Comments on: Brain Game: The Day the Brains Came

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:23:43 +0000

I only came up with three:

01:23
12:34
23:45

By: heather

heather — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:09:28 +0000

I actually count this daily for no reason — 12

By: system

system — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:08:59 +0000

Here is the thing. There is military time which does 2200, 2300, then 0000 for midnight. For countries like germany they do 2200, 2300, 2400. Then you have just standard time which is 11am, 12pm, 1pm. This question has a flaw

By: Lerren

Lerren — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:01:34 +0000

11:23, 10:12 as well, i’m just sayin’.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:59:51 +0000

I had to use all my toes…but my guess is 10.

By: Ben E

Ben E — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:51:15 +0000

Yeah, I took 24 hour day for 24 hour clock as well and only came up with 3 as andrewc said.

On a side not, does anyone else hate the way they do the clock on 24 (tv show)? They put stupid things like 0923 – pm!! Arghhhhh

By: andrewc

andrewc — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:38:06 +0000

10 isn’t a digit. The game explicitly specified digits, consecutive ones, and a series when I read it.

For a 24h clock: six or seven depending on whether your civilian clock displays midnight with 0:00, 24:00, or 00:00. The potential seven are 0:12, 1:23, 2:34, 3:45, 4:56, 12:34, and 23:45.

Clocks using ‘military’ 24h notation display consecutive digits only three times, at 0123, 1234, and 2345.

Not going near times of day specified in Â½-past-3-style notation…

By: Ira

Ira — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:36:03 +0000

The cool thing about these morning Brain Games is they encourage the creativity seen in these comments. It really helps jumpstart my day.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:30:17 +0000

Like most people above me, I got more than 10. Consecutive doesn’t mean only going up, it just has to have a logical procession of one I believe. So 6:54 should also work, as well as 5:43 and so on. Anyway, I liked this quiz though!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:16:28 +0000

9:10, 10:11, 11:12 and 12:13 don’t work because 10, 11, 12 and 13 aren’t digits — they’re numbers.

And I thought of adding “ascending” to the question, but thought that it would just be over-specific. But I’ve added it now.

As far as a 24-hour clock… what can I say? You folks can seem to find loopholes in everything! Â :)