@AncientSwordRage probably not a huge enough parody, in the end it is sorta just a number sequence with a bit of a twist, theres not really another puzzle type hidden anywhere within
The idea def has potential to be a parody, off the top of my head you could have done something like the next number being 'B4A' in base 13, and then having to take the numbers or letters before the letter A to spell something out, and that way you'd get steganography in there as a different puzzle type
But yeah, probably as it stands it works the same as most other normal number sequences, although I do like the idea of having to work out the introduction of letters all of a sudden
What is the next number in this sequence, and why?
4 2 3 4 6 2 4 8 3 _?
Also, since people here find sequence questions to be arbitrary, the following uses the same rule. What number is next?
4 5 6 4 4 8 9 2 2 9 3 9 4 3 4 4 4 6 2 _?
Attribution: Me. I wrote this, and expect it to be answered fai...
Welcome To Floor Negative One.
Each number is the sum of the previous two numbers.
Start from C @ 1, 6 long. At the end of the chain, every letter resets the count. Spaces exempt.
@AncientSwordRage: I've seen that you have poasted a hint for the "Three people in France" puzzle. (Or a non-hint, at least to me. I don't find it particularly helpful.)
I had looked at that puzzle earlier, and my only idea was that if the thing alledgedly given to the poor was a brioche and the three were in one of the places n France called Roche, the'd all three be bi. (But -scuit isn't anything on their table, as far as I can see.)
A while ago, I made this puzzle and gave it to my friend. But his comment was not so good. "This looks fine except it's not realistic", he said. I know he is smart but ... :( I don't want to believe that.
Anyway, what do you think about this puzzle?
@MOehm My thoughts on this puzzle were that they are all rot13(evpu, tvivat n 'evpu GRN' ovfphvg, bar bs gurz orvat SVYGUL evpu, naq gur OevBpuR yrnqvat gb guvf cynpr va Senapr: link). However, I can't make the second half work yet... There's a LOT of unknowns here, and I can't work out if 'place of birth' is a country, town or a type of building...
Oh, that's better, @Stiv. Quite promising, even, and it fits with ASR/PF's comment above.
@AncientSwordRage Aha, thanks. I think Stiv has a better way in to the second part. (The few Roches in France seem to be rather small with fewer inhabitants than the place Stiv suggested. I guess that La Rochelle, the "little Roche" is better known than either.)
(I just picked Roche, because it sounded like a plausible name for a place in France. And now that I've seen the clarification, I was on the wrong track all along: I didn't consider adding something could lead to an expression with several words and therefore would have thought that "it" would appear three times in the letter pool, which encouraged me: Bibi is a likely nickname.)
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition was the first play written by Arthur Kopit.
== Background ==
Kopit was on a postgraduate scholarship from Harvard University when he entered the play in a playwriting contest. The play won the contest and an undergraduate production at Harvard, and gained the notice of the Phoenix Theatre in New York. Kopit explained: "I had been writing short stories, and I was having a lot of trouble with the narrative point of view. When I wrote a play, I found that I lost myself...
From Wikipedia: Plot: Described by the author as a "farce in three scenes", the story involves an overbearing mother who travels to a luxury resort in the Caribbean, bringing along her son and her deceased husband, preserved and in his casket.