Well, I've limped over the finish line after a fairly joyless three hour slog. Good luck to anyone without some degree of programming prowess with getting close to the end on this one - hardest Listener numerical in some time I think.
I have a degree but no programming prowess and I've also just got over the line. I needed a pocket calculator but otherwise eliminating the impossible combinations and a bit of logic was what was required. Nice puzzle but no end game!
Oh dear! I only do the numericals, when Mr Rainbeaux has a little break from the usual weekly challenge. But where to start on this one? Can I assume that answers to the clues will all be 4 digits in length? That would help!
Interesting idea and thankfully no endgame given the difficulty. Your reward is in obtaining the solution. The problem with puzzles where you have a lot of possibilities is that if you find a solution with your first attempt you just stop. After managing to eliminate a specific down entry through a lot of work I was lucky in that the first set I tried for the other possibility worked. This was quite tough even allowing for some nice deductions. I'm now going for an icepack to cool my brain down! Thanks IOA.
Yes, it turns out that the die is as shown. So, for example, if T1 were 1 and F1 2, F3 could not be 4 but would have to be 3. But the puzzle can be solved without using that information.
Just made it through. Some nice deductions towards the start, but I was unable to progress though the mid/late sections without some old fashioned trial and error. I might not have minded too much if there was a nice end game, but since I didn't have that to look forward to the whole thing felt like a slog.
I'm going around in ever increasing circles as I keep reaching an impossibility for F3 = the sum of my digits in the bottom 3 rows is 36, is that correct?