Find the missing numbers in this sequence. There are only these 12 terms, in order, which do not directly depend on each other:

43, 34, 111, 110, ?, 132, 133, ?, 33, 43, ?, 37

Ok, I admit this type of puzzle is not my forte.  I've tried some things which seem obvious to me.  First, since there are 12 elements, I tried comparing the existing elements to other common lists containing 12 elements, (specifically, month names, zodiac signs, and Chinese zodiac animals) using the ennumerated alphabet (a=1, b=2 etc.).  No luck.

I then thought to check to see if perhaps the tens or ones digits meant something independently like the number of syllables in the corresponding word, but none of the 3 lists I referenced held up to that test either.

My next thought was to plug in ASCII text values for the existing elements.  This was thwarted when I realized that 132 and 133 have no character values, and the rest were just +"on!+% (nonsense.)

I then tried graphing the given points on a 2D line graph with spaces for the missing elements to see if it made a visual pattern with obvious completion points.  However it just looks like a jagged, random line to me.

I'm at a loss, can't wait to see some more enlightened analysis of this.

Posted by John on 2005-01-06 20:49:56