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Down 16 points with only 30 seconds to come up with a word, it seemed contestant Marwan Riach was scrambling for an answer.

During the Monday afternoon airing of popular British game show Countdown, the two contestants had to reveal the words they came up with from the nine-letter mix TINEYATPH. The longest word would get the point.

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Tom Silverlock, who was leading, could only muster the five-letter word “patty.”

Riach, on the other hand, could do one letter better. When prompted, he sheepishly blurted out, “uh, hentai?”

“Hentai is brilliant,” the show’s resident etymologist approved. She went on to define the word, “It’s a sub-genre of Japanese manga and anime, et cetera.”