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    #241

    Jul 31, 2010, 08:27 AM

    Well, I can't find a word which matches all of the 4 conditions :( or my english vocabulary is too low...

    I just learned two weeks ago that English is the language among all the existing languages that contains the greatest number of words (nearly a million I think now, or something like that)
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    #242

    Jul 31, 2010, 09:38 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by morgaine300 View Post
    We need more math ones.
    I thought this was kind of interesting:

    What row of numbers comes next in this series?


    1
    11
    21
    1211
    111221
    312211
    13112221
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    #243

    Jul 31, 2010, 09:45 AM

    I know this one! I've done this one. Should I tell?
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    #244

    Jul 31, 2010, 09:53 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Unknown008 View Post
    I know this one! I've done this one. Should I tell?
    No - let's see if someone else can get it.

    I know the answer to Hexxie's riddle but I don't want to spoil it for someone else.
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    #245

    Jul 31, 2010, 01:51 PM

    Does it involve the Fibonacci series?
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    #246

    Jul 31, 2010, 02:10 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Hexxie View Post
    does it involve the Fibonacci series?
    I had to look that up to see what it was. No, I don't believe it does.
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    #247

    Aug 1, 2010, 12:19 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Just Looking View Post
    I thought this was kind of interesting:

    What row of numbers comes next in this series?


    1
    11
    21
    1211
    111221
    312211
    13112221
    I guess I asked for it wanting more math ones. But I'm terrible at sequences. :rolleyes:
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    #248

    Aug 1, 2010, 12:21 AM

    Space occurred to me, except that doesn't fit the present & past tense thing, even if it's also a verb.
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    #249

    Aug 1, 2010, 02:58 AM

    A hint for the sequence. Read it aloud ;)

    And there is no Fibonacci in this.

    Smoke? Hint!
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    #250

    Aug 1, 2010, 11:39 AM

    Nothing I was trying, mathematically, was working. Then last night my daughter was counting out her dolls in a way that had not occurred to me.

    Is the next number:

    1113213211?
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    #251

    Aug 1, 2010, 11:43 AM

    Ok, here's a hint on mine:

    It's something you ride. Wait, one of the clues already told you that didn't it. Ok, actually, it's more like you sit on it (it doesn't go anywhere).

    Good luck.
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    #252

    Aug 1, 2010, 12:27 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by morgaine300 View Post
    Space occured to me, except that doesn't fit the present & past tense thing, even if it's also a verb.
    Glad to see you are giving it a go.. . even if it isn't about numbers.

    No, it is not space.
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    #253

    Aug 1, 2010, 02:19 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Hexxie View Post
    Nothing I was trying, mathematically, was working. Then last night my daughter was counting out her dolls in a way that had not occured to me.

    Is the next number:

    1113213211?
    Yes, you got it! Makes me wonder what your daughter was doing. :)
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    #254

    Aug 2, 2010, 12:05 AM

    I'm not sure of how to call it in English... (French: Caroussel)

    http://www.stephanepoinsot.com/previ..._caroussel.jpg

    Is that it? Except that I don't think it matches with the past/present part of the riddle...
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    #255

    Aug 2, 2010, 03:21 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Hexxie View Post
    Glad to see you are giving it a go . . .even if it isn't about numbers.
    Of course I'm giving it a go. ;) I do like math stuff, but I like puzzles of all sorts. I'm actually usually pretty good at this time (the "what am I?" sort of thing), but this one has me stumped.
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    #256

    Aug 2, 2010, 03:23 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Unknown008 View Post
    A hint for the sequence. Read it aloud ;)
    I read it out loud. Both just reading the numbers in the sequence (one, two, one, one) and read the number properly (one thousand two hundred eleven), and that means nothing to me. I don't get the answer. I'm telling you, I'm terrible at sequences, unless they're pretty easy.
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    #257

    Aug 2, 2010, 03:27 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Unknown008 View Post
    I'm not sure of how to call it in English... (French: Caroussel)

    http://www.stephanepoinsot.com/previ..._caroussel.jpg

    Is that it? Except that I don't think it matches with the past/present part of the riddle...
    Hmm, curious. I'd been thinking about a teeter-totter. Except that still doesn't cover the tense thing. And a teeter-totter needs more than just "me" and you - it needs another person.

    But it's another line of thinking anyway cause I've been concentrating on stuff like air - got to learn to think of other types of stuff. I think I've also been taking "sky" a little to literally, like all the way to the sky, instead of towards it.
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    #258

    Aug 2, 2010, 03:28 AM

    A swing? But that isn't past tense as well.
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    #259

    Aug 2, 2010, 03:34 AM
    Hey, I just thought of something. Anyone here into those lateral thinking puzzles? For instance, you get a scenario that's pretty vague. You get just a little information that tells you about nothing at all. And then everyone asks yes or no questions. The answers are yes, no, and irrelevant. They're very difficult cause you get so little info that it's like finding a needle in a haystack, until maybe you start getting a little more information from the questions. Really, they need several people working on them to get different angles and different sorts of questions. I find they're about impossible with only one person.

    Just for example, there's one about a guy at a circus, who was found dead, and something about a pole and something under his cot in his tent, and you have to guess what killed the guy. Don't remember the details (I could find out), but just an example of how little info you get.

    If anyone's game, I've already got a couple. (Though I'd prefer starting a new thread just for that.)
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    #260

    Aug 2, 2010, 06:42 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by morgaine300 View Post
    I read it out loud. Both just reading the numbers in the sequence (one, two, one, one) and read the number properly (one thousand two hundred eleven), and that means nothing to me. I don't get the answer. I'm telling you, I'm terrible at sequences, unless they're pretty easy.
    The one two one one is the right track.

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