Weekly summary: Episodes 11 to 15

The usual trend of the late-week slump continued, although the result is compounded by an unusual judgement from David.  Some good early results saw me match the combined David and Lily team on Tuesday, and that is always nice.  Friday marked an unusually high-scoring game but one which I have seen before so scoring it fairly is not really possible.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	74	77	70	56	90
Champion	10	13	24	10	28
Challenger	0	10	24	18	78
David + Lily	76	77	74	77	109
Me (solo)	74	77	70	63	97

Stephen had a low-scoring run as champion before Sudesh defeated him on his third game.  Sudesh was likewise defeated on his third game, and neither should make the finals.

Chris Scholten-Smith	45	47	48	47	38	40	265
Aaron Tyrrell	51	35	61	18			165
Sudesh Piyatissa	37	57	34				128
Stephen Farrelly	26	30	30				86
Rob York	52	42					94

All three full monties this week came from Friday's game, for an impressively high maximum of 109.  That game set several records, although admittedly it is early in the game's history: First full monty found by a contestant; first full monty found by both contestants; first game with two full monties found by a contestant; first game with three full monties found by David; highest score by a winning contestant; highest score by a losing contestant; highest combined contestant total.  On top of all that, this week saw the first genuinely unsolvable numbers game, so it has been pretty eventful all round.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Full Monties					3	3
Missed Full Monties						0
Tough Numbers						0
Impossible Numbers			1			1

Mildly erratic but mostly good form on the letters this week, but some flaws in the numbers in the later half.  I had not realised that I had solved every conundrum until I collated the data -- that's a nice result.  The highlight of the week was Tuesday's optimal game.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Maximums: L	3	5	3	5	3
N	3	3	2	1	3
C	1	1	1	1	1

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Andrew Fisher*	95	1	95.00
Rob York	94	2	47.00
Chris Scholten-Smith	265	6	44.17
Sudesh Piyatissa	128	3	42.67
Aaron Tyrell	165	4	41.25
Tanya Ithier	41	1	41.00
Chaitanya Rao	38	1	38.00
Jason Stockdale	37	1	37.00
Lara Cassar	35	1	35.00
Elaine Miles	33	1	33.00
Jenny Blair	33	1	33.00
Alan Stewart	29	1	29.00
Stephen Farrelly	86	3	28.67
Helen Robinson	27	1	27.00
Michael Gin	25	1	25.00
Nick Taubert	19	1	19.00
Dawn Tuftan	15	1	15.00