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'''Thomas Carey''' was an [[octochamp]] in [[Series 73]].  
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[[Image:ThomasCarey.jpg|right|thumb|Maus in Series 73...]]
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[[Image:Maus.jpeg|right|thumb|...and again in the Championship of Champions XV.]]
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'''Thomas Carey''' or '''Tom Carey''' (sometimes known as '''Maus''') was an [[octochamp]] and semi-finalist in [[Series 73]] and a quarter-finalist in [[Championship of Champions XV]]. As of his Series 73 appearances, he was a sixth form student from Bingley, West Yorkshire. As of his [[Championship of Champions]] appearances, he was a maths student at {{w|Queens' College, Cambridge}}. He has also been an [[Apterous|Apterite]] since 2011 and is known for wearing a tea cosy on his head.
  
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During his octorun, he became only the 7th person in ''Countdown'' history to solve all 8 of his [[conundrum]]s in his heats, with a combined time of 17.75 seconds, breaking [[Harvey Freeman]]'s record which had stood since 1986 (the record still stands to this day). This helped him accrue his total of 923 points in his 8 wins, of which he scored a [[century]] in all of them. He has also been an [[Apterite]] since 2011 and is known for wearing a tea cosy on his head. Not only is he the first mouse to compete on Countdown, he is also the first to become an Octochamp, and the most racist mouse ever to appear on television.
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His reluctant grandfather is [[Wilf Carey]]. He is ex-forces (a very tough man) off-screen, but he doesn't like to talk about it.
  
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Carey returned for the finals as #1 seed. In his quarterfinal, he overcame 5-timer winner [[Matty Artell]] where Carey impressively spotted {{word|TARIQAT}}. His word knowledge continued to shine in the semifinal, but a blank in the first two numbers and losing 18 points to [[Matthew Tassier]]’s play of {{word|OUTBRAVES}} put Carey 10 points behind before the crucial conundrum. Carey answered incorrectly, sealing victory for Tassier.
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==Appearances on the programme==
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===Heats===
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During his [[octochamp]] run, Maus became only the eighth person and first mouse in ''[[Countdown]]'' history to [[Conundrum#Contestants with eight consecutive prelim conundrum solves|solve all eight of his conundrums in his heats]], with a combined time of 17.75 seconds, breaking [[Harvey Freeman]]'s record which had stood since 1986 (the record still stands to this day). This helped him accrue his total of 923 points in his eight wins, of which he scored a [[century]] in all of them. Not only is he the first mouse to compete on ''[[Countdown]]'', he is ''Countdown''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s nicest rodent, the first mouse to become an octochamp.
  
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Carey returned to Countdown in January 2019 for [[Championship of Champions XV]] (appearing this time under the shortened name of '''Tom'''), where he faced [[Stephen Read]] in the first round. The game was very close from start to finish. After falling behind early on, he took the lead with findings of {{word|OILSEED}}, {{word|STUDIOS}} and {{word|GAIATRIS}}. Read then clawed to 9 points behind with his play of {{word|PIPEMAN}}, but Carey won the game thanks to unravelling a crucial conundrum in a second and a quarter to progress to the Quarter-finals where he played against [[Zarte Siempre]]. Here, Tom’s run ended in disaster as his plays of {{word|BLOWIEST}} and {{word|DIVAGATE}} lost to Siempre’s plays of {{word|BLOWSIEST}} and {{word|DIVAGATED}}, putting him to 36 points behind after five rounds. Carey clawed back with {{word|TIRAMISUS}} in round 12, but it wasn’t enough as Siempre went on to win with a record-breaking score of 150. Carey's score in the quarter final is the second highest losing score in Countdown history.
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===Finals===
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Carey returned for the finals as the number one seed. In his [[Episode 6271|quarter-final]], he overcame five-time winner [[Matty Artell]] where Carey impressively spotted {{word|TARIQAT}}. His word knowledge continued to shine in the [[Episode 6275|semi-final]], but blanking in the first two [[numbers game|numbers rounds]] and losing 18 points to [[Matthew Tassier]]'s play of {{word|OUTBRAVES}} in the final [[letters game|letters round]] put Carey 10 points behind before the crucial [[conundrum]]. Carey buzzed in, but answered incorrectly, sealing victory for Tassier in a dramatic upset to the seedings.
  
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He has taken part in a number of unofficial Countdown tournaments. including [[CoLei4]], [[CoNot 2011]], [[CoChest]], [[COLIN 2012]], [[CoLei5]], [[COHUD]] and [[CoChest2]], and finished as runner-up in both COHUD 2015 and CoLeeds 2016.
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===[[Championship of Champions XV]]===
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Carey returned to ''[[Countdown]]'' in January 2019 for Championship of Champions XV (appearing this time under the shortened name of '''Tom'''), where he faced [[Stephen Read]] in the [[Episode 6983|first round]]. The game was very close from start to finish. After falling behind early on, he took the lead with findings of {{word|OILSEED}}, {{word|STUDIOS}} and {{word|GAIATRIS}}. Read then clawed to nine points behind with his play of {{word|PIPEMAN}}, but Carey won the game thanks to unravelling a crucial [[conundrum]] in a second and a quarter to progress to the [[Episode 6991|quarter-finals]] where he played against [[Zarte Siempre]]. Here, Carey's run ended in disaster as his plays of {{word|BLOWIEST}} and {{word|DIVAGATE}} lost to Siempre’s plays of {{word|BLOWSIEST}} and {{word|DIVAGATED}} respectively, putting him to 36 points behind after five rounds. Carey clawed back with {{word|TIRAMISUS}} in Round 12, but it wasn’t enough as Siempre went on to win with a record-breaking score of 150. Carey's score of 122 in the quarter-final is the second highest losing score in ''Countdown'' history, although it did also ensure a record [[List of 15-round joint scores over 200|joint score]] of 272.
  
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His reluctant grandfather is [[Wilf Carey]]. Off-screen he is ex-forces (a very tough man), but he doesn't like to talk about it.
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===2020 Christmas special===
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Carey returned to ''[[Countdown]]'' on [[Episode S47|21 December 2020]] for a [[special episode]]. He took on [[Series 78]] contestant [[George Armstrong]], in the first of three specials and also the first episode hosted by [[Colin Murray]]. Carey took an eight-point lead in the first round, and won another two [[letters round]]s before eventually emerging victorious with 122 points to Armstrong's 110.
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==Off-screen==
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===Co-events===
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He has taken part in a number of [[Co-event]]s, making his debut at [[CoLei4]] in 2011, and finished as runner-up in both [[COHUD 2015]] and [[Countdown in Leeds 2016]]. He won his first event at [[CoWat 2017]], beating [[Hazel Drury]] in the grand final, and has won numerous tournaments since.
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===[[Apterous]]===
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Carey has been the organiser of the annual [[Apterous Masters]] tournament since [[Apterous Masters 2019|2019]], and also won the [[Apterous Masters 2018|2018]] tournament.
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===''[[ZoomDown]]''===
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Carey was one of the team members of ''ZoomDown'', and also competed as a contestant in [[ZoomDown Series 1|Series 1]] (in the [[Episode ZD1#Game 2|very first episode]]), [[ZoomDown Series 2|Series 2]], the special [[ZoomDown specials#GoatZDown|GoatZDown]] series (reaching the quarter-finals), and [[ZoomDown Series 3|Series 3]]. He returned as a contestant in [[ZoomDown Series 5|Series 5]], winning his first game against [[Bradley Horrocks]], after the tetrachampdom of [[MSR]]. However, he was unseated by [[Elliott Mellor]] in the following episode.
  
 
==Episodes==
 
==Episodes==
 
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{{ep | 6210 | 17/09/2015 | P |[[Colin White]]| 47 - 120 |Thomas Carey|[[Jon Culshaw]]|[[Susie Dent]]|132}}
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{{ep | 6210 | 17/09/2015 | P |[[Colin White]]| 47 – 120 |Thomas Carey|[[Jon Culshaw]]|[[Susie Dent]]|132}}
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{{ep | 6211 | 18/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 122 - 25 |[[Billy Richardson]]|Jon Culshaw|Susie Dent|135}}
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{{ep | 6211 | 18/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 122 – 25 |[[Billy Richardson]]|Jon Culshaw|Susie Dent|135}}
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{{ep | 6212 | 21/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 118 - 52 |[[Alwyn Davies]]|Jon Culshaw|Susie Dent|129}}
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{{ep | 6212 | 21/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 118 – 52 |[[Alwyn Davies]]|Jon Culshaw|Susie Dent|129}}
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{{ep | 6213 | 22/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 109 - 100 |[[Adam Curran]]|[[Sir Ranulph Fiennes]]|Susie Dent|131}}
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{{ep | 6213 | 22/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 109 – 100 |[[Adam Curran]]|[[Ranulph Fiennes]]|Susie Dent|131}}
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{{ep | 6214 | 23/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 116 - 37 |[[Mary Fox]]|Sir Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|121}}
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{{ep | 6214 | 23/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 116 – 37 |[[Mary Fox]]|Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|121}}
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{{ep | 6215 | 24/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 119 - 80 |[[Brendan Duke]]|Sir Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|130}}
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{{ep | 6215 | 24/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 119 – 80 |[[Brendan Duke]]|Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|130}}
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{{ep | 6216 | 28/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 109 - 41 |[[Chris Selman]]|Sir Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|116}}
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{{ep | 6216 | 28/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 109 – 41 |[[Chris Selman]]|Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|116}}
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{{ep | 6217 | 29/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 110 - 62 |[[Lee Nixon]]|Sir Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|131}}
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{{ep | 6217 | 29/09/2015 | P |Thomas Carey| 110 – 62 |[[Lee Nixon]]|Ranulph Fiennes|Susie Dent|131}}
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{{ep | 6271 | 15/12/2015 | QF |Thomas Carey| 124 - 87 |[[Matty Artell]]|[[David Baddiel]]|Susie Dent|136}}
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{{ep | 6271 | 15/12/2015 | QF |Thomas Carey| 124 – 87 |[[Matty Artell]]|[[David Baddiel]]|Susie Dent|136}}
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{{ep | 6275 | 21/12/2015 | SF |Thomas Carey| 94 - 104 |[[Matthew Tassier]]|[[Tim Rice]]|Susie Dent|153}}
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{{ep | 6275 | 21/12/2015 | SF |Thomas Carey| 94 – 104 |[[Matthew Tassier]]|[[Tim Rice]]|Susie Dent|153}}
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{{ep | 6983 | 7/01/2019 | CP |Tom Carey| 106 - 87 |[[Stephen Read]]|[[Kate Humble]]|Susie Dent|131}}
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{{ep | 6983 | 07/01/2019 | CP |Tom Carey| 106 – 87 |[[Stephen Read]]|[[Kate Humble]]|Susie Dent|131}}
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{{ep | 6991 | 17/01/2019 | CQF |Tom Carey| 122 – 150 |[[Zarte Siempre]]|Jon Culshaw|Susie Dent|168}}
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{{ep | S47 | 21/12/2020 | S |Tom Carey| 122 – 110 |[[George Armstrong]]|[[Rory Bremner]]|Susie Dent|137}}
 
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Latest revision as of 10:55, 9 July 2025

Tom Carey
octochamp statistics
Final position Semi-finalist
Seeding 1
Points total 923
Conundrums solved 8
Maus in Series 73...
...and again in the Championship of Champions XV.

Thomas Carey or Tom Carey (sometimes known as Maus) was an octochamp and semi-finalist in Series 73 and a quarter-finalist in Championship of Champions XV. As of his Series 73 appearances, he was a sixth form student from Bingley, West Yorkshire. As of his Championship of Champions appearances, he was a maths student at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has also been an Apterite since 2011 and is known for wearing a tea cosy on his head.

His reluctant grandfather is Wilf Carey. He is ex-forces (a very tough man) off-screen, but he doesn't like to talk about it.

Appearances on the programme

Heats

During his octochamp run, Maus became only the eighth person and first mouse in Countdown history to solve all eight of his conundrums in his heats, with a combined time of 17.75 seconds, breaking Harvey Freeman's record which had stood since 1986 (the record still stands to this day). This helped him accrue his total of 923 points in his eight wins, of which he scored a century in all of them. Not only is he the first mouse to compete on Countdown, he is Countdown's nicest rodent, the first mouse to become an octochamp.

Finals

Carey returned for the finals as the number one seed. In his quarter-final, he overcame five-time winner Matty Artell where Carey impressively spotted TARIQAT. His word knowledge continued to shine in the semi-final, but blanking in the first two numbers rounds and losing 18 points to Matthew Tassier's play of OUTBRAVES in the final letters round put Carey 10 points behind before the crucial conundrum. Carey buzzed in, but answered incorrectly, sealing victory for Tassier in a dramatic upset to the seedings.

Championship of Champions XV

Carey returned to Countdown in January 2019 for Championship of Champions XV (appearing this time under the shortened name of Tom), where he faced Stephen Read in the first round. The game was very close from start to finish. After falling behind early on, he took the lead with findings of OILSEED, STUDIOS and GAIATRIS. Read then clawed to nine points behind with his play of PIPEMAN, but Carey won the game thanks to unravelling a crucial conundrum in a second and a quarter to progress to the quarter-finals where he played against Zarte Siempre. Here, Carey's run ended in disaster as his plays of BLOWIEST and DIVAGATE lost to Siempre’s plays of BLOWSIEST and DIVAGATED respectively, putting him to 36 points behind after five rounds. Carey clawed back with TIRAMISUS in Round 12, but it wasn’t enough as Siempre went on to win with a record-breaking score of 150. Carey's score of 122 in the quarter-final is the second highest losing score in Countdown history, although it did also ensure a record joint score of 272.

2020 Christmas special

Carey returned to Countdown on 21 December 2020 for a special episode. He took on Series 78 contestant George Armstrong, in the first of three specials and also the first episode hosted by Colin Murray. Carey took an eight-point lead in the first round, and won another two letters rounds before eventually emerging victorious with 122 points to Armstrong's 110.

Off-screen

Co-events

He has taken part in a number of Co-events, making his debut at CoLei4 in 2011, and finished as runner-up in both COHUD 2015 and Countdown in Leeds 2016. He won his first event at CoWat 2017, beating Hazel Drury in the grand final, and has won numerous tournaments since.

Apterous

Carey has been the organiser of the annual Apterous Masters tournament since 2019, and also won the 2018 tournament.

ZoomDown

Carey was one of the team members of ZoomDown, and also competed as a contestant in Series 1 (in the very first episode), Series 2, the special GoatZDown series (reaching the quarter-finals), and Series 3. He returned as a contestant in Series 5, winning his first game against Bradley Horrocks, after the tetrachampdom of MSR. However, he was unseated by Elliott Mellor in the following episode.

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
6210 17/09/2015 P Colin White 47 – 120 Thomas Carey Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 132
6211 18/09/2015 P Thomas Carey 122 – 25 Billy Richardson Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 135
6212 21/09/2015 P Thomas Carey 118 – 52 Alwyn Davies Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 129
6213 22/09/2015 P Thomas Carey 109 – 100 Adam Curran Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Ranulph Fiennes Susie Dent 131
6214 23/09/2015 P Thomas Carey 116 – 37 Mary Fox Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Ranulph Fiennes Susie Dent 121
6215 24/09/2015 P Thomas Carey 119 – 80 Brendan Duke Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Ranulph Fiennes Susie Dent 130
6216 28/09/2015 P Thomas Carey 109 – 41 Chris Selman Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Ranulph Fiennes Susie Dent 116
6217 29/09/2015 P Thomas Carey 110 – 62 Lee Nixon Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Ranulph Fiennes Susie Dent 131
6271 15/12/2015 QF Thomas Carey 124 – 87 Matty Artell Nick Hewer Rachel Riley David Baddiel Susie Dent 136
6275 21/12/2015 SF Thomas Carey 94 – 104 Matthew Tassier Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Rice Susie Dent 153
6983 07/01/2019 CP Tom Carey 106 – 87 Stephen Read Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Kate Humble Susie Dent 131
6991 17/01/2019 CQF Tom Carey 122 – 150 Zarte Siempre Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 168
S47 21/12/2020 S Tom Carey 122 – 110 George Armstrong Colin Murray Rachel Riley Rory Bremner Susie Dent 137
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