How many answers?
Creeker
THIS SENTENCE HAS _____ LETTERS.
BTW, I know of at least 13 different ways to answer this
question.
How many can you puzzlers come up with?
-Scott
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Mark Thompson
<scottcra...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
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>THIS SENTENCE HAS _____ LETTERS.
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>BTW, I know of at least 13 different ways to answer this
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>How many can you puzzlers come up with?
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THIS SENTENCE HAS 22 LETTERS.
THIS SENTENCE HAS a lot of LETTERS.
THIS SENTENCE HAS many LETTERS.
Oh, obviously we could substitute the spellings for different numbers
in it but that would take up a lot of time and I'm lazy :)
Creeker
In article <mk6pfsgfchses2so9...@4ax.com>, Mark
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>THIS SENTENCE HAS 22 LETTERS.
>THIS SENTENCE HAS a lot of LETTERS.
>THIS SENTENCE HAS many LETTERS.
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OK...new rule - the blank MUST refer to a specific number, and
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just a generalized answer.
This means we have one answer - 22! Any other answers?
Alan Morgan
Creeker <scottcra...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
>Fill in the blank so that the following sentence is true:
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>THIS SENTENCE HAS _____ LETTERS.
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>BTW, I know of at least 13 different ways to answer this
>question.
>How many can you puzzlers come up with?
I can come up with a countably infinite number of solutions.
THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY ONE LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY ONE ADDED TO TEN LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY ONE ADDED TO TEN ADDED TO TEN LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY ONE ADDED TO TEN ADDED TO TEN ..... LETTERS
Here's are some more
THIS SENTENCE HAS ELEVEN LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS XXVI LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS LESS THAN 8 BILLION LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY AND SIX LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS FIFTY MINUS TWELVE LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS NO HEBREW LETTERS
Alan
Stephen Kloder
> This means we have one answer - 22! Any other answers?
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this sentence has thirty-one letters
this sentence has thirty-three letters
--
Stephen Kloder | "I say what it occurs to me to say.
step...@cc.gatech.edu | More I cannot say."
Phone 404-874-6584 | -- The Man in the Shack
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Wesley Clifford
This Sentence Has Zero Plus One Minus One Plus Four To The Third Power
Letters
--Wesley
The only stupid question is the unasked question.
And that's a good thing, because I hate stupid questions!
Sam Wilson
THIS SENTENCE HAS TWENTY PLUS TWENTY-ONE LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS FORTY-SEVEN PLUS ONE MINUS ONE LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS TWENTY-FOUR TIMES TWO TIMES ONE LETTERS
Are language changes accepted?
THIS SENTENCE HAS TRENTE-DEUX LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS TRENTE-TROIS LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS TRENTE-QUATRE LETTERS
Beth Wilson
ButtSchnaz
>Subject: Re: How many answers?
>From: Sam Wilson wils...@home.com
>Date: 4/18/00 9:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <38FD1035...@home.com>
Brian Tung
THIS SENTENCE HAS LETTERS.
Brian Tung <br...@isi.edu>
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Creeker
to have a great ability to expand on these....
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THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-THREE
22
TEN (if you only count different letters)
TWELVE (again, if you only count different letters)
XXV
XXVI
XXVII
XXVIII
THIRTY PLUS SEVEN
FORTY MINUS FOUR
NINETEEN TIMES TWO
EIGHTY-SIX DIVIDED BY TWO
Creeker
In article <8dngg4$tp8$1...@zot.isi.edu>, br...@zot.isi.edu (Brian
Tung) wrote:
>> THIS SENTENCE HAS CAPITAL LETTERS.
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>THIS SENTENCE HAS LETTERS.
Bzzzt....I'm sorry. Thank you for playing! I stipulated in a
follow-up message that the blank MUST refer to a specific number,
and not just a generalized answer.
-Scott
Dan Tilque
Very nice, except for the niggling detail that it only has 34 letters.
But it can be easily fixed:
THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY AND FIVE LETTERS
New ones:
THIS SENTENCE HAS TWENTY-FIVE PLUS NINETEEN LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS TWENTY-SEVEN PLUS EIGHTEEN LETTERS
THIS SENTENCE HAS TWENTY-EIGHT PLUS SIXTEEN LETTERS
--
Dan Tilque
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...that in Canadian units, Canada is actually a
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Alan Morgan
Dan Tilque <dti...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <8di763$pi4$1...@nntp.Stanford.EDU>,
> amo...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Morgan) wrote:
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>> THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY AND SIX LETTERS
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>Very nice, except for the niggling detail that it only has 34 letters.
Typical. I come up with a brilliant solution and some pedantic
bastard dismisses it over a technicality.
Alan
Dan Tilque
amo...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Morgan) wrote:
> In article <8doklu$7aq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Dan Tilque <dti...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >In article <8di763$pi4$1...@nntp.Stanford.EDU>,
> > amo...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Morgan) wrote:
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> >> THIS SENTENCE HAS THIRTY AND SIX LETTERS
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> >Very nice, except for the niggling detail that it only has 34
letters.
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> Typical. I come up with a brilliant solution and some pedantic
> bastard dismisses it over a technicality.
Hey, this is rec.puzzles, pedantic is our middle name.
--
Dan "pedantic bastard" Tilque
Dan Tilque
Creeker <scottcra...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
> Here's the answers I originally had in mind, and this group seems
> to have a great ability to expand on these....
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> TWELVE (again, if you only count different letters)
But if you want to avoid the parenthetical notes, try
THIS SENTENCE HAS FOURTEEN DIFFERENT LETTERS