There have been 6,207 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 510,274 entries from 3,534 entrants, scoring a total of 30,991,098 points!
Only 19,633 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,345 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 481 hours, 40 minutes and 48 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 39,781 letters rounds, 16,900 numbers rounds and 14,461 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,522 |
| Junior | 351 |
| Goatdown | 320 |
| Touchdown | 243 |
| Lockdown | 234 |
| Omelette | 218 |
| Instant | 216 |
| Octorock | 212 |
| Aegilops | 205 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 195 |
| Hyper | 180 |
| Unlimited | 177 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 150 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 141 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 121 |
| Nice | 116 |
| Nasty | 98 |
| Octolock | 83 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 73 |
| Hypertouch | 67 |
| Hypergoatdown | 60 |
| Beanstalk | 52 |
| Deepdown | 44 |
| Hyperlock | 37 |
| Duckdown | 35 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Hyper Nasty | 24 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 6,005 |
| CSW | 55 |
| French | 32 |
| German | 31 |
| Welsh | 16 |
| Finnish | 12 |
| Latin | 11 |
| Portuguese | 9 |
| Dutch | 8 |
| Italian | 7 |
| Spanish | 7 |
| Catalan | 7 |
| Russian | 4 |
| Greek | 2 |
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