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Andy SC NOTE: End date should be 3RD DECEMBER 2024 and not 3rd December 2025.

Wesley Barton It's like Roy Wood sings 'I wish it could be the 3rd of December everyday'

Robin M Agreed

Andy SC NOTE: For options 2 and 3, a max i the best scoring option as by gevin scoring.

Thanks Mike for questioning this in chat.

Matthew Tassier So, couple of queries:
Option 1: is the bonus for EXACTLY 4 numbers used, or 4 OR LESS?
Options 2 & 3: Do I want my 3rd, 5th, 7th, ... maxed rounds to be ones with low targets? Or am I reading it wrong?

Andy SC Think for Option 1, i'll say 4 or less. When doing research it seemed most rounds people played involved using all 5 numbers.

Option 2 and 3 entirely up to a player how they decide to go about it.

Sean D I dunno about anyone else but I think I need a walk -through example of Option 2 and 3. For option 2 "Highest total for rounds you max once the first two maxes are added together then next one is taken away next one added on and so on". What does this mean? If the max in round 1 was 10 points and round 2 it’s 10 points and round 3 it’s 7 points… what does that mean? “once the first two maxes are added together then next one is taken away” gives me 10+10-7 = 13. What do I do with that information? For option 3 “Highest total for rounds you max once the first two are multiplied and then next one is divided then multiplied and so on.” gives me 10 x 10 / 7 = 14.28571 ?!

Andy SC To clarify for Option 2 and 3 it's the target for the rounds in which you max.

For example in Option 2 it could be targets of 456, 587 and 245 you get the max in. So that would be 456+587=1043, then 1043-245=798

For option three those three numbers would work out as: 456*587=267,672. Then 267,672/245=1092.54 (rounded)

Hopefully that makes sense?

Ian Volante It does in that case, but I'm struggling to conceptualise to what it means for the whole round.

Jon Pinyan For options 2&3, is the "first, second, third" etc counted chronologically through the game? And the numbers getting +- or x/ are the targets or the declarations or what?
For option 1, do we get the bonus for any valid declaration that scores (and uses 4 or fewer numbers)?

Sean D Ah cheers Andy, so I think Matthew is right above, in that (ideally) I want to solve 2 high targets, then a low one, then a high one, then a low one....

Andy SC @Jon - Any valid declarations would get you thebinus points in option 1. For option 2 and 3 it is ta

Andy SC *targets getting+- x/ treatment.

Sarah Binns That went incredibly well for me!!!
Howling.

Ravi Choudhary Same here

Sarah Binns 10, though. i am so bad with numbers

Andy SC Option 3 was the scoring option for this round. Scores based on that scoring method are as follows:

Florence C-L 6,609,512.44
Anthony Endsor 2,506,574.70
Steven Harding 1,552,316.68
Damian McEvoy 1,525,694.12
Matthew Tassier 1,309,758.72
Brian Huang 825,336.27
Ben Bazzard 821,954.73
Adam Dexter 484,454.00
Wesley Barton 416,741.75
Ravi Choudhary 238,972.16
Maria Chandler 183,663.07
FI Thorne 144,066.50
Jason Turner 74,910.94
Dave Kempshall 51,590.59
Jon Pinyan 35,633.68
Hazel Drury 18,762.23
Jack Worsley 16,432.96
Tom Cappleman 14,078.97
Ian Volante 13,081.14
David Holmes 6,086.99
Andrew Smith 5,161.38
Martin Thomas 4,435.59
Colin Thompson 4,221.26
MIke Lee 3,426.20
Martin Hurst 567.39
Sarah Binns 484
Matthew Brockwell 441.9
Dan Spinks 430.22
Tracey Mills 383.15
Dan Southwell 182.83
Mark O'Regan 157.83
Matt OC 127.94
Ian Wray 105.4
Robin M 72.34
Adam Latchford 58.69
Sean D 28.29

Andy SC Top 5 after Day 3:

1st - Tom Cappleman: 100-points
2nd - Matthew Tassier: 97-points
3rd - Ben Bazzard: 93-points
4th - Maria Chandler: 90-points
5th - Dave Kempshall: 86-points

Sean D Florence 6.6 million, Sean 28.29.... fine margins

Adam Latchford we can combine our scores and overtake her if my maths is correct (no need to check)

Tom Cappleman Doh, just realised that the last round is not a useful one to get a low max in - because there's no time left to get a high one! Would have been second

Jon Pinyan Yes, Tom, I realized that getting an even number of maxes would be crucial to success.. imagine my dismay to learn that an impossible round counts as a max, and I screwed myself by solving the last round!