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Look for an octahedron ... but not all faces are triangles. You need 620 balls ...
Look for an octahedron ... but not all faces are triangles. You need 620 balls ...
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would that be the ball?Originally Posted by Monique
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Ah... but whose avatar is that?
"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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R 190 a: Yes, Dean is the culprit. Maybe he can negotiate some kisses from Tallia in exchange of that ball ... or not
And Snookersfun solved R 190b also. Congratulations! It remains open ...
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While round 190 remains open, I'll add:
Round 191 - Snooker Square
This morning, my pet gorilla Gordon played a frame of snooker against my pet orang-utan Oliver. While each ape was at the table, the other kept score. Oliver didn't get much of a go, as Gordon made a total clearance.
Oliver kept score in a rather unusual way. Each time that Gordon potted a ball, Oliver coloured in a square on a grid, the same colour as the ball potted. He started by colouring a square red, for Gordon's first red, and then moved around, each time colouring a square that touched the square he had previously coloured (moving horizontally, vertically or diagonally).
Whenever Gordon potted a colour after a red, it was always a more valuable colour than the previous colour he had potted, except of course if the previous colour had been a black.
Below is the final scoreboard.
How many points in Gordon's break, and show a possible route that Oliver took in colouring the squares.
Answers initially by PM please..."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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So, round 191 - nicely solved by Monique, abextra and snookersfun!
Well done! Any other offers?"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, new entrant moglet has also come in with the correct break, which I can now confirm is 115, and I've been told that he/she has a picture too to send, which is on its way...
Anyone else still trying round 191? If so, please say - otherwise we'll close the round after moglet's answer and move on with the next..."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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Finally, we have a new entrant to the Puzzles with numbers and things Hall of Frame! Congratulations, moglet, and also to snookersfun, abextra and Monique who also solved round 191.
Oliver (my pet orang-utan)
Gordon (my pet gorilla)
Charlie (my pet chimpanzee)
snookersfun
abextra
davis_greatest (Oliver's, Gordon's and Charlie's pet something)
Vidas
chasmmi
elvaago
robert602
Sarmu
The Statman
austrian_girl
austrian_girl's dad
Semih_Sayginer
Snooker Rocks!
Ginger_Freak
April Madness
steveb72
rambon
Microsoft Excel
dantuck_7
berolina
Parklife Ricky
oddyseus
Monique
moglet
moglet, please post your answer to the previous round on the thread...
"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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191
Break 115:
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While round 190 remains open, I'll add:
Round 192 - Snooker Hexagon
This morning, my pet orang-utan Oliver got his revenge against my pet gorilla Gordon in their daily frame of snooker. This time, it was Oliver's turn to make a total clearance, as Gordon kept score!
Gordon kept score on the scoreboard below. Each time that Oliver potted a ball, Gordon coloured in a hexagon, the same colour as the ball potted. He started by colouring a hexagon in red, for Oliver's first red, and then moved around, each time colouring a hexagon that touched the one he had previously coloured.
Just as Gordon had done in round 191, whenever Oliver potted a colour after a red, it was always a more valuable colour than the previous colour he had potted, except of course if the previous colour had been a black.
Below is the final scoreboard. But, what's this? We found that Gordon had drunk one too many pints of banana juice following his win over Oliver yesterday. He hadn't noticed that the scoreboard had started off with one hexagon already coloured in as a joke by my pet chimpanzee Charlie. So the scoreboard finished with 37 coloured hexagons instead of 36!
a) How many points in Oliver's break?
b) Show a possible hexagon that naughty Charlie had already coloured.
c) Show a possible route that Gordon had taken in completing the scoreboard.
Answers initially by PM please..."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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I have received some very nice answers and pretty hexagon pictures to Round 192 from snookersfun, abextra, moglet and Monique! Well done! I shall leave the round open until tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, 20:00 BST, so that if there are any late entrants, they still have a chance!
I invite snookersfun, abextra, moglet and Monique (or anyone else) to post their colourful hexagon pictures here on the thread any time from 20:00 BST on Wednesday.
(As a hint, my favourite pictures are the ones where Charlie had coloured in the brown hexagon in the centre - but alternative solutions are possible.)
In the meantime, I should just tell you about the thrashing I got from my pet chimpanzee Charlie in this evening's frame of snooker, in...
Round 193 - Snooker Triangle
Charlie, it will not surprise you to hear, just made a total clearance against me, as I kept score on the scoreboard below. Each time that Charlie potted a ball, I coloured in a triangle, the same colour as the ball potted. I started by colouring a triangle in red, for Charlie's first red, and then moved around the scoreboard, each time colouring a triangle that touched (either along an edge or at a corner) the triangle that I had previously coloured.
Whenever Charlie potted a colour after a red (from the 2nd red onwards), it was always worth 1 point more than the previous colour he had potted, except of course if the previous colour had been a black.
Below is the scoreboard I completed.
a) How many points in Charlie's break?
b) Show a possible route that I took in completing the scoreboard.
Answers initially by Private Message please..."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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time for the hexagons
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Well here's three more:
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Here was an answer I had from abextra..."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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