Weekly summary: Episodes 276 to 280

I started the week with a solid enough game, and was fortunately not made to pay for missing several maximums in the letters rounds.  The next three days I managed to tie David and Lily, and that may possibly be a record for me.  Wednesday's result was a little flawed, as one numbers round was further away than Lily's result; they both scored seven points, however.  I finished the week with an unsettled game, and needed to solve the conundrum quickly to avoid a loss to Tina.  Fortunately I did so, and ended up with all solo scores above 70; definitely an above-average week for me.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	68	77	83	78	66
Champion	24	10	10	17	19
Challenger	14	10	0	17	49
David + Lily	77	77	83	78	76
Me (solo)	74	77	83	78	73

Paul continued to have a series of close games, but got all the way to his sixth game before his luck ran out.  Scott defeated him on Thursday, and was in turn defeated by Tina to close out the week.  Tina's first game score was an impressively high 72 points.  The limited leaderboard looks like this:

Brydon Coverdale	43	47	56	61	70	52	329
Paul Breen	60	36	31	64	53	36	280
Martin Gabor	56	58	52	44			220
Judithe Hall	62	51	43				156
Emily Hawker	67	53	29				149
Anushan Jegatheeswaran	50	47	41				138
Rachel Furness	35	54	40				129
Rebecca Skovron	53	36					89

It was a parsimonious week, with just one full monty being on offer; David found it.  That same game produced the first impossible numbers target for a while, too.

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

I had a symmetrical week as far as the maximums went, with many missed opportunities on Monday and Friday.  The middle three days saw me drop one maximum on each day.  I did get all the conundrums, which was nice.

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

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Tina Rose*	72	1	72.00
Martin Gabor	220	4	55.00
Brydon Coverdale	329	6	54.83
Judithe Hall	156	3	52.00
Emily Hawker	149	3	49.67
Niall Donohue	48	1	48.00
Billy Browne	47	1	47.00
Paul Breen	280	6	46.67
Anushan Jegatheeswaran	138	3	46.00
Sasha Quilty	45	1	45.00
Rebecca Skovron	89	2	44.50
Rachel Furness	129	3	43.00
Brad Tucker	41	1	41.00
Angela Miezis	80	2	40.00
Daniel McNamara	40	1	40.00
Scott Ingram	78	2	39.00
Jodi-Ann Menzies	77	2	38.50
Shyam Subramaniam	72	2	36.00
Sneha Pereira	36	1	36.00
Geoff Walker	71	2	35.50
Miles Tilly	33	1	33.00
Ajanthan Jegatheeswaran	32	1	32.00
Kim Butcher	31	1	31.00
Emma Watson	31	1	31.00
Karen Barber	30	1	30.00
Johanna Riley	30	1	30.00
Cormac Murtagh	58	2	29.00
Matthew Matten	28	1	28.00
Michael Lithgow	27	1	27.00
Barry Cook	26	1	26.00
Cameron Begley	51	2	25.50
Denver Quadros	16	1	16.00