7
Is it perhaps
Reasoning
5
what goes in the blank is
Because
So
5
Larry Literal believed that his wife
4
Building off Prim3numbah's response, I reason that the answer is again
Where Prim3numbah messed up in their reasoning:
I suspect this puzzle was posted today because:
4
Because
And
3
They are
Thanks to @LukasRotter for reminding me it was odd to even
@Amoz and @Stiv suggested some rather clever ways for a solution to n=1
Also, the solution to the "old joke" mentioned is
3
I think the physical "height" of this point would be
Reasoning
2
It's probably meant to be
All of the conditions match, with "between ! and #" meaning
2
As an alternative to @SteveV's strategy, there is another way to approach this puzzle, by considering:
Using this method, it is possible to use even smaller odd numbers than in that answer, right across the board:
Note that it is impossible to use this same technique to find a solution requiring the removal of just one letter...
2
The answer is that William had clues
To start with, here's what we can initially determine about the numbers for each clue:
Nickel-niobium-beryllium
SQRT(2)
π
e
Klaus Teuber game played around LA
SQRT(559)
Alpha (Feigenbaum's specifically; no need to make this puzzle harder than it already is)
SQRT(449)
886.., er, I can’t remember the last 2 digits
...
1
I would say that the answer is:
because:
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
