Episode 5654 - Revision history

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 [[Jack Hurst]] played [[Conor Travers]], with Conor Travers winning {{score|146|111}}. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Jenny Eclair]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Susie Dent]].
-Travers' score of 146 equalled the highest score ever achieved on ''[[Countdown]]'' at the time, (only three points off the game's perfect score of 149, dropping points only on the first [[numbers game]]) matching [[Julian Fell]] on [[Episode 3387|18 December 2002]]. Travers' score was also the highest a [[contestant]] had achieved with three nines in a single game at the time. Both records would later be broken by [[Zarte Siempre]] on [[Episode 6991|17 January 2019]].
+NOTE 1: Travers' score of 146 equalled the highest score ever achieved on ''[[Countdown]]'' at the time, (with only three points off the game's perfect score of 149, due to dropping points only on the first [[numbers game]]) matching [[Julian Fell]]’s result on [[Episode 3387|18 December 2002]]. Travers' score was also the highest a [[contestant]] had achieved with three nines in a single game at the time. Both records were later broken by [[Zarte Siempre]] on [[Episode 6991|17 January 2019]].
-The [[List of 15-round joint scores over 200|aggregate score]] of 257 points was the highest in the history of ''Countdown'' until it was broken just under six years later by the same episode mentioned earlier with the aggregate score being at 272.
+NOTE 2: The [[List of 15-round joint scores over 200|aggregate score]] of 257 points was the highest in the history of ''Countdown'' until it was broken virtually six years later by the same episode mentioned earlier with the aggregate score being at 272.
-It was also the first time that a contestant had declared three nine-letter words in a row – referred to by Travers as an ambulance, which is a pun on the phone number used to call one in the United Kingdom: 999.
+NOTE 3: This was the first time that a contestant had declared three nine-letter words in a row – referred to by Travers as an ''ambulance'', which is a pun on the phone number used to call for an emergency in the {{w|United Kingdom}}: 999.
-This also marked the first time in ''Countdown'' history that three consecutive games had a double [[century]].
+NOTE 4: This marked the first time in ''Countdown'' history that three consecutive games had a double [[century]].
 The winner's trophy was presented to Travers by [[Marcel Stellman]].

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 Travers' score of 146 equalled the highest score ever achieved on ''[[Countdown]]'' at the time, (only three points off the game's perfect score of 149, dropping points only on the first [[numbers game]]) matching [[Julian Fell]] on [[Episode 3387|18 December 2002]]. Travers' score was also the highest a [[contestant]] had achieved with three nines in a single game at the time. Both records would later be broken by [[Zarte Siempre]] on [[Episode 6991|17 January 2019]].
-The aggregate score of 257 points was the highest in the history of ''Countdown'' until it was broken just under six years later by the same episode mentioned earlier with the aggregate score being at 272.
+The [[List of 15-round joint scores over 200|aggregate score]] of 257 points was the highest in the history of ''Countdown'' until it was broken just under six years later by the same episode mentioned earlier with the aggregate score being at 272.
 It was also the first time that a contestant had declared three nine-letter words in a row – referred to by Travers as an ambulance, which is a pun on the phone number used to call one in the United Kingdom: 999.

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 [[Jack Hurst]] played [[Conor Travers]], with Conor Travers winning {{score|146|111}}. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Jenny Eclair]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Susie Dent]].
-Travers' score of 146 equalled the highest score ever achieved on ''[[Countdown]]'' at the time, (only three points off the game's perfect score of 149, dropping points only on the first numbers game) matching [[Julian Fell]]'s [[Episode 3387|effort]] in [[Series 48]], and this was the highest score a [[contestant]] has got 3 nines in a single game. Both records would later be broken by [[Zarte Siempre]] in [[Episode 6991|January 2019]].
+Travers' score of 146 equalled the highest score ever achieved on ''[[Countdown]]'' at the time, (only three points off the game's perfect score of 149, dropping points only on the first [[numbers game]]) matching [[Julian Fell]] on [[Episode 3387|18 December 2002]]. Travers' score was also the highest a [[contestant]] had achieved with three nines in a single game at the time. Both records would later be broken by [[Zarte Siempre]] on [[Episode 6991|17 January 2019]].
 The aggregate score of 257 points was the highest in the history of ''Countdown'' until it was broken just under six years later by the same episode mentioned earlier with the aggregate score being at 272.
-It was also the first time that a contestant had declared three nine-letter words in a row – referred to by Travers as an ambulance, which was a pun on the number one calls in the United Kingdom to arrange for one: 999.
+It was also the first time that a contestant had declared three nine-letter words in a row – referred to by Travers as an ambulance, which is a pun on the phone number used to call one in the United Kingdom: 999.
-This also marked the first time in ''Countdown'' history that three consecutive games had a double century.
+This also marked the first time in ''Countdown'' history that three consecutive games had a double [[century]].
 The winner's trophy was presented to Travers by [[Marcel Stellman]].
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 [[Category:Scores over 125]]
 [[Category:Double century games]]
 [[Category:Episodes presented by Nick Hewer]]
 [[Category:Episodes with Rachel Riley as arithmetician]]

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