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January's Featured Article Martin Gardner was an octochamp and semi-finalist in Series 49. Before appearing as a contestant on the show, Gardner had a prominent presence in the online Countdown community; he organised Countdown Advance (the forerunner to Hypercountdown on the Gevincountdown web forum, served as a moderator on this website, and ran the now-defunct Countdown fan site Countdown Update UK. After finding the address to send off for an application form on Ben Wilson's website, he applied for the televised show and was invited to an audition at the end of 2002. Although he failed his audition, Gardner was invited to the studios as a replacement contestant after John Davies became an octochamp, leaving one seat vacated on 14 May 2003. In this opening game Gardner achieved his highest televised score of 107, with offerings including the eight-letter words ATOMISER and ACONITES; Martin found no nine-letter words during his appearances on the show. Seven more victories followed, including three further centuries. Gardner returned to the series finals as #2 seed behind Davies, his forerunner in the heats. In his quarter-final, the eight letter word POTHEADS and conundrum SCOOPGREY helped Gardner to convincingly defeat Peter Jeffery by 101 points to 64. He faced David Wilson in the semi-final and went ahead after three rounds courtesy of the seven-letter word UPRATED. However, he was pegged back in the next round with MORGUES. Thereafter, David scored in every round apart from the conundrum and won the game 98-86. (more...) More Featured Articles... Did you know... ...that in round 2 of Episode 4145, had contestant Phil Watkins chosen a final consonant instead of a final vowel, the longest available word in the selection would have been COUNTDOWN? ...that Richard Whiteley's Gotcha game and the Championship of Champions XI final (group photo, pictured) had identical maximum scores, despite one being a 9 rounder and the other a 15 rounder? ...that two sets of Countdown contestants have had names which were anagrams of each other: Jane Smith and Jean Smith, and Dave Roome and Dave Moore? ...that Conor Travers achieved three consecutive perfect games en route to the final of the 30th Birthday Championship? Today in Countdown History edit  2020: David Kempshall beat Steve Moorhouse, scoring 75 – 56. 2019: Fiona Titcombe beat Sue Corral with a score of 90 – 47. 2018: Jason Palmer beat Gavin O'Leary in a game that ended 84 – 61. 2017: Jon Richardson and James Acaster beat Sarah Millican and Lee Mack by 49 – 36. 2017: Nick Smith beat Marko Sudar with final score 98 – 74. 2014: Neil Green beat Ben Clark, by a score of 80 – 74. 2013: Eileen Taylor beat Jill Hayward with scores of 102 – 98. 2012: Megan Jephson beat Jonathan Green in a 89 – 77 game. 2009: Julie Russell beat Patrick McCurdie, scoring 74 – 65. 2008: Ben Hanks beat Mervyn Ward with a score of 96 – 70. 2007: Aaron Webber beat Christina Dow in a game that ended 96 – 47. 2006: Jan Gates beat Trevor Hancock with final score 74 – 64. 2003: Mike Wenble beat Lyndon Sedgwick with scores of 67 – 62. 2002: Wendy Roe beat Nick Morley in a 79 – 72 game. 2001: Catherine Jones beat Kenneth Bowers with a score of 42 – 22. 2000: Rodney Marrison beat Bhavna Trivedi, scoring 61 – 34. 1998: Angela Waller beat Alistair Houston, by a score of 55 – 46. 1997: Stuart Barker beat Pauline Lewis in a game that ended 50 – 40. 1990: Brian Speet played David Gillespie in the second leg of a Countdown Masters game. 1989: Sydney Price played Christine Hunt in the first leg of a Countdown Masters game. 1987: Martin Loughran beat Gordon Carrington with final score 43 – 32. 1986: Geoffrey Taylor beat Joan Newton-Lewis with scores of 54 – 47. 1984: Graham Paxton drew with Sydney Price, the final score being 36 – 36.

Popular Articles edit  A brief overview of Countdown and some of its records and terminology. The team: Colin Murray, Rachel Riley, and Susie Dent. The show's institutions: The conundrum, the pencam, and the Teatime Teaser. Harry Savage, the reigning series champion, and his series grand final against Viraj Seelam. The most recent Championship of Champions Final between James Haughton and Ahmed Mohamed. The 30th Birthday Championship final between Conor Travers and Jack Hurst. Richard Whiteley, Des Lynam, Des O'Connor, Carol Vorderman, Jeff Stelling, Nick Hewer and Anne Robinson - the show's former permanent presenters. The highest ever score: 154, achieved by Tom Stevenson in Episode 7860 and Cillian McMulkin in Episode 7943. Editors edit  Everyone can edit the Countdown Wiki, just register and then click the edit link at the top of any page (except this one!) and start editing. Here are some useful links: Learn about this wiki and how to use it. Episode style guide - if you want to help us edit the episode pages, this style guide gives comprehensive help. Suggest a featured article which will in turn be featured on the Main Page. Other Countdown websites edit  Apterous, an online game from the same people that run this site. The Countdown Android App, created by Series 63 champion Jack Hurst. The Countdown Database, detailed statistics and round-by-round details of over 7,800 episodes. FOCAL, regular in-person events that anyone can enter. c4countdown, Countdown's main online forum, populated by many past octochamps. Quantum Tombola, a numbers game solver designed by Series 65 champion Graeme Cole. A mobile version of the above. Greem, a website listing nearly all Co-event scores until early 2020. The Countdown Page, the original site of Countdown stats, by Mike Brown.

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