06-20-2010, 04:41 AM | #1 |
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Number Sequence Puzzle
What is the next number in this sequence?
1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221 Answers in spoiler tags as usual, please. I found this puzzle while wandering various puzzle pages, but I can no longer remember which web page was the one where I first found it. |
06-20-2010, 05:06 AM | #2 |
It's about the umbrella
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06-20-2010, 05:12 AM | #3 |
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Can you explain? I don't see the reason for this. (I'm hopeless at this "pattern recognition" stuff.)
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06-20-2010, 05:14 AM | #4 |
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Quote:
But here's a clue: Spoiler:
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06-20-2010, 05:26 AM | #6 |
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Sorry, still don't get it. I'll wait for the official answer!
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06-20-2010, 07:35 AM | #7 |
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I'm stumped.
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06-20-2010, 08:30 AM | #8 |
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I've been looking at this for what seems like ages, and still I got nothing.
I'm sure that if/when I eventually solve it or the solution is revealed there's gonna be a lot of forehead-slapping... |
06-20-2010, 09:14 AM | #9 |
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06-20-2010, 09:14 AM | #10 |
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Ok, here's my try:
Spoiler:
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06-20-2010, 09:20 AM | #11 |
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Just now saw your clue! My mind works in more convoluted ways than it should!
Congratulations Dreams!!!! |
06-20-2010, 09:20 AM | #12 |
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You have the right answer. You even have a method that will generate the right answer, and will carry on generating the correct answer for subsequent rows.
But you have indeed expressed the method very clumsily. The way you've written out your answers might help you spot the simple way to describe the method of working out the next line, especially if you try out my clue above. But quibbles aside — you have the right answer. Congratulations! |
06-20-2010, 09:23 AM | #13 |
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Yes, here comes the forehead-slapping!
Why are simple solutions so hard to see? |
06-20-2010, 12:53 PM | #14 |
Now what?
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06-20-2010, 01:37 PM | #15 |
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Smug? Well, maybe not smug, but super pleased that I could finally do a puzzle that made sense to me.
I was beginning to feel like the dumb kid on the block, when all of you could so easily see, figure out, and state the answers so well on the other problems. I wonder what that says about how I reason or see the world? |
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