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*[[480 club]] - informal name for the players that scored 480 points as an [[Octochamp]] during their runs under the 9 round format. | *[[480 club]] - informal name for the players that scored 480 points as an [[Octochamp]] during their runs under the 9 round format. | ||
− | *[[800 | + | *[[800 club]] - informal name for that players that have scored 800 points as an Octochamp during their runs under the 15 round format. |
*[[9 round format]] - the original format, using 6 letters games, 2 numbers games and one conundrum. Was used between [[Series 1]] and [[Series 45]] | *[[9 round format]] - the original format, using 6 letters games, 2 numbers games and one conundrum. Was used between [[Series 1]] and [[Series 45]] |
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This is a list of Countdown terminology.
Alphabetical list of terminology
- 14 round format - format involving 8 letters games, 4 numbers games and two conundrums. It was used between Series 2 and Series 45, uniquely for grand finals and specials. This is the same format used by the original French show Des chiffres et des lettres.
- 15 round format - format involving 11 letters games, 3 numbers games and one conundrum. Used since Series 46.
- 480 club - informal name for the players that scored 480 points as an Octochamp during their runs under the 9 round format.
- 800 club - informal name for that players that have scored 800 points as an Octochamp during their runs under the 15 round format.
- 9 round format - the original format, using 6 letters games, 2 numbers games and one conundrum. Was used between Series 1 and Series 45
- Adagram, see Teatime Teaser.
- Board game - the Countdown board game is part of the Countdown goody bag. It uses over 100 lettered cards and also numbered cards for the numbers, and a plastic spinner to generate numbers games.
- C4countdown - An online forum dedicated to Countdown, with over 100 members and over 10,000 messages. See the website.
- Carol beater - a number solution that beats the solution found by Carol on the show. Usually only applies to solutions not found on the show but rather on an online forum.
- CECIL - Countdown Electronic Calculator in Leeds, the computer that generates the random numbers between 100 and 999 for the numbers games.
- Century - a score over 100. This is quite common under the 15 round system, but was also happened in the 14 round finals, first achieved my Clive Spate in Series 6.
- Contestant - a Countdown player, someone who appears on Countdown as a player.
- Conundrum - the nine-letter anagram at the end of the show. Players buzz in with the right answer, only the player that buzzes in first with the right answer gets the 10 points. If the player gets it wrong, the other player has the rest of the 30 seconds to buzz in.
- DC beater - a contestant that beats the contestants and Dictionary Corner, usually referring to words found by members of an online forum such as C4countdown.
- Darren - a word which is the longest in that given round, and the only word of that length. For instance, from the selection ALEPOCQTS, POLECATS would be the only eight-letter word.
- Dictionary Corner - a special celebrity guest and a lexicographer together working to find the best words in selections where the contestants don't get the longest possible word. They're often helped by the show's producers Michael Wylie and Damian Eadie by way of an earpiece. The guest also gives a short anecdote before the first commercial break.
- Duel - on the French and Spanish versions of Countdown, the equivalent of a conundrum. Contestants are given a word-based puzzle to solve, such as two words from nine letters with the same meaning.
- Electronic game - an eletronic game of Countdown, where players play individually selecting vowels and consonants for the letters games and numbers for the numbers game.
- Guest - a celebrity guest invited on to Countdown for one day's filming (five shows). They help find the longest words in the letters round, and give a short anecdote before the first ad break.
- Inverted T - a numbers selection consisting of one large number and five small numbers, chosen in such a way that the selection makes a T-shape.
- Letters game - a game using 9 letters where the contestants make the longest word they can, using each letter no more than once. Words must be in the Oxford Dictionary of English.
- Lexicographer - a resident expert who helps to find the longest words from the letters games, with the help of a celebrity guest.
- Numbers game - a game using six randomly chose numbers between 1 and 100 and a target between 100 and 999. The aim is to use the six numbers to make the target number using the four basic mathematical operations (addition, division, subtraction and multiplication). The numbered cards available are 1 to 10 twice each, 25, 50, 75 and 100.
- Octochamp - a player who wins 8 games without being defeated. 8 games is the maximum, and after that the player retires unbeaten. The word is derived from champion and Octo- meaning 8.
- Oxford Dictionary of English - the official dictionary of Countdown, produced by Oxford University Press.
- Pencam - a small camera shaped like a pen, useful for displaying words found in the dictionary.
- Presenter - refers currently to Des O'Connor and Carol Vorderman who present every show, unlike the contestants and guests who change every week.
- Santagram - an old name for the Teatime Teaser when it was shown around Christmas.
- Teapot - the individual prize for a player that wins a game.
- Teatime Teaser - an eight-letter anagram shown during the commercial breaks. It used to be seven letters. Unlike conundrums, they can have more than one solution.
- Whitehall - the term for a numbers game with one large number, when the numbers are chosen 1, 2, 1, 2 from the top row to the bottom row respectively. It comes from the old number for the Metropolitan Police (Whitehall 1212).