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Happy New Year 2009= (9x6-5)(5x8+1)
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Wow, well done!Originally Posted by snookersfun View PostHappy New Year 2009= (9x6-5)(5x8+1)
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Yes, it wasOriginally Posted by abextra View PostI guess one of the missing numbers is 80818?
The :snooker:was VERY helpful!!!
... so congratulations abextra, Monique and snookersfun.
Please put up an explanation.
:snooker:
"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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Yes, congratulations snookersfun - this hits the 2009 target.Originally Posted by snookersfun View PostHappy New Year 2009= (9x6-5)(5x8+1)
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)....
"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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I would wait with the explanation... there are still four numbers to guess!Originally Posted by davis_greatest View PostYes, it was... so congratulations abextra, Monique and snookersfun.
Please put up an explanation.:snooker:
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I assume R352 is a maximum break. The last string of five being 40147.Comment
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Yes, congratulations! It is the sequence of breaks in a snooker maximumOriginally Posted by moglet View Post
1 8 9 16 17 24 ..... ending 134 140 147
and then squashed together and divided into 5-digit chunks. :snooker:"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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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:
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(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."If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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.... 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:"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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Excellent bids to rounds 354 and 355, abextra! Thank you. And extra marks for speed.
They can both be beaten though. Any advance?
(PS No problem with posting several times. Bids are not allowed to be edited and so multiple posts are expected.)"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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