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  • Another from abextra...
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    "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.

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    • Here was one I had from Monique...
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      "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.

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      • Seems that some of you like doing these, so here's another. Round 193 remains open for a little while longer.

        Round 194 - Snooker Hexagon 2

        This evening, I made a total clearance, while Charlie kept score!

        Each time that I potted a ball, Charlie coloured in a hexagon, the same colour as the ball potted. He started by colouring a hexagon in red, for my first red, and then moved around, each time colouring a hexagon that touched the one he had previously coloured.

        Not to be outdone by my pet apes, whenever I potted a colour after a red, I made sure that it was always a more valuable colour than the previous colour I had potted, except of course if the previous colour had been a black.

        Below is the final scoreboard.

        Show a possible route that Charlie took in completing the scoreboard.

        Answers initially by PM please...
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        "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.

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        • R190b closing ...

          The snookedron, as imagined by Charlie, is an octahedron: we have 8 different colours so 8 faces. But it is a semi-regular octahedron in the sense it has 4 equilatreal triangular faces and 4 regular hexagonal faces.
          Because each edgde must be at least 36 cm, it must be bordered by at least 7 snooker balls. So the triangles use 28 balls (and we need the snookatom cue ball as we only have 27 white balls) and the hexagons use 127 balls for a total of 620 balls.
          If you find it difficult to visualise this shape, just imagine a regular tetrahedron, a pyramid with a equilateral triangular basis. Then "cut" off each vertex parallely to the opposite face. Each "cutted" vertex now gives us a triangle, and the former triangular faces are now hexagons ...

          Congratulations again to D_G and Snookersfun!
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          • re octahedron, I have this nice pic. One can imagine it folded up, or even cut it out and build it!
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            • Thanks Snookerfun! Great idea...
              Proud winner of the 2008 Bahrain Championship Lucky Dip
              http://ronnieosullivan.tv/forum/index.php

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              • Round 193 and 194 - Snooker Triangle and Snooker Hexagon 2: ... answers have been received from snookersfun, abextra, moglet and Monique. Well done!

                (I hope I am remembering that correctly and haven't omitted anyone or given anyone undue credit .)

                Please all post your pictures to rounds 193 and 194 on this thread! And anyone else who solves them, please feel free to post directly on the thread too...
                "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.

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                • the triangles and hexagons

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                  • ...and some more...



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                    • One last quick one of these before I disappear for a while, and before moving back to other types of puzzles...


                      Round 195 - Double clearance

                      This is just as before, but this time 2 total clearances by Gordon are shown on the scoreboard.

                      When Charlie filled in the scoreboard, he moved around each time colouring a square that touched the square he had previously coloured (moving horizontally, vertically or diagonally). When he began scoring the 2nd total clearance, he carried on from where he left off, i.e. touching the end of the first total clearance.

                      Whenever Gordon potted a colour after a red, 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 final scoreboard.

                      Just find a possible route please...

                      Please post answers on the thread any time after 19:00 BST on 4 July. It doesn't matter if someone has already posted an answer.... still post!
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                      "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.

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                      • R195 Double clearance

                        Hope you can sort that out ... and that I copied the puzzle correctly on my voucher!
                        Not easy from an internet cafe

                        39 36 35 34 33 22 21 20 18
                        40 38 37 32 23 70 69 19 17
                        43 41 29 31 24 71 68 16 15
                        44 42 28 30 72 25 66 67 14
                        45 53 52 27 26 64 65 09 13
                        46 51 54 55 62 63 08 12 10
                        50 47 57 56 61 01 07 04 11
                        49 48 58 59 60 02 03 06 05

                        First break: 116
                        Second break: 127
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                        • Round 196 - improving human snooker

                          Maybe you remember how astonished the young apes were when grand-father Charlinus explained to them how slow humans are at playing snooker. Mind you! They use only 15 red balls and the fastest of them needed all of 5'20" to make a maximum! And he did that only once!
                          Well, last month, Bernie, a young impatient baboon created a lot of controversy at the human-apen masters. He was playing a certain Ebert Petdon and got so frustrated that he conceded the match by throwing a banana on the table! Of course something had to be done, especially after the righteous Mauny Church complained to the press and suggested that Bernie should be dragged in front of the disciplinary committee, docked ranking points, fined massively and banned from snooker.
                          Fortunately for Bernie the WSA (World Snooker Ape) has a tournaments' committee, a trophy committee, a banquet committe - you name it - but no disciplinary committee: it was never deemed necessary.
                          However Howardus who runs the biggest banana trading company in Space proposed to organise a big sponsored tournament to raise funds in order to improve human snooker. So, he said, such unfortunate incidents will be avoided in the future.
                          Every ape, able to pick a cue could register to the Improvement Tournament. The tournament was organised in several rounds, each round in the form of a league (each ape played each other ape once, in a one frame match). At the end of each round, one ape dropped out of the tournament: the looser, the one with the highest number of losses or in case of a draw, the lowest average score, or the lowest average break score, or if everything else was equal the slowest player....
                          For each frame played in the first round Howardus offered one bananeuro. In the second round he offered two, in the third three, and so on ... until the last round where only two apes were competing. At the end of the tournament it appeared that 19720001 bananeuros had been gathered. With that, said Howardus, not only will we be able to improve the humans' game by organising proper speed coaching but also to create a "Fast Referee Certfication" cursus ...
                          How many apes took part to that Improvement Tournament?

                          Intial answers by PM please, and patience ... relying on internet cafes availability!
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                          • the 2 clearances:
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                            • Perfect answers to R196 from Snookersfun and D_G. Well done!
                              It remains open ... Next answers on the thread.
                              Proud winner of the 2008 Bahrain Championship Lucky Dip
                              http://ronnieosullivan.tv/forum/index.php

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                              • If anyone wants to find out the answer to R196 use this code within Excel...

                                Public Function R196(intPlayers As Integer) As Long

                                Dim n As Long
                                Dim f As Long
                                Dim BE As Long

                                BE = 0

                                For n = intPlayers To 2 Step -1

                                f = 0.5 * n * (n - 1)
                                BE = BE + 1
                                R196 = R196 + f * BE

                                Next n

                                End Function


                                Sub CallR196()

                                Dim cntI As Integer

                                For cntI = 1 To 300

                                Cells(9 + cntI, 2).Value = R196(cntI)
                                If R196(cntI) = 19720001 Then MsgBox cntI & " Players in Tournament!"

                                Next cntI

                                End Sub

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