Hi Bube,
The "gold Star" you see above has officially been awarded to TcT. Congratulations!
But the following will explain why I am still making this NEW puzzler (created by me) open to you and Dee Dee.
Dee Dee, I am going to email you right after I post this -- to answer the questions you asked about it. This post itself should help to explain my puzzler also.
These gold star awards have been fun for me to try to get. I seem to be taking
longer to come up with the right solutions but Dee Dee and Tiny-c have made me see it might still be worth looking at them. In the meantime, I came up with one of MY OWN puzzlers and passed the following on to TcT and Dee Dee. If you are interested in giving my made up puzzler a try, it might be fun for you and Dee Dee (since Dee Dee is still working on this). I do have to tell you though that TcT HAS actually solved my puzzler AND he will be getting a painting of a "gold" star by me (shown above). I still encourage both you and Dee Dee to see if you can get the answer to the following question, even though TcT got it first. I promise both of you that I will award either you or Dee Dee with something if one of you gets THE answer:
Here is the question. It is based on a name I sometimes am called by Lee. I also call myself this name from time to time.
ChasB
ChasB is short for Chas Bradley with a bee (B) in it for both Bradley and bees -- relating to sunflower visitors -- since I am into making [grade B] movies about sunflowers and bees. In an email the other day, I signed off with "Ch1s2" just to be funny -- since we have been thinking about numbers and letters so much lately. The "a" was changed to a "1" and the "B" was changed to a "2".
I then decided to ask the following question -- which turned out to be my
puzzler:
How may ways are there to write the name 'ChasB' replacing only the 'a' and the
'B' with numbers 0 through 9 so that the outcomes for each new name look entirely different?
I also said the following thing (to Dee Dee and Tiny-c) which I also want to
say to you here -- since I am still opening this up to you and Dee Dee to
solve:
I quote: "I have a revised answer for the 200 possibilities. The first person
to guess what I am thinking that revised answer should be will get a painted gouache star from me. If MY answer (which I think may be right) turns out NOT to be the real answer, then you can both send me a silly star that you draw yourself. Send ANYTHING you like. I can take it!
ChasB"
Good luck to both of you if you wish to try this. Someone will still be awarded even though Tiny-c gets the grand daddy hand-painted gold star from me today. 200 was not right NOR was what I was thinking it was!
3 comments:
Dear Max,
I too love my gouache star. It really is very beautiful. It looks like a young artist at work. Very colorful, an excellent choice of points, a purple dot for each tip and for each exterior angle,
a pentagon, triangles and of course the trademark starry background. I love my gouache star. Thanks. It's already my favorite Christmas gift.
Tct
This is a VERY minor (but syntactically important) point about what I have said about who gets what award. If you read my text above carefully, it would appear THE WINNER needed to send me a silly award, since I was incorrect about my assumption for the best answer other than 200. The winner was to get a painting only if he or she guessed WHAT I thought that better answer would be. But since MY "better" answer was in fact off by a value of 10 then I really should get a silly "you-had-it-wrong" award.
But
TcT nailed this one with THE correct answer (other than what I had been thinking) and I DID enjoy giving him his painting -- so I did this. Whew! I think I have gone overboard wid dis explunashun!
I guess I am totally out of the running here, since I have been told BOTH answers. But that is a very fine looking star!
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