Puzzles with numbers and things

[davis_greatest]

Well mine is the 5-branches star (pineapple winner) with one branch "crooked"

Try shortening all the branches and extending the trunk

[April madness]

I think finding an arrangement giving just one peach would be more challenging

[davis_greatest]

I think finding an arrangement giving just one peach would be more challenging

Maybe.... or could just put the 21 balls in an equilateral triangle and you'd get one peach

[April madness]

Maybe.... or could just put the 21 balls in an equilateral triangle and you'd get one peach

I wouldn't... cos I'm too lazy to do that

[Monique]

Oh yes I see ... a tree with a 17 balls lenght trunk and 4 short 1 ball size branches.

[snookersfun]

update to crazy R237

...and guess what, indeed d_g got there first yesterday night (he admitted to cheating, i.e. using his brains though, well, high time for that).
So, congratulations


...and Monique moved ahead to R.240 and is first in there. Well done

...and those 23 (any 5-legged star like thing with at least one short leg)

[davis_greatest]

and also

Round 241 - Give me a break

You have made it! It is the night of Monday 5 May 2008 and you are playing the deciding frame of the World Snooker Championship 2008 at the Crucible against Gordon the Gorilla.

Gordon has played a loose safety shot (but did not foul) and you come to the table for your shot. You proceed to make a break, making all sorts of amazing and outlandish shots. After each pot, the delectable Talia Mabb calls out your break, as she is prone to do.

Meanwhile, Steve Davis is commentating in the arena, with a microphone, so that the whole crowd (and you) can hear. “Pot this one and I’ll throw you a banana,” he says, as you line up for your 2nd shot. Miss Mabb loves that line and laughs.

It so happens that, throughout your break, at no point do two of the breaks that Miss Mabb has called out add up exactly to another one. For example, if she had called out “5” at some point and “13” later on, then never does your break go to exactly 18.

No one spots this, however – not even Davis, who a few minutes earlier had won the World Professional Snooker Championship for the 7th time, before you and Gordon came on for your 1-frame World Ape Snooker Championship match (what else did you think you were playing?).


Post your bids here for the value of the highest break that you think you could have made.
Later, I’ll ask you how you got your break.

[snookersfun]

and also

Round 241 - Give me a break

Post your bids here for the value of the highest break that you think you could have made.

98, still have to check myself though

[snookersfun]

this break is now up to 101

[snookersfun]

this break is now up to 101

or 106 even it seems

[davis_greatest]

this break is now up to 101

Good to see a century there!

Edit: send me your 106 please

[Monique]

Got the 101 also ... not the 106 (yet?)

[Monique]

update! Got the 106 also ...

[snookersfun]

update! Got the 106 also ...

lol, took you the same time as me to up that as well! Great minds, Monique!!

[davis_greatest]

For those who have found the 106 break, another little challenge below (in hidden text - select it to read)...

(Find a break greater than your 101, without potting 3 balls in one shot! )