Countdown - 5000th Episode - Part 2 Of 4 [HD]

Broadcast on Friday 26th March 2010 - Part 2 Of 4 - Jeff Stelling & Rachel Riley host this milestone of an episode of the classic gameshow. With Susie Dent and dictionary corner guest Des Lynam - All copyright remains with ITV Studios - PLEASE COMMENT!

[@sashahsoheili3190]

To get 930 you add all the numbers besides 50&5 where you divide to make the 10 and multiply the 93 to make 930 or use that and take the 10 tile itself.

[@scootscootriot1020]

Great story about "the greatest" RIP champ.

[@SchoolhouseTechno]

Great anecdote from Des.
First time I have ever seen or heard of him but I can see why he would be loved.
I am from the US by the way.

[@cwn89015]

If you want to use all of the numbers, here is how you get 930:
75+5+1+7=88,
88x10=880,
880+50=930.

[@Nullifidian]

Like Dictionary Corner and the contestants, I got JOINER first, but then saw the extra D for seven with JOINDER. I think that's the only seven.
In the first numbers round, I saw Rachel's solution because playing four large games against the computer has given me a working knowledge of the 125, 150, and 175 times tables, but I also had this related solution:
75 + 5 = 80
10 + 1 = 11
80 x 11 = 880
880 + 50 = 930
In the sixth letters round, I got RADIATES, which seemed to pop out from the arrangement of letters.
_The IT Crowd_ has ruined _Countdown_ for me forever. When TN came up in the letters round, I thought, "We could be on our way to spell TNETENNBA". I had DELUSION and DILUENTS in this round.

[@haricric03]

For the first number:
50/5 = 10
75 + 10 = 85
7+1= 8
85+8 =93
93 x. 10 ='930

[@bradleywilliams2610]

1:20
50/5 * (75+10+7+1)
= 930

[@GroovingPict]

Bradley Williams Thats how I did it as well. I was surprised that none of them got it, as it seemed pretty immediate to me (and Im not that good with arithmetics that I get a lot of these). And I was surprised by Rachel doing it the way she did it.

[@liamrogan9563]

Bradley Williams qqq

[@sfusfusfu]

(75-7) * 10 = 680
50 * 5 = 250
680 +250 = 930

[@nick12345304]

Same way I did it too. In a lot of the numbers games, both Rachel and Carol before her never seemed to like this route even when there's a 10 and a target ending in zero. Maybe it's a mathematician thing that it's not their usual method of choice.

[@litigioussociety4249]

Joiner? Weird word choice when I thought the word friend was more obvious.

[@krumplethemal8831]

"nine hundred an therr-tea"

[@ChrisMac2489]

Dez 😳 and to think it was the hot seat 💺 after the sad passing of Richard wish he stayed on but I can understand the travel time and Distance

[@spiderjump]

75+7+1=83
83+50/5=93
93x10=930

[@craigndayday]

i got radiates soon as they stopped putting the cards up, would never take chances like Dave.

[@GroovingPict]

Drugs. That's how you explain McEnroe then vs McEnroe now.

[@SchoolhouseTechno]

Funny actually, about 3 or 4 shows ago I saw them use airdates as well...so got that one easy.

[@-supigiri-]

at the end :????

[@Fcutdlady]

Ive used a simlar comment to the one des lynam talked about sir Henry Cooper made in polite company . I usually end it by saying one of 3 things. he's as big as a brick outhouse/brick outside bathroom/brick outside facility.

[@rkohearsvoices]

Much easier way, at least to my generally lazy intuition: 10 * (75+50/5+7+1) = 930

[@randy5880]

IT CROWD is so funny

[@parvezakhtar1018]

Outlines

[@gregwaugh7]

Opps mist the 10:-(

[@randy5880]

This would never be big in America

[@-supigiri-]

dinolts

[@jhibbitt2896]

ah yes i remember des lynam, quite the sex symbol

[@craigndayday]

those tea time teasers are a joke.

[@spiderjump]

Horned

[@boybawang1981]

75+5+1+7 = 88x10 = 880+50 = 930