NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

The solutions to last week's Lenny, now that it has been judged:

First, get the next two values in this sequence: 121, 21, 32.274, 126, _______, _______

If you look at the prime numbers, you get 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17. Looking at their products in sequence, you get 2 * 3 = 6, 3 * 5 = 15, 5 * 7 = 35, 7 * 11 = 77, 11 * 13 = 143, 13 * 17 = 221. The answers to Lenny Conundrums 6, 15, 35, 77, 143, and 221 are 120, 20, 31.274, 125, 490, and 831. The specified sequence adds 1 more to each of these answers, so the missing numbers are 491 and 832.

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

50 conundrums, from 101 to 199, with prize amounts summing to 351533 and averaging 7030.66.

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.

Looking through all the answers, and looking only at the italicized answer portion, not any additional explanation, the most common Neopet name is Ogrin, which occurs 3 times. Multiplying the letter codes gives 15 (O) * 7 (g) * 18 (r) *9 (i) * 14 (n) = 238140.

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

Looking through the New Features, there are 10 of these listed.

Take all five of these numbers you've found and multiply them together.

So the five numbers are: 491, 832, 7030.66, 238140 and 10. Using the calculator at http://world.std.com/~reinhold/BigNumCalc.html, we get a final answer of 6839640320018688. This is an integer calculator, so I used 703066 instead of 7030.66 and divided by 100 at the end. (The Neopets calculator at http://www.neopets.com/desert/calculator.phtml doesn't seem to have a working decimal key and switches into scientific notation so we lose the last digit or two.)

Yes! Hard work paid off and I got in the top 300. The hat's nice

Pictures? You can just post the URL of your pet's image if you don't want to show your username

I got it wrong

I actually haven't put it on my pet because it doesn't go with any of their current themes. But if you go on the Games messageboard on neopets and find the LC topic you can see some users who have it on their pets.

It seems we have a little surplus of last week's prize, so here's your second chance to try to get one!

In last week's Lenny Conundrum, the most popular submitted answer was the actual correct answer.

The second most popular submitted answer was 0.

What was the third most popular submitted answer? Your answer will only be considered correct if it matches EXACTLY.



They mean, there's another 250 of the Conundrum Hat up for grabs! UH OH

any ideas?

lol... So we can only guess on this one

I know that many people were off by 2 or 1 point.

it could be any number so I am going with 1234567890

lol

Oh, a pure guessing question. Oh well, not much chance of anything this week and probably a big cash prize, too.

I think the trick is to "guess" what the most common error was and then replicate it. Now obviously, a whole lot people probably made a simple multiplication error, or maybe keyed in a wrong number, that made their answer wrong by only 1 or 2 or maybe 200. But I don't think all those people made the SAME math/keyboard error, so as someone noted above, those numbers are probably all over the place and totally unpredictable. I think the most common error was probably a specific answer to a specific clue. I won't say which one I think it was, since it's really only somewhere between wild ass and educated, but ultimately no more than a guess.

By the way, my answer to last week's LC was the second most common. I made a quick determination that I was not willing to put in the time to do the research necessary and figured that if even one of the numbers were a zero, the overall product would be a zero, and a bunch of people would get that fairly quickly, so that's what I went with. Just a reminder that even an educated guess can turn out to be worthless. LOL

Haha, maybe it's the answer to the universe. xP

if you guys have some free time, please post what you submitted last week in the following blog
http://lennyconundrumsolutions.blogspot.com/
It may not be accurate but it's worth a shot.

Well, a guess always has a chance of being wrong, hence the name but by being an educated guess, it has a better chance of being right than guessing by randomly striking the keyboard... =p

gawsh this ones a doozy

probably the sequence

There has to be any sort of sequence, trick... because I don't believe the second answer sent was zero. It just doesn't make sense.

i got the answer wrong, but i know what i did that messed up my whole answer--i think i'll submit it again