Quite a challenging numerical. The first stage was odd: I felt it relied on an intuitive 'feel' for the numbers rather than the standard logical route to fix all the individual values. This, for me,...
As ever with the numericals it's finding an initial toehold that's most tricky but then everything worked out logically. Always surprised to get through the gridfill for one of these without having to...
Either a) I haven't found the right thread, b) folks have found this one difficult, or c) nobody bothers reviewing numericals any more. I had a brief conversation on Twitter with a numericals-hater...
Am I the first? I’m simply astounded by the result. Number theory is just an amazing thing to delve - thanks Elap. And a decent pen/paper/calculator one, too! Although my final checking was reliant...
Not like me to be done on Friday, still less posting first (if indeed I have). I found this very straightforward, but rather tedious, with lots of the same operation, occasionally speeded up with a...
I've only just started to look at this. It immediately occurs to me that those fourth powers are also square numbers so surely they will satisfy both properties. But this isn't allowed according to...
Absolutely incredible feat to make the set of statements apply both to the numbers and their associated entries. Unfortunately for me, though, I can't see a solution. Having reached an impasse, I...
I thought I was doing so well when I had A-Z identified using a nice logical process, and working carefully enough that I didn't have to backtrack at any point. It then took me just as long to fill in...
Lovely puzzle by the Listener editors (Tiburon and Kea). Impressive to think these excerpts were published in the paper. I was thinking as I was solving it that I am still in need of a cryptic clue,...
Quite an appropriate puzzle given the weather we have been having this week ! Relieved that it didn't take too long to crack as we have the pleasure of another Schadenfreude puzzle to occupy us...
Well, that's me scuppered! Not quite, am being very brave and counting furiously, however....... Many thanks to djw and all for the help on 1212, am almost there which is something of a miracle, much...
Apologies if there is another thread.
Nothing for the "numberphobes" to be scared of. Logical with only a bit of Excel at the start and some spadework at the end.
Enjoyable - thanks Kea....