Yesterday I bought two tickets to a movie, which logically had consecutive numbers. I examined the numbers, which had four digits, and mentioned that the sum of the eight digits was 25.

A friend asked if any digit appeared more than twice out of the eight, and I answered him.

Other friend asked if the sum of the digits of either ticket was equal to 13, which I also answered.

And then, to my surprise, my daughter told me what the two numbers were!

What were they?

the two tickets will have to be 1299 and 1300, as it has double numbers in it and neither add to 13. The answers must have double numbers as any eight numbers that aren't repeated will exceed 25. If one of the set of numbers added to 13, the daughter could not know which were the correct numbers as there are many consecutive numbers whose digits add to 12 and 13 respectively... long winded but hopefully correct!

Posted by Scott on 2005-11-23 04:11:14