August 30th
LW’s Protesticles rise the highest in a huge week, with their third activist ceasing any kind of activity being the Guardian’s environmental correspondent Paul Brown. They reach 16th on the board as a result.
| Position | Team | Points | Hits | Theme |
| 1 | Nature’s Way | 67 | 5 | Names Found in Nature |
| 2 | Elton Welsby’s Sporting Triangles | 62 | 5 | Sports Types |
| 3 | Doubles to Finish | 52 | 3 | Names with double letters |
| 4 | LW’s Latest Hit | 50 | 4 | Music |
| =5 | A la vie, a la mort | 48 | 4 | French People |
| =5 | Deutschland verabschiedet sich! | 48 | 4 | Germans |
| 7 | The Sick-bed of Cuchulainn | 40 | 4 | The Irish |
| 8 | Play Ball! | 39 | 3 | Sports |
| 9 | Jaydead | 36 | 3 | Names beginning with J |
| 10 | #1 Hits | 35 | 4 | UK Chart Toppers |
| 11 | Sudden Death | 34 | 4 | Football |
| 12 | OAP’s | 33 | 5 | Old American Politicians |
| 13 | Aaron Aardvark’s Alliteration Association | 33 | 3 | Alliterative Names |
| 14 | Dying Donkeys | 32 | 3 | US Democrat Politicians |
| 15 | Jextinction | 31 | 2 | Names beginning with J |
| 16 | LW’s Protesticles | 30 | 3 | Activists and Protestors |
| 17 | Saturday Night Dead | 29 | 3 | Saturday Night Live |
| 18 | death to all but metal and dame shirley bassey | 28 | 3 | Rockers and their nan |
| =19 | Musicians We Lost in 2026 | 27 | 3 | Musicians |
| =19 | Traded to the Saints | 27 | 3 | NFLers |
| =21 | Fiona’s Reaping the Patricians | 26 | 3 | Politicians and Royalty |
| =21 | Ruling the Afterlife | 26 | 3 | World Leaders |
| 23 | Passed The Rock | 26 | 1 | NBA Figures |
| 24 | House Of Soon To Be With The Lord | 24 | 4 | Politicians |
| 25 | We’re all Doomed! | 24 | 3 | Scots |
| 26 | EVIL PILES OF DOG EXCRIMENT | 24 | 1 | Criminals |
| 27 | Final Adieu | 23 | 4 | Names beginning with A |
| 28 | Great gig in the sky | 23 | 3 | Musicians |
| 29 | The Dead Kennedys | 23 | 2 | Kennedy Center honorees |
| 30 | Musical Chairs | 22 | 3 | Musicians |
| 31 | Windsor’s OBE | 21 | 3 | Order of the British Empire recipients |
| 32 | No More Expenses | 20 | 4 | UK MP’s |
| =33 | MST3K Massacre | 20 | 3 | MST3K subjects |
| =33 | sid and marty coffin | 20 | 3 | Sid and Marty Krofft |
| 35 | Buying Max Yasgur’s Farm | 20 | 2 | Folkies |
| 36 | JOCKS AWAY | 19 | 3 | Scots |
| =37 | Gone and Away | 19 | 2 | Soaps |
| =37 | Perfect 10 | 19 | 2 | People with 10 lettered names. |
| =39 | Complications from a fall | 18 | 2 | Dictators and other world leaders |
| =39 | Francis Of Wrestle-Easy 2026 | 18 | 2 | Wrestling |
| =39 | Waiting For Ugo | 18 | 2 | Midlands footballers |
| 42 | Cardavers | 17 | 3 | Car Names |
| =43 | A Question of Sprouts | 17 | 2 | Sports |
| =43 | All these moments will be lost | 17 | 2 | Sci-fi Actors |
| =43 | Fiona’s Immortals | 17 | 2 | Film and TV Personalities |
| =43 | They Think It’s All Over | 17 | 2 | Scottish Footballers |
| =43 | You should be Ash – amed | 17 | 2 | Convicted and/or Suspected Criminals |
| 48 | Big digits team | 16 | 3 | Centenarians |
| =49 | If your Mansion House Needs Haunting just call… | 16 | 2 | Actors to have played paranormal entities. |
| =49 | KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS | 16 | 2 | Footballers |
| =49 | Rolls Off The Tongue | 16 | 2 | Interesting Names |
| =49 | The Retched pong of Brit sit-com | 16 | 2 | British Sitcoms |
| =53 | Hell to the Chief | 15 | 2 | World Leaders |
| =53 | M6 Toll(ed) | 15 | 2 | Midlands |
| =55 | Last Christmas | 14 | 2 | Christmas-associated celebs |
| =55 | Let the Music Play Just a Little Longer | 14 | 2 | Musicians |
| 57 | Thanks for being a Sport | 13 | 1 | Sportspeople |
| 58 | Old As Dirt | 12 | 3 | Centenarians |
| =59 | Laughing in the Face of Death | 12 | 2 | Funny People |
| =59 | Not Going in a Black Cab | 12 | 2 | Eastenders |
| =59 | Sad Last Days | 12 | 2 | National Enquirer “near death”s |
| =59 | Sickly Senators | 12 | 2 | US Senators |
| =63 | All Death Is Consolation | 11 | 2 | Artists |
| =63 | BYE-BYE BORING BROADCASTERS 2026 | 11 | 2 | Broadcasters |
| =63 | Everybody’s Dead Daves | 11 | 2 | Daves |
| =63 | Made In Detroit | 11 | 2 | Connections to the Motor City |
| =63 | Oscar Strikeouts | 11 | 2 | Oscar nominees |
| =68 | Hits Of 1980 And Hits Today | 11 | 1 | Hits of 46 Years Ago And Hits Today |
| =68 | Norman Lear and All His Friends | 11 | 1 | Norman Lear and actors in his many sitcoms |
| =68 | Trans Girls Hit squad’s hit list | 11 | 1 | T*RFs |
| =71 | And the Nominees are… dead! | 10 | 2 | Oscar Nominees |
| =71 | Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food | 10 | 2 | Authors |
| =71 | D Ceased | 10 | 2 | Names beginning with D |
| =71 | God’s Gonna Gettem | 10 | 2 | Names beginning with G |
| =71 | Hispanics and Lati-no’s | 10 | 2 | Hispanics |
| =71 | Jane’s Antique Wrinklies | 10 | 2 | Old Ladies |
| =71 | Slippery Soap | 10 | 2 | Soap Actors |
| =71 | The Letter “R” Means Death | 10 | 2 | Names beginning with R |
| =79 | Animals to the Afterlife | 10 | 1 | Animal Names |
| =79 | Baby Kissers Taking a Big Sleep | 10 | 1 | Politicos |
| =79 | Bobbing For Apples | 10 | 1 | Bobs and Roberts |
| =79 | Easy Peasy Japanesey | 10 | 1 | Japanese People |
| =79 | I Hear Voices | 10 | 1 | Voice Actors |
| =79 | Lt. Colonel Kilgore’s Ultimate Surf Party | 10 | 1 | Vietnam Figures |
| =79 | Nice! | 10 | 1 | Jazz Musicians |
| =79 | Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead | 10 | 1 | 50s/60s rock and pop |
| =79 | Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2026 United | 10 | 1 | Athletes |
| =79 | The Fat Lady’s singing… | 10 | 1 | Opera |
| =79 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE | 10 | 1 | Actors in TTSS adaptations |
| =79 | Vive la France… et la mort | 10 | 1 | The French |
| 91 | Ncuti Bang Bang | 9 | 2 | Doctor Who |
| =92 | A place in the dirt | 9 | 1 | Geographically themed names |
| =92 | Illinoying | 9 | 1 | People associated with Illinois |
| =92 | I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together | 9 | 1 | Personalities on The Carol Burnett Show |
| =92 | It’s time to meet the music | 9 | 1 | Muppet Show Guest Stars |
| =92 | State Funeral | 9 | 1 | Heads of State |
| =92 | There is nothing like a Dame | 9 | 1 | Dames, without their boss this time |
| =92 | Turning Left | 9 | 1 | Racing drivers with at least 1 NASCAR Cup Series start. |
| =99 | Gray Panthers | 7 | 1 | Centenarians |
| =99 | The Cabinet of the Grim Reaper | 7 | 1 | US Cabinet Members |
| =101 | 20 Crooners Croakin’ | 6 | 1 | Crooners |
| =101 | Apollogies For Still Living | 6 | 1 | Astronauts |
| =101 | Comedy Cremations | 6 | 1 | Comedy Actors |
| =101 | Decaying Orbit-uaries | 6 | 1 | Space types |
| =101 | Drop Dead Diva | 6 | 1 | Extravagant women |
| =101 | Forbes’ DL | 6 | 1 | Billionaires |
| =101 | Grappling with Mortality | 6 | 1 | Wrestlers |
| =101 | Last Show Before Bedtime | 6 | 1 | 70’s BBC Evening TV |
| =101 | Laugh until… 2026 | 6 | 1 | Comedians |
| =101 | Lullabye-bye of Broadway | 6 | 1 | Broadway |
| =101 | MAGA Hit List | 6 | 1 | Trump non-fans |
| =101 | Putting Death Over, Brotha! | 6 | 1 | Pro Wrestling |
| =113 | Boddies…By ‘eck you smell gorgeous tonight, petal! | 5 | 1 | People associated with Manchester |
| =113 | Dieopics | 5 | 1 | Biopic Subjects |
| =113 | Foreword by The Grim Reaper | 5 | 1 | Authors |
| =113 | GoodKnight Vienna | 5 | 1 | Knights and Dames |
| =113 | Old Hollywood | 5 | 1 | Actors aged 90+ |
| =113 | Oldest living footballers | 5 | 1 | Take a guess! |
| =113 | Pantomime Pall | 5 | 1 | Pantomime Actors |
| =113 | Pop Goes the Wurzels | 5 | 1 | Popsters |
| =113 | Rushing to Tim Horton’s for Maple Donuts | 5 | 1 | Canucks |
| =113 | Space Wasters | 5 | 1 | Morally Questionable People |
| =113 | Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! | 5 | 1 | US TV |
| 124 | Fireball’s Play Your Cadavers Right | 4 | 1 | Gameshow hosts |
| …and it’s goodnight from him | 0 | 0 | Rons, Ronalds, Ronnies etc. | |
| 2026 Exit Draft | 0 | 0 | Sport | |
| Alright Dave | 0 | 0 | A team of Daves | |
| American As Apple Pie | 0 | 0 | Hispanics | |
| And That’s a Rap | 0 | 0 | Rappers | |
| Armin Meiwes’s Prison Buddies | 0 | 0 | Criminals | |
| ARTHUR’S THEME | 0 | 0 | People born on the Day of the Dead | |
| BatStar Lord of the Who TrekLock | 0 | 0 | Nerd shows | |
| Beloved Farewell | 0 | 0 | Names beginning with B | |
| Big Man Top 40 Musicians | 0 | 0 | Musicians | |
| Boom, Boom, Out go the lights | 0 | 0 | Blues and beat musicians | |
| Broken Records | 0 | 0 | Musicians | |
| BY DESIGN | 0 | 0 | Designers and Inventors | |
| Cadaverous Mofos | 0 | 0 | The Wire | |
| Can’t Think of a Music Pun | 0 | 0 | Musicians | |
| CLOG POPPERS | 0 | 0 | Popsters | |
| Come on Karma, Where’s the F@@king Justice | 0 | 0 | Evading justice for how long? | |
| Complete Phallusies | 0 | 0 | Names with shlong slang in them | |
| CRT to DOA | 0 | 0 | TV presenters | |
| DCAU Demises | 0 | 0 | DC Animated Cinematic Universe | |
| Dead Beats | 0 | 0 | Musicians | |
| Dead Continent | 0 | 0 | Asians | |
| Dead Leaders | 0 | 0 | World Leaders | |
| Disney Remake Roast | 0 | 0 | Disney | |
| Don’t Eat Another Donut While You’re in the MRI Machine | 0 | 0 | Overweight People | |
| Dr Who’s Next | 0 | 0 | Doctor Who | |
| Epstein Island Flight 666 to Hell | 0 | 0 | Names in the Epstein files | |
| Epstein’s Enigmas | 0 | 0 | Names in the Epstein files | |
| Formula Fatality | 0 | 0 | F1 | |
| Gris Gris | 0 | 0 | Duplicated Names | |
| Here’s Who You Could Have Won | 0 | 0 | Interesting Oldies | |
| He’s Not The Family Guy | 0 | 0 | Family Guy Voices | |
| Hospital Pass Footballers | 0 | 0 | Footballers | |
| IN THE HOLE! | 0 | 0 | Golfers | |
| IT’S A COP-OUT 2026 | 0 | 0 | Coppers | |
| Last of The Summer Winos | 0 | 0 | Last of the Summer Wine | |
| last ones alive 2026 | 0 | 0 | Last surviving original band members | |
| Miscreants | 0 | 0 | Morally Questionable People | |
| No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! | 0 | 0 | Bond Villains | |
| Nobel Notables | 0 | 0 | Nobel Laureates | |
| Nonclave | 0 | 0 | Papal Candidates | |
| Once Shaggable, Now Baggable | 0 | 0 | Old ladies eyecatching in their heyday | |
| One Century is Enough, Madam! | 0 | 0 | Centenarian women | |
| Passing of the passed | 0 | 0 | Celebs the team runner passed by in the street | |
| Peace, Drugs, and Death | 0 | 0 | 1960s counterculture figures | |
| Pennsylvania’s Pushing Daisies | 0 | 0 | The Keystone State | |
| POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD | 0 | 0 | Politicians from the Asia-Pacific Region | |
| Poor Little Ghoul | 0 | 0 | US Chart Toppers | |
| Punk is Dead | 0 | 0 | Punk Musicians | |
| Ready For My Closed Lid, Mr. DeMille | 0 | 0 | Ladies of Cinema | |
| Russian Box Players | 0 | 0 | Russians | |
| Scrubber Out | 0 | 0 | Pornstars | |
| She’s a Dead Skate, Charlie Brown | 0 | 0 | Ice Skaters | |
| Special:RandomInCategory/Living_people | 0 | 0 | The 20 best picks of 4000 randomly generated Wikipedia bios | |
| Spoczywaj w pokoju | 0 | 0 | Polish and Polish-born people. | |
| St. Peter’s Warblers | 0 | 0 | Musicians | |
| Thank You For The Music | 0 | 0 | Musicians | |
| Thanos Snapped | 0 | 0 | MCU Actors | |
| THE LORD GOD SLAYED THEM ALL | 0 | 0 | Veterinarians | |
| The Real Hearsewives of Bravo | 0 | 0 | Stars of The Real Housewives Franchise | |
| The Survivors | 0 | 0 | Last Survivors | |
| The Talking Dead | 0 | 0 | TV Hosts | |
| The Tribe Has Spoken | 0 | 0 | CBS reality show contestants | |
| The Writing’s On The Wall | 0 | 0 | Singers | |
| They Were the World | 0 | 0 | We Are the World alumni | |
| They’re Alright As Long As You Don’t Mention Politics | 0 | 0 | Polarizing Political Figures | |
| Unpersons | 0 | 0 | Big Brother Participants | |
| Where are all the Garys and Simons? | 0 | 0 | Garys and Simons | |
| Who Goes Before the 5-0 Arrives? | 0 | 0 | Under 50’s | |
| Wishing (I Had an Obituary of You) | 0 | 0 | 80s musicians | |
| Wrestling To Stay Alive | 0 | 0 | Wrestling | |
| Ya Scouse B*stards | 0 | 0 | Scousers |