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Audiences have been gasping every day this week as Countdown contestant Tom Stevenson broke two records on the 40-year-old show. The 21-year kept his nerve for the final Countdown Conundrum – solving ...

Rachel Riley marked Countdown’s 35th birthday in the most appropriate way – with a celebratory Countdown conundrum. The Channel 4 game show, which first aired on November 2 1982, celebrated the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Audiences have been gasping every day this week as Countdown contestant Tom Stevenson broke two records on the 40-year-old show.

Carol Vorderman announced last night she is to step down from Countdown, after 26 years as a presenter on the Channel 4 programme. The maths expert, who has appeared on almost 5,000 episodes of the ...

Channel 4 has defended Countdown's decision to feature what appeared to be a conjunction of 'Large Baps' as its Conundrum yesterday. The contestants stifled giggles when host Jeff Stelling revealed ...

As the Clarets search for the answer to their Premier League survival conundrum, defender Carlisle is hoping to solve some more of his own. Carlisle has a reputation as one of the cleverest players in ...

Countdown's conundrum at the finale of today's (December 18) show spelled out the words 'itchy semi'. After 30 seconds of trying to guess the cheeky anagram's solution, both contestants failed to tell ...