This happened in Series 80, the show was broadcast on April 29th 2019.

The full set of letters chosen was RILEYADOS, neither contestant got the possible 9 letter word ROYALISED.

With the letter distributions detailed at [ Ссылка ] (thanks Jan Laing), I believe the odds of this happening are 1 in 4,480,027 calculated from 2 x (74/9) x 2 x (67/13) x 2 x (73/5) x 2 x (66/21) x 2 x ( 72/1 ). The '2' multipliers are there because the contestant needs to chose the sequence consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel, consonant. I'm no statistician so feel free to correct me.

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