Weekly summary: Episodes 146 to 150

This has definitely been a better week for me than the previous few.  All scores against the contestants were in the seventies, which is the first time that has happened this series (my solo totals managed it in week three, but I was beaten to the conundrum by one of the contestants).  Tuesday was particularly good, as I had a maximal game that included a word that David did not find, giving me the very rare solo victory.  I managed a tie on Wednesday, too, although that time the game turned out to be just short of optimal.  All in all, a welcome return after the long break.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	76	74	77	72	70
Champion	10	12	0	20	0
Challenger	41	7	10	34	13
David + Lily	78	73	77	86	74
Me (solo)	76	74	77	72	70

The challengers won every game this week, so there was a lot of turnover.  Kannan's run came to an end on Monday, leaving him at five wins and displacing Brett from fifth place.  We're at the halfway mark (a little over it, since there are only 43 episodes left before the finals).

Barry Harridge	75	51	45	54	39	59	323
Matthew Thomason	46	64	49	44	52	65	310
Oli Bryant	71	46	60	55	54	32	318
Jack Dell	59	73	40	50	36		258
Kannan Sethuraman	42	53	45	41	29		210
Brett Chaiyawat	25	59	28	42	34		188
Samuel Hastings	46	58	58	24			186
Avi Chanales	53	37	43	30			163

Another week with little to report on this front -- there was just the one full monty on Thursday.  Lily continues her excellent solving form.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Full Monties				1		1
Missed Full Monties						0
Tough Numbers						0
Impossible Numbers						0

This was a much better week for the maxima, with Tuesday's maximal game being the highlight.  A couple of oversights on the numbers at the end of the week, but the letters performance is getting better.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Maximums: L	3	5	4	3	3
N	3	3	3	2	2
C	1	1	1	0	1

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Barry Harridge	323	6	53.83
Oli Bryant	318	6	53.00
Matthew Thomason	310	6	51.67
Jack Dell	258	5	51.60
Jason Dunn	102	2	51.00
Colwyn Buckland	51	1	51.00
Brian Morgan	151	3	50.33
Luke Brattoni	149	3	49.67
Raf Goodens	98	2	49.00
Gary Beer	49	1	49.00
Ryan Turk	48	1	48.00
Samuel Hastings	186	4	46.50
Daniel Drumm	92	2	46.00
Jonathan Goodman	44	1	44.00
Kannan Sethuraman	210	5	42.00
Kathryn James	123	3	41.00
Jodi Knight	82	2	41.00
Avi Chanales	163	4	40.75
Margaret Frangos	79	2	39.50
Peter Stephenson	78	2	39.00
Brett Chaiyawat	188	5	37.60
Janine Huan	37	1	37.00
Aram Kalyanasundaram	36	1	36.00
Luke Warden	72	2	36.00
David Waddell	71	2	35.50
Greg Beers*	35	1	35.00
Damien Chua	35	1	35.00
Jayden Spudvilas-Powell	34	1	34.00
Michael Bakker	66	2	33.00
Nathan Boadle	33	1	33.00
Cameron Ling	32	1	32.00
Neil McInnes	32	1	32.00
Ben Ripley	32	1	32.00
Felix Johnson	95	3	31.67
Mike Vitale	63	2	31.50
John Marsiglio	31	1	31.00
Bryce Lawrence	30	1	30.00
Matt Pitcher	29	1	29.00
Anna Gunn	27	1	27.00
Nicky Henderson	24	1	24.00
Louise Kuchmar	23	1	23.00
Rob Carter	20	1	20.00
Liam Murphy	18	1	18.00
Basil Theophilos	18	1	18.00
Seb Dworkin	17	1	17.00
Frank Rice	15	1	15.00
Vanessa Rule	15	1	15.00
Dane Watkins	15	1	15.00
Susan Bee	13	1	13.00
Mali Konda	13	1	13.00
Rhys McCaig	13	1	13.00
Matthew Ball	12	1	12.00
Matt Bolton	12	1	12.00