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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Head Count
by Sandy Wood - June 3, 2008 - 7:53 AM
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Another day, another Brain Game for your perusal. In today’s challenge, only one single-digit number will (when spelled out) make the below statement correct. What is it?

There are
________ E’s
inside this box.

See the answer here.

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  1. I have another answer: 5 (not FIVE, the word; 5, the number. That way, it doesn’t have any E’s in it!)

    posted by Jack da Bomb on 6-3-2008 at 8:28 am

  2. I think I get it: the only number word that will make the sentence true is seven.

    posted by Ira on 6-3-2008 at 8:50 am

  3. What about four?

    posted by stw on 6-3-2008 at 10:04 am

  4. If you put “four” in the blank, there are five E’s in the box, so that doesn’t work.

    posted by Sandy on 6-3-2008 at 10:55 am

  5. If you consider e and E to be different, then “one” is a correct answer (and so is “THREE”).

    posted by Gary on 6-3-2008 at 11:56 am

  6. It’s seven. There are already five in the box, add the two from seven and there you are.

    posted by Lynne on 6-3-2008 at 12:11 pm

  7. In a way, zero works too. There are no E’s in “this box”

    posted by Jack on 6-3-2008 at 2:00 pm

  8. That’s thinking outside the box, Jack.

    I thought Gary might be correct with “one,” but that leads to incorrect word choice of “are.” It would have to read “is” instead. (But that’d make the quiz pretty easy.)

    posted by TomH on 6-3-2008 at 4:50 pm

  9. I was also thinking zero, since, technically, there is no box.

    posted by MusicFreak111 on 6-10-2008 at 3:23 pm

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