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  1. Rollo

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    STAIR-2

    STIRS-2

    CREAM-0

    STEAM-1

    SHARE-0

    STARS-2

    But I'm in a pickle now, cos I know what you meant with your "logic", but what you said was technically wrong.....

  2. Rollo

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    Posted · Edited by fabpig

    T must be the fourth letter - STEAM - 1 and CREAM - 0 eliminates the EAM in STEAM as possibilities so either S or T is correct. SHARE - 0 eliminates the S as possible.

    Your logic is spot on but your counting is....rubbish!!!... have a reread :lol:

  14. Rollo

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    we had decided that you could use 1 word contingency logic. I however could have increased my own chances in that situation by doing the rest of my logic to say that if DICED was 2, I must be the 2nd letter.

    PACED is 2 and P is the first letter so one of ACED must be right (but only 1). DICED being 2 means that 2 of ICED must be right, since D cannot be right from the already proven P. since ACED must have 1 right and ICED must have 2 right and the only difference is the I instead of A, I must be the second letter.

    Thanks for the explanation. The bit that does it best for me is the "we decided we could use 1 word contingency logic". Which is probably back there somewhere but as there are 270+ pages .......

    My sincere apologies if I set anybody's hackles on end. And thanks too to dawh for the input. It was nice to know that at least I did make a bit of sense. Once again, my apologies. And why has nobody asked what a 370/148 is/was? :lol:

  15. Rollo

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    OK, here's an example from 2 games ago......I've thought of the word - the scoring is the same

    P _ _ _ _

    +5 Glyc

    FLAME-0

    SPORT-0

    REPLY-0

    MANIA-1

    LUCRE-0

    PANDA-2

    PANIC-2

    PACED-2

    MANIC-1

    DICED - if 0, 2nd letter is A. PACED is 2, first letter is P, last 3 letters can't be right cause of CED in DICED. So A must be 2nd.

    DICED=2

    Now your logicked word doesn't hold true. What I'm saying is that when using a "logick", you must be able to guarantee that a letter will be input to the target word irrespective of the points scored. Otherwise it's just a guess.

    Incidentally, the word I thought of is PINES

  16. Rollo

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    Posted · Edited by fabpig

    Used to play this game to wile away the nightshift when operating the ol' 370/148.....Nice to see it's still going strong.

    I have a few things I need clarifying tho...

    Can words be "challenged"? dawh had spellers block in the last game and unfortunately the word had quite an influence on the final outcome.

    Also, the word TORDO is Italian for "thrush". If you're going to allow non English/American words, you could be opening a whole new can of vermi.

    And finally......I've noticed that some of the logicking says (e.g) If word abcde = 0, then first letter = b (one letter difference between bbcde = 1). Which is fine, but is incomplete . i.e. shouldn't the logic also conclude that if abcde = 1 then some other POSITIVE conclusion? I'm not wording this very well, but what I think I'm trying to say is that abcde=0 is not the only possible outcome and the other alternatives are not being taken into consideration.

    Perhaps one of our more eloquent wordsmiths may be able to interpret my ramblings.

    Edit - typos

  18. Rollo

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    Posted

    TWINS.....If 2 then S is 5th letter, if 1 then R is third letter. WIN have all been ruled out from swine. R,S are the only possible scorers from TURNS, TERNS

  19. in New Logic/Math Puzzles

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    As for feedback. It took a little while to get into the swing of things - being not really sure what was going on - but really enjoyed it when I thought I was on to something. I most definitely wouldn't have got the answer without the comments of the other players. It'll be interesting to see a similar thing can be done again without becoming 'stale'. I guess the only way to find out is for someone to start a new one.

  20. in New Logic/Math Puzzles

    Posted

    The key letters in the puzzle are A, B, O, R, D.

    These are ignored when at the beginning of the reversed state name and also act as the "flipper" i.e. they switch the password letter from "1 above" to "1 below" alphabetically (and vice versa) when encountered. I based my first guess on ROAD (as in the road to destruction). Why ABORD? I'm guessing that's as close as possible to ABORT (which couldn't be used as all letters would be ignored) but only octopuppy can tell us for definite.

  25. in New Logic/Math Puzzles

    Posted · Edited by fabpig

    The BeeDee PeeDee chief and myself have got our heads together and have come up with (as I'm sure the rest of you have):

    The password is based on the reverse spelling of the state name, repeated if less than 8 chars fter leading deductions. (either up or down 1 char in the alphabet)

    When reversed, leading A's, O's and D's are ignored. So far no others.

    In the case of Florida, both the leading A and D are ignored.

    For that reason, I'm requesting COLORADO.

    We must stop this insane puppy.

    But he's so cute.

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