Weekly summary: Episodes 396 to 400

It's been a week of excellent games to round out the final series, and greatly enjoyable viewing.  I started out with three great games, then faltered badly in the last one to lose to both contestants and record my lowest total of the series.  But I recovered on the Friday for the grand final, steered home by the conundrum for a very pleasant change.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	74	61	67	37	55
Champion	20	14	52	40	48
Challenger	16	27	35	40	41
David + Lily	77	76	87	69	86

I saw a full monty on Wednesday, which was the second high point of the week (first being beating both Sam and Alan to the conundrum on Friday).  Thursday saw the first impossible numbers round for a while, and Friday was a big day, with a full monty, another obscure missed one, and a tough numbers round that really challenged the contestants.

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

Contestants averaging over 30 points a game:

	Total	Games	Average
Norm Do*	67	1	67.00
Sam Gaffney	577	9	64.11
Geoff Bailey	247	4	61.75
Jimmy Driscoll	61	1	61.00
Leanne Cox	57	1	57.00
Ryan Sutton	57	1	57.00
Alan Nash	508	9	56.44
Nick Terry	217	4	54.25
Geraldine Yam	52	1	52.00
Kerin White	362	7	51.71
Tim Clay	51	1	51.00
Peter Crop	152	3	50.67
Lainie Mercieca	99	2	49.50
Michael Vnuk	49	1	49.00
Susan Pickett	97	2	48.50
Colin Shnier	144	3	48.00
Matt Williams	48	1	48.00
Daniel Chua	380	8	47.50
Toby Baldwin	379	8	47.38
Sebastian Ham	284	6	47.33
Alice Wheeler	189	4	47.25
Rhonda Jefferson	141	3	47.00
Natasha Podesser	47	1	47.00
Brett Edwards	139	3	46.33
Cem Gurkan	92	2	46.00
Brian McEvoy	46	1	46.00
Shaun Ellis	319	7	45.57
Michael Nichols	90	2	45.00
Karla Treves	90	2	45.00
Sandy Clarke	45	1	45.00
James Godfrey	45	1	45.00
Roman Turkiewicz	267	6	44.50
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
Craig Woodward	35	1	35.00
Kane Gross	34	1	34.00
Paul Merry	67	2	33.50
Linda Bennett	33	1	33.00
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