Crucial - A Champion’s Tale

The cover of the book, showing 27 seconds on the clock – the time Tournoff took to solve the crucial conundrum in the grand final of Series 52.

For a crucial conundrum, see conundrum.

Crucial - A Champion’s Tale (often simply called Crucial) is a book published by Mark Tournoff in 2007 by his own publishing firm, Forestdale Publications. The book details Tournoff's experiences on Countdown with part of it being him winning the grand final of Series 52 on a crucial conundrum against Paul Gallen and then losing the grand final of Championship of Champions XII to Gallen, again on a crucial conundrum. The title of the book is a reference to the number of crucial conundrums he played on the show; a crucial conundrum being when the margin between the players is 10 points or fewer before the final round, and therefore that either player can still win.

External Links

• Crucial - A Champion's Tale at Amazon.co.uk.