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I love Countdown, especially the numbers game. I remember one occasion when nobody in the studio, not even Carol Vorderman, could work it out and I'd managed to do it within the 30 seconds, in my head. I couldn't believe it, so during the ad break I wrote it down and I was right! And I wanted to phone Channel 4 and tell them, I was so excited! But I didn't.
And I and can never get the Countdown Conundrum either.
I remember when I was about 13 or so, the last maths lesson of the term, and the teacher decided to let us play a game. We had to make as many words as possible of 3 or more letters out of 'LOGARITHMS'
I suspect the teacher never decided to do that again after I spelled 'O-R-G-A-S-M' and my less worldly classmates started asking the teacher what it meant.