Philip knows his numbers

[wrog]

1	13	14	6*	6
2	5	15	11	8
3	7	10	16	61**
4	17	18	12	20

Philip has now reproduced the above arrangement of numbered blocks something like 5 times in the past week or two.

I keep resetting it to the correct arrangement

1	2	4	8	16
13	7	14	9	18
17	15	11	3	6
12	5	10	20†	19††

to no avail.

<td>††</td><td>yeah I know 19 isn't quite right here, but it's the only remaining block, so bite me.</td>

*	upside-down 9
**	upside-down 19
†	hey, it works

Comments

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

One other thing to consider in P's arrangement is that the numbers are different colors, cycling through in fours, so 1 5 9 13 17 are all red, etc... So I think some of the numbers that P views as interchangeable are the same color. The only ones i know for sure are consistent every time are 1 2 3 4 5 7 6 (9) (19) 20, something blue immediately to the left of 20. But I'm fairly certain that the 4 times I saw him dump and replace this morning the pattern was the same each time. Which is kinda scary.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Now, see, I can understand color.

The math geeks I deal with while playing Go get frustrated with me because I can't count the score in the middle of the game, too.