Puzzles with numbers and things

[PaulTheSoave]

hilarious! You mean you have set up all the coins to show your solution?

post of the year! sorry for being off topic, but could not resist

Oh dear! Just remove the two rows at this end of the photo!

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[moglet]

Oh dear!

[davis_greatest]

Mmmm, the left one has a base of 16 balls, the right has a base of 17.

Both ways 11 rows of 17 and 8 rows of 16, this is 315?

Sorry - the left what? Isn't there just one picture up?

[moglet]

Mmmm, the left one has a base of 16 balls, the right has a base of 17.

Both ways 11 rows of 17 and 8 rows of 16, this is 315?

[davis_greatest]

Is this 315 balls, moglet? How wide is your box? Do you have 17 balls in the bottom row, but then some sticking out to the left above it?

[moglet]

I hope these are right, please check the geometry....

[davis_greatest]

Let's please have answers on the thread now. Any with pictures, or at least full descriptions, would be great.

[moglet]

It looks like there are two ways, very similar, to make the same larger number

[davis_greatest]

Meanwhile, the first in with correct answers to round 361 Charlie's box (the round formerly known as prince round 261) are abextra and Monique! Congratulations!

Scrap that! snookersfun has found that in fact more balls are possible - and I think now has the maximum number that can fit in Charlie's box! Congratulations! :snooker: So, sorry abextra and Monique - need to look again to squeeze in a greater number.

[davis_greatest]

Round 361 update

Meanwhile, the first in with correct answers to round 361 Charlie's box (the round formerly known as prince round 261) are abextra and Monique! Congratulations!

[davis_greatest]

Sorry simultaneous post....

Round 261?

Sorry moglet... I finally see now what you meant! Yes, the round numbering had got as mixed up as the balls in Charlie's box, and I meant of course round 361, not 261. Thanks - I will edit it now.

[Monique]

The extra ape came from my mistake in considering just one tie at the bottom of the play-offers list in the specific context of R260. I should have knwon better of course knowing D_G (I had my doubts, I must say ... 148 just looked so close to magical 147) and looking at the results of the Championsleague Snooker Group 2. Anyway, the intruder was an entelle (or langur) ape named Ebnezer - nickname Ebbo - and he has been sent home promptly. This was a chimp competition and he had lost all his matches anyway!

[davis_greatest]

Sorry simultaneous post....

Round 261?

It is a square box whose interior is the width of 17 snooker balls and whose height is the same as one snooker ball. How many snooker balls can Charlie fit inside?

[moglet]

Sorry simultaneous post....

Round 261?

[davis_greatest]

Round 361 - Charlie's box

How many snooker balls can Charlie fit into his Chimpmas box of round 259?

Answers by private message please.