Comments on: Brain Game: On a Count

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:45:00 +0000

I was thinking along the same lines as johnson, but i never considered to look at my wall clock (which is in roman numerals)

By: johnson

johnson — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:04:37 +0000

i was sure i had it right when i started looking at the number of consonants in each written word. only 5 and 8 are wrong. then i realised the roman numerals thing..

By: Betsy

Betsy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:19:32 +0000

Got the Roman numeral answer. Good one.

In Sandy’s defense, I don’t see how the answers proposed in most of these comments represent “the numbers
1 through 8 in a specific manner.” On the other hand, in Sandy’s (offense??), this isn’t really a puzzle to make “Math puzzle fans rejoice”!!

By: Lisa Marie

Lisa Marie — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:45:23 +0000

I got 2 as my answer, but in a completely different manner of thinking.
I saw this pattern unfold:

1(23)2(123)4(2123)… 8(42123)

By: DuarteIbanez

DuarteIbanez — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:23:38 +0000

I thought it was three. Actually, pretty sure it should be but who am I, other than a Mathe major, to say anything on the subject

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:13:17 +0000

I’m with Jack and GBurns..I was excited to finally get a math one right. But alas, I did not

By: GBurns

GBurns — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:56:41 +0000

In Jack’s defense (and myself as I came to the same answer) who is to say that we are starting at the beginning of the sequence. I also came to the same conclusion as Jack. He identified a pattern and it works.

By: L.C.

L.C. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:41:18 +0000

I went with the same pattern as Mike S. And I never think outside of the box. Sometimes the simplest answer is the correct one (ie Not one involving how many letters are in the Roman numeral representation of every number!)

By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:23:29 +0000

1+2=3, 3-2=1, 1+2=3, 3-4=-1

i guess i was thinking too far outside of the box…

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:33:58 +0000

But in that case, Jack, it would have started out: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1…