Weekly summary: Episodes 271 to 275

I started the week with a narrow win over Brydon, who played very well, registering the highest score we've seen from a contestant so far in these re-runs.  Thereafter the margins were solidly in my favour, although I never quite managed to catch up with David and Lily.  The week ended reasonably strongly, with Thursday's game seeing me just one point behind them, and Friday's lacking just the conundrum solution to equal.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	64	78	71	84	66
Champion	59	31	13	30	0
Challenger	25	34	0	24	0
David + Lily	77	98	86	85	76
Me (solo)	74	78	71	84	66

Brydon continued his pattern of increasing scores, registering 70 points on Monday's game.  He finally broke the trend on his final night but still managed the half century as he successfully retired.  Niall put up a good fight on Tuesday, but ended up just short of the mark.  Angela had a brief stint as champion, and then Paul took over to finish out the week.  The limited leaderboard looks like this:

Brydon Coverdale	43	47	56	61	70	52	329
Martin Gabor	56	58	52	44			220
Judithe Hall	62	51	43				156
Emily Hawker	67	53	29				149
Anushan Jegatheeswaran	50	47	41				138
Rachel Furness	35	54	40				129
Paul Breen*	60	36					96
Rebecca Skovron	53	36					89

There were four full monties to be found this week, and David did so.  That was just one short of the "Clayton's" grand slam that he has been searching for.  I don't think he ever did get that.  Lily solved everything this week, which must be her equivalent; it is an admittedly easier task, however.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Full Monties		2	1	1		4
Missed Full Monties						0
Tough Numbers						0
Impossible Numbers						0

My maximum counts for the main rounds were the same as last week, just shuffled around a bit.  My conundrum solving was still decent, but failing to solve Friday's conundrum cost me a tie with David and Lily.

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

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Martin Gabor	220	4	55.00
Brydon Coverdale	329	6	54.83
Judithe Hall	156	3	52.00
Emily Hawker	149	3	49.67
Paul Breen*	96	2	48.00
Niall Donohue	48	1	48.00
Anushan Jegatheeswaran	138	3	46.00
Sasha Quilty	45	1	45.00
Rebecca Skovron	89	2	44.50
Rachel Furness	129	3	43.00
Brad Tucker	41	1	41.00
Angela Miezis	80	2	40.00
Daniel McNamara	40	1	40.00
Jodi-Ann Menzies	77	2	38.50
Shyam Subramaniam	72	2	36.00
Geoff Walker	71	2	35.50
Miles Tilly	33	1	33.00
Ajanthan Jegatheeswaran	32	1	32.00
Kim Butcher	31	1	31.00
Emma Watson	31	1	31.00
Karen Barber	30	1	30.00
Johanna Riley	30	1	30.00
Cormac Murtagh	58	2	29.00
Matthew Matten	28	1	28.00
Michael Lithgow	27	1	27.00
Cameron Begley	51	2	25.50
Denver Quadros	16	1	16.00