Braingle: 'Number Trouble' Riddle

Number Trouble

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Puzzle ID:	#22260
Fun:	(2.95)
Difficulty:	(2.25)
Category:	Riddle
Submitted By:	brgdo1994
Corrected By:	Mysterious

What number, when spelled out, has no repeated letters and has each of the vowels (not including Y) once?

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Comments

TopOMornin Apr 14, 2005	Wow... I did not realize that! Good one!!!!!
froggygg Apr 14, 2005	I gave up before I got anywhere near the correct answer. Good job.
icequeen05 Apr 14, 2005	i thought the number 1 o-n-e but 5,000 works, 2 f-i-v-e t-h-o-u-s-a-n-d
Master_Yoda Apr 14, 2005	Good teaser. I tried counting up, but never got that far.
FeaerFactorY666 Apr 15, 2005	This was a hard (but good) one. I just went right to the answer... I'm such a party pooper
rotwyla98 Apr 16, 2005	one doesnt have all of the vowels though.. i knew thousand had to be in there so i started counting up from there
unklemyke Apr 19, 2005	Eight Thousand works also- you didn't say you were looking for the smallest number
darthforman Apr 19, 2005	I stopped counting after one and went straight to he answer. It's cool. I liked it.
darthforman Apr 19, 2005	I went straight to THE answer. (my typing skills need improving)
darthforman Apr 19, 2005
brain_dead Apr 24, 2005	had to think about that one for a second
(user deleted) Apr 27, 2005	five thousand would werk too. f-i-v-e-t-h-o-u-s-a-n-d I liked it though!
rotwyla98 May 14, 2005	five thousand is the answer...
monkeydavis05 Jul 27, 2005	i got eight thousand too... doesn't that work??
leftclick Aug 01, 2007	Nice one I got "two hundred and six". Americans don't say "and" but British and Australians do, so it works for me
mosca Dec 01, 2007	Uh....eight thousand has some repeated letters, so it wouldn't work! Very nice teaser!
Zag24 Jan 14, 2009	If you're ok with saying it poetically, then "four and eighty" fits the bill and has all the vowels, including Y. (By 'poetically' I am referring to the song "four and twenty blackbirds ...")
donquixote235 Feb 25, 2009	I had gone for eight thousand as well, but it does indeed have repeated letters ("t" and "h" to be precise).
bradon182001 Feb 25, 2009	I was thinking way down the list, like thirteen, fourteen and then gave up. Good thing, I'd still be counting. Good teaser. Thanks for posting.
auntiesis Feb 25, 2009	I knew right off the bat that it had to be thousand, but then I thought 1,005 has all the vowels. Then I realized the o was repeated, so I gave up. Close , but no cigar.
avonma Feb 25, 2009	I got it within 10 seconds and I thought it would have to be a long word (s) to contain all the letters. So I didn't try to count up from 1. I knew "thousand" had 3 of the vowels, so "five" had the other 2 I needed. FUN! THANKS! I do much better with words than numbers. Maybe I need to write out with words all of my math problems...
kwelchans Feb 25, 2009	I like zag24's answer.
kasiecom Feb 25, 2009	would the lowest number, if that is what the braingle was implying, not be one thousand fifty.
kasiecom Feb 25, 2009	correction: one thousand five
kasiecom Feb 25, 2009	correction of correction: thousand five
wordmama Feb 25, 2009	We don't say "thousand five" so it couldn't be the answer!! It took me a minute or so, but I got to the correct answer, five thousand. It was satisfying to figure it out!!
Jimmymo Feb 25, 2009	That was a good one. Once i figured it was a number in the thousands it went quick! Very fun!
UptheHill Feb 25, 2009	Nice1!!!
FatHead Feb 25, 2009	Too easy, once I remember that 1000 was the smallest with an 'a'.
BrainyWitch94 Feb 25, 2009	cool but I think there are more interesting things on here.
(user deleted) Feb 25, 2009	How bout this one? -4 (nEgAtIve fOUr)
zaya Feb 25, 2009	col726 - negative has two "e"s I thought that would be really hard, but got to five thousand pretty quickly (had to be a bigger #, no teens, no hundred given 2 ds, then try thousands). Nice one.
kasiecom Feb 25, 2009	What do we say if we do not say thousand five ? Please explain.
sammydj Feb 25, 2009	i got eight thousand
trickster2005 Feb 25, 2009	i got it! i love these
Fasil Feb 26, 2009	five thousand six thousand ten eight thousand nine thousand ten thousand six -includes "y"- six thousand twenty ten thousand sixty twenty six thousand
Fasil Feb 26, 2009	oops "no repeated letters" opens mouth inserts foot
Lil_Dork May 16, 2009	v cool -K
Babe Feb 25, 2012	It took too much time to stop and figure out so I did not even try.
MAPHESTIPHOLUS Feb 25, 2012	Five thousand, Eight thousand or Nine thousand...all work.
quads84 Feb 25, 2012	I started off with "one thousand", but knew there were two 'o's. It took me about 2 minutes (because I quickly ran 1-10, 20, 30, etc. to one hundred to make sure there were no 'a's down there). But, once I was sure it had to be ____ thousand, I found it quite quickly.
spikethru4 Feb 25, 2012	@kasie, 1005 is spelt 'one thousand (and) five', depending on nationality. eigHT THousand and NiNe thousaNd do not work because of repeated letters. The only number components that do not contain repeated letters are 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 40, 60, 80 and 1000. Since 1000 is the only one to contain an A, it must be in the answer. Five is the only one of the others to not share any letters with thousand and, happily, contains the missing vowels. Five thousand is therefore the ONLY solution.
cutebug Feb 25, 2012	I can only count to ten, so I didn't get it.
Bigfoot Feb 25, 2012	sorry to burst your bubble but Y is "NOT" a vowel. The vowels are a,e,i,o and u
JudyAWS Feb 25, 2012	My, my, Bigfoot. Are you sure about that?
thecatladycac Feb 25, 2012	Bigfoot In the word "try" the y is a vowel.
cribb19 Feb 25, 2012	I got EIght thOUsAnd instead fIvE thOUsAnd.
Mathgeek007 Feb 25, 2012	EIGHT THOUSAND REPEATS THE LETTER T. YOU CANNOT USE T TWICE.