Series:
- A man instantly solves a conundrum - and then another.
- Anytime someone finds a 9-letter word.
- Lee Mack is the one of the only people on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown to find TWO nine letter words.note
- The extremely rare occasion where the letter selections actually spell a viable word; both contestants are immediately credited with the points.
- Anytime someone wins with a score of 100 or better; more so if both contestants reach 100.
- Any Numbers Game in which Rachel or one of the players has to go through an intermediate result of four or five figures before hitting the target exactly.
- One such round has a goal of 952, and a contestant gives an equation of (((100 + 6) * 3 * 75) - 50) / 25, going as high as 23,850 before dropping back down to 952.
- Then you have this mad lad who needs to get 813, and goes as high as 81,300 before dropping back down to 813.
- One such round
- Contestant Zarte Siempre setting an all-time high score of 150 during the 15th Championship of Champions in January 2019...
- ...a record that would stand for just four months before Elliot Mellor achieved an astonishing 152 in his second appearance on the program. Mellor also became the first-ever octochamp to score over 1000 points across all eight of his games, totaling 1061 points.
- Mellor's single-game record fell in Series 86 (June-December 2022), when Tom Stevenson scored 154 points in his fourth win. Stevenson would go on to become the #1 seed in the end-of-series tournament, winning or tying every single round in all eight of his games and doing the same in his quarterfinal and semifinal matchups. He won the championship, logging 10 more won/tied rounds in the final for a grand total of 160.
