Seems to work better in Chrome than Safari on my mac.
Each of these puzzles have hundreds of solutions - not sure if it better to achieve the score with few operations or the maximum (5) which consumes all the numbers...
Seems to work better in Chrome than Safari on my mac.
Each of these puzzles have hundreds of solutions - not sure if it better to achieve the score with few operations or the maximum (5) which consumes all the numbers...
Digits #9 (15/15⭐)
58 (58) ✖➖➖
199 (199) ✖➕➕➕
201 (201) ✖➖➖
333 (333) ✖➕➗➕➖
421 (421) ➕➕➕✖➕
A breeze until the last one . . . . and it looks like NYTimes site messed up the formatting so I did it manually.
15/15 ⭐ (18 operations)
58 (58) ✖➗ ➖
199 (199) ✖➕➕➖
201 (201) ✖✖➕
333 (333) ➕✖➕➕
421 (421) ✖✖➗➖
The share button doesn't seem to work - but anyway I guess I will stop here.
I wrote a script that calculates all solutions.
1: 1808 Solutions
2: 578 Solutions
3: 488 Solutions
4: 235 Solutions
5: 106 Solutions
No surprise if the last one is the hardest - only one today that doesn't have a 3-operation solution.
✖➗ Digits #10 ➕➖15/15 ⭐ (13 operations)
First four were very easy. Last one took a bit of time.
✖➗ Digits #10 ➕➖
15/15 ⭐ (16 operations)
55 (55) -x+
175 (175) -x
225 (225) +x
355 (355) xx--
495 (495) ++x+-
✖➗ Digits #11 ➕➖15/15 ⭐ (19 operations)
✖➗ Digits #12 ➕➖15/15 ⭐ (18 operations)
what a struggle