Monday, September 18, 2006

New Spoonhouse99 Feature!!!

Riddles!! With Math!! Yes!!! To be updated irregularly!!!

1 1 2 2 1 3 3 2 5 5 3 8 8 5 13 13 8 21 X Y Z

Question is: What are X Y Z?

First one is easy. Next one will be harder.

UPDATE: The rule is that the first person to correctly answer has to come up with the next riddle. Riddles should involve math if at all possible. If the winner doesn't want to post a riddle say so and it'll pass to either me, or the 2nd person to get the right answer.

Lunchbox wins the first one and we await his riddle.

6 Comments:

Blogger Matt McMinn said...

21 13 34

18/9/06 09:34  
Blogger Jim Brannick said...

Thank you Mr. Concise.
Here's my original response:

Let's describe any trio of numbers above as "A B C". If we called the
succeeding trio "D E F", then D=A+B, E = A, and F=A+C so the next trio would be: 21 13 34

18/9/06 09:56  
Blogger Garble said...

Right, it can also be found as 1+2=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5, etc. they're called the fibonacci numbers.


more can be found at
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html

18/9/06 10:05  
Blogger Matt McMinn said...

You do realize that you didn't actually specify a fibonacci sequence right?

18/9/06 10:15  
Blogger Garble said...

I now. But i thought it would be too difficult if I didn't put in the extra crap. Got any ideas for a riddle.

18/9/06 10:33  
Blogger Matt McMinn said...

The extra stuff is what made it difficult, the original sequence is cake.

18/9/06 10:53  

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