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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: No, It’s Not 573
by Sandy Wood - November 11, 2008 - 7:30 AM

THE ANSWER:

THREE.

The number represents the number of times the letter “E” appears in the spelled-out numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. The next number in the series is ELEVEN, which contains 3 E’s.

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  1. Yeah you may want to try DeCaf or at least the new light coffee (1/2 DeCaf). Hope you enjoy the snow.

    posted by Kev in GA on 11-11-2008 at 8:48 am

  2. 3! Good one. Somehow, my brain stumbled on to the spelling rather quicly — from there, it was only a brief matter of time until I hit ‘E’

    posted by Josh on 11-11-2008 at 9:55 am

  3. Binary:
    10=2
    010=2
    111=7
    1,0,2,0,1,0,2,1,1,1,7
    Oh well, I guess I need another cup o java.

    posted by SlackJack on 11-11-2008 at 10:45 am

  4. I think I need more coffee, because I still don’t get it. “one” has one “e” in it, and so does “zero,” and “two” has none. So I don’t get how you can do 1, 0, 2, 0…

    I get the last four numbers, but the first few confuse me.

    posted by Chelsea on 11-11-2008 at 11:32 am

  5. AH! Never mind. The caffeine kicked in. I’m on board now.

    posted by Chelsea on 11-11-2008 at 11:34 am

  6. I have just recently discovered the Brain Game and have enjoyed them immensely. Keep them coming.

    posted by Richard on 11-11-2008 at 9:35 pm

  7. Yay for youth and not needing caffeine all night! (I say as I slowly fall asleep finishing a chem lab)

    posted by Redd on 11-11-2008 at 11:01 pm

  8. Number of Es–onE, two, thrEE, four, fivE,

    posted by Anne with an E on 11-12-2008 at 9:20 am

  9. So next is ElEvEn, 3.

    posted by Anne with an E on 11-12-2008 at 9:21 am

  10. Why would it be 573?

    posted by Anne with an E on 11-12-2008 at 9:22 am

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