Talk:List of Countdown records

Much credit for this page belongs to Martin Gardner's Countdown Update UK, as most of the records (at the moment at least) are updated from his "fact file". Cheers MG! Soo 20:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

LESBIAN backwards - 7th April 2008 Drawoh 14:42, 26 April 2008 (BST)

I was thinking that Craig Beevers score of 120 without a nine-letter word is the highest ever. I also believe that Tom Hargreaves score of 131 is the highest with one nine, for two nines I think it's Mark Tournoff and both three nines and four nines are held by Julian Fell. I don't think I'm wrong about any of those. Mglovesfun 00:01, 28 April 2008 (BST)

I've seen similar records before - I think they were on Ben's site, except the Beevers one. I think all the records on this page are understood to be "as far as anyone can remember". So yeah, go ahead and add. Charlie 00:17, 28 April 2008 (BST)

To clarify why I put in the record of highest score without the nine-point bonus, it's because I see it as quite reasonable to unify the records. To take an example: Craig Beevers's record of 120 without a nine. Why is that a significant record? Why not have highest score without an eight? Because it would be a retarded idea. But why isn't it retarded to include the record without a nine? Because of the nine-point bonus, which makes comparisons awkward. So instead of dealing with each case individually and recognising the incomparability but doing nothing to solve it, we remove the bonus and solve it once and for all. Tom Hargreaves's record of 122 after removal of the bonus is a far more significant record than any of the individual records of highest score with x nines.Gevin 21:33, 5 May 2008 (BST)