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Century
A century is an occurrence of a contestant scoring at least 100 points. This was never achieved in the 9-round format as it required the players to find at least three nine-letter words in the six letters rounds available. However, before the 15-round era, centuries were possible in 14-round games, as well as in the Countdown Masters series, where Richard Whiteley often called players that achieved them centurions.
Centuries have become relatively common in 15-round games. The first ever century was by Clive Spate in the grand final of Series 8. He scored 107 points in the 14-round game. The first ever century in a 15-round game was by Ian McMenzie in the fourth game of Series 46.
Most centuries
Since the start of the 15-round era in Series 46, the following players have achieved at least five centuries in heat games, sorted alphabetically by surname:
- 13: Zarte Siempre (five in Series 69 plus eight in Series 78)
- 9: Matt O'Connor (one in Series 65 plus eight in Series 85)
- 8: Craig Beevers
- 8: Luke Boynton
- 8: Edward Byrne
- 8: Dan Byrom
- 8: Tom Cappleman
- 8: Sam Cappleman-Lynes
- 8: Thomas Carey
- 8: Julian Fell
- 8: Adam Gillard
- 8: James Haughton
- 8: Ronan Higginson
- 8: Andrew Hulme
- 8: Jack Hurst
- 8: Giles Hutchings
- 8: Luke Johnson-Davies
- 8: Martin May (two in Series 57 plus six in Series 79)
- 8: Toby McDonald
- 8: Robin McKay
- 8: Cillian McMulkin
- 8: Elliott Mellor
- 8: Ahmed Mohamed
- 8: Eoin Monaghan
- 8: Mark Murray
- 8: Andy Platt
- 8: Stephen Read
- 8: Harry Savage
- 8: Jen Steadman
- 8: Tom Stevenson
- 8: Dylan Taylor
- 8: Jonathan Wynn
- 7: Kirk Bevins
- 7: Innis Carson
- 7: Jeff Clayton
- 7: Chris Davies
- 7: Ann Dibben
- 7: Paul Erdunast
- 7: George Ford
- 7: John Hardie
- 7: Tom Hargreaves
- 7: Stu Harkness
- 7: Bradley Horrocks
- 7: Dan McColm
- 7: Edward McCullagh
- 7: Paul Nixon
- 7: Tricia Pay
- 7: Antoinette Ryan
- 7: Leo Smith
- 7: Glen Webb
- 7: Chris Wills
- 7: Jack Worsley
- 6: Maggie Barlow
- 6: Quinn Bartlett
- 6: Stephen Briggs
- 6: Florence Cappleman-Lynes
- 6: Bradley Cates
- 6: Tom Chafer-Cook
- 6: Chris Cummins
- 6: Mark Davies
- 6: Paul Gallen
- 6: Marcus Hares
- 6: Stewart Holden
- 6: James Hurrell
- 6: Tracey Mills
- 6: Liam Moloney*
- 6: David O'Donnell
- 6: Grace Page
- 6: Jonathan Rawlinson
- 6: Dinos Sfyris
- 6: Martyn Simpson*
- 6: Conor Travers
- 6: Gerry Tynan
- 6: Ian Volante (one in Series 56 plus five in Series 82)
- 6: Jamie Washington
- 6: Jack Welsby
- 6: Jamie Wing**
- 5: Philip Aston*
- 5: Ben Bazzard
- 5: John Brackstone
- 5: Steven Briers
- 5: James Burley
- 5: Jon Corby
- 5: Mark Deeks
- 5: George Greenhough
- 5: Lee Hartley
- 5: Paul Howe
- 5: Chris Hunt*
- 5: Martin Hurst
- 5: Steve Hyde
- 5: Wesley Jardine
- 5: Andy Noden
- 5: Paul O'Brien
- 5: Jon O'Neill
- 5: Samir Pilica
- 5: Charlie Reams
- 5: Moose Rosser
- 5: Matthew Shore
- 5: Kevin Steede
- 5: Ryan Styles
- 5: Matthew Tassier
- 5: Kevin Thurlow
- 5: Mark Tournoff
- 5: Brendan Whitehurst
- 5: Alan Young (one in Series 69 plus four in Series 86)
*Chris Hunt, Liam Moloney, Philip Aston, and Martyn Simpson are the only players to have achieved five or more centuries, and not gone on to become octochamps.
**Jamie Wing scored 100 on his debut against Paul Anderson including a tiebreak conundrum – this is not included as a century on this page.
