This was the 5% question on this Gameshow on Amazon. Even after the explanation I still don't understand. I got all the questions right except for this one. The explanation is listed. He didn't elaborate on the show. Anyone know?
It tricks you by not placing commas around "sequence" in the first sentence of the question prompt. (The commas show up in the explanation.)
Without the commas in the question prompt, this causes you to read "next word sequence" in the first sentence as a direct reference to the second sentence.
But if you add commas, the first sentence will now read, "The next word, sequence, begins with an S." Now it isn't referring to the second sentence, but is literally telling you what the next word in the sequence is. That would make the final sequence LWLCNITSS.
The way you would have figured this punctuation trick out is:
If you interpreted "next word sequence" in the first sentence as a direct reference to the second sentence, then the first sentence would be false (a lie), since the second sentence does not begin with a word starting with S. So, from that you could gather that there needed to be commas in the first sentence.
[ + ] Clueless_Enigma
[ - ] Clueless_Enigma 5 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 01:35:05 ago (+5/-0)
The Next word sequence begins with an S
Therefore S.
[ + ] NaturalSelectionistWorker
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[ + ] Rowdybme
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[ + ] Rowdybme
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[ + ] VitaminSieg
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[ + ] Wahaha
[ - ] Wahaha 0 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 08:27:16 ago (+0/-0)
(W)hat
(L)etter
(C)comes
(N)ext
(I)n
(T)his
(S)equence
LWLCNIT?
The answer is "S", as the word sequence starts with an "S".
[ + ] CHIRO
[ - ] CHIRO 0 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 01:59:44 ago (+0/-0)*
Without the commas in the question prompt, this causes you to read "next word sequence" in the first sentence as a direct reference to the second sentence.
But if you add commas, the first sentence will now read, "The next word, sequence, begins with an S." Now it isn't referring to the second sentence, but is literally telling you what the next word in the sequence is. That would make the final sequence LWLCNITSS.
The way you would have figured this punctuation trick out is:
If you interpreted "next word sequence" in the first sentence as a direct reference to the second sentence, then the first sentence would be false (a lie), since the second sentence does not begin with a word starting with S. So, from that you could gather that there needed to be commas in the first sentence.
[ + ] Rowdybme
[ - ] Rowdybme [op] 0 points 1 yearJun 14, 2024 01:33:28 ago (+0/-0)