There have been 6,418 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 531,791 entries from 3,622 entrants, scoring a total of 32,220,687 points!
Only 20,924 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,450 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 497 hours, 37 minutes and 5 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 41,320 letters rounds, 17,325 numbers rounds and 14,816 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,602 |
| Junior | 364 |
| Goatdown | 327 |
| Touchdown | 250 |
| Lockdown | 238 |
| Omelette | 230 |
| Instant | 227 |
| Octorock | 220 |
| Aegilops | 210 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 205 |
| Hyper | 186 |
| Unlimited | 180 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 153 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 146 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 124 |
| Nice | 120 |
| Nasty | 103 |
| Octolock | 85 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 78 |
| Hypertouch | 67 |
| Hypergoatdown | 61 |
| Beanstalk | 61 |
| Deepdown | 46 |
| Hyperlock | 39 |
| Duckdown | 37 |
| Hyper Nasty | 26 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 6,207 |
| CSW | 57 |
| French | 35 |
| German | 32 |
| Welsh | 16 |
| Finnish | 12 |
| Latin | 12 |
| Dutch | 9 |
| Portuguese | 9 |
| Italian | 8 |
| Spanish | 7 |
| Catalan | 7 |
| Russian | 4 |
| Greek | 2 |
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