{"id":3853,"date":"2022-06-05T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2022-06-05T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:17:35","slug":"yet-another-solver-for-the-countdown-numbers-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/?p=3853","title":{"rendered":"(Yet another) solver for the Countdown numbers round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the TV gameshow Countdown, there\u2019s a round where six number cards are chosen, along with a target number. Contestants have to use some or all of the six numbers to construct an arithmetic expression which evaluates to the target number.  Despite realising that I was not going to be the first person to think about this, I wanted to explore how you could write a computer solver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bennorth.github.io\/countdown-numbers-solver\/\">The solver and write-up is available on GitHub.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many, many Countdown solvers on the internet, but I think there is something new about my approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}