Jonathan Wynn

Jonathan Wynn in Series 73.

Jonathan Wynn in Series 63.

Jonathan Wynn was an octochamp in and the champion of Series 73 who debuted in Series 63. He has also been an Apterite since 2009, and is a regular Co:event player.

In his first show, Wynn showed some strong word knowledge but lost on the crucial conundrum WINTERNUT. He returned to the programme ten series later, and after more practice on Apterous, he carded a century in all eight of his heat wins. However, he ended up ranked number 2 seed for the finals, with his octotal of 922 being one short of Thomas Carey’s 923. Luckily, for Wynn, Carey would go on to crumble under the pressure and suffer elimination in his semi-final.

Wynn is notable as the first octochamp to have always been ahead of his opponent in all 120 rounds of his run. He continued this pattern into the finals, having a higher score than his quarter-final opponent, 6-time winner Liam Moloney, at every juncture (although Wynn failed to get a century there). This record only ended in his semi-final, in which both he and Stephen Briggs scored in the first round; ironically, in this game, Wynn would go on to achieve his highest total score so far, and was denied the new 15-round record score on a wrong answer to the conundrum LIDLTENSE.

The next day, Wynn faced the numbers whizz Matthew Tassier in the grand final. After Tassier could only come up with the invalid waiged x in round 4, he turned it round with his specialist 6-small choice in round 6 to take a 4-point lead. Wynn later regained the lead with REQUIEM in round 12 and SALMONID (beating Tassier’s disallowed offering of mondials x) in round 13, but Tassier’s 6-small pick beat Wynn again, forcing a crucial conundrum. However, neither player could unravel TTHESCORE, giving Wynn the win and the championship after a close “letters vs numbers” nail-biter.

Preceded by Tom Cappleman

Series winner Series 73

Followed by Paul Erdunast

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
5072	1/07/2010	P	Ryan Loughborough	77 – 74	Jonathan Wynn	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Vine	Susie Dent	132
6194	24/08/2015	P	Chris Roy	30 – 100	Jonathan Wynn	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gyles Brandreth	Susie Dent	136
6195	25/08/2015	P	Jonathan Wynn	107 – 46	Mark Ainsley	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gyles Brandreth	Susie Dent	123
6196	26/08/2015	P	Jonathan Wynn	111 – 55	Steve Heeney	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gyles Brandreth	Susie Dent	124
6197	27/08/2015	P	Jonathan Wynn	119 – 49	Will Irvine	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Greg Rusedski	Susie Dent	122
6198	28/08/2015	P	Jonathan Wynn	112 – 79	Daniel Morris	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Greg Rusedski	Susie Dent	132
6199	31/08/2015	P	Jonathan Wynn	131 – 55	Paul Curtayne	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Greg Rusedski	Susie Dent	134
6200	1/09/2015	P	Jonathan Wynn	113 – 65	David Vernon	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Greg Rusedski	Susie Dent	134
6201	2/09/2015	P	Jonathan Wynn	129 – 33	Hannah Short	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Greg Rusedski	Susie Dent	132
6272	16/12/2015	QF	Jonathan Wynn	90 – 84	Liam Moloney	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	David Baddiel	Susie Dent	122
6276	22/12/2015	SF	Jonathan Wynn	134 – 100	Stephen Briggs	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Susie Dent	157
6277	23/12/2015	GF	Jonathan Wynn	98 – 94	Matthew Tassier	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Susie Dent	130