Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[Marc]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE

Let's try one of those missing letters/anagram puzzles:




The first person finding the word that I had in mind will get a full point.

Dont i deserve an extra point since i was the first person?
I think its only fair i should have 1½ points lol

[chasmmi]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX


Fred breaks off and leaves a shot on. Billy, being in a confident mood strolls up to the table and knocks in a long red followed by a pink. He then takes the next 6 reds with blacks before missing the 8th red.

Fred is shaken by this dazzling display of wonderful shot making but still manages to hold his nerve and knock in the loose red. He Takes a black and then pots the next 6 reds each with a black.

There is one red left and its up at the baulk end, He manages to get it but can only get position for a baulk colour. He pots the colour and then successfully knock in the next three balls before agonisingly missing the next.

Billy's mood lifts as a brief glimmer of hope surfaces. He then knocks in the next two balls cleanly. Oh dear, his head is in his hands the frame is over.

Why? What was the final score?

Really hope I got that right.

[snookersfun]

Congratulations, d_g, Monique, JPK and Marc (welcome to the games)!
So here is the scoreboard after round 175:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 30. . ... . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 15½ .. . . . . . davis_greatest
..3 . . . . . . . . . 15½ .. . . . . . Robert602
..4 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..5 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..6 . . . . . . . . . 12½. . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..7 . . . . . . . . . 11½. . . . . . . chasmmi
..8 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . Mitsuko
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 7½. . . . . . . The Statman
10 . . . . . . . . . . 6½. . . . . . . Cyril
11 . . . . . . . . . . 5½. . . . . . . Ginger Freak
12 . . . . . . . . . . 4½. . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
13 . . . . . . . . . . 4. . . . . . . . JPK123
14 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . rambon
15 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . hegeland
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2½ . . . . . . . Monique
17 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
18 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Valderie
19 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . kellie-text
20 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . April Madness
21 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Ellena
22 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Obligation
23 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
24 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
25 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . pat39
26 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . JoanneT63
27 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . In-off
28 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
29 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Ronnieisthebest
30 . . . . . . . . . . ½. . . . . . . . Marc
31 . . . . . . . . . . ½. . . . . . . . sunny3909
32 . . . . . . . . . . ½. . . . . . . . abextra

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX

... anyone?

[snookersfun]

Swell, what do I do now?
I am of a good mind to give everybody 1/2 a point now, hoping there won't be any steward's enquiry.
Don't like the Pong too much in the final solution, I had

Noon
Song
Ice
Hand
Pot ...(think snooker people)
Cat
Eat

scoreboard to follow in a sec...

[Marc]

Noon
Pong
Ice
Sand
Hot
Cat
Eat

[JPK123]

Soon
Pong
Ice
Hand
Not
Cat
Eat

Pinches

Do I get a point ?

[snookersfun]

lol, wait a sec Marc, these are not all my words. You amazingly got the player though. Would you mind getting there with my words though?

[Marc]

P ong
I ce
N ot
C at
H and
E at
S at

pinches

[snookersfun]

very nice guesses so far (bowties), but I am afraid, not what I was looking for.
So, here a few little hints:
1) it is a snooker player
2) I don't like 'tot' as a common word
3) the 'i' is good...

[Monique]

As a wink
BOON
SONG
ICE
WAND
TOT
OAT
EAT

for bowties ...

[davis_greatest]

Or for an equally well-known top snooker star, how about MELLISH?

MOON
LONG
ICE
SAND
LOT
HAT
EAT

[davis_greatest]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE

Let's try one of those missing letters/anagram puzzles:

So, following are a series of common English words with missing first letters. These have to be found and rearranging them, you will find a snooker related word:

1) _oon
2) _ong
3) _ce
4) _and
5) _ot
6) _at
7) _at

The first person finding the word that I had in mind will get a full point. Good alternatives may be worth 1/2 point.

Just like his chances of winning, when I watched him get hammered 5-0 by Steve Davis in Newport in February, I don't think there is much hope here, but I'll try anyway with GILBERT:

BOON
GONG
ICE
LAND
TOT
RAT
EAT

[snookersfun]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE

Let's try one of those missing letters/anagram puzzles:

So, following are a series of common English words with missing first letters. These have to be found and rearranging them, you will find a snooker related word:

1) _oon
2) _ong
3) _ce
4) _and
5) _ot
6) _at
7) _at

The first person finding the word that I had in mind will get a full point. Good alternatives may be worth 1/2 point.

[Marc]

Well thats just ridiculars i was lying in bed awake most the night trying to figure that out and all it was,was a trick question.

[davis_greatest]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR

I’m just back from having played another frame of snooker against my pet chimpanzee Charlie. It wasn't nearly as ridiculous as the previous frame - in fact, it seemed perfectly normal - no free balls, no balls forced off the table, no potting more than one ball in one shot, no pocketing the wrong ball... actually, there were no fouls or anything remotely unusual at all.

Interestingly, we each potted every colour at least once during the frame. However, I had the upper hand: I potted more yellows than Charlie, more greens than Charlie - come to think of it, more browns, blues, pinks and blacks than Charlie! I just could not seem to miss a ball!

So how did the cheeky chimp beat me again? And by how much did he win?

So, for those who did not spot the sneaky trick here, or understand how snookersfun's answer satisfied the question:

"I potted more yellows than Charlie" - straightforward

"more greens than Charlie" - straightforward

"....come to think of it, more browns, blues, pinks and blacks than Charlie!" - this means that the number of browns+blues+pinks+blacks (combined) that I potted was more than Charlie managed... it does not necessarily mean that I potted more of each colour individually.

So, I potted 8 "browns, blues, pinks and blacks" (combined), to Charlie's 7 - but he potted more blacks than I.