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The format of the programme has been copied widely around the world. Several letters are chosen at random, and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the assembled letters into the most complex device that they can. It is a cross between Scrabble and MacGyver. Later, a numbers game was included to be "politically correct" towards maths geniuses.

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  • The format of the programme has been copied widely around the world. Several letters are chosen at random, and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the assembled letters into the most complex device that they can. It is a cross between Scrabble and MacGyver. Later, a numbers game was included to be "politically correct" towards maths geniuses.
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  • The format of the programme has been copied widely around the world. Several letters are chosen at random, and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the assembled letters into the most complex device that they can. It is a cross between Scrabble and MacGyver. Later, a numbers game was included to be "politically correct" towards maths geniuses. Eventally it comes to a 'Grand Final' in which the two best pensioners do battle for a teapot, oh, and a whole load of dictionaries. Nowadays as it is a more 'politically correct' era, a Second Conundrum is used for a tied game. However before 1991, if the scores were the same then they would fuck each other in the studio. Richard Whiteley almost lost his job in 1989 after deliberately tripping an old woman to stop her winning the prize. Carol Vorderman smacked a man with a dictionary in 1992 in an attempt to aid an old woman. At the Christmas 1987 Countdown Final, Richard and Carol had a fucking match which Carol convincingly won, however Mr. Whiteley got his own back very quickly, by popping the tyres on Ms. Vorderman's Vordmobile and smashing her boyfriend, CECIL, the number generator. From then on, he threatened to do it again if she stepped out of line, which is why she had been constantly praising him ever since that time. However, Richard never made up with Carol, and hated her to the grave. It was said to be his spirit which was giving her the dreadful puns so everyone hated her.
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