Weekly summary: Episodes 386 to 390

My scores varied quite a bit this week, but I finished with two good games that were very close to the David/Lily combined effort.  Hopefully I can take that momentum into the next week and the finals series.  I solved all the conundrums in regulation time, although twice I was beaten to the solution by a contestant.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	65	84	59	76	73
Champion	36	40	17	17	21
Challenger	31	31	13	30	15
David + Lily	78	97	78	78	76

Christopher managed to navigate his way through the fourth-game hurdle, knocking me out of contention at last.  He takes over the eighth spot; there is a very small chance that Roman will displace him on the last game before the finals start.  If not, he'll face Sam Gaffney first up.

Sam Gaffney	51	81	62	67	64	55	380
Alan Nash	60	73	52	54	43	69	351
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
Christopher Piggott-McKellar	45	36	54	53	30		218

Two more full monties this week, but two others that could have been had.  On the numbers front, the balanced mix demonstrates its difficulty by serving up two games that eluded Lily within time.

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

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
Alan Nash	351	6	58.50
Leanne Cox	57	1	57.00
Ryan Sutton	57	1	57.00
Kerin White	336	6	56.00
Roman Turkiewicz*	112*	2*	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
Michael Vnuk	49	1	49.00
Susan Pickett	97	2	48.50
Colin Shnier	144	3	48.00
Matt Williams	48	1	48.00
Alice Wheeler	189	4	47.25
Rhonda Jefferson	141	3	47.00
Natasha Podesser	47	1	47.00
Shaun Ellis	280	6	46.67
Brett Edwards	139	3	46.33
Sebastian Ham	231	5	46.20
Cem Gurkan	92	2	46.00
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
Nick Compton	44	1	44.00
Christopher Piggott-McKellar	218	5	43.60
Mark Arnold	87	2	43.50
John Day	42	1	42.00
Kathy Male	42	1	42.00
John O'Connor	125	3	41.67
Nathan Dixon	41	1	41.00
Nick Mann	41	1	41.00
Pam Fichtner	39	1	39.00
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
Andrew Krein	37	1	37.00
Colin Mallard	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
Katie Richer	70	2	35.00
Tiahn Hannaford	35	1	35.00
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
John Crone	31	1	31.00