There have been 6,095 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 498,128 entries from 3,489 entrants, scoring a total of 30,273,969 points!
Only 18,943 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,290 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 473 hours, 32 minutes and 43 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 38,981 letters rounds, 16,685 numbers rounds and 14,282 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,481 |
| Junior | 344 |
| Goatdown | 313 |
| Touchdown | 239 |
| Lockdown | 226 |
| Omelette | 213 |
| Instant | 212 |
| Octorock | 210 |
| Aegilops | 203 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 192 |
| Hyper | 179 |
| Unlimited | 175 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 148 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 139 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 119 |
| Nice | 111 |
| Nasty | 97 |
| Octolock | 82 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 70 |
| Hypertouch | 64 |
| Hypergoatdown | 59 |
| Beanstalk | 49 |
| Deepdown | 43 |
| Hyperlock | 35 |
| Duckdown | 35 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Hyper Nasty | 24 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 5,898 |
| CSW | 53 |
| French | 31 |
| German | 30 |
| Welsh | 16 |
| Finnish | 12 |
| Latin | 10 |
| Portuguese | 9 |
| Dutch | 8 |
| Italian | 7 |
| Spanish | 7 |
| Catalan | 7 |
| Russian | 4 |
| Greek | 2 |
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