Costcodle answer for May 26, 2024

Puzzle #250. 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.

Chomps Original Grass Fed Beef Sticks, 12 ct, the Costcodle item for 2024-05-26

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

The shelf price

The item is Chomps Original Grass Fed Beef Sticks, 12 ct. The price stored for this puzzle is $14.49. A winning guess is any amount from $13.77 through $15.21, because the game accepts a guess within 5 percent. The yellow band, within 25 percent but not yet a win, runs from $10.87 to $18.11.

How I would have opened it

If I had started this day at $8.69, that guess would sit about 40.0 percent under $14.49. 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 $13.77 to $15.21.

Neighbors

Source: games.json in KermWasTaken/costcodle, key game-250. Win math follows percentAway in scripts/main.js. Checked 2026-09-30.

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