Puzzle #5 · Wed, Aug 19
Par is 5.
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Puzzle #5 · Wed, Aug 19
Par is 5.
Play a day you missed for a score that sticks, or replay one you didn’t.
Every game on Noggin is marked out of 100, so a day adds up to one number. Here is how this one earns it.
| Rungs used | Score |
|---|---|
| Par or better | 100 |
| One over | 91 |
| Two over | 82 |
| Three over | 73 |
| Each further rung | −9, down to a floor of 30 |
Rung cannot be failed — the climb ends when you reach the goal — so what varies is how far past par you wandered.
Par is the shortest climb the dictionary allows, with the day’s leap in hand, so it cannot be beaten — matching it means you found an optimal route, leap included.
The leap counts as two rungs — two letters moved, two rungs spent, one of them drawn as the gap you cleared.
An undo counts as a rung. It still rescues you from a dead end, but the climb you take back stays on your scorecard — like a stroke in golf. Undoing a leap gives the leap back. Reset keeps every rung you climbed on the card. Trying a word that is not accepted still costs nothing.
The same for every game, including streaks and how the day is totalled.