Spoilers for Friday 25 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 115)

[Philip A]

The last of the 40th anniversary month of wonderul guest hosts before Colin Murray returns at least for another 3 months and a bit.

[Philip A]

QUARKING was there. QUARK as a verb can be found by typing QUAWKING in ODP which lists quite a few spellings (QUOUK and QUORK).

[Johnny Canuck]

Kind of surprised TARING^ isn't in as a verb form of TARE tbh - taring a scale (resetting it to zero) was commonplace in uni chemistry labs.

[Steve Hyde]

QUARKING was there. QUARK as a verb can be found by typing QUAWKING in ODP which lists quite a few spellings (QUOUK and QUORK).

That's really interesting. I wonder if Susie would be able to find it in the heat of a match? There was a similar thing with JIMMY earlier in the series (listed as an alternate spelling of JEMMY in the dictionary, but a search would only bring up the capitalised and therefore invalid Jimmy)

[Philip A]

QUARKING was there. QUARK as a verb can be found by typing QUAWKING in ODP which lists quite a few spellings (QUOUK and QUORK).

That's really interesting. I wonder if Susie would be able to find it in the heat of a match? There was a similar thing with JIMMY earlier in the series (listed as an alternate spelling of JEMMY in the dictionary, but a search would only bring up the capitalised and therefore invalid Jimmy)

I think any Lexicographer would need a prompt so I doubt she’d have found it by herself. This list may be of interest: https://wiki.apterous.org/Hard-to-find_words

[Toby McDonald]

R14 LNAFP: (8+4)*7*10 = 840

[Gevin Chapwell]

I hope you all noticed Rachel saying that the 314 was as easy as pi.

[Johnny Canuck]

I hope you all noticed Rachel saying that the 314 was as easy as pi.

She was only 310.858047 off the mark with that pun.

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Rachel would want to cop herself on with the stern referee habit she's picked up in the last year or two.
1000-47 is actually NOT an identical method to 1000-50+3.
He should not have had to show over his paper.

[Graeme Cole]

Rachel would want to cop herself on with the stern referee habit she's picked up in the last year or two.
1000-47 is actually NOT and identical method to 1000-50+3.
He should not have had to show over his paper.

Close enough to ask them to show their paper, I think.

FWIW, Quantum Tombola treats them as the same solution, biased though I may be.

[Gevin Chapwell]

We've discussed this before and there is a certain degree of subjectivity in deciding whether solutions are identical. You could say that 100+3+2 and 100+2+3 are identical or not, depending on your exact criteria. The two methods mentioned are certainly close enough that some people might consider them to be the same solution.