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Listener 4049: The Domino Effect by Googly
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The dreaded numbers. Googly was last seen in November 2006 with Solve Two, Get One Free.
I enjoyed this. Not too much heavy duty calculator work, and it all fell smoothly into place. Cheers, Googly
I enjoyed this. Not too much heavy duty calculator work, and it all fell smoothly into place. Cheers, Googly
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thanks Cruncher. I've now sorted out and decoded 18 and 31 (a senior moment prevented me from doing this). I won't be sending the solution in (I've got a Chambers crossword dictionary) but can't be beaten by a numerical puzzle. I must have an error in the 8a region as it factorizes into 1 single digit and 1 triple digit prime.
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Is this just me? I was expecting the pattern of the dominos or blanks to follow some pattern - anyone have any ideas there? The title is no clue. It looks like some sort of animal - perhaps a dragon with its feet facing right and head facing left - the 2 floating dominos at top left could be the flames? Rotating the grid does not help.
One of the toughest ever I think. Took a long time to get started and once you get the 1st numbers, you think the rest will be easy but you keep getting stuck again. I did use a spreadsheet, not as a brute force cheat but just to save repeating the same calculation over and over when I'd narrowed things down as far as my logic and maths could get. Even when down to the last 2 letters, I and Q were the toughest to get as you had quite a lot of work to find the last domino (2-5), and even then it could go either way - up or down - especially as the shape did not help. I look forward to seeing the purely logical steps on the Listener web site.
Is this just me? I was expecting the pattern of the dominos or blanks to follow some pattern - anyone have any ideas there? The title is no clue. It looks like some sort of animal - perhaps a dragon with its feet facing right and head facing left - the 2 floating dominos at top left could be the flames? Rotating the grid does not help.
One of the toughest ever I think. Took a long time to get started and once you get the 1st numbers, you think the rest will be easy but you keep getting stuck again. I did use a spreadsheet, not as a brute force cheat but just to save repeating the same calculation over and over when I'd narrowed things down as far as my logic and maths could get. Even when down to the last 2 letters, I and Q were the toughest to get as you had quite a lot of work to find the last domino (2-5), and even then it could go either way - up or down - especially as the shape did not help. I look forward to seeing the purely logical steps on the Listener web site.
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