Costcodle answer for November 2, 2024

Puzzle #410. I read this row from the official games list. The date is the UTC calendar day sampled at noon; your live game may show another number in your time zone.

Plantains, 5 lb, the Costcodle item for 2024-11-02

Official Costcodle game screen showing a price guess and higher-or-lower arrows

The shelf price

The item is Plantains, 5 lb. The price stored for this puzzle is $3.99. A winning guess is any amount from $3.80 through $4.18, because the game accepts a guess within 5 percent. The yellow band, within 25 percent but not yet a win, runs from $3.00 to $4.98.

How I would have opened it

If I had started this day at $2.39, that guess would sit about 40.0 percent under $3.99. Anything beyond 25 percent away is a red tile. I would then jump toward the middle of the remaining range instead of nudging by a dime. Once a guess lands inside the yellow band I only test the center of $3.80 to $4.18.

Neighbors

Source: games.json in KermWasTaken/costcodle, key game-410. Win math follows percentAway in scripts/main.js. Checked 2026-09-30.

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