Episode CLAN5

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Episode CLAN5, billed as Celebrity Letters and Numbers Series 1, Episode 5 was a special episode broadcast on 30 October 2021 as part of Celebrity Letters and Numbers.

Dane Simpson, Tanya Hennessy and Todd McKenney were the contestants, while Michael Hing reprised his role as the host.

The match saw Dane Simpson winning by 47 – 33 – 43 and he won the 1985 edition of "H to I" section form the Oceaniapaedia encyclopedia.

Lily Serna was, as ever, the arithmetician. The Dictionary Corner guest was Carlo Ritchie, 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, Tanya declared 804, but the solution led to the result of 800. She still receives 7 points for her solution.

Rounds

Rnd	Selection	Dane Simpson	Tanya Hennessy	Todd McKenney	Score	Others	Max
1	N E U T A Y E L R	LAYER	YELER ☓	LATER	5 – 0 – 5	NEUTRAL, ENTERAL*, ETERNAL*	7
2	E O P D S A L G O	LEGOS ☓	LEGO ☓	SOAPED	5 – 0 – 11	PEDALOS*, POODLES, SPOOLED, SPLODGE, LAPDOGS*	14
3	100 25 7 1 2 4 → 804	804 (7 + 1) × 100 + 4	800**	803	15 – 7 – 18		24
TTT	SELLPOST	Has no allotment just like a bad movie.				PLOTLESS
4	I E R D H I S N O	RHINOS	RHINOS	SHERIN ☓	21 – 13 – 18	IRONISED*, RESINOID*, DERISION	32
5	Q E K I E R N G A	RAKEING ☓	RINGA ☓	REGAIN	21 – 13 – 24	REEKING	39
6	50 75 7 6 4 5 → 645	–	–	750	21 – 13 – 24	LS: 645 = (50 + 7) × (6 + 4) + 75	49
TTT	ACOOLBET	The apparent gamble is a ropey shoe-in.				BOOTLACE
7	I O H K A N T O E	THINK	TOON	TONE	26 – 17 – 28	INTAKE*, HANKIE, KENTIA*, NOOKIE*, THINKO*, HENTAI*	55
8	Y A S E M I C R T	TIMERS	SATIRE	RESIT	32 – 23 – 33	MATRICES	63
9	75 25 2 8 3 9 → 277	277 25 × 8 + 75 + 2	–	277 (8 + 2) × 25 + 9 × 3	42 – 23 – 43		73
TTT	MORETINY	It's not more tiny, it's something way bigger.				ENORMITY
10	S U T N I T F E M	STINT	TITUS ☓	TUFFET ☓	47 – 23 – 43	FITMENTS*, MINUTEST	81
11	C A T I B R F A E		FABRICATE (13.5 SECONDS)		47 – 33 – 43		91