Spoilers for Wednesday 16 August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 32)

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Spoilers for Wednesday 16 August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 32)

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When I saw Andrew's way on about 29s, I thought I'd gone around the houses

((100+50)/25/2+75)*7

...now I feel slightly better.
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I'm going to stick with dull methods...

(100+4)*5*50/25-75
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GRANARIES in R11
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 16 August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 32)

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ETIOLISED in the IDOLISE round.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 16 August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 32)

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R9 alternative:

(4x50-(100+75)/25)x5
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Some top four-larging from Noel today. Getting Noel's method in R3 in 30 seconds is very impressive, and would have been even more so had there not been a couple of simpler methods.

I had R9 Noel's way as well and was slightly surprised by Rachel's hesitance at getting to 197, given that she's used the 203/197/298/302 stuff on the show before.

Noel's letters were solid too. I wasn't sure on either GUNLESS or OUTFEED.
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I thought my 78*7 method on the first numbers was complicated and around the houses.........until Noel produced probably one of the best solutions I think I've ever seen.

Had his way on the 965 game though.

Some great spots on the letters too, I toyed with GUNLESS but chickened it, well risked on your part. OUTFEED was very good too.
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Tim Down wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:19 pm Some top four-larging from Noel today. Getting Noel's method in R3 in 30 seconds is very impressive, and would have been even more so had there not been a couple of simpler methods.
I wonder whether Noel chose that method on purpose or whether it was genuinely the only method he spotted? I can imagine he maybe just went to crazy 4 large mode immediately and so never considered anything else, but I know on something like that the first thing I do is see if I can get the factorisation.
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I saw 2x300 pretty quickly and just got stuck on that to be honest, couldnt look at anything else the rest of the time. Whilst my competitor thought i went 'round the houses' im pretty sure we both used all the numbers, so he can suck it.
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Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 16 August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 32)

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GUNLESS and OUTFEED were both risks as well! The other guy had gunless written down if i remember correctly.
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