George Armstrong

George Armstrong Ok a flavour of something different. I'll give you a few options this week on how to get bonuses - you can claim points from both, you don't have to choose just one:
-Solve bang on by either multiplying or dividing by the locked number.
-Or solve bang on and "burn" your locked number. Essentially this means using only 4 of your 5 other numbers, but make sure the numbers you don't need still go through the solver so that Apterous gives you the points!

Tom Cappleman

Tom Cappleman For the first one, do you mean as the last step of your solve, or just multiplying/dividing by it at some point in your solution?

George Armstrong

George Armstrong I'd hoped I'd implied the former, maybe I'd better not stay up late after a CO:LIN in the future ;)

Tom Cappleman

Tom Cappleman It's what I thought was most likely, but wasn't 100%

George Armstrong

George Armstrong Just so I can see, which round was this?

George Armstrong

George Armstrong Seemingly what you'd done here was make a 1 from 8-7, then used the locked 1 to add to the 9?

Tom Cappleman

Tom Cappleman Yeah, if you're submitting a solution at the end (rather than in the notes) it will stop you as soon as you've reached your target, so can't multiply/divide by 1. Probably best to just check if people have a locked 1 that's still unused and award the bonus in that case.

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Florence C-L

Florence C-L But if you had a locked 1 that's still unused, the interface would not think you'd solved it on account of you not having used the locked number yet?

Dan Spinks

Dan Spinks yeah, what Florence said. It's still unsolved if you've not used the locked 1. If it definitely did that AOS then it's probably worth reporting as a bug

Tom Cappleman

Tom Cappleman Ah, in your game Alan you'd made a 1 in addition to the locked 1. So guess it depends what order you did stuff from there, and which 1 you still had left

George Armstrong

George Armstrong Fwiw if anything like this comes up again for anyone, let me know and we can act accordingly - I'd trust you lot not to lie for the sake of 5 extra points ;)

George Armstrong

George Armstrong Ah I seemingly let these rounds run for an extra day because I can't count to 7... Will allow the extra day then coz that's my bad :)

Tourney round: The Power of Three: Round 5 - Lock (Numbers)

<< Round 5 - Lock (Letters) | Round 5 - Lock (Cons) >>

Notes from the organizer: So COVID restrictions have just been lifted, and we've got Lockdown... Oh the irony. For the bonus points, check the comments

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jyWhSYsAgbOK_1u47N3KXfzK5phVlMu5fJtebbI5RiA/edit#gid=1530829650

Ran from: 31 January – 7 February 2022. Format: Lockdown Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Organizers: George Armstrong.

Fixtures: 14. Completed: 14.

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