Humbugardy: Numb3r5 for 600
by Score Bard
2005-10-29 12:19

This is round 2 of Humbugardy. I’m your host, Alex Scorebard.

 

The two men who have held famous MLB career records (one of which since surpassed) represented by these digits:

1652

 

Note: In this round, searching the web is allowed.

 

Numb3r5 Sudoku 6th Degree Quotes What and Where Anagram Lines Subjective
200 Bob Timmerman Bob Timmerman 200 For The Turnstiles deadteddy8
400 For The Turnstiles For The Turnstiles 400 Joe 400
For The Turnstiles Next… 600 600 For The Turnstiles 600
T J 800 800 Murray argosy 800
1000 1000 1000 Bob Timmerman For The Turnstiles 1000
Comments: 14
1.   JH in DC
2005-10-29 12:58

1.  Who are Rickey Henderson and Hank Aaron?

(it's a pure guess.)

2.   Shaun P
2005-10-29 12:59

2.  Who are Tony Perez (most RBI, 1652, by a Latino player, since passed by Rafael Palmiero) and Harold Baines (most games played at DH, 1652)?

3.   Score Bard
2005-10-29 13:01

3.  Nice guess, Shaun, but them ain't what I call famous records.

4.   deadteddy8
2005-10-29 13:06

4.  Who are Pete Rose, most runs scored, passed by Rickey Henderson, and Harold Baines, most games played at DH?

5.   Score Bard
2005-10-29 13:21

5.  Nope, I mean famous, as in: stop-the-game-when-you-break-the-record famous, and held as in I-retired-with-this-number held.

6.   RyMock
2005-10-29 13:36

6.  Who are Joe Dimaggio and Home Run Baker? (56 for the hitting streak and Baker hit a record 12 home runs in 1912)

7.   For The Turnstiles
2005-10-29 13:38

7.  Who are Ryan and Brock?

8.   Score Bard
2005-10-29 13:42

8.  For the Turnstiles is correct, once again. You may choose the next category.

9.   Shaun P
2005-10-29 13:51

9.  I would think that fans (and players) of Latino descent think Perez's record was famous. And the media LOVES all things DH these days - haven't you heard that a DH should win the AL MVP?

(OK, so I'm not Latino, and I think A-Rod should be the AL MVP - sue me.)

And here I thought I might actually start getting a little closer to catching Bob T and For the Turnstiles . . . oh well.

10.   Shaun P
2005-10-29 13:52

10.  Turnstiles, congrats again - I can't beat you even when I get to the question . . . err, answer, before you!

11.   Shaun P
2005-10-29 13:54

11.  An explanation, please? I thought I figured out why it was Brock and Ryan, but now I'm not so sure.

12.   For The Turnstiles
2005-10-29 14:26

12.  Thanks.
1652 (base 8) = 938, Brock's stolen bases.
1652 (base 16) = 5714, Ryan's strikeouts.
Hooray for new math!

My mind seems to be deranged in just the right way to figure some of these problems out, but I'm still in awe of how the Bard (and his team of Humbugardy researchers) managed to come up with them in the first place.

Let's go back to Sudoku for 600.

13.   Score Bard
2005-10-29 14:28

13.  http://www.microcontroller.com/Embedded.asp?did=92

14.   Bob Timmermann
2005-10-29 15:26

14.  I was trying the different base thing, but then I got hungry and food won out over this.

I stand by my decision.

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