Don't you just love those puzzles that PUKE up a pile of letters or numbers, and you have to find some obscure signal obfuscated in a bunch of hairy noise? We do too! Here is another.
The following sequences of barfed up numbers are each correlated to the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on.
Each sequence has a missing element denoted by a letter A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J.
You need to determine the values of each letter. When you have solved correctly, each digit from 0-9 will be represented by one and only one letter. Use "0" for the letter that correlates to 10.
In each well-ordered sequence, the numbers will correlate to some logical algorithm and hints are provided for each sequence. For example: 3-3-A-4-4-3-5-5-4-3 is correlated to the lengths, in letters, of each counting number represented as a word.
one=3, two=3, three=5, four=4, five=4, six=3, seven=5, eight=5, nine=4, ten=3.
Therefore, A=5, since the number three has 5 letters.
| Sequence |
Hint |
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| 5-6-5-6-5-A-7-6-5-5... |
Win, place, show |
| 15-20-20-6-B-19-19-5-14... |
The key to sorting |
| C-5-4-4-4-3-5-5-4-3-4-5-4. |
Royalty |
| 10-5-9-7-6-5-7-8-D-5-4-6-8.. |
Article II |
| 2-1-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-E-3-2-3-4... |
And sometimes why? |
| 1-2-3-2-2-2-3-3-F-2-3-4-5-4... |
21 useful symbols |
| 7-G-9-10-9-9-9-11-10. |
Position |
| 8-6-7-9-5-6-8-6-8-H-6-9.. |
Sherlock Holmes catchphrase |
| 3-7-8-11-15-7-I-14-7-10-14... |
Place settings |
| 3-4-5-7-J-9-21-18-17-21... |
A double gets you to second base |
An ellipsis (...) indicates that the sequence continues infinitely.
Two dots (..) indicates that the sequence continues but not infinitely.
A period (.) indicates the end of a complete sequence.
N: 42 (D-B)(B+C).GHD
W: 071 CH.(E+F)(J-I)B
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.