Dartle #38 answer & hints
Best Picture winners by Oscars ceremony number
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One Battle After Another (98) + The Broadway Melody (2)
Other perfect checkouts: Anora (97) + All Quiet on the Western Front (3) · Oppenheimer (96) + Cimarron (4) · Everything Everywhere All at Once (95) + Grand Hotel (5) · CODA (94) + Cavalcade (6) · Nomadland (93) + It Happened One Night (7) · Parasite (92) + Mutiny on the Bounty (8) · Green Book (91) + The Great Ziegfeld (9) · The Shape of Water (90) + The Life of Emile Zola (10) · Moonlight (89) + You Can't Take It with You (11)
Every film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, worth the number of the ceremony where it won: Wings won at the 1st, in 1929. Ceremonies are counted from Wikipedia's list of winners, one winner per ceremony. There are 832 ways to hit exactly 100 on this board, and 48 of them use only 2 darts. Of 4,803 players so far, 5% hit a bullseye and 66% went bust; the average score was 31.
All 98 answers (one point = ceremony number).Highlighted answers appear in a perfect checkout.
- One Battle After Another98
- Anora97
- Oppenheimer96
- Everything Everywhere All at Once95
- CODA94
- Nomadland93
- Parasite92
- Green Book91
- The Shape of Water90
- Moonlight89
- Spotlight88
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)87
- 12 Years a Slave86
- Argo85
- The Artist84
- The King's Speech83
- The Hurt Locker82
- Slumdog Millionaire81
- No Country for Old Men80
- The Departed79
- Crash78
- Million Dollar Baby77
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King76
- Chicago75
- A Beautiful Mind74
- Gladiator73
- American Beauty72
- Shakespeare in Love71
- Titanic70
- The English Patient69
- Braveheart68
- Forrest Gump67
- Schindler's List66
- Unforgiven65
- The Silence of the Lambs64
- Dances With Wolves63
- Driving Miss Daisy62
- Rain Man61
- The Last Emperor60
- Platoon59
- Out of Africa58
- Amadeus57
- Terms of Endearment56
- Gandhi55
- | Chariots of Fire54
- Ordinary People53
- Kramer vs. Kramer52
- The Deer Hunter51
- Annie Hall50
- Rocky49
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest48
- The Godfather Part II47
- The Sting46
- The Godfather45
- The French Connection44
- Patton43
- Midnight Cowboy42
- Oliver!41
- In the Heat of the Night40
- A Man for All Seasons39
- The Sound of Music38
- My Fair Lady37
- Tom Jones36
- Lawrence of Arabia35
- West Side Story34
- The Apartment33
- Ben-Hur32
- Gigi31
- The Bridge on the River Kwai30
- Around the World in 80 Days29
- Marty28
- On the Waterfront27
- From Here to Eternity26
- The Greatest Show on Earth25
- An American in Paris24
- All About Eve23
- All the King's Men22
- Hamlet21
- Gentleman's Agreement20
- The Best Years of Our Lives19
- The Lost Weekend18
- Going My Way17
- Casablanca16
- Mrs. Miniver15
- How Green Was My Valley14
- Rebecca13
- Gone with the Wind12
- You Can't Take It with You11
- The Life of Emile Zola10
- The Great Ziegfeld9
- Mutiny on the Bounty8
- It Happened One Night7
- Cavalcade6
- Grand Hotel5
- Cimarron4
- All Quiet on the Western Front3
- The Broadway Melody2
- Wings1
Reasoning & candidate comparison Contains the answer
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- Use the recorded board for “Best Picture winners by Oscars ceremony number”, where values are ceremony number. The target is 100, so work backwards from the remainder instead of selecting famous or high-valued entries alone.
- Choose One Battle After Another, worth 98: 100 − 98 = 2 remaining.
- Choose The Broadway Melody, worth 2: 2 − 2 = 0 remaining.
- Checking every distinct-entry single and pair on the stored board finds 48 exact 2-dart checkouts and no exact checkout using fewer darts. The chosen sum is 98 + 2 = 100.
| Candidate / approach | Assessment | Why |
|---|---|---|
| One Battle After Another (98) + The Broadway Melody (2) | Exact checkout | The recorded values sum to 100 in 2 darts. |
| Anora (97) + All Quiet on the Western Front (3) | Equally short alternative | 97 + 3 = 100. This uses the same minimum number of distinct board entries; it is not scored lower in this calculation. |
| One Battle After Another (98) + Anora (97) | Overshoots | 98 + 97 = 195, 95 above the target. This is an illustrative calculation, not a recorded player attempt. |
What this does and does not establish
- Calculations use the values stored for this puzzle, including the game’s rounding and scaling. They are not updated real-world statistics. Candidate combinations use distinct entries; the count here covers only the minimum-length combinations, not all longer ways to total 100.
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| Board | Clue | Perfect checkout | Also good |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best Picture winners by Oscars ceremony number | One Battle After Another (98) + The Broadway Melody (2) | Anora (97) + All Quiet on the Western Front (3), Oppenheimer (96) + Cimarron (4), Everything Everywhere All at Once (95) + Grand Hotel (5), CODA (94) + Cavalcade (6) |
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Dartle #38 was the puzzle for Thursday, November 5, 2026.
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