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Rainbow Reasoning
It is a little known fact that due to an error in the original design of the rainbow, the order of the colors- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet- is actually incorrect!
Consider the letters of "rainbow"
R A I N B O W
Place one and only one color under each of the seven letter so that each color is under a letter that it contains. Now consider only their first letters.
If there are no adjacent vowels then the correct order is _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Consider the letters of "rainbow"
R A I N B O W
Place one and only one color under each of the seven letter so that each color is under a letter that it contains. Now consider only their first letters.
If there are no adjacent vowels then the correct order is _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Answer
ROVGBIY(Red, orAnge, vIolet, greeN, Blue, indigO, yelloW.)
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I think this may only be correct sometimes, as Y is sometimes a vowel, and thus shouldn't be next to the I.
There are actually 2 possible answers for this teaser.
ROVGBIY is indeed an answer, but so is ROIGBVY -- Indigo and Violet both contain both I and O in their names.
ROVGBIY is indeed an answer, but so is ROIGBVY -- Indigo and Violet both contain both I and O in their names.
Scratch my last comment -- I missed the "no adjacent vowels" rule
True, Y can also e considered a vowel, but in this case, the Y in YELLOW is used as a consonant. Thanks for the comments
May 11, 2005
it is not that easy but many can solve it
strange
I wasn't sure I understood the directions and then because I always considered the color PURPLE to be in the rainbow rather than indigo and violet, I didn't come up with the answer. Oddly enough, you had labeled them in the body of the teaser and I didn't pick up on it.
Silly me...
Silly me...
Meh....
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