NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

Thanks Lem! I think I've got it now.
My answer adds up to 33 too!

i need the answer with the most minimal effot possible x)

Well, my way was to write VBScript code to loop through all the possible values for the three variables and find the smallest NP total given the minimum allowed size. Took about 5 minutes.

I don't think the new Lenny was even posted on the forum when I submitted my answer, so it was minimal work, at least in the amount of time involved.

well, first, where can i find a working vbscript possibly online/downloadable? and can i just check with you over messages for total area needed + areas of pizzas?

i may have found an online vbscript resource, what is it we are calculating? constants, errors, events, functions, keywords, methods, miscellaneous, objects, operators, properties, statements or file system object?

Oh, I suppose that is true, most people wouldn't necessarily have a web server running on their machine. VBScript is what is used in IIS/ASP pages. You could do the same thing in Javascript or any programming language you have access to.

To be honest with you, the only thing I understood was the first sentence and Javascript. x)

Sorry, my way only works if you have some programming skills. There is an option that most people have on their computer, which is VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in one of the Microsoft Office programs. I just recreated my routine in VBA in Excel.

oh, i found a Visual Basic Editor option, but I can't find the actual visual basic.

found it! but how to use it, no idea.

VBscript as well as other tools he mentioned are programming languages. If you don't know anything about programming, it's probably not going to be the fastest method for you, as you'd have to learn programming first, which is a good semester's worth of work in college (ok, on basic level maybe a little less than that). So I suggest you to stick with Excel. Again, it takes a little bit of knowledge in that area, but in my experience, there are many more those who know Excel than those who know a programming language.

The way I set it up for first problem, was numbers from 1 to max number of 16" pizzas to fill the necessary area in one column, then a forumla to calculate the needed number of 12" pizzas with given number of 16" pizzas, then next column total cost of buying the two in set numbers... Then looked for minimal total cost, and viola... For todays problem I added a constant number of 22" pizzas and started with whatever the area I needed after buying that many, and of course added the cost to total, and then manually by hand flipped through different numbers of 22" ones to see what will give me the best answer... I am afraid that giving away actual formulas to calculate these numbers would pretty much equal to giving away the answer, so I'll keep it at that...

LEM.

I did not figure it out. There's another one out today!

With the success of her party last week, Ember the Fire Faerie threw another, larger party this week, where exactly ten of every Neopet species was invited. Again, Ember ordered pizzas from Pizzaroo.

Pizzaroo now carries three sizes of pizza: The 22-inch-diameter pizzas are 995 Neopoints each, the 16-inch-diameter pizzas are 525 Neopoints each, and the 12-inch-diameter pizzas are 299 Neopoints each. Assuming that everyone in attendance will eat, on average, 70 square inches of pizza, what is the minimum number of Neopoints that Ember needs to feed everyone? Remember that only whole pizzas can be purchased, and assume that Ember will be joining her invited guests in eating pizza.

Please enter only a number. For example, if you calculated the answer to be 12000 Neopoints, you would submit only the number 12000.

DIAMETER PRICE AREA
22 995 --> 380.1327111
16 525 --> 201.0619298
12 299 --> 113.0973355
SPECIES TOTAL NEOPETS AVERAGE TOTAL AREA
54 10 541 70 37870
22 INCH 16 INCH 12 INCH
79 39 0 37871.89944 99080
15 160 0 37871.89944 98925

the answer is 95025

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yeah right
it is not
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I agree with grumpygina the 1st time, I also got 44, but i'm not re-calculating since I already submitted... I hope I'm right, and you guys are all wrong :p I lost last week's, cuz i forgot to x3 the neopets... this week, i was very careful with the calculations, so im pretty sure im right, but there might have been a cheaper way. btw these forums, if i look at the time,what time zone is this set to??? i guess i'll figure it out, after I send mine, but i only did it around 10pm est. and you guys started posting around 6ish, so i think i missed it... does the new lenny come out same time each week, or approximate same time window????

please don't share answers.... hints like numbers adding to something, or 3**3, or something like that is fine... it's enough to tell people if the majority agree w/ their answers or not (cant say right, cuz majority can be wrong)... But to outright give out answer (right or wrong) is not fair to those who try and do it themselves.

i'm just curious how you got your numbers to add to 44. I've tried multiple combinations to see if i could, but haven't been able to get anywhere close. is it a five digit number? if so, could you give me some hints, like what does it start with or end with or something? or just mail me and i'll tell you what I have too.

It appears to be US Mountain Daylight Time right now. I'm not sure if they switch with the end of Daylight Savings Time.



The new Lenny comes out at the same time as the Wednesday news. That is generally 2-4 pm Neopian time (US Pacific time and yes, they change with Daylight Savings time). It has certainly been later at times (6pm+, I think), but I don't think it ever comes out before 1 pm.

I don't think it is very likely to be 44 for the sum of the digits.

100 22" pizzas should feed everyone and that costs 99500, so the total shouldn't be any more than that. The only numbers less than 99500 whose digits add up to 44 are 98999 and 89999 and my calculations don't give me either of those.