Yes, to one of those. But I hate to tell you which one, since you don't even know. Because it does fit, and it is specific. Can you figure out which one, and why?

Saw:

Cutting Saw

See Saw

Saw something on TV or a screen?

Certainly if you had all the odd currencies from 1 cent to 49 cents as well as a 50-cent piece, you could do it. This would require 26 coins. But perhaps there's a better solution.

Also this solution wouldn't work for even numbers above 50 cents.

Oh man, once you see it you wonder why you couldn't get it!!

Could do it with every 10 and every 1 also.

So 1-9 and 10,20,30-90

Makes 18 coins.

18 coins is the minimum but there are 3 ways it could be made (possibly more).

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,14,22,30,38,46,54,62,70,78,86,94

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,16,25,34,43,52,61,70,79,88,97

Could do it with every 10 and every 1 also.

So 1-9 and 10,20,30-90

Makes 18 coins.

Certainly if you had all the odd currencies from 1 cent to 49 cents as well as a 50-cent piece, you could do it. This would require 26 coins. But perhaps there's a better solution.

Destiny

ON - Topic

Tree of Destiny

OR

Tree of knowledge of good and evil

Sandcastle

I actually thought that too, but now I don't feel like it fits .

Clutch?

Yay! Congratulations!

I was thinking about this too, but I wanted to hear it from adiace. This system also means that after we exhaust all 2-digit numbers (after 97) the next numbers will be 000, 002, 003, etc, so the whole thing starts all over.

Yup. I'm working it that way now to see if there's a better pattern than there was without the 0's (it was terrible without).

Hopefully Adiace gets back to us soon to confirm or deny .

Each of them wants their horse to go slower than the other's horse.

By trading horses, they now want their brother to lose the race (riding their horse) so they both go as fast as they can to try to beat their own horse...

that was less confusing in my head. Hope it helped.

I don't get it.

No, Nevo cannot be the strongest. In your possibility, you say that Onyx is stronger than Nevo - which would mean that Nevo isn't the strongest. Either Merlin is #1 and he picked Nevo correctly as #2, or Merlin is #2 or #3 picking Nevo as #3 or #2. Nevo cannot be the strongest

Where's the sequal!

Ok, I'm sorry. I used a flippable number in my example. Let me restate my question.

How does Fred assign someone a number 02 or 002 or 000002? Basically the question is what is the sequence of assigning the numbers? Which number will be assigned before and after 02 for example?

Well crap, I think after you posed your question I understood it a little better.

Let me take a stab at the numbering system.

0,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,00,02,03,04,05,07,11,12,13,14,15,17,20...

0 as a digit, it comes after nothing and before 1?

Also along the same lines, but no(not sure what they're called ether, but I know what you mean).

Stacking dolls. Or Russian Nesting Dolls (My mom had some that I played with and broke as a child... Then later I found out they were really expensive)

Picture in a Picture on TV?

OR

like in Men in Black where our universe is a marble that other species play with. And their univers is a ....

1 is different from 01.... Fred would assign 1, but will not assign 01 as if read upside down it would read 10, just to be safe he will avoid 10 too. Basically any number that can be reversed and have a different meaning. Since it is a telephone number we do not ignore those starting 0.

So can 010 be assigned in the place of 10? I'm basically trying to figure out which exclusions exist and I thought I had a pattern but I actually forgot about 0 as well as I eliminated numbers like 609 (which is ok to flip) before realizing they'd be ok.

edit: As soon as I posted that I realized 609 is probably not ok because unless these bacteria actually flip their numbers 180 degrees and not just upside down, 609 would turn into 906 .

edit2: Nevermind... as far as I can see 609 should be ok. Because with it upside down (not 180) it's not a number.

scrambled?

That would fit the last stanza but don't forget the other 3. If no one gets it before I go to lunch I'll put a hint in spoilers.

I feel like it's when you have a surveillance camera set up so that it's actually recording the screen on which it's viewed, so that there is a picture of the screen on the screen and a picture of that screen within etc....

I'm equally confused which is why I figured 10 was ok... since there wouldn't be a 01.

I don't know where to go anymore because I don't think I even understand the numbering system now...

Gas?

Momentum?

Not yet, keep in mind each stanza has the same answer and there are 4 now (added another one a few posts back).

Hopefully I didn't miss something and make this unsolvable

A tattoo

Additional Stanza!

The old hen wondered about her brood

how many would live or become food

Their journies together as a batch

For they still had yet to hatch

A Forge?

A Treehouse?

second swat

1. i think it could be 5093 or 0193

if it was 5093 he had never forgoten his key if it was 0193 all you know is the last key was 0163 or 5063

which would mean if it was 5063 it was the first miss

if it was 0163 then it could have been (and on and on)

3. if it started with 1111 then every 4 turns the second position goes up two so in 20 it goes up 10

so 20 misses or

21 codes

however i think it is possible that it could have been any multiple of 200 misses or

multiple of 200 +1 codes

i kept saying misses instead of forgotten keys

hope i understood the process right

Correct!

I actually missed the second solution of it starting with a 0, which of course tells you nothing about how many times the code has changed.

I know it's a fairly simple problem, but thanks for humoring me and working with the poor syntax .

i think imm missing something

if its is odd it has to have started that way

so

1. just programed

2.0

3.1

My clues were probably misleading, they start in order from left to right. So my first clue refers to the furthest left digit (thousands place) and the last one refers to the furthest right digit (ones place).