Spoilers for Tuesday 16th July 2024 (Series 90, Heat 12)

[Adam S Latchford]

Fantastic game between two people who deserve to be finalists - even this early on.

Fiona appeared a long time ago here : https://wiki.apterous.org/Fiona_Willis

Was a great player then and doesn't look like she's skipped a beat

[Toby McDonald]

Great back and forth game - unlucky to Jon, but well done to Fiona.

MIAGITES in R2

[Howie Myers]

r5 alt: PERMUTED
r9: I paused the recording, and still got nowhere near.......
Excellent game!

[Philip A]

Yes, a very good game.

I find it helps to break the target figure down like so:

896 / 8 = 112

112 / 4 = 28

28 = 4 * 7

Therefore,

4 * 4 * 7 * 8 = 896

That’s four of the six cards drawn.

I use the bus stop method.

[Gavin Chipper]

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method?

[Tom S]

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method?

It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. You then work out how many 8s go into 8, so 1, then 8s into 9, 1 but with a remainder 1 which is carried over, and placed before, the 6, meaning that you work out how many 8s go into 16, making 2. You'd then look at the number on the top, which would be 112 from the calculations, thus revealing the answer.

[Steve Hyde]

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method?

It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. You then work out how many 8s go into 8, so 1, then 8s into 9, 1 but with a remainder 1 which is carried over, and placed before, the 6, meaning that you work out how many 8s go into 16, making 2. You'd then look at the number on the top, which would be 112 from the calculations, thus revealing the answer.

All while a visibly knackered Carl Douglas watches on
https://youtu.be/U2NgGKrKp6I

[Gavin Chipper]

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method?

It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. You then work out how many 8s go into 8, so 1, then 8s into 9, 1 but with a remainder 1 which is carried over, and placed before, the 6, meaning that you work out how many 8s go into 16, making 2. You'd then look at the number on the top, which would be 112 from the calculations, thus revealing the answer.

Yeah, I think that's just the standard method for division but with a fancy name.

[Gavin Chipper]

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method?

It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. You then work out how many 8s go into 8, so 1, then 8s into 9, 1 but with a remainder 1 which is carried over, and placed before, the 6, meaning that you work out how many 8s go into 16, making 2. You'd then look at the number on the top, which would be 112 from the calculations, thus revealing the answer.

All while a visibly knackered Carl Douglas watches on
https://youtu.be/U2NgGKrKp6I

I remember watching this nonsense on TOTP!

Edit - Also the song that was just finishing was Where Are You by Imaani, the UK's Eurovision entry from 1998 (also proof of how the UK was more popular in Eurovision back then). The guy rapping from Bus Stop is Daz Sampson, who did the UK's 2006 Eurovision entry.

[Jon Stitcher]

Yes, a very good game.

I find it helps to break the target figure down like so:

896 / 8 = 112

112 / 4 = 28

28 = 4 * 7

Therefore,

4 * 4 * 7 * 8 = 896

That’s four of the six cards drawn.

I use the bus stop method.

This is pretty much what I did, saw immediately that it was 112 x 8 so just looked to make the 112 from the remaining numbers, looked at the 6 first and got nowhere then tried 4 x 7 x 4 and got quite a surprise that it was 112. Then spent 20 seconds checking it over and over again and I was still not totally convinced when I gave my method.

[Gavin Chipper]

It was good to see two contestants who both originally played with Richard Whiteley as host.

[Simon Haigh]

What a great game!

Help please - FUELLERS in R12?

(sorry I'm so far behind by the way)

[Gavin Chipper]

I think I checked this at the time. Not on Apterous so presumably not valid.

[Simon Haigh]

I think I checked this at the time. Not on Apterous so presumably not valid.

Thanks

Odd as there is a 'Worshipful Company of Fuellers'

Oh well...

[Philip Wilson]

Yes, a very good game.

I find it helps to break the target figure down like so:

896 / 8 = 112

112 / 4 = 28

28 = 4 * 7

Therefore,

4 * 4 * 7 * 8 = 896

That’s four of the six cards drawn.

I use the bus stop method.

I started the same way but then did
112 / 2 = 56
56 / 7 = 8 (4 + 4)

Great match btw!