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Puzzle #206: Can you work out the cricket score using these clues?

Can you solve this week’s arithmetical puzzle, All square? Plus the answer to puzzle #205

25 January 2023

#206 All square

Set by Colin Beveridge

“What ho!” boomed Aunt Nicola. I could tell she was about to talk cricket at me. “Have you been following the test match between Pythagorea and Lagrangia?”

“Auntie, you know I prefer Navier-Stokes to Ben Stokes.” “Well,” she said, “you might be interested – there’s maths involved! In their first innings, Lagrangia’s total score was a square number.”

“Innings?” I asked. “It’s the word for a team’s turn to bat. They each have two. In their first, the Pythagoreans also got a square number, but they were more than 300 behind!”

“That sounds insurmountable.” “You might think so,” she said. …

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