Countdown Game Show (Britain/France): The Numbers Round

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Note that one or other of the contestants has some degree of freedom in choosing the six ingredients:

Quote:The game involves a board of 24 numbered cards, initially arranged face down in a layout of four rows as follows:

• The top row contains four cards, which are 25, 50, 75 and 100.
• The remaining three rows (currently) contain six, seven and seven cards respectively; these cards are two each of the integers between 1 and 10 inclusive.
  

One contestant chooses from where in this layout six numbers are to be picked. Contestants variously choose a specific pattern (e.g. the inverted T), the number of cards to take from each row, or simply the quantities of large numbers (25–100) and small numbers (1–10). At yet other times, a contestant would give Carol/Rachel a free choice.