Puzzles with numbers and things

[davis_greatest]

23 balls for the cream? (time pressed and all...)

23 peaches wins it! Please would everyone put up his / her arrangement - whether for 22 or 23 peaches, or indeed any smaller number!

[snookersfun]

23 balls for the cream? (time pressed and all...)

[snookersfun]

brain vacations:
Round 240: weighted ships (yeah back to ships, or for those more comfortable with snooker terms, lineups of balls)

10x10 usual grid and fleet (but this time the ship segments are weighted differently, depending on to which kind of ship they belong). So the numbers on the side reveal the total weight of all ship segments in the respective row or column.

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answers initially to me

[snookersfun]

R237... sounds like one to have a go at then... I think maybe I'll try

haha, dare you! How is it going?

Round 237: square clusters of balls - Snookersfun, I'm in trouble here, HELP!!!

R237 ... me too. This is VERY hard

I am quite happy about this, as this darn puzzle had me stuck for the longest time as well...
OK, tiny hint, but you probably all figured that out already by now:
A good start is that '9' line, which (together with the lines above and below) will point to the respective clusters and their position 'y-axis' wise in that area.

...and in case it gets too frustrating I'll put up the next 'easy' round now for in between (while I'll go off floating in the Dead Sea for the rest of the day, so have fun all of you).

If anybody (except Monique and Abextra for now) feels like putting the previous 2 cluster things up (triangles and rectangles), please do

[davis_greatest]

Round 237: square clusters of balls - Snookersfun, I'm in trouble here, HELP!!!

Round 239 - Peaches and Cream - may I have 22, please? What do we have to do to get some cream?

R237 ... me too. This is VERY hard
I'm also claiming 22 peaches. And yes where is the cream???

You can both have the 22 peaches now. But you only get the cream when you improve your bids!

R237... sounds like one to have a go at then... I think maybe I'll try

[Monique]

R237 ... me too. This is VERY hard
I'm also claiming 22 peaches. And yes where is the cream???

[abextra]

Round 237: square clusters of balls - Snookersfun, I'm in trouble here, HELP!!!

Round 239 - Peaches and Cream - may I have 22, please? What do we have to do to get some cream?

[davis_greatest]

Congratulations abextra on getting all those strawberries! Still hungry? ....

Round 239 - Peaches and Cream

Just like in recent rounds (231, 232, 234, 236 and 238), lay out the 21 snooker balls and remember that you get bananas for your lowest scoring ball and pineapples for your highest scoring ball. You can now lay the balls wherever you want on the bed of the table - but the only restriction this time is that you cannot have any ball lying on its own (i.e. every ball must touch at least one other).

You can now claim a number of peaches equal to the difference between your number of bananas and number of pineapples. E.g. if you have 3 bananas and 5 pineapples you will get 2 peaches.

How many peaches do you wish to claim?

(bid as high as you can)

[snookersfun]

Wouldn't that give you 11 bananas and 21 (not 22) pineapples though?

lol, good to see that everybody was confused in the end!
just woke up with a 'bull...., doh!' kind of thought concerning a) and b)

nicely done Abextra!!! And also concerning the triangles!

[abextra]

So a round-leading (and I suspect will be round-winning) 242! Congratulations!

Hehehe... would be nice to win... ... I love strawberries!

[davis_greatest]

Should be 22... one ball is in two lines?

Ooops, yes!!!

So a round-leading (and I suspect will be round-winng) 242! Congratulations!

[abextra]

Should be 22... one ball is in two lines?

[davis_greatest]

I'm still not sure... maybe I've misunderstood completely... ...what about something in shape of "T" or "L" or "X", eleven balls in a row?

Wouldn't that give you 11 bananas and 21 (not 22) pineapples though?

[abextra]

Let's see the arrangement please abextra...

I'm still not sure... maybe I've misunderstood completely... ...what about something in shape of "T" or "L" or "X", eleven balls in a row?

[davis_greatest]

hmm, when you eat that quantity of grapes, I'd say some stomach problems guaranteed but a nice poem, thanks.

The guarantee is free. You don't have to eat them all... can maybe play snooker with some of them

Round 238 part b) 242

Let's see the arrangement please abextra...