Weekly summary: Episodes 6 to 10

More invalid words kept the Wednesday and Thursday results down, but the week started off very well as I fell just short of David and Lily on Monday, and then outdid them on Tuesday.  It could have finished that way also, but the conundrum was too tough for me.  Still, Tuesday was absolutely the highlight thanks to a pair of full monties and a very rare score of 90.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	74	90	54	60	63
Champion	19	10	22	27	6
Challenger	29	17	12	23	14
David + Lily	76	87	76	78	70
Me (solo)	74	90	54	60	63

Chris won his final game and became the show's first retiring champion.  Aaron had a good run following him, but was defeated on his fourth game and probably will not make the finals.

Chris Scholten-Smith	45	47	48	47	38	40	265
Aaron Tyrrell	51	35	61	18			165

David found both full monties this week, which turned up in the same game.  There were some tricky numbers mixes around and Lily's unsolved count was unusually high.  Maybe she was a little unwell?  Two of them should have been fairly easy solves.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Full Monties		2				2
Missed Full Monties						0
Tough Numbers		2			2	4
Impossible Numbers						0

A wide spread of results this week, with invalid words costing me towards the end.  Wednesday was the low point on maxes, although I did find a longer word than David in that game.  The numbers performance was mostly good, with the ones that I missed feeling reasonably difficult (and two of those also eluding Lily).

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

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Chris Scholten-Smith	265	6	44.17
Aaron Tyrell	165	4	41.25
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
Helen Robinson	27	1	27.00
Stephen Farrelly*	26	1	26.00
Michael Gin	25	1	25.00
Nick Taubert	19	1	19.00