Biotop Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 I am thinking of a number. The number, if spelled out in English, is nine letters long. Exactly 5 of these 9 letters are vowels (a, e, i, o or u). What is the number? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted June 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 A good guess... but that is not the number I am thinking of. The number I am thinking of is only one word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 petfit Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 kilometre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 grympher Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Spoiler You need to think of a different kind of "number" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 grympher Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Answer: Spoiler Novocaine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted July 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 16 minutes ago, grympher said: Answer: Hide contents Novocaine That is the number I am thinking of ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 flamebirde Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Mind explaining how exactly the answer counts as a number? I still don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Silently be in doubt and subtle... Spoiler the number in the OP should be read with a silent B Note: Although the word "number" as it pertains to pain (killer) exists as an adjective as in "I can still feel that Doc, can you make it number?" it does not formally exist as a noun. Although in the spirit of a riddle I feel its use here is perfectly acceptable and quite clever. Certainly I think all would understand what is meant if one says, "I need a number Doc, the pain is killing me." Nice riddle Biotop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted October 6, 2017 Report Share Posted October 6, 2017 On 7/10/2017 at 9:21 AM, plainglazed said: Silently be in doubt and subtle... Hide contents the number in the OP should be read with a silent B Note: Although the word "number" as it pertains to pain (killer) exists as an adjective as in "I can still feel that Doc, can you make it number?" it does not formally exist as a noun. Although in the spirit of a riddle I feel its use here is perfectly acceptable and quite clever. Certainly I think all would understand what is meant if one says, "I need a number Doc, the pain is killing me." Nice riddle Biotop! I literally laughed out loud when I read the answer. I thought it was going to be meh, but it ended up being much more clever than I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I am thinking of a number. The number, if spelled out in English, is nine letters long. Exactly 5 of these 9 letters are vowels (a, e, i, o or u).
What is the number?
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