There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, and one of them is meant to replace the question mark you’ll see below in today’s Brain Game. Enjoy!
What’s the missing letter (indicated by the question mark) in the following sequence?
T, Q, P, H, ?, O, N, …
Here is the SOLUTION.
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It could also be “E” as part of a reverse alphabetic sequence of two consecutive letters and two skipped letters repeated.
posted by solusipse on 8-7-2009 at 10:14 am
With the numbers yesterday, I was all over this one. Shapes just jumped right in my head.
posted by Matt Allcorn on 8-7-2009 at 11:13 am
Man! I didn’t even come close on this one…
posted by Ophelia on 8-7-2009 at 11:44 am
I picked S — I got the puzzle, but I thought the prefix for 7 was septa__. Do I get an honorable mention ribbon?
posted by Amy on 8-7-2009 at 9:15 pm
Absolutely you do, Amy. Same principle.
posted by Sandy Wood on 8-8-2009 at 2:09 am
It’s interesting.
posted by Jami on 8-9-2009 at 10:22 pm
My answer was “h or s”. I didn’t think of it in terms of polygons, merely prefixes.
posted by Curtis on 8-11-2009 at 1:27 pm