HOW... PUZZLING!

Stay away from the white ones – coconut. Cheap air freshener coconut.
They taste nasty! Like biting into a whorehouse!

But where was I ….. ?

Oh yeah, the puzzle.
I posed a little number question to various colleagues last week.
On Friday I threatened to send a third series of numbers, which would make everything clear.

[For those just tuning in, the puzzle is this: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 25.
What do these numbers represent? Or, what is it that makes them a logical series? The second series of numbers is 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 41, 42, 46, 50. Same logic behind this series as the first.]

My colleagues have not figured it out. And yet..... it's SO obvious!


Third series:
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75.

Folks, the answer(s) should be absolutely clear now.
Really.


Or maybe not.

One of my coworkers (Bawiji) wrote "If there is a 4th series I will inflict great bodily harm upon you".


What a remarkable coincidence.
There actually IS a fourth series!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 91, 92, 96, 100.

Bawiji's response to this was "I am ignoring you. Go away. Isn't there any traffic outside that you can cavort in?"


There are actually an infinite number of series.
They all have two (2) signal characteristics - bonus points for defining those characteristics.

My imparting this last little fact has induced one of my coworkers to hit the bottle ("double fisting right now"), and another is scanning the street outside "for a kitten to squeeze. Hard".

I have been told that there are plans for a support group with card tables, folding chairs, cheap wine, crackers and name tags as soon as this ends.

I probably don’t need to tell you that I’m enjoying this immensely.


"If there is a 4th series I will inflict great bodily harm upon you"

Please look at these four series of numbers. What logic ties the numbers together, why are these series similar? What are these numbers?

1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 25.

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 41, 42, 46, 50.

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 91, 92, 96, 100.

Go on - you know the answer.

Please post it to my LETTER BOX.

What you write will not be shown, so as not to spoil it for anybody else.
Everybody who thinks they got it will be acknowledged when I give the solution.
At which point, I expect that there will be howls.


Feel free to leave your witty remarks, or tease the slow people, in the usual comment field.


BTW - I was eating some candy when I started writing this post.
In case you were wondering what it was that tasted like bordello solution.
Bleh!


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