Christmas cricket
IT鈥橲 strange to think of Australians playing cricket while we shiver at Christmas. One of my Australian friends was noting the scores at each fall of a wicket in a recent match:
12 for 1; 38 for 2; 112 for 3; 250 for 4 (declared), which he wrote as 12138211232504 and then, after a few beers, he was completely unable to interpret what he鈥檇 written.
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On another occasion the team again declared at less than a thousand runs and he wrote down the scores in a similar fashion. Then he consistently replaced each digit by a letter, using different letters for different digits, and it gave him the list:
CHRISTMASCRICKETERS
How many runs had they scored 鈥渇or 5鈥� and how many when they declared?
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