There have been 6,482 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 538,087 entries from 3,635 entrants, scoring a total of 32,566,688 points!
Only 21,358 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,482 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 502 hours, 23 minutes and 45 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 41,746 letters rounds, 17,526 numbers rounds and 14,902 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,621 |
| Junior | 368 |
| Goatdown | 332 |
| Touchdown | 253 |
| Lockdown | 239 |
| Omelette | 234 |
| Instant | 229 |
| Octorock | 226 |
| Aegilops | 216 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 208 |
| Hyper | 186 |
| Unlimited | 181 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 155 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 147 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 125 |
| Nice | 121 |
| Nasty | 103 |
| Octolock | 85 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 80 |
| Hypertouch | 67 |
| Beanstalk | 63 |
| Hypergoatdown | 61 |
| Deepdown | 46 |
| Hyperlock | 40 |
| Duckdown | 37 |
| Hyper Nasty | 26 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 6,269 |
| CSW | 58 |
| 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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