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Phew, it's been a while since more than 1 conundrum has been needed to sort the winner of a match.

But, I'm sure our Aptochamp Peter won't give a damn how he wins his matches, although he does like to win them on conundrums at the moment. Can we get to 3 wins and break into the top 10

Find out with the current #1 seed later.

himborg simborg.

'himborg' in round 1

'goldmines' as an invalid 9 in round 4.

The word 'goldmine' is included in Chambers' pocket Dictionary (2004) !

Also 1st numbers alt ((75-4) x 8 ) + 5

Rachel's solution in the last round was ace. I never think of going above 1000.

EARLDOM in last letters round
Last numbers alt: ((75 x 2) + 7) x (10 - 4)

Was I being too simplistic? ((10 + 2) x75) + ((10-4) x 7 )

ALARMED in the last letters round.

Glad to hear my confusion over GRAILS cleared up. Used to be disallowed as it was capitalised.

Mark Kudlowski wrote:EARLDOM in last letters round

This was mentioned.

As for Rachel's method, it's her favourite once again, the split multiplication. She used the 2 and 7 to make 14x75 = 1050 and noticing you need to take away 108 with 10,10 and 2 is pretty straightforward for a wizard, like Rachel, at that method.

Sue Sanders wrote:Was I being too simplistic? ((10 + 2) x75) + ((10-4) x 7 )

ALARMED in the last letters round.

Join the club, I had the same on both these rounds too