Episode CLAN3

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Episode CLAN3, billed as Celebrity Letters and Numbers Series 1, Episode 3 was a special episode broadcast on 16 October 2021 as part of Celebrity Letters and Numbers.

Susie Youssef, Dane Simpson and Hamish Blake were the contestants, while Michael Hing reprised his role as the host.

The match saw Hamish Blake winning by 40 – 39 – 54 and he won the 1980 edition of "C to D" section form the Oceaniapaedia encyclopedia.

Lily Serna was, as ever, the arithmetician. The Dictionary Corner guest was Adam Richard, 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 the final round, someone pressed the buzzer just before the time ran out, but the host didn't accept it.

Rounds

Rnd	Selection	Susie Youssef	Dane Simpson	Hamish Blake	Score	Others	Max
1	Y U A S E M D G A	USAGE	MEADS	MEADS	5 – 5 – 5	DAMAGES, MAGUEYS*	7
2	C I M O G C A D N	CODING	COMING	MAGIC	11 – 11 – 10	COAMING*, MONADIC*, NOMADIC	14
3	100 50 25 75 2 9 → 420	409	409	423 50 × 9 − 25 − 2	11 – 11 – 17	Best: 420 = (100 + 50 ÷ 2) × (75 + 9) ÷ 25​	24
TTT	SADHEELS	Sad heels are missing what's above.				HEADLESS
4	D E V I M E F S A	FAMED	DIMES	DEVISE	16 – 16 – 23	SEMIDEAF	32
5	E O T P D I E P T	TIPTOED	TOPPED	POTTED	23 – 22 – 29	PIPETTED	40
6	75 7 3 1 5 7 → 242	244 75 × 3 + 7 + 7 + 5	–	240 75 × 3 + 7 + 7 + 1	30 – 22 – 36	L​S: 242 = (75 + 5) × 3 + 7 ÷ 7 + 1	50
TTT	LANCETOAD	Lance the Toad gives unreliable evidence.				ANECDOTAL
7	I O A S N T A C H	SATION ☓	COAST	NACHOS	30 – 27 – 42	ACTIONS, SATANIC, SHITCAN*, SHAITAN*, CATIONS*, CHITONS*	57
8	75 50 8 5 9 6 → 339	339 75 × 5 − 50 + 8 + 6	340	332	40 – 34 – 47		67
TTT	PALSURGE	Insert these when you're ready to withdraw.				EARPLUGS
9	T N L S E A T O K	OSELATE ☓	STONE	TALENTS	40 – 39 – 54	NOTATES*, ETALONS*, ANKLETS*	74
10	D E L N A D O I N				40 – 39 – 54	DANDELION	84