Date   : Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:09 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: OT bbc money,

Rob wrote:

> Question - is it unfair if you spend the entire time a puzzle is being
> run, some good number of hours, working out how it's done by writing a
> program to decipher it, such that the next time a similar but even
> more complicated puzzle appears, you can be the first caller in and
> get it right ... much to their consternation!

They make a bunch of rules to rip off suckers... no reason why you 
shouldn't do likewise. :-)

If I was asked to no longer participate, I'd be inclined to make (or 
threaten to make) quite a bit of noise. So you're good at it (of course 
no mention is made of HOW <g>), does this give them the right to tell 
you to take a hike? Sure - they can refer to obscure Ts&Cs, but the 
implication is they only want people to lose - not to win. Could have 
been a publicity nightmare...

...in those halcyon days before a stunt involving "name things in a 
woman's handbag" (answer: a hammer) took about all the flak going.

And so it should indeed. I've come across a few women with mace-like 
stuff in a squirty can in their handbag (no, not used on me!). But no 
hammers. In fact, brickies and carpenters aside, the only person I knew 
who carried a hammer (in his briefcase) was a bloke who'd been through 
two train crashes on his commute to London, and decided he'd take a 
hammer so he's ready to smash his way out the /next/ time...


 > Hilarious at the time, but I should really have let that run all night
 > too and got a much larger prize..

Well, hey, 10-large is pretty impressive.

Don't suppose you see any patterns in the EuroLoto do you? :-)



Best wishes,

Rick.

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