Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Fill in the Blank

The sentence has ______________ letters.

There are atleast three ways to fill in the blank and make the statement correct. Can you tell them ?

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17 Comments:

Anonymous Corey said...

Either : 21
or : many
or : trenta y cuatro

Maybe, yes, no?

May 13, 2008 9:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The sentence uses nine distinct letters.

May 13, 2008 10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The sentence should be:

This sentence has nine letters.

May 13, 2008 10:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1. The sentence has 2 letters.
2. The sentence has exactly forty English letters.
3. The sentence has black letters.

May 13, 2008 10:14 AM  
Anonymous Corey said...

And yet by inserting the word "nine" into the sentence you inadvertently add the letter 'i' which in fact increases the amount of letters to 10.

May 13, 2008 11:04 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1:thirty one

2:many

3:several

Any other ideas?

Yanon Mous

May 13, 2008 12:21 PM  
Anonymous Joseph V. said...

This sentence has thirty plus five letters.

May 13, 2008 12:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The sentence has over 10 letters.

Seems reasonable. :D

May 13, 2008 1:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The sentence has eleven letters.
T-H-E S-E-N-T-E-N-C- E
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

May 13, 2008 4:42 PM  
Anonymous Surge said...

more than thirty
close to forty
fewer than one hundred
a finite number of
many
English
:)

May 13, 2008 7:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ONLY THIRTY FIVE
JUST FORTY FIVE LOWER CASE
LESS THAN TWO UPPER CASE
Chris

May 13, 2008 10:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

twenty-one plus when you spell out twenty-one you add nine more so 30 total

May 14, 2008 3:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"THE SENTENCE" has 11 letters

May 14, 2008 5:13 PM  
Anonymous Billy Bob Thorton said...

i got 19 if you count each letter only once like
t h e r a l s h w y o f i n b k d m c u
THERe Are atLeaSt tHree WaYs tO FIll IN the BlanK anD Make the statement Correct.can yoU tell them?

May 16, 2008 4:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

80 letters altogether

May 22, 2008 9:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well after you add in "twenty-one" into the sentence it has more letters.

May 22, 2008 8:56 PM  
Anonymous Jayne said...

way 1: 21
way 2: 19
way 3: 10
way 4: many
way 5: 8

May 25, 2008 7:48 PM  

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