Weekly summary: Episodes 261 to 265

I had adequate results this week, but -- except for Friday -- always ended up significantly behind David and Lily's combined score due to the conundrum.  The shortfalls were exacerbated by an invalid word on Tuesday, and two numbers rounds on Wednesday that I did not manage to solve.  On Thursday I had the good result of outdoing Lily in a numbers round; in fact, it would have been an optimal game if not for the conundrum.  On Friday I finally managed to get that tie I'd been trying for all week, which was a relief.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	64	51	62	67	77
Champion	24	7	10	37	10
Challenger	17	22	17	20	10
David + Lily	76	75	79	74	77
Me (solo)	64	57	62	67	77

This week was pretty similar to last week, as far as results went: The champion was only able to win Thursday's game.  Rachel looked in decent form but was not able to defeat Anushan; it's been a while since anyone got even as far as four victories.  The limited leaderboard looks like this:

Martin Gabor	56	58	52	44			220
Judithe Hall	62	51	43				156
Emily Hawker	67	53	29				149
Rachel Furness	35	54	40				129
Rebecca Skovron	53	36					89
Jodi-Ann Menzies	49	28					77
Shyam Subramaniam	47	25					72
Geoff Walker	48	23					71

There was only one full monty on offer the entire week, and that was sufficiently obscure that it was missed by everyone.  Lily was foiled by the numbers only once, with Thursday turning up a difficult target that was very nicely solved by Rachel.

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

My maximum counts for the main rounds were essentially the same as last week, but it was a tough week as far as conundrum-solving went.  I only managed to get Friday's one out within time, and mostly it wasn't even close.  I had an invalid word on Tuesday, which did come as a bit of a surprise; I hadn't realised I was taking a risk with OUTLIE.

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

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Martin Gabor	220	4	55.00
Judithe Hall	156	3	52.00
Anushan Jegatheeswaran*	50	1	50.00
Emily Hawker	149	3	49.67
Rebecca Skovron	89	2	44.50
Rachel Furness	129	3	43.00
Brad Tucker	41	1	41.00
Daniel McNamara	40	1	40.00
Jodi-Ann Menzies	77	2	38.50
Shyam Subramaniam	72	2	36.00
Geoff Walker	71	2	35.50
Ajanthan Jegatheeswaran	32	1	32.00
Emma Watson	31	1	31.00
Cormac Murtagh	58	2	29.00
Matthew Matten	28	1	28.00
Cameron Begley	51	2	25.50