Countdown Game Show - Number Rounds (7 November 2024)

Colin Murray and Rachel Riley host as contestants race against the clock to pit their wits against vowels, consonants and numbers. Carl Frampton joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner. Each day two contestants compete in 15 rounds of words and numbers to become the Countdown Champion.
Carl Frampton MBE (born 21 February 1987) is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2021. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA (Regular) super bantamweight title in 2016, and the IBF super bantamweight title from 2014 to 2016, and the WBA (Super) featherweight title from 2016 to 2017.
#Channel4 #Countdown
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.
Playlist: • The Original Countdown...
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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[@BrettMKW]

I got all of these exactly the same way that he did.

[@dcnole]

Me too!

[@rdcongo17]

LET'S HAVE A LOOK!, BEAST! 7:02

[@jennywolswinkel8548]

809:
8 x 100 + (50 + 25 - 3)/8
Actually didn’t see the easier way and was pretty excited to find this after a while on pause!

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

(7+5+1)=13
13x10 QED

[@danbaker300]

Most of these were pretty straightforward.
943: (100+4) * 9 + 8 - 2/2; only just got this one (I kept wanting to make 105*9 - 2 but 105 needed either a 9 or both 2s)
809: 100*8 + 8 + 3 - 50/25
130: (75-10) * 2
642: 10*8*4*2 + 2

[@medusa_404]

809:
50 / 25 =2
100 * 8 =800
800 + 8 + 3 - 2 =809
100 - 3 =97
97 * 8 =776
776 + 25 + 8 =809
100 * 8 =800
50 + 25 - 3 =72
72 / 8 =9
800 + 9 =809

[@medusa_404]

130:
75 - 10 =65
65 * 2 =130
7 * 2 =14
14 - 1 =13
13 * 10 =130
7 + 5 + 1 =13
13 * 10 =130
10 + 1 =11
11 * 5 =55
75 + 55 =130
75 / 5 =15
15 - 2 =13
13 * 10 =130

[@boybawang1981]

2÷2 - 1 100+4 = 104X9 = 936+8 = 944-1 = 943 (Only Way!?)
50+3 = 53 25-8 = 17X53 = 901+8 = 909-100 = 809
100-3 = 97X8 = 776+50+8 = 834-25 = 809
5+1 = 6X2 = 12X75 = 900+10 = 910÷7 = 130
7+2+1 = 10 75-10 = 65X10 = 650÷5 = 130
10X8 = 80X4 = 320X2 = 640+2 = 642
3-2 = 1 10X8 = 80X4 = 320+1 = 321X2 = 642

[@medusa_404]

943:
100 + 4 =104
104 * 9 =936
2 / 2 =1
936 + 8 - 1 =943

[@alos1978]

1. (100+4)x9+8-2;2=943 (can’t see a 2nd way)
2. 100x8+3+8-50/25=809 (can’t see a 2nd way)
3. LNAFP: (2x7-1)x10=130 or (2x10+7-1)x5=130
4. 2x4x8x10+2=642 (can’t see a 2nd way)
5. ❌❌❌❌

[@NQTN1001]

100 × 9 + 4 × (8 + 2) + 2 = -1 (I reckon it's possible to get all the way there, but hmmm...)
100 × 8 + 8 + 3 - 50 ÷ 25 = 0 (elegant all-sixer)
(75 - 10) × 2 = 0 (no need to go super out there)
8 × 2 × 4 × 10 + 2 = 0 (lovely end)

[@einSteppenwolf]

943=9×(100+4)+8-2/2

[@einSteppenwolf]

809=8×100+8+3-50/25

[@einSteppenwolf]

642=2×(4×8×10+3-2)=2×4×8×10+2

[@DylanSg_06]

1. Same as them
2. Same as them
3. Same as her
4. 8×4=32. 32×2=64. 64×10=640. 640+2=642

[@RedEyeLordofFire]

4.*same as them

[@invisibleman1734]

Inanimately might have counted

[@stephenbeck7222]

You have 3 too many letters

[@MrShortWhiteGuy]

130 I did 10+1 = 11 x 5 = 55 + 75 =130

[@einSteppenwolf]

130=2×(75-10)

[@einSteppenwolf]

130=10×(7+5+1)

[@tylerfoyle8096]

Conundrum mentatlity