NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

Good night, everyone (early morning here).

And yet I haven't figured out how to solve the damn sequence. I don't want to do the other boring calculations, but this sequence is starting to annoy me. Any clue?

night everyone--its 2 am here so i guess i'll continue later

2am here as well. I'm about to go to bed. Good luck to those still solving.

Thanks.

I've tried looking at the code source, but got nothing... I'm afraid the exams I finished the day before yesterday keep having me in an state of dizziness...

... but I will solve that sequence even if it's the last thing I do in my life.

Ahh, finally got the answer!!! Thanks to those who gave clues on the previous pages

Ok, so I am an ignorant, but... what is that?

sorry...but what's the answer?? Thanks...

yea, can u tell us the answer

there were enough clues given to find the answers to each of the steps-- i haven't sent in an answer yet because i'm still working on it

the point of not giving out the answer is so that whoever gets the LC right has a better chance of gaining more neopoints so they have less competition

I must be dense. Can someone please explain step by step how to do the first part only. I can figure out the other seps. (I hope..LOL)

I meant "steps"

Since the Lenny has been out for almost a day now, I'll see if I can go back and summarize the hints that have been given for the first step.

1. The sequence is based on a sequence of particular Lenny Conundrum answers.
2. The sequence values are not the answers themselves, but have been transformed from the answers in a certain manner.
3. There is another sequence that consists of the products of sequential prime numbers. 2x3=6, 3x5=15, 5x7=35, 7x11=77, and so on.
4. The second sequence helps you figure out which Lenny Conundrums you need the answers from.

I think that covers the hints that have been given for the clue. Hopefully you'll be able to figure out the next numbers in the sequence from this.

I totally did not understand step 2 lol

Summary of hints for the 2nd-4th clues:

2. Then, find the average Neopoint prize of every odd-numbered Lenny Conundrum between Lenny Conundrum #100 and Lenny Conundrum #200.

Tedious, but straight-forward. The answer to the 100th Conundrum was given in the New Features for the week of January 17, 2005. You just have to proceed through the new features from week to week. The catch is that they sometimes skipped a week, so you have to be careful about collecting the odd-numbered LCs.

3. Then, figure out the most common Neopet species name appearing in all Lenny Conundrum answers. If there is a tie, use the species name (out of the ones that are tied) that comes first in alphabetical order. Assuming A=1, B=2, C=3, etc., and multiplying the letters together, figure out how many points this word has.

Again, fairly tedious. You have to go through the answers to the first 299 LCs and record the Neopets that appear in the answers. The consensus seems to be that:
a. We don't worry about the missing LC 55.
b. We only consider the italicized answer, not any explanation that may be included.
c. We ignore the answer that says several sets of Neopet names were correct, as there are not actually any Neopet names in the answer.
You may choose to not agree with those assumptions.

4. Finally, figure out how many Lenny Conundrums have had a Neopoint prize of more than 30,000 Neopoints.

Again, reference the New Features archives. The consensual assumptions for this one were:
a. The Lenny Conundrum only started splitting a prize pool in September 2004, so we can ignore any LCs before that, as the standard prize was not larger than 30,000 NP.
b. The three LCs where the New Features did not list the prize amount were simple enough that the prize was almost certainly less than 30,000 NP. (One of these was verified against information from this forum, a second had over 3000 winners, and the third just seemed to be a relatively easy problem, although the New Features listed neither the number of winners, nor the prize amount.)

In previous posts, some people gave partial information about their results for some of the steps and for the final result. If you are interested in checking your answers against others, you can read back through the posts for this Lenny. I'm not going to repeat those here.

Clue 2 or step 2 of solving the sequence?

Thanks a lot

I get it now, i got the sequence. Now to the other Qs

Umm, when im checking for Lenny C prize np for the average. How do i know which ones are 100-200?

So i got :
683 -------------------------152

I got step 2.
Is 7_ _ _ . 62
correct, im not giving away the answer, but is the digits i am showing correct?