Episode CLAN42

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Episode CLAN42, billed as Celebrity Letters and Numbers Series 4, Episode 6 was a special episode uploaded on the SBS streaming service on 12 February 2024 as part of Celebrity Letters and Numbers. Later it was broadcasted on SBS Viceland on 12 September 2024.

Nikki Britton, Michala Banas and Suren Jayemanne were the contestants, while Michael Hing reprised his role as the host.

The match saw Michala Banas winning by 47 – 67 – 39 and she won the Hing's old "book of poetry and musings" from his childhood bedroom.

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: In Round 9, Nikki initially wanted to declare a six-letter word, but after quick realising that there is only one S, she corrected herself and gave a five-lettered MOIST. She still receives 5 points.

Rounds

Rnd	Selection	Nikki Britton	Michala Banas	Suren Jayemanne	Score	Others	Max
1	R A L E E T I Z G	TRAIL	GRAZE	LATER	5 – 5 – 5	LITREAGE*	8
2	B A S T I R A U N	SATURN ☓	RUINS	BASTIAN ☓	5 – 10 – 5	URBANIST	16
3	75 50 100 1 6 5 → 585	582 100 × 5 + 75 + 6 + 1	581	581	12 – 17 – 12	L​S: 585 = 100 × 6 − 75 ÷ 5	26
TTT	ODOCIRCLE	Oh, do circle like Dundee.				CROCODILE
4	V E I W F E T L O	WEEVIL	TOWEL	WIFE	18 – 22 – 16	TWELVE, VIOLET*, LEFTIE*	32
5	A U X E O N A R N	NEON	NONE	AURA	22 – 26 – 20	NEURON, ANURAN*	38
6	50 100 7 1 2 5 → 661	660	661 100 × 7 − 50 + 5 × 2 + 1	660	29 – 36 – 27		48
TTT	IVANILIC	Ivan Ilić is a private citizen.				CIVILIAN
7	C I E D P A R O K	REPACK	COPIED	REPACKED ☓	35 – 42 – 27	PARODIC, PRICKED, CROAKED*, PICADOR*, PERCOID*	55
8	75 25 2 6 5 7 → 828	827 (6 + 5) × 75 + 2	827	821/835	42 – 49 – 32	L​S: 828 = (75 + 6) × 5 × 2 + 25 − 7	65
TTT	COSTSPAD	Subscribers pay instalment costs to you.				PODCASTS
9	T O S E D I L U M	MOIST**	MOULDIEST	DILUTES	47 – 67 – 39	OUTSMILED	83
10	W E S C K I R C A			RICKSHAW ☓ (4.25 SECONDS)	47 – 67 – 39	WISECRACK	93