Very elegantly designed puzzle :)
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Took me a few tries until I figured it out. It's cunningly misleading but it's not a trick puzzle (as I had suspected from some people's comments). There is a simple pattern.
I prime factored everything and was looking at ways to manipulate the factors together in a sensible rule. Seemed like a good approach, with the prime numbers at the end.
Now I'm a bit disappointed that
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it was just the digits and not the factors...
This felt like a word puzzle where you have to make an analogous leap beyond surface meaning of words.
Holy shit got it!!!!!
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12
I saw that number but was frustrated for not understanding the process of getting to that answer.
I still keep thinking it's 15, which I know is wrong, and then I math in 14,but I can't figure out a function. Does someone want to dm me or spoiler me the function how it works? My brain is too full of more important stuff and I cannot make room for this. But I must know!
Ahaha that's so cheeky! Delightful
Fun puzzle - thanks for sharing!
I got it! 🎉
I’m afraid that this post has ruined my evening. I can’t figure it out and can’t let it go. I hate this.
Edit: I would not have survived if my life depended on my answer. I had to read through four to five people talking about methods until I noticed it. I’m really a stupid person.
Figured it out. Not sure what everyone means by a second obvious solution that doesn't work on the last one. My first solution that works on more than one works on all of them.