Puzzles with numbers and things

[davis_greatest]

I guess 5

April, it has to be an even number. (snookersfun, by the way, 0 is an even number.)

[April madness]

Too bad DG. I liked that 5

[davis_greatest]

OK, good, we have Monique's round 164 still open....

snookersfun's Petals Around A Rose is ongoing (should we call that round 165?)

And we can have one more.... no more than three at any one time! So, here is....

Round 166 - Intergalactic packs

Grandfather Charlianus, on the planet Chimpanzicus, is giving his grandson Trumpo a lesson in intergalactic sport.

“Snookum, my dear Trumpo,” says Charlianus, “being the greatest sport in the universe this side of Andromeda (and the other side too), is played all over the universe, although there are slight variations from how we play it here.”

“Like what variations?” asks baby-faced Trumpo.

“Well,” said Charlianus, “of course, everywhere it is played with a white and six colours and a pack of reds, but on some planets, due to problems with gravity, they use fewer reds in the pack at the start of the frame.”

“Fewer reds?” asked Trumpo. “Like how many?”

“Well,” replied Grandfather Charlianus. “On Planet Earth, for example, they call snookum “snooker” (or snukker for those who won the Earth Championships in the year 400000001979) and the triangle of reds has only five rows!”

“Only five rows?!” exclaimed Trumpo. “But our triangles of reds here on Chinmpanzicus have 147,147,147,147,147 rows. I thought that was standard. Even that seems very small. Five rows sounds ridiculous! That must mean the frames on Earth are over in a flash.”

“No,” replied Charlianus. “because they play very, very slowly. I once watched a frame on Telescopivision and, even with only five rows of reds in the triangle, the guy took 5 minutes and 20 seconds just to clear the table once! And that’s Earth minutes and seconds!”

“Wow!” said Trumpo. “That IS slow. What was he doing? Sleeping? What about on other planets?”

“OK,” said Charlianus. “When they play snookum on the Planet Gordonicus, the triangle of reds is bigger than that on Planet Earth, but it’s still pretty small.”

“How small?” asked Trumpo.

“Well, put it this way,” said Charlianus. “The triangle of reds on Gordonicus has only half as many rows as the triangle of reds when they play on the Planet Olivero.”

“So how many rows of reds in the pack on Olivero?”

“The same number of rows,” explained Charlianus to the youngster, “as the pack of reds on the planet Davisgreatus.”

“So there are the same number of reds in a pack on Olivero as on Davisgreatus?…” began Trumpo.

“No,” said his grandfather.

“But you just said….”

“I said there are the same number of rows in each pack. But I didn’t say that the pack is a triangle on every planet! On Davisgreatus, the reds are not arranged in a triangle! There, and only there, the reds are arranged in a rectangle!”

“Oh my!” said Trumpo, getting more and more confused. “And how many columns of reds does this blooming Davisgreatus rectangle of reds have then?”

“Well, here’s the funny thing,” said the old chimp. “The number of columns in the rectangle in the pack on Davisgreatus is the same as the number of rows in the triangular pack on Gordonicus!”

“This is getting confusing,” said Trumpo. “So how many is that?”

“Well, Trumpo,” said his grandfather. “The number of reds at the start of a frame of snookum here on Chimpanzicus is the same as the total number of reds at the start of frames on Gordonicus, Olivero and Davisgreatus combined! So you tell me!”


And so…. (with no calculators or computers)… help Trumpo and tell him how many columns in the rectangle in the pack of reds in snookum on Davisgreatus!

[Lee Vilenski]

166 - The problem I have found is that you have 147,147 ect on Chimpanzicus, you could work out the rows, but that doesn't link to the next planet..

[davis_greatest]

166 - The problem I have found is that you have 147,147 ect on Chimpanzicus, you could work out the rows, but that doesn't link to the next planet..

The link is in the old chimp's penultimate sentence....

[Lee Vilenski]

Ah yes, bluddy hell, I read that and then disgarded it!

[austrian_girl]

“Well, Trumpo,” said his grandfather. “The number of reds at the start of a frame of snookum here on Charlianus is the same as the total number of reds at the start of frames on Gordonicus, Olivero and Davisgreatus combined! So you tell me!”

You surely mean "here on Chimpanzicus", don't you? Cause Charlianus is the grandfather, isn't here? Is that the solution to the quiz?

[davis_greatest]

Hehehe, thanks a_g! I'm always doing that, confusing my Charliani with my Chimpanzicuses. Don't you?

Glad you read to the end!

I have edited it now in the question (we now have an italicised Chimpanzicus) - thanks.

[snookersfun]

My guess is 8

congrats Qubit, that was the right answer!
In case you figured out the system, please hold back with further answers, until at least a few bids are up for each next roll.

OK, here comes roll#3:

[Lee Vilenski]

Er.. I hope this is right... 6...

[davis_greatest]

Petals Around The Rose roll 3: I'll guess 4

[Monique]

0 again!

[snookersfun]

0 again!

yes! that is the right answer to roll#3 and I know (PM) that Monique definitely figured it out- well done!

so, this being a slow afternoon, I'll put up roll#4 and invite new bids!

[Lee Vilenski]

I've thought I've had it about 5 times! But, only to find that the first one doesn't fit! Oh well, I'll go 8.

[davis_greatest]

OK, no ideas yet, so a guess: 4