Ep 278: Paul Breen, Sneha Pereira (March 11, 2015; originally aired September 21, 2011)

Rounds: Here.

Disclaimer: I watched this episode when it first aired, and although I did not recall any of it I cannot rule out memory being a factor.


We're into Paul's fifth night now, and maybe we have just run out of things to find out about him.  Instead, Richard notes that Paul had his fourth conundrum showdown last night, and solved that conundrum very quickly.  He asks how Paul did so, and Paul responds that the first thing he saw was "watch", and the remaining letters formed "stop"; once he decided that the answer was not "watchstop" then he found the answer.

Tonight's challenger is Sneha Pereira, a biomedical engineering graduate who is now focused on becoming a lawyer.  Richard asks first about the biomedical engineering; Sneha explains that when she was studying that at university she dealt a lot with software programming "and more of signal and telemedicine".  I can't quite parse that, but I think I get somewhat of the gist of it.  Sneha adds that when she started she wasn't really sure what she wanted to do, but after she graduated she felt she was better off trying to study law.


It was yet another close game for Paul, with the two contestants finding equal results on the letters rounds throughout.  But Paul was just a bit better than Sneha on the numbers, and that translated to enough of an advantage to be safe going into the conundrum.  Neither managed to solve it, and Paul had the victory, 53 to 36.

I was just one round off maximal, and that was an impossible numbers round.  A good game for me regardless.


As usual, details after the jump.