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« on: Feb 7th, 2018, 12:25am »
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There are three sixes written on a piece of paper. If I erase one what remains will not be 66. How is THIS possible?!
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 18th, 2018, 8:53am »
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Sometimes certain associations are just playing with you.
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 21st, 2018, 4:19am »
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If you have 3 sixes and you erase 1, what remains will be 2 of them, not 66.
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« Reply #3 on: Feb 21st, 2018, 7:44am »
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A neat idea! Still, the expected answer remains unsolved; as if there is need to crack it. But, there is . . .
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« Reply #4 on: Feb 22nd, 2018, 5:35am »
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If you erase the middle one, you don't get 66 but 6 6.
 
If you have DCLXVI and you erase I you get DCLXV.  That is 665.
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« Reply #5 on: Feb 25th, 2018, 7:53am »
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on Feb 22nd, 2018, 5:35am, Grimbal wrote:
If you erase the middle one, you don't get 66 but 6 6.
 

Yes. This is the expected answer. Or who ever said that three sexes were 666 in the 1st place! They could've been literally three sixes (6 6 6).  
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« Reply #6 on: Apr 23rd, 2018, 6:02pm »
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If you erase one from 666 you get 665.
 
I'm a bit late to the party on this one though.
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« Reply #7 on: Apr 24th, 2018, 12:52am »
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Interesting. But that's an ancient Chinese curse!!
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