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Any Hicks 2nd (clever one)!
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OK, so four found so far!
"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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Isn't it time for a tiny clue?
Like are we still in the 'same letters'= 'same new letters' category for both of those remaining snooker players?Comment
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Yes, sorry, was intending to give those clues!
Those two remaining ones could be a bit hard!
So:
For one of them, the new letter depends not only on the original letter, but on its position. For example, if there were two As in the name, they would not necessarily both be turned into the same new letter. OK, that's a big clue for that one!
For the other one, it is not a very good code at all (for the purpose of decipherability), because each "new" letter could represent two different original letters (which makes it much harder to decode). But, given what I have said here, it is a fairly obvious encoding... so, think, what sort of encoding might mean that two different original letters are both represented by the same new letter?"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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James Wattana is fourth?Comment
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Damn, I've got no idea - I can't remember! OK, let me see if I can work it out...Originally Posted by Monique"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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Yes, it is James Wattana! So, we have the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th. Just leaves the 5th to get..."If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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OK.. a "clue" for the 5th name to close this round. It is probably the hardest of them all, but each letter goes to the position double its position in the alphabet.
So A>B, B>D, C>F etc.
and figure out what happens when you get to N..."If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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Willie Thorne? very
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Yes!!! Willie Thorne was the last remaining answer! (Fortunately I found the answers saved on my hard drive, as I wouldn't have remembered that far back.)
Congratulations snookersfun!"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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A NEW QUESTION
Words that share the same keystrokes on a mobile phone message.
For example, OF and ME are both obtained using the key combination 63. ON and NO are both 66. There are lots of obvious examples such as MINE and NINE, FINE and DINE, BONE and CONE etc.
I want an example for each length of word from 3 to 10 letters. You may not use any of the examples I have used in this post.
Scoring is one point for the same letter, two points for a different letter.
For example, if you gave RIOT and PINT, you would score 1 for the I and the T, but 2 for the R/P and the O/N. So this example is worth 6 points.
But if you gave GOOD and HOME, you'd score 1 for the first O, but 2 for the G/H, O/M and D/E. So this example is worth 7 points.
The minimum score for an n-letter word is therefore n+1; the maximum is n×2
What is the highest score you can achieve, for one word of each length from 4 to 10 letters?
Words must be free from hyphens and apostrophes, not need to be spelt with a capital letter, and be found in a standard English dictionaries. Accents such as é are acceptable since they are formed from the same number key.Comment
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Not easy, especially for non native speakers but let's start
ANT COT for 5 points
CHAP BIBS for 8 points
ADDER BEEFS for 10 points
still looking for a 6 letters example ...
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Here it is
PUFFER - STEEDS for 12 points
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This is very hard.
I was just about to put a rather meek ''DINE - FINE", till I realised that was one of Statman's examples!
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I am not sure what the macximum score is. There are some excellent answers so far and I know Monique is still looking for a 7 with no letters in common.
I haven't found one either, but I'll concentrate a bit more on it and see what I can find. Meanwhile, any offers for the longer words, whatever they score?Comment
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