number fun

Nope! I don't get it!

First off - what is unusual about the string of numbers - recognise any patterns?

Well, it's not my phone number...just kidding...I'm blonde...I need lots of direction!

try a different perspective
What about an inversion? Sometimes it is instructive to see what ISN'T there.

Well........there are no 1's...I'm not very good at this!

Correct, well spotted, there are no 5's either, but that is coincidental. There are a lot of 0's though. You may want to look around, as you will have a household object with something unusual about the 1

If you want another clue then type T9 into a search engine.

842 806 233 048 086 603 279

288 096 853 096 804 283 046 883 604 809 484 688 084 308 47

Actually, I've seen this code before in puzzles without the zeros. I had briefly considered it as a possibility, but the comment about what's missing threw me off when 5 was one of the digits. After that, I stopped working on it.

SPOILERS

Without the 0's would be murder as you wouldn't be able to use predictive text. I think that the real thrill is typing in gibberish and seeing it resolve into plain old English in front of your eyes.

For those of you that didn't get it - basically look to your telephone. Each digit represents one of the letters on that keyapd, which still could offer a lot of possilbilities, but if you have a mobile phone, then you can type it in and have predictive text make sense of it all. The 0's are the spaces on most phones, and are required for the prediction to work. The grouping into 3 digits was simply to make it easier to scan and read.

Enjoy...