The worlds first riddle!

52) the number of cards in a standard deck of playing cards without jokers
54) ditto with jokers
55) the age that you're granted senior citizen status

Tryagian: What were your answers for 41 to 45?

51 = Number of points for triple seventeen in a dart game
52 = whole weeks in a year
53 = number on Herbie the love bug (vw car)
54 = number of coloured squares on a Rubiks cube
55 = Sum of the numbers from one to ten

My apologies:



41 is the smallest number that is not of the form |2x - 3y|.

42 is the 5th Catalan number.

43 is the number of sided 7-iamonds.

44 is the number of derangements of 5 items.

45 is a Kaprekar number.

51 is the 6th Motzkin number. *
52 is the 5th Bell number.
53 is the only two digit number that is reversed in hexadecimal.
54 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of 3 squares in 3 ways.
55 is the largest triangular number in the Fibonacci sequence.



Whim:

51 = Number of points for triple seventeen in a dart game
52 = whole weeks in a year
53 = number on Herbie the love bug (vw car)
54 = number of coloured squares on a Rubiks cube
55 = Sum of the numbers from one to ten





Mark:

52) the number of cards in a standard deck of playing cards without jokers
54) ditto with jokers
55) the age that you're granted senior citizen status (I doubt this is true in say, China)


* 51

It is the 6th Motzkin number, telling the number of ways to draw non-intersecting chords between any six points on a circle's boundary, no matter where the points may be located on the boundary.

I would also have accepted:

Fifty-one is a pentagonal number as well as a centered pentagonal number (one of the few numbers to be both) and an 18-gonal number.

In astronomy
Messier object M51, a magnitude 8.0 spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy

The New General Catalogue object NGC 51, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -1407 September 2 and ended on 108 February 29. The duration of Saros series 51 was 1514.5 years, and it contained 85 solar eclipses. The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1105 June 13 and ended on 211 August 12. The duration of Saros series 51 was 1316.2 years, and it contained 74 lunar eclipses.


Fifty-one is also:

The atomic number of antimony
The code for international direct dial phone calls to Peru.
The model number of the P-51 Mustang WWII fighter aircraft
Part of the title of a collection of stories by Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales.
Area 51, a parcel of U.S. military-controlled land in southern Nevada, apparently containing a secret aircraft testing facility.


Turtlette:

"I just lost an interesting post."

Don't give up. When I lose things, I always find them behind the sofa. Go look.



The pain, oh! The pain.

56
57
58
59
60

57) the number of Heinz varieties
60) the number of seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, degrees in all of the angles of an equilateral triangle

56 = pounds in half a hundredweight
57 = number of points for hitting triple 19 in darts
58 = facets on a full brilliant cut stone
59 = minutes from first bell to last in completed 15-round boxing match
60 = months in a lustrum

I'm out of triples now

That's counterintuitive.

"Don't give up. When I lose things, I always find them behind the sofa. Go look." <----Are you laughing at me?

(i laugh at me to) look-->

I can't think of anything off the top of my head for your new numbers, so I get to watch.

56 is the number of reduced 5 x 5 Latin squares.
57 = 111 in base 7.
58 is the number of commutative semi groups of order 4.
59 is the smallest number whose 4th power is of the form a4+b4-c4.
60 is the smallest number divisible by 1 through 6.



Mark:

57) the number of Heinz varieties *
60) the number of seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, degrees in all of the angles of an equilateral triangle


* It is interesting to note, that the company currently sells 5,700 products.



Whim:

56 = pounds in half a hundredweight #
57 = number of points for hitting triple 19 in darts *
58 = facets on a full brilliant cut stone
59 = minutes from first bell to last in completed 15-round boxing match ( Do they still hold 15 round matches)
60 = months in a lustrum

* "I'm out of triples now" What! No triple 20



# Mark wrote, "That's counterintuitive." Never mind, at least he has run out of darts.

Li'l Turtle, I never laugh at people, only with them.



How far can we go?

61
62
63
64
65

* "I'm out of triples now" What! No triple 20

I meant for the next set. 60 I already answered.



61 = degrees farenheit reversed is the temperature in degrees celcius.
62 = house number of Wallace & Grommit.
63 = gallons in a hogshead.
64 = golden disks on the tower of Hanoi.
65 = retirement age.

With a little rounding.

61) the 6th Euler number
62) the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 3 distinct squares in 2 ways
63) the number of partially ordered sets of 5 elements
64) the smallest number with 7 divisors
65) the smallest number that becomes square if its reverse is either added to or subtracted from it

Mark:

61) the 6th Euler number
62) the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 3 distinct squares in 2 ways
63) the number of partially ordered sets of 5 elements
64) the smallest number with 7 divisors
65) the smallest number that becomes square if its reverse is either added to or subtracted from it



Which by remarkable coincidence is exactly what I have. What took you so long?


Whim:

61 = degrees farenheit reversed is the temperature in degrees celcius. *
62 = house number of Wallace & Grommit.
63 = gallons in a hogshead.
64 = golden disks on the tower of Hanoi.
65 = retirement age. (Not according to Mark. If I was you I would shift to his plan)

* "With a little rounding." (Close enough)



Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.

I am



We are five little objects of an everyday sort
you will find us all in a tennis court

I am



I look flat, but I am deep,
Hidden realms I shelter.
Lives I take, but food I offer.
At times I am beautiful.
I can be calm, angry and turbulent.
I have no heart, but offer pleasure as well as death.
No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have.

I am




I heard of an invading, vanquishing army
sweeping across the land, liquid-quick;
conquering everything, quelling resistance.
With it came darkness, dimming the light.
Humans hid in their houses, while outside
spears pierced, shattering stone walls.
Uncountable soldiers smashed into the ground,
but each elicited life as he died;
when the army had vanished, advancing northward,
the land was green and growing, refreshed.


I am

Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.

I am?

WATER

We are five little objects of an everyday sort
you will find us all in a tennis court

I am?

A t-E-nn-I-s c-O-U-rt

5 vowels

look flat, but I am deep,
Hidden realms I shelter.
Lives I take, but food I offer.
At times I am beautiful.
I can be calm, angry and turbulent.
I have no heart, but offer pleasure as well as death.
No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have.

I am?

The sea, or Ocean

heard of an invading, vanquishing army
sweeping across the land, liquid-quick;
conquering everything, quelling resistance.
With it came darkness, dimming the light.
Humans hid in their houses, while outside
spears pierced, shattering stone walls.
Uncountable soldiers smashed into the ground,
but each elicited life as he died;
when the army had vanished, advancing northward,
the land was green and growing, refreshed.

I am?

Rain. (rain drops)

Are the number series at an end?
or is moving forward what you intend?
Please let us know what you recommend
Your command is what I wish my friend!

Whim:

Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.

I am?

WATER


We are five little objects of an everyday sort
you will find us all in a tennis court

I am?

A t-E-nn-I-s c-O-U-rt



look flat, but I am deep,
Hidden realms I shelter.
Lives I take, but food I offer.
At times I am beautiful.
I can be calm, angry and turbulent.
I have no heart, but offer pleasure as well as death.
No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have.

I am?

The sea, or Ocean


heard of an invading, vanquishing army
sweeping across the land, liquid-quick;
conquering everything, quelling resistance.
With it came darkness, dimming the light.
Humans hid in their houses, while outside
spears pierced, shattering stone walls.
Uncountable soldiers smashed into the ground,
but each elicited life as he died;
when the army had vanished, advancing northward,
the land was green and growing, refreshed.

I am?

Rain. (rain drops) Good enough- Rainstorm



Congratulations



"Are the number series at an end?"

My dear Whim I will be pleased to continue with the series, your answers are so original.


66
67
68
69
70



For those not numerically gifted:


Bright as diamonds,
Loud as thunder,
Never still,
A thing of wonder.





To unravel me
You need a simple key,
No key that was made
By locksmith's hand,
But a key that only I
Will understand.





As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.

What am I