Riddle me this

[Sage Tech]

When I first read this I didn't work it out and had to cheat (looked in the back of the book), let's see who is smarter than I was.

I hope you don't all get it or I'll feel a bit daft :D

In the following sequence of numbers which number comes next
3 7 10 11

Please post you number and the reason why (as we can all guess :p )

[starmena3]

lol um.. 20? I have no idea I just the numbers that they were apart together. I was never good with things like these

[Sage Tech]

No and as a clue it's not 19 either :)

As a bigger clue it's not just about numbers (and I don't mean 68... :D )

[mck9235]

Could it be 13?

[Sage Tech]

And what is your reason for choosing lucky 13

[mck9235]

Prime numbers was what I was thinking, but 10 is a composite number.

[Sage Tech]

13 you say,

prime numbers you use,

composite numbers you have knowledge of eh,

Answer to riddle you think is 13,

Response to your answer is,


Wrong :p in both answer and reasoning

[DrWolfgangVonBubbles]

Whoa, Sage Tech is speaking Yoda! :D

10? No, no... pi! Maybe it's Ben Stiller! ...Yellow! That's it!

Yes, it has to be, because pi squared - X = MC Hammer.


Wait, what about 11?

3 + 7 - 10 + 11 = 11

[Sage Tech]

It's a Saturday night (actually a Sunday morning for me now :o ), humor me, that is what this sub-forum is all about :) .

In answer to your answer the answer is not 11 and the reason has nothing to do with prime numbers

PS the above formating is an SEO joke (and a bad one at that)

[mck9235]

Well since I have absolutely no clue, and Google isn't giving me answers I am going to say this as my answer: It is in a range from 0 to infinity, therefore you must give me atleast some credit, it is only fair.

The weird thing is when I went to Yahoo! and typed in 3 7 10 11 the first result was opera. :p

[Sage Tech]

I choose this puzzle in the hope you couldn't do what I did and Google to the back of the book :).

I'll be interested to see who gets this first, I have already given the best clue, it is not just about numbers.

[mck9235]

Well tell me the book name, i'll go buy it, check the answer index, then reply to this thread. No one will ever know!

[Sage Tech]

If Amazon sold it I would give you an affiliate link :) but alas this riddle will be solved by grey matter alone, and I will say, it's a nasty one.

I did look at your equally hard maths riddle (http://forums.hostmatrix.org/showthread.php?t=3351) and shied away from it, this riddle is not about maths ;)

[mck9235]

Ah, but my riddle doesn't have to do with math as well. I will give you a cookie if you get it.

[Dan]

I'm going to go with 12

I chose it because the only vowel that those numbers have in common is e, so then next one is T - W - E - L - V - E

[Sage Tech]

Correct well done, I need to ask did you cheat or work it out, either way I'm very impressed :D

[mck9235]

Wiat, how do numbers have vowels in common?

[Sage Tech]

Wiat, how do numbers have vowels in common?
duh spell numbers :)

[Dan]

No, I didnt' cheat, once you told me that it's not about the numbers, I spelled them all out. Then I spelled the ones in between to and found that in common :) Took me about 3 minutes.

[Sage Tech]

Well played. next time I'll know not to give clues, smarty pants :p

[prettydang1]

oy...opera I can take...numbers scramble me!! I'm one of the people who took the MINIMUM requirements of math in school....hmmmmmm....

3, 7, 10, 11....did you say no to 21? because 3+7=10...10+11=21...but then where did 11 come from?

*head explodes*

[mck9235]

Well, next time you can just PM me a clue, Ic3 would never no! :D