Weekly summary: Episodes 1 to 5

The week went pretty well, as I managed to get close to the combined David and Lily total a couple of times, and tied with them once in Wednesday's optimal game.  The end-of-week problems were back in force, though, as two invalid words and a missed conundrum saw me drop 35 points behind their total.  Ouch!

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	70	63	76	65	54
Champion	20	21	17	15	25
Challenger	18	6	0	15	24
David + Lily	74	76	76	69	89
Me (solo)	70	63	76	65	54

Chris has won every game so far, so is the only name on the leaderboard.  He has a decent chance to become the first retiring champion of the show.

Chris Scholten-Smith*	45	47	48	47	38		225

David found the only full monty on offer this week.  Although there were a couple of tricky numbers games, Lily was equal to the challenge of most of them, only missing one of them within time.

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

The week went mostly well, with the highlight being Wednesday's optimal game.  Thursday was just short of optimal also, with an invalid word being the difference.  Against that, Tuesday and Friday were poorer results, with Friday's efforts including two invalid words.  I was strong on the numbers throughout, only missing out on the one optimal answer for the week.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Maximums: L	4	1	5	4	3
N	2	3	3	3	3
C	1	0	1	1	0
Invalid: L	-	-	-	1	2

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Chris Scholten-Smith*	225	5	45.00
Chaitanya Rao	38	1	38.00
Jason Stockdale	37	1	37.00
Elaine Miles	33	1	33.00
Helen Robinson	27	1	27.00
Nick Taubert	19	1	19.00