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GANDISEEG is a non-existent word created on Countdown by Richard Brittain, in his Championship of Champions game against Jon Corby. Since Brittain had already lost, he decided to buzz in as soon as the conundrum turned over with a wild guess. Presented with the scramble ANDIESEGG, and unable to spot the actual solution DISENGAGE, Brittain had little choice but to offer the first combination of those letters which came into his mind. In doing so, he accidentally created a piece of online Countdown fokelore.
The joke continued when Charlie Reams, who had also already lost before the conundrum in the Championship of Champions final, buzzed in after 29.5 seconds and offered GANDISEEG as the solution to the scramble ELITEBOUT. Producer Damian Eadie later planted an easter egg in the final nine games of Series 60, whereby the first letter of the conundrum solution in each of these programmes spelt out GANDISEEG. To this day, on c4countdown and Apterous players regularly play GANDISEEG in the letters games or conundrum if they are no longer able to win. (more...)
