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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 04:06 PM
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Brain Teaser!
Each number shown below follows a certain rule. Figure out the rule and fill in the missing number from the choices given.


January 20
April 10
May 5
November 15
July ?


5 10 15 20 25

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Briarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 04:27 PM
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1. 25? n/t
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aePrime Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 04:30 PM
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2. 10
Edited on Sun Feb-20-05 04:38 PM by aePrime
That's my opinion, at least.

Edited to say that I do have a reason for my guess.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 04:51 PM
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5. The reason is important
Why did you choose 10?
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aePrime Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 04:57 PM
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6. Multiples of 5
Of course, the first thing that jumped out at me were that the numbers were multiples of five, so I started playing with 5 and properties of the month. Looking at month numbers, first letters, days. But, it seems that number of syllables in the words times 5 gives the answer. It has nothing to do with months at all! Unless I'm completely wrong and it just happens to be a coincidence.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:02 PM
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8. You got it! Congratulations!
This question is from the MENSA Workout at www.mensa.org. It is one of the questions I missed. }(

Yes, each syllable is worth 5.

U pretty smart!

Well done. :)
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aePrime Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:07 PM
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10. Thanks
:) It took me a while to figure it out. I spent way too much time on number of days in the month.
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:13 PM
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13. you're SO smart!! congrats !
:toast:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 04:30 PM
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3. I'm going with 20
Just a guess.
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 04:34 PM
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4. 25
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sans qualia Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:00 PM
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7. 10
Number of syllables * 5 ?
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:03 PM
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9. Don't feel bad if you missed.
Edited on Sun Feb-20-05 05:12 PM by Floogeldy
I missed it, too.

Difficult.
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:10 PM
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11. I'm gonna pout now.
nice star :hi:
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:15 PM
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14. Thank you!
Somebody has got to pay for all the bandwith I take up. ;-)
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:17 PM
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16. LOL
well they did !
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sans qualia Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:12 PM
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12. Did you notice that
the numbers also seem to (roughly) correlate with temperature such that colder months get higher numbers and hotter months get lower ones?
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 05:16 PM
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15. I didn't
Good observation, though.
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