Puzzles with numbers and things

[rambon]

Having had such good fun playing snooker with the menagerie of Davis_greatest's pets, I decided to go along to my local zoo and see what other animals could challenge me to a game.

After a disastrous attempt with an elephant where, while leaning over to reach a long shot, his tie touched a red and he got angry when I called a foul, causing him to smash the table to pieces, I took up the offer of a game against a giraffe.

Giraffe rules are different to standard snooker in a number of ways. For a start, they are not very good at snooker, and have pockets the size of dustbins.

There are the same colours involved on the table (red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black) however they are differently valued from a normal game of snooker.

Instead of a triangle of reds, there is a pyramid, where the back row has 6 reds, and the very top of the pyramid is a single red ball.

All balls are valued differently as well. The seven different colours have prime number values starting with the lowest prime number for the reds and moving up the chain of prime numbers thereafter.

In addition, there are more than one of each coloured ball on the table (when clearing the colours, all yellows are potted first, followed by all greens, etc). The value of the ball determines how many of that colour are present on the table (e.g. if the yellow was worth 99 points, there would be 99 yellows on the table).

Anyway, my giraffe friend broke off in the first frame and I, being on top form after my games against the gorilla, scored a maximum break in the first frame.

What was that break?

[April madness]

sorry berolina, I just thought it would be better to post my answer invisible, in case somebody else is answering too, so I don't spoil the fun too early (since we don't have points for answers anymore but rather having fun solving the problems)

[berolina]

Has he been on a diet....?

Who? It's all fictitious, remember. Now, if I had written Stephen Lee....

[rambon]

Sorry april, didn't notice!



Correct!

Has he been on a diet....?

[berolina]

April's reply was written in invisible text, and said 200 kg ??

Sorry april, didn't notice!

Which is right I think

Correct!

[rambon]

sorry!

kg means kilogramme

April's reply was written in invisible text, and said 200 kg ??

Which is right I think

[berolina]

200 kg?

sorry!

kg means kilogramme

[April madness]

200 kg?

[berolina]

anyone else for the next one?

a quick one:

Shaun Murphy* weighs 100 kg plus half of his actual weight.
How much does he weigh?







*Clearly this whole question is fictitious and all similarities between persons here described and living persons are entirely accidental. Obviously.

[snookersfun]

Right, 74, 92, 98 are the three numbers left excluding the factorization statement. (so probably 74 was the answer)
So, we can close this round as well.

anyone else for the next one?

[rambon]

pretty good! But I would have thought, that:

means, that it has four factors except 1 and the # itself, as otherwise there wouldn't be a unique solution.

So, any other suggestions?

I think it could be 92 or 98 as they both reply to all conditions I think

[rambon]

That is the right answer. Well done Rambon!
If somebody can explain why, he/she could gain fame as well!

As no-one's answered, i'll just say that you take the number of letters in each number and multiply:

Seventeen - 9
Twelve - 6

9*6 = 54

QED

[snookersfun]

74: not odd, less than 100, 4 factors (1,2,37,74), prime when summed (11) prime when reversed (47), second digit a square (4:2^2)

pretty good! But I would have thought, that:

• It has exactly four factors.

means, that it has four factors except 1 and the # itself, as otherwise there wouldn't be a unique solution.

So, any other suggestions?

[Parklife Ricky]

74: not odd, less than 100, 4 factors (1,2,37,74), prime when summed (11) prime when reversed (47), second digit a square (4:2^2)

[snookersfun]

...and as Rambon cracked that code pretty fast, here is my last one for today:

Round 129:

GUESS THE NUMBER
• The number is not an odd number.
• It has exactly four factors.
• If you reverse the digits, a prime number is formed.
• The sum of the digits is a two digit prime number.
• The number is less than the square root of 10^4 .
• One of the digits is a square number.
What number are we thinking of?