Ep 62: Veronica Corrigan, Dave Wilson (October 2, 2012; originally aired October 26, 2010)

Rounds: Here.


This is Veronica Corrigan's third night, and we are informed that she is a great baker.  Richard asks what her specialty is, and Veronica responds that her brownies have developed quite a following.  Not only does she get introduced as "the girl that makes brownies", but a couple of friends of hers made a Facebook page about her brownies, and by the end of the day another twenty-five people had joined.  So she was rather literal when she said that they have a following.

Tonight's challenger is Dave Wilson, a fencing contractor with a green thumb.  Dave has built a golf course on his ten-acre property.  That's quite an endeavour!  He says that it is still a work in progress, but it has taken three years so far.  Every Australia Day he has a golf day and earlier that year (2010) 67 people turned up to play.  Impressive!


The contestants started off with the same answer in the first round, and then Veronica impressed David in the second round with a word he had not heard of before.  That gave her a small lead which she extended in the numbers round.  The middle third of the game produced matched results throughout, and then Veronica found another good word in the final letters round to get a twenty point lead.  Dave still had a chance if he could solve the final numbers round, but he was not able to do so; his actual answer was invalid, not that it made a difference to the result.  The conundrum turned out to be too difficult for them both, and Veronica ended up with a comfortable 54 to 27 win.

It was a night of really tough letters mixes, and I was only able to do better than six once.  The numbers behaved themselves, though, and a decently fast conundrum solution pushed my score up into the seventies again for another decent game.