New game 729 is now available.
The re-run is episode 442; its rounds are here and its writeup is here.
Round 1: F L S E R E H A T
I had SELF, FREES, FLEERS (FLEER being both "someone who flees" and a verb meaning "to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly"), FALTERS, FATHERS, LATHERS, LEATHERS, and FEATHERS.
The other eights are REFLATES (REFLATE: "to increase the amount of money and credit in circulation by relaxing government controls over economic restriction") and HALTERES (HALTERE: "one of a pair of modified hind wings of a fly (order Diptera) reduced to slender, club-shaped appendages, used for balancing in flight; balancer").
My selection: FEATHERS
Round 2: E O G C M T U I G
I had COME, COMET, and GOMUTI (a type of palm tree).
Six is the limit here, with the other being MOGGIE.
My selection: GOMUTI
Round 3: Target 844 from 25 50 10 7 4 9
My first instinct was to start with 11*75, but somehow I overlooked 844 = (7 + 4)*(50 + 25) + 10 + 9. A strange oversight! Instead, I switched tacks for 10*84 + 4, getting 844 = (50 + 25 + 9)*10 + 4.
My selection: 844 = (50 + 25 + 9)*10 + 4
Round 4: E L O S I R T D U
I had SOLE, ROILS, TOILERS, SOLDIER, OUTSIDE / TEDIOUS, LOUDEST, OUTSIDER, and wondered about STUDLIER (not valid). After time I checked up on OUTRIDES, and it is valid.
The other eights are OUTLIERS, SOLITUDE / TOLUIDES (certain chemicals), and DILUTERS.
My selection: OUTSIDER
Round 5: E B A C N E R P I
I had CANE, CRANE, PRANCE, CARBINE, and PERINEA (plural of PERINEUM). I was also amused by picturing a BEER PANIC.
The remaining seven is CARBEEN (another name for the Moreton Bay ash).
My selection: CARBINE
Round 6: Target 973 from 100 2 5 7 6 2
Applying the standard method suggests starting from 1000, and a small tweak sorted it out: 973 = 2*5*(100 - 2) - 7.
My selection: 973 = 2*5*(100 - 2) - 7
Round 7: O A E L M T K O B
I had ALOE, METAL, rightly rejected MEALBOOK, LOBATE ("having a lobe or lobes"), and BOOKLET. After time I noted TOMBOLA as another seven.
MOOTABLE is not listed, so seven is the best to be done, and they've all been listed.
My selection: BOOKLET
Round 8: Target 934 from 75 9 2 9 1 8
I flailed around for a little, and managed to get to one away with 935 = (9 + 2)*(75 + 9 + 1).
It turns out that the target is unreachable, so one away is the best to be done.
My selection: 935 = (9 + 2)*(75 + 9 + 1)
Round 9: TORN RIVET
The OVER- fragment was not that helpful, so I looked at INTER-. That was not right either, but put me on the right path to find INTROVERT.
My selection: INTROVERT (10.2s)
5 comments:
(50+25+9)*10+4=844
(100-2)*(5*2)-7=973
(75+9+1)*(9+2)=935 (1 off)
FLASHER
COMET
(7+4)*(50+75)-10-9=844 (went over)
SOURED and DUSTIER just over
PACIER? and the safer PINCER just over
x-error in transcribing but meant 2*5*100-((6+7)*2)=974 (1 off)
BOOKLET (over)
(9+1)*(75+9*2)=930 (4 off, over)
INTROVERT (111s)
Some good overtime answers, Mike, though your Round 3 transcription is a mess.
1. FEATHERS
2. MOGGIE
3. one off: 845 = (10+7)*50 - 9 + 4
4. OUTLIERS
5. CARBINE
6. 973 = (2*100 - 7)*5 + 6 + 2
7. BLAME
8. nothing in time
9. 57.2s - INTROVERT
Sam, I did get Round 3 but the transcription was as you describe. It should have read (7+4)*(50+25)+10+9=844.
Looks like I'll be a bit late with this writeup, so here were my results:
1. FEATHERS
2. GOMUTI (a type of palm tree)
3. 844 = (50 + 25 + 9)*10 + 4
4. OUTSIDER
5. CARBINE
6. 973 = 2*5*(100 - 2) - 7
7. BOOKLET (nearly missed this; had LOBATE prior to spotting it)
8. 935 = (9 + 2)*(75 + 9 + 1) [1 off]
9. INTROVERT (10.2s)
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