There have been 6,689 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 559,800 entries from 3,729 entrants, scoring a total of 33,832,285 points!
Only 22,687 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,600 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 517 hours, 12 minutes and 43 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 43,187 letters rounds, 17,979 numbers rounds and 15,243 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,701 |
| Junior | 376 |
| Goatdown | 343 |
| Touchdown | 260 |
| Lockdown | 245 |
| Instant | 244 |
| Omelette | 243 |
| Octorock | 233 |
| Aegilops | 220 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 216 |
| Hyper | 191 |
| Unlimited | 185 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 158 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 150 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 129 |
| Nice | 125 |
| Nasty | 107 |
| Octolock | 88 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 84 |
| Beanstalk | 74 |
| Hypertouch | 68 |
| Hypergoatdown | 61 |
| Deepdown | 48 |
| Hyperlock | 41 |
| Duckdown | 39 |
| Hyper Nasty | 27 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 6,472 |
| CSW | 60 |
| French | 36 |
| German | 33 |
| Welsh | 16 |
| Latin | 13 |
| Finnish | 12 |
| Dutch | 9 |
| Portuguese | 9 |
| Italian | 8 |
| Spanish | 7 |
| Catalan | 7 |
| Russian | 4 |
| Greek | 2 |
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