Solve if you can
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- cheese lizard
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Solve if you can
Isn't that the idea of puzzles ?
Anyway, here you go:
Anyway, here you go:
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Re: Solve if you can
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99
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Re: Solve if you can
Made me think, me neither, me agree with Hans nowHansV wrote:I don't
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Re: Solve if you can
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1>3>5>7>9
I get 99?
Argus, shall we band together as the odd ones out?
I get 99?
Argus, shall we band together as the odd ones out?
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Re: Solve if you can
Argus and Rudi's reasoning would have been correct if the numbers in the last row were 11 and 10.
But the sequence in the first column is 3 > 5 > 7 > 9 > 10, not 11...
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The answer would then have been 11*10+9 = 119
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Re: Solve if you can
This is my reasoning:
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3 x 2 + 1 = 7
5 x 4 + 3 = 23
7 x 6 + 5 = 47
9 x 8 + 7 = 79
So
10 x 9 + 8 = 98
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11 x 10 + 9 = 119
5 x 4 + 3 = 23
7 x 6 + 5 = 47
9 x 8 + 7 = 79
So
10 x 9 + 8 = 98
and
11 x 10 + 9 = 119
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Re: Solve if you can
Your reasoning seems reasonable.
Argh! Who are we kidding....it sounds quite sound.
Argh! Who are we kidding....it sounds quite sound.
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Re: Solve if you can
Me too. That's what happens being in between coffee, I guess. In this case it was simple, and rather sneaky.StuartR wrote:I agree with Hans,
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98
Rudi, I'm not odd anymore, well, at least not in this thread.
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Re: Solve if you can
As even as one person can be.
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Re: Solve if you can
I would have thought that the simplest explanation was
n*n - 2 where n is the first number
There is no additional information in the second number, but if you had to use it, then
n*n - 2*(n - m) where m is the second number
n*n - 2 where n is the first number
There is no additional information in the second number, but if you had to use it, then
n*n - 2*(n - m) where m is the second number
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Re: Solve if you can
I also got 98, but I was using n*m+m-1Becks wrote:I would have thought that the simplest explanation was
n*n - 2 where n is the first number
There is no additional information in the second number, but if you had to use it, then
n*n - 2*(n - m) where m is the second number
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Re: Solve if you can
Or n2 + 2n - 1 if n is the second number. But who's counting.
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