@@vladdythebear5872 Pretty sure the 'ABDICATES' reference was from Peter Serafinowicz's time in Dictionary Corner on 8OOTCDC - unless, of course, he was himself referencing something earlier?
@@adh0c468Here’s how I’d deliver it: “Yep, I’ve got a five.” “I’ll spell it out for you. M-M-V-I-I. And if you’re having trouble pronouncing it, that’s understandable. It’s pronounced like ‘two-thousand-and-seven.’”
There's one more 5 letter word: Imaum which means - (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide
I think we’re all extremely fortunate that you hopped on here to validate the work of lexicographer and BA graduate in modern languages, Susie Dent. I was myself, wondering whether she could be trusted, but no more. 🙏
Technically not the "worst ever letters game". There have been two occasions (in 1983 and 2010) where you couldn't get more than a 3: the selections being ZVDUFITUD and FVBPIAOQI. Answers: ZVDUFITUD yields DID, DUD, FID, FIT, and TUI. FVBPIAOQI yields AVO, BAI, BAP, BIO, BOA, BOP, FAB, FIB, FOB, FOP, OAF, OBA, OBI, OVA, PIA, POI, and VIA.
@@RenegadeShepard69 as long as it's in the dictionary, then it is fine, in the countdown rules. And slang words are in the dictionary. That's how English works, it's a descriptivist language, not a prescriptivist one like French for example.
All these people in the comments absolutely tripping over themselves to show how much smarter they are than the contestants seeing MIAMI, without even considering that maybe there's a reason why the contestants didn't offer that one up are absolute perfect examples of why a little bit of self-humility goes a long way in life.
And how do those statements relate? Grammar is important, and that fact gives you a right to be rude? Now you're being an idiot as well as unnecessarily rude.
“Um, it actually already is a word. Mvmfiuiaj.” “Good heavens, really? Could you, um, use it in a sentence for us?” “Good morning, that’s a nice mvmfiuiaj”
Rachel just got something Susie couldn't, I'm telling you, Rachel is unbelievable in the numbers game but also a dark horse in the letters too. Can probably rival Susie Dent almost.
For people who dont know how countdowns word game works it can be any word recognised by the oxford dictionary as long as it's not the name of a person or place so words like fuji, miami, Fiji dont count
Fuji and Miami should have been capitalized in your sentence. As with Scrabble, proper names that begin with capital letters are not allowed, except when there is also a lower case variant unconnected to the name. (e.g. the name 'Dick' isn't acceptable, but the word 'dick' is.)
The male contestant found it so difficult that he invented a whole new language and tried to pretend he spoke it fluently. The sensible woman stuck with jam.
@@AutPen38 From wikipedia "Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry, gean, or bird cherry is a species of cherry." There are plenty of latin names of species in the dictionary, so it was worth a try. This one, unfortunately, wasn't there.
Avis is the Latin word for bird, so "avium" roughly means "of bird" as in the wild cherry (prunus avium) named after birds eating them. In German it's called "Vogelkirsche" meaning "bird cherry", so there you go. It's not an English word at all. The closest English word would be avian or aviary. With all that talk, I also only got "jam" in 30seconds. He gave it a good shot with the letters he had, but I would have liked to hear him explain what he think it means.
@@julianrolheiser6061umami isn't used only in "science". Many people use it, eg those who cook, dine out, read, went to school, or have general knowledge know about taste and flavours. It's pretty basic general stuff, she just missed it on the day. You don't need to follow science. In fact I'm sure, being well educated and highly literate, SD is in a better position than most to perfectly understand what umami is. Pretty sure even kids know these days.
Yes it was the worse letters game from the point of view of points scored, but it was one of the best for being informative and, for me at least, learning a brand new word.
If a contestant is in the lead going into the last letters round, wouldn't it be a good tactic to choose all consonants? You would get nothing but so would your opponent, ensuring that the relative scores stay the same.
I think most people go on the show for the prestige rather than to win the countdown teapot, so generally just play honestly and without tactics, but yes you're right.
The rule makers are such killjoys. Did they also change the numbers game rules after that guy kept picking all the big numbers just to make it difficult?
The letters are stacked in two piles and the only variation is maybe two or three letters deep based on how many vowels they take. Always wondered if they stacked them with that in mind.
@@bryanmcsweeney007 It has Latin routes, but so do a lot of words in English. Pretty much any word ending in "ius", "ium", "us", etc. But they're also counted as English words because that's the only word we have for them. Just like how we use a lot of French words. It still should count, I'm sure they wouldn't discount "stadium" for example.
But as of right now, it isn't a standalone word. There's thousands of words out there that have entered the everyday lexicon, but by definition aren't dictionary verified words.
they obviously missed mamuvijif, which is the official shortened way to say "my movie jeff" that doesn't need any apostrophes like other word contractions
I'm an experienced comments section deviant and I've been all over the website talking to all kinds of people, but I can confirm that Countdown video comments sections are the absolute best :)
@@KirbyGamingLive No, too depressing. At least here people are arguing about how legitimate "avium" is. Over there people are arguing about whether or not the sun comes up. I can't deal with that level of absurdity. But I take your point :)
One thing ive been wondering for years on this program... Why does the camera always zoom in on the clock on the letters game but never on the numbers game?
I got maim, but if I was on TV I'd be really happy to find jam. that is a tough set of letters. I bet the 3 and 4 letter words have very few options in the dictionary.
I watched the very first episode in 1982. The first programme aired on the new channel 4. At first i thought you had to use all the numbers on the numbers game haha. 12 years old then & wild haha.
@@sanny8716 She uses a computer. I imagine she goes on a website where you can type in an anagram and once all the letters are typed in you get a list of all the words you can make out of those letters. Then whatever word the contestants get Suzie just needs to type it in to see if it pops up or not.
I like that these contestants actually address the card presenter kindly by name ,instead of ones that just yell at them not even acknowledging them. ie: Wheel of fortune / most American game shows
I think it's because they do more than just present the cards. Rachel does the maths problems, and Susie does the words. But overall, including them adds to the entertainment (it would be interesting to see the same on the US shows, rather than just the host and contestant interacting)
*"I like that these contestants actually address the card presenter kindly by name ,instead of ones that just yell at them not even acknowledging them. ie: Wheel of fortune / most American game shows."* Traditional British values and behaviour versus traditional American values and behaviour.
They clearly missed the nine letter word "ABDICATES"
steadings is all i got
Russell Howard reference?
@@grimmkingadamtaurus1925 Lee Mack i believe
Lr Miner Russell Howard?
@@vladdythebear5872 Pretty sure the 'ABDICATES' reference was from Peter Serafinowicz's time in Dictionary Corner on 8OOTCDC - unless, of course, he was himself referencing something earlier?
Good morning, that's a nice mvmfiuiaj!
Conway79 - That gave me a good laugh XD
classic Moss
Conway79 that's an absolute inside joke
"That was a classic Moss line!"
good stuff
I have a 5. It’s pronounced like “two-thousand-and-seven,” but spelled “MMVII.”
👏
This would’ve been a wonderful gag on the cats version.
@@adh0c468Here’s how I’d deliver it:
“Yep, I’ve got a five.”
“I’ll spell it out for you. M-M-V-I-I. And if you’re having trouble pronouncing it, that’s understandable. It’s pronounced like ‘two-thousand-and-seven.’”
@@Benny_Blue I'd deliver it this way - "I have two thousand and seven - MMVII"
@@GeoffreyBronson Would you spell “MMVII” out? Or just say “Mmm-vi?”
I checked, “UMAMI” was the only five-letter word, and there were no words above five letters. Nice job, Rachel!
There's one more 5 letter word:
Imaum which means - (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide
@@matthewiles5714 its imam lol
@@silkyfirst3097 "Imaum" seems to be an alternate spelling.
Yes, nice job... whoever got that! ;)
I think we’re all extremely fortunate that you hopped on here to validate the work of lexicographer and BA graduate in modern languages, Susie Dent. I was myself, wondering whether she could be trusted, but no more. 🙏
Well I got. Jam
Haha me too!
David Donaldson I got Maim. Kudos to RR for thinking of Umami!
I got mum lol
I only got Jam and Via.
Well done!
Umami. As in "Umami's so fat she's got her own food group."
Haha omg
👌
stewartthehuman Perfection 👍
I saw that too, I guess it wasn't listed in their dictionary.
Man you waited a long time to drop this banger
0:22 Rachel’s face and how she says, “good start” after the first vowel😂
also at 0:36 Rachel says "and good luck!" probably realizing that the letters selection was atrocious!
i got 381, one away not bad
this is the letters round
@@xander1052 nothing gets past you pal
@@nedcolville950 his reflexes are too fast
@@Jackalos1 his reactions are everywhere!
@@xander1052 r/whoosh
'Well done to whoever got that'
I think he meant "Well done to whoever got that [at home]". It wasn't intended disrespect.
Jam
Pretty sure he meant "whomever" ;)
Top lad
I'm proud of me too Rachel
Amazing they missed the 9 letter right there. Mvmfiuiaj already is a word, such as in "Good morning, that's a nice Mvmfiuiaj"
I read that in Moss's voice lol
Those are the kind of letters I get when playing Scrabble.
Or the sound you make when you get your sexual organs trapped in something.
@@theauldscientist Like a countdown groupie? ;-) (And I thought that was Jzstckqi)
Is that welsh? Lol
There's actually a record of a round where only one four-letter word was available. It's on the Countdown wiki.
And hundreds of people checked, and were disappointed that it wasn't the four letter word they were hoping for.
and this person tried to discredit Rachel's magnificent solve that the camera could just quaintly cut to. Sham...
could only think of place names like fiji and miami
seeing a comment from 36 mins ago on a 5 year old vid, nice
Ur late to the party
Kosmic ur a legend
Lol
@@exylophone1 lol
Technically not the "worst ever letters game". There have been two occasions (in 1983 and 2010) where you couldn't get more than a 3: the selections being ZVDUFITUD and FVBPIAOQI.
Answers: ZVDUFITUD yields DID, DUD, FID, FIT, and TUI. FVBPIAOQI yields AVO, BAI, BAP, BIO, BOA, BOP, FAB, FIB, FOB, FOP, OAF, OBA, OBI, OVA, PIA, POI, and VIA.
It's a shame one of the Ds wasn't a Q to get an 8 letter word.
ZVDUFITUD - Duit
FVBPIAOQI - Obia
why the hell do you know that
Ditz for 4. Qipao (type of Chinese dress) for 5
@szhzs6121 British game show nerds are DIFFERENT
MUMVAJ
Nice
Why aren’t you on the show
4 years late but it did make me laugh.
I need that in a sentence
@@MLife1972 i sentence you to mumvaj
I had "TNETENNBA".
@@allasar Good morning, that's a nice tnetennba.
that’s a nice tnetennba
😆classic episode...
I scrolled the comments LOOKING for this. THANK YOU!
Holy crap, "umami" is a wonderful catch in that context.
They have good taste.
What a sweet idea. It did leave the players bitter and sour and somewhat salty, yes...
I got it, which is crazy as I'm rubbish at letters
You can spell umami with MSG.
I've got IMMA, as in "Imma let you finish, but this is the worst letters game of all time!"
😂
@@lukewheeldon8025, What makes a word 'proper' or not?
@@Ghost.__., that's a tautology, not an explanation. provide a method of categorising a word as proper or as slang.
@@JNCressey Go to Countdown and use a slang as an answer then.
@@RenegadeShepard69 as long as it's in the dictionary, then it is fine, in the countdown rules. And slang words are in the dictionary. That's how English works, it's a descriptivist language, not a prescriptivist one like French for example.
All these people in the comments absolutely tripping over themselves to show how much smarter they are than the contestants seeing MIAMI, without even considering that maybe there's a reason why the contestants didn't offer that one up are absolute perfect examples of why a little bit of self-humility goes a long way in life.
Just because you didn't actually spell it out - proper pronouns (e.g. place names) are not allowed.
Josh Burns ahem its proper NOUNS dummy. Jesus
Josh Burns Yup, pretty sure I do. Grammar and spelling are the only things separating us from the beasts.
And how do those statements relate? Grammar is important, and that fact gives you a right to be rude? Now you're being an idiot as well as unnecessarily rude.
Josh Burns Did you read what I wrote? Without literacy we might as well be sitting in trees throwing faeces at one another.
Good morning, that's not a nice tnnetenba!
t-n-n-e-t-e-n-b-a. tnnetenba.
unoriginal
thisisnotmyrealname its an alteration of a quote, of course its not original
@@jamiep0495 someone else has already made this comment in the same comments section. just saying
thisisnotmyrealname how do you know Hector didnt comment it first, or didnt see the other comments?
Yeah UMAMI is the highest word you can get in that selection, nothing to match or improve.
Mafia...both words are 5 letters long.
Mr Flame just realize that.
Got maim. I applaud anyone who got Umami, I've heard of it but never even thought of it in this one
Miami?
I think proper nouns are not allowed
When nick said whoever got that I think he meant people at home. But yeah sounded bad haha
Ohhhh. Yes, that's what he must have meant. Makes much more sense, now.
He did but I don't think he knows what's happening in the present moment.
I got umami once but the doctor said it won’t last long
Desperately scrambling to see if the singular form of mafia is mafium
I got "if"
Great poem
I got “I”
Is that a poem??
@@limecat1986did you mark the i with your fingerprint?
If yes, then it is a poem!
I'm very proud of myself.
I got "I"
“Um, it actually already is a word. Mvmfiuiaj.”
“Good heavens, really? Could you, um, use it in a sentence for us?”
“Good morning, that’s a nice mvmfiuiaj”
I was proud of myself for getting MAIM, but then Rachel had to show me up. Let me get just one Rachel!
got one on me, I got jam in the time allowed. (which was the word that got points so I didn't feel so dumb.)
I got JAM and VIM. Also saw Fiji, but that's invalid since it's a proper noun.
I gave up and tried to work out how you'd pronounce what was on the board.
same
@@NotKyleChicago I got mum
I think he meant, 'Well done to whoever got that (at home)'
Rachel just got something Susie couldn't, I'm telling you, Rachel is unbelievable in the numbers game but also a dark horse in the letters too. Can probably rival Susie Dent almost.
why compare
She's no Carol.
Leave our Susie alone!
For people who dont know how countdowns word game works it can be any word recognised by the oxford dictionary as long as it's not the name of a person or place so words like fuji, miami, Fiji dont count
fuji is a type of apple tho
@@kryspy5160it’s still a name. New York is a style of pizza, New York is still a proper noun.
Fuji and Miami should have been capitalized in your sentence. As with Scrabble, proper names that begin with capital letters are not allowed, except when there is also a lower case variant unconnected to the name. (e.g. the name 'Dick' isn't acceptable, but the word 'dick' is.)
my mammy is better than umami
ouroborosoroboruo That was horrible...
+ouroborosoroboruo
Does your Mammy taste of umami?
Nick Hewer's finest moment has to be wearing the 'cuddle jumper' on Would I Lie to You. I still laugh remembering that.
Jack: "Does the design lend itself to intimacy?"
Rob: "Yes!"
Nick: "Not tonight it doesn't!" lmao
"U am Jim" - How to introduce yourself to someone called Jim, if you've forgotten how the English language works.
You could also make 'I am Jim', in case you haven't forgotten how the English language works
Or I am Jam if you’ve forgotten who (or what) you are.
@@kouriiTrue, but where's the fun in that?
0:01 the face i make when somebody roasts me and i have no comeback
Damn, Jimmy Carr hasn't aged well.
I’m sure Nick was also talking to whoever got that other than Rachel, but damn that came across savage.
Favimium - _noun_ : a mythical metal derived from beans
Rachel should just do the whole show. Presenting, letters, numbers and dictionary corner
We want our Jeff back
They should do a Welsh countdown. Imagine the look on their faces when you pull out the "magwyrydd".
But that's only 8 letters... 🙂
@K-o-R Does Welsh have letters that are other letters combined? I count 9 letters in "magwyrydd".
Is that the Welsh spelling of Maud?
@@NotKyleChicago 'dd' is one letter in the Welsh alphabet
@@andysmoso you are saying that Welsh indeed has letters that are other letters combined? Lmao
It's funny cause jam doesn't taste umami at all.
That isn't funny
His grammar, on the other hand ...
Marmite has an umami taste.
But I guess that's not jam.
...
OR IS IT?!
Umami, I've come to bargain.
I think that qualifies as the worst collection of letters the Countdown board has ever thrown up to the contestants...
You know its past bed time when you start getting interested in random stuff like this...
Dave Here legit my life
but right now it's only 3pm for me...
5:20 AM for me. Congrats on predicting correctly lol. XD
I just got up an hour ago and I'm already here.
...Dictionary Corner doesn't have a dictionary anymore? They still do on the other one...
Susy Swapped a laptop a while ago.
Both Rachel and Susie's jobs can be done faster by an 80s laptop.
But without them, there's less reason to watch.
Hmm... bearing in mind they come out on square plastic tiles someone's still got to input them. How often is the conundrum solved in under a second...
To be fair, everyone with a smartphone could be Dictionary Corner.
Amazing find from Rachel. I got 'maim' RIGHT on 30 seconds
I think you'll find mvmfiuiaj is already a word. As in "good morning, that's a nice mvmfiuiaj".
Came here to look for this comment. Not disappointed .
0:31 the face when you know it's gonna be bad
Smart _and_ gorgeous. Rachel’s something else.
kinda gross bud
@@Abigart69 For complimenting a woman?
Yep, she's the best.
Something eles? You mean you can’t think of the word?
This was so much difficult they had to go with a Japanese word.
Weeb
Weeb
Borrowed words are fine as long as they are in the Oxford English Dictionary!
The male contestant found it so difficult that he invented a whole new language and tried to pretend he spoke it fluently. The sensible woman stuck with jam.
@@AutPen38 From wikipedia "Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry, gean, or bird cherry is a species of cherry." There are plenty of latin names of species in the dictionary, so it was worth a try. This one, unfortunately, wasn't there.
Meet my dog Mvmfiuiaj. He lives with me on my Steadings.
Is that you, Lee Mack?
Love how smug that bloke looked about "avium" till he realised it ain't a word
It is a word, but it's a name.Mycobacterium avium is a type of bacteria.
May have messed up avian and ovium. I won't judge, I only got 'mum'.
It is a word tho
Avis is the Latin word for bird, so "avium" roughly means "of bird" as in the wild cherry (prunus avium) named after birds eating them. In German it's called "Vogelkirsche" meaning "bird cherry", so there you go. It's not an English word at all. The closest English word would be avian or aviary. With all that talk, I also only got "jam" in 30seconds. He gave it a good shot with the letters he had, but I would have liked to hear him explain what he think it means.
6 letters. "JIFIUM". The periodic table element that peanut butter is made of.
I remember poor Richard Whiteley's embarrassment when one guy suggested the word "Wankers" on the show.
My Mum heard it and groaned: "Some people...."
At least on Cats does Countdown they say please and thank you after choosing letters.
COVFEFE
dikaiopolis ho lmao
I'm surprised Suzi missed 'umami', given some of the weird words she's come up with over the years.
Suzie is more focussed on literary related words. She’s not really focussed on science related words.
@@julianrolheiser6061 Oh I dunno, she's come out with a few obscure science-y words over the years.
And considering she has a computer …
@@julianrolheiser6061umami isn't used only in "science". Many people use it, eg those who cook, dine out, read, went to school, or have general knowledge know about taste and flavours. It's pretty basic general stuff, she just missed it on the day.
You don't need to follow science. In fact I'm sure, being well educated and highly literate, SD is in a better position than most to perfectly understand what umami is. Pretty sure even kids know these days.
@@bardsamok9221 I don’t remember commenting this. Probably my delusion of some sort.
I've just done an assignment on Monosodium Glutamate and how it improves the umami flavour of food xD
And I bet you still didn't get it.
Life complete. I got umami and beat dictionary corner
Yes it was the worse letters game from the point of view of points scored, but it was one of the best for being informative and, for me at least, learning a brand new word.
You'd never heard of jam?
you never heard tell of a boot?!@@isaacwilson7769
"I get the same letters as everybody else".
If a contestant is in the lead going into the last letters round, wouldn't it be a good tactic to choose all consonants? You would get nothing but so would your opponent, ensuring that the relative scores stay the same.
I think most people go on the show for the prestige rather than to win the countdown teapot, so generally just play honestly and without tactics, but yes you're right.
I wouldn't be surprised if they literally just wouldn't let you do that if you tried. At the end of the day, they've got a TV show to make.
Is pssst a word?
You have to choose a minimum of three vowels - it's in the rules.
The rule makers are such killjoys. Did they also change the numbers game rules after that guy kept picking all the big numbers just to make it difficult?
The letters are stacked in two piles and the only variation is maybe two or three letters deep based on how many vowels they take. Always wondered if they stacked them with that in mind.
That's the sound I make when I step on Lego
Its the board game Fumaji where if you roll 6 or 8 in the jungle you must wait, where Jack Black is filming Year 2. Oh the boredom...
I can't believe they didn't get the 9; as soon as the v came out it stood out like a sore thumb: mimifujav.
Bruh Avium is a word. Its a family of bacteria and a pretty standard word
It's actually the word I got. As soon as the I and U were selected, I immediately went to words ending in "ium".
I think that's Latin though right? Most bacteria species and stuff have Latin names I think?
@@bryanmcsweeney007 It has Latin routes, but so do a lot of words in English. Pretty much any word ending in "ius", "ium", "us", etc. But they're also counted as English words because that's the only word we have for them. Just like how we use a lot of French words. It still should count, I'm sure they wouldn't discount "stadium" for example.
But it isn't a dictionary word as the proper term is Mycobacterium avium complex.
But as of right now, it isn't a standalone word. There's thousands of words out there that have entered the everyday lexicon, but by definition aren't dictionary verified words.
Isn't Umami the kind of martial art that Ross learned in FRIENDS?
thats unagi
"I'll take nine consonants, please."
"I've got an eight. 'rhythms'?"
Love to give you that, but it's only seven.
they obviously missed mamuvijif, which is the official shortened way to say "my movie jeff" that doesn't need any apostrophes like other word contractions
Richard Osman would have sued
I'm an experienced comments section deviant and I've been all over the website talking to all kinds of people, but I can confirm that Countdown video comments sections are the absolute best :)
Flat earth video comments are better ;)
@@KirbyGamingLive No, too depressing. At least here people are arguing about how legitimate "avium" is. Over there people are arguing about whether or not the sun comes up. I can't deal with that level of absurdity.
But I take your point :)
One thing ive been wondering for years on this program... Why does the camera always zoom in on the clock on the letters game but never on the numbers game?
Because on the numbers game, contestants might be so good they finish very early. You want them in frame so everyone can see how quickly they finish.
I got maim, but if I was on TV I'd be really happy to find jam. that is a tough set of letters. I bet the 3 and 4 letter words have very few options in the dictionary.
rachel is just amazingly gorgeous
ed campion She's perfect.
If you like women whose eyes are far enough apart you could ride a bus through the gap
@@steve-handsomelady So, you're not a fan of depth perception, then?
@@steve-handsomelady Don't knock it till you've tried it, lad.
Susie > Rachael
I only got jam. Oh dear!
Rachel's voice is so different from on cats does countdown!
"Well done, whoever got that." Ha, ha...brilliant.
Still not as bad as Sean with his dartboard round 😂
Wow! I got both JAM and AVIUM. Didn't know if that second one was a word though. I would have gone with JAM too... But well done, Rachel!
jumma or juvia according to my Oxford crossword solver. Fours were imam, jiva, maim, maum and mimi
Got Jam in the allotted time but then got Miami after about a minute. I'm generally only decent at this when there's more than 30 seconds.
Gfresh844 Miami wouldn't count anyway as proper nouns aren't allowed
I got a 3: mum.
Oh blast, I was feeling smug that I got Maim and then Umami appears on the board 🥴😫
Imagine actually admitting to feeling one of the douchiest emotions to exist.
Tess, have you been watching QI? Umami!
It actually IS a word!!! Mvmfiuiaj! As in "Good morning, that's a lovely mvmfiuiaj you have!"
Jam!! Beat that eggheads!
Hello, that's a nice TNETENNBA.
I watched the very first episode in 1982.
The first programme aired on the new channel 4.
At first i thought you had to use all the numbers on the numbers game haha.
12 years old then & wild haha.
My mother used to think the same thing. She would do some random stuff to cancel numbers and add zero, multiply by 1, etc.
Is that you Catherine Tate? 😂
That was worth the watch.
And kudos for this "avium", even if it's not an English word
Is that Graham Le Saux?
Cameron Bierman Yes.He is university educated and has a decent TV career after football. Check his wiki page its surprising what hes done.
Yes. Ron ( CHOPPER ) Harris wasn't available...:)
ahh I got maim but missed umami, dang.
I got jam but felt dumb when umami was unveiled because Cooking shows have become like 50% of my media consumption
They forgot MVMFIUIAJ. Example: Good morning. That's a nice mvmfiuiaj.
I wonder if it's possible to predict mathematically the worst possible Countdown letters game
9 Zs
All of them are equally terrible. Numbers are much more fun.
do a richard ayoade with "TNETENNBA"
I miss when Susie used an actual dictionary to find if the words exist.
Wait, so how does she do it now?
@@sanny8716
She uses a computer. I imagine she goes on a website where you can type in an anagram and once all the letters are typed in you get a list of all the words you can make out of those letters. Then whatever word the contestants get Suzie just needs to type it in to see if it pops up or not.
I miss when lexicographers used to read from wax tablets and vellum
@@WxB2001 The computer just forgot to suggest umami did it?
There was a round in 2010 where 3 was the maximum, so there have been worse than this...
Good morning, that's a nice MVMFIUIAJ
(Pronounced: M-VUM-FEE-OO-EE-AJ")
I like that these contestants actually address the card presenter kindly by name ,instead of ones that just yell at them not even acknowledging them. ie: Wheel of fortune / most American game shows
I think it's because they do more than just present the cards. Rachel does the maths problems, and Susie does the words. But overall, including them adds to the entertainment (it would be interesting to see the same on the US shows, rather than just the host and contestant interacting)
@@cosmicsprint good call
Also she gets more time to shine in the cats countdown, so I think fans would be mad if she was treated like that since we've seen more of her.
*"I like that these contestants actually address the card presenter kindly by name ,instead of ones that just yell at them not even acknowledging them. ie: Wheel of fortune / most American game shows."*
Traditional British values and behaviour versus traditional American values and behaviour.
I got jam 😂
Probably does not happen very often, when the winning word is a 3 letter word.
Oh, I've heard of 'umami'! Didn't get it as an answer though...