Weekly summary: Episodes 366 to 370

It's been a week of decent-to-good letter solving, but with some careless misses on the numbers.  I solved five of the six conundrums within time (Tuesday had two of them), although I was just beaten by a contestant on one of them.  My totals this week were a little lower than they might have been, with contestants three times finding eight-letter words to beat me in those rounds.  It's been a week with some great finds!

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	66	60	56	66	70
Champion	22	21	14	33	29
Challenger	27	7	28	24	38
David + Lily	76	77	74	88	73

Maurie missed out on his chance to make the (current) top eight, and there was a fair amount of turnover in the champions this week.  Once again, there's no change to the finals rankings.

Sam Gaffney	51	81	62	67	64	55	380
Kerin White	55	56	46	63	65	51	336
Toby Baldwin	59	48	54	43	48	44	296
Shaun Ellis	43	56	38	59	40	44	280
Daniel Chua	44	59	56	53	36	52	300
Sebastian Ham	39	49	58	40	45		231
Geoff Bailey	55	64	65	63			247
Nick Terry	71	46	55	35			217

The vowel mix this week was much better than the last one, although the contestants did not always exercise the best judgement as to how to go (from the point of view of making longer words possible).  David did get a full monty at last, two weeks after his last one, but there was the potential for more with different choices of that final letter.

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

Each of the contestants this week averaged over 30, which I think is the first time that has happened. Contestants averaging over 30 points a game:

	Total	Games	Average
Sam Gaffney	380	6	63.33
Geoff Bailey	247	4	61.75
Jimmy Driscoll	61	1	61.00
Leanne Cox	57	1	57.00
Ryan Sutton	57	1	57.00
Kerin White	336	6	56.00
Nick Terry	217	4	54.25
Geraldine Yam	52	1	52.00
Tim Clay	51	1	51.00
Peter Crop	152	3	50.67
Daniel Chua	300	6	50.00
Lainie Mercieca	99	2	49.50
Toby Baldwin	296	6	49.33
Susan Pickett	97	2	48.50
Matt Williams	48	1	48.00
Natasha Podesser	47	1	47.00
Shaun Ellis	280	6	46.67
Brett Edwards	139	3	46.33
Sebastian Ham	231	5	46.20
Brian McEvoy	46	1	46.00
Michael Nichols	90	2	45.00
Karla Treves	90	2	45.00
Sandy Clarke	45	1	45.00
James Godfrey	45	1	45.00
Trevor Armstrong	178	4	44.50
Megan Marks	133	3	44.33
Maurie Williams	176	4	44.00
Colin Shnier	44*	1*	44.00
Nick Compton	44	1	44.00
Mark Arnold	87	2	43.50
John Day	42	1	42.00
John O'Connor	125	3	41.67
Nathan Dixon	41	1	41.00
Nick Mann	41	1	41.00
David Bradley	77	2	38.50
Alex van der Kooij	153	4	38.25
Adrian Lonigro	38	1	38.00
Richelle Patrick	38	1	38.00
Colin Jones	111	3	37.00
Cherie Brody	37	1	37.00
Chris Miller	37	1	37.00
Ann Vasconcelos	73	2	36.50
Ilona Coote	36	1	36.00
Angie Pearce	71	2	35.50
Kane Gross	34	1	34.00
Paul Merry	67	2	33.50
Duncan Butler	33	1	33.00
Mitchell Fly	33	1	33.00
Cameron Tyson	33	1	33.00
Hannah Marshall	33	1	33.00
Hiep Do	98	3	32.67
Susan Cumming	32	1	32.00
Sushma Garudadwajan	62	2	31.00
David Armstrong	31	1	31.00