Andy Platt

Andy Platt octochamp statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	2
Points total	889
Conundrums solved	3

Andy Platt in Series 68...

...and in Championship of Champions XIV.

Andy Platt was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 68, and a quarter-finalist in Championship of Champions XIV. As of his Series 68 appearances, he was a bilingual salesman from Salford but originally from the Wirral. As of his Championship of Champions appearances, he was working for a German airline and living in the Wirral. He is also an Apterite and member of c4countdown. He became a moderator and official numbers games poster on the Facebook group Countdowners in December 2023, replacing George Armstrong in the role. His first "official" numbers games were posted from 1 January 2024.

Appearances on the show

Heat games

Platt's octorun came when Countdown altered the 15-round format, so his first four shows were in the original 15-round format while his second four shows were in the new 15-round format. In the final game played in the former format, he reduced Carl Anderson to the then joint lowest-ever score in a 15-round game with just seven points.

Platt is the seventh person to have scored a century or more in all of his eight heat games. At the time, he also set a record for aggregate winning margin in preliminary games with 565 which has since been eclipsed by Dylan Taylor's 628.

Finals

Platt returned for the June 2013 finals, which was a shorter series than normal due to the 30th Birthday Championship running from January to March 2013.

In his quarter-final, he trounced Chris Ball by scoring in every round but one.

Platt's victory in his semi-final against Eileen Taylor was also impressive as he scored in every round, including ten points for a clever solution to the Round 3 numbers game in which he multiplied 100 by 75 before cancelling down.

The grand final against Giles Hutchings proved to be much more difficult though, as Platt trailed 14 – 0 to Hutchings after the first two rounds. Although Platt managed to win Round 4, he then lost two more letters rounds and was beaten by 95 – 86 but he did solve the conundrum to deny Hutchings a century.

Championship of Champions XIV

Platt returned in January 2016 for Championship of Champions XIV.

In a tight first-round game, Platt prevailed over David Barnard by 98 – 90 with thanks to him solving the crucial conundrum of RITEWRONG.

He then played against Dylan Taylor in his quarter-final, losing by 127 – 125 despite leading after his spectacular nine-letter word spot of URNFIELDS – meaning that he had the highest losing score in the show's history until Charlie Harrison beat it by two points.

Co-events

Platt made his Co-event debut at CoChest in 2011 where he finished in third place, which he then followed up with another third place position at COLIN 2012.

Also in 2012, he won Group B at CoLei5 and Group C at COHUD.

He became the runner-up to Bradley Horrocks at Co:Brum 2022, losing on a crucial conundrum in the grand final.

Appearances on Only Connect

Along with Stephen Read and Sam Prouse, he appeared in the 2019/20 series of Only Connect as part of the "Lexplorers" team. On their first appearance on 9 September 2019, they ended up winning their game comfortably by a scoreline of 10 – 34 against the "Gladiators". They appeared in the second round on 2 December 2019 and after a tough game, they won 13 – 9 against the "Suits". They appeared in the quarter-finals on 10 February 2020, and their run came to an end after losing 16 – 21 in a rematch to the "Suits".

ZoomDown

After his Countdown appearances – he participated in Series 1, the special GoatZDown series, Series 3, Series 4, Series 5 and Series 6 of ZoomDown.

Preceded by Jack Hurst

Series runner-up Series 68

Followed by Dylan Taylor

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
5662	19/03/2013	P	Sam McElhinney	67 – 114	Andy Platt	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	127
5663	20/03/2013	P	Andy Platt	112 – 25	John Wiseman	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	149
5664	21/03/2013	P	Andy Platt	108 – 32	Jacqui Kemp	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	133
5665	22/03/2013	P	Andy Platt	109 – 7	Carl Anderson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	115
5666	25/03/2013	P	Andy Platt	100 – 33	Daniel Davies	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Richard Arnold	Susie Dent	120
5667	26/03/2013	P	Andy Platt	116 – 80	Alex Newton	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Richard Arnold	Susie Dent	127
5668	27/03/2013	P	Andy Platt	120 – 29	Josh Young	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Richard Arnold	Susie Dent	131
5669	28/03/2013	P	Andy Platt	110 – 51	Bob Windsor	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Richard Arnold	Susie Dent	134
5716	17/06/2013	QF	Andy Platt	115 – 29	Chris Ball	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Myleene Klass	Susie Dent	123
5720	27/06/2013	SF	Andy Platt	120 – 65	Eileen Taylor	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Myleene Klass	Susie Dent	126
5721	28/06/2013	GF	Giles Hutchings	95 – 86	Andy Platt	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Myleene Klass	Susie Dent	115
6280	06/01/2016	CP	Andy Platt	98 – 90	David Barnard	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	129
6287	15/01/2016	CQF	Andy Platt	125 – 127	Dylan Taylor	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	John Inverdale	Susie Dent	145