Man wins round of Scrabble-style gameshow with unusual word
by Rob Beschizza from on (#57JF8)
Countdown is a long-running UK gameshow featuring various alpha-numerical challenges. One round gives constestants 30 seconds to figure out the longest word from a series of random letters distributed between vowels and consonants. This result in annoyingly suggestive sets such as TINEYATPH, which seem to promise (but do not actually provide) full-length anagrams.
The longest word I could figure out was PATENT, but one of the contestants found a much better one.