Ep 334: Toby Baldwin, Yasmin Khan (December 8, 2011)

Rounds: Here.


Richard notes that we've had themes for the last two nights -- music two nights ago, and food last night.  He asks Toby if there will be another theme tonight, and if he would care to nominate one.  Toby refers to the quote about music being the food of love, so suggests that maybe love would be a suitable theme to follow those two.  I'll say right now that David tries his best to make it work (with some success, admittedly) but it's mostly a stretch and I won't highlight it further.

Challenging Toby tonight is Yasmin Khan, a consultant and festival organiser.  In fact, she's president of the organising committee of Eidfest, which is a festival for the Brisbane Muslim community to celebrate the end of Ramadan.  She remarks that what they want to do in the festival is to highlight the diversity of the Muslim community; in particular, she says that "people always think that to be Muslim you have to be Arab, and to be Arab you have to Muslim, and we just want to dispel some of those myths".


It feels like the game should have been a bit closer than it was; both contestants find six- or seven-letter words consistently (which is the first time since Toby's first episode that six has been the minimum), but Toby has the better of it.  Neither contestant is particularly convincing on the numbers tonight, but again Toby does slightly better and has a safe lead going into the conundrum.  With neither solving it, he ends up winning with 48 points to 29.

I feel off my game tonight, with far too many sixes and missing the target on one of the numbers rounds.  But I only drop one letters round as opposed to yesterday's pair, and solving the conundrum puts me past the 60 mark again.  Definitely some improvement needed; hopefully I'll be able to find it tomorrow.

As usual, details after the jump.