tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post5608536766435637507..comments2023-06-02T12:22:11.624+10:00Comments on Playing Letters and Numbers: NG 8 (new game 8)Geoff Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11150696891132723600noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-37147424762204080762012-12-09T13:27:57.114+11:002012-12-09T13:27:57.114+11:00Am enjoying the heavyweights and potential full mo...Am enjoying the heavyweights and potential full monties, much more fun than boring family mixes and awful Countdown letter mixes. My answers are a mixture of sublime and appalling here, I think I haven't adjusted to doing the puzzles in this setting yet:<br /><br />FROLIC<br />BURROW<br />785 = 75*10 + 7*5<br />DETAIN (I really hate double-A mixes...)<br />AESTHETES<br />Hmm... wrote 735 instead of 734 for both solutions within time, so technically invalid (I probably would have been more careful in the real thing), but the two ways I wrote were:<br />(75-50)*25+100+9 or (75+5-100/25)*9+50<br />NUMERICAL<br />425 = (10+7)*25<br />x INFULMATE, later FULMINATE (which I didn't know the meaning of)Sam Gaffneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-55781091950481502272012-11-27T18:04:01.540+11:002012-11-27T18:04:01.540+11:00Nice work getting Burrow, Mike and Victor. And Vi...Nice work getting Burrow, Mike and Victor. And Victor: Congratulations on that full monty! CANDELA is also a nice find -- I have a lot of trouble spotting that one when it arises.Geoff Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11150696891132723600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-34901264808617579392012-11-27T09:44:09.826+11:002012-11-27T09:44:09.826+11:00Geoff
I am happy to take the games as they come. ...Geoff<br /><br />I am happy to take the games as they come. <br /><br />With this new format, because Lily is not reading them out,I don't write them down in the order I would normally (which is to alternate consonants and vowels, at the same time looking for pairings such as CH or SH but particularly suffixes such as -ED. That way I could use both my own and Lily's letters to try and 'see' words. It's amazing how sometimes the letters I write down almost form the words I come up with. <br /><br />For this game format, I think I will just use the letters as they appear, which I think will be good training. Mike Backhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265408052872463790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-90837143464525993422012-11-27T08:56:43.542+11:002012-11-27T08:56:43.542+11:00Here are mine;
1. POLIO
2. BURROW
3. 785 = (2*75 ...Here are mine;<br /><br />1. POLIO<br />2. BURROW<br />3. 785 = (2*75 + 7)*5<br />4. CANDELA<br />5. TEETHES<br />6. 734 = 5*(100 + 50) - 25 + 9<br />7. NUMERICAL (yay!)<br />8. 425 = 10*50 - 75<br />9. -Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-25679455927554175292012-11-27T06:42:51.904+11:002012-11-27T06:42:51.904+11:00Here are mine, such as they are:
PROOF
BURROW
(7...Here are mine, such as they are:<br /><br />PROOF<br />BURROW <br />(75+5)*10-(7*2)=786 (1 off)<br />ACTED<br />HEATS <br />100*9-5*25-50=725 (9 off)<br />MINCER <br />50*10-75=425<br />X<br /><br />Mike Backhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265408052872463790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-66912564926147225542012-11-27T00:17:10.744+11:002012-11-27T00:17:10.744+11:00Glad to have you aboard again, JT. I know the for...Glad to have you aboard again, JT. I know the format at the moment is a bit removed from the show's method, and it can be an adjustment. I will definitely be making improvements to that, so I hope you can bear with me. I liked your almost-734, incidentally -- it's a rather nice method, and I can see that with a few more seconds you'd have been able to add the 100/25 to reach it exactly.<br /><br />Well done with BURROW, Jan -- it's one of those words that use both W and U, and I may have been listening to David too much about that combination. *chuckles*<br /><br />Three potential full monties in an episode has happened at least twice before. One time was Andrew Fisher's debut episode (<a href="javascript:void(0);" rel="nofollow">episode 378</a>) which I think has the record for highest potential score of an episode at 110 points. (The last numbers round was rather tough, though.) That game of Alan's very nearly had a fourth full monty, as several sources (but not the Macquarie) give INHUMATES as a word.Geoff Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11150696891132723600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-22489702666279850692012-11-26T23:41:55.651+11:002012-11-26T23:41:55.651+11:00On the advice of Jan I'm playing this game als...On the advice of Jan I'm playing this game also contributed by SBS shocking decision to completely rid L+N... ah yah yah yah... anyway for this game i'm trying to simulate it how I play it but it's hard i'll get use to it...<br /><br />FROLIC<br />BROWN<br />785=(75-2)*10+50+5<br />TAILED<br />TASTES<br />730-75*9+50+5 no time for last adjustment unfortuantly<br />MAULER<br />425 = 7*75-100<br />no chanceJTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-26253169658627822482012-11-26T23:37:41.604+11:002012-11-26T23:37:41.604+11:00PS - 3 full monties in a game. Has this happened o...PS - 3 full monties in a game. Has this happened on the show?Jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-53236166283131075212012-11-26T23:31:08.088+11:002012-11-26T23:31:08.088+11:00Thanks Geoff.
POLIO, FLOOR 5’s were the best I ...Thanks Geoff.<br /><br />POLIO, FLOOR 5’s were the best I could do<br />BURROW one better than you<br />(75+5)*10 - (2*7) = 786<br />After time 2*7*50 + 75 + 10 = 785<br />DECANT<br />TEETHES<br />(100+50)*5 - 25 + 9 = 734<br />CARMINE<br />7*50 + 75 = 425<br />And no luck with the conundrumJannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2571384408188974384.post-50387016598990769482012-11-26T20:40:49.284+11:002012-11-26T20:40:49.284+11:00Incidentally, this round's selections were sup...Incidentally, this round's selections were supposed to be a match for episode 301, although I twitched and accidentally selected an extra vowel in round 4.<br /><br /><b>Round 1: C L P I O F R R O</b><br /><br />An ugly mix to start; I had CLIP and FROLIC. I really wanted a final I for PROLIFIC or an E for PROFILE, but absent them FROLIC is the best to be done, and the only six.<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 2: B R W U O N M I R</b><br /><br />Gah, this is not a hopeful start to the game! I had BROW and BROWN, and could not do better.<br /><br />A fourth vowel would have brought in an A for RAINBOW, but with the current mix the unique six is BURROW.<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 3: Target 785 from 75 50 2 7 10 5</b><br /><br />A friendly numbers round to settle things. I started with 785 = 75*10 + 7*5, then wondered about making this as some multiple of 10 plus or minus 5. I had to use the 50 as well, but it worked with 785 = (75 - 2)*10 + 50 + 5.<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 4: D C T N A E A I L</b><br /><br />I had CANT, DECANT, and DIALECT / CITADEL. The I was a misclick here; this round was only supposed to be three vowels. That would have brought in a T instead for LACTATED.<br /><br />But the I worked out better for those with the vocabulary for it, which was not me this time: CADENTIAL (adjective derived from CADENCE) for nine.<br /><br />There's also two eights: ANALCITE (a mineral) / LAITANCE ("the scum or whitish deposit that rises to the surface of newly placed concrete").<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 5: T S S A E T E H E</b><br /><br />More duplication, although by the end I wanted that last E. I had SEATS, TASTES, and the full monty AESTHETES (AESTHETE: "someone who cultivates the sense of the beautiful"). Woohoo!<br /><br />AESTHETE has a variant spelling of ESTHETE, so the eights are AESTHETE and ESTHETES. The sevens are ESTHETE / TEETHES, SEETHES, SETTEES, and ESTATES.<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 6: Target 734 from 50 25 100 75 5 9</b><br /><br />I remembered to check the standard method this time, and the offset is the 9 which we already have. That means this must be solvable; I started with 734 = (75 + 50)*5 + 100 + 9, then remembered that 725 could be made from large numbers alone to get 734 = (75 - 50)*25 + 100 + 9. For good measure I also wrote down 734 = 5*(100 + 50) - 25 + 9.<br /><br />After time I noticed that the target was also 729 + 5, and 729 is the cube of 9. That led me to the solution 734 = 9*(75 + (100 + 50)/25) + 5.<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 7: C N R L U E I M A</b><br /><br />I had CURL, CRUEL, MARINE, CARLINE, and MINERAL. I was a bit distracted at this point because of drilling in an adjacent apartment, but I think I still would have been to slow on MANICURE.<br /><br />But as I was writing down the letters I realised that there was a second full monty here (I did not yet know about CADENTIAL): NUMERICAL. In fact, this was one of the two conundrums on my audition; I did not solve it then, either.<br /><br />Those are the only 9 and 8. There are a fair few sevens.<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 8: Target 425 from 100 50 25 75 10 7</b><br /><br />Too easy, and almost the same as a mix from my first game on the show. I went with 425 = 7*75 - 100 then, and now also. This time I also noted 425 = (10 + 7)*25.<br /><br /><br /><b>Round 9: LEAN MUFTI</b><br /><br />For once I did not have to tinker with this conundrum, and I solved it in a couple of seconds: FULMINATE.Geoff Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11150696891132723600noreply@blogger.com