Reply #51: Hmm

[MedleyMisty]

Answering before reading the rest of the thread.

It could be 44, but that's boring and predictable. 10 9 11 10, a pattern of adding and subtracting one - it'd go on to be 12 11 13 12, etc.

42 is cool - 10 9 11 8, adding one and then subtracting one - it'd go on to be 12 7 13 6. Plus, you know - 42 is the answer. ;)

Trying to look for other patterns that make sense - don't get anything from 4 5 5 7. Haha - I'd totally make a puzzle like 1 12 21, what's the next number? And the answer would be any combination that would add up to 7, so the sums of the number pairs would spell out 1337. :)

Looking at the numbers themselves but not getting anything from that - there is the 1 2 3 pattern but not sure what to do with 4 4 3 4, in that case.

It's late and I haven't eaten much today, so I'm going to stop there.