Puzzles with numbers and things

[abextra]

This is my pic... at least the beginning is different...

[snookersfun]

back
my 362, pretty much like abextra's, only showing another slight variation along the way as well
R362 scoreboard-2_options.GIF

and 363
R363%20scoreboard-done.JPG

[moglet]

R363

Another variation...

[Monique]

Round 363 again just in time ...

R363scoreboardF.jpg

and sorry for the poor graphics

[davis_greatest]

Round 364 - Magic darts

Yesterday, my pet apes decided to try some new hobbies.

Charlie has taken up sculpture and made his first piece of modern art, a cube of marble, the width of 5 snooker balls.

Gordon has taken up darts and, to encourage him to practise, I promised to give him a pack of Magic Gold Dust specks each leg, with the number of specks equalling whatever he scores with the first 9 darts of each leg.

Unfortunately, Gordon proved to be pretty good at darts, and somehow achieved a 9-dart finish (501 score) every time! By the time he had done this 100 times in a row, and I had given him 100 packs each containing 501 Magic Gold Dust specks, I decided it was getting too expensive and we had to stop.

During the night, Gordon decided to play a trick on Charlie, and secretly injected all the Magic Gold Dust at various points into Charlie sculpture, making sure each speck was at least half a snooker ball’s width below the surface, so that Charlie wouldn’t know.

However, the joke was on Gordon, because Charlie had been hiding behind his sculpture all night and had seen exactly where Gordon was injecting the Magic Gold Dust.

Prove that in the morning Charlie will be able to carve out of his marble cube a snooker ball containing at least 147 Magic Gold Dust specks.

(on the thread or by PM, at your choice)

[davis_greatest]

R362 - thanks for the answers up so far on the thread.

R363 update - moglet and abextra have joined snookersfun in having solved this one. Again, next answer on the thread please. Or if none by midday tomorrow (Friday) UK time, please would those who have found a solution put it up. (Once again, there are several possible ways of colouring the board!)

[abextra]

Another way for little Oliver. :snooker:

[moglet]

R362

Slight variation...

[Monique]

R362scoreboardvF.jpg

just in time...

[davis_greatest]

R362 update - moglet and abextra have joined snookersfun in having solved this one. Next answer on the thread please. Or if none by midday tomorrow (Thursday) UK time, please would those who have found a solution put it up. (There are several possible ways of colouring the board,by the way.)

R363 update - so far, a correct answer has been received from snookersfun.

Congratulations to all!

[davis_greatest]

it is the exact same scoreboard! Have I missed something
Shall we find a different starting point?...

Sorry - technical problems - attached the wrong scoreboard.

Have now edited the post and the right one should be there!

[snookersfun]

Round 363 - Snooker Knight

Another scoreboard - just like round 362 above (which is still open) - again, find a possible starting square and route for Oliver to record on the scoreboard below a total clearance, knocked in this time by Charlie...

it is the exact same scoreboard! Have I missed something
Shall we find a different starting point?...

[davis_greatest]

Round 363 - Snooker Knight

Another scoreboard - just like round 362 above (which is still open) - again, find a possible starting square and route for Oliver to record on the scoreboard below a total clearance, knocked in this time by Charlie...

[davis_greatest]

R362 update - snookersfun was first in (this morning) with an answer to this. (Note, there are several possibilities.) Congratulations!

[davis_greatest]

N___radius (for box size of 1)___box size (for diameter of 1)
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314 0.029530610813.................16.932
315 0.029408808740.................17.002

Haha , why does he show 315 balls as not fitting in Charlie's 17x17 box? Doesn't his program work? :snooker: