Luke Johnson-Davies

Luke Johnson-Davies Octochamp Statistics
Final position	—
Seeding	—
Points total	1024
Conundrums solved	6

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 a Student at Durham University, from Cambridge. He is also an Apterite. He will almost certainly return to the series in December 2020 to play a quarter-final match.

Luke 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, Luke 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 by 5 points and Elliott Mellor's 7-month-old record debut score by 8 points. Luke earned four more victories, while never falling below 113 points nor failing to declare 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 by spotting two nine letter words to win his sixth game with 143 points, the joint 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 ever 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 contestant ever to declare a valid nine-letter word in at least one letters round in all of their heat games; in total, he declared a record 11 nines: HAILSTONE, OUTDRIVES, EUTOPIANS, LEGATIONS, ARRESTING, RESINITES, DISLOCATE, MONTICULE, ESTIMATOR, PARVITUDE and COURTIERS. He is also the first contestant ever to record a run of four consecutive scores over 125.

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