Ep 74: Dom Saric, Yvonne Wake (October 18, 2012; originally aired November 11, 2010)

Rounds: Here.


This is Dom Saric's third night on the show, and Richard asks Dom where he sees his medical studies taking him.  Dom responds that he is currently leaning towards a career in psychiatry; that is what has interested him the most out of the different blocks he has done so far.

Tonight's challenger is Yvonne Wake, a retired French teacher who enjoys solving cryptic crosswords, reading biographies, and travel books.  Yvonne visited France two years ago, and is going again next year (which would have been 2011).  She thinks that Paris is the most beautiful city; she has seen many European cities but it is Paris that she adores.  She adds that there is nothing better than strolling along the Seine chatting to the bouquinistes in French.


Dom got out to an early lead thanks to the first three letters rounds, where in each case Yvonne was limited to five-letter words.  She managed to match him on the remaining two letters rounds, but since they had identical results on the numbers rounds she had fallen too far adrift by the conundrum.  In the event, neither solved it, and Dom gained his third win by 50 points to 31.

I played a reasonable game today, but did miss three longer words that could have been findable.  My conundrum speed was a little slow but I got there, and the numbers behaved themselves for me.  I needed to find one of those longer answers to bump my solo total up to the week's running theme of 75, but it was still a satisfactory total.