New game 568 is now available.
Round 1: A U A D S H R C A
I spotted CHADURS a bit too late. (Actually, I was torn between CHADURS and CHADARS as the spelling; it turns out that my Scrabble list has CHADAR but not CHADUR, while the Macquarie has CHADUR and CHADDAR, but not CHADAR.)
My selection: DACHAS
Best: CHADURS
Round 2: T A E G O F H R T
My selection: FROTTAGE
Round 3: Target 204 from 75 25 3 5 4 9
My selection: 204 = 3*75 - 25 + 4
Round 4: L R N I E A M N I
My selection: MAINLINER
Round 5: W F O L C E U B A
WOLF CUB is listed, but as two words. BEOWULF is proper, of course.
My selection: WOEFUL
Round 6: Target 723 from 75 50 10 1 4 5
The target is unreachable, so one off is the best to be done.
My selection: 724 = (5 + 4)*75 + 50 - 1
Round 7: E E A I P S T B D
I saw BEADIEST a little too late also. I've had a spate of that recently, it seems.
My selection: DEBATES
Best: BEADIEST
Round 8: Target 727 from 50 25 75 1 4 9
My selection: 727 = 9*(75 + 4 - 1) + 25
Round 9: RAPID PINE
My selection: [N/A -- conundrum chosen explicitly]
Best: DRAINPIPE
7 comments:
1. chards
2. frottage
3. 4x(75-25+9-5-3)=204
4. marine
5. focal
6. (75-4+1)x10=720 (3 off)
7. debates
8. (75-50+4)x25+1=726 (1 off)
9. X
SHARD (wasn't sure about CHARDS, but there you go..)
FATTER (hadn't heard of FROTTAGE either)
(5-3)*(75+25)+4=204
MANLIER
BOWEL
Louise's way and then added 5 for 725 (2 off)
BASTED then BAPTISED, probably over time
(9+1)*(75-50/25)-4=726 (1 off)
x
FROTTAGE and BAPTISED were good finds.
1. DACHAS
2. FROTTAGE
3. 204 = 5*25 + 75 + 4
4. MAINLINER
5. CABLE
6. two off: 721 = 75*10 - 50 +5*4 + 1. Frustrating one.
7. BEADIEST
8. 727 = (75+4-1)*9 + 25
9. 58.6s - DRAINPIPE
Well done on the full monty Sam! I also loved your solution to round 8.
Some good finds here; I particularly liked CHARDS and BAPTISED. And I agree, Sam, round 6 was annoyingly difficult.
Ditto Geoff!
Cheers Mike. When there are several large numbers in the mix, if you can get to the stage where you know a lot of modulo 25 results, it really comes in handy.
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