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Listener 4165, Variation on a Theme by Nibor
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Not much here to cause any grief this week, I think. Not too high on the difficulty scale, but enjoyable anyway.
Now I have no excuses for the afternoon and will be forced to finally clean out my gutters. 65 degrees today - 40 on Sunday. I guess I'll get busy.
Now I have no excuses for the afternoon and will be forced to finally clean out my gutters. 65 degrees today - 40 on Sunday. I guess I'll get busy.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.'fraid not. If I see a solution that answers (arguably), all the conditions (it matches the words, it looks like the theme) then why would I bother to look further? Take last week's numeric: most people who tried it and got to the end might well have felt "is that it?" and there was discussion here as to whether there was something else to look for. Nothing in the preamble suggested that there was, so that's it, then, another Listener "resolved". With this one, I don't think the wording of the preamble is tight enough to make me look further. The discussion here suggests there may be "more". I'll doubtless find out (or not) when the solution is published. Meanwhile, I've put it away as "resolved".
For iamamoose: That's my point really. It's "well worded" if the particular penny drops. But I had a PDM at (probably) a different point (it's difficult to establish that without some currently taboo specifics). With my penny dropped, albeit perhaps with a slightly less resounding clunk (don't really know that either), I don't accept the need to go further. Is there a better answer? Maybe. Does my answer satisfy the wording of the preamble? Too right it does. It may not be what Nibor intended, but if you're going to write cutesy, oblique preambles, you must expect people to get hold of another branch of the same stick and cheerfully say "hey look! I got a stick!"
i see Zabadak's point.. you can get to a stage where reading the preamble in a purely technical way, you've done it. ..but one of the nice things about the Listener is, if you feel unsatisfied by your solution, you're certainly right. To quote De Niro in 'Ronin'......."if there is any doubt..then there is no doubt"
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