Monday 5 June 2017

NG 936

New game 936 is now available.

4 comments:

Mike Backhouse said...

CLOSER
STIFFER
4*100+75-9+8=474
WORKINGS
MINCES
(7+4)*75+10=835
COBBLE
5*(75+25)-(10+4-1)=487
x missed -ING

Geoff Bailey said...

Good numberwork, Mike, and a good result on round 4.

Looks like I made an error in my typing -- there was only supposed to be one B in round 7. My bad! Looks like you found the best option there, but you may wish to try again -- I've changed one of the B's to the N it was supposed to be. (Spoiler in my answers below.)

1. COALESCE (also CORACLES; rightly avoided COALESCER)
2. STUFFIER (also HUFFIEST)
3. 474 = 4*100 + 75 - (9 - 8)
4. WORKINGS
5. CAESIUM (felt like there had to be an eight, but it took me hours to find SEMANTIC)
6. 835 = (7 + 4)*75 + 10
7. MANACLE
8. 487 = (75*(25 + 1) - 10/5) / 4
9. MOTHERING (16.8s)

Mike Backhouse said...

Thanks Geoff. I too got MANACLE with the revision. I should have got STUFFIER as well after finding STIFFER. I'm very impressed with COALESCE and CAESIUM. And that numbers solution to round 8? Amazing.

Geoff Bailey said...

Thanks, Mike! I'll admit to being impressed with myself, too. *laughs at self*

The round eight answer was the first approach I found, amusingly. 87 is one of those endings which indicates something near half a multiple of 25 -- in this case, (975 - 1)/2. But with a two hard to come by I shifted up to look at using four instead, and somehow it neatly unravelled. I found your much more sensible solution afterward.

MANACLE's a good find -- congratulations! Shame about that final O -- an I would have given IMBALANCE, or a U would allow AMBULANCE.