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BrainTwister #30: Digital targets

Can you solve this week’s logic puzzle? Plus our quick quiz and the answer to last week’s problem

By Peter Rowlett

24 July 2024

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#30 Digital targets

set by Peter Rowlett

You are playing a game in which you have to arrange 10 random single-digit numbers (which can include 0) to form five two-digit numbers, aiming for five targets: 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50.

If you match a target exactly, you score that number. If you get within 5 of a target, you score half the value of the target. Otherwise you score zero for that target.

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For example, if you are given the numbers 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 8 and 9, you can arrange them to get a…

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