Andrew Perry

Andrew Perry at the 2001 World Scrabble Championship.

Andrew Perry was the runner-up of Series 26, and a quarter-finalist in the Supreme Championship. As well as a participant in Championship of Champions VII, Perry's record reads twelve wins and four losses (three of which were to the eventual winner of the tournament) and is arguably the best player to not win a title in the 9-round format.

He first appeared as an 11-year-old from Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire on 30 August 1993, and won his first seven prelims in impressive fashion before losing his eighth to Gary Thomson. Perry's father, Steve, appeared later in the same series. Perry was number one seed for the finals, where he beat Peggy Mills in the quarter-finals and Alan Harwood in the semis, but in the grand final against Andy Bodle, he came unstuck, losing 73 – 45.

Perry played in Championship of Champions VII, but lost his first game to the eventual winner, Don Reid.

Perry returned for the Supreme Championship, and was on impressive form, eliminating David Elias, Chris Waddington and Clive Freedman before being knocked out in the quarter-finals of the series by eventual winner Harvey Freeman. However, he did solve the first conundrum (ADOBESTEP) in the grand final while watching in the audience.

Perry has also been a competitive Scrabble player who finished third in the 2003 World Scrabble Championship, the then-highest placed finish for a British player since Mark Nyman; Nyman was Britain's only World Scrabble Champion for 21 years when he won in 1993.

Preceded by James Sinclair

Series runner-up Series 26

Followed by Richard Campbell

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
1433	30/08/1993	P	Andrew Perry	50 – 42	Joan McLean	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Ruth Killick	73
1434	31/08/1993	P	Andrew Perry	59 – 22	John Sefton	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Ruth Killick	70
1435	01/09/1993	P	Andrew Perry	57 – 53	Lynne Blackburn	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Ruth Killick	72
1436	02/09/1993	P	Andrew Perry	50 – 45	Martin Howell	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Ruth Killick	73
1437	03/09/1993	P	Andrew Perry	65 – 28	Richard Hamer	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Ruth Killick	73
1438	06/09/1993	P	Andrew Perry	40 – 28	Marty Davis	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Ruth Killick	72
1439	07/09/1993	P	Andrew Perry	56 – 26	John Hunt	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Ruth Killick	70
1440	08/09/1993	P	Andrew Perry	35 – 41	Gary Thomson	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Ruth Killick	75
1451	23/09/1993	QF	Andrew Perry	45 – 21	Peggy Mills	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Martin Jarvis	Susie Dent	83
1455	29/09/1993	SF	Andrew Perry	59 – 53	Alan Harwood	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Martin Jarvis	Susie Dent	73
1457	01/10/1993	GF	Andy Bodle	73 – 45	Andrew Perry	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres	Susie Dent	115
1589	03/01/1995	CQF	Don Reid	63 – 46	Andrew Perry	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Denis Norden	Richard Samson	74
1865	23/10/1996	bQF	David Elias	43 – 60	Andrew Perry	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Susie Dent	83
1867	25/10/1996	bSF	Chris Waddington	37 – 43	Andrew Perry	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	June Whitfield	Susie Dent	71
1868	28/10/1996	bF	Clive Freedman	43 – 71	Andrew Perry	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	June Whitfield	Susie Dent	74
1902	13/12/1996	SQF	Andrew Perry	44 – 54	Harvey Freeman	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jenny Hanley	Susie Dent	72