Tracey Mills

Tracey Mills octochamp statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	3
Points total	836
Conundrums solved	4

Tracey Mills in Series 72...

...and again just under a year later in the Championship of Champions XIV.

Tracey Mills (fifth left) with the other contestants and the team, during her appearance in Series 47.

Tracey Mills was a contestant in Series 47, an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 72, and a participant in Championship of Champions XIV. She is also an Apterite. She has also appeared in the Countdown audience numerous times as the conundrum solver, and owns seven Countdown mugs, probably more than anyone else.

Appearances on the programme

Heat games

After narrowly losing in her first appearance in Series 47, Mills returned for her second début in early 2015, as part of Series 72. Despite falling behind in her first game against fellow apterite Neil Stephenson, she found the 9 letter word FEATURING late on to secure a century. Five more centuries followed in her octorun, including in her last game against Wendy Cooke, where she held her opponent to the then lowest ever 15-round score on Countdown.

Finals

Mills entered the finals as number three seed, and despite a nervous start to her quarter-final, defeated Jordan Barker and proved too strong for number two seed Gerry Tynan in the semi-final to set up a clash with number one seed Tom Cappleman. Despite taking an early lead with BEACONS, Mills fell behind after the first numbers. While keeping Cappleman in her sights, she was unable to force a crucial conundrum and ended the series as runner-up.

Championship of Champions XIV

Mills returned in 2016 for Championship of Champions XIV. In the first round, she was given a tough draw against multiple-record holder Dylan Taylor. Here, Mills demonstrated excellent knowledge in a tough mix of letters and numbers rounds, but made the two unfortunate offerings of iodcrase ☓ and servuga ☓, both of which were very slight misspellings of valid words spotted by Taylor and by Dictionary Corner. The Series 69 runner-up went on to score in every round and emerge the victor by a score of 120 – 73.

Co-events

Mills made her Co-event debut at COHUD and CoChest2 in 2012. She competed in the 2018 FOCAL finals as the No. 3 seed and finished in 7th place, winning two out of seven games.

Appearances on quiz shows

Mills participated on William G. Stewart's final series of Fifteen to One in 2003. She has also appeared on BrainTeaser on Channel 5 and on TV Scrabble on Challenge.

Preceded by Antoinette Ryan

Series runner-up Series 72

Followed by Matthew Tassier

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
3165	11/01/2002	P	Jeremy Slaney	81 – 77	Tracey Mills	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Don Black	Richard Samson	137
6069	21/01/2015	P	Neil Stephenson	83 – 104	Tracey Mills	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Wonnacott	Susie Dent	133
6070	22/01/2015	P	Tracey Mills	101 – 25	Sean Chenery	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Wonnacott	Susie Dent	142
6071	23/01/2015	P	Tracey Mills	97 – 37	Keith Taylor	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Wonnacott	Susie Dent	121
6072	26/01/2015	P	Tracey Mills	109 – 59	Mickie Wynne-Davies	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	146
6073	27/01/2015	P	Tracey Mills	107 – 69	Gary Coroner	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	121
6074	28/01/2015	P	Tracey Mills	116 – 58	Daniel Rhymer	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	127
6075	29/01/2015	P	Tracey Mills	98 – 77	Martin McConachie	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	119
6076	30/01/2015	P	Tracey Mills	104 – 6	Wendy Cooke	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	122
6152	8/06/2015	QF	Tracey Mills	99 – 66	Jordan Barker	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jo Brand	Susie Dent	158
6155	11/06/2015	SF	Gerry Tynan	89 – 101	Tracey Mills	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jo Brand	Susie Dent	124
6156	12/06/2015	GF	Tom Cappleman	107 – 89	Tracey Mills	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jo Brand	Susie Dent	126
6281	7/01/2016	CP	Dylan Taylor	120 – 73	Tracey Mills	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	124