Puzzles with numbers and things

[abextra]

I'm afraid I don't understand the new rules very well... ... maybe I can raise these numbers a bit...

Round 354 - 196 points/slaps
Round 355 - 203 points/slaps

Really confused. And sorry for posting so many times in a row.

[abextra]

Round 355 Big Reverse Smack

185 points/slaps for beginning.

[abextra]

Round 354 - Big Smack

First bid - 181 points/slaps. :snooker:

[davis_greatest]

.... and to run concurrently...

Round 355 Big Reverse Smack

The same as round 354, except that in Big Reverse Smack rule (e) is changed to:

(e) Whenever a colour has been potted into a centre pocket, the following colour can be potted neither into that pocket nor into the next two pockets moving anticlockwise around the table.

Again, bids for smacks please directly on the thread. :snooker:

[davis_greatest]

Round 354 - Big Smack

It has been a while since the popular game show, Big Ape Break, made an appearance on Saturday night primetime TV and on this thread. Viewers of yesteryear may remember Oliver the orang-utan doing trick shots involving cues and wicker baskets.

The game show has returned for a special New Year's edition, Big Smack, with Damon Grott invited as the popular professional. Contestants aim to run around the table and pot balls as quickly as they can, while Oliver calls "Give Damon as many smacks as you can."

The full, usual rules are pasted again below, with the special 2009 Big Smack edition festive updates in red:

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On the show, contestants play a frame of snooker, just like any normal frame except that:

(a) Every point that a player scores permits him or her to give Damon Grott's face one nice, hearty slap.

(b) Each of the 6 pockets is coloured. The colours of the pockets are:
yellow for the left-centre pocket and then, moving clockwise, blue, brown, green, pink, black - a bit like this:

0------0
!.........!
!.........!
!.........!
0------0
!.........!
!.........!
!.........!
0------0

(c) Once a colour has been potted, the same colour cannot be potted following the next red, nor following the red after that. (Once the 15th red and colour have been potted, this rule no longer applies - the final colours must be potted in the usual order of yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black, regardless of the colours potted with the final reds.)

Example 1: Red Brown Red Yellow Red Brown is NOT allowed; but Red Brown Red Yellow Red Blue Red Brown IS.

Example 2: For the 14th and 15th reds,
Red Black Red Yellow Yellow Green Brown Blue Pink Black IS allowed.

(d) Whenever a colour has been potted into a corner pocket, the following colour cannot be potted into any pocket that lies along the same edge (i.e. same side or same end) of the table.

(e) Whenever a colour has been potted into a centre pocket, the following colour can be potted neither into that pocket nor into the next two pockets moving clockwise around the table.

(f) Rules (d) and (e) apply throughout the game, even when down to the final 6 colours.

(g) None of the rules (c) to (f) apply to reds. It makes no difference into which pockets reds are potted. Each red simply allows the player to give Damon one slap.

(g) Potting a colour into a pocket of the same colour as the ball scores double points (e.g. pink into pink pocket would be worth 12 slaps).

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You come to the table, with all 15 reds on the table after your opponent broke off (he did not foul). What is the greatest number of slaps, through judicious shot selection, you can give Damon during this frame?

You don't need to say the highest theoretically possible - just bid your slaps number directly here on the thread. Credit will be given not only for a large number of slaps, but also for speed.

[davis_greatest]

I assume R352 is a maximum break. The last string of five being 40147.

Yes, congratulations! It is the sequence of breaks in a snooker maximum

1 8 9 16 17 24 ..... ending 134 140 147

and then squashed together and divided into 5-digit chunks. :snooker:

[moglet]

I assume R352 is a maximum break. The last string of five being 40147.

[abextra]

Yes, it was ... so congratulations abextra, Monique and snookersfun.
Please put up an explanation. :snooker:

I would wait with the explanation... there are still four numbers to guess!

[davis_greatest]

Happy New Year 2009= (9x6-5)(5x8+1)

Yes, congratulations snookersfun - this hits the 2009 target.

Congratulations also to Monique and abextra for the near-misses

Regarding putting the 8 and 1 together to form 81 - well, I didn't intend this to be allowed (but hadn't said so, so might have allowed it this time ). For any future such questions like this, however, digits will not be allowed to be combined like that (unless indicated otherwise)....

[davis_greatest]

I guess one of the missing numbers is 80818?

The :snooker:was VERY helpful!!!

Yes, it was ... so congratulations abextra, Monique and snookersfun.
Please put up an explanation. :snooker:

[abextra]

Happy New Year 2009= (9x6-5)(5x8+1)

Wow, well done!

[Monique]

Happy New Year 2009= (9x6-5)(5x8+1)

Very nice!

[snookersfun]

Happy New Year 2009= (9x6-5)(5x8+1)

[abextra]

Is that 81 allowed? the way I understand "numbers" not "digits" i supposed not ... D_G?

Ohhh... ... but it served so well!

[abextra]

... :snooker: ....complete the five missing numbers in this sequence...

18916, ?????, 53233, ?????, 84956, 57646, 57273, ?????, 88996, ?????, 10511, 21131, 20122, 12512, 91341, ?????
...

Next answer (or request for hints if needed, although the clue is in the question :snooker to round 352 on the thread please.

I guess one of the missing numbers is 80818?

The :snooker:was VERY helpful!!!