(19 Jun 2015, 8:37 pm)S813 FVK wrote One thing i have never understood about Countdown: The letters game is 9 letters, the title of the show is 9 letters yet the 'tea time teasers' are only 8 letters.
It'll probably be because there's far more eight-letter words than nine-letter ones. If nine-letter words are used for conundrums, the number of unique ones will decrease faster if they were to use them alongside teatime teaser ones. (They would probably want to keep the unique words lasting for as long as possible).
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