Weekly summary: Episodes 256 to 260

It's been an interesting week of games, with solid results against the contestants.  The first half was particularly good, as I was only just short of matching David and Lily, then did manage to do so on Wednesday.  Things fell off a little after that, but it was pretty satisfactory scoring despite my usual grumbling.  Plus twice I managed to find a longer word than David could, and that's always a very satisfying thing to do.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	79	64	94	61	75
Champion	31	13	0	27	17
Challenger	24	20	42	14	20
David + Lily	86	74	94	77	78
Me (solo)	85	64	94	61	75

The week started with two close games, resulting in tiebreaker conundrums.  Rebecca played well to defeat Judithe on Monday, and then was perhaps a little unlucky on Tuesday when the letters rounds were not helpful.  Cameron defeated Rebecca, but then Emily burst onto the scene with a scintillating first game on Wednesday.  Another good win followed, but fatigue seemed to take it's toll on Friday, and Jodi-Ann finished the week as champion.  Lots of turnover this week; the limited leaderboard looks like this:

Martin Gabor	56	58	52	44			220
Judithe Hall	62	51	43				156
Emily Hawker	67	53	29				149
Rebecca Skovron	53	36					89
Shyam Subramaniam	47	25					72
Cameron Begley	46	5					51
Jodi-Ann Menzies*	49						49
Brad Tucker	41						41

There were three full monties on offer this week, all found by David (and myself, although I had the foreknowledge advantage in one case).  Wednesday served up a very tough numbers round, but other than that Lily was on track throughout.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Full Monties	1		2			3
Missed Full Monties						0
Tough Numbers			1			1
Impossible Numbers						0

My maximum counts improved across the board from last week (well, same number of conundrums solved).  So that's good.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Maximums: L	2	4	5	3	2
N	3	3	2	2	3
C	2	1 (of 2)	1	-	1
Invalid: L	-	-	-	-	-
N	-	-	-	-	-

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Martin Gabor	220	4	55.00
Judithe Hall	156	3	52.00
Emily Hawker	149	3	49.67
Jodi-Ann Menzies*	49	1	49.00
Rebecca Skovron	89	2	44.50
Brad Tucker	41	1	41.00
Daniel McNamara	40	1	40.00
Shyam Subramaniam	72	2	36.00
Emma Watson	31	1	31.00
Matthew Matten	28	1	28.00
Cameron Begley	51	2	25.50