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)

I'm just aware that the 9 points for a nine letter word is a bit of a personal grind of yours, and not generally appreciated by other people. We could start doing records for 5 points for a numbers game or 5 points for a conundrum. In other words there are infinite systems you could you, we don't want to start a list of them. Mglovesfun 11:36, 7 May 2008 (BST)

Personal grind or not, I think the very fact that there are records published on here for each number of nine-letter words means that something needed to be done. Gevin 14:08, 1 June 2008 (BST)

A Challenger got a score of 124 on 27/5/2008- this looks to be higher than the previous record.

Speaking of pointless records, does the fact that Harvey Freeman and Lucy Roberts were champion when they scored 82 really hold any relevance to anything? Gevin 14:08, 1 June 2008 (BST)

I also find it strange that there are separate shortest word records for 9 and 15 rounds, when surely this record has nothing to do with the game length and should be in the general section. I also seem to remember seeing another three-letter word years ago under 9 rounds. Perhaps it would be better to say the shortest known word since there must be much missing information. Gevin 19:06, 6 June 2008 (BST)

Today's 134 gets the 'highest score by a challenger', if anyone could professionally change it. Countdown Kid 22:52, 29 April 2009 (BST)

Furthest from possible numbers game?

I would imagine that yesterday's show was it - best possible solution 564 away from the target. Can anyone either confirm this record, or find another one that has it beaten? -- smjg 01:21, 30 September 2010 (BST)

Longest from the beginning for which the players have remained on equal scores?

I've begun to wonder this. Indeed, I've a feeling there might have been a few times that they have been level pegging all the way through to the conundrum, but I'm not sure. Has this happened? If so, what's the greatest number of tie-break conundrums it's taken to finally separate them? — Stewart (talk) 23:45, 21 January 2015 (GMT)

Among 9-rounders, it seems to be this game from Series 31, with ten consecutive matched rounds. JohnnyCanuck 00:53, 22 January 2015 (GMT)