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The Riddle of the Years
Series
Series teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of letters, numbers or objects.Series
What is the next year is this series?
1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003
1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003
Hint
Divide and conquer.Answer
The next one in the sequence is 2011. They are all prime numbers (a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself).Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Was clueless, but I got it after reading the hint. Good one
I liked this teaser (mostly because I like teasers I can't answer) and gave it a high rating.
But someone UNconfuse me. Your teaser asked for "year" and your answer gave "number".
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But someone UNconfuse me. Your teaser asked for "year" and your answer gave "number".
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Thanks for the comment Badbunnee02. Sorry about the tricky wording of this teaser but in this case I wanted this teaser to be tricky which is why I picked numbers that were also recent years. Plus most people use numbers to identify different years so the year is also a number. This might not work in China where they have animal names for the years (e.g. the year of the horse, dog, dragon, etc.) but even then I think they also use the Gregorian calendar and number years the same way we do.
Thanks for the help.
AND... the prompt reply
BB02
AND... the prompt reply
BB02
Excellent teaser, I figured out that it was prime numbers but couldn't come up with the next prime number
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