Weekly summary: Episodes 444 to 450 (Masters Series)

An inaccurate title, as I've combined the two short weeks of the Masters series into a longer one. It all started out pretty well for me, matching David and Lily in the first game.  Then two games where I had invalid answers kept me from nearing that target, but I still managed to beat the contestants.  The remaining games I lost, though, in each case on the conundrum by probably a tenth of a second or less.  Frustrating, but the conundrums have always been the weakest part of my game.

	QF1	QF2	QF3	QF4	SF1	SF2	GF
Me	68	60	70	53	48	39	43
Champion	30	49	42	28	33	54	43
Challenger	38	22	50	58	56	39	46
David + Lily	78	75	87	78	77	76	75
Me (solo)	78	60	80	76	69	69	50

In the series three finals summary I commented that the finals brought out the full monties, but that seems not so much the case this time around.  Just two possibilities over the entire series, only one of which was found.  There were some quite challenging number mixes, but Lily was equal to almost all of them, and the exception she solved soon afterwards.

	QF1	QF2	QF3	QF4	SF1	SF2	GF
Full Monties			1					1
Missed Full Monties					1			1
Tough Numbers		1						1
Impossible Numbers								0

Results from the quarterfinals were pretty good, but took somewhat of a dive thereafter.  The conundrum performance is both better and worse than it might seem -- most of those solutions were quite quick, but also just fractionally slower than the contestants.  It was only in the second quarterfinal that I managed to solve it first.  Several invalid answers in this series, but at least in the quarterfinals they were bolstered by some good results otherwise.

	QF1	QF2	QF3	QF4	SF1	SF2	GF
Maximums: L	4	3	3	3	2	4	3
N	3	2	3	3	2	1	1
C	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
Invalid: L	-	1	1	-	-	-	-
N	-	1	-	-	-	-	1