There have been 6,599 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 549,571 entries from 3,679 entrants, scoring a total of 33,277,160 points!
Only 21,928 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,545 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 510 hours, 49 minutes and 48 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 42,594 letters rounds, 17,788 numbers rounds and 15,131 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,664 |
| Junior | 372 |
| Goatdown | 340 |
| Touchdown | 260 |
| Lockdown | 242 |
| Instant | 239 |
| Omelette | 238 |
| Octorock | 229 |
| Aegilops | 217 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 212 |
| Hyper | 190 |
| Unlimited | 182 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 156 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 149 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 128 |
| Nice | 122 |
| Nasty | 106 |
| Octolock | 87 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 83 |
| Hypertouch | 68 |
| Beanstalk | 68 |
| Hypergoatdown | 61 |
| Deepdown | 47 |
| Hyperlock | 41 |
| Duckdown | 39 |
| Hyper Nasty | 26 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 6,384 |
| CSW | 59 |
| French | 36 |
| German | 32 |
| Welsh | 16 |
| Latin | 13 |
| Finnish | 12 |
| Dutch | 9 |
| Portuguese | 9 |
| Italian | 8 |
| Spanish | 7 |
| Catalan | 7 |
| Russian | 4 |
| Greek | 2 |
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