NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

We shall apply the following rules to words. These rules are to be applied in order.

Rule 1: All consonants are worth 1 point, and all vowels are worth two points.
Rule 2: The letters "W" and "Y", being either a vowel or consonant depending on usage, are worth three points.
Rule 3: Any letter that is also a Roman numeral is worth five additional points
Rule 4: If there is any letter that appears more than once in a word, the second instance of the letter is worth double the first instance; the third instance of the letter is worth double the second, and so on.
Rule 5: The first letter of the word is worth double points.
Rule 6: The last letter of the word should be multiplied by -1, unless total length of the word is only three letters.
Rule 7: If the position of a letter is a square number (e.g. the first letter, fourth letter, etc), square the number of points.
Rule 8: Any letter that appears in the word "NEOPETS" is worth one extra point.
Rule 9: Any letter that is worth five points is instead worth six.
Rule 10: If the total number of points for the word is an odd number, add three points to the second letter.
Rule 11: The letter with the highest point value should instead be worth one point. If there is more than one letter with this point value, only the first instance should be changed.

Of all the Neopets species, which species name has the most points?

my gut is telling me wocky. I havent yet done the math, but the W and the Y are worth more plus the O is in neopets and the C is a roman numeral.

According to me with all the rules taken into consideration I only get 8 points for Wocky, I feel that the answer must be something else.

Yeah I missed that last rule...but I got wocky being worth 11 pts.

I got tuskaninny being worth 33 pts.

correction tuskaninny = 38 pts according to my calculations.

I got 41 pts for elephante.

Elephante=39

Yikes! Tuskaninny is only worth 22 by my count.

sum (6 2 2 1 2 1 7 3 1 -3) = 22

No, elephante was even lower. Remember the last letter is negative, and then you have to square it because it's the 9th letter.

Better recheck those calculations. I get Tuskaninny = 26.

But when you square, it becomes positive. I agree with Elephante = 39.

I think you forgot the plus one for the first N being in NEOPETS. This then makes the sum odd, which adds another three to the second number. This results in 26 instead of 22.

Okay, that took about 45 minutes. Not too bad to work out a solution.

Yep, two stupid mistakes. On elephante, I forgot a negative squared is positive (that's a BIG d'oh! for someone who used to teach statistics), and on tuskaninny, I missed a plus one on the first n, which added 3 more to the 2nd letter for a total of 26.

In my rush I ended up submitting xweetok, but I see now that elephante is a much better answer. Maybe someone will find something better still?

My calculations, which after my other mistakes I do not promise to be correct:
elephante = sum (17 9 6 2 1 2 2 2 1) = 42
xweetok = sum (1 6 3 17 2 3 -1) = 31

I like your Xweetok, but I only get 39 for Elephante

ixi?

Found my mistake - 42 for Elephante, it is.

How do you find this ?
because
E = ((2+1)*2)² = 144 = ((2 points for the E rule 1 + 1 point rule 8)x 2 becuse rule 5)² because rule 7
L = 5+1 = 6 (rule 3 +rule 9)
E = ((144 x2)+1)= 288+1= 298 (rule 4 + rule 8)
f = 1² = 1 (rule 1 and ² for rule 7)
A = 2 (rule 1)
N = 1+1 = 2 (rule 1 + rule 8)
T = 1 (rule 1)
E = (290*2) * (-1) = -580 (rule 4 * rule 6)
so 144 + 6 + 298 +1 +2+2+1 -580 =
but rule 11 so 144+ 6 +1 +1+2+2+1-580 = -423
elefante = -423
I may be wrong : I'm french so i may misunderstand some words. i never know if you have to square before or after adding 1 point or multply by 2 in first time. any way if i'm wrong just explain me ^^

Damn !
In french, there is not the same name of species TT_TT
english = elephante
french = elefante

any way, i still have a different résult
E = ((2+1)*2)² = 144 = ((2 points for the E rule 1 + 1 point rule 8)x 2 becuse rule 5)² because rule 7
L = 5+1 = 6 (rule 3 +rule 9)
E = ((144 x2)+1)= 288+1= 289 (rule 4 + rule 8)
p = 1² = 1 (rule 1 and ² for rule 7)
h= 1
A = 2 (rule 1)
N = 1+1 = 2 (rule 1 + rule 8)
T = 1 (rule 1)
E = ((290*2) * (-1) ) ²= -580² = 336400 (rule 4 * rule 6) rule 7
so 144 + 6 + 289+ 1+1 +2+2+1+336400 =
but rule 11 so 144+ 6 +289 +1+1+2+2+1+1 = 447