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== On-screen ==
 
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Luke first appeared on television in the [[Episode 7102|second quarter-final of Series 80]] as the audience member who solved the conundrum {{word|LOVECRISP}} with the answer {{word|COVERSLIP}}, which also had {{word|SLIPCOVER}} as a valid solution.
  
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He first appeared on television in the [[Episode 7102|second quarter-final of Series 80]] as the audience member who solved the conundrum {{word|LOVECRISP}} with the answer {{word|COVERSLIP}}, which also had {{word|SLIPCOVER}} as a valid solution.
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Nearly 6 months later, he made his debut as a player on 5 December 2019 against one-game winner [[Zach Hart]]. Two nine-letter words and scoring points in every round helped him beat Hart convincingly and catapult to 139 points. His score broke [[Hamish Williamson]]'s 10-year-old record for the highest ever score set by a challenger against a champion by 5 points and [[Elliott Mellor]]'s 7-month-old [[Episode 7076|record debut score]] by 8 points. Luke earned four more victories, all with scores well over a century and at least one nine-letter word, before stepping aside for the finals of Series 81.
  
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Nearly 6 months later, he made his debut as a player on 5 December 2019 against one-game winner [[Zach Hart]]. Two nine-letter words and scoring points in every round helped him beat Hart convincingly and catapult to 139 points, breaking [[Hamish Williamson]]'s 10-year-old record for the highest ever score set by a challenger against a champion. Johnson-Davies' 139 is also the highest ever set on a player's first appearance, bettering [[Elliott Mellor]]'s [[Episode 7076|debut score]] by 8. Four more victories followed, all with scores well over a century and at least one nine-letter word, before stepping aside for the finals of Series 81.
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Luke soon returned to the programme on 2 January 2020 to carry over his unbeaten run in the first heat of Series 82, kicking off the new year in style with spots of the nine-letter words {{word|MONTICULE}} and {{word|ESTIMATOR}} to win his sixth game with 143 points, the fourth-highest ever achieved in the "new" 15-round format. In the third show of the series, he became the standout provisional number 1 seed and only the second octochamp to join the "1,000 club", setting the second-highest ever cumulative score of 1,024 points (an average of 128 per game) after Mellor himself in the process.
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He soon returned to the programme on 2 January 2020 to carry over his unbeaten run in the first heat of Series 82, kicking off the new year in style with spots of the nine-letter words {{word|MONTICULE}} and {{word|ESTIMATOR}} to win his sixth game with 143 points, the fourth-highest ever achieved in the "new" 15-round format. In the third show of the series, he became the standout provisional number 1 seed and only the second octochamp to join the "1,000 club", setting the second-highest ever cumulative score of 1,024 points after Mellor himself in the process.
 
  
 
Luke is the first ever octochamp to declare a nine-letter word in every heat prior to the finals, and has declared more nine-letter words than any other contestant across eight heat games: 11. He will almost certainly return in June 2020 to compete in the series finals.
 
Luke is the first ever octochamp to declare a nine-letter word in every heat prior to the finals, and has declared more nine-letter words than any other contestant across eight heat games: 11. He will almost certainly return in June 2020 to compete in the series finals.
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{{ep | 7233 | 3/01/2020 | P |Luke Johnson-Davies| 131 - 23 |[[Nathan Nicholson]]|Tim Vine|Susie Dent|135}}
 
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{{ep | 7234 | 6/01/2020 | P |Luke Johnson-Davies| 126 - 36 |[[Carole Bramwell]]|[[Plastic Elvis]]|Susie Dent|139}}
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{{ep | 7234 | 6/01/2020 | P |Luke Johnson-Davies| 126 - 36 |[[Carole Bramwell]]|Tim Vine|Susie Dent|139}}
 
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Revision as of 19:04, 20 January 2020

He's not hot. He's not cold. He's Lukewarm!
Luke Johnson-Davies solving the conundrum in Episode 7102.

Luke Johnson-Davies was an octochamp in Series 82 who debuted in Series 81. He is an Apterite and a Student at Durham University, from Cambridge.

Johnson-Davies began attending Co-events in 2018 and was the runner-up of only his second event, CoNuT, in 2019.

On-screen

Luke first appeared on television in the second quarter-final of Series 80 as the audience member who solved the conundrum LOVECRISP with the answer COVERSLIP, which also had SLIPCOVER as a valid solution.

Nearly 6 months later, he made his debut as a player on 5 December 2019 against one-game winner Zach Hart. Two nine-letter words and scoring points in every round helped him beat Hart convincingly and catapult to 139 points. His score broke Hamish Williamson's 10-year-old record for the highest ever score set by a challenger against a champion by 5 points and Elliott Mellor's 7-month-old record debut score by 8 points. Luke earned four more victories, all with scores well over a century and at least one nine-letter word, before stepping aside for the finals of Series 81.

Luke soon returned to the programme on 2 January 2020 to carry over his unbeaten run in the first heat of Series 82, kicking off the new year in style with spots of the nine-letter words MONTICULE and ESTIMATOR to win his sixth game with 143 points, the fourth-highest ever achieved in the "new" 15-round format. In the third show of the series, he became the standout provisional number 1 seed and only the second octochamp to join the "1,000 club", setting the second-highest ever cumulative score of 1,024 points (an average of 128 per game) after Mellor himself in the process.

Luke is the first ever octochamp to declare a nine-letter word in every heat prior to the finals, and has declared more nine-letter words than any other contestant across eight heat games: 11. He will almost certainly return in June 2020 to compete in the series finals.

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
7220 5/12/2019 P Zach Hart 26 – 139 Luke Johnson-Davies Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Suzannah Lipscomb Susie Dent 146
7221 6/12/2019 P Luke Johnson-Davies 122 – 60 Janice Collins Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Suzannah Lipscomb Susie Dent 144
7222 9/12/2019 P Luke Johnson-Davies 113 – 58 Jim Torpey Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Suzannah Lipscomb Susie Dent 143
7223 10/12/2019 P Luke Johnson-Davies 124 – 28 John Lawlor Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Suzannah Lipscomb Susie Dent 144
7224 11/12/2019 P Luke Johnson-Davies 126 – 59 Stephen Rooney Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Suzannah Lipscomb Susie Dent 133
7232 2/01/2020 P Luke Johnson-Davies 143 – 51 Gagan Singh Gill Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Vine Susie Dent 145
7233 3/01/2020 P Luke Johnson-Davies 131 – 23 Nathan Nicholson Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Vine Susie Dent 135
7234 6/01/2020 P Luke Johnson-Davies 126 – 36 Carole Bramwell Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Vine Susie Dent 139
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