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Grex Enigma Item 111: *Lucky number* puzzle
Entered by carl on Fri Mar 19 12:10:02 UTC 1993:

Many people (er, some; would you believe a few?) have been puzzled
and enthralled by the following *lucky number* puzzle.

All you have to do is change the following into a 6:


                                       IX


(You may not move or change the original characters, and brevity is
preferred among the correct answers.)

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by hawkeye on Fri Mar 19 15:44:36 1993:

Add an "S".  I'd like to meet the people stumped by this.  So I can
slap them.

#2 of 6 by aa8ij on Wed Mar 24 06:06:41 1993:

  I beg to differ. If we are discussing *roman* numerals, then the
number in question is written as VI, not IX which is not the number 
in question. 

  Maybe someone (remmers) could devlop a numerical system that would
support this.

#3 of 6 by robh on Thu Mar 25 03:41:09 1993:

Okay, if we're only using Roman numerals, then I'd cut the number in
half horizontally and do a mirror-reflection.  Thus:


          I \/   becomes     I \/       becomes        \/ I
          I /\

#4 of 6 by aa8ij on Thu Mar 25 07:48:44 1993:

 (gasp) How could I have been so blind???

 mustabeen all that 150 proof hooch I have been drinking lately.

#5 of 6 by lee on Thu May 22 19:18:21 1997:

neat trick

#6 of 6 by jaklumen on Mon May 27 09:03:50 2002:

gimme some of that hooch.  Mah hoochies need some =)

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