Howard Somerset

Howard Somerset (1941 - 2020) was left-handed, which possibly explained his tendency to spell his name backwards on occasion.

He never appeared on Countdown, but attended four of the COLIN events and the first two CONOT tournaments. Sequence of wins started as an oscillating sequence: one in COLIN 2007, two in COLIN 2008, one in CONOT 2008, two in COLIN 2009, one in CONOT 2009 and then finally broke the pattern with three in COLIN 2010. He wondered whether this was in indication of a very slow upward trend or whether the amplitude of the oscillations was slowly increasing (thereby suggesting zero wins at his next Co-event), but sadly he never attended another one.

Somerset appeared on the show on 26 April 2010 when from his position in the audience, he answered the conundrum.

He sadly died in 2020.