Episode CLAN33

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Episode CLAN33, billed as Celebrity Letters and Numbers Series 3, Episode 9 was a special episode broadcast on 28 November 2022 as part of Celebrity Letters and Numbers.

Sam Taunton, Jennifer Wong and Mark Humphries were the contestants, while Michael Hing reprised his role as the host.

The match saw Mark Humphries winning by 17 – 45 – 114 with the size of the winning score achieved primarily due to the fact that the conundrum for this episode only was worth 50 points and he won a pair of rental bowling shoes, which Hing accidentally forgot to bring back when he was 17 and which was found in his childhood bedroom. Also, each of the participants received a commemorative mug with the photo of SBS news presenter Anton Enus.

Lily Serna was, as ever, the arithmetician. The Dictionary Corner guest was Karl Kruszelnicki, notable for coining the term SELFIE, and the lexicographer was David Astle.

In this version of the game, three players competing with each other instead of traditional two. Also, this version notably uses a scoring system whereby all players receive points for each valid word or solution, even if beaten by their opponents (equivalent to them receiving their "raw scores").
In Letters Rounds of this version, all the words are checked by their presence in Collins Dictionary instead of Oxford, meaning that American and other spellings of the words are eligible.
In Numbers Rounds of this version, players receive points for their declarations, even if the solutions for players' declarations were not provided in the show, assuming they were cut out from broadcasting to speed up the show. Also, player can get points if their solution leads to the result which not matches with the declared result, but it's still in scoring margin.

NOTE 1: In Round 3, David stated that TORNADES is eligible word for scoring 8 points, however it is not found in both Oxford and Collins dictionaries.

Rounds

Rnd	Selection	Sam Taunton	Jennifer Wong	Mark Humphries	Score	Others	Max
1	E I F A T M I E P	MEAT	FATE	FAME	4 – 4 – 4	TEMPI, PIETÀ*, PATÉE*	5
2	S A N O R E D T A	RED	ROASTED	STONED	7 – 11 – 10	TORNADES**	13
3	50 25 5 9 4 3 → 447	286	447 50 × 9 − 3	447 50 × 9 − 3	7 – 21 – 20		23
TTT	CENTSEEN	Tense is key when constructing this.				SENTENCE
4	I S I N E S A Q G	GASES	EASINGS	ASSIGN	12 – 28 – 26	SEISING*	30
5	R E I D J V O P C	REID ☓	PRICED	PROVIDE	12 – 34 – 33	DIVORCE, PERCOID*	37
6	25 4 1 7 9 3 → 599	312	500	599 (9 − 3) × 25 × 4 − 1	12 – 34 – 43		47
TTT	MOREHENS	In the saddle with sore throats.				HORSEMEN
7	N T L E A O R E O	NEATO	LOOTER	RENTAL	17 – 40 – 49	ETERNAL, ENTERAL*, ORTOLAN*	54
8	75 25 5 7 9 6 → 759	738	—	759 (75 + 25) × 7 + 9 × 6 + 5	17 – 40 – 59		64
TTT	STARSHIP	Forget about Enterprise, they're all about pluck.				HARPISTS
9	S U M A B U R I V	SAID ☓	VIRUS	VIRUS	17 – 45 – 64	BARIUM, UMBRAS*, RUMBAS*, IAMBUS*, MBIRAS*	70
10	I N E M N Q A N U			MANNEQUIN (11 SECONDS)	17 – 45 – 114		120