A Number Puzzle 2

**Rik** · 24 February 2017, 06:17 PM

Find the number that should replace the question mark.

Please give your answer in a .xar file or a .zip file, so that other member can also have a go.

Hopefully, this will take a bit longer to work out!

**handrawn** · 24 February 2017, 08:18 PM

ah well may be more than one way of looking at the patterns in this one ?

**roly** · 24 February 2017, 08:53 PM

Hi, I looked at handrawn's answer, and if that is correct I would not have found it.

Ciao

Roly

**Rik** · 24 February 2017, 09:08 PM

You've got the right answer, Steve.
And, there is only one answer.

How you arrive at it, is entirely up to you!

**handrawn** · 24 February 2017, 09:18 PM

there is a possibly more simple way of looking at it - except, there is not enough data given to extrapolate that answer; you would need more in the sequence to confirm such a pattern

**Rik** · 25 February 2017, 07:06 AM

Well, Steve.
Here's my simple way of working it out.

**handrawn** · 25 February 2017, 07:13 AM

well be agree on that

**Acorn** · 25 February 2017, 10:20 AM

The product of the first three primes, noting one (unity) is not a prime number.

Rik Number Two Puzzle (Occams Razor).xar

Acorn

**Rik** · 25 February 2017, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

The product of the first three primes, noting one (unity) is not a prime number.

Rik Number Two Puzzle (Occams Razor).xar

Acorn

Well, acorn. You certainly made me smile.

The colour of the bars has nothing to do with the puzzle.
But, it just goes to show the ingenuity of man!

And I'm sorry to say that your answer is not correct.

PS. I could have spent time and randomized the bars a lot more. But, I just took the same shape and flipped it... etc...