Episode CLAN6

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Episode CLAN6, billed as Celebrity Letters and Numbers Series 1, Episode 6 was a special episode broadcast on 6 November 2021 as part of Celebrity Letters and Numbers.

Akmal Saleh, Mark Humphries and Greta Lee Jackson were the contestants, while Michael Hing reprised his role as the host.

The match saw Mark Humphries winning by 16 – 101 – 49 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 the 1984 edition of "P to Q" 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 Round 6, the original target was 101, but Lily changed it to prove Akmal that targets are indeed accumulated randomly.

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 9, Greta declared 289, but she realised that is not necessary to use all of the numbers, so she got to the target the same way as Mark and added leftover numbers. She still receives 10 points for her solution.

NOTE 2: In Round 11, Mark pressed the buzzer much earlier but it didn't stopped the timer.

Rounds

Rnd	Selection	Akmal Saleh	Mark Humphries	Greta Lee Jackson	Score	Others	Max
1	E I W R E F P V S	REEF	PREVIEWS	WIPER	5 – 8 – 4		8
2	B O T I D A N P P	INDIA ☓	POINT	POINTA ☓	5 – 13 – 4	APPOINT, BANDITO	15
3	75 100 1 9 1 8 → 654	600	634	725	5 – 13 – 4	LS: 654 = (100 + 9) × (8 − 1 − 1)	25
TTT	HUMSMOOR	Fun guy always hums on the moor.				MUSHROOM
4	N I R E C U G O R	GORE	CURING	RUIN	8 – 19 – 9	RECURING	33
5	S E O N O V T U P	SONOP ☓	OVENS	TOON	8 – 24 – 13	UPVOTES	40
6	50 75 7 9 2 4 → 553	101	564	553 50 × 9 + 7 × 4 + 75	8 – 24 – 23		50
TTT	COREITCH	A core itch makes you bounce off the walls.				RICOCHET
7	A E D R I C A S B	BASIC	BRIDES	BARED	13 – 30 – 28	CARBIDES*, ASCRIBED, CARABIDS	58
8	U A E T D L Y N A	DYLAN ☓	DEALT	UNLEAD	13 – 35 – 34	ADULATE	65
9	75 100 4 1 1 8 → 283	–	283 (1 + 1) × 100 + 75 + 8	283** (1 + 1) × 100 + 75 + 8	13 – 45 – 44		75
TTT	IRIGTHAT	Nothing's getting in and nothing's getting out.				AIRTIGHT
10	J I L E T M I S I	LET	LIMITS	SMELT	16 – 51 – 49	ILEITIS*, LIMIEST*, ELITISM	82
11	E K O Z E R E P O		ZOOKEEPER (5.25 SECONDS)		16 – 101 – 49		132