Ep 404: Norm Do, Diana Greenslade (March 15, 2012)

Rounds: Here.


It was really hard to resist the temptation to simply title this post "Ep 404: Not found".  I hope you appreciate my forebearance. *chuckles*

Richard mentions that Norm has been pretty consistent about solving the conundrums and also finding seven letter words.  Norm responds that it doesn't usually happen like that at home, although seven letter words are what he aims for.

Tonight's challenger is oceanographer Diana Greenslade.  Diana works on the Australian Tsunami Warning System, an initiative started after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004; the System went operational in 2008.  She has been leading the scientific development of it -- running the computer models that provide the underlying basis for the forecasters, who can then choose whether to issue a warning or not.


Diana gets an early lead, but Norm claims most of it back in the next round with a very nice word.  The sevens are hard to come by tonight, but he finds another to take the lead.  The contestants are matched throughout in the numbers and so it comes down to the conundrum, with Norm leading.  It's a disconcerting mix but Norm sees his way through it once more to solve it and take his fifth win, 59 to 43.

I had a decent game, solving all the numbers and getting mostly maximal results in the letters; the two cases where I could have done better involved words I did not know in the first, and a word I wasn't certain of in the second.  So the only negative mark here is how I froze up on the conundrum, eventually finding the solution three seconds after Norm.  Still and all, a comfortable win, and a nice result after yesterday's game.