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 Puzzle thread Dec. 1 |
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Here are the puzzles for this week. As usual, there is a 24-hour timelimit in which I will accept Private Messaged answers. If multiple people get all the puzzles correct, a Weekly Puzzle Master will be chosen randomly from among them.
1. In this number, which uses all the numbers from 1 to 9, each group of three consecutive numbers forms a number with an exact ending. When dividing each group of three consecutive numbers by their last digit, the result is exact, no remainder.
637284591
Observe: 637 is divisible by 7; 372 is divisible by 2; 728 is divisible by 8; 284 is divisible by 4; 845 is divisible by 5, 459 is divisible by 9; and 591 is divisible by 1.
What is the highest (biggest) number using nine digits and no repeats that meets this condition?
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The numbers in the sequences for #2 and #3 follow strict and rigorous criteria, although not always apparent. Test your mental strength by finding the secret to each sequence. If you feel lost, the titles may help you. (Note: #2 and #3 are NOT math-related sequences at all, even though at least one of you is brainy enough to find valid complicated formulas for each)
2. "In the Verses"
What's the secret to this sequence? What is the next number?
1, 7, 11, 27, 77, 111, 127, ?
3. "Even So"
What's the secret to this sequence? What is the next number?
4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, ?
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4. Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk were playing tic-tac-toe by e-mail. Each in turn sent his move by e-mail until Spock won the game.
As the Enterprise passed through a radiation cloud, the order of the messages became scrambled.
In what order were the following messages originally sent?
A. I will place an X, completing the other diagonal.
B. There is an empty box to the right of your last move, but I am not going to move there; I will instead place an O in the box below that, which is also empty. (edit: originally this read "I will instead place an O in the box below your X, which is also e
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| Re: Puzzle thread Dec. 1 |
Tue, 02 December 2003 21:43  |
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Out of the three people who submitted answers, only Ashlyn submitted all correct answers.
This means this is her third time as Weekly Puzzle Master.
1. 987652431 is the answer.
2. The number of syllables of each number increases by one. The next number in the series is 177.
3. Each of these numbers has an even number of letters. The next number in the series is 18.
4. The messages were sent in this order: E, B, H, C, G, D, A, F.
5. The four solutions are:
192, 384, 576
219, 438, 657
273, 546, 819
327, 654, 981
Thread now unlocked. Were these too hard?
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| Re: Puzzle thread Dec. 1 |
Tue, 02 December 2003 21:54 |
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| Ron wrote on Tue, 02 December 2003 21:43 |
3. Each of these numbers has an even number of letters. The next number in the series is 18.
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Damn, I got the pattern, and missed the spelling...
| Ron wrote on Tue, 02 December 2003 21:43 |
4. The messages were sent in this order: E, B, H, C, G, D, A, F.
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E:
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.X.
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B. There is an empty box to the right of your last move, but I am not going to move there; I will instead place an O in the box below your X, which is also empty.
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.X. .X.
.O. ..O
The first one fits what is written for B, but fails to match anything else. The second one doesn't agree with B, but does match the rest of the entries.
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| Re: Puzzle thread Dec. 1 |
Wed, 03 December 2003 11:23 |
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| HiltonL wrote on Wed, 03 December 2003 08:23 |
It's these damn American's with their silly-type English.
It SHOULD be "One hundred AND eleven" (7 syllables), but in their strange language it's "One hundred eleven" (6 syllables).
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As opposed to the bizarre Tolkieen-ism eleventy-one?
...and it's LICENSE, not LICENCE, dammit!!
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| Re: Puzzle thread Dec. 1 |
Thu, 04 December 2003 09:40 |
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| HiltonL wrote on Wed, 03 December 2003 18:53 |
| Ron wrote on Wed, 03 December 2003 19:06 |
In America, we say it both ways. I'm sorry that I didn't consider that this puzzle could be a problem.
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Quite frankly, anyone who...
a) Cottoned on the syllable approach
b) Worked out that the syllables were sequential up to 77
c) Noticed that when they got to 111 the syllables jumped up to 7 instead of 6
d) STILL failed to consider different ways of saying 111
...needs a prize for "missing the bleeding obvious". 
Can someone make a logo for that award please? You can give it to mazda, but I'm not hiding behind that excuse.
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 Yes please, another award. 
However you give me too much credit, I never got anywhere near the answer.
I was simply wondering how the solution worked.
I had 111 as "one hundred and eleven", "a hundred and eleven", and "hundred and eleven".
I never would have considered "one hundred eleven". 
Why would I ? It's ridiculous.
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