Re: Puzzle of the Week



Puzzle Monster <no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Every week, a new challenge is posted on PuzzleMonster.com exclusively
for Puzzle League members. This past week, for the first time in
memory, nobody was able to solve it. Before I post the answer
tomorrow, I wanted to see if anyone here could find the solution, or
if it is simply an impossibly difficult or unfair puzzle.

SEQUENCE

At first glance, what follows appears to be a random sequence of
letters. Look closer, and you'll see a pattern start to emerge. Can
you find the next term in the series?

ng
ng
ng
ng
os
st
???

I don't know if it's got anything to do with your puzzle, but this
came to me while I was scratching my head:

ng
ng
ld
ed
se
es
im
??
??
??

I think puzzles like the above will be fairly hard to solve.

Phil

--
"Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank
so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of
/In God We Trust, Inc./.
.



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