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.
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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.
I figured it out took about 10 minutes, thought i was onto it immediately until I had 8 at the end haha
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Ah, typo is short for typographical error. I’v never realized that before.
Those pesky lead pieces all look the same eh!
Don’t search for creator of the puzzle, you will be instantly spoilered. At least some search engines return pictures with spoilers.
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.
I was more of a Return to Zork kid. I’d work my way up to each character, and then kill that character to see their death scene. Then I’d start over and work my way to the next. I got all the way to the vulture at the cave, and stopped playing because I was told there were no more people to murder after that.
I always got eaten by the grue sadly.
Loved that game and every game in that series. Part of the fun was being dropped into this world with no clues and just having to feel your way around.
I admit that I surrendered after a while and got a walkthrough, which was followed by several hours of, “Oh for fucks sake I could have figured that out!”
Every once in a while I definitely needed the walkthrough too. I hear blue price hits the same feeling. My wife and I just need to find time to dive into it together
Did you ever read the tie-in novels?
I have, I picked up the Myst Reader which collects all three from a used book sale a while back. I remember them being a fun read. Nothing mind blowing but a fun jaunt through more Myst
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
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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
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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
Amazing story 💫
Thank you
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.
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
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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.
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Oh that’s easier to read in me eyes
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 wish I saw this first. I’m very prone to off-by-one errors.
I opened the comments thinking that I solved it, then some comments with broken spoiler tags essentially spoiled the actual answer for me, despite my best efforts to ignore them.
With these types of puzzles, I normally start looking for solutions that don’t just involve the obvious operations. Had I seen your comment first, I would’ve continued playing with the first thing I noticed (and later abandoned for the wrong solution) and I think I would’ve got there by myself eventually.
Either others need to be more mindful of their spoiler tags, or I need to stop using Sync for Lemmy. It’s probably the latter; I’ve seen such weird formatting that only makes sense if I assume Sync’s Markdown renderer is broken.
