Listener 4101 - Primordial by Viking

[daagg]

Oh dear, that was far too easy! A quick trawl through my Dictionary of Interesting Numbers and a short jigsaw puzzle.

[AndrewG-S]

No calculator, no spreadsheet and done over breakfast, a very simple one this time around. I agree with the elegance comments, but thought this was a bit dare I use the word a bit easy.

[AndrewG-S]

Ah, it is of course another bank-holiday puzzle (I think is was Hexes last time)!

[IntoTheBlue]

A gentle work out thanks heavens!

I'm someone who sits in the 'numberphobe' camp but always enjoys the different challange posed by the numericals.

Saying that I could have made the finish an awful lot simpler for myself by reading the preamble properly!!

IntoTheBlue

[dr b]

Hi all,

I'm in lovely Boston at the moment helping my oldest get moved into her dorm for her senior year of college, so was only able to glance at this last night. Not much effort to write down the list of possible contenders; I suppose I will save the jigsaw part for the plane ride back tomorrow, but frankly that part doesn't look too exciting. I may just take a nap instead.

Several commenters have compared this to a Sudoku - I do not find Sudoku that interesting since it is purely a logic problem; no PDMs, just brute force. So the nap option sounds pretty good.

[catstail]

Very easy. First listener I have finished on a saturday.
Have noticed one relevant significant number in the finished grid. Not a prime unfortunately. No other pdms (yet)

[foxy33]

Yes. I like numericals but too easy. Have to find other useful things to do while watching the bank holiday weekend rain.

[catstail]

What rain? Has been a beautiful day on the south coast.

[kwyjibo]

Why do they make Bank Holiday Listeners so easy? I would have thought it would make more sense to make them tough. Clever construction but too straightforward.

[bonefixer]

I only do the number listeners. Easiest one I've ever done - in about 30 minutes without using calculator, spreadsheet, or half a dozen sides of A4 for scribbling on. An online search for 'primes up to 1000' was all that was needed.

[Cruncher]

My turn to be S-matrix this week. I thought this was a real waste of time. Once you have a list of possible of primes it becomes a bit like those crosswords where they give you all the answers and ask you to put them in the gird. I can admire the fact that uses up all the possible primes but that's about it.

[Clamzy]

You're not a patch on the original:-) And where've you been lately? Not heard much from you since you won a prize - I thought it might be a case of mission accomplished:-)

[Cruncher]

Tramping across French and Welsh mountains. Trying to complete Kea's last puzzle without a dictionary was a hell of a struggle! Can recommend the prize - Foyle's Philavery - which I enjoyed more than the collection of Morse crosswords I got the time before

[Ruthrobin]

Stop moaning all you number geniuses and think of those of us for whom a relatively easy numerical was a wonderful gift. You could always attack the laundry, dig the garden or attempt the Hedgehog in the new Magpie :)

[Cruncher]

Ruthrobin - it's precisely because it was so easy, so quickly dispatched, and that there is now no valid excuse to dodge the gardening/laundry/DIY that I'm so grumpy!

[Ruthrobin]

Cruncher, we needed your grump for our weekly input of S-matrix-style aggro. But don't you subscribe to the Magpie? The Nutmeg is fun!

[pushmi-pullyu]

As I am still, dare I admit it, struggling to complete last week's I was only too grateful for something I could finish quickly.

[teuchter2]

Too easy. My brain is missing its weekly workout. I felt this was like one of those puzzles where you fit a list of words into a grid. I don't like those and I didn't enjoy this one any more than I enjoyed Killie's 92nd- minute goal!

[tristram37]

Well my wife enjoyed it as she got to speak to me much earlier than is usual with numericals.

[jacinth]

My first visit here for a while - has there been much going on? ;) . Sadly my new full-time work has put paid to doing the ordinary ones on a regular basis. Agree that this was an easy solve, no spreadsheets, no macros.

Must try harder to finish an alphabetical one next weekend...

[jabone]

I'm grateful to this thread for pointing out that this week's puzzle was easy, as I wasn't going to bother with it; I just logged on this morning out of curiosity to see how everyone was doing. However, unlike bonefixer, I did use a number of sheets of paper, mainly to track down errors. Finished now, and thanks to everyone.