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Fantastic showing from Conrad today -- kept me to a crucial and at one point he was 20 ahead. Very good play by Angus as well; unlucky that an Apterite had to come up against one of his own kind on his debut.

When Conrad said "I'll stick with a 7" in the DARIOLE/EXORDIAL round, I wonder if he had a better word in mind. Of course, only JJ Smith may be able to comment reliably on that.

Note regarding the wikicap: Rachel declared "1 away" in Round 3, but didn't say which way or demonstrate a solution. However, 932 is impossible, and 930 has only one solution, which I have therefore labelled as Rachel's.

Good to see Conrad has found his feet and scoring over 100 now.

Very well played there. LONGUEUR in the LOUNGER round

Looking at the wiki cap, I think the 8 I was toying with was CALORIED X.

I should have got SUGARS or AUGURS, and I don't know what I did to mess up the numbers but I should have got 7 points from that. But 15 off the max isn't bad. Decent con. It really means a lot that I would have been on crucials with the likes of Johnny and Eddie Byrne in two of my games. I did feel at the time that I was on form.

Bad luck for Angus, he's good enough for a teapot. I was glad to get a good start but I knew he could come back any time so I was never comfortable.

I'm currently polarising opinion among friends over whether or not I was smug. People feel quite strongly either way.

I don't think you're smug. You look like Darcy Oakes though.

And he's quite smug.

JJ Smith wrote:I'm currently polarising opinion among friends over whether or not I was smug. People feel quite strongly either way.

I don't think so. There have certainly been much smugger people on the show who have also done much less well.

Paul Erdunast wrote:Very well played there. LONGUEUR in the LOUNGER round

I had LONGUEUR as well. This is the first time I ever beat both the contestants and DC in a round!

Conrad, if you had been on the show a few weeks earlier, you would have encountered smugness personified........John Inverdale!

Obviously not by the twitter reaction https://twitter.com/evannave/status/707951729267122180

I don't think you looked at all smug Conrad. You looked relieved when risks paid off, but who wouldn't?

Ah thanks everyone! And thanks for that James, I'm quite self-obsessively trying to find tweets about me, good and bad. Twitter has become a shit site recently though, search function and timelines are poor.

The other thing that people keep saying to me is that me and Rachel are flirting! I think they're just joking though.