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Countdown fans call out Colin Murray blunder as contestants dealt brutal snub

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Countdown fans call out Colin Murray blunder as contestants dealt brutal snub
Countdown fans call out Colin Murray blunder as contestants dealt brutal snub

COUNTDOWN viewers have called out a Colin Murray blunder after two contestants were dealt a brutal snub.

Today's episode of the Channel 4 show was another Champion of Champions round.

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Countdown viewers have called out a Colin Murray blunder after two contestants were dealt a brutal snub
Colin asked the players how many they thought they had but wasn't seen finding out what the words actually were
Colin asked the players how many they thought they had but wasn't seen finding out what the words actually were

It saw Ahmed and Luke go head to head and it was a high scoring game.

However, towards the end of the episode, Colin asked the men how many letters they had used for a word, and they both replied that they thought they had a seven letter word.

But instead of asking each of them what their words were like he usually does, Colin was seen going straight over to Dictionary Corner to see what they had got.

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It was never revealed what the contestants' words were and immediately sent Countdown viewers to Twitter to discuss the blunder.

One wrote: "What’s gone wrong on #countdown today. Both give a seven letter word but we were not told what it was."

Another added: "What was their seven letter words ? ???? ( The players both declared seven and the program skipped by their answers and went to dictionary corner who had six)."

A third tweeted: "Already baffled enough but #ChampionOfChampions#Countdown without @ColinMurray NOT ACTUALLY ASKING WHAT WORDS THEY GOT!!!"

Meanwhile a fourth questioned: "Hey @C4Countdown what happened to the contestants' two 7 letter words in that round just shown of today's show?? Edited out for what reason?"

Another asked Dictionary Corner's Susie Dent: "@susie_dent Did I miss something on #countdown today?

"For the letters round DSOATUGLG both contestants declared seven but we didn’t actually see what words they had!!! It went straight to Rick & Susie. Was I missing something? Am confused!!!!"

While Countdown is used to having rude words come up in rounds, it is unusual why the final edit missed that bit out, however, both men did get seven points each, which means their mystery answers were valid.

The show's official Twitter is yet to respond to any of the tweets asking what happened.

He jumped straight to Dictionary Corner instead
He jumped straight to Dictionary Corner instead

Countdown airs weekdays at 2.10pm on Channel 4.

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