中文挑战

Another awesome puzzle! It took me 4 times. However, I think you might have a mistake, can you verify?

Your second to the last number is 296 but I heard 216.

Good call, I think you are right. My career as a codebreaker is not meant to be.

Also, I'll just note that I think any level can play along on this one. It might even be easier for those that are fresh off drilling numbers.

Took me a lot of tries as well. More than 4. Maybe even more than 7, I'm not saying

Oddly, for the penultimate group of numbers, I got the same answer as gleaves' original answer. Listening again, now I think jkhsu is clearly right. Weird. [i also got the 3rd group wrong.]

No points for me!

[Your original rules do not address slowing it down while listening, but still listening straight through. I assume that's a no-no as well.]

I wish there were a web site that drills numbers. I could really use that. It would be quite easy to do, once one has the mp3s in place.

jbradfor - I'm giving you a point just for trying.

I was thinking, even if the numbers were in English, at the speed that announcer was saying them, it'd take me a couple of times to get them right.

It's funny, I almost typed "no pausing, rewinding, or stopping" but I didn't think of slowing down. Touche.

Argh, took me 6 tries, I think. The problem was that while trying to write down numbers I'd just heard, my brain would still try to process new numbers that were coming in, causing cognitive overload.