Martin Gardner wrote:Oh bollocks yes, did I forget to say that?
I'm not sure it's really relevant tbh - I suspect Charlie may have already mulled this one over and come to the same conclusion. There's a difference between having a word which you're not sure is valid, and having a numbers declaration which you can't actually calculate. In the one case, you're not sure if it is a genuine word, but in the other you're blatantly trying to do calculations out of the time, which, strictly speaking, shouldn't be valid. In the vast majority of cases this would only be open to abuse by people attempting to wing it.
That said, I do regularly get caught out late on the numbers; I miss far more numbers declarations than I do letters ones (I habitually click the correct solution straight away and then amend it if necessary) I blame myself for that though, rather than the application, I should "give up" earlier, and work out what I have actually got, rather than still trying to get the target.