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Rachel makes the ominous walk onto the Countdown stage and stands in front of the famous TV rack. Sporting a tight red top, a red and pink miniskirt, black tights and black high heel shoes, she introduces the programme.
“Good evening and welcome again to another edition of Messy Countdown, but this time it’s a celebrity special. As our contestant today we have the lovely Kelly Brook.”
Kelly strides onto the stage and takes her seat in the contestants chair. The model and TV personality is wearing a figure hugging brown dress showing a lot of cleavage and side boob and a lot of leg. The outfit is completed with a pair of matching brown high heel shoes.
“Kelly, you will get to choose either a vowel or consonant and when you have picked 9 letters you will have 10 seconds to spell out a gooey substance. If you do, then you get to gunge me, BUT if you don’t then I get to gunge you. Does that all make sense to you?”
“Yes Rachel, and I don’t particularly want to get messy so I hope I win. Anyway I’ve seen the last few shows and you seem to be getting used to the mess Rachel, so I guess you won’t mind losing.”
“Well, I am not so sure that I am getting used to it. I have been a bit unfortunate as I have been playing against professional scrabble players and quiz team members. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I am kind of thinking you might not have the same expertise as they possess?”
”Hey, are you saying I am stupid?”
”No, not at all. I’m just pointing out that the chances of you winning are less than my previous opponents.”
“You cheeky….”
Kelly was cut off mid-sentence as Rachel turned to the board and started speaking.
“Ok, let’s make a start. What do you want first?
Kelly proceeded to choose what she wanted and Rachel picked the appropriate cards and placed them onto the rack.
“There you go Kelly. You have all these letters to spell out a gooey substance. You have 10 seconds from now.”
Furiously, Kelly started to scribble on her pad to try and find a word. 10 seconds was soon up and the clock boomed and Kelly threw her hands in the air as she hadn’t managed to spell a gooey word.
”Oh no, does this mean I am going to get messy?”
Rachel was quick to answer “Actually in this special celebrity edition you do get a chance to gamble to avoid the gunge. Let me explain….”
“You can accept your gunging, OR you can play the Numbers Game where you have to mathematically use the numbers selected to get to a randomly selected number. If you win the Numbers Game then you don’t get gunged and I will instead. BUT if you lose then you get gunged AND you will also have to do 1 spin of our forfeit wheel, which has all sorts of messy and humiliating forfeits on it.”
”Just to clarify that if you do win, then I will also have to do 1 spin of the forfeit wheel as well as getting a gunging. What do you want to do?”
Kelly pondered for a minute, before deciding to take the challenge of the Numbers Game. She didn’t like the sound of spinning a ‘forfeit wheel’ but then again she didn’t want to get gunged. If she won, then she knew she would stay clean and would get to see the blonde presenter get messy yet again.
”Ok, so you’ve decided to gamble. Let’s crack on with the game. First of all can you tell me which rows you want me to select the Numbers from”
”Two from each row please”
Rachel picks the 6 numbers, places them on the rack and presses the button that generates the random number. “
“Ok, here’s your numbers Kelly, and you need to use them to get to the target of 646. You have 30 seconds, from NOW…….”
You decide what happens next…….