Questions tagged [sequence]
A puzzle about a series or collection of symbols, elements, or other objects, whose chosen ordering obeys a specific logical rule, which is usually to be determined.
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Culture-Fair Numerical Puzzle: 1, 412, 3141286…
Below is a numerical puzzle that I designed. It is intended to be a culture-fair IQ puzzle, requiring only pattern recognition and arithmetic.
1, 412, 3141286, 581631412862422, 5816314128624226, ...
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Culture-Fair Numerical Puzzle: 1113151719, 0601010101, 5400001000, ?
Below is a numerical puzzle that I designed. It is intended to be a culture-fair IQ puzzle, requiring only pattern recognition and the faculty to count. Use of a calculator should not be necessary.
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Culture-Fair Numerical Puzzle: 89, 289, 361 | 100289
Below is a numerical puzzle that I designed. It is intended to be a culture-fair IQ puzzle, requiring only pattern recognition and arithmetic. You can use calculators.
a) 89, 289, 361 | 100289, 100 | ...
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Find the next term in these 2 sequences [closed]
This is something that came up when prepping for mental maths/brainteasers, should be doable quickly as expected in those online assessments.
I can’t find a pattern in the following 2 sequences.
1, 1, ...
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Complete the integer sequence: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
Here is a sequence I happened to work out, although I am certainly not the first one.
Can you fill in the missing numbers?
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
NB: The sequence ends after the last ...
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A Sequence of Words
I created a sequence of words (see a Note below) using a certain method and came up with somewhat cryptic clues for them.
Unlike in crossword puzzles, I did not include word lengths with these clues.
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Shadowed Dragon Ciphers: #2
This is the SHADOW Cipher in a small sample. One of my hardest, Good Luck!:
Z+b s v k v x w z d o x
-The Shadowed Dragon
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Cracking a coded quintic equation
They say you cannot solve most quintic equations (ones containing the fifth power of a variable) without specially designed functions. But if you can find the sequence, you can identify the positive ...
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What meal can come next?
Canoe, Wrote, Teacher, Runoff, Verify, Exist, Inverse, Tighten, ?
What meal can come next?
Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Supper
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What number is next? 40, 0, 2, 1, 0, 10, 50, 4, 0, 16
What number comes next in this sequence?
40, 0, 2, 1, 0, 10, 50, 4, 0, 16
Answers must have an explanation of why the next number is what it is.
Hint:
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What is a Short Integer™?
No, a Short Integer™ is not a Short Integer!
If an integer conforms to a special rule, I call it a Short Integer™.
Each integer can be tested. This is not a definitive list of Short Integers™.
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Circle with five regions labelled 50, 122, 5, 10, ?
This question was in CUET UG exam this year.
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8 circles done, fill the remaining one
Below are 9 circles. How should the last circle be filled?
Below is link to the youtube video that inspired this puzzle. Very interesting to watch! It contains big spoilers what this puzzle is about ...
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What’s next? Smiley face or ?
Beginner puzzle (suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving).
What’s next in the sequence below?
Explain your reasoning.
Choose answer from below:
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The Longest Achievable Run of Square Totals on an n × n Grid
Consider an $n \times n$ grid where each cell can be either present or removed. For any configuration, define the total number of squares as the count of all axis-aligned squares (of all sizes from $1 ...
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