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You know what to do here.

RELIANT as an equaller.

ADORNERS another equaller.

TSUNAMI, a bit of Japanese for you.

Martin Gardner wrote:TSUNAMI, a bit of Japanese for you.

Nice spot. I should've got that .

With words like DETACHES and APEMAN, I think David just might beat Ben , hopefully I am wrong though.

EDIT: 554 variant = ((10 + 5 + 7) x 25) + 3 + 1

By the way, you don't think Paul just used a deck of 52 queens of hearts?

Martin

The dreaded DELATIONS round

Christine got the conundrum in about 15 seconds.

Martin

952
10 9 9 7 6 1

I did it!

(9 + 6) * 9 = 135
+ 1 = 136
* 7 = 952

I did it this way

6 * (9+7) * 10 = 960, 960 - 9 + 1 = 952.


You just know it's there when Carol says she thinks it's probably not doable.

Bet he regrets going for 6 small.

I saw delations but didn't know it was a word

Benji Hanks wrote:I saw delations but didn't know it was a word

At least you didn't do what I did

I came up with the 9 letter words INSOLATED which is a word, but it hadn't made its way into the ODE

EDIT: Just to add, has Ben Hanks now knocked Matthew Coates out of the seed list?

Joseph Bolas wrote: EDIT: 554 variant = ((10 + 5 + 7) x 25) + 3 + 1

Yeah I came up with this straight away and was a bit surprised that Carol went a completely different way. Basically 10+7+5 is the only way to get the 22, then you've got 3 and 1 left!

Martin

I think GROUSED was an equaller in round 12 (?)

Martin Gardner wrote:

Joseph Bolas wrote: EDIT: 554 variant = ((10 + 5 + 7) x 25) + 3 + 1

Yeah
I came up with this straight away and was a bit surprised that Carol
went a completely different way. Basically 10+7+5 is the only way to
get the 22, then you've got 3 and 1 left!

Martin

Or 5*3 + 7, or 7*3 + 1

I think Carol gets some unfair stick on here sometimes (not referring to this thread in particular but just making a general point). She occasionally misses easy numbers games, but after doing the same thing every other week for 22 years I doubt she puts full effort every time, and she manages to find excellent solutions on a regular basis.

Paul Howe wrote: I think Carol gets some unfair stick on here sometimes (not referring to this thread in particular but just making a general point). She occasionally misses easy numbers games, but after doing the same thing every other week for 22 years I doubt she puts full effort every time, and she manages to find excellent solutions on a regular basis.

Well I certainly wasn't saying that - after all, she didn't miss this one!

Martin

R3: I wondered about GORSIEST, or is that a SOWPODS only?

I never worked out the rule for when you can and can't add "IEST", GORSY is specified in the dic.

DC

I got ARMIGERS in round 9

DaveC wrote:R3: I wondered about GORSIEST, or is that a SOWPODS only?

I never worked out the rule for when you can and can't add "IEST", GORSY is specified in the dic.

DC

I think Paul Howe had it disallowed but that it was subsequently allowed so probably safer to go with STRIGOSE which is the one I (try) to remember.

DaveC wrote:I never worked out the rule for when you can and can't add "IEST", GORSY is specified in the dic.

DC

Isn't the rule that you can have it if and only if it's listed? One-syllable adjectives only can have -ER and -EST added by default.

Gevin-Gavin wrote:

DaveC wrote:I never worked out the rule for when you can and can't add "IEST", GORSY is specified in the dic.

DC

Isn't the rule that you can have it if and only if it's listed? One-syllable adjectives only can have -ER and -EST added by default.

Yep. Although there seems to be an implicit exception for participle adjectives like PISSED, because you presumably can't have PISSEDER/PISSEDEST, although I'm not sure if this rule has ever been tested.

Charlie Reams wrote:Yep. Although there seems to be an implicit exception for participle adjectives like PISSED, because you presumably can't have PISSEDER/PISSEDEST, although I'm not sure if this rule has ever been tested.

Is this just something assumed by people who discuss online? I think they should be allowed for consistency, unless a concrete rule is laid down to properly exclude such words.

Charlie Reams wrote:Yep. Although there seems to be an implicit exception for participle adjectives like PISSED, because you presumably can't have PISSEDER/PISSEDEST, although I'm not sure if this rule has ever been tested.

There's no need to for these two as they both have valid anagrams, but yeah there are others...