Countdown (game show)

"Countdown" is a British television game show where two contestants compete in three challenges: a word or number round and a final game. In the word round, they form the longest possible word from random letters. In the number round, they use arithmetic to reach a target number from six randomly chosen numbers. The contestant with the highest score after these rounds advances to the final, where they solve a specific word puzzle. The show emphasizes vocabulary skills, quick thinking, and numerical agility, blending language and mathematics in an engaging format.