Ep 37: David Jones, Beckett Rozentals (August 28, 2012; originally aired September 21, 2010)

Rounds: Here.


Disclaimer: While I have not seen this episode before, I did play through the blue book (episodes 1 to 50) around ten months ago when I was scheduled to be a contestant on the show.  Additionally, I did a quick flick through it a few months back to collect words for my posts about word validity.


This is David Jones' fifth night, and Richard asks what prompted him to move to Australia.  David says that "apart from the obvious reasons" he met his now-wife while she was working in the UK for a couple of years.  When her visa expired he asked her if she would like him to head to Australia and see what happens; obviously that worked out pretty well.

Tonight's challenger is Beckett Rozentals, a fashion designer, art curator, and history lecturer.  Beckett rides her bike to work each day "in high fashion and in high heels".  And, well, that's about it for what we find out about her.


As mentioned before, I'll be referring to David Astle throughout as DA to avoid confusion about which David is which.


It was a rather mixed performance from David tonight; he got off to a good start in the first two letters rounds, including finding a full monty, but was only able to score four points in the next four rounds.  Beckett was not able to capitalise on this lapse, though, and David ended up ahead by enough to be safe going into the conundrum.  He solved it quickly once more to get his fifth win, 55 to 34.

I was mostly in good shape tonight, although I missed one word I should have got.  Once more I was slow on the conundrum, with David beating me to it by a second.  Against that, I managed to solve a numbers round in time that Lily did not, and that gave me a very rare solo total larger than the combined DA/Lily combination.