[chezlaw]

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37 24 23 RED125 30 49 32 CAT167 51 38 57 ANT195 56 44 57 MAN231 76 68 73 TWO287 74 76 68


solve for the next set of numbers and letters.

I made this puzzle and posted it a while ago, so far its unsolved.

(the letters dont HAVE to be a real word)

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There is no unique solution to this puzzle.

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yes there is. at least im 99.7% certain of that anyways.

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Well, actually, there isn't. It is a general principle that I'm referring to that applies to these sorts of 'sequence puzzles' as you might call them.

For example, what is the next number in this series: 1,4,9,16...? One possible answer is: 25. We get this answer by applying the 'rule': The next number in the sequence is the next natural square. But that is not the only right answer, because that is not the only rule that can explain the first four numbers in the sequence, yet yield a different next number. There are, in fact, an indefinite number of correct rules that we could invoke to yield an answer, each of which would correctly predict the first four numbers in the sequence, yet yield a different--but just as correct--next number. What's more, none of these solutions is more 'privileged' than any other; i.e., there is no philosophical or principled basis for deciding that one rule (like the rule you have in mind for your sequence, for example) is more 'correct' than another.

This goes back to Wittgenstein's discussion of 'following a rule' in the Investigations.

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im pretty sure that there are unique solutions to problems like this. Maybe not all of them, but certain "rules" usually must be repeated in the puzzle to make them undeniably correct.

If this puzzle happens to have more than 1 unique solution, the simplest logical solution is considered correct.



i think youre just mad cause you cant even get the letters.

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A good book on this is:
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter
from the guy who brought us Godel, Escher Bach

chez