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Description

Recreating the Countdown TV show on Zoom

Resources

Each member will need paper, pen and optionally a calculator.

The "presenter" on Zoom should share their screen with Word/similar showing, and we also had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dhD9zR6hk showing too on the screen.

Make two piles of letters - one of vowels and one of consonants. I used scrabble tiles and put them into cups.

Instructions

Going round the zoom screen, ask each member if they want a vowel or consonant. Pick out a letter and type it into Word so they can see it.

Once you have ten letters, given them 60 seconds to make the longest anagram from the 10 letters possible.

Play the YouTube video after 30s to build up the tension!

To score, everyone gets the number of points corresponding to the number of letters in the longest word they found, and a bonus 10 points if they got the longest word.

Optionally, a second presenter can use a site like https://www.thewordfinder.com/anagram-solver/ to reveal the longest possible word they could have found.

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For the numbers, use a random number generator to get 6 numbers from 1-9, and one number from 50-100 (easy) or a bigger range to make it harder.

https://www.google.com/search?q=random+number+generator

Then they have 60s to get as close to the large number by using as many of the 6 numbers as they need (and nothing more than once).

So if you had 1, 3, 5, 8 and were aiming for 44, you could do 1+3 (=4), plus 5x8 (=40) = 44

Same mathematical rules apply as the real countdown - i.e. mathematical orders of precedence don't matter.

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• Virtual Scouting Live

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