producer, and occasional lexicographer in Dictionary Corner) and (the current series producer). In 1998, sixteen celebrities were invited to play Celebrity Countdown, a series of eight games broadcast every Thursday evening over the course of eight weeks, the celebrities included Whiteley's successor Des Lynam, who beat.
The highest and lowest scores were posted in the same game when TV's beat wine critic 47–9. Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman competed in another special episode on 1997, for this game, the presenter's chair was taken by, the host of fellow Channel 4 game show. Susie Dent took over Vorderman's duties, and occupied Dictionary Corner, accompanied by, the game was close-fought, and decided only by the crucial Countdown conundrum mistletoe which Vorderman solved in two seconds, after Whiteley had inadvertently buzzed after one second, because when he regularly hosted the show, he hit the button to reveal the conundrum and kept his old habit up.
Contestants who have or had become notable for other reasons include magazine editor-at-large Pete Cashmore, rugby player, footballers, and, musicians and, comedian, and noted Irish. In popular culture. The letters of the infamous round during a 1991 episode in which both contestants declared the word wankers. Countdown is often referenced and parodied in British culture. Assorted allusions The episode ' (2005) mentions a futuristic version of Countdown, in which the goal is to stop a bomb from exploding in 30 seconds.
Countdown was referenced again in a later series in ' (2007), where Professor Docherty expresses a keen fondness for the show and how it 'hasn't been the same since Des took over—Both Deses'. In the 2002 film, protagonist Will Freeman is a regular viewer of Countdown. Guitarist named one of his solo records Consonant Please, Carol, echoing one of the show's most famous catchphrases. Outtakes Countdown has also generated a number of popular, with the letters occasionally producing a word that was deemed unsuitable for the original broadcast.
A round in which Dictionary Corner offered the word gobshite featured in TV's Finest Failures in 2001 (The actual episode aired on 10 January 2000), and in one episode from 1991, contestants Gino Corr and Lawrence Pearse both declared the word wankers. This was edited out of the programme but has since appeared on many outtakes shows. When contestant Charlie Reams declared 'wankers' on 21 October 2008 edition, the declaration was kept in but the word itself was.
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