Sum Up clearances

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:28 pm

What is your record score? (Overall, and also individual sum?)

I'm not really scoring very highly in national terms - my highest total score is the 1991 non-clearance which prompted me to start this thread. I'm not sure about highest individual sum but only around the 300 mark I'd say. Out of interest, how much does that 9*9*9/8/7 combination score?

I got the closest yet to a clearance at the weekend - four numbers left, with no operators, that added up to 12... But as you say, close is nowhere really. I'm not going to give up trying however!

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:52 pm

Hope I've done my sums right, but 9 * 9 * 9 / 8 / 7 gives 13.01785714 etc...

So does it round it up / round it down to the nearest integer?

Schuey · Post by **Schuey** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:26 pm

cardinal richelieu wrote:Hope I've done my sums right, but 9 * 9 * 9 / 8 / 7 gives 13.01785714 etc...

So does it round it up / round it down to the nearest integer?

I used to abuse the integer rounding on this, but it's not been in any of my pubs for a while, so i don't know if it needs a perfect answer now (ie been upgraded).

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:51 pm

The only version of the game I've seen certainly allows rounding down - it would be much harder otherwise. It also allows you to go into negative numbers e.g. 4-6+8+7.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:17 pm

Nil Satis wrote:I'm not sure about highest individual sum but only around the 300 mark I'd say. Out of interest, how much does that 9*9*9/8/7 combination score?

Anything above 300 is a very good sum. You really need lots of operators from the start so you can get as many 300s as possible. That sum is worth 459 points (the max possible).

cardinal richelieu wrote:Hope I've done my sums right, but 9 * 9 * 9 / 8 / 7 gives 13.01785714 etc... So does it round it up / round it down to the nearest integer?

Yes, but it doesn't round up, just down (so 13.9 would become 13, not 14) which is very useful as if you make a large total with the first few numbers, you can be within a certain range and divide down, e.g. any number between 91 and 97 divided by 7 will give 13, and anything between 104-111 divided by 8 gives 13. So you don't necessarily have to be too accurate with the first bit of the sum.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:34 pm

Nil Satis wrote:do you need to clear the entire board for a clearance or just the numbers i.e. if you are left with only the signs (+, -, x, ÷) does that still count as a clearance?

I didn't give up on this and have got as near as I think I ever will but sadly I can confirm that you do indeed need to use all the operators as well as the numbers to be awarded a clearance at Sum Up.

Yesterday at the pub by Reading station (the Three Guineas) I was left with just five operators as the last three numbers had gone with 9 - 4 + 8. My total score was 1751 so even with the 500 clearance bonus it wouldn't really have been much of a score but I certainly thought for a few seconds that the first ever clearance was on...

P.S. is 'ELPLUGGY' someone on here? - that is the name filling most of the Top Score boards.

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Sun May 07, 2006 6:27 pm

Nil Satis wrote:P.S. is 'ELPLUGGY' someone on here? - that is the name filling most of the Top Score boards.

Its not anyone in team VB, but we have bummed Reading before. A nice WU jackpot at Bar 42 I seem to recall. Is it 42 or some other number?

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:30 pm

fotherz wrote:A nice WU jackpot at Bar 42 I seem to recall. Is it 42 or some other number?

It's Bar 38 down at the Oracle: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/ ... 38/Reading

I believe they have a Blue Plaque on the wall commemorating your fine Word Up JP!

I got my second 'All But the Operators' clearance at the weekend. I've a feeling the honour of the first ever Sum Up clearance is going to fall on one of us quite soon...

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:42 pm

Welll you're welcome to it as I haven't played for ages, but next time I'm somewhere with the game I'll try and hack out a clearance.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:44 pm

YAY!

Found a Sum Up at the Brewers Arms in Colchester today and managed to achieve the impossible:

WORLD'S FIRST SUM UP CLEARANCE

Unfortunately, I was only on course for 2000 and a bit before clearing, so didn't get much of a score.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:05 am

Merely finding a Sum Up machine is hard enough nowadays. :x

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:52 pm

vaginalbob wrote:YAY!

Found a Sum Up at the Brewers Arms in Colchester today and managed to achieve the impossible:

WORLD'S FIRST SUM UP CLEARANCE

Unfortunately, I was only on course for 2000 and a bit before clearing, so didn't get much of a score.

Well done VB, I'm glad one of us has finally achieved this but, as Ernest notes, this one sadly seems to have been retired, to be replaced by a host of new and exciting games no doubt (or possibly Crazy Golf 2 instead

). More worryingly, Word Up appears to have been dropped from some versions of the Gamesnets that I play.

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:37 pm

I actually got a clearance on sum up when i found one a few weeks ago in a country pub... Wasn't aware of the fact it rounded down to 13 for 9*8*7 etc, so thus my score wasn't great, at all(I think my clearance was worth £1)... but i'd done it using mental arithmetic alone so i was proud.. didn't reallise it was that tricky to clear, i thought they were as common as word up clearances

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Not that it's easy though, i've always had meltal arithmetic ability, i can work out things like 53*37 in a second etc... Am currently doing my maths A level after taking 3 years ouf of college, and recieving loads of abuse from students and teachers alike for my abilities

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First time i'd seen a sum up since june when it was at scotch corner hotel, might still be there for anyone wanting a go..

Still it's nice to hear that sum up's still alive and well in the odd place around the country, i'm sick of always finding word ups, my high is still a lowly 1100 odd

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:26 pm

drpepper wrote:I actually got a clearance on sum up when i found one a few weeks ago in a country pub... Wasn't aware of the fact it rounded down to 13 for 9*8*7 etc, so thus my score wasn't great, at all(I think my clearance was worth £1)... but i'd done it using mental arithmetic alone so i was proud.. didn't reallise it was that tricky to clear, i thought they were as common as word up clearances ops:

Bugger, I've been beaten to it - nice one, Dr!

However, I did top Ernest's solo WR this afternoon with a score of 3126

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:19 pm

FINALLY found sum-up today, for the first time in many moons... in scarborough(was in the old WWTBAM type cab name escapes me).

no clearances but managed to totally wipe the scoreboard of pathetic 1700 ish scores, and 200 best sum, etc shrapnel.

At this point it decided to make us need around 2500 points for £1, and giving us shocking boards to work with.

The machine rounding to the nearest number is a highly useful thing.

The new bullseye, spot the difference etc were on the machine too, i thought sum up was way older than that :S, but i'm just a noob so i dunno

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Regards.