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Defend the Universe

127.0.0.1

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02 Jul 08

Another one of these, but this one is hard, and probably no-one has seen it before.

find the next integer in the sequence:
5, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 0, 1, 4, 5, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, ...

Already mated

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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03 Jul 08

Well, I think you stumped everybody. Care to offer the solution?

f
Defend the Universe

127.0.0.1

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03 Jul 08

Originally posted by coquette
Well, I think you stumped everybody. Care to offer the solution?
I think I will instead reduce the difficulty a notch.

The numbers correspond to letters of the alphabet:

5 A's
4 B's
3 C's
etc...

how many S's?

D

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03 Jul 08

I can't think of any long work with so many B's in it:
hippopotamonstrosesquipadaliaphobia
pneumononultraumicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
antidisestablishmentarianism
fluccinaucinihilipilification
llanfairpwgwll.... etc. I'm sure has no b's in it, but a lot of ls. hm..

e
leperchaun messiah

thru a glass onion

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04 Jul 08

Originally posted by forkedknight
I think I will instead reduce the difficulty a notch.

The numbers correspond to letters of the alphabet:

5 A's
4 B's
3 C's
etc...

how many S's?
that doesn't make sense.

f
Defend the Universe

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07 Jul 08

Originally posted by Dejection
I can't think of any long work with so many B's in it:
hippopotamonstrosesquipadaliaphobia
pneumononultraumicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
antidisestablishmentarianism
fluccinaucinihilipilification
llanfairpwgwll.... etc. I'm sure has no b's in it, but a lot of ls. hm..
not a single word, but a list.

Think internationally...

t

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07 Jul 08

List of countries alphabetically in africa?

M

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08 Jul 08

I thought it might be the number of tiles of each letter in a scrabble set.
But one of them is 0, its not that.

Um, ( the number of tiles of each letter in a scrabble set )- 1 ?

Phil.

G5

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08 Jul 08

don't know why but i think it's 4,
am i right

a

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08 Jul 08

Can i have a better clue please

a

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08 Jul 08

GRAVY 5 stop guessing and explain why its 4


(Ps. I know him)

G5

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08 Jul 08

don't know why but i think it's 4,
am i right

a

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08 Jul 08

stop posting the same guess

f
Defend the Universe

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08 Jul 08

It doesn't have anything to do with Scrabble.

It's not 4.

Tamuzi is warm.

h

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08 Jul 08

I don't have a clue, but I award two bags of virtual cookies to the first one giving the next six numbers in the following sequence:

10, 36, 2197, 1, 371293, 1000000, ...