There have been 6,063 Duels since the contest began on 16 August 2008, with 494,850 entries from 3,474 entrants, scoring a total of 30,092,186 points!
Only 18,792 perfect scores have been recorded, in 2,274 different Duels.
If you had played the Duel every day since it began, you would have played for up to 471 hours, 14 minutes and 8 seconds (depending on how quickly you got the conundrums). You would also have faced 38,760 letters rounds, 16,630 numbers rounds and 14,241 conundrums.
| Variant | Duels |
|---|---|
| Normal | 2,470 |
| Junior | 342 |
| Goatdown | 310 |
| Touchdown | 239 |
| Lockdown | 223 |
| Omelette | 212 |
| Instant | 212 |
| Octorock | 207 |
| Aegilops | 201 |
| Lockdown Jnr. | 192 |
| Hyper | 179 |
| Unlimited | 175 |
| Touchdown Jnr. | 147 |
| Goatdown Jnr. | 138 |
| Unlimited Jnr. | 119 |
| Nice | 111 |
| Nasty | 97 |
| Octolock | 82 |
| Hyper Unlimited | 69 |
| Hypertouch | 64 |
| Hypergoatdown | 59 |
| Beanstalk | 47 |
| Deepdown | 43 |
| Hyperlock | 35 |
| Duckdown | 35 |
| Blind | 26 |
| Hyper Nasty | 22 |
| Goatblind | 7 |
| Dictionary | Duels |
|---|---|
| English | 5,869 |
| CSW | 53 |
| French | 30 |
| German | 30 |
| Welsh | 14 |
| Finnish | 12 |
| Latin | 10 |
| Portuguese | 9 |
| Dutch | 8 |
| Italian | 7 |
| Spanish | 7 |
| Catalan | 7 |
| Russian | 4 |
| Greek | 2 |
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