Ep 392: Roman Turkiewicz, Linda Bennett (February 28, 2012)

Rounds: Here.


This is Roman's fourth night, and Richard asks him if he has any techniques for the game.  Roman says that for the letters rounds he likes to start with a consonant and then try and space it out with vowels and consonants in equal measure.  He finds that makes the words fall into place better for him.

Tonight's challenger is Linda Bennett, a senior business analyst at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.  Linda has learned to count cards when playing blackjack to the extent that she is quite restricted in what the Melbourne casinos allow her to do.  (Minimum bet, only one box at a time.)


Roman finds some good words tonight, getting off to a flying start.  Aided by an invalid word from Linda, his advantage grows to 22 points at the halfway mark.  Linda manages to get some back in the next numbers round but thereafter they match, with neither solving the final numbers round or the conundrum; Roman wins again, 45 to 33.

I had a costly miss in the third letters round, and dropped the conundrum also -- it was a tough one tonight!  Everything else went well, including solving a numbers round that eluded Lily, and I had a comfortable win.  Just one match left before the finals start...

As usual, details after the jump.