countdown

I've been watching daytime TV. My favourite is Countdown. It is a gameshow with two contestants. Most of the game consists of word rounds: making the longest word from a jumble of nine letters, chosen in turn by the contestants from shuffled stacks of vowels and consonants. I rarely do better than the contestants. For every four or five word rounds, there is a number round: making a number from six other numbers by addition, subtraction, etc. I love the number round. I watch the whole program for those few rounds. They say mental exercise is good for a healthy mind.