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OT - Self-referential number puzzle
Your task is to fill in the spaces in the selection below with simple integers, so that the entire selection is true. There's no wordplay involved, or anything else shifty - it's just a mater of finding the set of responses that don't invalidate something elsewhere in the group:
- - - - - The number 0 appears __ times. The number 1 appears __ times. The number 2 appears __ times. The number 3 appears __ times. The number 4 appears __ times. The number 5 appears __ times. The number 6 appears __ times. The number 7 appears __ times. The number 8 appears __ times. The number 9 appears __ times. - - - - - Your job - copy the text between the dividers, and paste it with your responses in each blank so that each line is true for the entire selection. For instance, you cannot put a "1" on the second line, because once you do, there are two instances of the number "1" in the selection. If you put down a "2" on the second line, then you can only use the number "1" one more time anywhere else in the puzzle, so the total works out correctly. Good luck. |
Oh, forgive the grammar error caused by the phrase "1 times" - not intended to alter the puzzle.
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I have an answer, but I can't remember how to do the invisible text trick so I'll let others have a shot at it.
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Spoilers....?
The number 0 appears 1 times. The number 1 appears 7 times. The number 2 appears 3 times. The number 3 appears 2 times. The number 4 appears 1 times. The number 5 appears 1 times. The number 6 appears 1 times. The number 7 appears 2 times. The number 8 appears 1 times. The number 9 appears 1 times. What am I missing, because I know I'm not that good at these. :) There seems to be a rule buildable out of this somewhere... |
That's what I have too, Celevel.
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Me too.
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That's what I get, too. Okay, not so tough, eh?
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that's what I got...
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