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David in the process of missing LATTICES.

David O'Donnell was the winner of Series 58. He first appeared on the 24th of January 2008 and scored 110 against Marjorie Hillman, winning by 56 points. In his next two games he fell below 100 but came back with 117 against Bill Barrack. His next game turned out to have the second largest winning margin of all-time, David beat Hazel Wheeler by 98 points, winning 111 - 13. He scored 114 against Rick Ruegg before scoring 122 against Ian Browning, the second highest score of the series so far. Only Michael MacDonald-Cooper has scored more. On the 4th of February, David finished his Octochamp run with a score of 117 - his total of 880 is the fourth highest ever achieved.

O'Donnell returned for the finals as #1 seed and saw off the challenge of Ben Hanks and then very narrowly beat Jonathan Coles on a crucial conundrum, despite having ULTIMATI disallowed. In the final, Richard Priest gave a good performance but was 13-0 after two rounds and never recovered. After David beat him in the later rounds with EPIDOTE the game was effectively over and O'Donnell became the Series 58 champion, winning the final game of the series 91-61, although he failed to solve the conundrum SCORELINE.

Preceded by
Craig Beevers
Series winner
Series 58
Followed by
Junaid Mubeen

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
4525 24/01/2008 P Marjorie Hillman 54 – 110 David O'Donnell Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4526 25/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 97 – 49 Brian Kay Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4527 28/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 92 – 62 Martin Smith Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4528 29/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 117 – 45 Bill Barrack Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4529 30/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 111 – 13 Hazel Wheeler Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4530 31/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 114 – 44 Rick Ruegg Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4531 1/02/2008 P David O'Donnell 122 – 62 Ian Browning Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4532 4/02/2008 P David O'Donnell 117 – 48 Steve Jepp Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4621 12/06/2008 QF David O'Donnell 92 – 46 Ben Hanks Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Alastair Stewart Susie Dent
4625 18/06/2008 SF David O'Donnell 95 – 82 Jonathan Coles Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Phil Hammond Susie Dent
4627 20/06/2008 F David O'Donnell 91 – 61 Richard Priest Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Phil Hammond Susie Dent