There have been 6,509 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 540,737 entries from 3,638 entrants, scoring a total of 32,728,132 points!
Only 21,437 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,498 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 504 hours, 8 minutes and 18 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 41,959 letters rounds, 17,554 numbers rounds and 14,981 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,629 |
| Junior | 369 |
| Goatdown | 333 |
| Touchdown | 255 |
| Lockdown | 239 |
| Omelette | 234 |
| Instant | 232 |
| Octorock | 228 |
| Aegilops | 216 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 209 |
| Hyper | 186 |
| Unlimited | 181 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 155 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 147 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 127 |
| Nice | 121 |
| Nasty | 104 |
| Octolock | 87 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 81 |
| Hypertouch | 68 |
| Beanstalk | 64 |
| Hypergoatdown | 61 |
| Deepdown | 46 |
| Hyperlock | 41 |
| Duckdown | 37 |
| Hyper Nasty | 26 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 6,295 |
| CSW | 59 |
| French | 35 |
| 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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