Weekly summary: Episodes 156 to 160

I was back to an erratic performance this week; the highlights were Tuesday and Friday, where I managed to equal David and Lily on the solo totals.  In fact, I had an optimal game on Tuesday, which is always nice.  The other days I ended up rather further away than I would have liked; on Monday the key issue was failing to solve a conundrum, while on Wednesday and Thursday I had great difficulties with the numbers.  I definitely want to improve on that.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	59	77	61	63	77
Champion	34	25	42	23	16
Challenger	20	10	23	17	32
David + Lily	77	77	73	75	77
Me (solo)	65	77	61	70	77

Richard Hartley made it all the way to his sixth game, but was defeated by Rohan on Friday.  That pushes Samuel Hastings out of contention for the finals; only contestants with five or more games remain.  We're less than two-thirds of the way through the series, so we'd expect a few more finalists to come; at this point, I'd say that Greg, Kannan, and Brett are likely to miss the cut.

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
Richard Hartley	56	53	57	42	42	32	282
Jack Dell	59	73	40	50	36		258
Greg Beers	35	59	46	38	33		211
Kannan Sethuraman	42	53	45	41	29		210
Brett Chaiyawat	25	59	28	42	34		188

Just the one round of interest this week, an impossible numbers target on Wednesday.  That broke Lily's solving streak, although she still would have found the best answer.

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

My maximum count in the main rounds again equalled that of last week, but my performance was less consistent.  I really need to hit those numbers targets; as Lily demonstrates, the best results are achievable.  A tough conundrum contributed to a poor scoreline on Monday, but I managed to solve the remaining ones.

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

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Barry Harridge	323	6	53.83
Oli Bryant	318	6	53.00
Rohan Long*	52	1	52.00
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
Rob Hunt	99	2	49.50
Raf Goodens	98	2	49.00
Gary Beer	49	1	49.00
Ryan Turk	48	1	48.00
Richard Hartley	282	6	47.00
Samuel Hastings	186	4	46.50
Daniel Drumm	92	2	46.00
Jonathan Goodman	44	1	44.00
Greg Beers	211	5	42.20
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
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
Everson Kandare	32	1	32.00
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
Tim Shiel	28	1	28.00
Anna Gunn	27	1	27.00
David Gunn	27	1	27.00
Glen Chandler	26	1	26.00
Nicky Henderson	24	1	24.00
Louise Kuchmar	23	1	23.00
Vikas Ahuja	22	1	22.00
Rob Carter	20	1	20.00
Rosemary Stafford	20	1	20.00
Liam Murphy	18	1	18.00
Basil Theophilos	18	1	18.00
Jenni Bradford	17	1	17.00
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