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doh.ie · 27-09-2004 11:00AM

[739]
1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 50

Boro · 27-09-2004 02:47PM

50 + 1 = 51 * (3 + 4) = 357 * 2 = 714 + 25 = 739

Difficult one but easy once you get it!

Boro · 27-09-2004 02:49PM

2 5 7 8 10 75
target : 846

doh.ie · 27-09-2004 04:32PM

(75*10)+((5+7)*8)=846

1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 25
[577]

Boro · 28-09-2004 08:29AM

10 + 9 + 5 - 1 = 23 * 25 = 575 + 2 = 577

Boro · 28-09-2004 08:30AM

Hard one for ya (at least it seemed hard when i made it up!)

2 5 7 8 10 75
target : 954

doh.ie · 28-09-2004 08:47PM

Nightmare, Boro.

Spent ages today on it.

Will not make my usual mistake of saying it's impossible, but you can reassure
me that you found a way to do it...! Or is there something obvious I'm not seeing
(again!)

ixoy · 28-09-2004 09:39PM

Nah it's a nightmare doh.ie! I can't see the damned thing either! But we can't give up... never...

Boro · 28-09-2004 10:46PM

Ok a clue - subtracting 10 from the (accumulated) number is the last operation
so thats 2 5 7 8 75 to get 964

Hope this narrows it down!

Got annoyed watching all my other ones being solved really easily so i spent a good hour thinking up a right ***** of one the other day

doh.ie · 29-09-2004 05:25PM

I can hardly contain my frustration over this one...! Nightmare. Large portions of my life I will never get back now...

I can get 952, 953, 955 and 956 - some several different ways. But 954 (or 964 without the 10) is continuing to elude me... even with your hint.

This is the most difficult of these I have ever seen. Will come back to it when my head doesn't hurt so much!

Boro · 29-09-2004 05:51PM

Taking pity on you

- the second last operation is to multiply by 2 (the last operation was to subtract 10).

I told ya twas a hard one!

doh.ie · 29-09-2004 06:30PM

You have positively ruined my life. Can't believe I didn't see it before.
I should tell you, I tried all the variations on multiplying (AND dividing!) by 2
and did not see this anywhere among them. 70x7?!!? Gah!

*deep sigh*

((((75-5)*7)-8)*2)-10 = 9 flippin' 54.

I hated this more than any puzzle I've ever done.

Now, give me the guts of a week to find something just as bloody annoying!

doh.ie · 29-09-2004 06:54PM

Still working on nightmare puzzle, but in the meantime...

1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 25

[841]

Boro · 29-09-2004 07:06PM

Congratulations on solving it finally - maybe i should have put a health warning on it

10 + 25 = 35 * 2 = 70 * 3 = 210 * 4 = 840 + 1 = 841

Boro · 29-09-2004 07:09PM

Dont worry - dont have any more of those hard ones saved up

3 4 7 8 10 50
target : 839

doh.ie · 29-09-2004 07:19PM

Boro wrote:

Dont worry - dont have any more of those hard ones saved up

Thank God for that! (Although I suspect you may have found some evil formula to make them harder than usual.)

Except you may be slipping:

(50*(10+7))-(8+3)=839

doh.ie · 29-09-2004 07:22PM

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 25

[567]

wiw4 · 29-09-2004 09:26PM

doh.ie wrote:

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 25

[567]

6 + 7 = 13
13 + 10 = 23
23 x 25 = 575
575 - 8 = 567

wiw4 · 29-09-2004 09:28PM

75 25 1 4 7 4

Target: 933

Mr. Flibble · 29-09-2004 09:38PM

can you use decimals in this? i got close:

25*75=1875
(7+1)/4=2
1875/2=937.5
937.5-4=933.5

..?

Boro · 29-09-2004 09:43PM

fraid decimals arent allowed

Thats a tough one wiw4

closest i can get is 932

75 * 4 = 300 * (4-1) = 900 + 25 + 7 = 932

did you mean to have two 4's? Not sure if thats allowed

wiw4 · 29-09-2004 09:48PM

wel i robbed it from the start of the thread, so il let there be a 3 instead of one of the fours:

75 25 1 4 7 3

Target: 933

Boro · 29-09-2004 09:55PM

75 * 4 = 300 * 3 = 900 + 25 + 7 + 1 = 933

Boro · 29-09-2004 09:57PM

1 2 8 9 10 25
target : 772

doh.ie · 30-09-2004 01:44PM

This one seemed hard for a while.

(8*9*10)+((25+1)*2)=772

1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 50

651

ixoy · 30-09-2004 01:46PM

doh.ie wrote:

1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 50

651

Not the most difficult one there doh.ie

((10+3)*50)+1 = 651

ixoy · 30-09-2004 01:58PM

Ok my go:

1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 25

Target: 482

doh.ie · 30-09-2004 01:58PM

Crud. Well, I kind of just pull the numbers out of my ass cos I don't have time to work out the evil stuff Boro does ("Let's make sure they don't have a 5, because it ends in a 5...!" etc.)

Plus, if people at work see many more scribbles of numbers on blank paper, they'll start to wonder if I'm going slightly insane.

doh.ie · 30-09-2004 02:19PM

OK, so not as easy as mine, but doable...

((3*7)*((25-(10/5)))-1=482

doh.ie · 30-09-2004 02:26PM

New one:

1, 2, 3, 4, 50, 75

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