Episode 7 Letterbox

This is the Letterbox.

There's 2,500 big ones inside there, and by that I mean money.

You can have your hands on the cash if you succeed in cracking its

formidable eight letter password.

Will anyone win today? No idea.

Let's see. Welcome to Letterbox.

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We love it.

Hello, and welcome to Letterbox,

the show that's all about cracking passwords.

Let's meet our first two pairs hoping to get their hands on the cash,

Emily and Jackie, welcome to the show.

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So nice to see you. Now, how do you know each other?

We work together. Yeah, yeah, and we're friends as well.

Friends as well.

I've never really had a proper job.

But when you sit in an office together, are you allowed to talk the whole time

or is there somebody that tells you to stop talking?

We're quite busy but we multitask, we're good at that.

-Yeah.

-We can chat and work at the same time.

Got lovely clean hair, the both of you.

-Thanks very much.

-Lovely shine.

-We did wash.

-We did share shampoo as well.

-Yeah, we did.

-Did you share shampoo?

-Yeah.

I love it. Listen, welcome to Letterbox, lovely to see you.

-Thank you.

-And they are up against James and Sophia.

-Hello.

-Hello.

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So nice to see you.

-Great to be here.

-Sophia, I know that you are slightly worried about

the cleanliness of our console.

Is this called a console? I'm calling it a console.

-Yeah, it is now.

-I know, how bad is that?

The first thing I thought, "Oh, I could give that a good wipe down.

"All the fingermarks, you know."

Go for your life. You've got a sleeve.

Just give it a little bit of a rub. Sure, it'll be fine.

Bit of elbow grease, it'll come out.

Does she like cleaning a lot?

I must say I am the cleanest of the two of us.

I can't believe you said that!

In our fridge there's a thing called a fridge audit.

-A fridge audit?

-Which I'm in charge of, yes.

And how does a fridge audit work?

Well, there's things called sell-by dates and use-by dates that I adhere to.

I'm taking it you're together in a relationship?

-We are, yeah.

-Yes.

-We're not just fridge buddies.

We are also lovers.

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Long term partners.

Talking of which, I know for a fact that you hold a Guinness World Record.

-Held.

-You HELD it.

Tell me about the Guinness World Record, what was it for?

It was for the longest kiss.

The longest kiss.

It was 31 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds.

-Sounds romantic.

-So silly.

But the morning breath kicks in after about 24 hours,

so you got to know somebody when you're doing that sort of thing.

-Well done for doing it, though, seriously.

-Thanks, thanks, Mel.

Now, James and Sophia, who's going to be playing first?

-I am.

-Sophia's going to be playing first.

-And, Emily and Jackie?

-I will be.

-Jackie, you're up first.

OK. Take your positions, let's play!

Just giving it a little bit of Ibiza there.

Now, here is your first password, girls.

Have a look at this.

Here we go, it's an eight-letter word and your hint is country.

Now, we tossed a coin backstage and, Sophia, you are going to go first,

-aren't you? OK.

-OK.

-A.

-A?

Let's have a look. Have we got an A?

We certainly do.

Your go again.

S.

S. S for smackeroonie.

No, no S.

Takes it right over to you, Jackie.

-What are you thinking?

-Let's go for the letter E.

Let's see if we have a little E in this country.

Yes, we do, well done. Still with you, Jackie.

-An N.

-N?

-N.

No N.

Sophia, back to you.

-U.

-U.

Have we got a U?

No U. Jackie.

I'm going to go for the letter O.

The letter O. Is there an O in there?

No. Sophia, what's up next?

-T.

-T.

Oh! I can't see what it is at all.

Jackie?

OK, I'm going to go for the letter I

cos I'm sure there must be another vowel in there.

Good thought, good thought. Let's see if there's an I.

Yes. Paid off for you, Jackie, well done.

Still with you.

OK, let's go for an M, please.

M. Let's have a look.

Yes.

Oh! B.

B.

Two Bs.

-Right.

-Z.

A Z, let's have a little look.

There's a Z.

W.

W. Let's have a little squint.

Well done.

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Hey, Jackie. That was tough, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-That was so difficult.

It was tough, it was tough.

Listen, you've cracked the first password, OK, which is,

as you've said correctly, Zimbabwe.

As you know, there are 26 letters in the alphabet

and they are all here in the Letterbox.

The eight red ones spell out the final password

that will unlock the box.

That leaves 18 mystery letters for you two to choose from.

So pick two. Go on, my love.

This one.

-And another one.

-This one.

Those two letters that you've got there

are not going to feature in the final password, so well done.

Don't worry, James, Sophia, it's now time to play password two.

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Right, here we go, here's the second password.

OK, we are looking for a seven-letter word here,

and the hint is, for this one - fictional character.

Are you good with fictional characters, James?

Fantasy role-play.

Yeah? Don't tell me any more.

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Just let me just imagine, that's OK.

Emily, it's your turn to go first this time.

Can I have your first letter choice, please?

E.

E. let's have a look.

No. Over to you, James.

-A.

-A.

Oh, two As.

-Well done.

-I'll go for an O.

O. You're going to go for an O? Let's see if there's a little O.

No. No O.

So, back to you, Emily.

-I.

-I?

No I either. Right, James, back to you.

I can't... I thought it would be "man" at the end but it's not man.

-I'll go for an M, anyway.

-M, you are going to go for M? OK.

No M.

No M. Emily.

-M for Emily.

-I'll go for an N.

N. N.

Yes.

Still with you, Emily, sorry, I was very engrossed for a second there.

-What are you thinking?

-I'll go for a T.

-T? Let's try a T.

No T. Back with you, James.

I'll lay my staff on the floor and go for G.

G.

See what you're doing there. Let's have a look.

Have we got G?

-We do.

-I'll go for D.

D. Let's have a look and see if you're right.

D, well done.

-L.

-L.

Is it what we're thinking? And what's your last choice?

I'll go for an F, please.

F. Is it an F?

Yes, it's an F!

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You're back in the game, James.

That was tense, I had no idea and, I don't know, I saw it.

Is it to do with the beard? Something to do with the beard?

I don't know. Wizardy beard.

A slightly wizardy beard. Can I touch it?

You can stroke it, if you want.

-It's very nice.

-It's lovely.

I wouldn't want to kiss him with the beard for 31 hours, but it's a super beard.

-Well, you've cracked the second password.

-Yeah.

Very, very strong. Listen,

you can choose two letters from the Letterbox and remember,

please stay away from the reds.

So I can reach in and take two letters?

So, both pairs have cracked one password each.

So we will be going to a decider - very exciting times -

to see who goes through to the semifinal.

Who's going to play, Emily?

-Jackie's going to play.

-James?

-Sophia's going to play.

-Sophia's going to play.

OK, let's play the third and deciding password.

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Here is the deciding password.

Have a look at this, ladies.

It's a five-letter word. We'll give you a hint and the hint is sport.

Sophia, please give me your first letter.

-Thank you. E.

-E?

Straight in there, let's have a look.

No. OK.

Jackie, my love.

Let's go for an I.

An I. Aye-aye, cap'n!

No, there's no I, either.

-Sophia.

-O.

O. OK.

No. Right, Jackie.

I think I know it. Let's go for a U.

A U, OK.

Have we got a U in there?

Oh! That's a surprise.

Sophia, what are you thinking?

It's got to be an A.

Got to be an A. There's got to be a vowel in there somewhere, surely.

A, there is indeed, well done, Sophia.

-What's up next?

-D.

A D. You're going to go for a D.

OK, let's see, have we got a D?

D, D, D.

-Oh!

-Yeah.

Yeah, OK.

Right, Sophia, still with you, what do you think?

-N.

-N.

-No...

-No, there's no N, I'm afraid.

-Jackie?

-An R.

-R.

Let's see if we've got an R.

Yes, we do. Still with you.

I don't want to say I know it because last time I was wrong,

so let's just go for a T.

T. Let's have a little look, we're looking for a T.

-We do have a T.

-And an S.

S. Let's see if there's an S to finish that off.

Well done.

Well done, Jackie.

That was a real nail cruncher, or biter.

That was difficult, yeah.

Yeah, well done. Listen, you've won that all-important password.

It's the decider, which means that you're through to the semifinal.

Well done. APPLAUSE

Oh, James, Sophia...

We've got a dartboard in the garden, played it the other night.

He's not going to let me forget this.

I'm so annoyed with myself.

Listen, well done. Very good to meet you.

Can you please pass your letters over...

-Of course.

-..to Emily and Jackie.

There we go. Ceremonial passing over.

You're going to take those through with you into the semifinal.

You've now got four letters that you know are not in this final password, OK?

Keep them safe, as it's time to meet the next contestants in Heat Two.

-Hello, and welcome, Leon and Heidi.

-Hello.

-Lovely to see you.

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-Hello.

-Hello.

Heidi, can I just say,

I need to slightly have a look at this fringing.

-The tassels.

-They are gorgeous tassels.

-Thank you.

-Where did you get this from?

-I made it.

She is a clever sausage, Leon.

I'm guessing you might be brother and sister

-cos you look quite similar.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Really?

-Yeah, you do.

-Same eyes.

-Yes. This is great.

-Thanks, and it matches the set as well, I didn't know.

It really does. You look absolutely great.

-And, Leon, you look lovely as well.

-Cheers.

I had to choose an outfit for him.

They are up against Nichola and Lyndsey.

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Hello.

You've got a very good sort of almost Japanese-y style thing going on here.

-Trendy.

-Wasn't planned, just happened.

Do you often do that? Do you often put on the same style of things?

-Monday to Friday?

-Yeah, we've got the same uniform.

-So you're work colleagues?

-Yeah, we are.

-And what's the uniform?

Is it a tabard? Do you have to wear a tabard?

No, it's a blouse, but it's polyester.

-And a lovely shade of green. Yeah. Yeah.

-Brilliant.

Leon and Heidi, who is going to play first?

-Me.

-Heidi is going to go first.

-Pressure.

-Ms Tassel is stepping up.

-Nichola and Lyndsey?

-Me.

-Lyndsey, very good.

Please take your positions and let's play.

Right - Heidi, Lyndsey,

here's your first password, have a look.

Seven letters, OK, and we are going to give you

a little hint to help you.

Food and drink.

Now, we tossed a coin backstage.

Heidi, you're going to go first, can I have your first letter, please?

Oh, my gosh. O.

O. Straight in there with the O.

-I thought it'd be cool.

-No O.

-Doesn't matter, early days. Lyndsey.

-OK.

I'll go for an E, please.

An E, let's see if we've got an E.

Let's have a look.

No.

-A.

-A? You want an A?

No A. Right, Lyndsey, over to you.

There's got to be a vowel, we'll go for I.

I, let's have a little look.

Just the one.

My goodness.

-Oh...

-Can I have an N?

-N?

-N.

Have we got an N?

Yes, we do.

Intriguing.

-Lyndsey.

-Can I have an R?

R. You certainly may.

-I love that R-r-r-r.

-That was a confident R.

Oh.

-Heidi?

-U.

U, OK, let's see if we've got a U.

Yes, we do.

It could be a very, very long muffin.

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But it won't be.

-Er...M?

-M.

-Yes, for mother.

-M for mother.

Well done.

Oh!

-SHE GASPS OK, Heidi.

-P.

LYNDSEY GROANS

P, OK.

Yes. And...

-K.

-K.

It's K!

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-That was a hard one.

-Well done, Heidi,

you've cracked the first password, which is, of course, pumpkin.

Now, you know you get to choose two letters from the Letterbox, OK, so,

please, go for it, go for your life.

-OK.

-Choose two. Now, listen, Leon and Heidi...

No, don't give me sad face.

-Lyndsey, no!

-We've still got another round.

Still... Listen, best of three, don't forget.

Time to play password two.

Right, listen, here's the second password, have a look.

Have a little look. Six letters.

I'll give you a hint.

Theatre. Oh, theatre, darlings!

Let's all get very, very, very theatrical.

OK, darlings. Nichola, it's your turn to go first,

so please can I have your first letter?

I will try an E.

DRAMATICALLY: E! E!

Have we got an E?

We certainly do, well done.

I will try a T, please.

A T. A T.

No, no T.

It's over to you, Leon, what do you think?

Right, let's go for an A.

We'll go for an A. Good.

A. No A.

Back to you, Nichola.

I will try an I, please.

An I. I, darling, it's all about the I in theatre, isn't it?

-Yes, darling.

-Oh, yes.

Yes, we do.

-I think I know it.

-Really?

-I think I might.

-OK, go for it, give me some letters. One letter.

Can I try a W, please?

A W, let's have a look.

Yes, well done.

It's still with you.

-A C.

-A C.

Yes. And your next letter choice, please?

-A K.

-K.

Yes, there is. And what about that last little space?

We'll have a D.

A D.

Yay!

Well done, Nichola.

Very cool and calm. You've cracked the second password

which means you can choose two letters

from the remaining ones in the Letterbox.

Just the greys, stay away from the reds, please.

-OK, we'll have...

-So, both pairs have cracked one password each

which means we are going to go

to a decider to see who goes through to the semifinal.

Leon, who is going to play?

-Heidi is.

-Heidi is back.

-Nichola, who is playing?

-Lyndsey.

Lyndsey is going to play. Lovely.

Let's play the third and deciding password.

Here we go.

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Here it is. It's the deciding password.

What have we got? A five-letter word.

And a little hint to go with it.

It's a bird. How nice.

Heidi, it's your turn to go first, so please give us a birdie letter,

thank you.

-S.

-S. S.

Is there an S in there in this bird?

No, no S. Lyndsey.

-What are you thinking?

-I'm going to go for an I.

I. OK, let's have a little look. Have we got an I?

No I. Heidi.

O.

O? You want to go for O.

Got an O?

Yes, well done, Heidi, well done.

-Er...F.

-F.

F for feathery friend.

-Let's have a look.

-Stop huffing. He's putting me off.

-Is he huffing?

-He's a real huffer.

-He's stressed, I can feel his stress.

You just lost the last one.

Stop turning around! LAUGHTER

-Sorry.

-Have we got a feathery F?

No F. Oh, Heidi.

-OK, Lyndsey, come on.

-N.

N. OK, let's see if we've got an N.

-We do have an N. It's at the end.

-Think I know it.

-OK.

-H.

Lyndsey's going for an H. She's dancing.

We do have an H. Interesting.

-E.

-E?

Let's see if we've got an E.

We do. And your final letter choice, please, Lyndsey?

-R.

-R.

Hey, Lyndsey, congratulations.

-It was so hard.

-It was very hard, wasn't it?

-It was.

-Very good.

Now, listen, you've won that all-important decider password

which means that you and Nichola

will be going through to the semifinal. Well done.

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I'm going to have to ask you please to hand those letters over to the girls.

You can do it that way or just pass it over. It doesn't matter.

Really doesn't matter. Do it, Heidi, no, it's lovely, it's absolutely lovely.

Now, listen, you're going to be taking those four letters through with you

to the semifinal, so thank you so much for playing.

Thank you.

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Stay there. Because it's time to

bring back Emily and Jackie to play the semifinal. Yeah.

Emily, Jackie, Nichola and Lyndsey. Now, what we have here, my friends,

is an all-female, all-Scottish semifinal.

It's Glasgow versus Edinburgh.

Ooh! East meets West!

Tense times. East versus West, exactly.

In this semifinal, there is just one password you need to crack and it's

always the name of a famous person,

and they can be, FYI, alive or dead, OK?

The team that cracks the password will go through to the final and

play for the money and this time,

you're playing together so you can confer. So let's play.

So, here is your semifinal password.

Have a look at this.

OK. A three, then a six.

Remember, we are looking for a famous person, dead or alive.

We tossed a coin backstage, Nichola and Lyndsey,

you won so you go first.

Can I have your first letter choice?

Yeah, can we go E?

-E.

-Yeah.

-Absolutely.

Let's see if there's an E.

Well done. Go again, my loves.

Can we have an R, please?

An R? You certainly can, loves.

R.

Any Rs? No.

Over to you, Emily and Jackie.

-An I, please.

-An I, OK.

Surely there's got to be an I.

No I. Oh.

Nichola and Lyndsey, back to Glasgow.

Go A, please.

A. OK.

Let's see if there's an A.

Have we got a A? Yes, we do.

Just doing a couple of lunges, just to combat the stress.

There we go, nice and deep.

It's still with you, Nichola and Lyndsey.

Can we try an M, please?

-Is that an M?

-M, yes.

M.

No, there's no M. Right, we're going back to Edinburgh.

-U?

-U.

Let's see.

Edinburgh, what are you saying?

-Try it.

-S. S.

S for Scottie dog. S.

S. Ah!

What's up next, girls?

-Yes, try it.

-T.

A T. T, have we got a T?

No. Right, back to Glasgow we go.

Nichola, Lyndsey.

-L.

-L, OK.

No L. Right.

Emily and Jackie.

-A G?

-A G, let's go for a G.

Have we got a G?

Yes, we do.

Next letter, please.

Shall we try a Y?

A Y, OK.

OK.

Yes. There's a Y in Guy.

-Is there a...

-F.

-F.

-Aw.

-So close.

I still haven't got it, I'm not going to lie to you.

I still haven't got it. Oh, hello! Yes!

OK! Yes, yes, I'm with you. LAUGHTER

-What's next?

-K.

K. Good.

Yes. And the last letter.

-W.

-W.

Is there a W? Yes.

Guy Fawkes.

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Emily, Jackie - Edinburgh will be proud this evening.

-Congratulations, you've cracked that semifinal password.

-Thank you.

That means, my loves, you are through to the final.

Well done. Brilliant. APPLAUSE

Oh, Nichola and Lyndsey. I must ask you, please,

to hand over the letters to lovely Emily and Jackie.

Nichola and Lyndsey, back to Glasgow.

Now, listen, are you going to be travelling together?

Yes? How's that going to be?

-Well, they can buy us a drink if they win.

-LAUGHTER

I like your style. I like your style.

Nichola and Lyndsey, thank you so much for playing.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

Now, Emily and Jackie, you've now got eight letters.

A stack of letters to help you crack that final password.

So, it's time to unlock the Letterbox.

Emily and Jackie, you have done so well to get this far and now

just one final password stands between you and the £2,500 lodged

inside the letterbox. And here it is. Have a look.

OK, it's an eight-letter password and there are no repeat letters, OK?

It can be any word. There's no hint, I'm afraid.

But listen, you've got eight letters there

and you know that those aren't featured

in the final password. So let's have a look at what we can get rid of.

Give those to me, please. Thank you very much.

You know, girls, ladies, women,

that there is not going to be in the final password...

a Q.

There won't be a D.

No J.

No F.

No E.

No W.

No S.

No K.

OK, that's a bit of help, isn't it?

-Quite good.

-Yeah.

-Now, the bad news is, I'm afraid,

every time you make a mistake,

£500 will disappear from the £2,500 prize money.

Good luck, Emily and Jackie.

Let's unlock the Letterbox.

OK, so, going down the vowels.

-Probably...

-An I? Do you think?

-OK, shall we go with I?

-Start with I.

-OK, you are going to start with I?

Right, let's see if there's an I in this final password.

Yes. OK.

Well done.

Yeah, you're right, there's got to be another one.

There's got to be at least an A?

Or do we try to get a consonant in and then that will help us?

Valid, but we do know there's going to be another vowel.

-OK.

-An A, please.

An A. Let's see if there's an A in the final password.

Yes. Very, very good so far.

You've still got £2,500 prize money.

So, I think the first two might be consonants.

I keep thinking of things that are repeats,

so I was thinking like Britannia but that's a repeat.

So, shall we do a consonant, then?

Probably...an R, please.

An R. OK, let's see if we've got an R in this final password.

Yes, well done. OK.

So R. Do you think R-Y at the end?

-T-R-Y?

-R-T?

-T? A-N-T-R-Y?

A-N-A-R-Y?

A lot of thought process going on. I'm loving it.

-N.

-N. N for nonsense.

-No!

-Listen, don't worry, you're down to £2,000 but that's not too bad.

-Come on, that's good.

-Do you think we should try...?

-A Y?

Yeah, shall we try it?

Get it out of the way and that might eliminate some words.

-OK.

-OK, a Y.

-You're going to go for Y?

-Yeah.

-OK, is it a Y?

-Well done.

-OK.

-That was a good gamble.

-Could it be like...?

-T-R-Y?

-You think it might be a T, then?

-G?

-Shall we try...?

-Try L.

L. Is there an L in this word?

There is.

-You sure?

-Yeah.

-OK. Cos you are the speller.

-Yeah!

-C.

-C.

You're going for a C. Let's have a look.

There is a C. What are you going for next?

-H.

-An H.

Oh, I see where you're going with this.

-And a V.

-And a V.

-Yeah.

Is it going to be a V for victory?

Well done!

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Emily and Jackie, you, my friends,

are very much taking back to Edinburgh with you £2,000.

-Congratulations.

-Thanks!

Oh, my gosh!

-So good. Emily, quite excited.

-Eh?

Yeah. You're going to be fanning yourself with money on the way home.

-Obviously!

-Listen, thank you so much for playing.

Emily and Jackie, you were absolutely wonderful.

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Oh, my God!

And just to prove our final password was indeed what you thought,

it is C-H-I-V-A-L-R-Y.

I love doing that. Gives me great joy.

Well, that's that. Annoyingly, the password wasn't "password".

That's what I always try first.

See you next time, bye-bye.

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