Puzzles with numbers and things

[rambon]

That's what I got too

[davis_greatest]

Very good, abextra! Thank you.

[COLOR=black]With red balls: black, green, blue, pink, yellow, brown,
. . . . . . . . . . black, green, blue, pink, yellow, brown,
. . . . . . . . . . black, green, blue

(every colour into it's own colour pocket)

... and equally you could pot these same 15 balls in reverse order: blue, green, black, brown,... and also get 273.

[davis_greatest]

Round 144 - Big Ape Break Bonus - opening bid

I have received a very strong opening bid from abextra to round 144 - she has bid 162. Any advance?

Seasoned regulars on this thread will remember the Saturday night snooker game show, Big Ape Break, hosted by Gordon the gorilla. Oliver the orang-utan does trick shots involving cues and wicker baskets, and tells the contestants to "Pot as many balls as you can."

The rules are just like before, except that if a coloured ball is potted into a pocket of the same colour, points scored are now triple (previously, they were double). Here are the full rules:

On the show, contestants play a frame of snooker, just like any normal frame of snooker except that:

a) each of the 6 pockets is coloured. The colours of the pockets are:
yellow for the left-centre pocket and then, moving clockwise, blue, brown, green, pink, black - a bit like this:

0------0
!.........!
!.........!
!.........!
0------0
!.........!
!.........!
!.........!
0------0

b) Once a colour has been potted, the same colour cannot be potted following the next red, nor following the red after that. (Once the 15th red and colour have been potted, this rule no longer applies - the final colours may and must be potted in the usual order of yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black, regardless of the colours potted with the final reds.)

Example 1: Red Brown Red Yellow Red Blue Red Brown IS allowed
BUT
Example 2: Red Brown Red Yellow Red Brown IS NOT

Example 3: For the 14th and 15th red,
Red Black Red Yellow Yellow Green Brown Blue Pink Black IS allowed


c) Whenever a colour has been potted, the following colour cannot be potted into any pocket that lies along the same edge of the table. That means that it cannot be potted into a pocket on the same side of the table (left or right) and, if it is a corner pocket, cannot be potted into a pocket at the same end of the table either.

This applies even when down to the final 6 colours.

For example, after potting a colour into the pink pocket, it would not be permissible to pot the next colour into the pink, green or brown pockets (same side), nor into the black pocket (same end)

d) None of these rules apply to reds. It makes no difference into which pockets reds are potted.

e) And this is the important bit: potting a colour into a pocket of the same colour as the ball (e.g. pink into pink pocket) scores a bonus of three points (in this example, pink into pink pocket would score 6+3 = 9 points).

Your question is, what is the highest break (ignoring free balls) you can make?

You don't need to say the highest theoretically possible - you just need to give a bid of the highest that YOU can find. If someone bids the maximum possible before then, the round will be closed early.

I.e. if you have the highest bid, you would then need to explain how. For example, you would then say:

Red
Green into Yellow pocket (or whatever)
Red
Pink into Brown pocket (or whatever)
....
...

and after all 15 reds and colours...

Yellow into Yellow pocket (or whatever)
Green into Pink pocket (or whatever)
Brown into Blue pocket (or whatever)
....

[davis_greatest]

I have received a very strong opening bid from abextra to round 144 - she has bid 162. Any advance?

snookersfun has joined abextra and also now come in with the same bid of 162.

Both are invited to post that break on this thread...

and if anyone wants to beat it and bid higher....?! (It can be beaten!)

[dantuck_7]

I'll go for 163 then!

[dantuck_7]

Hello - I know reckon 166 - Although I think the finish on the colours could be better!

[davis_greatest]

Let's see them then, dantuck!

[dantuck_7]

Hello, might have got a bit carried away! I'll get back to you tonight hopefully!

[davis_greatest]

OK - a clue... 166 is impossible.
162 is very good - although higher is possible!
Posts of any breaks of 150+ are invited.

[davis_greatest]

Round 145 - Malta Cup bonanza

Don't forget that round 144 is still open!

But here, for those who like money, is ....

Round 145 - Malta Cup bonanza

Stephen Hendry has just defeated seven-time and defending World Champion Steve Davis in the Final of the 2008 Malta Cup, after the Nugget had to retire from the match due to concussion induced by being jostled by fans against a doorframe, and Hendry has pocketed the 12p first prize.

Hendry lays the twelve pennies out on the snooker table in pride, and arranges them in six lines of four coins each. How does he do this?

(PS I am terrible at solving this kind of question, so am bound to be even worse at trying to make one up - I therefore apologise if this proves laughably easy.)

[rambon]

Red, black in black, red, green in green, red, blue in blue, red, pink in pink, red, yellow in yellow, red, brown in brown

(that makes 6 reds, 6 colours and 6*3 bonus points = 51

Red, black in black, red, green in green, red, blue in blue, red, pink in pink, red, yellow in yellow, red, brown in brown

(that makes 6 reds, 6 colours and 6*3 bonus points = another 51 = 102)

Red, black in black, red, green in green, red, blue in blue

(3 reds, black, blue and green, 3*3 bonus =, 27 + 102 = 129)

Yellow in green 2
Green in blue 3
Brown in pink 4
Blue in blue 8
Pink in green 6
Black in black 10

129 + 33 = 162

I reckon 165 is possible but can't for the life of me work out how and I've already wasted my lunchtime!!

[davis_greatest]

I reckon 165 is possible but can't for the life of me work out how and I've already wasted my lunchtime!!

I'll check your 162. Don't waste any more time on 165 - if 165 is possible then I'll buy a sombrero and have it for dinner. But 162 can be beaten...

[davis_greatest]

rambon's 162 is fine! I haven't seen abextra's or snookersfun's, but no doubt they are too. Wonder if dantuck dares post his 163...

[rambon]

163 huh, let's have a think

[abextra]

OK, here's my 162

With red balls

black into black (7+3), green into green (3+3), blue into blue (5+3), pink into green (6)
black into black (7+3), green into green (3+3), blue into blue (5+3), pink into green (6)
black into black (7+3), green into green (3+3), blue into blue (5+3), pink into green (6)
black into black (7+3), green into green (3+3), blue into blue (5+3)

15 + 40 + 24 + 32 + 18 = 129 points

yellow into green (2), green into yellow (3), brown into brown (4+3), blue into yellow (5),
pink into pink (6+3), black into blue (7)

2 + 3 + 7 + 5 + 9 + 7 = 33 points

in total 129 + 33 = 162 points