Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[davis_greatest]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE

... anyone?

Oh, go on then, just one more (at least for now)…

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE

I’ve just finished the most hilarious frame of snooker against my pet chimpanzee Charlie. The only shot he played in the entire frame was the break off – hahaha! I pocketed all 15 reds (but never the black)! In fact, the black didn’t move during the whole frame (actually, I never nominated black or even touched it)! Nor did I foul at any point on any of the other colours - yellow, green, brown, blue or pink – all of which I potted at the end of the frame (after having potted the 15th red, of course, followed by a pink). Oh, and I never fouled when red was the ball on either. Yet the cheeky chimp still beat me!

How did Charlie manage that?

[Cyril]

you kept going in-off, or fouling when potting a red and Cheeky Chimp kept putting you back in ???

[Monique]

Well you potted the first red, then nominated pink. You missed it and potted a red instead. Charlie asked you to replay ... and you did t again ... until exhaustion of the stock of reds. You then finally succeeded.
You then potted all colours except black! When you tried that one you missed it and went in-off
At that point in time the referee recovered enough of the fit of giggles that prevented him to intervene (and announce any foul ...) in any understandable way, and he putted an end to the frame

[sunny3909]

the black was not on the the table throughout the frame.

[snookersfun]

For some strange reason you forgot to pot colours with the reds, and Charlie picking up on that put you back in happily
so each pair of reds would yield one point for you and a 7 point foul for your opponent (you were not really on a red at that time).
After 14 reds +7 you vs. 49 Charlie.
red pink yellow...pink (27 points) bring you to 34 points only, so Charlie is still ahead and with only the black left no way to catch up.

[davis_greatest]

you kept going in-off, or fouling when potting a red and Cheeky Chimp kept putting you back in ???

No - remember "...I never fouled when red was the ball on either".

[davis_greatest]

Well you potted the first red, then nominated pink. You missed it...

No - remember "...Nor did I foul at any point on any of the other colours - yellow, green, brown, blue or pink".

[davis_greatest]

the black was not on the the table throughout the frame.

Well - nice idea - but it has to be on the table at the start, otherwise it's just not snooker

[davis_greatest]

...
At that point in time the referee recovered enough of the fit of giggles that prevented him to intervene (and announce any foul ...) in any understandable way, and he putted an end to the frame

LOL... Hahaha

[davis_greatest]

For some strange reason you forgot to pot colours with the reds, and Charlie picking up on that put you back in happily
so each pair of reds would yield one point for you and a 7 point foul for your opponent (you were not really on a red at that time).
After 14 reds +7 you vs. 49 Charlie.
red pink yellow...pink (27 points) bring you to 34 points only, so Charlie is still ahead and with only the black left no way to catch up.

Perfect, snookersfun! Well done. I "pocketed" all 15 reds, but only reds 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 were legal pots. I pocketed reds 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 when I should have nominated a colour, but hadn't.

So here is the scoreboard after round 173:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 29. . ... . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 15½ .. . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . . davis_greatest
..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 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . rambon
14 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . hegeland
15 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . JPK123
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . 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. . . . . . . . sunny3909
31 . . . . . . . . . . ½. . . . . . . . abextra

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR

... anyone?

[davis_greatest]

Oh, go on then, just one more (at least for now)…

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE

I’ve just finished the most hilarious frame of snooker against my pet chimpanzee Charlie. The only shot he played in the entire frame was the break off – hahaha! I pocketed all 15 reds (but never the black)! In fact, the black didn’t move during the whole frame (actually, I never nominated black or even touched it)! Nor did I foul at any point on any of the other colours - yellow, green, brown, blue or pink – all of which I potted at the end of the frame (after having potted the 15th red, of course, followed by a pink). Oh, and I never fouled when red was the ball on either. Yet the cheeky chimp still beat me!

How did Charlie manage that?

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?

[snookersfun]

He won by 57-54 (or 56-55?)

Charlie potted 8 or 9 reds and 1 each of the colours + 3 extra blacks,
while you potted (6 or 7 reds) 1 each of the colours + extra yellow, extra green and 4 extra browns.

[Monique]

Only if "more" does not necessarily mean "strictly more"

Charlie potted 6 reds + colours (1 yellow, 2 green, 1 brown, 1 blue, 1 pink) and 6 reds "naked" for 35 pts
You potted 1 red "naked", 1 red + yellow, 1 red + green then cleared all colours : 35 pts
Charlie then won on the respotted black. 42-35

[davis_greatest]

Only if "more" does not necessarily mean "strictly more"

Charlie potted 6 reds + colours (1 yellow, 2 green, 1 brown, 1 blue, 1 pink) and 6 reds "naked" for 35 pts
You potted 1 red "naked", 1 red + yellow, 1 red + green then cleared all colours : 35 pts
Charlie then won on the respotted black. 42-35

Oh... more does mean "strictly more".... so 1 is not more than 1...

[davis_greatest]

He won by 57-54 (or 56-55?)

Charlie potted 8 or 9 reds and 1 each of the colours + 3 extra blacks,
while you potted (6 or 7 reds) 1 each of the colours + extra yellow, extra green and 4 extra browns.

Pretty good...OK, very good... but you can't go for 2 answers! Only one of those 2 answers is possible. So the point will go to the first person to give the correct one and to explain why the other one cannot happen...