@@josephd548 Smarter, funnier, better all round. So much kinder too. She literally could not have done anything that was worthy of her getting sacked. We love Carol
That was a very nice thing to say, praise of anothers achievement particularly when accepting one's own inadequacy is a phenomenal strength.. That said, she really took to her image of the "smart man's totty" and, particularly in latter years, to my mind lost a lot of her down to earth appeal
I remember one game where neither contestant got the answer and nether did the woman at the whiteboard (I can't remember whether it was Carol or Rachael). I worked it out fairly easily. Then a kid in the audience spoke up with the same solution I had.
+TheMoonRover Do you watch _8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown_ ? There was an episode that aired on 23 July 2013 where the first numbers round was one that Rachel didn't know how to solve before she was prompted by a man in the audience. (However, he wasn't a kid; he was a grey-haired man in early middle-age.) To give Rachel her due, she figured the full solution immediately just from being given the first step. The numbers round was: 100, 10, 7, 5, 4, and 4, with a target of 579 and Rachel's belated solution was (100 + 7) x 5 + (10 x 4) + 4 = 579 I came up with a different solution and felt quite chuffed about beating Rachel in a numbers round, because I got the answer within the 30 seconds. My solution was (100 - 10 - 5) x 7 - (4 x 4) = 579.
Makes me laugh too mate, but it gets worse. He once applied for a job at the Merseyside office of the company I work for - I won't say the name - and I had to sift through the applications. I looked him up on Linked In and saw he's mentioned his Countdown appearances in his summary section - as if employers care about that. And he mentioned he has a website where he posts football statistics about everton - as if employers care about that. And he mentioned he suffers from depression and writes blogs about it for Huffington Post - as if employers care about that. I read the blogs they were terrible, by the way. I did some further research and discovered he has another blog page where he writes the lamest blogs imaginable. He even wrote a blog about his Football Manager game with a screenshot of the league table. Needless to say, he didn't get an interview.
I have seen her do math plenty of times and she absolutely got that she have done way more complicated equations in a heartbeat. Good on her for making the kid feel appreciated but she absolutely knew how to solve it.
Lol she had an earpiece in her ear for when she gets stuck, you could hear the people giving her the answers on the older recordings, they used a computer program to check. You ever notice how when ever she said leave it with me, by the end of the show it would always magically get solved by her or a member of the audience every single time. Well theres a reason for this. This is also how they know if some sums are possible or not on the odd occasion. I dont care how good you are at maths, if you only have 30 seconds and go down several wrong routes to try to solve the problem then you will run out of time so I believe she didnt get it. Rachel Reilly also uses an ear piece but Susie Dent doesnt, she misses a lot of words.
Imagine being a kid who's played countdown all his life and one of his most crowning achievements is that he beat Carol Vorderman in the numbers round when he was eleven and he decides to post this clip of him doing so on RU-vid and the majority of the comments on said Video is about how Carol actually lied about him beating her. 😭😭😭
TOA 12th With it being true, shows you what a nice and kind person she is. Like at sports, anything you would to encourage people. Like your playing well etc etc (give them encouragement) do you understand that. DO YOU. You wouldn’t want to humiliate a person at sports/challenge WOULD YOU. The only sad thing is, TOA 12th is your stupid reply.
@@oliverwood7190 Being nice is not more important than being honest. It would not be good to tell someone that you like their dress or that they're playing well if these things aren't true. No self-respecting person would value a hollow compliment devoid of sincerity, and to give one is as blatant and harmful a lie as any other.
I TOA 12th Would like to apologise to my actions/and comments on here, totally and and unacceptable from me (I TOA 12th) acted like a spoilt person (and I want to thank Oliver Wood for calling me a troll (because that’s how I TOA 12th acted) I TOA 12th 100% agree with Oliver Wood first comment, (this is me, me TOA 12th) being honest it a nice way. I agree with it, she/Carol did it to make the lad feel better showing what a kind and nice person she is.
I done it the above way... I think it’s simpler... once you get the 500 and are looking for the remaining 66 it just a case of your 6 times table. Finding the 11 and the 6 from the remaining numbers is child’s play... as can be seen.
This boy ended up going to the worlds highest ranked university in the fields of maths and science. He invented new rules of science and has won multiple awards. This boy grew up to be known as Einstein
I hadn't gotten it, either. Sometimes you don't see it, especially if you get stuck on certain patterns, such as multiplying by a 7-9, or when you see the last two digits over 50 trying to come down from something like 600.
When you are as smart as Carol, you can admit to coming second. I don't believe she was patronizing the lad - even a genius can't be spot-on every time.
Up-North Nuggiez Because asterisks are used to differentiate from when X is used as a variable. Using the X could be viewed as three numbers being multiplied to give the answer and needing to solve for X.
@@RamatiKat i fully understand your point but in this case it is not needed at all, you wouldnt write an algebraic problem out like "57 X 10" would you? It would need either add, subtract, multiply or divide in there somewhere to make sense thats where the asterisk comes in. Dunno if thats because i was schooled a while ago and see it differently. I know curriculum nowadays is a little different.
After Richard Whiteley died a lot of young people began taking part in this game. Just think he would have been amazed at the young talent on the show like Conor, Bradley, Kai etc etc.
I paused the video and did it mentally and I did it a different way: 5 x 100 = 500 10 -4 = 6 9 + 2 = 11 6 x 11 = 66 500 + 66 = 566 But now that I watched the video, I massively overcomplicated that.
I was feeling pleased with myself for getting 565 lol. 4+2 is 6 x 100 is 600 and then 9 x 5 is 45 and minus that from 600 is 555 then add the 10 for 565. The other bloke said he was 10 away so surely he did not do the same bar the 10 at the end?
Imagine the next day at the set, the kid is there in front of the whiteboard. Carol: Hang on a minute, I was just joking, what's he doing in my spot? Producer: Oh the audience decided you weren't smart enough anymore so we replaced you with Bradley. Carol: ... Whoa, you have got to be kidding me, I got replaced by an 11 year old, oh my life I need a sit down
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The title had me thinking it was a hard one and I was trying to add stuff to 100 before multiplying or something like that. That's a super straight forward easy maths round and I want to believe I didn't spot it because of the title
I remember watching this and being amazed I got it (I did it differently; 5*100, then 9+2 to make 11, then 10-4 to make 6, multiply 11 by 6 to make 66 and add to the 500) and was really confused as to why not only did the adult competitor to not get it, but even Carol. Definitely something fishy about this clip.
Maybe she did get it, maybe she didn't. It's not an indication of 'being beaten by...', especially when it's not a competition. Nobody can bring their A-game all the time....
@@majored3887 But you can I don't think you know this game, you get points for *as close as you can get*, more if you can get spot on. If you don't see it exactly you might see one or two away.
From Navnit Kumar: imagine being a kid who's played countdown all his life and one of his most crowning achievements is that he beat Carol Vorderman in the numbers round when he was eleven and he decides to post this clip of him doing so on RU-vid and the majority of the comments on said Video is about how Carol actually lied about him beating her. 😭😭😭
When I saw the title I figured it would be harder than 5x100, so I ended up going at it a different way: 5 x 10 = 50 50 - 9 = 41 41 + 100 = 141 141 x 4 = 564 564 + 2 = 566
I was trying to get this and couldn't see it either. The kid's smart move is to do 9-2 =7. Once you've done that, it falls into place. 100 x 5, 7 x 10 and take away the 4
Sometimes you go off on a different tangent and don't have time to see every route to a solution. There is only one person knows if she got it. Carol. Everyone else is just speculating but pretending they KNOW to make themselves seem important. news flash. you are not. I have solved a few that she missed. She solves MANY that I miss. so unless you are Carol stop guessing.
Surprised that carol was beaten because there was at least 2 other ways than shown above which were 10 x 5=50-9=41+100=141x4=564+2=566 100+9+5=114. 10/2=5x114=570-4=566
Nice of her not to work out the solution, but this was not necessarily a good idea. Child wizards can find that as time passes, they will meet equally (or more) talented contemporaries, so they need to get used to the idea that life is not a straight line.
First time I’ve seen this and I assumed correctly: use any math to get the answer (or closest). My original was 100*5 for 500. Then 10*4 for 540. Then +9+2 for 551. I now see I could’ve done 9*2 for 558
Idk why everyone in the comments is saying she lied. The time is short and it's pretty easy to just miss the solution if you take the weong approach. Closest I got was 565. I dismissed 5*100 as a solution in like 10 seconds which was a mistake. 100 + 9 + 2 = 111 111*5 = 555 555+10 =565
I am from Australia and I saw her on twitter the other day and I made a confession to her (which made he laugh)... i had misread her name as Carol Voldermort..... lol
Ive never watched countdown with numbers, irk if you can put two numbers together to make anotjer numner? If you can, here's what I got: 100x5 = 500; 9 x 10 = 90; 500 + 90 = 590; 590 - 24 = 566.
