Colin's very good. Projects a good attitude while speaking, and I like that he give the impression he's always playing along with the numbers as well, as opposed to previous hosts who said the target number, then promptly went to sleep. Slightly amused by his difficult with the words for the first teaser, but we all have a few of those, we're just not all on T.V..
@jhfh3112 Жыл бұрын
He's probably really used to people taking the piss out of his northern irish pronounication which makes 'bear hair' sound like 'bur hur'.
@travelwell6049 Жыл бұрын
My impression was that it means something rude or sounds like something rude. Because he said “I can’t say this in my LANGUAGE” not everyone’s going to laugh at my accent or no one’s going to understand my accent.
@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 Жыл бұрын
+Skiffleball710 i struggle with words the and the letter D after it
@grahamgill9685 Жыл бұрын
@@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 Hey man, no shame in it. Like I said we've all got a few, I know I do. Wasn't meant to be derogatory toward Colin, quite the opposite, the fact that he'd admit that he has a difficulty and have a bit of chuckle at his own expense on T.V. makes him more of a likeable human.
@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 Жыл бұрын
@@grahamgill9685 there's always banter between Colin's football team(Liverpool they're my team as well) and Rachel's Manchester United (booooo)
@partizanpack Жыл бұрын
I'm glad Colin Murray is back.
@NotoriousWhistler Жыл бұрын
The other presenters were only for the 40th anniversary celebration.
@travelwell6049 Жыл бұрын
@@NotoriousWhistler what was the thought behind that then? Was it supposed to be a _good_ change?
@NotoriousWhistler Жыл бұрын
@@travelwell6049 Yeah, they're big popular TV personalities in the UK. Especially amongst the Countdown target demographic.
@kingofrunescapepking Жыл бұрын
I dunno, I feel like Colin is quite convivial, especially compared to Anne Robinson
@widearchshark3981 Жыл бұрын
He puts a shift in on everything he presents.
@travelwell6049 Жыл бұрын
Haha😂I agree! I mean anyone is compared to Anne.
@NotoriousWhistler Жыл бұрын
I feel like a frozen corpse is quite convivial compared to Anne Robinson
@partizanpack Жыл бұрын
Rachel's 675 was way more complicated than it needed to be 8+2=10 10*6=60+7=67*10=670+5=675
@VancouverAvatar Жыл бұрын
Sometimes I think she does it to make the contestants feel better about missing it!
1) tricky - look for the divisibles! 11x18 - don't need the biggies (4+7 x 10+8) 2) dang - I missed the 770 option & only got 777 (different from contestant) 3) too easy at a glance: 500 (5x100) - 26 (25+7/7) 4) I couldn't find that 135 - dang
@Jothamvvw8 ай бұрын
I had Claire's solution for the 198, but also found it via 25*8=200, 50/10=5 and 7-5=2 to take away
@einSteppenwolf Жыл бұрын
198=(7+4)×(10+8)=50×4-10+8
@eccehomer8182 Жыл бұрын
My solutions: 50x4-10+8 = 198 (100+10)x(10-3)+5+3 = 778 100x5-25-(7/7) = 474 ((8x7)+(6x2))x10-5 = 675 (Claire would be gutted by that!)
@bjoern.gumboldt Жыл бұрын
8:04 Target 675 has a digit sum of 6+7+5=18 and is thus divisible by 9... 10 x 8 = 80 80 - 5 = 75 7 + 2 = 9 75 x 9 = 675 ...not sure if Rachel's way is more straight forward; after all, it's multiple of 75 which is one of the possible 4 large available.
@rodrigomarinho1807 Жыл бұрын
Results . . . . 198 = 50*4 - (10-8) I got 777 the way the contestant did 474 = 100*5 - 25 - 7/7 675 = (10*8-5)*(7+2)
@18brianhuang Жыл бұрын
Last Numbers you could do: 8*10=80; 80-5=75; 7+2=9; 75*9=675
@andrewwilliams9223 Жыл бұрын
Top bloke Colin, feels like he could be anybodies mate.
@Nullifidian Жыл бұрын
In the first round, I saw Claire's solution. However, you can omit both large numbers and solve it as a "four small": 10 + 8 = 18 7 + 4 = 11 18 x 11 = 198 I also had these solutions: 25 + 8 = 33 10 - 4 = 6 33 x 6 = 198 50 / 10 = 5 25 + 5 = 30 30 x 7 = 210 210 - 8 - 4 = 198 In the second round, I don't believe there are many alternatives, but there's at least one that I spotted because of my experience doing four-large numbers games. 10 + 3 = 13 100 x 13 = 1300 1300 x 3 = 3900 3900 - 10 = 3890 3890 / 5 = 778 What's going on here is that 100 / 5 is 20, so I've multiplied 20 x 39 for 780. However, I need to bring it down by 2, so that's where the unused 10 comes in, since 10 / 5 = 2. In the third round, one of Rachel's roundabout ways to spare the contestants' feelings might have been this: 10 + 5 = 15 25 x 15 = 375 375 + 100 = 475 7 / 7 = 1 475 - 1 = 474 Or it might have been done this way: 100 - 25 = 75 75 - 7 = 68 68 x 7 = 476 10 / 5 = 2 476 - 2 = 474 In the fourth round, the obvious solution is: 10 x 8 = 80 80 - 5 = 75 7 + 2 = 9 75 x 9 = 675 However, there's also another way to do it by factorization: 6 - 2 = 4 10 x 4 = 40 40 + 5 = 45 8 + 7 = 15 45 x 15 = 675 And I also had these alternatives: 6 + 2 = 8 10 x 8 = 80 80 x 8 = 640 7 x 5 = 35 640 + 35 = 675 7 x 6 = 42 42 - 8 = 34 10 x 2 = 20 34 x 20 = 680 680 - 5 = 675
@bjoern.gumboldt Жыл бұрын
Glad you called 75 x 9 = 675 the obvious solution, so it wasn't just me then. 😉
@drivinginluton5745 Жыл бұрын
For round 4 i got 8 + 2 = 10 10 x 6 = 60 60 + 7 = 67 67 x 10 = 670 670 + 5 = 675
@shymike Жыл бұрын
For the last one I did 8 times 7 56, 6 times 2 12, add 56 and 12 is 68, times 10 is 680 and minus 5.
@eccehomer8182 Жыл бұрын
I did that as well. It's also fairly simple to make 67 and add the 5.
@ntvstudios2393 Жыл бұрын
Welcome back Colin.
@dcnole Жыл бұрын
675 = ((8x7)+(2x6))x10-5
@peterkwan1448 Жыл бұрын
For the first round, Clare's solution is obvious. Besides, there are several alternatives using factoring, one can even only use the four smalls: 25 + 8 = 33 10 - 4 = 6 33 x 6 = 198 4 + 7 = 11 10 + 8 = 18 11 x 18 = 198 For the second round, I get Rachel's solution immediately, and I cannot get any alternative. For the third round, it is easy to obtain Rachel's easy solution. I get the following alternative: 25 + 7 = 32 7 + 5 = 12 32 x 12 = 384 384 + 100 - 10 = 474 For the last round, I get Rachel's solution, as well as the following based on the fact that 675 = 25 x 27 = 9 x 75: 7 + 2 = 9 8 x 10 = 80 80 - 5 = 75 9 x 75 = 675
@watcher314159 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure we all got 198 instantly. 50*4=200, 10-8=2, take it away. I only managed to get 780, and I'll be shocked if 778 is actually possible. 100*(5+3)=800, take away 10*3=30, and then add back on the other 10. 474 was pretty trivial. (100*5)-25=475, 7/7=1, take it away. And the closest I got to 675 was concatenating the 6, 7, and 5. In actuality I managed 700 with 10+8+7=25, (5*6)-2=28, multiply them together.
@shymike Жыл бұрын
778 is possible, Rachel showed how.
@mrmeerkathead6871 Жыл бұрын
In the last numbers round, the contestant could’ve just done 6 * 2 and add it onto the 56 then multiply by 10 and take off the 5
@daviddesreumaux338 Жыл бұрын
474 25+7=32 7+5=12×32=384 -10=374+100=474
@delilh325 Жыл бұрын
They were really harsh on Nikki poor gal
@isaacking6305 Жыл бұрын
198 50 x 4 = 200 10 - 8 = 2 200 - 2 = 198
@kitape007 Жыл бұрын
(6:57) 675, the very lucky way : 8 + 2 = 10 ; // We have the 6 , the 7, the 5 and also two 10 to build this number like in school when you were six (hundreds / tens / units). 6 * 10 = 60 ; 60 + 7 = 67 ; 67 * 10 = 670 ; 670 + 5 = 675 ; NB : I don't want to be rude, and I know that something obvious to me won't be necessarly obvious to everyboby else (and vice versa, especially in Countdown), but ... Am i getting freaking good at this game or did the candidates miss the obvious for these four rounds ? (Spoiler : I still completely suck, I'm afraid ...)
@bjoern.gumboldt Жыл бұрын
I dunno, maybe... me personally, I see a multiple of 75 that's divisible by 9 when I look at 675. Reason for that is a) you should know the multiples of the four possible large ones and b) dividing by 3 or even better 9 makes the problem much smaller, so always check the digit sum. When you look at it from that perspective, the left three tiles can be used for 10 x 8 - 5 = 75 and the next two give you 7 + 2 = 9 just times them together and you're done. But I also like your way, just wouldn't be the very first thing I'd think of, but it's super straight forward.
@kitape007 Жыл бұрын
@@bjoern.gumboldt The Nine-Time-O-Jutstu is one of the many techniques I need to master to get good. (We're more likely to get a target that is a multiple of 9, 8, 4, 3 and / or 5 than having the three digits and two 10 that kindly apears on the tiles) Sometimes, I miss the obvious too. This is why, for now, still suck at this game. #LongIsTheRoad