Weekly summary: Episodes 36 to 40

David Jones continued to be a strong competitor, and in particular maintained his good form on the conundrums, twice beating me to the solutions.  Things picked up again toward the end of the week where my conundrum speed was back to decent territory.  The highlight of the week was Tuesday's game, where my solo total was ahead of David and Lily's combined effort, thanks to a numbers round.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	58	73	65	68	70
Champion	41	49	40	16	6
Challenger	12	21	16	22	0
David + Lily	77	81	76	73	73
Me (solo)	75	83	65	68	70

David Jones successfully retired, taking a well-deserved third place on the leader board.  There was not enough time for any further movement there, but next week may well shake things up a little on that front.

Andrew Fisher	95	63	64	67	67	59	415
Naween Fernando	73	60	64	94	64	56	411
David Jones	63	63	50	61	55	53	346
Chris Scholten-Smith	45	47	48	47	38	40	265
Kashi Ross	48	46	34	41	45	32	246
Aaron Tyrrell	51	35	61	18			165
Sudesh Piyatissa	37	57	34				128
Stephen Farrelly	26	30	30				86

This week turned up a full monty, found by a contestant.  It was a much more interesting week with the numbers than last week, as evidenced by Lily being unable to solve three of the numbers games within regulation time.

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

Thursday's maximum count was rather bad; it was the first time since I've started tracking the maxima that I've failed to find any maximal words.  Some of that was due to obscurity, but two of them I should probably have found.  Aside from that, it was reasonable pickings throughout.

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

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Andrew Fisher	415	6	69.17
Naween Fernando	411	6	68.50
David Jones	346	6	57.67
Rob York	94	2	47.00
Chris Scholten-Smith	265	6	44.17
Geoff Heard	88	2	44.00
Sudesh Piyatissa	128	3	42.67
Aaron Tyrell	165	4	41.25
Kashi Ross	246	6	41.00
Tanya Ithier	41	1	41.00
Kiao Inthavong	39	1	39.00
Jonathan Scarlett	39	1	39.00
Chaitanya Rao	38	1	38.00
Jason Stockdale	37	1	37.00
Rob Mould	70	2	35.00
Lara Cassar	35	1	35.00
Andrew Patterson	35	1	35.00
Ian See*	35	1	35.00
Beckett Rozentals	34	1	34.00
Elaine Miles	33	1	33.00
Jenny Blair	33	1	33.00
Alexis Harley	32	1	32.00
James Pho	32	1	32.00
Erez Gordon	31	1	31.00
Ben Strate	30	1	30.00
Alan Stewart	29	1	29.00
Adib Surani	29	1	29.00
Stephen Farrelly	86	3	28.67
Michael Clark	28	1	28.00
Helen Robinson	27	1	27.00
Michael Gin	25	1	25.00
Les Ramsay	25	1	25.00
Stavroula Nicholls	24	1	24.00
Robin Wedd	24	1	24.00
Jane Cleary	23	1	23.00
Brendan Murphy	22	1	22.00
Jim Bailey	21	1	21.00
Daniel Pratt	21	1	21.00
Nick Taubert	19	1	19.00
Arthur Barrs	17	1	17.00
Carol Campbell	17	1	17.00
Dawn Tuftan	15	1	15.00
Frances Weinberg	10	1	10.00
Paul Hughes	6	1	6.00
Andrew Bullen	5	1	5.00