A party is being held at a local mansion. The host is very rich and his success is because of one thing - his famous recipe for spaghetti. He has pushed your tiny spaghetti startup to the side, and sabotaging him is your only hope of achieving dominance in the spaghetti marketplace.
The only guests that may attend are people who correctly reply to the guard at the door.
You hope to get in without invitation, and dye the spaghetti neon pink so that the rich host's reputation is ruined. You watch as guests come to the door. The guard asks them a question, and they draw a picture in the sand:
The guard says "Three". The guest draws this picture and is admitted:
The guard says "Nine". The guest draws this picture and is admitted:
The guard says "Forty". The guest draws this picture and is admitted:
The guard says "Ninety-nine". The guest draws this picture and is admitted:
The guard says "Eight". The guest draws this picture and is forced to work in a spaghetti factory for the rest of his life:
You approach the door. The guard says "Twelve". What picture should you draw in the sand to be admitted?
Hints:
- The puzzle becomes somewhat harder without the whitespace on the drawings. See the revision history for (giant) versions of the drawings including whitespace.
- Each number corresponds to exactly one drawing, each drawing may correspond to multiple numbers.