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I’d like to ask the good people of this community that, if you do know the solution or figure it out, that you not share the answer here. Feel free to announce your success, but there’s something to be said for discovering the answer completely unaided, even if it takes years.
It’s embarrassingly obvious once you see it though.
I think I figured it out, but it's so easy that I don't think that could possibly be it. But it is, apparently.
I figured it out took about 10 minutes, thought i was onto it immediately until I had 8 at the end haha
I love puzzles like this—the rule always seems obvious after you see it. It’s satisfying when something that sits in the back of your mind for years finally clicks.
Don't search for creator of the puzzle, you will be instantly spoilered. At least some search engines return pictures with spoilers.
Ah, typo is short for typographical error. I’v never realized that before.
Those pesky lead pieces all look the same eh!
Ever play the game Myst? As a kid that's exactly how it was. Days of banging my head and then a rush of finally figuring something out. Really miss that
I recommend Outer Wilds then.
Go in as blind as possible. They recommend a controller over mouse and keyboard and they mean it. The DLC is just as good as the base game, but I'd tackle it after doing the main objective.
Outer Wilds or Outer Worlds because I've heard good things about both but know nothing about either.
I have played Chants of Zenaar some which also hits the feeling.
Outer wilds.
Outer Worlds is just a fairly mediocre sci-fi RPG (IMHO).
Outer Wilds.
I think The Outer Worlds was just an RPG.
Wilds is a mystery game of aha moments.
Take a look on tunic, but it comes with some combat action, which may not be what you are looking for.
I've looked at Tunic before but it always looked more like Zelda to me. I dunno why but I've always bounced off Zelda.
I don't like Zelda games myself but loved tunic. The puzzles are completely different than Zelda, much more interesting. The other commenter mentioned you can tone the combat down. Maybe worth a try if it is on sale.
You can turn that down and I highly recommend doing so.
I found the combat to be quite obnoxious.
For everyone saying it's the difference between the two numbers, it's not it. Because the last one should be 8 to follow the rule
Oh shit, I thought it was OP just being a dummy. Turns out I'm the dummy
Figured it out. Weirdly, knowing you solved it made me confident I could too, and I don't even know you 🤔
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I focused on the anomaly ignoring the rest, tried to see what possible rules could lead to it, then went back to see which rule also applied to the "non-anomalous" numbers.
This is exactly how George Bernard Dantzig proved two previously unproven statistical theorems, when he thought they were homework assignments.
Once I saw a video about Mario Kart speedrunning history and there was a record on Rainbow Road that lasted for years. Than someone broke it but just told the community without showing how it was done. In a couple of days someone else figured it out and did it too. Sometimes we just need to know it is possible
Wow, I just woke up and saved this to have a nice puzzle to work on for a while but I figured it out in like a minute... Kinda disappointed that happened to be honest.
Same thing happened to me lol. I was thinking about primes, how numbers might add up, multiply, etc, and then I noticed the actual pattern. Womp womp lol.
Free clue: It’s not 15. That solution doesn’t work for the bottom numbers, and it’s very clearly stated that the 7 is not a typo.
Edit: What makes this puzzle so good is that it tempts you with an “obvious” solution that works with all but the last set, but there’s an equally obvious solution that does fit every set, if you can shake yourself free of the fist one.
Thanks but I'll ignore the last set and win
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I prime factored everything and was looking at ways to manipulate the factors together in a sensible rule. Seemed like a good approach, with the prime numbers at the end.
Now I'm a bit disappointed that
spoiler
it was just the digits and not the factors...
This felt like a word puzzle where you have to make an analogous leap beyond surface meaning of words.
Hah, took me nearly a minute.
Tap for spoiler
Add the digits on both sides.
? = 12
But I only got it so quickly because I enjoyed a similar puzzle once.
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
...
continue the series.
Nice puzzle, at first you go "wtf last should be 8" but then I read the last sentence "not a typo" and took some minutes to crack it. If it wasn't for having seen a similar solution in a different puzzle I would have been completely lost and once you know the solution it's impossible to not see it. I can see how the author of the puzzle really liked it.
I figured it out in about 3 minutes. I think I'm autistic or something
Took me a bit more and I'm not autistic. But: see below.
Hint that helped me
Reading op claiming he figured it by just looking at it and not making complicated calculations on a piece of paper probably helped a lot.
Same... My brain was hungry for a puzzle to dig into and now its already over. Big sad.
Oh i see,
Its
solution
12
You add up the digits.
(7+2)+(9+9)=9+18=27
9+(4+5)=9+9=18
(1+8)+(3+9)=9+12=21
(2+1)+(3+6)=3+9=12
3+(2+8)=3+10=13
(1+3)+(2+1)=4+3=7
Yay
Took me about 20 minutes. There's a rule you find first that would work if the 7 was an 8. But it isn't. So there's another rule.
What the heck man I have things to do today.
20 minutes. 2 minutes of elation. This is unethical to post without content warnings.
