Today's Number Puzzle

Use each number at most once. Combine them with + − × ÷ to hit the target exactly. Everyone on Earth gets this same puzzle today.

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The game: hit the target number exactly, using the six numbers below. Combine any two of them with + − × ÷ to make a new number, then keep going. Each number can be used once, and you don't have to use them all.

Tap order: a number → an operation → another number.
Example: tap 6, tap ×, tap 10 → they merge into a single 60 tile.
Every result must be a whole number above zero — so 7 ÷ 2 isn't allowed.

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Tap a number to begin

Tap a number, an operation, then another number.

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How to be good at this

This is the numbers round from the British TV show Countdown (and the French Des chiffres et des lettres before it), which has been quietly training people in mental arithmetic since 1965.

The strategy that actually works

Work backwards from the target. Ask what's near it that you can build — if the target is 734, notice 7 × 105 = 735, and you only need to lose 1.
Multiply first, adjust second. Get into the right neighbourhood with a big multiplication, then nudge with the small numbers.
Look for the factors. If the target divides by 25, 50, 75 or 100, you probably want that large number in the middle of your answer.
Subtraction makes numbers you don't have. Need a 3 and don't have one? 10 − 7 works fine.

The rules, precisely

Each of the six numbers may be used at most once.
You don't have to use all of them.
Every intermediate result must be a positive whole number — no fractions, no negatives. That's why 7 ÷ 2 is refused.
Today's puzzle is guaranteed to have an exact solution. We check before publishing it.

A new puzzle appears at midnight UTC. It's generated from the date itself, so your puzzle is identical to everyone else's — and yesterday's is gone forever.