There have been 6,386 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 528,689 entries from 3,616 entrants, scoring a total of 32,023,754 points!
Only 20,536 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,433 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 495 hours, 22 minutes and 20 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 41,056 letters rounds, 17,252 numbers rounds and 14,766 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,585 |
| Junior | 363 |
| Goatdown | 327 |
| Touchdown | 249 |
| Lockdown | 238 |
| Omelette | 227 |
| Instant | 227 |
| Octorock | 219 |
| Aegilops | 210 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 204 |
| Hyper | 186 |
| Unlimited | 179 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 153 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 143 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 124 |
| Nice | 119 |
| Nasty | 102 |
| Octolock | 85 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 78 |
| Hypertouch | 67 |
| Hypergoatdown | 61 |
| Beanstalk | 60 |
| Deepdown | 46 |
| Hyperlock | 39 |
| Duckdown | 37 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Hyper Nasty | 25 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 6,177 |
| CSW | 55 |
| 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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